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BRATTON FLEMING

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"BRATTON FLEMING, a pleasant village, on an acclivity 6½ miles E.N.E. of Barnstaple, has in its parish 708 souls, and 3940 acres of land, rising in a bold range of hills from two rivulets, and including many scattered farm-houses. It anciently belonged to the Fleming family, and afterwards to the Dillons. The latter sold the manor in the reign of Jas. I., to an ancestor of its present owner, Sir Arthur Chichester, Bart. Part of the parish belongs to Sir P.F.P. Acland, G.B. Kingdon, Esq., and a few smaller owners. Chimwell, the ancient seat of the Flemings and Dillons, is now a farm-house. The Church (St. Peter,) is a neat structure, in the perpendicular style, with a tower and six bells." [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]
A parish in Braunton Hundred, the Archdeaconry of Barnstaple, and the Diocese of Exeter.

General information:

Biography

Radford. Lady. Henry de Bracton: a plea for remembrance. Trans. Devon. Assoc. 54, (1922) pp.205-215. [Lawyer]

Cemeteries

MIs for this parish are included in the Incledon index - see under Cemeteries on the main Devon page.
Payne, Charles. Monumental Inscriptions - St Peters. (1993) [DFHS p 929.5]

Census

Snetzler, M.F. North Devon Surname Index to the Census. Microfiche: M.F. Snetzler, Barcott, Buckland Brewer, Bideford, Devon EX39 5LN. [Covers 1841, 1861, 1871 and 1881 census records for this parish]

Church History

Bratton Fleming church web-site.

Church Records

Parish Registers going back to 1673 are held in the Devon Record Office - for details see Parish Registers in the Devon Record Office.

Transcripts of the Parish Registers going back to 1673 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 Devon FHS publishes indexes covering (as of June 2004): Baptisms 1813-1840, Marriages 1754-1837, Burials 1800-1837 - for details see their book list.

Other churches and chapels (with pre-1840 records):

Entered into the IGI (as of Jan 1993): Parish Church Christenings 1673-1850 and Marriages 1673-1837.
Granville, Roger & Mugford, W.E. (eds.) Bratton Fleming, 1560-1656. Abstracts of the Existing Transcripts of the Lost Parish-Registers of Devon, 1596-1644, and short notes on the extant pre-reformation registers of all the parishes in the county, from particulars furnished by the several incumbents thereof. Vol. 1 A-Bra. Exeter: W. Pollard (1908). [Full text]

Directories

Transcript of complete entry in White's Devonshire Directory of 1850.

Gazetteers

The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.

Genealogy

The Online Parish Clerk scheme's representative for this parish is John Fisher, who invites queries and lookup requests. (Resources: Prs on fiche Bap. 1673 - 1861; Mar. 1673 - 1837; Burials 1673 - 1910.)

The Hunts, and Chelfham Farm Bratton Fleming, by David Cawsey.

Gregory, A. & D. Fred and Lilian Lorraine of New Bedford USA 1861-1945, The Authors (2003). [Ridd family] [Devon FHS Library p929.2/LOR]
Thomson, H.C. The Thomson story. Yeovil: Variprint (1970) 68p.

History

David Cawsey has prepared pages on various aspects of Bratton Fleming and its history.
Terry Squire, From slate to software: the story of a Devon village school [Bratton Fleming]. Barnstaple: T. & S. M. Squire (c1994).
Whybrow, Charles. A history of Bratton Fleming. Typescript (1982) 2 vols. [Westcountry Studies Library - xB/BRA 7/0001/WHY]
Wodehouse, C.L. Records of Bratton Fleming. 1066-1876. A. Tomes: Leamington, (1907) 15 pp. [BL: 010347.m.18.(11.)]
Wodehouse, Christine. Bratton Fleming. Typescript [1980?] 145 leaves: ill, maps. [Westcountry Studies Library - xB/BRA 7/0001/WOO]
Short history of Bratton Fleming 1068-1978. [s.l.]: [s.n.] (1978) 5p. [Westcountry Studies Library - pB/BRA 7/0001/SHO]
Sources for Village History - Bratton Fleming. Barnstaple: North Devon Record Office (1994) ISBN 1855223155

Names, Personal

Bratton Fleming contributors to a 1678 brief for the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral.

Occupations

Bratton Fleming Apprentice Register 1742-1775. [Devon]: Devon Family History Society (2013). [Foreword]

Taxation

Transcription of the Land Tax assessment for 1780 by David Cawsey.

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