Happy Christmas Everyone! We are still collecting photos of old Buckland Brewer and its previous residents (contributions welcome). One day we hope there will be a new book about the parish - we're working on it! Thanks for your support.

Thanks for your Christmas wishes, Janet. I'd like to add my wishes to you and all Buckland Brewer Group members. I hope 2011 is full of good times and successful family history discoveries.  My oldest B.B. photograph is 2009, Janet, so I'm no good to you but I'm certainly looking forward to the book you're working on. I hope there are some Fulford photos in it.    Cheers    Ruth

Yup put me donw for a copy of the book.  Chris

- and a dictionary!

Janet.

Have photo of Jane Kelly.

Regards  Ron How.

Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for the  New Year to everyone.

Be safe while celebrating

Hi - I just joined this Group -

My family (on my father's side) are deep rooted in BB - John Shapton from Howleigh Farm and all his predecessors, buried in BB churchyard....

Also linked to the Born family, the Fulford family and the Abbott family...

Glad to be here - will be posting details soon.....

Good day Andrew,

Welcome to the group.

Looks like your family are long residents of BB. My connection is primarily with the Cole family (Charity Heal & William Cole and his ancestors) and the Fulford family (Henry Cole & Elizabeth Fulford as well as John Fulford and Mary Cole).

Cheers, John

Hi Andrew, I was born a Fulford and live in Cairns, North Queensland, Australia. I just want to say that my great-g-g-grandmother was Grace Shapton and married to John Fulford. (Born 1783) She was born in Buckland Brewer so I guess, belongs to your family too. Their son James (Wife Elizabeth Ley Tancock) had a son John who came to Australia around 1840 and later married his first cousin Margaret Hindmarsh. Her mother was Elizabeth Fulford. I've only recently become interested in family history so welcome any information.

Cheerio,  Eileen White

May I copy the comments of Christopher Gray as a similar Fulford.

Hope you enjoy the Group.

Is there any way we can "chat" here?

JD

Wonderful to receive all the comments re some of my family history. I would be happy to share all the information I have but will have to try and work out how to go about it. I don't have a lot of experience with computers except for emails. Also I have heaps of information re the Aussie family but, as yet, haven't put it in any sort of order. It mostly belonged to my late father, Henry Fulford who passed away 7 years ago yesterday. He visited Buckland Brewer a couple of times. He was a first cousin to Ruth Raintree's mother. I will keep in touch.

Regards,  Eileen White

Janet - is there a way we can view your composite family tree on this site ?

It would be great to grab data from it and contribute to it to fill in the missing pieces ?

ok - i agree and concur with Christopher's comment. I'll upload my tree in pdf form tonight and we can connect !

thanks for your advice, all !

Hi folks,

I also agree with cris for the same reasons. I am wondering if Janet can let us know what info she needs to "fill in the leaves on the tree" and then provide us with a hard copy or pdf? Janet, the tree you are doing, is it for 1 or 2 or more (all) of the Buckland Brewer families? I think the sharing will help varify the information each of us has gathered on our families as well as we provided each other positive feedback on them.

Or, would it be possble to approach genealogywise to failitate a feature allowing us to collaborate as members? Just a thought :-)

Hi,

I have a Susanna Jenkin b. Buckland Brewer c.1797 Married Samuel Frain 1817. Really struggling to find her parents. Anyone have any information regarding the Buckland Brewer Jenkin family?

Kath

Hi, yes i saw that baptism on LDS website, the 1841, 51, snd 61 census shows she was born 1797 +/- 1 year, and all say Buckland Brewer. Strange, unless she was a widow perhapswhen she married? She married Samuel Frain when she was 20 in 1817.

Thank you for looking

Kath

My name is Gary Austin and I just joined Genealogy Wise.

Interested in researching Thomas Austin and Mary Manning believed to have married in Buckland Brewer in 1817 and had the following children:
James
Thomas Jr
Grace
Philip
George
Samuel
William

Thomas Jr was baptized 22 Jan 1824 in Buckland Brewer parish, Devon , England.

HI Gary,

Welcome to the group. My BB family lines are mainly the Cole family mixed with a few others.

JDC

Hello Gary,

Thomas Austin was the son of George Austin (c. 1750-1823) and Mary Peard  (c.1750-1817). George and Mary married in teh neighbouring village of Parkham on 12 April 1775. Thomas Austin was baptised in Buckland Brewer 1 May 1791. I have only got one other child for George and Mary (but haven't looked outside BB) and that is George baptised 17 Nov 1786. Thomas Austin lived at Horrestone and then at Tithacott (which is spelt in many ways). Horrstone is a farm and Tithacott is a small hamlet about 2 miles outside the village of BB iteslf. BB is a large parish and teh vilage is in the north west corner of teh parish so you could live in BB parish but be 3 miles away from the village. 

Thank you Janet. I have a copy of the BB baptism for Thomas Austin. I have found Ohio census with this family and shows the children I listed but have not been able to find baptisms in Devon for them. Future searches I guess. Glad to have joined this group and would like to get to more about Devon and visit someday.

Thank Janet. I've been searching for Horrestone for years. Have seen it spelled many diff ways and assumed it was a town and could never find it. Im curious could you be more specific where Horrestone is (if you know). Would that have been a someones farm like I would think in contemporary terms or what?

Hoarestone (modern spelling) is/was a fram in the south of Buckland Brewer parish - about 3 miles south of the village of Buckland Brewer, where the parish church is. Historically it could have referred to the farm and associated labourers' cottages. Hope this helps.

Janet

Thank you Janet. I've got a few maps of Devon from the 1850s and later which Im going to check. I thought the church was IN the village of BB not south of it. But then I've never benn there but look forward to making a trip across the pond.

Gary,

George Austin 1750 was my 5x great grandfather, his son George (mentioned by Janet) married a Susannah Peard in 1808 in Parkham. From there the Austin family married into the Heal family. regards - Dave

You are right Gary the church is IN the village it is  Hoarstone that is 3 miles to the south - bad use of punctuation on my part. Dave I am aware that we said we would exchange Heal information - will send you a pdf

iner

David, 

You mentioned: "George Austin 1750 was my 5x great grandfather, his son George.." 

Janet stated: "Thomas Austin was the son of George Austin (c. 1750-1823) and Mary Peard  (c.1750-1817)."

This would seem to indicate that your George Jr was sibling to Thomas Austin (my ggg grandfather) who left Devon via Bideford and ended up in Ohio and then Michigan (where I am now)

Gary, that is correct. Your 3x grandfather was my 4x grand uncle

Hi David,

Do you have any connection to Charity Heal. She was born about 1802, I believe in Langtree and married William Cole in Frithelstock in 1828. Charity and William had several children, both in Devon and here in Canada. I think her father's name was Able Heal. Just taking a stab at it ;-)

John

John, I have a Charity Heal in my tree but she was born in 1765 and is my 2nd cousin 6x removed; her father was a Robert (from Highampton) and her grandfather an Abel. Have you any other Heal relatives I could do a search on?

Regards - Dave

I have a Mary Heal in my family - she was married to Samuel Shapton, born 1756. Samuel was the son of my 4xgr-grandfather. She was buried in Buckland Brewer churchyard in 1848.

Mary Heal Birth 1792 in Buckland Brewer, Devon, England Death 17 Sept 1848 in Buckland Brewer, Devon, England