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A parish in Wonford Hundred, the Archdeaconry and Diocese of Exeter."STOKEINTEIGNHEAD, or Stoke-in-Teign-head, is a small viIlage in a picturesque dell, about half a mi}e from the sea coast, one mile south of the estuary of Teign, and 4 miles E. of Newton Abbot. Its parish is one of the detached members of Wonford Hundred, and contains about 620 inhabitants, and 2250 acres of land, including the hamlets of Gabwell and Rocombe, and also part of Ringmore, a suburb of Shaldon, on the south side of the Teign, opposite the town of Teignmouth. . . . The Church (St. Andrew,) has a tower and four bells, and was repewed about 20 years ago." [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]
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Whitemore, J. Monumental Brass at Stoke in Teignhead Church. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 33, 8 (1977) pp.300-302.
Stokeinteignhead - from J. Stabb. Some Old Devon Churches (London: 1908-16).
Transcripts of the Parish Registers going back to 1538 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 1800-1837 - for details see their book list.
Entered into the IGI (as of Jan 1993): Parish Church Christenings 1538-1837, and Marriages 1538-1836.
Conservation Area Appraisal for Stokeinteignhead - an interesting account of the area, with numerous photographs and maps.
Lee, Alfred. The village of Stokeinteignhead. Devon Life vol. 10 no. 79 (1973) pp.34-35; ill.
The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
The Online Parish Clerk scheme's representative for this parish is Kevin Moore, who invites queries and lookup requests. (Resources: access to DRO for look-ups.)
This parish is one of the growing number of places for which the Devon Heritage website provides census or parish register transcriptions, articles, and/or illustrations, etc.
Ball, Nan S. Ball family of Stoke-in-Teignhead, Devon, England. Charleston: [Nan S.Ball] (1944) 30p: ill. [Includes pedigrees, 17-19th c.] [Westcountry Studies Library - p929.2/BAL]
Davis, Walter Goodwin. The Sealy brothers of the Isles of Shoals. New England Hist. & Gen. Reg. 85, 1931, pp. 74-79. [Raymond: Of Stokeinteignhead, 16-17th c., includes wills and parish register extracts.]
Davis, Walter Goodwin. Genealogical research in England: Cowes of Ipswich, Mass:, New England Hist. & Gen. Reg. 85, 1931, pp. 385-8. [Raymond: Cowes family of Stokeinteignhead, 17th c.]
Seavey, James I. The ancestry of Elisha Porter Seavey, 1838-1913. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Edwards Bros., 1958. [Of Stokeinteignhead and the United States, medieval-19th c.]
Calver, G. The lost village of Labrador and the medieval Stokeinteignhead story. (1945) [14]p: ill, map. [Westcountry Studies Library - sB/STO 5/0001/CAL]
Captain James Pinkham And The Loss Of The West Point by Mark Stanford Robbins.
Roll of honour: Stokeinteignheads, 1914. Manuscript [1960?] 15p. [Westcountry Studies Library - p940.467/STO/ROL]
Transcription of the will of Henry Hearder (1850), provided by Ian Hearder.
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