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Cornwall / Re: Child buried at age 6 but recorded as "Child of" with no given name?
« on: Saturday 06 April 24 08:46 BST (UK)  »
There is a tendency to assume that official records (or semi-official ones, like parish records) have been competently compiled by well informed and educated people, but often that is not the case, as I discovered when I needed a copy of my father's birth certificate. He was born in 1908 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, so naturally I applied to the appropriate office in Nova Scotia. They told me that they couldn't provide a birth certificate (I don't know why not, as they sent one to my nephew a couple of years later) and offered a photocopy of the relevant page of the birth register. In one short paragraph there were no fewer than four mistakes: my father's second given name was garbled to the point that it was gibberish; my grandfather's birthplace was (trivially) misspelt; his occupation was completely wrong; and I don't remember what the fourth was.

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Devon / Re: RADFORD of Devon
« on: Friday 24 November 23 08:53 GMT (UK)  »
I have three Radfords, but I know almost nothing about them, so they may not be any use to you, but here goes:

Katherine Radford, married Edward Lawrence (my great[10]grandfather, as his second wife). No dates, no placenames, no parents. Edward born after 1534, died after 1623.

Henry Radford, my great[15]grandfather. no other information, except his daughter:

Elizabeth Brune, my great[14]grandmother. née Radford, died  1471. Married Maurice Brune. Two sons, including Thomas Brune.

Such dates as I have don't seem to add up, as 1534 - 1471 = 63 years -- not enough for 6 generations, even if Elizabeth Brune was in her 90s when she died.

That's it. No placenames, but quite likely Devon.




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Cornwall / Re: Sarah Hornicote B 1168
« on: Sunday 05 November 23 18:08 GMT (UK)  »
I have

Sarah de Carminow formerly Hornacote
Born about 1207 in Tintagel, Cornwall, Englandmap [uncertain]
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of Gervais Hornacote and Unknown (Unknown) Hornacote
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of Roger Carminow — married 1239 in Tingtagel,,Cornwall,Englandmap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Roger Carminow
Died 1302 at about age 95 in Cornwall

Sources
↑ A source for this information is needed.

The dates don't rally agree with your question.

The information comes from https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hornacote-1

I don't know how reliable it is.

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Devon / Abbotsbury Nursing Home, Ashburton
« on: Thursday 28 September 23 09:52 BST (UK)  »
The Old Ashburton website (https://www.oldashburton.co.uk/health-and-disease.php) has a paragraph about the Abbotsbury Nursing Home in Ashburton. It probably already says everything there is to say about it (including a picture of the location), but if anyone can add to it I'll appreciate it. I was born there in April 1943. My mother didn't live in Ashburton but in Newton Abbot, but in 1943 you had to be born where you could find a bed.


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Cornwall / Re: Bodmin Moor
« on: Saturday 16 September 23 10:01 BST (UK)  »
There were probably many cases like this, most of them unlikely to be easy to find on the net. The one that I remember (also from the 1970s) concerned Ashton-under-Lyne, in Greater Manchester, a very different place. I can't find confirmation of that. More generally, I have read that the invention of the bicycle made the largest single contribution to the decrease in in-breeding in rural England.

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Devon / Re: Robert and George Coysh of Highweek
« on: Friday 04 August 23 15:50 BST (UK)  »
I'm glad you found that helpful. I feared I might be just pedantic.

I lived in Newton Abbot as a small child (1943–1947; 1950–1954) and attended Wolborough Hill School from 1950 to 1956 (last two years as a boarder). I used to walk up the hill alone each morning to school when I was a dayboy; I don't think most parents would allow a little boy to do that today, but in those days no one thought anything of it.

I had a great-aunt (Winifred Alice Kitson) who lived in Highweek until she died in 1955 at the age of 80.

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Devon / Re: Robert and George Coysh of Highweek
« on: Thursday 03 August 23 16:40 BST (UK)  »
Just a very quick and minor correction. Highweek is reasonably close to Teignmouth, but it's a lot closer to Newton Abbot (adminstratively, I think, it's part of Newton Abbot).

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Devon / Re: George Hawkins need help finding birth
« on: Saturday 17 June 23 17:23 BST (UK)  »
"was it illegal them days to marry someone then marry his brother yes great find with marriages just need now find original marriage to William Hawkings /Hockings"

Whether illegal or not, it certainly happened, at least if you switch the sexes around. My great-great-great-grandfather Ambrose Bowden married Joan Booth, who bore him one son. When she died he married her sister Elizabeth, who had her first child six days after the marriage. 

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Devon / Re: Capt. James Clarke of Sid Abbey
« on: Thursday 04 May 23 10:16 BST (UK)  »
I'm glad you said that: I was about to say it myself. The important point is that Salcombe and Salcombe Regis are two completely different places.

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