Totnes
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Click on the link below to jump to your section of interest. Deeds, Leases etc. (transcriptions and original documents) Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries Devon Record Office, Totnes Borough records at the Devonshire Association Transactions Episcopal Registers, diocese of Exeter Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society (Transactions) Family and individual notes/histories index International Genealogical Index (IGI) Parish register/tithe map and apportionments fiches Totnes County School for Girls Magazine Totnes High School for Girls Magazine Journal of the Dart Valley Railway nos. 1 - 139 (1968 - 1998). Fiches and/or transcripts for Totnes: censuses 1841, 1851, 1861, 1891. LDS 1881 CD set and 1851 Devon/Warwick/Norfolk usually available. Also Beavington 1851 Census CD Somerset/Wilts/Gloucester 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, 1881, 1891. Tithe map and apportionments (1842). The Study Centre Catalogue (work in progress). Indentures of Apprenticeship Nos. 3 to 48 (1986 to 1997), almost complete. Also Dartmoor Preservation Association. Deeds, Leases etc. (transcriptions and original documents) This topic is the subject of an ongoing Study Centre project Totnes Deeds Project
Vols. 35, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45 (1977 - 1987). Totnes and local references include: An excavation at 39 Fore Street 1984 p71. Excavations within the Anglo-Saxon enclosure at Berry Meadow, Kingsteignton, 1987. 4 The Quay Dartmouth, a Devon town house of 1664 (cf. Totnes), 1983p 107. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 1888-1889 Vol 1 bound. 1890-1892 Vol 2 bound. In 1901 the publication began again with vol 1. Volumes 1 - 15 except: Vol 6 pt 1 & Vol 15 pt 6. Vol. 23 pts 2,6,8,10,11 Vol. 24 pts 2,3 4,5,6,8 Vol. 25 pts 2,3,4,5,6 Vol. 26 pts 1,2,3,4,5 Vol. 27 parts -,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12. Vol. 28 parts 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11. (ie. complete) Vol. 29 parts 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 (ie. complete) Vol. 31 parts 1,2,3, -, 5,6,7, - Vol. 32 pts 1-9 (believed complete) Vol. 33 pts 1-9 (believed complete) Vol. 34 pts 1-8 (complete) Vol. 35 pts 1-10 (believed complete) Vol. 36 pts 1-10 (believed complete) Vol. 37 pts 1-10 (believed complete) Vol. 38 pts 1-10 (believed complete) Computer Index to volumes 1 – 37 (1901 – 1996) 1970 - 1980, 1994 to current. Devon Record Office, Totnes Borough records at the From early 13th century to 1960, catalogue compiled 1976 by RCHM. Devonshire Association Transactions Volumes 1 – 134 (1862 to 2002) Index volumes 1 – 60 Index volumes 61 – 70 Index volumes 71 - 100 Computer Index to volumes 1 – 132 Whites 1850 (Devon) White's 1890 (Devon) Kelly's 1893 (Devon & Cornwall) Kelly's 1902 (Devon & Cornwall) Kelly's 1910 (Devon) Kelly's 1935 (Devon) Kelly's 1939 (Cornwall) Episcopal Registers, diocese of Exeter 1257 to 1455, ten volumes. Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society (Transactions) Vols 1 - 6, (1843 - 1861), various parts and series from 1865 - 1892) Family and individual notes/histories index List of Information in Drawers. List of Sources for Research Aerial Photographs of Totnes (photocopies) Agriculture – Mediaeval Agriculture - Post Mediaeval Agricultural Assn. - Reports on Totnes Almshouses and Richard Norris Gift Book Apprentices and Masters - List of Trades and Apprentices 1721-1802 (plus one of 1942) Archaeology Archaeological Reports on Motor museum Site (Steamer Quay - Totnes) and Evans and Cutler Archaeological Notes and Cuttings - E Masson Philips on: Dartmoor, Exeter, Polsole Priory, Bishopsteignton Architecture Armada Ashburton Babbacombe Lee - "The Man They Couldn't Hang Babbage 1. Development of Engine and Celebrations Babbage 2. Personal and Ada Lovelace Banks Beating the Bounds Bellchambers, James - Totnes Notes Berry Pomeroy Birdwood Blackler and Turpin Bodley, Thos Bodleian Library Boer War. Bogan Borough Park Borough Records (see also Documents) Bourton Hall - Belle Vue Bowden Bridges Family plus Varder family Bridges (plus brief reference to Warland) Bridgetown Bridgetown Rentals Brockedon, William (Painter and Writer) Brooke, Sir James (Sarawak) Broomborough Brutus Stone Buckfast Abbey Buckfast Abbey Cartulary Buckfastleigh Building Materials Burials Buttons Castles - Berry Pomeroy Ceilings Census 1821 Census 1851/61 Childhood Chudleigh and Rees Churches 1. Parish Church, Totnes Churches 2. R.C. and Non-conformist J.G. Churchward - Railway Engineer Cinema Civil War Documents Coins and Currency Clocks Coffee Tavern Community Publications Costumes Crafts Dairies Dartington - including excavations and Illustrated Article from Country Life 1969 plus Rural Archive Dates relevant to Totnes Devon Artists Devon Notes and Queries Devon Record Office Devon Record Office Leaflets Dialects and Terms Diptford Church Records Directories - 1823 - 24 Directories 1870 - 73 - 78 Directories 1883 - 1889 - 1890 Directories F 1906 - 1910 - 1914 Directories G 1919 - 1923 - 1926 Dolls and Toys Domesday Domesday 3B Domesday 3C Eclipse of Sun 1999 Education Elections - Totnes M.P.s Elizabethan Theatre Evacuees Fairs FAMILIES A-C FAMILIES D-R FAMILIES S-T FAMILIES U-Z and Misc. Famous People connected with Totnes Fans Fees (17th Century) Fires (Totnes Fire 1990 – Arch) Fires (Totnes Fire 1989 – The Plains) Fires (Totnes and area – Misc.) Fire service - General Follaton and Carys Forde House Freeholders Book - 1771 Gallows Galmpton and Churston Gas Co. Gatcombe General Strike Gilbert Glass Goss Challenge Guildhall Hakewill Family Hallmark Hallsands Disaster Hannaford Harris Bacon Harrisons Garage, The Plains - Site Reports - Geo-technical and Archaeological Health and Medical Hearth Tax Returns A Brief Outline of Heraldry by Robert Hoop High Cross, Dartington Hall Highfield House, Bridgetown Historical Documents - Totnes History - Historical Docs. History - Saxon Material - British Home guard Hospitals HOUSES - Lists and Listings HOUSES - Notebook on Houses and Notes from Commercial Union Assurance Books - 1862 - 1905 HOUSES - General and Miscellaneous Irons Dr. Jelly Kelland Family Kingston House Kingswear Lantern Slides Larrad - Documents relating to inventions and patents Leases - Cloth Trade and Quays Lethbridge, John - Diving pioneer Libraries Limestone Literary associations with Totnes Local Govt. Local Govt. Officials Loventor Manors The Mansion Maps Markets and Fairs Masonic Lodge Maudlin and Leper Mayflower and Pilgrim Fathers Mayors and Recorders Mechanics Institute Military and Naval Mills Millennium Mining in Devon and clay extraction Mint Museum 1 Museum 2 (and Motor Museum) Museum Society Musical Instruments Paige Adams Parishes (see Villages and Manors) Pharmacies Pilgrims Place Names Police Poor Law Population Studies Port Area of Totnes Postal History Posters and Bills Pottery - Excavation at 39 Fore St. Press Cuttings - Totnes Properties in Totnes – sales particulars Properties in Villages – sales particulars Protestation Returns 1641 Public Buildings Public Houses, History of Quays Railways Redworth (and Singer Family) References Rennies, Bridgetown Canal River Dart Royal Charters St. Lawrence Chapel, Ashburton Saltram Sandridge Estate - 1935 Sharpham Ships and Sea-trade (and Ropewalk) Sites and Monuments Smocks South Brent Sports inc. Regatta Statistical Information Statutes Stone Crosses STREETS - Castle St., Church Close - Arch. dig STREETS - Cistern Street STREETS - Collins Road STREETS - Fore Street 14a, 36 and 49 STREETS - Fore Street 20, 22, 24b, 48, 64 and 66 STREETS - Gothic House, Bank Lane STREETS - Civic Centre STREETS- High Street No. 3 STREETS - High Street No. 10a STREETS - High Street Nos. 2, 11, 14,16, 20, 21, 22, 27, 57 and 58 STREETS - High Street Nos. 39 and 83 STREETS - High Street No. 70 - Tannings STREETS - Maudlin Road, Rose Cottages STREETS - North St., Evans and Cutler STREETS - Plains and Waterside and Moorashes STREETS - Plymouth Road No. 3 STREETS - Plymouth Road: Haytor; Old Register Office STREETS - Plymouth Road The Rectory, Elwell and misc. STREETS - South Street - site of old store, Arch. dig STREETS and Roads inc. boundaries - General Surnames Tax Rolls Tin Tithes - 1837 to 1847 Tokens Torbay Totnes Castle excavation General Histories of Totnes (1) General Histories of Totnes (2) Totnes Coat of Arms, ancient seals and Honour of Totnes Totnes Documents Totnes Pageant 1951 Totnes Races (1) Letters Totnes Races (2) Takings Totnes Races (3) Totnes Rifle Volunteers Totnes Schools Totnes Shows Totnes Silver (cutlery generally) Totnes Times Totnes Traffic Report 1997 Town Gates Trades, Shopkeepers and Merchant Guilds Transport Turnpike Trusts etc. Vennings Villages - Notes Village stories by locals Vire Voters, Totnes 1830 - 59 Water and Wells Weddings 1890 - 1930 Wembury Wills James Wills, Artist W.J. Wills (1) W.J. Wills (2) Windeatt Edward Windeatt Edward - Sale Catalogue, Bearnes Sept. 1994 Wise Wool W.W.I. W.W.I – Devon Regiment, War Diaries W.W.II (1) Totnes and S.W. W.W.II (2) U.S. forces and Slapton International Genealogical Index (IGI) On fiche, 1988 edition. Many original and copy maps of Totnes and Devon including OS, Dawson, some taken from original documents (deeds etc.). A monthly magazine devoted chiefly to subjects connected with Devon and Cornwall: 1888 to 1892. Over 200 recordings on tape cassettes made by Totnes Community Archive (funded by the Manpower Services Commission) in the 1980s, some transcribed and indexed. Parish Register/tithe map and apportionments fiches 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: St. Saviours, St. Petrox & Townstall, 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. TRANSCRIPTS (up to 1850) by Mike McNaught, are available for the following parishes: Ashprington, Blackawton, Buckfastleigh, Cornworthy, Dartington, Dartmouth (Marriages only): St. Saviours, St. Petrox & Townstall , Dean Prior (Marriages only), Diptford, Dittisham, Halwell, Harberton, Holne, Rattery (Marriages only), South Brent, Stoke Fleming (Marriages only). Stored in boxes as listed below. Computer catalogue searchable by keyword. 1. Public people 2. Totnes buildings. 3. Dartington, Berry Pomeroy, river Dart, boats and bridges. 4. Markets, hospitals, castle, churches, and chapels, guildhall, almshouses. 5. High Street, schools, transport. 6. 70 Fore Street (museum), exhibits, study centre. 7. Carnivals, processions, celebrations, beating the bounds. 8. Bridgetown; fires, fire engines; clubs, societies, drama groups etc. 9. Fore Street, Plains, New Walk, wars and military, Burke and Wills. 10. Local families, people. 11. Totnes views. 12. Totnes miscellaneous. 14. Sport, plaster ceilings. 15. Large photos. Map case 1b: views (rest of world), portrait photos (largely unidentified). Thousands of negatives indexed by parish. Thousands of colour transparencies with guide. Ceiling survey (early decorative plasterwork). Originals and copies of mostly 19th century prints of the region. Fourteen lever arch files of notes relating to Totnes, indexed, compiled in the 1920s. About 500 books arranged under the following categories: BRITISH HISTORY DEVON EXETER TOTNES BABBAGE CORNWALL GEOLOGY ARCHITECTURE LOCAL PLANS NATURAL HISTORY ART Torbay Express (Torbay & Dartmouth Railway Society) Vols. 6 - 12, 16 - 18, 23 - 26, 28, 29 (1983 - 1991) Totnes County School for Girls Magazine 1935 - 1946 1920 - 1988 (incomplete). Totnes High School for Girls Magazine 1948 - 1960 Published by Totnes Museum Society, volumes 1 - 5 ( 1998 - 2002). Some on microfilm. 1860 to 1998 (some gaps between 1862 and 1869). In 1968 & 1969 it was not printed Subject and name indexes for 1860 to 1888 (thousands of entries). The Totnesian, 1896 - 1909 Totnesian Magazine, 1943 to 1969 (incomplete). Western Antiquary (or Devon & Cornwell Notebook) Vols. 1 - 11 (1882 - 1892) Transcripts
of the following… William
Hert 1489 Thomas
Hamlyn 1527 William
Hokmor 1542 Henry
Dottinge 1542 John
Blacklour 1550 John
Bouggan or Bogan 1556 Roger
Crot 1557 Christopher
Savery 1560 Nicholas
Broking 1579 Walter
Dowse, Merchant of Great Totnes, 1580 Henry
Carswell 1581 John
Norris 1588 Walter
Buggan 1591 Walther
Kellonde, Merchant of Totnes, 1592 Christopher
Savery 1592 Luke
Serrott 1598 Geoffrey
Babb or Babbe, Merchant of Totnes, 1604 Robert
Babbett 1604 Phillip
Holdich 1608 William
Yeo, 1611 Roger
Bagwill, Ropemaker of Brodgtowm Pomry, 1612 Johanna
Yeo, 1614 George
Yeo, 1620 Christopher
Lee, Merchant of Totnes, 1623 John
Kellond, merchant of Totnes, 1624 Agnes
Yeo, 1645 Walter
Smith 1655 Nicholas
Codner, Locksmith of Totnes, 1657 William
French, Yeoman of Totnes, 1660 Wilmott
Garrett 1670 Samuel
Windeatt, Clockmaker 1703 John
Taylor, Gentleman of Totnes, 1706 Julian
Babbage 1704 William
Clements 1736 John
Amyatt 1747 John
Phillips, Clothier 1756
Anthony
Maddox 1758 Joan
Phillips 1760 William
Forord 1772 Eleanor
Searle 1773 Christopher
Farwell, Doctor of Physic of Totnes, 1780 Joseph
Fox 1781 Philip
Cockey 1781 Samuel
Windeatt 1794 (transcript only) Aaron
Tozer, 1822 Sarah
Babbage 1826 Benjamin
Babbage of East Teignmouth, 1827 Jane
Hannaford 1838 Thomas
Cobley 1844 (transcript only) Thomas
Shore 1851 Jane
Tucker, Spinster of Mount Elwell in the Borough of Totnes, 1857 Henry
Tapper 1861
Inland Revenue Estate Duty Office Wills for Devon, list 1812 - 1857 (3 volumes) with fiche reference for DRO.
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