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DOWN ST. MARY

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"DOWN ST. MARY, 6 miles N.W. by W. of Crediton, has in its parish 407 souls, and 2229 acres of land. Henry Charles Stuart, Esq., is lord of the manor and owner of most of the soil, but Bradford Barton belongs to B. Bradford, Esq., the patron of the rectory, valued in K.B. at £12. 13s. 4d., and in 1831 at £275. The Rev. W.T.A. Radford, B.A. is the incumbent, and has 50A. of glebe, and a neat Gothic residence, built in 1846, at the cost of £1600. The Church is an ancient structure, with a curious Norman tympanum over the south door.." [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]
A parish in North Tawton Hundred, the Archdeaconry and the Diocese of Exeter. Peskett: Coplestone is at the meeting point of the parishes of Colebrooke, Crediton and Down St. Mary.

General information:

Biography

Harpley, W. Obituary notices: William Tucker Arundel Radford. Trans. Devon. Assoc. 29, (1897) pp.44. [Clergy]

Cemeteries

MIs for this parish are included in the Devon FHS index - see under Cemeteries on the main Devon page.

A transcription of the Memorial Inscriptions for the Parish Church is held in the Society of Genealogist's Library, in Vol. 5 of Devon Memorial inscriptions (DE/M18).

Census

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

Church History

Down St Mary - from J. Stabb. Some Old Devon Churches (London: 1908-16).

Sale, David M. The Rectors of Down St Mary. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 27 (1956-58) pp.70-72.
Thorne, Roger F.S. Methodism in three parishes: the story of Copplestone Methodist Chapel, 1831-1981, Copplestone, [The Author] (1981) 45 pp. [Westcountry Studies Library p287.1/COP/THO]

Church Records

Parish Registers going back to 1696 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 1696 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 1770-1837 - for details see their book list.

Entered into the IGI (as of Jan 1993): Parish Church Christenings 1696-1850, and Marriages 1696-1756, 1813-1849.

Gazetteers

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

History

Browne, Peter. Down St Mary: A Parish and its People, Down St Mary Parish Council (2002). [DFHS Library 942.35/DOW]
Williams, H. Fulford. Notes on the parish of Down St. Mary, Devon (1962) 7p. [Westcountry Studies Library - sB/DOW 7/0001/WIL]
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