Sowton OPC

I am the online parish clerk (OPC) for the Devon parish of Sowton (as well as Ashton, Cheriton Bishop, Christow, Drewsteignton, Dunsford, Hennock, Holcombe Burnell, and Trusham). This means I have volunteered to help fellow genealogists whose ancestors may have lived in Sowton. I am not the official parish clerk appointed by the Sowton Parish Council. For an explanation of the OPC scheme, see Devon Online Parish Clerks. If you are looking for the official parish clerk of Sowton, the website of the Diocese of Exeter may help.

Please start by reading the Sowton page at Genuki. Information already provided there will not be duplicated here.

In addition to general Sowton-related genealogical advice, I can provide lookups in the following Sowton parish registers:

Please note that in the unindexed registers I can only help you if you have a rough idea of the date of the event you are asking for. (Within a year or two is good enough, and note that the IGI includes baptisms and marriages up to 1837, although it appears to omit some entries.) I am also happy to serve as a repositor of any Sowton-related genealogical information that you would like to make available to others. I will be adding more information and resources to this page over time.

My email address is listed at the top and bottom of this page. I look forward to hearing from you and will try to help if I can.

My personal interest in Sowton comes from my one-name study of the surname Sercombe. If you have any Sercombe information, from Sowton or elsewhere, I would very much like to hear from you.

Surnames in the Baptism Register 1813-1882

Allen Alsop Ash Ashe Austin Avery - Baciliery Baker Bambury Banbury Barnes Batten Betty Bickham Bickley Blackmore Bovey Brawn Brewer Brice Brimacombe Brumacombe Bryant Buckland Bunbury Burge Burgoin Burridge Butler - Caseley Casy Causley Chamberlain Chambers Chard Cherry Chowings Chown Clapp Clark Clarke Clastman Clemont Coleman Coles Collins Cook Cooke Coombe Cornet Cox Crews Crompton Crook - Dare Davis Dean Downey Dummott Dunne Dunscombe Dyer Dymond - Easy Evans Eveleigh - Farrant Fish Flaye Flood Ford Fowler Fowley Franklin Froom Froome Fry - Garratt Gaylor Glanvill Godfrey Gooding Granger Graves Greenslade Gregory Guscott - Halfyard Hall Halse Hanford Hanley Harford Hartwell Hatherley Havill Hawkins Hayward Heard Heneage Hill Hines Hinnam Hinnem Hookings Hooper Hoopper How Howard Howe Hunt Hurford Hutchings - Ireland - James Johnson Joslin Joslyn - Kenshole Kitt Knott - Lake Lang Langabeer Langsford Lansford Late Leach Leat Leatherby Letherby Litton Loosemore - Maddock Martin Marwood Matthews Maunder May McKeown Mears Meears Meek Miles Milford Milsom Mingo M'Keown Mogg Mogridge Moore More Morrison Murphy Mutter Mutters - Newberry Newbury Newcomb Newcombe Norman Notter - Osborne - Page Pash Penning Penny Perry Persons Pidsley Pike Pilts Ponsford Pope Pratt Prescott Price Pyle - Quaintance - Radford Reecks Reed Reeks Rew Rice Richards Riggs Routley - Sage Salter Sandford Sanford Saunders Saw Searle Seaward Sellick Shepherd Shute Skinner Smeath Smith Smyth Snell Snook Spiller Spry Stamp Start Steer Stile Stoneman Strong - Tapscott Taverner Taylor Thorn Toby Tolman Totterdale Totterdell Trant Treble Tree Tuck Tucker Turner - Underhill - Vicary Vinicombe Vinnicombe - Walrond Walters Ware Waters Watts Webb Webber West Westacott Westaway Westcott Wethey Whish White Wilcocks Williams Willis Wills Wilson Windsor Wood Woodman Wreford Wyatt

content last revised 30 May 2011