Genealogy & Family History

I have been researching our family history for several years now: RICHARDS,  ROLPH, BIRKETT,  LEIGHTON, BYE, GAMPTON are a few of the names of interest.  .

In particular I am doing a one name study of GAMPTON, and its variant spellings: GEMPTON, GIMPTON, GOMPTON, GALMPTON, even GUMPTION etc. The family started in Galmpton, a fishing village in Devon, UK. There are some records from the 13th century. The family have been sailing boats from the 16th century; in the early 19th century they started to spread: to Dover, Ramsgate, Hull, Australia, New Zealand and recently to the South Pacific Islands.

You can download data about the GAMPTONS here:

View the files or save them as  .HTM files ; the HTM files can be loaded into Microsoft EXCEL; from there they can be printed :

1       Parish registers:    Baptisms, Marriages, Burials

       These were taken from the IGI, two independent transcription of Devon registers and from Parish registers from several other parishes

                                                                      Download:           Baptisms                      HTM File

                                                                      Download:           Marriages                     HTM File

                                                                      Download:           Burials                          HTM File

2       Censuses

Transcriptions  of all available censuses (1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 & 1901) from a variety of web sites

The data is probably incomplete

                                                           Download:         Census households        HTM File

                                                           Download          Census people                HTM file

3       GRO Birth indexes (1837-1907)

                                                         Download:          Birth indexes                HTM File

       GRO Marriage indexes (1837-1927)

                                                         Download:          Marriage indexes          HTM File

       GRO Death indexes (1837-2005)

                                                         Download:          Death indexes               HTM File

The list may be complete. Data from a few certificates is included.

No data concerning living people are currently included

4       Miscellaneous data

Data from trade directories, wills, passenger lists etc.             

                                                          Download:            Directories                     HTM File

5       Marriage allegations

       Only two.                                             Download             Allegations                     HTM File

6       Wills

       Early Devon wills have not survived but a few were transcribed.     

                                                                     Download              Wills                              HTM File

These data files are downloaded as HTM files. They may be saved and imported into MS  EXCEL

7       Gravestones

       A few memorial inscriptions from Devon.                             

                                                                     Download             Gravestones                     HTM file

8       People on gravestones

       People mentioned on gravestones.                   

                                                                    Download            People on gravestones      HTM file

9       Key to data files.           

       The column headers are often abbreviated; here is a key to them;.                            

                                                                   Download            Key to data files                RTF file

10       History

       A history of the village of Galmpton and of the Gampton people.      

                                                                  Download:            History                             RTF file

11       Reconstruction

       A reconstruction of some families and their ancestry (only people born after 1908)              

                                                                Download               Families                            TXT file

      A description of the family reconstruction  file.                           

                                                                Download               Family descriptions          RTF file

       How the reconstruction was done.                                     

                                                                Download              The reconstruction             RTF file

       Notes and problems.                                                                        

                                                                Download              Notes & problems              RTF file 

12       GEDCOM

       A GEDCOM file of  the  ”GAMPTONS” born after 1908                                         

                                                               Download              GEDCOM                          TXT file

       This may be saved an imported into your favourite genealogy; program

       No data concerning living people are currently included in the reconstruction

I would be grateful for any other records not in these databases.  Likewise I would be grateful to learn of any error you detect in the details or reconstruction

To contact me, go to The Guild of One name studies (GOONS); there you will find an email address. (Click on:   Registered Names -> G -> Galmpton) or see        their publication:  “Register of One Name Studies” or at gmgngo@rjikclsmwnaol.plus.com witrh the lettes jklmno deleted from the name and domain

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