Plymouth Charles, Devon Genealogy

England   Devon  Devon Parishes

Parish History
PLYMOUTH CHARLES is part of PLYMOUTH

PLYMOUTH, is a sea-port, borough, and market-town, having a separate jurisdiction, locally in the hundred of Rororough, Roborough and S. divisions of Devon, 44 miles (S. W.) from Exeter; it contains, the out-parts of the parishes of St. Andrew and Charles the Martyr. The town is included within the parishes of St. Andrew and Charles. A church district named Sutton-on-Plym was formed out of Charles parish, in 1844, alternately. There are places of worship in the town for Baptists, the Society of Friends,Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, Presbyterians, and Unitarians; and a synagogue.

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, non conformist 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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