Membury

Nestled in the Yarty Valley, until 1911 Membury was a chapelry of Axminster.
The Burial PRs from the second part of the 19th century onwards are still held by the incumbent.



 
 
 
Resources
 
Lay Subsidy Rolls
1332   1352   1524-7   1545   1582   1624   1660 

Baptisms
1637-1846

Marriages
1637-1837

Burials 
1637-1868

Hearth Tax
1674

Membury men in the Monmouth Rebellion
1685

Monumental Inscriptions from St John the Baptist churchyard

Index Settlement Papers 
1677-1850

Index Removal Papers
1719-1832

Index Bastardry Papers
1737-1821

Index Apprenticeship Indentures
1717-1813

Military Muster
1803

Index Estate Duty Office Wills
1812-60

Index Wills & Admons from other sources

Trade Directory Entries
1850  1857  1873  1878  1893   1902   1919  1923  1935

Census 
1841   1851   1861   1871   1881   1891   1901

Honour Roll: Membury men who fell in the Great War 
1914-18

Index Membury lease & land holders from various sources

Index misc references to Membury folk from various sources

Parish History: "Around & About Membury"  (Ron Craddock 1999)

The Devon Village Book   (Devon Fed. of Women's Institutes 1990)

Some contemporary photographs
 

View Greenwood's 1827 map

Find the 1891 ordinance survey map in the county gazetteer under DEVON

Membury Heritage link at the Devon Local Studies Library

Search the Francis Frith historic photograph collection

 

Click on the parish name below to go to the related GENUKI site
 
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This page last updated 14 December 2004
 

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