Devon

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Devon

County town: Exeter

Other major towns: Plymouth, Torquay

Bordered by the sea both to the north and south, Devon is also home to both Dartmoor & Exmoor National Park. It is the home to the Royal Naval Dockyard at Plymouth & Dartmouth Naval College as well as beautiful coastal resorts.

Favoured by Agatha Christie. Famous son, Francis Drake.

Register Offices

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Barnstaple

The Civic Centre
Barnstaple
Devon
EX31 1ED
Tel 01271 382000

Bideford

Windmill Lane
Northam
Bideford
Devon
EX39 1BY
Tel 01237 474978

Exeter

New Buildings
Castle Street
Exeter
EX4 3PQ
Tel 01392 384230

Honiton

Elmfield House
Dowell Street
Honiton
EX14 1LX
Tel 01404 42531
covers East Devon Registration District

Mid Devon

The Great House
1 St Peter Street
Tiverton
Devon
EX16 6NU
Tel 01884 255255

Paignton

Torbay Register Office
Oldway
Paignton
Devon
TQ3 2TU
Tel 01803 386880/1

Plymouth

Lockyer Street
Plymouth
Devon
PL1 2QD
Tel 01752 268331

South Hams

Follaton House
Plymouth Road
Totnes
TQ9 5NE
Tel 01803 861234

Teignbridge

15 Devon Square
Newton Abbott
TQ12 2HR
Tel 01626 206341

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

• South Dartmoor:Mavis by the Moor
• South Devon: Mavis by the Moor
• West Devon: happy

Links

• County Records Office
• Library links
• Local History Gateway
• GENUKI Devon - Genealogy
• Family Announcements (BMD's)
• Shirley Turner's Devonshire Pages
• John Lerwill's Devonshire Pages
• Brian Moseley's Plymouth Data Website - About the site
• Plymouth & South West Devon, a Genealogical Miscellany
• Devon History and Genealogy

Local History Society

• Devon Family History Society

OPC

• Aveton Gifford OPC
• Cornwood OPC
• Devon OPC
• Dunsford OPC
• Ermington OPC
• Harford Parish OPC
• Devon Look-up Exchange

Archives

• Dartmouth Archives
• IGI Devon (A-M)
• IGI Devon (N-Z)
• List of Devon Parish, Non-Parochial and Civil Registers
• Devon/Devonshire transcripts
• Devon Parish Index-some transcriptions
• Visitations of Devon 1531,1561 and 1626
• Visitations of Exeter 1744 and 1749
• Plymouth Directory 1847
• Genogold Devon Census Pages
• Genogold Devon Parish Records
• Devonport Directories
• Devon Surnames
• Friends of Devon's Archives
• Parish Records for some Devonshire Villages
• Southwest England Genealogical Indices
• Masons, Quarrymen, Builders, Carpenters of the West Country

Family and Social History

• Devon Workhouses
• Devon Convicts Transported to Australia 1782 - 1821

Maps & Photographs

• Exeter through the bottom of your Beer Glass
• Early Devon Prints
• A Directory of Victorian and Edwardian Devon Photographers

Countywide interest

• Research Services - at The Museum of Dartmoor Life, Okehampton, Devon, UK
• Insight into the life of an Ag. Lab in Devon and Interesting for Dialect
• West Country Newspapers
• Churches of Devon
• Devon Convicts Transported to Australia 1782-1821
• This Section of the Dartmoor Press Website provides various indexes and transcripts from Dartmoor region memorials to the servicemen and servicewomen who gave their lives in the two World Wars of the last century — 1914-1918 & 1939-1945 — and also included are the few to those killed in other conflicts

Specific Town Village interest

• Index of Lost Dartmoor Monumental Inscriptions
• Torquay Genealogy
• Greens on Screen
• Luppitt
• Modbury Parish Records
• Petrockstowe Genealogy
• Plymouth History
• Brian Moseley's Plymouth Data
• Plymouth's Architectural Heritage
• Plymouth and South West Devon
• Torquay Genealogy
• Sutcombe Village Records
• South Hams District

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