South Pool, Devon Genealogy

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

Parish History
POOL, SOUTH (St. Cyriac), a parish, in the union of Kingsbridge, hundred of Coleridge, Stanborough and Coleridge, and S. divisions of Devon, 4¾ miles (S. E.) from Kingsbridge.

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
Baptisms

1664-1699: transcription held on South Hams website

1700-1839: Free lookup service offered on South Hams website

1750-1812: transcription held on South Hams website

1849-1872: Free lookup service offered on South Hams website

Marriages

1665-1699: transcription held on South Hams website

1700-1837: Free lookup service offered on South Hams website

Burials

1664-1938: Free lookup service offered on South Hams website

Non-Conformist Churches
Wesleyan Methodist

Census records
1841: Transcription held at South Hams website

Online Parish Clerk
Devon Online Parish Clerks is a resource of volunteers willing to provide free look-ups and research within the County of Devon. The Online Parish Clerk for South Pool maintains a website at http://www.rosweb.org.uk/southpool.html with transcripts and links to data and census records.

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
South Pool One-Place Study on South Pool OPS South Pool One-Place Study on Register of One-Place Studies South Pool One-Place Study on Society for One-Place Studies South Pool on GENUKI