Devon registers & records

What can these records tell me?

Currently, there is one title within this collection:

Parish Registers of Hemyock, 1635-1837 – This title was published in 1923. Included in this register are baptisms, marriages, and burials, as well as bishop’s transcripts from 1602, 1606, 1609-11, 1617, 1625, 1626, 1633, and 1636. Additionally, a list of the parish’s rectors and chaplain priests is included. Hemyock is a civil parish and village. The production of wool was the village’s main source of wealth from the 1500s to the 1800s. It is said that the Cadbury family originated in Hemyock.

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