I visited Hartland for the first time in April this year with my mother, it was her 80th birthday on the Easter weekend, my husband, sister and brother and their partners came too. We stayed at Blegberry Farm and loved the area. My mother is a Devonian and I had only found our connection with Hartland, Parkham, Buckland Brewer and Torrington earlier this year, through the Kent family in our maternal line

I am looking for information on siblings and ancestors of Charles FORD born 1747 Crediton,Devon,England. His parents are supposed to be Charles FORD and Ann HAMMETT married 21 July 1745 Crediton,Devon,England. Did Charles marry his wife Elizabeth in England? Charles was in Maryland by 1773 when his son Samuel was born. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi
I'm researching the following names in Devon -

BASKERVILLE - Bratton Clovelly,Devon
KENNARD - Bratton Clovelly,Lydford,Northlew, Devon
PHEAR - Lydford, Devon
RICE - Lydford, Devon
WOOLDRIDGE - Bratton Clovelly, Northlew,Devon

Gina

I am researching my husband's paternal grandmother's family Pooley from Bridgerule in North Devon also Gliddon.

In South Devon I am researching Dodd.

Paula

I am researching my husbands family Parish, John Parish from Teignmouth Devon.
My husbands Great Grandfather was born in 1811 and got married to Sarah Severn in 1845 in Sydney NSW.
I have not been able to find the ship that he came out on.
Can anyone help.
Gail

This is a link to the webpage for the Glover family of North Devon and the Roger family of East Devon:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gloverhoward/index.htm

Hi, I'm researching the following Devon names:

MORTIMER / MORTIMORE / MORTIMOR (William Mortimer & his father Elias. William was a stone mason who ventured with his family to Australia via Hastings in 1842)
FISHER / HALLETT / BETTY / HALLETT FISHER / BETTY FISHER / FISHER BETTY (Samuel Hallett Fisher, son of Peter Betty Fisher, whose parents were Richard Betty & Sarah Fisher. Samuel came to Australia in the 1860's.

Cheers,
John

hi im looking for parkers ad averys

There is an interesting article in the North Devon Gazette about the Mayor of Bideford's research into the Lost Colony of Roanake Island in America. Many of the original settlers were believed to have been from Devon. You can read the full story here and see if any of your surnames are included.

I'm researching the name Popplestone from plymouth around 1870 onwards.

Hi: Does anyone live near the Halberton Church (pic attached) - I am in need of assistance to check out one of the grave stones there, marked in the picture with an cross. Many thanks. VJ

I wil when next in Halberton look for the mentioned gravestone, What is also of interest is the chimley which looks like it is from a factory maybe a milk factory?

Thought I would let you all know there is a Devon related article on the Agriculture Group here at GW.
http://www.genealogywise.com/group/agriculture

BBC Devon has a History Section on thier website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/history/

Many thanks Chris. I've added the BBC history site to the links and have also included a link to your agriculture group. I loved the article.

Hi Debbie and Chris, have looked at both articles and found them both very interesting. Haven't done this sort of thing before. Must pursue it. Debbie, about George Westcott, William and Meldred's son, heard he was in the police force before coming to Aus. Have been in touch with the Victorian Police and tried various places I was directed to in the UK but haven't come across anything to say where he was stationed before coming to Aus. Still don't know when and on what ship he arrived. It's something I should pursue further.

Hi Jan, If George served in the Devon police then I presume his records will be at the Devon Record Office. Have you seen the Police Orders website? There is a G Westcott listed in Somerset though he might well be a different man altogether.

Thanks for that Debbie. Had a look but don't know how to prove it is the man I'm looking for. Have been in contact with the UK Police Museum and another place but they weren't able to help.

Greetings :)

I have a database for Broad Clyst or Broad Clist or Broadclist, spell it how you will with a considerable number of families collected together.

I have an indexed list for deaths to 1850. Will work on the marriages as and when I get some time ..
I have a number of families there
Channon - Chamberlain - Trickey - Bending - Moles - Merry - Burton
also Smith in Stoke Canon
Channon in Rockbeare
Channon in Holcombe Rogus and in Plymouth

Page and Reed in Buckfastleigh and Ashburton
also Princetown

Dunstan in Modbury and Bere Alston - with Reed
also Plymouth/Stoke Damerel and North Tawton

That should make a start! :) Lovely to meet everyone.

This link is for the website for Witheridge, lots to read, wonderful.
http://www.witheridge-historical-archive.com/contents.htm

To add to the growing list of Parish sites may I add TEMPLETON Barabara has a lot of into collected all over & was a great hepl to my Crook family try:
http://www.barbsweb.co.uk/templeton/intro.htm
Gordon in Exmouth

I am a descendant of the Easterbrooks of Devon, which also include the names of Hamlyn, Norrish and many more. I have only been doing ancestry for about 2 years but have found it very interesting and it is a great feeling when you can trace someone back so far.

1871 UK Census
Q.1. Lines 17 & 18 of this census page disclose my ggg-parents William LOWE & Jane LOWE but I cannot read their respective "Where Born" towns in Devon - can anyone familiar with Devon's old towns AND/OR can interpret the handwriting please assist.
Q.2. From the several headings at top of this census page, how owuld I set out the LOWE's address - I'm a tad confused about parishes / municipalities / ecclesiastical districts, et.
Many Thanks,
VJ

Gidleigh Devon for William Lowe and Tavistock Devon for Jane Lowe and in 1871 they are living at: St Andrew in Plymouth RD, Devon, England also known as the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Peter, Exeter Diocese.

Thank you Elizabeth - appreciate the help. VJ

Hi we have on our database a number of Devon LAW, LAWES,LAWS families

had all my childhood hols at Woolacombe love Devonshire folk

John P Laws. (Member 674, Guild of One-Name Studies, since 1984) Researching LAW, LAWE, LAWES, LAWS, LAWSE, McLAW & McLAWS & allied families worldwide.
Website "Laws Family Register" at - www.lawsfamilyregister.org.uk
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VJ King Sr- in answer to your census query
I would say he was born in Gidley (Gidleigh)
She was born in Tavistock
There address looks like Union Street, and it is in the Parish of St Andrew, Plymouth

Finding this website useful and intersting
http://www.devonheritage.org/index.htm

Does any one have or know any information about Honiton Workhouse after 1891. Looking for inmate names: birth, deaths, marriages and events.

Martin - this link may help, but I understand few records survive.
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Honiton/Honiton.shtml
The 1901 census may be worth a try.

Hi Christine

Thank you for your links. You are right there are very few records after 1891, and the census of 1901 shows a large drop in inmates.

My next planned outing is to Devon Records Office to see the Management Meeting minutes.
Regards Martin

One of the biggest problems is locating a parish particularly in relation to another. I use the program Parloc which is free to download from http://www.parloc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ By entering the names of the Parishes, it will list every Parish within a radius of a distance between the two parishes.For example entering Plymouth and next Dartmouth, Parloc tells me that they are 41.2Km apart, but if I want to know what parishes are within say 6km of Dartmouth, it will return a list 11 and give the distance and direction they lay.
I've found this very helpful in locating the movements of ancestors in the Parish Registers. Parloc lists those Parishes that existed between 16th and 9th Centuries.

That should read between the 16th and 19th Centuries,
Sorry, big clumsy fingers sometimes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/8276259.stm

This article is well worth reading, don't let your next of kin dump the family records!!

From today's Sunday Times, Hugh Courtenay, the Earl of Devon, is forced to sell some of the family silver and other valuables to pay for the upkeep of Powderham Castle. You can read the story here.

Interesting!

There is a CD of the 1871 Census for Honiton and Axminster on eBay, item 140354193566.

The Devon Family History Society have published some new CDs, worth checking the link above and looking at their publications

For those who have a subscription to Ancestry this link
Devonshire Parish Register Extracts may be of interest

A fascinating story about witchcraft in Devon from the BBC website. Does anyone have any of these names in their family tree? You can read the full story here.

It's amazing that these documents can still be found, a very interesting story its the first time I've heard of a male witch! None of my names there I'm afraid.

If you are interested in having your DNA tested through my Devon DNA Project you might like to know that there is now a winter sale on which will last up until Christmas. You can read more about the project here.

Hi everyone, Thanks in large part to suggestions of other members back when I joined Genealogy Wise last year, I believe I broke one of my brick walls to locate a family in Hartland, Devon before their immigration to Canada in the 1800s. If I have found the right family (I'm about 95% sure so far), the older children had already moved out and settled in Devon by the time the parents took the younger children to Canada, meaning I've cousins that at least used to be in Devon (no idea if they still are!). This is the family of Joseph Evans and Grace Bray. I'll put more info about the family I am tracing into a post so it won't scroll so quickly and will be easier for people to find.

I would like to all people that live or are from Devonport UK and their sarname is CONYBEARE. Please contact me through here or on my email shawnborg@mail.ru

If anyone is interested in joining our Devon DNA project you might like to know that the testing company currently has a sale on until Christmas. You can read more on the Devon project website:

http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Devon

Henry son of John and Mary Goldsworthy bapt. Honiton 2 Sep 1827

 

This link takes you to extracted transcripts leaving out the dross you find on the IGI

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBat...

Dianne, well done for getting the the help you need, but do keep an open mind about spellings, they are never consistent, the clerks and scribes  wrote phonetically and the name can even be written in various ways in the same document.

Hi Dianne, You might like to encourage your friend to register the Goldsworthy/Golesworthy one-name study with the Guild of One-Name Studies:

http://www.one-name.org

This will ensure that 40 years of hard work is not lost as the Guild is able to archive digital material in its library.

 

 

Maureen Selley (Chairman Devon FHS) and Todd Gray (Chairman Friends of Devon Archives) attended the Record Office consultation meetings in April. Notes from the meetings are now available online. The comments from users have had a positive impact. You can read more on the DFHS noticeboard:
 
http://www.devon.gov.uk/stakeholder_meetings_.pdf 

 

Researching the ESSERY surname and also on behalf of my aunt, COLLAM, PENHALL and BIDGOOD surnames