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A parish in Wonford Hundred, under the Peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter."STOKE-CANON, a small village near the confluence of the rivers Exe and Culm, and near the Bristol and Exeter Railway, 4 miles N.E. by N. of Exeter, has in its parish 490 souls, and 1217 acres of land. The manor was given by King Athelstan to Exeter Cathedral, and still belongs to the Dean and Chapter, who also own a great part of the soil, and are appropriators of the tithes and patrons of the perpetual curacy, valued in 1831 at £221, and now enjoyed by the Rev. Wm. T.N. Penoyre, for whom the Rev. T.H. Knight, of Exeter, officiates. The Church (St. Mary,) was rebuilt about 1836, except the tower, at the cost of £1000. The interior is neatly fitted up, and the tower has a clock and four bells. In April, 1847, a hot cinder, blown from one of the railway engines, ignited the thatched roof of a row of cottages, and the fire spread till 24 dwellings, including the Parsonage House, were destroyed." [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]
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A transcription of the Memorial Inscriptions for the Church of St Mary the Virgin is held in the Society of Genealogist's Library, in Vol. 7 of Devon Memorial inscriptions (DE/M20).
Stoke Canon - from J. Stabb. Some Old Devon Churches (London: 1908-16).
Transcripts of the Parish Registers going back to 1654, and of the Bishops' Transcripts going back to 1608, 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 Christenings 1608-1837, and Marriages 1608-1620, 1641, 1656-1837. (These entries are in part from Bishops' Transcripts.)
Sellman, R.R. Stoke Canon, Devon: edited transcript of parish registers 1654-1837, with family reconstitutions. Typescript (1990) 60p. [Westcountry Studies Library - sx929.3/STO/1654]
The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
The Online Parish Clerk for this parish is Thomas Peeke, who invites queries and lookup requests.
Website of the Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene, Stoke Canon.
Cresswell, Beatrix F. The parish of Stoke Canon: a record of a thousand years of village life. Typescript [192-?] 19p. [Westcountry Studies Library - B/STO 2/0001/CRE]
Gentry, F.D. Take Care of your Fire and Candle [11 fires in Devon towns]. Devon Books (1985) 138p. [ISBN 0861147596] [Devon FHS Library 929.35]
Davey, Dennis. 100 Years of the Events & People of Stoke Canon, Dennis Davey, 42 Vinnicombe Road, Stoke Canon EX5 4BB.
Piper, Gillian and John. Stoke Canon. A Short History (1987) [DFHS LOC 352]
Last updated: 19 Dec 2011 - Brian Randell
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