Devon

Bordered by the sea both to the north and south, Devon is home to both Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks. It is also home to the Royal Naval Dockyard at Plymouth and the Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth as well as beautiful coastal resorts. Favoured by Agatha Christie. Famous son: Francis Drake.
County town: Exeter Other major towns: Plymouth, Torquay Devon Places of Worship Regional Projects Forum	Source: Wikipedia

Resources

Primary Reference

• Devon Record Office

• North Devon Record Office

• Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

• Devon Family History Society

• Devon Local Studies Libraries

• Devon Look-up Exchange

• Parish Register UK Look-up Exchange

• Devon OPC

Countywide Interest

• A Genealogist's Devon Connection

• Devon/Devonshire Transcripts

• Devon Family Announcements

• Devon Heritage

• Devon Index Page - Genealogy and Family History

• Devon Page

• Devon Surnames

• Studies on Devon Surnames

• Friends of Devon Archives

• John Lerwill's Devon History Selection

• List of Devon Parish, Non-Parochial and Civil Registers

• Research Services - at The Museum of Dartmoor Life, Okehampton, Devon, UK

• "Explore North Devon" Project Homepage

• Williams’s Commercial Directory 1847 Of Devonport, Plymouth, and Stonehouse

• Plymouth & South West Devon, a Genealogical Miscellany

• Southwest England Genealogical Indexes

• Stone and Quarry Men of the West Country

• Visitations of Devon 1531, 1561 and 1626

Specific Town and Village Interest

• Aveton Gifford Online Parish Clerk

• Cornwood Online Parish Clerk

• The Dartmouth Archives

• Dunsford Online Parish Clerk

• Ermington Parish Online

• Exeter History and Memories

• Exeter History and Pubs, Exeter Through the Bottom of Your Beer Glass

• Harford Online Parish Clerk

• History of Hele Bay, Ilfracombe, North Devon

• High Bickington

• Luppitt: Parish, Church and People

• Modbury Parish Registers

• Petrockstowe One Place Genealogy

• Plymouth's Architectural Heritage

• Greens on Screen - History of Plymouth Argyle Football Club

• Brian Moseley's Plymouth Data Website

• Plymouth Directory 1847

• Plymouth and South West Devon, a Genealogical Miscellany

• Shaugh Bridge and Shaugh Prior

• South Hams

• Staverton

• Sutcombe Village Records

• Terry Leaman's Torquay Website

• Walkhampton Parish History

• Witheridge Parish

Maps and Photographs

• Etched on Devon's Memory - Early Topographical Prints

• Victorian and Edwardian Photographers in Devon

Register Office

• Copy Certificate Information

• Apply for a Copy Certificate

• Registrar Homepage

Barnstaple

The Civic Centre
Barnstaple
Devon
EX31 1ED
Tel: 01271 382000

Email:srnorth@devon.gov.uk

Bideford

Windmill Lane
Northam
Bideford
Devon
EX39 1BY
Tel: 01237 474978

Exeter

New Buildings
Castle Street
Exeter
EX4 3PQ
Tel: 01392 384230

Email: srexeter@devon.gov.uk

Honiton (covers East Devon Registration District)

Elmfield House
Dowell Street
Honiton
EX14 1LX
Tel: 01404 42531

Email: sreast@devon.gov.uk

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

Totnes

Follaton House
Plymouth Road
Totnes
TQ9 5NE
Tel: 01803 861234

Email: srshams@devon.gov.uk

Teignbridge

15 Devon Square
Newton Abbott
TQ12 2HR
Tel: 01626 206341

Requests for Research and Photographs in this area

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

A list of members who have volunteered to do Research lookups or take photographs can be found in the Research Offers forum or on the following pages in the Wiki:

• Research Offers: Cemetery
• Research Offers: Photograph
• Research Offers: Probate
• Research Offers: Record Office/Archive

If any member wishes to offer to do lookups or take photographs in a particular location, please leave a message on our Volunteers Needed thread.

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