Churston Ferrers, Devon Genealogy

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

Parish History
CHURSTON-FERRERS, a parish, in the union of Totnes, hundred of Haytor, Paignton and S. divisions of Devon, 1½ mile (N. W.) from Brixham.

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:


 * 1589-1653 - Banks, Charles Edward. "The Parish Registers of Churston Ferrers, Co. Devon, England," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Records, Marriages 1590-1653: Vol. 63, No. 3 (Jul. 1932):259-268; Baptisms 1589-1609: Vol. 63, No. 4 (Oct. 1932):351-358; Baptisms 1610-1634: Vol. 64, No. 1 (Jan. 1933):46-53; Baptisms 1634-1650: Vol. 64, No. 3 (Jul. 1933):298-303; Burials 1590-1615, Baptisms 1651-1653: Vol. 64, No. 4 (Oct. 1933):396-403; Burials 1615-1635: Vol. 65, No. 1 (Jan. 1934):82-87; Burials 1636-1653: Vol. 65, No. 2 (Apr. 1934):182-187. Digital version at New York Family History ($); . Baptisms 1589-1653, marriages 1590-1653, burials 1590-1653.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Wesleyan Methodist

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
Churston Ferrers on GENUKI