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Widecombe in the Moor, St Pancras, Devon: parish registers

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Parish / congregation
Widecombe in the Moor
Denomination
Church of England
Place
Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England
Register type
mixed
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Volunteer transcription, not the register image. Consulted 2026-09-07.

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Widecombe in the Moor, St Pancras, Devon: parish registers Date 24 Jun 1833 Primary

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For “Died” BEF 24 JUN 1833 of William Norrish

County: Devon | Place: Widecombe in the Moor | Church name: St Pancras | Register type: Other Transcript | Burial date: 24 Jun 1833 | Burial person forename: William | Burial person surname: NORRISH | Person age: 52Y | Burial person abode: Huccaby, Lidford

A burial cannot postdate a death. This same FreeREG burial record (already cited on the BURI event, citation #53260) shows burial 24 Jun 1833, one month before the tree's previous uncited DEAT date of 24 JUL 1833 - so that date is provably wrong. Bounding DEAT to BEF 24 JUN 1833; the true date is not established beyond that.

Widecombe in the Moor, St Pancras, Devon: parish registers Parish Widecombe in the Moor · Date 05 Jan 1813 Primary

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For “Born” 5 JAN 1813 of Richard Tuckett

County: Devon | Place: Widecombe in the Moor | Church name: St Pancras | Register type: Other Transcript | Baptism date: 05 Jan 1813 | Person forename: Richard | Person sex: M | Father forename: Richard | Mother forename: Mary | Father surname: TUCKETT | Person abode: Langworthy | Father occupation: Yeoman

The only Richard Tuckett baptism to Richard Tuckett x Mary at this parish 1806-1830 (checked); pins the 5 JAN 1813 date the tree already carried on #7801 to a real register entry, and shows it belongs to this baptism alone -- no second Richard baptism exists for #7802 to share it with.

Widecombe in the Moor, St Pancras, Devon: parish registers Parish Widecombe in the Moor · Date 23 Feb 1819 Primary

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For “Died” 1819 of Richard Tuckett

County: Devon | Place: Widecombe in the Moor | Church name: St Pancras | Register type: Other Transcript | Burial date: 23 Feb 1819 | Burial person forename: Richard | Burial person surname: TUCKETT | Person age: 6Y | Burial person abode: Lidford

Named burial, age 6, matching #7801's existing (previously uncited) 1819 death year almost exactly against the 5 Jan 1813 baptism above. Abode Lidford matches brother Joshua Tuckett's 1817 baptism abode 'Dunnabridge, Lidford' -- same family.

Widecombe in the Moor, St Pancras, Devon: parish registers Date 09 Nov 1779 Primary

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For “Married” 9 NOV 1779 of William Norrish & Joan Andrews

County: Devon | Place: Widecombe in the Moor | Church name: St Pancras | Register type: Other Transcript | Marriage date: 09 Nov 1779 | Groom forename: William | Groom surname: NORRISH | Bride forename: Joan | Bride surname: ANDREWS | Witness1: Nathaniel TREMILLS | Witness2: John ANDREWS | Notes: Lic

Found by a Devon-wide surname search covering 1760-1811 (positive-controlled with a Smith marriage search over the same range/parish, which returned real hits). This is the ONLY marriage of a William Norrish to a Joan found in that 51-year window, and matches the tree's existing (previously uncited) family MARR date of 9 Nov 1779 exactly. Witness John Andrews is plausibly Joan's father or brother. 'Lic' = married by licence rather than banns.

Widecombe in the Moor, St Pancras, Devon: parish registers Date 24 Jun 1833 Primary

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For “Buried” 24 JUN 1833 of William Norrish

County: Devon | Place: Widecombe in the Moor | Church name: St Pancras | Register type: Other Transcript | Burial date: 24 Jun 1833 | Burial person forename: William | Burial person surname: NORRISH | Person age: 52Y | Burial person abode: Huccaby, Lidford

Age 52 matches #5879's recorded birth 28 Nov 1780 to the year; abode Huccaby, Lydford matches his father's death place and his mother Joan Andrews's own 1839 burial abode (see citation below) - the family lived at Huccaby within Lydford parish while continuing to use Widecombe (St Pancras) as their church. A burial cannot postdate a death, so the existing uncited DEAT date of 24 JUL 1833 (one month later) and this burial date cannot both be right; flagged, not resolved.

Widecombe in the Moor, St Pancras, Devon: parish registers Entry 483 · Date 11 Aug 1839 Primary

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For “Buried” 11 AUG 1839 of Joan Andrews

County: Devon | Place: Widecombe in the Moor | Church name: St Pancras | Register type: Parish Register | Register entry number: 483 | Burial date: 11 Aug 1839 | Burial person forename: Joan | Burial person surname: NORRISH | Person age: 78 | Burial person abode: Huccaby, Lydford

Age 78 in Aug 1839 matches Joan Andrews's recorded birth of 22 Jun 1761 to the year; abode Huccaby, Lydford matches her husband William Sr's death place and son William Jr's burial abode (cited above). This is the correct Joan Norrish death - see the new FreeBMD citation below and the flag on citation #3097.