OPC St Giles in the Wood, High Bickington and Yarnscombe

Parish Church of St Giles in the Wood

Welcome to my Online Parish Clerk (OPC) page for the North Devon parishes of St. Giles in the Wood, High Bickington and Yarnscombe.

An Online Parish Clerk (OPC) is a volunteer with an interest in the genealogy and history of a parish, and collects copies of original records, indexes or transcripts relating to that parish. The OPC undertakes to make such information available to enquirers for their own personal use. For full details of the OPC project click here.

If you have not already done so I encourage you to visit the St. Giles in the Wood, High Bickington and Yarnscombe pages at GENUKI: Devon.

A map showing the location of these three parishes is available here.

Resources available for look-ups or online are listed below. Please direct enquiries to william.cooke@sympatico.ca

St. Giles in the Wood

• St Giles in the Wood Burials 1813-1837, Devon Family History Society
• St Giles in the Wood Marriages 1813-1837, Devon Family History Society
• St Giles in the Wood Marriages 1754-1812, Devon Family History Society
• Land Tax Assessments 1780-1832
• St Giles in the Wood, with a Sketch Map and Notes on Some Ancient Farms in the Neighbouring Parishes by W.G. Hoskins, 1950
• The Hon Mark Rolle, of Stevenstone and Bicton, 1835 - 1907: His Life and Times by Elizabeth Howard, 2008
• St. Giles 2000 by Julia Cook, Sherrie Turner & John Mandley, 2000
• Monumental Inscriptions
• Descendants of Michael Cooke of Dodscott
• Descendants of John Rolle of Stevenstone
• Postcard of Stevenstone courtesy of Debbie Kennett
• The Effigy of Thomas Chafe of Dodscott
• 1891 Ordinance Survey Map
• Description of St Giles in the Wood from Lyson's 1821 Magna Brittanica
• Kingscott Baptist Chapel Monumental Inscriptions
• Kingscott House
• St Giles in the Wood War Memorial
• Richard Braginton: Steward of Stevenstone

I have the following parish registers on microfiche:

• Baptisms 1742-1910
• Marriages 1742-1840
• Burials 1742-1862
• Banns 1754-1856

The above registers have been transcribed with the exception of burials before 1765, burials after 1851, baptisms before 1775, baptisms after 1838, marriages after 1837 and banns.

High Bickington

• High Bickington Baptisms 1813-1839, Devon Family History Society
• High Bickington Burials 1813-1837, Devon Family History Society
• High Bickington Marriages 1754-1837, Devon Family History Society
• Monumental Inscriptions
• The Book of High Bickington by Avril Stone, Halsgrove, 2000
• 1891 Ordinance Survey Map
• Description of High Bickington from Lyson's 1821 Magna Brittanica

Yarnscombe

• Yarnscombe Baptisms 1813-1839, Devon Family History Society
• Yarnscombe Marriages 1754-1837, Devon Family History Society
• Yarnscombe Burials 1813-1838, Devon Family History Society
• Monumental Inscriptions
• Descendants of Matthew Loveband of Northchurch
• 1891 Ordinance Survey Map
• Description of Yarnscombe from Lyson's 1821 Magna Brittanica
• Extracts from Trewman's Exeter Flying Post

I have the following parish registers on microfiche:

• Baptisms 1653-1812
• Marriages 1653-1812
• Burials 1653-1812

Burials from 1783 to 1812 have been transcribed.

Links

• Brinsmead of St Giles in the Wood
• Folland and Dymond of St Giles in the Wood
• Squire of St Giles in the Wood

William Cooke
Ontario, Canada
Revised Jun 28, 2009