Littleham cum Exmouth, Devon Genealogy

England Devon  Devon Parishes

Parish History
LITTLEHAM (Holy Trinity), 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. The parish is situated at the mouth of the river Exe. There is a place of worship for dissenters.

EXMOUTH, a fashionable bathing-place and a chapelry, partly in the parish of Withycombe-Rawleigh, but chiefly in that of Littleham, in the union of St. Thomas, hundred of East Budleigh, Woodbury and S. divisions of Devon, 11 miles (S. E. by S.) from Exeter. Here are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyans.

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
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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