Devonshire Archives - Geneageek https://geneageek.com/tag/devonshire/ Genealogy, genealogy, genealogy. Thu, 11 May 2023 12:58:26 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://geneageek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cropped-geneageekicon-150x150.png Devonshire Archives - Geneageek https://geneageek.com/tag/devonshire/ 32 32 Blind Leading the Blind https://geneageek.com/blind-leading-the-blind/ https://geneageek.com/blind-leading-the-blind/#comments Sat, 23 Sep 2017 18:07:24 +0000 http://geneageek.uk/blog/?p=1093 At the top of my ancestry ‘To Do’ list for many years now has been ‘Find out who Blind Wreford is’. Today I’ve finally found out… I’m not even sure…

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]]> https://geneageek.com/blind-leading-the-blind/feed/ 4 Wrestling Legend https://geneageek.com/wrestling-legend/ https://geneageek.com/wrestling-legend/#comments Sat, 06 Jul 2013 16:25:00 +0000 https://geneageek.wordpress.com/2013/07/06/wrestling-legend/ I had some credits to spare at ‘Find My Past’ so I trawled the newspapers and found some references to my ‘celebrity’ ancestor, William WREFORD (introduced here). In the Western…

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]]> https://geneageek.com/wrestling-legend/feed/ 4 To Let or Not To Let? https://geneageek.com/to-let-or-not-to-let/ https://geneageek.com/to-let-or-not-to-let/#respond Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:13:00 +0000 https://geneageek.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/to-let-or-not-to-let/ This notice was found on a visit to the Exeter Library a few years ago. It relates to the letting of the Hare and Hounds Inn of Witheridge in 1858…

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]]> https://geneageek.com/to-let-or-not-to-let/feed/ 0 Bombay Love Story https://geneageek.com/bombay-love-story/ https://geneageek.com/bombay-love-story/#comments Sat, 05 Jan 2013 18:52:00 +0000 https://geneageek.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/bombay-love-story/ After receiving an email asking whether Drusilla WREFORD (the 14 year old innkeeper originally mentioned in my post Pub Crawl) met her husband, Thomas WILLS on the voyage to NZ,…

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]]> https://geneageek.com/bombay-love-story/feed/ 2 Grace Brock https://geneageek.com/grace-brock/ https://geneageek.com/grace-brock/#respond Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:55:00 +0000 https://geneageek.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/grace-brock/ I’ve had a lot of trouble finding a marriage between John STILING and Grace FREED and thought it was due to the lack of  Devon records on the IGI.  Thanks to the selection…

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]]> https://geneageek.com/grace-brock/feed/ 0 Pub Crawl https://geneageek.com/pub-crawl/ https://geneageek.com/pub-crawl/#comments Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:48:00 +0000 https://geneageek.wordpress.com/2010/06/20/pub-crawl/ On the night of the 1861 census, in the Devonshire village of Witheridge, 14 year old Drusilla WREFORD was recorded as head of the household and her occupation as ‘Innkeeper…

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]]> https://geneageek.com/pub-crawl/feed/ 4 Celebrity Ancestor https://geneageek.com/celebrity-ancestor/ https://geneageek.com/celebrity-ancestor/#comments Sun, 16 May 2010 17:55:00 +0000 https://geneageek.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/celebrity-ancestor/ For a change of ‘scene’, I decided to look a bit deeper at some of my English ancestors. An old family pedigree mentioned that my ancestor, William WREFORD “settled in Tiverton…

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]]> https://geneageek.com/celebrity-ancestor/feed/ 3 The Wrong Stilings https://geneageek.com/the-wrong-stilings/ https://geneageek.com/the-wrong-stilings/#respond Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:45:00 +0000 https://geneageek.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/the-wrong-stilings/ I’ve certainly been very busy with genealogy the last week or so. The most significant discovery is that I am now quite sure that the Broadhembury STILINGs are not directly linked…

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]]> https://geneageek.com/the-wrong-stilings/feed/ 0 Tombstone Tuesday – Broadhembury Stilings https://geneageek.com/tombstone-tuesday-broadhembury-stilings/ https://geneageek.com/tombstone-tuesday-broadhembury-stilings/#respond Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:09:00 +0000 https://geneageek.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/tombstone-tuesday-broadhembury-stilings/ While in Devon I paid a visit to the lovely village of Broadhembury. I had hopes of finding the graves of my STILING forebears to give me some new leads…

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]]> https://geneageek.com/tombstone-tuesday-broadhembury-stilings/feed/ 0 Marriage Entries VS Marriage Certificates https://geneageek.com/marriage-entries-vs-marriage-certificates/ https://geneageek.com/marriage-entries-vs-marriage-certificates/#respond Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:54:00 +0000 https://geneageek.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/marriage-entries-vs-marriage-certificates/ I have been writing a lot about my WREFORDs lately, particularly with regard to George WREFORD and his bankruptcy woes. However, his wife would have also been sharing these worries…

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