Plympton St Maurice, Devon Genealogy

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

Parish History
PLYMPTON, EARL'S (St. Maurice), an incorporated market-town, and a parish, having separate jurisdiction, in the union of Plympton St. Mary, locally in the hundred of Plympton, Ermington and Plympton, and S. divisions of Devon, 39 miles (S. W.) from Exeter. The church, was originally a chantry chapel appendant to Plympton St. Mary, it was founded by John Brackley, in 1547. There is a place of worship for Independent Calvinists.

"PLYMPTON MAURICE, or PLYMPTON EARL, is an ancient disfranchised borough, and a small stannary and market town, pleasantly situated in a fertile vale, about 5 miles E. by N. of Plymouth, and 2 miles E. of the river Plym. The town consists of four small streets, with a few respectable houses in the suburbs. The Parish Church (St. Maurice,) is . . . a small neat fabric, standing near the castle mound. . . . " [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]

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
Plympton St Maurice parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Devon Archives and Local Studies.

Non-Conformist Churches
Society of Friends/Quaker

Census records
Transcriptions of some of the census records for Plympton St. Mary parish in Devon can be found at http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/PlymptonStMaurice/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 Maurice on GENUKI

Information about Plympton St. Maurice (Plympton Earle) and past residents can be found on the Online Parish Clerk webpages at http://cornwood-opc.com/psmaurice