New Devon Records Online

In 1910, the Valuation Office recorded every British property for taxation purposes, listing owners, occupiers, rents and a description of that property. There is also a series of accompanying, large scale, annotated ordnance survey maps, showing where each property was located. Those for Devon have just been made available on the subscription website TheGenealogist, which also provides access to many other records, including those not available online elsewhere. There is a subscription offer at the end of this post. So far, there are 180 Braund references (not just in Devon). There will be an article about these records in our September journal.

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The following is taken from a press release issued by TheGenealogist.

Historic Devon Records Go Online for the Firs

t Time, Revealing Life Before WWI

TheGenealogist releases the Lloyd George Domesday Survey for Devon, featuring more than 352,000 people and organisations across over 2,500 square miles of historic maps

A remarkable snapshot of Devon life in the years before the First World War has been made available online for the first time by TheGenealogist. The newly released Devon Lloyd George Domesday Survey opens up detailed records of homes, farms, shops, estates, inns, businesses and communities across the whole historic county. The collection includes 352,478 people and organisations, linked to more than 2,500 square miles of historic maps.

For the first time, these Devon records can be explored online alongside detailed period mapping through TheGenealogist’s MapExplorer™. This allows users to see not only who lived or worked in a particular place, but exactly where that property stood.

More than a century later, the survey offers a vivid picture of Edwardian Devon. From Dartmoor farms and country estates to market towns, fishing villages, seaside resorts and busy urban streets, the records show the county at a moment of great social and economic change.

 

The Devon Lloyd George Domesday Survey is fully integrated with TheGenealogist’s MapExplorer™, making it possible to move between records and maps to locate properties with accuracy.This makes the collection useful for anyone interested in the history of Devon, the story of their home, the development of a village or town, or the lives of people who lived and worked in the county before the First World War. Users can explore farms, cottages, shops, inns, estates, institutions and streets, then compare the historic landscape with modern mapping.

The Devon Lloyd George Domesday Survey is now available online for the first time to Diamond subscribers at TheGenealogist.

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The Genealogist are offering new subscribers a Diamond subscription for the price of Standard, now just £129.95 for the year (usually £169.95).

You’ll also receive a free online magazine worth £36, giving you monthly insights into the world of family history for an entire year.

TheGenealogist also provides access to other records not available on FindmyPast or Ancestry. These include, tithe maps and schedules and a good selections of non-conformist records amongst many others.

Explore these new records and start your genealogical journey today with TheGenealogist by claiming this offer here: www.thegenealogist.co.uk/MGBLGD526 

Offer expires 15th August 2026