Totnes Museum Study Centre

Totnes Family History Group offers a search service covering the Totnes region using the following resources:

Computer database

The computer database covers Totnes town only, and now includes:

Baptisms 1813 - 1850 (2994 records).

Burials 1813 - 1850 (2032 records).

Marriages 1797 - 1850 (1094 records).

Censuses 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891.

Tithe map and apportionments (1842).

Parish registers

As a service point for the Devon Record Office, we also have microfiche copies of registers of the following parishes in the Totnes archdeaconry, also most tithe maps and apportionments.

Ashburton, Ashprington, Aveton Gifford, Berry Pomeroy (Bridgetown), Berry Pomeroy (St Mary), Blackawton, N. Bovey, S. Brent, Bickington, Broadhempston, Buckfastleigh, Buckland in the Moor, Cornworthy, Dartington, Dartmouth, non-conformist baptisms, Dean Prior, Diptford, Dittisham, Halwell, Harberton, Holne, N. Huish, Ilsington, Littlehempston, Loddiswell, Malborough, Manaton, Modbury, Moreleigh, Rattery, Slapton, Staverton, Stoke Fleming, Stoke Gabriel, Stokenham, Totnes, Ugborough, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Woodland, Woodleigh.

We also have the following independent baptism records.

New Chapel Totnes 1800 - 1846; Buckfastleigh Methodist (Wesleyan) 1857 - 1935; Dartmouth Methodist (Wesleyan) 1840 - 1906; Dartmouth Methodist (primitive) 1882 - 1933; Dartmouth Townstal Methodist (primitive) 1862 - 1870; Totnes Ashburton Circuit Methodists (Wesleyan) 1802 - 1859; Totnes United Free Church 1794 - 1856.

Email your query in the first instance for a quotation to jill.drysdale@btinternet.com

Current charges

Minimum three hour preliminary search to your specification: £15

PLEASE NOTE: Bank currency exchange charges will be waived for a limited period.
Pay with a cheque payable to the Totnes Museum Society to:

Jill Drysdale, The Family History Group, Tower View, South Street, TOTNES, Devon TQ9 5DZ, England.

30/01/09