This is a very useful but incomplete index. About sixty percent of surviving pre-1837 Devon parish registers of baptisms and marriages are indexed on the Latter Day Saints (Mormon) International Genealogical Index (IGI) . Baptismal and birth entries from many pre-1837 non-conformist chapel registers are also indexed on the IGI.
The IGI can be found
On-line on the Family Search website On microfiche at the following places in Devon:
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It is also held on microfiche at many other libraries and family history research centres in other parts of the British Isles and overseas. Most local studies libraries or reference libraries in England and Wales have the IGI for at least their own county.
Latter Day Saints (Mormon) Family History Centres all over the world also hold the IGI.
Baptism indexes
The Devon Family History Society is compiling a computerised index of Devon Church of England baptisms, 1813-1837, and can search the index for you for a small fee. This index, though almost complete, is an ongoing project and a list of parishes transcribed to date can be seen on their web-site on the Parishes page. You can submit an enquiry on-line through a form on the Devon Family History Society web-site, or else write to the Society at P.O. Box 9, Exeter EX2 6YP, Devon, UK.
Devon Family History Society also produces for sale printed booklets containing transcripts of baptism registers for individual Devon parishes. The booklets contain the same baptismal entries as the computerised index. Most of these booklets cover the dates 1813-1837. A list of those completed is available on the Devon Family History Society website on the Bookshop page. They can be ordered on-line or by post.
Baptismal index entries for Devon parishes, mostly covering the dates 1813-1837 and grouped together by Deanery are now available from the same society on CD-Rom. These CD-Roms also include marriages, 1754-1837, and burials, 1813-1837 for the same parishes. Each CD-Rom includes all of the parishes within the Deanery. A list of those available is published on the Devon Family History Society website, on the Bookshop page. They can be ordered on-line or by post.
Marriage indexes
The Devon Family History Society has compiled a complete computerised index of Devon marriages, 1754-1837, and as described above, can search the index for you for a small fee.
Devon Family History Society also produces for sale printed booklets containing transcripts of marriage registers 1754-1812, and 1813-1837, for individual Devon parishes. The booklets contain the same marriage entries as the computerised index. A list is available on the Devon Family History Society website on the Bookshop page. They can be ordered on-line or by post.
Marriage index entries for Devon parishes, mostly covering the dates 1813-1837 and grouped together by Deanery are now available from the same society on CD-Rom. These CD-Roms also include baptisms and burials, 1813-1837 for the same parishes, as described above under Baptism Indexes.
Two Plymouth Marriage Indexes covering dates from 1837 to recent times, containing over 281,500 entries, have also been compiled by the Devon Family History Society in conjunction with Plymouth and West Devon Record Office.
Volume 1 includes all Church of England marriage registers held at that record office for Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse. It does not include non-conformist or register office marriages, and there are a few parish churches for which registers were not available.
Volume 2 includes all post-1837 non-conformist chapel registers held at Plymouth and West Devon Record Office, as well as additional modern inner Plymouth parish marriage registers, and many of the west and south-west Devon parish marriage registers.
See the Bookshop page of the Devon Family History Society website, or the Plymouth and West Devon Record Office website, for more details of the parishes covered. Searches and printouts from these two indexes are also available from the Devon Family History Society as described above.
The Plymouth Marriage Indexes are available for sale on CD-ROM by post and in person from the Devon Family History Society and Devon Record Office.
Devon Family History Society’s Small Projects Index, compiled in conjunction with the Devon Record Office and released on CD-ROM in September 2008, includes entries indexed from Axminster Registration District’s Marriage Notice Books covering the years 1838-1876.
Burial indexes
The Devon Family History Society is compiling a computerised index of Devon Church of England burials, 1813-1837, and can search the index for you for a small fee. This index, though almost complete, is an ongoing project and a list of parishes transcribed to date can be seen on their web-site on the Parishes page. You can submit an enquiry on-line through a form on the Devon Family History Society web-site, or else write to the Society at P.O. Box 9, Exeter EX2 6YP, Devon, UK.
Devon Family History Society also produces for sale printed booklets containing transcripts of burial registers (which they call 'burial books'), for Devon parishes. The booklets contain the same baptismal entries as the computerised index. Most of these booklets cover the dates 1813-1837. A list of those completed is available on the Devon Family History Society website on the Bookshop page. They can be ordered on-line or by post.
Burial index entries for Devon parishes, mostly covering the dates 1813-1837 and grouped together by Deanery, are now available from the same society on CD-Rom. These CD-Roms also include marriages, 1754-1837, and baptisms, 1813-1837 for the same parishes, as described above under Baptism Indexes.
The Deanery of Christianity CD-ROM, one of the above series, covers Exeter parishes. However, it also includes burial indexes for the following Exeter non-conformist burial registers, as well as burials recorded in parish registers:
Some Devon parish registers have been transcribed, and a smaller number published in printed form. There are a few manuscript and printed transcripts on the library shelves at Devon Record Office, and others in the Westcountry Studies Library. Printed registers for the few Devon parishes which were published in this way are sometimes held by large public libraries or genealogical research libraries in other parts of England and overseas. A few older parish register transcripts are now available on CD-ROM. London researchers should contact the Society of Genealogists about their Devon register transcript holdings.
The library of the Devon and Cornwall Record Society (which is housed on the mezzanine level in the Westcountry Studies Library, Castle Street, Exeter) possesses transcripts of many parish registers and Bishops Transcripts, produced during the early years of this century. These cover about 60% of Devon parishes to 1812 or in some cases to 1837.
It was from these transcripts, and not the original parish registers, that the International Genealogical Index was compiled. Temporary membership of the Record Society is available for visitors to Exeter who wish to use these transcripts.
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