Withycombe Raleigh with Exmouth All Saints, Devon Genealogy

Guide to Withycombe Raleigh with Exmouth All Saints, Devon ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
WITHYCOMBE - RAWLEIGH, a parish, in the union of St. Thomas, hundred of East Budleigh, Woodbury and S. divisions of Devon with part of the town of Exmouth. It is bounded on the west by the river Exe. A portion of the church was taken down about 1745, and a new edifice erected about half a mile from Exmouth.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
Withycombe Raleigh with Exmouth All Saints parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Devon Archives and Local Studies.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Christians
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Plymouth Brethren
 * Protestant Dissenters
 * Wesleyan Methodist

The following non-Church of England denominations were located somewhere in Withycombe Raleigh with Exmouth, but the exact parish has not been identified:


 * Baptist
 * Bible Christian Methodist
 * Society of Friends/Quaker

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Devon Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Withycombe Raleigh on GENUKI