Devon Genealogy

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Comment by Colin Withall on September 18, 2009 at 8:32pm

That should read between the 16th and 19th Centuries,
Sorry, big clumsy fingers sometimes.

Comment by Colin Withall on September 18, 2009 at 8:28pm

One of the biggest problems is locating a parish particularly in relation to another. I use the program Parloc which is free to download from http://www.parloc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ By entering the names of the Parishes, it will list every Parish within a radius of a distance between the two parishes.For example entering Plymouth and next Dartmouth, Parloc tells me that they are 41.2Km apart, but if I want to know what parishes are within say 6km of Dartmouth, it will return a list 11 and give the distance and direction they lay.
I've found this very helpful in locating the movements of ancestors in the Parish Registers. Parloc lists those Parishes that existed between 16th and 9th Centuries.

Comment by Martin Spurway on September 11, 2009 at 9:11am

Hi Christine

Thank you for your links. You are right there are very few records after 1891, and the census of 1901 shows a large drop in inmates.

My next planned outing is to Devon Records Office to see the Management Meeting minutes.
Regards Martin

Comment by Christine Gibbins on September 11, 2009 at 7:11am

Martin - this link may help, but I understand few records survive.
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Honiton/Honiton.shtml
The 1901 census may be worth a try.

Comment by Martin Spurway on September 11, 2009 at 6:40am

Does any one have or know any information about Honiton Workhouse after 1891. Looking for inmate names: birth, deaths, marriages and events.

Comment by Christine Gibbins on August 27, 2009 at 6:46am

Finding this website useful and intersting
http://www.devonheritage.org/index.htm

Comment by Terry Leaman on August 18, 2009 at 4:06pm

VJ King Sr- in answer to your census query
I would say he was born in Gidley (Gidleigh)
She was born in Tavistock
There address looks like Union Street, and it is in the Parish of St Andrew, Plymouth

Comment by John Laws on August 18, 2009 at 9:48am

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Comment by VJ King Sr on August 16, 2009 at 9:32pm

Thank you Elizabeth - appreciate the help. VJ

Comment by Elizabeth Kipp nee Blake on August 16, 2009 at 8:10pm

Gidleigh Devon for William Lowe and Tavistock Devon for Jane Lowe and in 1871 they are living at: St Andrew in Plymouth RD, Devon, England also known as the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Peter, Exeter Diocese.

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