St Budeaux, Devon Genealogy

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

Parish History
BUDEAUX, or BUDOCK, ST., is a parish, in the union of Plympton St. Mary, hundred of Roborough, Roborough and S. divisions of Devon, 4½ miles (N. W. by N.) from Plymouth. The parish comprises by computation of 2500 acres, of which 120 are in the county of Cornwall. The church was rebuilt in 1563. There are places of worship for Wesleyans.

BUDEAUX, or Budock (St.), the village is near the Albert bridge and the Saltash station of the Cornwall railway, 4 miles NW of Plymouth. The parish includes also Heniecknowle, and King's-Tamerton , and part of Knacker's-Knowle and Whitleigh ; and its post town is Saltash, Cornwall. There are chapels for Episcopalians and Wesleyans.

St. Budeaux is a chaplry in Plymouth St Andrew ancient parish, Devon (Roborough Hundred), a small part is in Cornwall (East Hundred), the latter was transferred in 1894 to Devon.

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.

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