Devonport St James, Devon Genealogy

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

Parish History
DEVONPORT, a celebrated naval arsenal, and a borough, in the parish of Stoke-Damerall, or Stoke, S. division of the hundred of Roborough, S. division of Devon, 1½ mile (W.) from Plymouth, and 218 (W. by S.) from London. There are two episcopal chapels; St. Aubyn's, and St. John's. Four church districts, named respectively; St. James', St. Paul's, St. Mary's, and St. Stephen's, each were endowed in 1846 by the Ecclesiastical Commission. The livings are all in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Exeter, alternately. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, Moravians, Unitarians, and other sects.

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
Devonport St James 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

 * Baptist
 * Calvinist
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Presbyterian
 * Unitarian
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist Association

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


 * Bible Christian Methodist
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Moravian/United Brethren
 * Particular Baptist
 * Presbyterian
 * Roman Catholic
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Unitarian
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist Reform

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
Devonport St James (see Stoke Damerel) on GENUKI