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Description: | The study centre within the museum houses an extensive archive relating to the museum's collections, the history of Totnes, its people and the locality. It is also a service point of the Devon Record Office. It holds bound works from St Mary's Parvis, the Rutter library and the Mechanics Institute Library and holds a full collection of Totnes Times from 1860 to the latest bound volumes, in both original copy and microfilm up to 1939. The centre holds on microfilm tithe maps and apportionments, OS reference plans. local parish registers and the International Genealogical Index for Devon 1984.
There are indexes of Census returns for 1841, 1851, 1861 on computer and from 1871 and 1881 in hard copy. There are Election returns, local apprenticeship records, rentals and reports on the town's built heritage. The work of the Totnes Community Archive 1981-1985 constitutes a resource in pictorial, text and oral history form. | Subjects: | Archives | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | 70 Fore Street
Totnes,
TQ9 5RU | Telephone: | 01803 863 821 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:2579 | Go to resource |
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