Exeter St Thomas, Devon Genealogy

Guide to Exeter St Thomas, Devon ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

View "A Comprehensive List of Parishes and Chapels of Exeter".

Parish History
THOMAS, ST., THE APOSTLE, a parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Wonford, Wonford and S. divisions of Devon, ½ a mile (S. by W.) from Exeter contains also the chapelry of Oldridge. The parish is bounded on the north-east by the river Exe, from which the Exeter canal passes to the south. The church, erected in 1412, and enlarged in 1829, is in the later English style. At Oldridge is a separate incumbency, and a chapel has been erected at the village of Exwick.

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
Exeter St Thomas 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

 * Wesleyan Methodist

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


 * Baptist
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Countess of Huntingdon Methodist
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Jewish
 * Plymouth Brethren
 * Presbyterian
 * Roman Catholic
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Unitarian

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
Exeter St Thomas on GENUKI