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PANCRASWEEK

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"PANCRASWEEK, or Week St . Pancras, a village and parish, on the east side of the Tamar valley, four miles W.N.W. of Holsworthy, has 540 inhabitants, and 3782 acres of land, including the hamlets of Kingford, Dunsdon, and Dexbeer. L.W. Buck, Esq., is lord of the manor, but part of the soil belongs to Earl Stanhope, C.H. Hotchkys, Esq., and a few smaller owners. The Church (St. Pancras,) was anciently appropriated to Tor Abbey, and has a tower and five bells. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to Bradworthy vicarage. The Rev. Roger Kingdon is impropriator of the great tithes, which have been commuted for £260, and the small tithes for £100 per annum. The glebe is 7A., and the Parsonage is a small cottage. DIRECTORY: - Wm. Bickley and Nathl. Gilbert, wheelwrights; Robt. Lott and John Jeffrey, blacksmiths; and Jas. Baker, Wm. Burnard, John Gilbert, Rd. Hodge, Jas. Penwarden, and Peter Stacey, farmers. " [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]

• General historical and descriptive information, area map from 1765, details about administrative boundaries, etc., about Pancrasweek from the Devon Library's Local Studies Service.

Cemeteries

Whitmore, J.B. Devonshire Monumental Inscriptions, MS at Society of Genealogists (1951). [Extracts]

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

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

Shaw, Thomas. Methodism in Pancrasweek: the history of Lana Methodist Church. (1955) 20, (2)p. [Westcountry Studies Library - 287.1/PAN/SHA]

Church Records

Transcripts of the Parish Registers going back to 1653 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, Burials 1813-1837 - for details see their book list.

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

• Wesleyan Chapel, Lana Farm: Registers for c1817-37 - see Holsworthy (PRO RG 4/1210)

Directories

Transcription provided by Val Henderson of the entry (description and names) in Morris and Co's Commercial Directory and Gazetteer of Devonshire 1870.

Gazetteers

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

Genealogy

The Online Parish Clerk for this parish is Kirsty Gray, who invites queries and lookup requests. (Resources: PRs on Fiche.)

History

Williams, H. Fulford. Notes on the Parish of Pancrasweek, Devon. Typescript (1963) 6 leaves. [Westcountry Studies Library]

Last updated: 12 Dec 2011 - Brian Randell

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