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

Thomas Austin (b 1824) son of Thomas and Mary (Manning) Austin.

About 1890, Watervliet, Michigan, USA

Fulford family in Canada now traced and living relatives in contact.

Hi David,

Charity's father Able are the only Heal Faily members  know about. I am looking for ore though.

John

Here is a 1910 postcard of the Bideford/Buckland Brewer area. If you click on it it will appear in correct proportion.

Have today photographed and indexed the gravestones at Eckworthy redundant Baptist Chapel, Tithacott, Buckland Brewer - all 21 of them - plenty of Hookways!

Janet, are you publishing them on this site? If not, could I ask for a copy via my email - grateful

Dave

Don't think there's really room on this site - they will eventually be made public along with those from teh other 2 graveyards - happy to answer queries though. Did you just want the Heal's Dave?

Heal's and Hookway's please Janet. My gt gt grand mother was an Ann Hookway who married Henry Griffey of Northam

Janet - are there any Fulford, Kelly or Lake?

Janet - I seem to be on GenealogyWise with two accounts.  Any idea how I delete one?  If not - can I take myself out of this group and rejoin with my other account?

OK - found out how.

1906 Postcard of Buckland Brewer

My house in the picture below. Bottom right hand corner with thatch at right angles to the road. No thatch now!

Surnames on stones at Eckworthy are

HI Janet,

what are the  names for Heals, I am still looking for Charity Heal's family members.

John 

Thornhillhead Methodist Church (former Bible Christian Chapel) gravestones now fully indexed, thanks to my gallant helpers. Too many different surnames (111) to list here as space is restricted. Will answer queries and look to making them public together with those from the Baptist and Anglican churchyards when all are done. 

Thanks Janet for all your work.

Expressed myself badly below - happy to answer enquiries on Thornhillhead now - just can't list all the surnames here.

Hi Janet - dont suppose there are any Shaptons in Thornhillhead ?

No, no Shaptons I'm afraid. Here's the first part of the alphabet.

Well that seemed to work - here are some more

Hi Janet,

Could you check for any of my following family connections?

Littlejohns - John Oliver b 1855, Rosalind b1860 + Thomas b1810?

Marshall - Ann 1798-1800 or Grace b 1794

Morrish - Enock b1858 or William H b 1859

Also have several Martin + Allins, but not directly linked to B/Brewer!

Many thanks

Stuart

Hi Stuart

God is the helper of the fatherless.

Sacred to the memory of THOMAS LITTLEJOHNS of this parish who died on the 15th of November in the year of our Lord 1866 aged 56 years.

There remaineth a rest to the people of GOD. Heb. Chap. 4. v.9

Sacred to the memory of MARY late wife of Thomas Littlejohns of this parish who died on the 26^th of Novr 1852 aged 40 years. Death is swallowed up in victory

No Morrish or Marshall graves but I am in contact with a descendant of Ann and Grace Marshall's brother, Thomas.

I've just added some information about Buckland Brewer to my personal website http://thehistoryinterpreter.wordpress.com/community-history/buckla...

Thanks for the info on my Littlejohns!

I dont actually have Thomas for some reason, but would be happy to exchange what info I have with others, if they want to connect?

Many thanks

Stuart

Janet,

Do you have any info on Austins buried the the BB area?

No Austins yet Gary - some may turn up when we get on further with the main Anglican churchyard.

i have been researching the Bridgman and redecleave family from Buckland Brewer and surrounding area. I am coming from s.wales and would like to visit the churches and grave yards were they where married and buried any help i would be very greatful

                                      Jeff.Cooper

Hi Jeff, No gravestones for these names in any of the churchyards but many burials have no stones so they may well have been buried here.

Jeff, As you say you are researching the Redecleave and Bridgman families, I assume your interest would be with Sarah Redecleave. Sarah's parents William and Elizabeth do have a gravestone in the churchyard of St Mary and St Benedict’s Church. They died within 9 days of each other in 1866. You can request a free photo of it from here http://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/findfamily.php?name=Ridecliffe
As you can see the spelling used is Ridecliffe, the name is rarely spelled in a consistent way. I much prefer the rather ancient sounding Redecleave (or similar) than the Redcliff/Redcliffe that it turned into. My connection with this family is through William Redecleve's sister Elizabeth who married William John's.

Simon

~Thanks Simon We have finished transcribing the stones but they are not yet indexed. I had to search by using the find feature and didn't include that variant. We hope to finish the indexing in the next couple of months

Simon thank you for info on the redecleave family.Sarah was my great great grandmother

Starting to get the Buckland Brewer gravestone inscriptions online http://thehistoryinterpreter.wordpress.com/community-history/buckla... click on the links for Thornhillhead and Eckworthy graveyards. Plans for these and the inscriptions for the main churchyard will follow shortly. Can use the 'find' facility to search for the names you are interested in. Eventually we may sell CDs including transcriptions, photographs of all gravestones and a database of all names mentioned, with additional detail from the burial registers. Comments welcome before I upload the hundreds of stones from the main churchyard

Janet - this looks to be a first class sourceof information about the Buckland Brewer graveyards.  The format looks good.  The only addition I would make is a map of the area showing the graveyards.  The minumum would be the address / co-ordinates.  Could you please pass on my thanks to the team.  Chris