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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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Devon / Rogers of Thurlestone
« on: Sunday 22 May 22 18:14 BST (UK)  »
I've probably asked this before, but no matter.

James T. Houssemayne du Boulay, having run out of things to discover about his own family, turned his attention to that of wife, née Alice Mead Cornish. He wrote a self-published book entitled Cornish of Devon, which was widely known in my family, but probably totally unknown otherwise. In it, he says "Phillip Cornishe, youngest son of Thomas and Margery, born 1578, married English Rogers (in the Register latinised as Anglicia), of one of the leading families in Thurlestone."

If they were really one of the leading families in Thurlestone there must be some information about the background of English, my great[9]-grandmother, but I have completely failed to find any. I don't even know her parents' names. If I were a lot younger than I am, and still often going to Devon, I would try to consult the Thurlestone registers, but it's too late for that. These don't appear to be available on the web -- not yet, anyway. Unfortunately Rogers is a reasonably common name in England, so it's not much good looking the family up at genealogy sites.


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Cornwall / Beatrice TALLACK married Ambrose BOWDEN 1747 at Golant, Cornwall
« on: Sunday 03 May 20 19:51 BST (UK)  »
I have a Beatrice Tallack, who married my great^4 grandfather Ambrose Bowden on 30 November 1747 in Golant, Cornwall. The information that I have is from the Parish Records for Cornwall and I know nothing else about her. Does anyone know about a Beatrice Tallack?

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Dorset / John Churchill (bought Muston in 1609) and Sir John Churchill (1585–1673)
« on: Saturday 01 February 20 19:21 GMT (UK)  »
I've been active for a while on the Devon list, and yesterday I was revising my profile to add a couple of surnames I was interested in, including Churchill. I have long thought that my great[8]grandfather  John Churchill of Muston was unrelated to the family of the Dukes of Marlborough, but given that my John Churchill and the Sir John Churchill (1585-1673) who bought Montacute were contemporaries and were both established in Dorset I think I jumped to that conclusion too quickly. However, I haven't found any clear link, though I haven't looked too deeply.

Any suggestions? Is anyone here knowledgeable about the Churchill families?

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Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark / Guernsey marriage
« on: Friday 29 November 19 12:15 GMT (UK)  »
I fear that this thread died years ago, but I'll ask here anyway as the NEW POST button doesn't seem to be working.

My parents were married in St Peter Port in August 1934, and I'm wondering if their marriage certificate, if I buy it, will tell me what I need to provide evidence for for the authorities in France. They want a document that shows, in an official way, when and where they were born. Does anyone know if Guernsey marriage certificates include this information? I've ordered birth certificates, one from Nova Scotia and the other from Dublin, but it would be nice to have another document.

Are they written in French as well as English? The one from Nova Scotia will certainly be bilingual, but the one from Dublin won't -- certainly not English/French, and English/Irish won't be any use.

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Ireland / John Benjamin Butler Burke
« on: Saturday 20 July 19 18:30 BST (UK)  »
John Benjamin Butler Burke, born in 1873, was a physicist, apparently of Irish origin, who worked in Birmingham and Manchester around 1900. He is only remembered today (if at all) for his book The Origin of Life: its Physical Basis and Definition, published in 1906. I am interested in him for professional rather than family reasons (I'm not related to him as far as I know). Anyway, I've been trying to discover when he died, but I've drawn a complete blank. Does anyone have an idea?

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Devon / Rogers of Thurlestone
« on: Wednesday 21 February 18 10:45 GMT (UK)  »
My great[9]-grandmother English Rogers married Phillip Cornishe on 12 June 1598 in Thurlestone, Devon.  James T. Houssemayne du Boulay, who wrote "Cornish of Devon" at the end of the 19th century, after studying parish registers in Thurlestone and elsewhere in Devon, says nothing about her baptism or parents, though he says that the Rogers family was one of the leading families in Thurlestone. Unfortunately, however, he says very little more than that. That suggests that some information must exist, unless the Thurlestone branch died out so thoroughly that no one has been interested enough to find it.

Incidentally, although English Cornishe was apparently called like that her name is Latinized as Anglicia in the register. She was buried on 20 March 1638 in Thurlestone, Devon.

There are several Honor Cornishes, a given name that apparently came from the Rogerses, but again, there is no direct evidence of that. My father learned this too late to give the name Honor to one of my sisters: I expect she is grateful that she didn't get landed with that name, but it's been a while since I asked her.

Other than going to Thurlestone myself, which would be far more difficult today than it would have been when I was often in Devon, can anyone suggest a way to proceed?

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Devon / John Burgess Karslake, South Molton
« on: Monday 18 September 17 20:07 BST (UK)  »
There is a family tradition my great[4]-grandfather survived the following disaster in South Molton:  Both of his parents  and his older siblings died in a fire at their house a few hours after he was born on 29th January 1748/9 in South Molton, but he was saved by his nurse, who jumped out of a window with him tied up in her apron. He was Rector of Creacombe, Devon, from 22 June 1778, and of Filleigh cum East Buckland, Devon, from 5 July 1800 until his death in 1822, when he was buried in Georgenympton.

Does anyone know of any newspaper record of this fire? I would expect it to have been reported. Not the I doubt my source, which is generally reliable, but it would be nice to have an independent account.

Alternatively it may be indicated on his gravestone, but I've never been to Georgenympton.

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / ALICE BROWNING Alverstoke or Gosport (TOLCHER?)
« on: Monday 29 May 17 12:39 BST (UK)  »
The wife of Benjamin Browning (d. 1807) was called Alice (d. 1808), but I don't know her maiden name. It may have been Tolcher, as one of their granddaughters was christened Emma Tolcher. Tolcher looks a lot more like a surname than an ordinary Christian name, so I imagine it comes from an ancestor. Benejamin Browning lived in Alverstoke or Gosport, or thereabouts.

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