Pennycross, Devon Family History Guide
Pennycross is a chapelry of Plymouth St Andrew Ancient Parish in Devon.
Alternative names: Plymouth St Pancras, Weston Peverel, Weston Peverell
Parish church: St. Pancras
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1634
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813
Nonconformists include: Protestant Dissenters and Wesleyan Methodist Association.
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Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
WESTON-PEVEREL, or Penny-Cross, a chapelry, in the parish of St. Andrew, Plymouth, union of Plympton St. Mary, hundred of Roborough, Roborough and S. divisions of Devon, 2¾ miles (N. by W.) from Plymouth; with 267 inhabitants. The vicarial tithes have been commuted for £350, and the impropriate for £51. The chapel is dedicated to St. Pancras.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Devon
- Civil Registration District: Plympton St Mary
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Totnes
- Diocese: Exeter
- Rural Deanery: Plympton
- Poor Law Union: Plympton St Mary
- Hundred: Roborough
- Province: Canterbury