Aveton Gifford

Online Parish Clerk Page

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I have volunteered to act as an “Online Parish Clerk” for the Parish of Aveton Gifford.  Most of my family came from the village and I have been transcribing the registers as time permits.  I have also Shaw’s “History of the Parish of Aveton Giffard”, which is available on GenUKI.

All the photographs on this page are scans from original prints in my (or my relatives') possession.  I believe them all to be out of copyright but if anyone believes otherwise, please contact me.

• Parish Register Transcription - now available on-line. Note that it also includes the 1841 and 1851 censuses and the memorial inscription transcripts. The Master Index pages show these entries arranged chronologically into families.
• Scanned copy of Shaw's book "A History of the Parish of Aveton Giffard". There is an index available on GenUKI: Index of Shaw’s History of the Parish but there is no automatic link between the entries.
• Land holdings at Aveton Gifford in Early times (on Bob Harris web page)
• Parish Project Group Website Includes many old photographs
• Churchyard Listing (from the Parish Projects site)
• Churchyard Map (from the Parish Projects site)
• Tithe Map (from the Parish Projects site - the link no longer works search for "Tithe Atlas" )
• Village Website
• GenUKI Aveton Gifford site
• Terry Partridge’s South Hams site (includes many modern photos) (Available on the Internet Archive only)
• Val Henderson's page which includes a transcription of an 1870 Trade Directory
• Modern photos on Geograph
• Devon On-line Parish Clerks Information page

Aveton Gifford Church photographed before World War II, during which it received a direct hit during a German air raid in 1943.	A modern photo, after post-war reconstruction.  The tower has been reduced in height and the side-aisles have been much reduced in size.

3D Model of the church. Click on picture and navigate with mouse.

On this web page I propose to put links to the information available elsewhere and family lines that people submit to me, arranged by surname.  It is not my intention to duplicate Brian Randall's excellent GENUKI pages, but for understandable reasons, GENUKI does not include information about specific families.  However, at a parish level, it would be possible to include detailed family histories.  Over 60% of the parish register entries relate to 50 family names, so it should be possible to provide details for those families.  I will also place odd facts here that people submit to me.

Links to Family lines

• Harris Family
• Hingston families in south Devon (Links to my Hingston study site)

Links to GenUKI pages for neighbouring parishes, which contain links to information local to those parishes

• Ringmore
• Bigbury
• Kingston
• Modbury
• Loddiswell
• Churchstow
• South Milton
• Thurlestone

Fore Street, probably in the 1920s, looking south	Fore St, looking north, in 1904. The cottages on the right were destroyed in the 1943 bombing.
Looking south from the village, along the bridge over the Avon.  It is believed that this photograph was taken in 1914, when horses were being assembled for the war effort.	Happier days - an outing to Bantham on the barge owned by William Burner (in the foreground), normally used to unload coal from ships moored off Burgh Island.  I hope they cleaned it out before the trip!  (Photo A.R.E.)
	A bygone age.  A threshing machine driven by a traction engine somewhere near Aveton Gifford.  The photograph is clearly posed but there are 12 men working here.  Today a combine harvester would do the work and cut the corn in the first place.  (Photo A.R.E.)

Chris Burgoyne
4th September 2021