Revelstoke Devon Family History Guide

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Revelstoke is a chapelry of Yealmpton Ancient Parish in Devon. 

Other places in the parish include: Noss Mayo. 

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1649
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1611

Nonconformists include: Plymouth Brethren

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

REVELSTOKE, a parish in Plympton, St. Mary district, Devon; on the coast, 1¾ mile SE of Newton-Ferrers, and 7 S by E of Plympton r. station. It contains the fishing-village of Noss-Mayo; and its post town is Newton-Ferrers, under Ivybridge.

Acres, 1,478. Real property, £2,221. Pop., 505. Houses, 106. The property is divided among very few.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £227. Patron, the Bishop of Exeter. The church is ancient.

A chapel of ease, built in 1840, is at Noss-Mayo: and there is a national school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Devon, Revelstoke – Church records ( 5 )
City of Plymouth marriage index : index of brides and grooms taken from the post 1837 Plymouth Church of England marriage registers held in the Plymouth & West Devon Record Office in partnership with the Devon Family History Society
Author:    Plymouth and West Devon Record Office; Devon Family History Society (England)

England, Devon, Revelstoke, bishop’s transcripts, 1606-1857
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Revelstoke (Devonshire); Devon Record Office (Exeter)

England, Devon, Revelstoke, bishop’s transcripts, 1840-1842, 1844-1857
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Revelstoke (Devonshire); Devon Record Office (Exeter)

England, Devon, Revelstoke, parish registers, 1650-1970
Author:    Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

Revelstoke marriage registers, 1813-1837
Author:    Devon Family History Society (England)

England, Devon, Revelstoke – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
The Deanery of Plympton
Author:    Devon Family History Society (England)

England, Devon, Revelstoke – Land and property ( 4 )
England, Devon, Newton Ferrers, Revelstoke, inland revenue valuation book, 1910
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Devonshire); Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

England, Devon, Plymstock, land tax assessments, 1886-1946
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Devonshire); Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

England, Devon, Revelstoke, land tax assessments, 1886-1946
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Devonshire); Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

England, Devon, Revelstoke, parish registers, 1650-1970
Author:    Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

England, Devon, Revelstoke – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
England, Devon, Revelstoke, parish registers, 1650-1970
Author:    Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

England, Devon, Revelstoke – Taxation ( 5 )
England, Devon, Newton Ferrers, Revelstoke, inland revenue valuation book, 1910
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Devonshire); Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

England, Devon, Plymstock, land tax assessments, 1886-1946
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Devonshire); Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

England, Devon, Revelstoke, land tax assessments, 1886-1946
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Devonshire); Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

England, Devon, Revelstoke, parish registers, 1650-1970
Author:    Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

Land tax assessment for Revelstoke, 1780-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Devonshire)

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: Plympton
  • Province: Canterbury