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Towards the South-Western corner of the old walled City of Exeter, its population in 1801 was 621."St. John's Church, Fore street hill, is a very ancient cemented structure, the tower of which has a peal of six bells, and a clock with two faces projecting into the street. The interior was beautified and fitted with galleries in 1843, when the Church of St. George the Martyr was taken down for the improvement of South street, and its parish united with St. John's. Here are several neat monuments, some of which were removed from St. George's, as also were five of the bells. The rectory of St. John's, valued in K.B. at £18, and that of St. George's, valued in K.B. at £9. 13s. 8d., are now consolidated, and worth about £300 per annum. The Lord Chancellor. is patron, and the Rev. J.M. Collyns, M.A., incumbent." [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]
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Transcripts of the Parish Registers going back to 1681, and of the Bishops' Transcripts going back to 1609, 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 1813-1839, Marriages 1754-1837, Burials 1813-1837 - for details see their book list.
Entered into the IGI (as of Jan 1993): Parish Church Marriages 1609-1614, 1626-1635, 1673-1683, 1695-1745, 1776-1812. (These entries are in part from Bishops' Transcripts.)
The Deanery of Christianity [The City Of Exeter] - Baptisms 1813-1840, Marriages 1561-1837 and Burials 1770-1904. CD018, Devon Family History Society (2008). [An index of baptisms, marriages and burials in the parishes of Allhallows Goldsmith Street, Allhallows on the Walls, Bedford Precinct, Exeter Cathedral, Holy Trinity, St. David, St. Edmund, St. George, St. John, St. Kerrian, St. Lawrence, St. Leonard, St. Martin, St. Mary Arches, St. Mary Major, St. Mary Steps, St. Olave, St. Pancras, St. Paul, St. Petrock, St. Sidwell, St. Stephen and Heavitree St. Michael & All Angels. With burials from Bow Meeting House, Castle Street Independent Chapel, George Meeing House (Presbyterian), Mint Meeting House (Presbyterian), Mint Methodist Chapel and South Street Baptist Church. Photographs of the churches and extracts from White's Devonshire Directory 1850] [Details]
Militia List (1803) for Exeter St John, transcribed by Iris Sutton.
Falla, T.J. and M.M. Rowe. The Population of Two Exeter Parishes in 1641-42. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 35, 3 (1983) pp.89-95.
Transcription of the will of Matthew Wingyett (1812) by Sandra Windeatt.
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