Family History
Cemetery Registers
Most of the cities and large towns in Devon now have public cemeteries and a few have crematoria. These are separate from the graveyards associated with parish churches in towns and rural parishes, which are called 'parochial graveyards or parochial cemeteries'. The earliest public cemeteries were opened in the first half of the 19th century, as parish churchyards filled up, and the urban populations grew.
Exwick Cemetery, St. Thomas
These public cemeteries are generally known as 'non-parochial cemeteries', and are usually administered by the local City Council, Parish Council or District Council. Devon's three record offices do not hold the burial registers and graveyard plans for most of these public cemeteries and crematoria. Instead, the records are held by the local authority or organisation concerned.
Some of these have their own web-sites containing information on the location of cemeteries, and how to get in contact prior to a visit. A few websites also include an index to, or a transcription of their cemetery burial registers. The Devon Family History Society is also undertaking a digitizing programme for the burial registers of several public cemeteries.
Cemetery registers and other records held at the Devon Record Office, Exeter.
Councils and other organisations holding cemetery registers - General contact details
Crematoria in Devon - General contact details
Devon’s public cemeteries - Follow the links to individual pages on these cemeteries
- Axminster Cemetery
- Bear Street Cemetery, Barnstaple
- Bideford Cemetery
- Bovey Tracey Cemetery
- Bradninch Cemetery
- Chudleigh Town Cemetery
- Colyton Cemetery
- Crediton Cemetery
- Cullompton Town Cemetery
- Longcross Cemetery, Dartmouth
- Dawlish Cemetery
- Exeter’s old public cemeteries
- Exeter Higher Cemetery
- Exminster Cemetery
- Exwick Cemetery
- Holsworthy
- Ivybridge
- Kingswear Cemetery
- Newton Abbot
- Northam
- Ottery St. Mary
- Plymouth: Ford Park
- Seaton
- Sidbury
- Sidmouth
- Tavistock
- North Tawton
- Tedburn St Mary
- Teignmouth
- Tiverton
- Topsham
- Torquay
- Totnes
- Woodbury
