English Parish Records: Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, & Somerset

English Parish Records: Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, & Somerset

Civil registration of births, deaths, and marriage, often called General Registration, began in July of 1837, providing a national vital records index superseding church records.

Before 1837 and to some extend after 1837 the primary records of births, baptisms, marriages, and burials is the Parish records. This collection includes parish records and similar sources in the United Kingdom approximately 1538 to 1837. The records include baptisms, burials, marriages, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, wills, and other miscellaneous types of records.

Devon & Cornwall: - Wills and Administrations proved in the Bishop of Exeter, 1559-1799
Cornwall & Gloucester: - Wills and Administrations proved in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Exeter, 1532 to 1800
Cornwall & Devon: -Calendar of Wills Administrations and Accounts relating to the counties of Cornwall and Devon in the Consistorial Archidiaconal Court of Cornwall, 1700-1799
Cornwall: Kilkhampton - Register Booke of the Parrishe of Kilkehamptonie for Baptisinge, Weddinge and Burryeinge, 1539-1599 [continues thru 1839]
Cornwall & Devon: - Calendar of Wills Administrations and Accounts relating to the counties of Cornwall and Devon in the Connotorial Archidiaconal Court of Cornwall, 1569-1699
Cornwall: - Registers of Marriages, 1539-1812
Cornwall: - Registers of Marrisges, 1572 1812
Cornwall: - Registers of Marriages, 1547-1812
Cornwall: St. Breage - Registers of Marriages, 1559-1812
Cornwall: - Registers of Marriages, 1539-1812
Cornwall: - Reigsters of Marriages, 1539-1812