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Town and Country
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Use
our Museum for those
investigations
you have always wanted to carry out |
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Research
Facilities are available on
Mondays [except Bank Holidays] - 2.00 to 4.00pm
Wednesdays - all day from 10.30am to 4.30pm
Access at other times is by prior arrangement. |
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Prior
Booking :
Whilst we have five fiche readers, one film reader and four tables, prior booking is
recommended as it will ensure you can be accommodated when you visit the museum. It is
ESSENTIAL to do so if you wish to search the microfilm copies of Tiverton [St.Peter's]
Parish Registers or the Tiverton Register Office Marriage Notice Books.
Prior booking should be made at least 7 days before the proposed visiting date and can be made by POST, EMAIL or TELEPHONE to the Museum |
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Visit of Archivist from Devon Record
Office:
A Devon R.O. staff member visits the
Museum on the second Monday (if not a bank holiday) of
some months from April to October to give advice and to
bring out microfiche/microfilm copies of material not
held at the museum. Such items MUST be ordered by
the Wednesday before the second Monday of the month
concerned. Telephone Bob Lush on 01884 254785 or Mike
Dowell, Devon Record Office, on 01392 384253 or email
devrec@devon.gov.uk
with your request. |
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The
Research Facilites
provided in the Museum Library/Search Room are intended for use by people
visiting the Museum to carry out their own research. The Library/Search Room is staffed by
museum volunteers giving such of their time as they can. Detailed, long term research
cannot be carried out for those unable to visit the museum.General enquiries to assist how your research should proceed in
relation to families connected with the parishes listed or to the history of the parishes
themselves can be dealt with by museum volunteers. A maximum of three hours will be spent
on such an enquiry. Enquires can be made by post, email or telephone. In all cases it is essential
to provide your full postal address for reply purposes.
The Museum's main source of income is from
Admission Fees. Assuming the answer to your enquiry assists you in your research and saves
you a visit to the Museum, we would ask you to consider making a donation to the Tiverton
& Mid Devon Museum Trust of at least the admission charge paid had you visited us. |
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Below is a list of Source
Material held in Tiverton Museum
which is a Service Point of Devon Record Office |
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| Parish Registers : |
Baptism/Marriages/Burials are
held on microfiche/film for the parishes of:-
Bampton, Bickleigh, Blackborough, Burlescombe, Butterleigh, Cadbury, Cadeleigh,
Calverleigh, Cheriton Fitzpaine, Clayhanger, Clayhidon, Creacombe, Cruwys Morchard,
Cullompton, Culmstock, Halberton, Hemyock, Hockworthy, Holcombe Rogus, Huntsham,
Kentisbeare, Loxbeare, Morebath, Netherexe, Oakford, Payhembury, Petton, Plymtree,
Poughill, Puddington, Rackenford, Rewe, Sampford Peverell, Sheldon, Silverton, Stockleigh
English, Stockleigh Pomeroy, Stoodleigh, Templeton, Thelbridge, TIVERTON - Chevithorne,
Cove Chapel, St.Andrew, St.George, St.Paul, St.Peter, Uffculme, Uplowman, Washfield,
Washford Pyne, Willand, Witheridge and Woolfardisworthy East |
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Non-Conformist Records
[Microfiche unless otherwise stated] |
Baptism Registers for the South
Molton Wesleyan, Primitive Methodists and Bible Christian Circuits, and Tiverton Wesleyan
and the Tiverton and Bampton/United Methodists Circuits. A photocopy of the Tiverton
Wesleyan Chapel Burial Register is also held. Society of Friends (Quaker) records held for
Devon East Division and Exeter. Tiverton Register Office Marriage Notice Books
1837-1974 are held on microfilm. These record notices of marriages in Non-Conformist
Chapels/Churches in the Tiverton Registration District, and Tiverton Register Office and
in such places elsewheret where one party is resident outside the Tiverton Registration
District. |
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| Census Returns [Microfiche
unless otherwise stated] |
1841: North
Devon Surname Index
1851: Devon, Countywide Index including details of census entries
Census Returns: Devon - Bampton sub-district - Somerset- Dulverton
sub-district
Devon FHS 1851 census Devon surname index booklets (full set)
Somerset & Dorset FHS 1851 census Somerset surname index (printed booklet)
1861: Census Returns : Devon - Bampton, Cullompton, Silverton, Tiverton
(part), Washfield, Witheridge sub-districts - Name index for North Devon
1871: Census Returns : Devon - Culmstock sub-district - Somerset -
Dulverton sub-district
1881: Countywide Indexes including details of census entries for
Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset
1891: Census Returns : Devon - Bampton, Cheriton Fitzpaine, Cullompton,
Culmstock, Silverton, Tiverton, Uffculme, Witheridge sub-districts - Somerset - Dulverton
sub-district. Name index only for North Devon. |
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| I.G.I - International
Genealogical Index |
1992 Edition for the Counties of
Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset are held as is the 1984 edition for Devon only.
Basically covers Baptisms/marriages up to 1837 |
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| Tithe Maps |
Microfiche copies of Tithe Maps
and Apportionments for the majority of parishes shown above. |
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| Newspapers |
Bridgewater Gazette (1871-84),
Crediton & N.Devon Chronicle/Crediton Gazette (1885-1939), Devon & Somerset News
(1890-1983), East Devon County Press (1934-1939), South Molton Gazette (1872-1939),
Tiverton Gazette & East Devon Herald (1858-1939), Western Counties Advertiser /
Western Observer (1875-1930) |
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John Heathcoat
& Co.
Lace Manufacturers |
Logbooks 1899-1964. Post 1900
books, documents, records, ephemera. Company magazines 1930-33 and 1952-1990. |
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| Ephemera, Books,
Documents etc |
Numerous items re businesses,
churches, shops, personalities, towns and villages, in Tiverton and district. Local
Directories / Year Books for various years 1897-1947. Parish and Church magazines. |
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| Maps |
Dated from 1777 to 1950 including
1889 issue 10ft 6in = 1mile scale OS Map of Tiverton town centre and 25in = 1mile /
6in=1mile scale maps of Tiverton and certain surrounding areas. |
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| Family History |
Published histories of Boyce,
Chattey, Coade, Cog(g)an, Coles, Cowley, Glass, Kibbey, Perkins, Puddington / Purrington,
Rossiter, Slee, Stedman and Venner families together with name files on many other
local families on whom research has been carried out following enquiries to the Museum. |
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| Photographs |
Large indexed collection relating
to people, buildings, events and locations 1870 to date. |
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