Boyton Devon and Cornwall Family History Guide

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Boyton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Devon, partly in Cornwall and partly in Devon; created in 1768.

Status: Chapelry succeeded by Boyton Ecclesiastical Parish in 1768.

Other places in the parish include: Northcott.

Alternative names: Trevoya (Cornish), Boyton the Holy Name

Status: Ecclesiastical Parish

Parish church: The Holy Name

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1568
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1611

Nonconformists include:

  • Baptist
  • Bible Christian Methodist
  • Wesleyan Methodist Association

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BOYTON, a parish chiefly in Launceston district, Cornwall, and partly in Holsworthy district, Devon; on the Bude canal and the river Tamar, 5 miles N by W of Launceston r. station, and 17 N NW of Tavistock.

It includes Northcott hamlet; and has a post office under Launceston, and a fair on the third Monday of Aug. Acres, 4,956. Real property, £2,651. Pop., 476. Houses, 92. The property is divided among a few. Bradridge, the old seat of the Hoblyns, and Beardon, also an old seat, are now farmhouses. Manganese mines were worked, but have been discontinued. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £120. Patron, the Rev. J. G. Dangar. The church is good. Agnes Rest, a martyr of the time of Mary, resided at Northcott.

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

Boyton, 5 m. N. Launceston. P. 600

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

Parish Registers

Boyton Marriages 1568-1812

Marriages Out of Parish

DetailsPlace of Marriage
William Edgcombe, of St. C, & Elizabeth Bishop, of Boyton 1 Apr. 1774St Clether

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Cornwall, Boyton – Cemeteries ( 1 )
An Index to the transcripts of monumental inscriptions in the burial ground at Boyton parish church
Author: Cornwall Family History Society (England)

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

England, Cornwall, Boyton – Church history ( 1 )
Boyton Methodist Church 1889-1989
Author: Cocks, Wilfred R.

England, Cornwall, Boyton – Church records ( 8 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Boyton, 1679-1773
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Boyton (Cornwall)

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

Churchwardens’ accounts for Boyton, 1692-1884
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Boyton (Cornwall)

Cornwall, England : miscellaneous parochial records of extreme northern parishes, 1968
Author: Toms, Humphrey N. W.; Church of England. Parish Church of Boyton (Cornwall); Church of England. Parish Church of Kilkhampton (Cornwall); Church of England. Parish Church of Poundstock (Cornwall)

England, Cornwall, Boyton, bishop’s transcripts, 1596-1836
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Boyton (Cornwall); Devon Record Office (Exeter)

Marriages at Boyton, 1568-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Boyton (Cornwall)

Parish chest materials, 1670-1885
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Boyton (Cornwall)

Parish registers for Boyton, 1568-1997
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Boyton (Cornwall); Cornwall Record Office

England, Cornwall, Boyton – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Boyton, Cornwall, England

Parish of Boyton
Author: Ivall, Dennis Endean; Thompson, Gillian; Ivall, Dennis Endean, Mrs.

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

England, Cornwall, Boyton – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Poor law records, 1778-1854
Author: Boyton (Cornwall)

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

Cornwall Historical Directories

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Cornwall and Devon
  • Civil Registration District: Cornwall: Launceston; Devon: Holsworthy
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Cornwall
  • Diocese: Exeter
  • Rural Deanery: Trigg Major
  • Poor Law Union: Launceston
  • Hundred: Cornwall: Stratton; Devon: Black Torrington
  • Province: Canterbury