Sercombe Miscellaneous Records

This page includes excerpts from the following:

NOTE: Items marked with a solid bullet (or in tables, with a boldface date) have been incorporated into the main Compilation of Sercombe Families; other items have not.

Published Pedigrees (No Specific Location)

The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal [full reference to be added]:
(from images at Ancestry) Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh and John Garner Fouse, Genealogy of the Descendants of Theobald Fouse (Fauss) (Baltimore, 1914), p. 222

London Pedigrees

J.J. Howard and G.J. Armytage, The Visitation of London in the Year 1568 (Harleian Society, 1869), p. 57

Devon Local History

John Cennick, An Account of a Late Riot at Exeter (London, 1745):
(see name index) James Cossins, Reminiscences of Exeter Fifty Years Since (Exeter, 1877):
(from Margaret in Honiton) J.L. Vivian, The Visitations of the County of Devon, Comprising The Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620 (Exeter, 1895) Index to The Book of Cornwood and Lutton, by "the people of the parish" (Halsgrove Press, Tiverton, 1995):
(from the Devon Book Indexing Project) Index to The Book of Bampton, by Caroline Seward (Halsgrove Press, Tiverton, 1998):
(from the Devon Book Indexing Project) Index to Postbridge, The Heart of Dartmoor, by Reg Bellamy (Halsgrove Press, 1999):
(from the Devon Book Indexing Project) Index to The Book of Silverton: Portrait of an Exe Valley Parish, by Graham J.H. Parnell (Halsgrove Press, Tiverton, 2000):
(from the Devon Book Indexing Project) Index to The Murder of Jonathan May: The True Story of the Murder of Jonathan May which Took Place near Jacob's Well, Moretonhampstead on 16th July 1835, by R.O. Heath (Moretonhampstead Local History Society, 1995):
(from the Devon Book Indexing Project) Index to Widecombe-in-the-Moor: A Pictorial History of the Dartmoor Village, by Stephen H. Woods (Devon Books, Tiverton, 1996):
(from the Devon Book Indexing Project) Index to Memories of Moretonhampstead, by George Friend (Devon Books, Tiverton, 1994):
(from the Devon Book Indexing Project) Index to The Ellacombe Book: Portrait of a Torquay Parish, by Sydney R. Langmead (Halsgrove Press, Tiverton, 2000):
(from the Devon Book Indexing Project) Cecil Torr, Wreyland Documents (Cambridge University Press, 1910):
(see partial transcript) Miscellaneous items in the Burnet Morris name index not noted elsewhere in these pages:
(from LDS microfilm 1472308)

Somerset Local History

Rev. A.H. Powell, Bridgwater in the Later Days (1908):
(note the name list by Paul Mansfield) Mayors of Bridgwater:
(from an online list) Clare Gathercole, An Archaeological Assessment of Bridgwater, part of the English Heritage Extensive Urban Survey:
Jonathan Rowe and Diddie Williams, Bygone Brislington:
(from Ann Carson in Sydney, Australia)

Massachusetts Local History and Published Genealogy

Robert Francis Seybolt, The Town Officials of Colonial Boston (Harvard University Press, 1939):
(from
Genealogy and Local History Online) Daniel Wait Howe, Howe Genealogies (Boston, 1929):
(from Genealogy and Local History Online) Ellis Loring Motte et al., eds., The Manifesto Church: Records of the Church in Brattle Square Boston with Lists of Communicants, Baptisms, Marriages, and Funerals 1699-1872 (Boston, 1902):
(see Sercombe Vital Records for baptisms and marriages from this book)

New Jersey Local History

John Littell, Family Records: or Genealogies of the First Settlers of Passaic Valley (and Vicinity) above Chatham - with Their Ancestors and Descendants as Far as Can Now Be Ascertained (Feltville, New Jersey, 1851):
(from Google Books)

Ohio Local History

Henry Lovejoy Ambler, History of Dentistry in Cleveland (Cleveland, 1911):
(from Genealogy and Local History Online)

Oregon Local History

Charles W. Smith, Pacific Northwest Americana [a bibliography] (Oregon Historical Society, Portland, 1950):
(from
Genealogy and Local History Online)

Wisconsin Local History

Men of Progress. Wisconsin, pp. 406-407:
(from transcript at USGenWeb -- original includes an image) Frank A. Flower, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1881):
(from biographical index by Cheryl Janke at USGenWeb) Memoirs of Milwaukee County, vol. 2 (1909):
(from biographical index by Cheryl Janke at USGenWeb) From the Wisconsin Historical Society's collection of Wisconsin County Histories:

Australia Local History

Information from the Tweed River Historical Society, Murwillumbah, New South Wales:
(courtesy of Bev Lee) I.T. Maddern, The Centenary History of the Shire of Rosedale, 1871-1971 (Rosedale Council, 1971):
(from the
index by Helene Hayes) Joseph Jackson Howard and Frederick Arthur Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales (privately printed, ca. 1893-1903), vol. 14, pp. 10 and 16-17:
(from scanned images at Ancestry.com)

Criminal Records

G. Bradford, Proceedings in the Court of the Star Chamber in the Reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII (Somerset Record Society, 1911), pp. 268-270: Records of the Devon Quarter Sessions:
(from the Devon Record Office index at Access to Archives, with additions from the original in italics courtesy of the DRO) Prisoners in the Gloucestershire county gaol:
(from registers in the Gloucestershire Record Office)

Military Records

The Devon Muster Roll for 1569:
From the book of that title edited by A.J. Howard and T.L. Stoate (Bristol, 1977). Index to Royal Navy seamen's service records:
(from DocumentsOnline) Boer War soldiers:
(extracted from Kevin J. Asplin, The Roll of the Imperial Yeomanry, Scottish Horse, and Lovats Scouts, 2nd Boer War, 1899-1902, and placed online by the author) Boer War soldiers from Australia (1899-1902):
(from Australian War Memorial nominal rolls) First World War soldiers from Australia - Embarkation Roll:
(from Australian War Memorial nominal rolls) First World War soldiers from Australia - Nominal Roll (for repatriation):
(from Australian War Memorial nominal rolls) Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1918:
(index details only, from books originally published by the British War Office in 1921) Entry in the soldiers' effects registers (not a complete extraction):
(courtesy of the National Army Museum) Soldiers in the Light Brigade in the Crimean War:
(extract from Lawrence W. Crider, In Search of the Light Brigade: A Biographical Dictionary of the Five Original Regiments of the Light Brigade from Jan. 1, 1854 to Mar 31, 1856, p. 57 -- see explanation of abbreviations) Maryland Militia:
(from F. Edward Wright, Citizens of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, 1659-1750) Union soldiers in the U.S. Civil War:
(from Illinois Civil War Rosters; Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865; and an Ancestry database derived from Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, 1866) Exeter men available for the militia, 1803, in case of invasion by Napoleon:
(from W.G. Hoskins, Exeter Militia List 1803 (Phillimore, 1972))

Class 1 = men 17 to 30, unmarried, with no children under 10
Class 2 = men 30 to 50, unmarried, with no children under 10
Class 3 = men 17 to 30, married or with two children under 10
Class 4 = all other men 17 to 55

Officers employed in the service of the British Coast Guard, from the 1851 Navy List:
(from a transcript by Hugh Winters) Chief Officers of the British Coast Guard, July 1857:
(From "Return of ... all Persons now Employed as Chief Officers of Coast Guard ...", House of Commons Sessional Papers 1857, vol. 27, no. 216) (British) Indian Army Quarterly List, 1 Jan 1912:
(from a database at Ancestry) New Zealand servicemen who died at Gallipoli 1915:
(from the Dominion Sunday Times of 22 April 1990, transcribed by Hugh Winters, as well as The Auckland Regiment N.Z.E.F. 1914-18 by O.E. Burton, transcribed by Marianne Philson) Soldiers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, World War I:
(from a National Archives of Canada online database) U.S. World War I draft registration cards:
(from Ancestry: most details not yet extracted) Soldiers in the American Revolution:
(from an Ancestry database, extracted from Secretary of the Commonwealth, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, Boston, 1896) Australian servicemen in World War II:
(from the Australian World War Two Nominal Roll) Australian servicemen in the Vietnam War:
(from the Australian Nominal Roll of Vietnam Veterans) Women who served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (1917-1918) or Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (1918-1920):
(from Documents Online)

Occupations

From Methodist Who's Who, 1912: From Who's Who in Methodism, 1933: From Crockford's Clerical Directory, 85th edition, 1973-74: From Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1975-76: From Kevin Brown, Trust Archivist and Alexander Fleming Museum Curator, St. Mary's Hospital, London: From the Medical Register, 1913: From Anthony Farrington, A Biographical Index of East India Company Maritime Service Officers, 1600-1834 (British Library, 1999) New Zealand Gazette teacher lists, courtesy of Lauren Kernohan: Member register of the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors:

Schools and Universities

From Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses (London, 1888): From J.A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses (London, 1922-1954):
(from images of the book at Archive.org) From Charles S. Morris, reference librarian, and Carol Butts, archivist, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin: From the 1888/1889 directory of the University of Wisconsin at Madison:
(as cited in the Ancestry database University of Wisconsin, Directory 1888-89) From the 1913 Alumni Record of the University of Illinois:
(from scanned images at DistantCousin.com) From the 1913 Harvard University alumni directory:
(as cited in the Ancestry database Boston, Massachusetts, 1913 Harvard University Alumni Directory) From the 1919 Harvard University alumni directory:
(from scanned images at DistantCousin.com) From Dot Mariner, museum secretary, Christ's Hospital (a "blue coat" school formerly located in the City of London): Items in Record of Old Westminsters:
(from the Burnet Morris name index on LDS microfilm 1472308) Details from New Zealand school records, courtesy of Lauren Kernohan: Students at the University of Melbourne:
(from Trevor Hart, "University of Melbourne - The First Matriculants", Ancestor [the quarterly journal of the Genealogical Society of Victoria], vol. 29, no. 1 [1 Mar 2008], pp. 12-13, as quoted by Trevor Williams on 30 May 2008.) Calendar of Dalhousie College and University (Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1903):
(from Google Books)
  1. Students 1902-3, Faculty of Arts: Gladys Churchill SIRCOM, Halifax

Land, Property, Taxes, and Bankruptcy

Australia - England - Scotland - United States - Canada - Jamaica

Australia

Bankruptcies in New South Wales:
(from the NSW Archives online index) Insolvents in New South Wales:
(from the NSW Archives online index) Auriferous Leases in New South Wales:
(from the NSW Archives online index)

England

Devon assessments for the 1332 lay subsidy (a tax on moveable property only):
(from A.M. Erskine, The Devonshire Lay Subsidy of 1332, Torquay, 1969) Assessments for the poll taxes of 1377, 1379, and 1381 (no names were recorded in most Devon parishes):
From The Poll Taxes of 1377, 1379, and 1381, ed. Carolyn C. Fenwick (Oxford University Press, 1998). Devon assessments for the 1524 subsidy:
(from T.L. Stoate, Devon Lay Subsidy Rolls 1524-7, Bristol, 1979) Devon assessments for the 1543 subsidy:
(from T.L. Stoate, Devon Subsidy Rolls 1543-5, Bristol, 1986) Devon assessments for the 1581 subsidy:
(from T.L. Stoate, Devon Taxes 1581-1660, Bristol, 1988) Somerset assessments for the 1581 subsidy:
(from Adrian James Webb, Two Tudor Subsidy Assessments for the County of Somerset: 1558 and 1581-2, Somerset Record Society, 2002) Devon assessments for the 1660 Poll Tax (a fixed tax on everyone aged 16 or older except those on parish relief, with extra assessed on those with property):
(from T.L. Stoate, Devon Taxes 1581-1660, Bristol, 1988; and W.G. Hoskins, Exeter in the Seventeenth Century: Tax and Rate Assessments 1602-1699, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1957) Exeter assessments for the 1671 hearth tax (on all householders):
(from W.G. Hoskins, Exeter in the Seventeenth Century: Tax and Rate Assessments 1602-1699, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1957) Devon assessments (outside Exeter) for the 1674 hearth tax (on all householders):
(from T.L. Stoate, Devon Hearth Tax Return Lady Day 1674 (Bristol, 1982); SECCOMBE included only in parishes where SERCOMBE is known or plausible) Exeter assessments for the 1699 Poor Rate (on personal effects and real property):
(from W.G. Hoskins, Exeter in the Seventeenth Century: Tax and Rate Assessments 1602-1699, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1957) Devon Freeholders, 1711-1799:
(from transcripts by the Friends of Devon Archives and at Genuki -- when last viewed, not all years of the Genuki transcripts had been checked)

"The books were compiled for the purposes of identifying inhabitants of the county who were eligible to serve on juries. With certain exceptions, the qualification from 1692 until 1730 was to own freehold or copyhold land with an annual value of £10 or more. After 1730, tenants of land worth £20 per year held on long leases were also eligible. Eligibility was restricted to men between the ages of 21 and 70."

Year Surname Forename(s) Parish Description Tenure
1713SouthcombeLewesBishops Nympton
1715SouthcombeLewesBishops Nympton
1717SouthcombeJohnBishops Nympton
1718SouthcombeJohnBishops Nympton
1718SouthcombeThomasCrediton
1719SouthcombeJohnBishops Nympton
1719SouthcombeLewisBishops Nympton
1719SouthcombeThomasCrediton
1720SercombeJohnBishops Nympton
1720SouthcombeThomasCrediton
1721SouthcombeThomasCrediton
1722SercombeRogerBroadwoodwidger
1722SouthcombeJohnBishops Nympton
1725SouthcombArthurHatherleighyeoman
1725SouthcombeJohnBishops Nymptonyeoman
1727SouthcombArthurHatherleigh
1729SouthcombArthurHatherleighyeoman
1729SouthcombeJohnBishops Nympton
1733SouthcombeAnthonyEast Bucklandyeoman
1733SouthcombeArthurHatherleighmiller
1733SouthcombeThomasCreditonmiller
1733SouthcombeThomasMonkokehamptonleaseholder
1734SouthcombeAnthonyEast Bucklandyeoman
1734SouthcombeArthurHatherleighfreeholder
1734SouthcombeJohnBuckland Monachorum
1734SouthcombeRichardBroadwoodwidgeryeoman
1734SouthcombeRogerBroadwoodwidgeryeoman
1734SouthcombeThomasCreditonmiller
1734SouthcombeThomasMonkokehamptonleaseholder
1735SouthcombeAnthonyEast Bucklandyeoman
1735SouthcombeArthurHatherleighfreeholder
1735SouthcombeJohnBuckland Monachorum
1735SouthcombeRichardBroadwoodwidgeryeoman
1735SouthcombeRogerBroadwoodwidgeryeoman
1735SouthcombeThomasMonkokehamptonmillerleasholder
1736SouthcombeAnthonyEast Bucklandleaseholder
1736SouthcombeArthurHatherleighfreeholder
1736SouthcombeJohnBuckland Monachorum
1736SouthcombeRichardBroadwoodwidgeryeoman
1736SouthcombeRogerBroadwoodwidgeryeoman
1736SouthcombeThomasMonkokehamptonleaseholder
1738SouthcombeAnthonyEast Buckland
1738SouthcombeArthurHatherleighyeomanfreeholder
1738SouthcombeJohnBuckland Monachorum
1738SouthcombeRogerBroadwoodwidger
1738SouthcombeSamuelCheldon
1738SouthcombeThomasMonkokehamptonleaseholder
1739SouthcombeJohnHatherleigh
1739SouthcombeJohnRose Ashleaseholder
1739SouthcombeRogerBroadwoodwidger
1739SouthcombeThomasMonkokehamptonleaseholder
1741SercombeRichardDunsford
1741SouthcombeAnthonyEast Bucklandleaseholder
1741SouthcombeArthurHatherleighmillerfreeholder
1741SouthcombeJohnBishops Nymptonfreeholder
1741SouthcombeJohnRose Ashfreeholder
1741SouthcombeRogerBroadwoodwidgeryeoman
1741SouthcombeSamuelCheldonleaseholder
1741SouthcombeThomasMonkokehamptonleaseholder
1742SercombeRichardDunsford
1742SouthcombeAnthonyEast Buckland
1742SouthcombeArthurHatherleighyeomanfreeholder
1742SouthcombeJohnBishops Nymptonfreeholder
1742SouthcombeJohnRose Ashleaseholder
1742SouthcombeThomasMonkokehampton
1743SercumbRichardDunsford
1743SoucombeAnthonyEast Buckland
1743SouthcombJohnBishops Nymptonfreeholder
1743SouthcombeJohnRose Ash
1744SircombRichardDunsford
1744SouthcombeAnthonyEast Buckland
1744SouthcombeArthurHatherleighyeomanfreeholder
1744SouthcombeJohnRose Ashleaseholder
1745SercombRichardDunsford
1745SercombeSamuelCheldonleaseholder
1745SouthcombJohnBishops Nymptonfreeholder
1745SouthcombeAnthonyEast Buckland
1745SouthcombeArthurHatherleighyeomanfreeholder
1745SouthcombeJohnRose Ashyeomanleaseholder
1747SouthcombeAnthonyEast Buckland
1747SouthcombeArthurHatherleighyeoman
1747SouthcombeJohnBishops Nymptonfreeholder
1747SouthcombeJohnRose Ashleaseholder
1749SercombeRichardDunsford
1749SouthcombeAnthonyEast Buckland
1749SouthcombeArthurHatherleighyeomanfreeholder
1749SouthcombeJohnBishops Nymptonfreeholder
1749SouthcombeJohnRose Ashyeoman
1750SercombeRichardDunsford
1750SouthcombeAnthonyEast Bucklandleaseholder
1750SouthcombeArthurHatherleighyeoman
1750SouthcombeJohnBishops Nymptonyeomanfreeholder
1751SouthcombeArthurHatherleighyeoman
1752SouthcombeArthurHatherleighyeoman
1753SouthcombeArthurHatherleighfreeholder
1754SouthcombeArthurHatherleighyeoman
1754SouthcombeJohnRose Ashleaseholder
1755SouthcombeArthurHatherleighyeoman
1755SouthcombeJohnRose Ash
1757SouthcombeArthurHatherleigh
1758SouthcombeArthurHatherleigh
1759SouthcombeArthurHatherleighyeoman
1762SouthcombeArthurHatherleighyeoman
1763SouthcombeArthurHatherleighyeoman
1764SouthcombeArthurHatherleigh
1765SouthcombeArthurHatherleigh
1766SouthcombeArthurHatherleighfreeholder
1767SouthcombeArthurHatherleighfreeholder
1769SercombeSamuelHennockfreeholder
1769SouthcombeArthurHatherleigh
1770SouthcombeArthurHatherleighfreeholder
1771SouthcombeArthurHatherleigh
1772SouthcombeArthurHatherleigh
1773SouthcombeArthurHatherleigh
1773SouthcombeJamesRose Ashleaseholder
1774SouthcombeArthurHatherleighfreeholder
1774SouthcombeWilliamEast Bucklandleaseholder
1775SouthcombeArthurHatherleighfreeholder
1775SouthcombeWilliamEast Bucklandleaseholder
1776SouthcombeArthurHatherleighfreeholder
1776SouthcombeWilliamEast Bucklandleaseholder
1777SouthcombeArthurHatherleighsenior
1777SouthcombeWilliamEast Buckland
1778SouthcombeArthurHatherleigh
1778SouthcombeWilliamEast Bucklandfreeholder
1778SyrcombeSamuelHennock
1780SouthcombeArthurHatherleigh
1783SouthcombeArthurHatherleigh
1783SyrcombeSamuelHennock
1799SouthcombeArthurHatherleigh
1799SouthcombeJohnHatherleigh
1799SouthcombeThomasHatherleigh

Entries in the Sun Fire Insurance policy register, 1777-1786:
(from the index at London Lives)

Assessments for the Land Tax, 1780-1832 (tax was 4 shillings per pound of notional assessed value -- minor spelling variations not noted):
(from original records -- Dunsford records for 1783 and 1787-1790 are missing and give no names in 1795)

Items in the Devon Record Office listed at Access to Archives: Items from the Hampshire Record Office catalog: Records of Heath and Blenkinsop of Warwickshire, solicitors, in the Warwickshire County Record Office:
(from catalog at Access to Archives) Apprenticeships taxed by the Internal Revenue, 1710-1774:
(from the registers on LDS microfilms 0824670 and 0824676)

Scotland

Sasines:
(index entries courtesy of William Owen) Scottish valuation rolls:
(courtesy of William Owen)

United States

Early Maryland Land Records:
(from Queen Anne's County Land Records, clerk RT, book E, p. 242) Homestead and exemption records for DeSoto County, Florida:
(from index by Janine Rickner at USGenWeb) 1783 tax assessment of Queen Anne's County, Maryland:
(from index by the Maryland State Archives) Bureau of Land Management records for Traill County, North Dakota:
(from database by Joy Fisher at USGenWeb) 1906 plat map of Charles Mix County, South Dakota:
(from online index) Bureau of Land Management records for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin:
(from database by Joy Fisher and Tina Vickery at USGenWeb)

Canada

Land Grants in Western Canada, 1870-1930:
(from the National Archives of Canada online index)

Jamaica

West Indies slave registers:
(from images at Ancestry)

Apprentices, Freemen, Burgesses, and Voters

For apprentices, see also under parish administration (for apprenticeships under the Poor Law) and taxation (for records of taxes paid on apprenticeships).

Freemen of the City of London:
(from Ancestry's images of admission papers)

Exeter freemen:
(from Margery M. Rowe and Andrew M. Jackson, eds., Exeter Freemen 1266-1967 (Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1973)) Bristol apprentices:
(from the apprenticeship records at the Bristol Record Office, courtesy of John Butland Watts of the Bristol and Avon FHS) Bristol burgesses:
(from the indexes to the Bristol Burgess Books, in 21 vols., courtesy of John Butland Watts of the Bristol and Avon FHS; thanks also to Diane in Kentucky for an earlier lookup) Fife voter rolls:
(courtesy of William Owen) Queensland electoral roll, 1903:
(courtesy of Helen Smith) New Zealand electoral rolls:
(courtesy of Lauren Kernohan)

Parish Administration

Alphington, Devon

Alphington apprenticeship indentures of the overseers of the poor of St. Thomas Union:
(from Access to Archives) Settlement examinations:
(from Access to Archives)

Bovey Tracey, Devon

Apprenticeship indentures of the overseers of the poor:
(from Access to Archives) Settlement examinations:
(from Access to Archives)

Chagford, Devon

Apprenticeship indentures of the overseers of the poor:
(from Access to Archives)

Chudleigh, Devon

Settlement examinations:
(from Access to Archives) Apprenticeship indentures of the overseers of the poor:
(from Access to Archives)

Crediton, Devon

Leases of the governors:
(from Access to Archives)

Dawlish, Devon

Apprenticeship indentures of the overseers of the poor:
(from Access to Archives) Records of the constables:
(from Access to Archives)

Dunsford, Devon

Apprenticeship indentures of the overseers of the poor:
(from Access to Archives) Removal orders to Dunsford:
(from Access to Archives) Bastardy orders:
(from Access to Archives, with year corrected after correspondence with the Devon Record Office)

Holcombe Burnell, Devon

Apprenticeship indentures of the overseers of the poor:
(from Access to Archives)

Ilsington, Devon

Apprenticeship indentures of the overseers of the poor:
(from Access to Archives)

Kenn, Devon

Settlement examinations:
(from Access to Archives) Removal orders to Kenn:
(from Access to Archives)

Kingsteignton, Devon

Settlement examinations:
(from Access to Archives)

Marystow, Devon

Settlement examinations:
(from Access to Archives)

Membury, Devon

Settlement examinations:
(from Access to Archives)

Rewe, Devon

Settlement examinations:
(from Access to Archives) Removal orders to Rewe:
(from Access to Archives)

St. Budeaux, Devon

Apprenticeship indentures of the overseers of the poor:
(from Access to Archives)

St. Thomas, Devon

Removal orders from St. Thomas:
(from Access to Archives)

Sowton, Devon

Apprenticeship indentures of the overseers of the poor:
(from Access to Archives)

Tedburn St, Mary, Devon

Apprenticeship indentures of the overseers of the poor:
(from Access to Archives)

Totnes, Devon

Records of feoffees:
(from Access to Archives)

Whitestone, Devon

Churchwardens:
(from the DCRS transcript of the parish registers, 1594-1837, on LDS microfilm 917554) Surveyors of the highway:
(from the DCRS transcript of the parish registers, 1594-1837, on LDS microfilm 917554) Overseers of the poor:
(from the DCRS transcript of the parish registers, 1594-1837, on LDS microfilm 917554)

Oaths

Devon protestation returns, 1641/2:
(courtesy of Louise C. and Madalene Frost) Contributors to the rebuilding of St. Paul's Cathedral, 1678:
(from Genuki) Devon and Exeter oath rolls, 1723 (and some earlier):
(lists of those who swore loyalty oaths, mostly "compiled in the aftermath of the Jacobite Atterbury plot of 1720-22", from transcripts by the Friends of Devon Archives)

Subscription Lists

Subscribers to books:
(from database U.K. and U.S. Directories, 1680-1830 at Ancestry.com) Subscribers to books:
(as noted in the Burnet Morris name index on LDS microfilm 1472308) Subscribers to books:
(from the books themselves) Subscribers to newspapers:
(from Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History 9: Newspaper Readership in South West England)

Patent Records

U.S. patents:
(from Google Patent Search, omitting patents filed after 1950) U.K. patents:
(from the U.K. Patent Office, omitting patents filed after 1950)

content last revised 19 May 2013