Plympton St Mary, Devon Genealogy

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

Parish History
PLYMPTON ST. MARY, a parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Plympton, Ermington and Plympton, and S. divisions of Devon, ½ a mile (N. W. by W.) from Earl's-Plympton. It has no village of its own name, but includes those of RIDGWAY, UNDERWOOD, and COLEBROOK, and the hamlets of Hemerdon, Sparkwell, Venton, and part of Lee Mill Bridge. The Church of Plympton St. Mary was anciently the conventual church of the Priory. There are small Wesleyan Chapels at Ridgway and Lee Mill Bridge.

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:

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

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Society of Friends/Quaker is a non-Church of England denomination located somewhere in Plympton, but the exact parish has not been identified

Census Records
Transcriptions of some of the censuses records for Plympton St Mary parish can be found at http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/PlymptonStMary/index.html#Census

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
Plympton St Mary on GENUKI

Information about Plympton St. Mary Parish, in Devon, England and past residents may be found on the Online Parish Clerk pages at http://cornwood-opc.com/psmary/home