Harford, Devon Genealogy

England Devon  Devon Parishes

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

Parish History
HARFORD, a parish, in the union of Plympton St. Mary, hundred of Ermington, Ermington and Plympton, and S. divisions of Devon, 2½ miles (N.) from Ivy-Bridge. There is a place of worship for Independents.

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:

Non-Conformist Churches
Wesleyan Methodist

Census records
Transcriptions for the 1841 to 1911 censuses for Harford Parish, Devon may be found at http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Harford/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
Harford on GENUKI

Information about Harford parish, Devon may be found on the Online Parish Clerk webpages at http://cornwood-opc.com/harford