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A parish in East Budleigh Hundred, the Archdeaconry and the Diocese of Exeter."AYLESBEARE is a small village on the eastern declivity of the bold range of hills between the vales of the Exe and the Otter, eight miles east of Exeter. Its parish contains 433 souls and 2948 acres of land, exclusive of NEWTON POPPLEFORD. . . . The manor of Aylesbeare was long held by the Courtenays as part of the barony of Okehampton. After the attainder of Sir Francis Englefield, one moiety of it was granted to the Earl of Essex, who sold it to the tenants. The other moiety, with a great part of the parish, belongs to the Trustees of the late Lord Rolle. The vicar has a small manor here, and Minchin Court, with one moiety of the great tithes, belongs to the Rev. H.W. Marker. The other moiety of the latter belongs to the rector of Huxham. John Divett, Esq., John Praed, Esq., the Rev. Samuel Walker, and several smaller owners have freehold estates here. The parish Church (St Christopher,) is an ancient structure, with a tower and three bells, and the living is a discharged vicarage, valued in K.B. at £16. 2s. 4d. and in 1831 at £155. The Rev. H.W. Marker is patron, and the Rev. W.H. Carwithen, M.A. is the present vicar, and has a neat thatched residence, and 59A. of glebe. . . ." [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]
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Monumental inscriptions at St. Mary Aylesbeare. Devon Family History Society (1990) 16p.
Transcripts of the Parish Registers going back to 1580 are held in a special collection in the Westcountry Studies Library - for details see Parish Registers in the Devon & Cornwall Record Society's Collection.
The chapelry of Newton Poppleford (which see) had its christenings and marriages separately listed in the Aylesbeare Registers from 1580, though it did not become a separate parish until 1896.
The Devon FHS publishes indexes covering (as of June 2004): Marriages 1754-1837, Burials 1813-1837 - for details see their book list.
Entered into the IGI (as of Jan 1993): Parish Church Christenings 1581-1854, and Marriages 1580-1639, 1653-1837.
Sellman, R.R. Aylesbeare with Newton Poppleford, Devon: edited transcript of parish registers to 1837/1854. Typescript 144p. [Westcountry Studies Library]
The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
Very interesting account, with much genealogical information, of the Trust fund set up by John Lovelace (b. Aylesbeare 1743), the only child of the Rev. John Lovelace and his wife Anna Maria Locke.
Harris, Jean. Gunpowder Plot Aylesbeare 1852, Devon Family Hstorian, vol. 126, (2008) pp.4-7. [Account of the attempted murder of John Pidgeon and his sister Mary Fayter]
Senar, Howard. Aylesbeare: a Devon church and parish. Exeter, Devon: H. Senar, Penwell Ltd. (1986) 175 pp. ill. ISBN: 095119500X. [BL YA.1991.a.12320] [Original Index] [Detailed Index]
Digitised 1840 tithe maps, including one of this parish, are available on the East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Partnership's website.
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