South Tawton, Devon Family History Guide

South Tawton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Devon.

Other places in the parish include: Ash, Dishcomb, Fulford, Gooseford, Gooseford Week, Widden Down, Itton, Ramsley, South Zeal, Taw Green, Whiddon Down, and Gooseford Wick.

Parish church: St. Andrew

Parish registers begin: 1541

Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist, Independent/Congregational, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

South Tawton

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

TAWTON (South), a parish, with two villages and six hamlets, in Okehampton district, Devon; on the NE border of Dartmoor, 4 miles E by S of Okehampton r. station. Post town, Okehampton, North Devon.

Acres, 10,879. Real property, £7,774; of which £510 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 1,758; in 1861, 1,541. Houses, 330. The manor, with Oxenham House, belongs to H. A. Hoare, Esq. Limestone is largely worked.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £150. Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church is old.

There are a Wesleyan chapel, three alms houses, and other charities £33.

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

Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

Tawton, South (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Oakhampton, hundred of Wonford, Crockernwell and S. divisions of Devon, 3 ¼ miles (E. by S.) from Oakhampton; containing 1871 inhabitants.

The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £10; net income, £150 ; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Canons of Windsor.

There is a national school.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.

South Zeal

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

Zeal (South), a village in South Tawton parish, Devon; 4 ¼ miles ESE of Okehampton. It was once a borough and a market-town; and it has a fine granite cross, a Wesleyan chapel, and an old school house supposed to have been a Roman Catholic chapel.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Devon, South Tawton – Church records ( 5 )
England, Devon, South Tawton, bishop’s transcripts, 1816-1863
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of South Tawton (Devonshire); Devon Record Office (Exeter)

England, Devon, South Tawton, parish registers, 1540-1926
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of South Tawton (Devonshire); Devon Record Office (Exeter)

England, Devon, Tawton, South, bishop’s transcripts, 1607-1863
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of South Tawton (Devonshire); Devon Record Office (Exeter)

Parish register transcripts, 1540-1738
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of South Tawton (Devonshire)

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

England, Devon, South Tawton – Church records – Indexes ( 3 )
The deanery of Dunsford
Author:    Devon Family History Society (England)

Parish register printouts of South Tawton, Devon, England ; marriages, 1558-1738
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of South Tawton, Devon, England, christenings, 1540-1738
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

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

Administration

  • County: Devon
  • Civil Registration District: Okehampton
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Exeter
  • Diocese: Exeter
  • Rural Deanery: Dunsford
  • Poor Law Union: Okehampton
  • Hundred: Wonford
  • Province: Canterbury