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Devon / Re: St Thomas, Exeter
« on: Monday 10 March 14 15:39 GMT (UK) »
Thank you very much anyway for taking the trouble, A
nne. Sandra-W
nne. Sandra-W
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Devon / Re: St Thomas, Exeter
« on: Monday 20 January 14 20:47 GMT (UK) »
Hello
We have quite a few WINDEATTs (unofficial one-name study) who lived at various times in St. Thomas parish. I'd be very grateful for any additional information you may have. This Dartmoor surname is, however, still fairly rare which should make looking it up relatively easy (although often plagued with mistranscriptions). The more usual variants are with one T or a Y instead of an I). Thank you in anticipation,
Sandra W
We have quite a few WINDEATTs (unofficial one-name study) who lived at various times in St. Thomas parish. I'd be very grateful for any additional information you may have. This Dartmoor surname is, however, still fairly rare which should make looking it up relatively easy (although often plagued with mistranscriptions). The more usual variants are with one T or a Y instead of an I). Thank you in anticipation,
Sandra W
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Devon / Re: TOPE family, Exeter & Totnes, Devon
« on: Thursday 21 February 13 16:44 GMT (UK) »
I dug out the booklet I mentioned and I'm afraid there is no joy there. Mike Brown's parish register transcriptions start in 1770. The text is very dense and I had a skip through but nothing stood out. So probably not worth pursuing that direction - although Deborah O'Brien, who can often be found on the DEVON FHS message board (http://members.boardhost.com/devonfhs/) is very knowledgeable about that particular area of Devon and might be able to help.
From my own experiences researching family history I would guess they are probably related somehow - I've found loads of cousins and second cousins marrying - but at that early date it will be difficult to prove as these trades/crafts families do move about so. I've also found almost as many older women marrying younger men as vice versa (especially second marriages). And a last observation: there were loads and loads of masons and builders in the Horrabridge area (was it the availability of the local granite I wonder?) and my lot moved on out to Exeter (St. Sidwells) and then on to the coast to take advantage of the building booms there in the early to middle nineteenth century. Various sons and family members took up different branches of the building trade, e.g. slaters, plumbers, glaziers, etc.
Good luck!
Sandra
From my own experiences researching family history I would guess they are probably related somehow - I've found loads of cousins and second cousins marrying - but at that early date it will be difficult to prove as these trades/crafts families do move about so. I've also found almost as many older women marrying younger men as vice versa (especially second marriages). And a last observation: there were loads and loads of masons and builders in the Horrabridge area (was it the availability of the local granite I wonder?) and my lot moved on out to Exeter (St. Sidwells) and then on to the coast to take advantage of the building booms there in the early to middle nineteenth century. Various sons and family members took up different branches of the building trade, e.g. slaters, plumbers, glaziers, etc.
Good luck!
Sandra
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Devon / Re: TOPE family, Exeter & Totnes, Devon
« on: Sunday 17 February 13 21:51 GMT (UK) »
The Toops were a well-known firm of masons in Horrabridge (the parish was Buckland Monachorum) and Mike Brown wrote a booklet about them a while ago: The Toops: Monumental Masons of Western Dartmoor, 1997 (D)
see http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/DevonIndexes/DartmoorBooks.html
Not sure, however, how you would get hold of it.
Sandra
see http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/DevonIndexes/DartmoorBooks.html
Not sure, however, how you would get hold of it.
Sandra
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Devon / BOLT-WINDEATT Marriage 1907, Exeter
« on: Thursday 14 February 13 12:22 GMT (UK) »
Hello,
Are there any BOLTs out there who might recognise any of the guests in this wedding photo:
http://www.windeatt.f2s.com/windeatt/gallery/horrabridge_gallery.htm
If you hover over the faces with your mouse then you should be able to see our current speculations. However, apart from the groom - Thomas Alfred Windeatt - we are not absolutely sure who any of the others are . . .
Sandra W
Are there any BOLTs out there who might recognise any of the guests in this wedding photo:
http://www.windeatt.f2s.com/windeatt/gallery/horrabridge_gallery.htm
If you hover over the faces with your mouse then you should be able to see our current speculations. However, apart from the groom - Thomas Alfred Windeatt - we are not absolutely sure who any of the others are . . .
Sandra W
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Devon / Re: ALLEN family Horrabridge
« on: Friday 15 June 12 16:57 BST (UK) »
Well, little bits of information can fit another piece into the several thousand piece jigsaw! My husband's family - also builders - originated in Horrabridge but left c. 1820. It has always been a mystery why one of the grandson's had the middle name of ALLEN. Now here at last after many years of family history piecings togeether is a clue - there must have been some marriage/connection with the ALLENs back on Dartmoor!
So many thanks for this!
(researching WINDEATT in all its hundred or so spelling variations)
So many thanks for this!
(researching WINDEATT in all its hundred or so spelling variations)
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Devon / Re: JEAT/GEATT and variations of Kingswear
« on: Sunday 13 June 10 20:21 BST (UK) »
Yes, JEAT, is another variant spelling and pronunciation of the same root, i.e. GEATT pronounced with a soft G. And I know quite a few people pronounce their written surname WINGET as WINJET. - Sandra
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Devon / Re: JEAT/GEATT and variations of Kingswear
« on: Thursday 29 April 10 17:46 BST (UK) »
I doubt it came from the continent as GEATT is a good old english word - also often written as YATE - or YEATS.
Sandra
Sandra
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Devon / Re: JEAT/GEATT and variations of Kingswear
« on: Saturday 24 April 10 10:19 BST (UK) »
Hello
It's the Old English for GATE and the Devonshire pronunciation kept the dipthong pronunciation and spelling for longer than elsewhere in the country. So you may find it written as GATE or YATE as well.
I can't say I have come across it much as a surname on its own but there are zillions of WINDJEATs or WINGEATTs in Devon (which is how I know about the spellings).
Are you sure you have the correct transcription and that it isn't just the second half of a longer name? Mind you, I guess YATES and YEATs is fairly common English surname so you probably have got it right. See also:
http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?name=Yates
Regards, Sandra
It's the Old English for GATE and the Devonshire pronunciation kept the dipthong pronunciation and spelling for longer than elsewhere in the country. So you may find it written as GATE or YATE as well.
I can't say I have come across it much as a surname on its own but there are zillions of WINDJEATs or WINGEATTs in Devon (which is how I know about the spellings).
Are you sure you have the correct transcription and that it isn't just the second half of a longer name? Mind you, I guess YATES and YEATs is fairly common English surname so you probably have got it right. See also:
http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?name=Yates
Regards, Sandra