Plymouth Charles, Devon Genealogy

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

Parish History
PLYMOUTH CHARLES is part of PLYMOUTH

PLYMOUTH, is a sea-port, borough, and market-town, having a separate jurisdiction, locally in the hundred of Rororough, Roborough and S. divisions of Devon, 44 miles (S. W.) from Exeter; it contains, the out-parts of the parishes of St. Andrew and Charles' the Martyr. The town is included within the parishes of St. Andrew and Charles. There are places of worship in the town for Baptist's, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, Presbytherians, and Unitarians; and a synagogue.

The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales provides a slightly different entry for Charles.

Plymouth is one parish that comprehended all the town till 1640; and it was then divided into two, called St. Andrew and Charles-the-Martyr. It is ecclesiastically cut into the divisions of St. Andrew, Christchurch, Holy Trinity, St. James, and St. Peter. Charles-the-Martyr parish comprises a section of the borough. There are also, within the borough, two chapelries, called St. Andrew's and Charles, without any defined limits. Charles' chapel stands in Tavistock-place, was erected in 1828.

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
Plymouth Charles 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

 * Calvinis
 * Christians
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Plymouth Brethren
 * Presbyterian
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Unitarian
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist Association

The following non-Church of England denominations were located somewhere in Plymouth, but the exact parish has not been identified:


 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Moravian/United Brethren

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
Plymouth Charles on GENUKI