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HOSGOOD Steps Brixham
« on: Saturday 21 April 07 18:03 BST (UK) »
Hello Folks!
I know where HOSGOOD STEPS are in BRIXHAM but does anyone know why they are named and for what reason?
Many thanks,
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Re: HOSGOOD STEPS BRIXHAM
« Reply #1 on: Monday 23 April 07 21:36 BST (UK) »
Hi,

Well... I know it sounds obvious but Hosgood is a surname so it was probably named simply for a person who was from the area.

Ryan.

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Ryan is researching:
 HILL/BURKE/BELCHER/BIGNELL/BLAKE/YELDHAM in London
HOPKINS/HART/MATTHEWS/MUNSON in Exeter & Central Devon
FEREDAY in Staffordshire
MUSCUTT/ELSBY/BRIDGENS/BURKE/BELL/ADAMS/RAINBOW in Stoke-on-Trent
BURKE/O’CALLAGHAN/CONNOLLY/FITZPATRICK in Ireland
HOPKINS/ADAMS/DOWDING/TROWBRIDGE in Shaftesbury
MUNSON/BIGNELL/YELDHAM in Essex
BLAKE in Suffolk
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Re: HOSGOOD STEPS BRIXHAM
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 24 April 07 09:01 BST (UK) »
Yes Hosgood was the name of masons that were in my family  .
I came across this when i was searching for something else in a search engine....
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Re: HOSGOOD STEPS BRIXHAM
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 25 November 07 15:33 GMT (UK) »

Hello there,

The story goes that George Hosgood (my g. g.grandfather) a builder in Brixham built a house for each for his eleven children. Walter also a mason lived in one of the properties at the top of these steps. Hence the name!
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Wills..........Stokenham-Brixham-Devon
Dimond......Stokenham-Devon
Hutchings..Stokenham-Devon
Lyfe...........Stokenham-Slapton-Devon
Hosgood....Crediton-Brixham-Devon
Boberg.......Bristol-Gloucester
Edge..........Norfolk
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Re: HOSGOOD STEPS BRIXHAM
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 25 November 07 18:51 GMT (UK) »
I used to visit the same house when i was a child every summer if it is the same one...
By this time the House belonged to Walters son...
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