Landkey, Devon Family History Guide

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Landkey is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Devon, created in 1775 from a chapelry in Bishop’s Tawton Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Newland, Hanaford.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: 1602

Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Landkey

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LANDKEY, a parish in Barnstaple district, Devon; near the river Taw, 2½ miles ESE of Barnstaple r. station. Post town, Barnstaple.

Acres, 3,162. Real property, £4,622. Pop., 699. Houses, 148. The property is divided among a few. There are extensive lime-works.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of Exeter. The church is old but good, and has a massive tower.

There are a Wesleyan chapel, a slightly endowed school, and charities £47.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Landkey, 2 m. S.E. Barnstaple. P. 774

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850

Hanaford

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

Hanaford, a village in Landkey parish, Devon; 4¼ miles SE of Barnstaple.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers

Marriages Out of Parish

DetailsPlace of Marriage
George Sheir, junr., gent., of Poughill, & Susan Hockin, dau. of Edmund Hockin gent., of Lankey, Co. Devon, lic, 7 Oct. 1678St Juliot
  

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Devon, Landkey – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Landkey, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Devon, Landkey – Church records ( 4 )
Births and baptisms, 1816-1837
Author: Wesleyan Church (Landkey, England)

England, Devon, Landkey, bishop’s transcripts, 1597-1873
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Landkey (Devonshire); Devon Record Office (Exeter)

Landkey marriage registers, 1813-1837
Author: Devon Family History Society

Parish register transcripts, 1602-1850
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Landkey (Devonshire)

England, Devon, Landkey – Church records – Indexes ( 4 )
The Deanery of Barnstaple

Parish register printouts of Landkey, Devon, England (Wesleyan Church) ; christenings, 1816-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Landkey, Devon, England ; christenings, 1602-1850
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Landkey, Devon, England ; marriages, 1602-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Devon, Landkey – Court records ( 1 )
Land tax assessment for Landkey, 1780-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Devonshire)

England, Devon, Landkey – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessment for Landkey, 1780-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Devonshire)

Land tax assessment of Landkey, 1798

Administration

  • County: Devon
  • Civil Registration District: Barnstaple
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiars of the Bishop of Exeter (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Exeter
  • Rural Deanery: Post-1847 – Barnstaple, Pre-1848 – None
  • Poor Law Union: Barnstaple
  • Hundred: South Molton
  • Province: Canterbury