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"HUXHAM, a small parish, on the banks of the River Culm, 3½ miles N.N.E. of Exeter, has only 150 inhabitants, and 830 acres of land most]y the property of Lord Poltimore, the lord of the manor, which was ancient]y held by the Huxham family, whose heiress carried it in marriage to an ancestor of its present owner, in the reign of Edward III. The Church is a small ancient structure, and the living is a rectory, annexed to that of Poltimore, in the incumbency of the Hon. and Rev. John Fortescue, M.A. The parsonage is a neat building occupied hy the Rev. Thos. Bremridge Meluish, the curate. The other principal parishioners are Richard Matthews, paper maker, Upper Mill; Charles Matthews and Richard Martyn, paper makers, Lower Mill, Edward Cyrl, parish clerk; and John Norris and Robert Rew, farmers" [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]
A parish in Wonford Hundred, the Archdeaconry and Diocese of Exeter.

General information:

Cemeteries

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).

Church History

Huxham - from J. Stabb. Some Old Devon Churches (London: 1908-16).

Church Records

Parish Registers going back to 1667 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 1667, and of the Bishops' Transcripts going back to 1614, 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): Marriages 1754-1837 - 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 1614-1636, 1667-1837, and Marriages 1614-1636, 1679-1837. (These entries are in part from Bishops' Transcripts.)

Directories

Transcript of 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.

History

Avis, Paul. The parish of Huxham: a short history. [Huxham?]: [The Author?] (1982) 4p. il. [Westcountry Studies Library - pB/HUX/0001/AVI]
Gordon, Peter M. Notes on the history of the parish of Huxham. Typescript (1985) 29p. [Westcountry Studies Library - pxB/HUX/0001/GOR]

Societies

This parish is covered by the Five Parishes Local History Society - chairman: Dennis Davey.

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Last updated: 16 Sep 2011 - Brian Randell

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