Devon Research Resources

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Associated with the England Project

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Useful Links

Devon Category Page |Devon County Team Page | All County Resource Pages | England General Research Resources | England Category | England Resources Index Page |

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General research resources for Devon can be found by clicking on the links below Links to resources for a specific location may sometimes be found in that location’s own individual category in Devon

Abstracts of the Existing Transcripts of the Lost Parish-Registers of Devon, 1596-1644

Ancient Westcountry Families and Their Armorial Bearings

Collectanea Curiosa Antiqua Dunmonia

Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon

Devon Archives ; Southwest Heritage Trust. ( Also main Archive for Somerset )

Devon Family History Society

Devon Heritage free research resource for North Devon. If your ancestors are from North Devon, then you will find them here. Great research resource.

Devon Heritage Centre

Devon History Society The Devon History Society aims to promote the advancement of the study of history within Devon. Helpful resource for learning how your ancestors lived. Lots of articles including people's names.

Devon on FamilySearch Wiki Guide to Devon ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

Devon Notes and Queries

Devon Parish Registers on FamilySearch, 1538-1912 free research resource from FamilySearch.

Devonshire Association and its Transactions

Devonshire Parish Registers. Marriages.

Devonshire Parish Register - Marriages 1612-1837 covering the 7 villages of Ipplepen, Kingskerswell, Werrington, Countisbury, Trentishoe, Martinhoe and Uffculme. This book is out of copyright.

Devonshire Wills is a book written by Charles Worthy Esq, dates covered approximately 1500's-1800's, a collection of annotated testamentary abstracts, together with the family history and genealogy of many of the most ancient gentle houses of Devonshire.

Devon Wills Project the aim of the project is to provide a finding-aid in the form of a consolidated index of all Devon wills, and also administrations and inventories. The index shows where copies, transcripts, abstracts or extracts of such original testamentary documents may be found, and in many cases the whereabouts of the original documents themselves. Useful information can be gained from the indexes themselves i.e year and place of death.

Episcopal Registers of the Diocese of Exeter

Friends of Devon's Archives provide free research material showing real transcripts.

Genuki Devon free research resource for Devon, providing links to vital information

Guide to the Manors of Devon, by Ian Mortimer.

Historic Map of Devon

North Devon Record Office houses archives (original documents) relating broadly to the North Devon area. These include the records of North Devon and Torridge District Councils, the boroughs of Barnstaple, Bideford, South Molton and Great Torrington, and most Anglican parishes. They also hold the records of many individuals, families, businesses, societies, chapels and schools.

our4bears.net free research resource for the South Hams area of Devon. Online transcriptions of most parish registers and 1841 census, plus offers from their team of free lookups. Unmissable if you have ancestors from the area.

Publications of the Devon and Cornwall Record Society

Quakers in Devon

Registration Districts in Devon

The Antient Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial Sculpture of Devon

The Register of Edmund Lacy

Visitation of Devon 1564, ed. Colby

Visitation of Devon 1620, ed. Colby

The Visitations of the County of Devon Comprising the Herald's Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620

Visitation(s) of England and Wales County Index entries for persons whose pedigree first entry in the Visitation(s) commences in Devon, or who appears listed in a pedigree, addendum or correction to the Visitation(s) as born in Devon.

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