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English Parish Records : Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset CD2463
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CDs IN THIS SERIES Parish records--primarily births, baptisms, marriages, and burials--provide the best source of vital record information in the centuries before civil registration. 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.
What is the original source of the data on this CD-ROM? The 870,651 records in this database come from parish records and similar sources in the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset around 1538 to 1837. Some non-parish records may be included from as early as the twelfth century. This CD is fully searchable on any word, including names and places.
CONTENTS
Devon: - Parish Registers
Devon: Barnstaple - Parish Register, 1538-1812
Somerset: - Registers of Marriage
Somerset: Taunton - St. Mary Magdalen Registers of Marriages
Dorset: Beer Hacket - Parish Register , 1549-1812
Dorset: Lydlinch - Parish Register, 1559-1812
Devon: Clyst St. George - PRS, Register of Clyst St. George, Devon, 1565-1812, vol 25
Somerset: St. Michaelchurch - Parish Registers, 1695-1812
Dorset: - Wills and Administrations
Devon & Cornwall: - Wills and Administrations proved in the Bishop of Exeter, 1559-1799
Somerset: - Calendar of Wills, 1537-1799, and Administration in the Court of the Archdeacon of Taunton
Devon, 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
Dorset: - Parish Registers
Devon: Lapford - Register of Baptisms, Marriages & Burials, 1567-1850
Devon, Somerset: (A-H Parishes), Wells - Parish Registers and some Bishop's Transcripts at Wells
Somerset: - A list of worthies and unworthies and villains born in the county
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
Dorset, Somerset: - Wills and Administrations, 1312-1799
Devon: Exeter - Militia List for 1803
Devon: Exeter - Freemen 1266-1967
Cornwall: - Registers of Marriages, 1539-1812
Cornwall: - Registers of Marrisges, 1572 1812
Cornwall: - Registers of Marriages, 1547-1812
Dorset: - Registers of Marriages, 1558-1812
Somerset: - Registers of Marriage, 1531-1812
Somerset: - Registers of Marriage, 1539-1812
Somerset: - Registers of Marriage, 1559-1812
Somerset: - Registers of Marriage, 1538-1815
Cornwall: St. Breage - Registers of Marriages, 1559-1812
Devon: - Registers of Marriages, 1538-1837
Cornwall: - Registers of Marriages, 1539-1812
Cornwall: - Reigsters of, Marriages, 1539-1812
Devon: - Reigsters of Marriages, 1581-1654
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