Plymouth St Saviour, Devon Genealogy

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

Parish History
PLYMOUTH ST. SAVIOUR - The Church of Saint Saviour was located on Lambhay Hill, The Hoe, Plymouth. It was built in 1870 as a chapel of ease to the Church of the Holy Trinity. It was enlarged in 1883 by the addition of a north aisle when the parish was formed from Holy Trinity. It is a stone building in the Early English style. Consists of chancel, nave, aisles, and a western tower.

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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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
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