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Devon / Re: Fred R Tucker - Torbay Life-boat crew.
« on: Saturday 13 April 19 21:50 BST (UK) »
The paper I saw it in was the Brixham Western Guardian- original copies in Brixham Heritage Museum
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Devon / Re: Fred R Tucker - Torbay Life-boat crew.
« on: Friday 12 April 19 21:27 BST (UK) »
Are you a member of Devon Family History Society?
In the members' only area of the website http://www.devondb.co.uk/devonfhs/members-area/misc-docs.jsp there are images of some Brixham Newspapers including 1940 and there is a report of the funeral in the 14th March 1940 paper. page 12 of 24: March: 1940-0066
In the members' only area of the website http://www.devondb.co.uk/devonfhs/members-area/misc-docs.jsp there are images of some Brixham Newspapers including 1940 and there is a report of the funeral in the 14th March 1940 paper. page 12 of 24: March: 1940-0066
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Devonshire Resources & Offers / US Servicemen in North Devon, England 1943-1945
« on: Friday 22 March 19 12:06 GMT (UK) »
New on Find My Past
US Servicemen in North Devon, England 1943-1945
Search for over 5,000 US servicemen who were stationed in North Devon during the Second World War. The records consist of an original visitor book kept by the local servicemen’s club which recorded the servicemen’s names, date of signing, service number, location details, hometowns, and states. Images may also reveal additional notes and the servicemen’s signatures.
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/us-servicemen-in-north-devon-england-1943-1945
The book was photographed and transcribed by volunteers of Devon Family History Society to whom we offer our thanks for their hard & sometimes difficult work.
US Servicemen in North Devon, England 1943-1945
Search for over 5,000 US servicemen who were stationed in North Devon during the Second World War. The records consist of an original visitor book kept by the local servicemen’s club which recorded the servicemen’s names, date of signing, service number, location details, hometowns, and states. Images may also reveal additional notes and the servicemen’s signatures.
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/us-servicemen-in-north-devon-england-1943-1945
The book was photographed and transcribed by volunteers of Devon Family History Society to whom we offer our thanks for their hard & sometimes difficult work.
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Devon / Re: Temple Lodge Home for Inebriate Women in Torquay
« on: Monday 25 February 19 22:30 GMT (UK) »
Looks like it opened in 1891, in Cleveland Road. You really need access to the British Newspaper Archive (part of Find My Past). Free access is available at Devon FHS Tree House in Exeter (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/treehouse.htm) and at Devon Heritage Centre also in Exeter (https://swheritage.org.uk/devon-archives/)
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Devonshire Resources & Offers / Yet more Devon data
« on: Sunday 13 January 19 16:10 GMT (UK) »Added today to the Members' Area of Devon Family History Society's website , just over 81,000 cremation entries for EFFORD Crematorium, Plymouth, available through the surname search.
This marks the end of a very big project to index Weston Mill & Efford Cemetery records. A total of over 206,000 entries.
HUGE thanks to all the volunteers involved in this project
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Devonshire Resources & Offers / New Devon records on FindMyPast
« on: Friday 11 January 19 13:15 GMT (UK) »
Over 76,000 new records have been added to the Find My Past collection of Devon Social & Institutional Records. Search this extraordinarily rich set of records to find paupers and vagrants, apprentices, peddlers and tradesmen. Find out if they got married, were vaccinated against smallpox or got Christmas presents while their father was fighting WW1. Explore more than two centuries of social history to find rare details of the lives of ordinary people. This collection of records has been gathered by the Devon Family History Society from a wide range of local records covering daily life in the 18th and 19th centuries. There are 132 separate sources mainly covering working life, but also containing a fascinating collection of criminal and poor law records, early local censuses, town lists, photographs and even admission registers for a home for "Friendless and Fallen Girls".
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/devon-social-and-institutional-records
This takes the total of this type of records to over 185,000
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/devon-social-and-institutional-records
This takes the total of this type of records to over 185,000
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Devon / Re: Perring b. abt 1785 mar. (1809) to Edwards b. abt 1789 - the right ancestors?
« on: Saturday 15 December 18 17:59 GMT (UK) »
John & Elizabeth Mathews had the following children baptised in St Marychurch (Torquay)
born:- - , baptised:- 03 February 1843 , George Perrin MATTHEWS , child of:- John & Elizabeth of:- Babicombe , fathers occupation:- stone mason , notes:- , Where:- St Marychurch
born:- - , baptised:- 22 September 1847 , John Thomas Perrin MATTHEWS , child of:- John & Elizabeth of:- Babbicombe , fathers occupation:- mason , notes:- , Where:- St Marychurch
born:- , baptised:- 1 August 1840 , Sarah Ann Perrin MATTHEWS , child of:- John & Elizabeth of:- Babbicombe , fathers occupation:- Builder , notes:- , Where:- St Marychurch
born:- , baptised:- 23 February 1838 , Charlotte MATTHEWS , child of:- John & Elizabeth of:- Badewell , fathers occupation:- Mason , notes:- , Where:- St Marychurch
born:- - , baptised:- 22 September 1847 , Emma MATTHEWS , child of:- John & Elizabeth of:- Babbicombe , fathers occupation:- mason , notes:- , Where:- St Marychurch
born:- - , baptised:- 20 May 1850 , Harriet Selina MATTHEWS , child of:- John & Elizabeth of:- Babbicombe , fathers occupation:- mason , notes:- , Where:- St Marychurch
POSSIBLY- born:- - , baptised:- 13 July 1860 , Louisa Matilda MATTHEWS , child of:- John & Elizabeth of:- Babbicombe , fathers occupation:- mason , notes:- , Where:- St Marychurch
1851 census has the family living in Babbicombe (Babbacombe)
John Matthews Head Married Male 40 1811 Mason Kingsbridge, Devon,
Elizabeth Matthews Wife Married Female 36 1815 Laundress Harbertonford, Devon,
Charlotte Matthews Daughter - Female 13 1838 Scholar St Mary Church,
Sarah Matthews Daughter - Female 11 1840 Scholar St Mary Church,
George Matthews Son - Male 9 1842 Scholar St Mary Church,
Emma Matthews Daughter - Female 6 1845 Scholar St Mary Church,
John Matthews Son - Male 4 1847 Scholar St Mary Church,
Harriet Matthews Daughter - Female 1 1850 St Mary Church
born:- - , baptised:- 03 February 1843 , George Perrin MATTHEWS , child of:- John & Elizabeth of:- Babicombe , fathers occupation:- stone mason , notes:- , Where:- St Marychurch
born:- - , baptised:- 22 September 1847 , John Thomas Perrin MATTHEWS , child of:- John & Elizabeth of:- Babbicombe , fathers occupation:- mason , notes:- , Where:- St Marychurch
born:- , baptised:- 1 August 1840 , Sarah Ann Perrin MATTHEWS , child of:- John & Elizabeth of:- Babbicombe , fathers occupation:- Builder , notes:- , Where:- St Marychurch
born:- , baptised:- 23 February 1838 , Charlotte MATTHEWS , child of:- John & Elizabeth of:- Badewell , fathers occupation:- Mason , notes:- , Where:- St Marychurch
born:- - , baptised:- 22 September 1847 , Emma MATTHEWS , child of:- John & Elizabeth of:- Babbicombe , fathers occupation:- mason , notes:- , Where:- St Marychurch
born:- - , baptised:- 20 May 1850 , Harriet Selina MATTHEWS , child of:- John & Elizabeth of:- Babbicombe , fathers occupation:- mason , notes:- , Where:- St Marychurch
POSSIBLY- born:- - , baptised:- 13 July 1860 , Louisa Matilda MATTHEWS , child of:- John & Elizabeth of:- Babbicombe , fathers occupation:- mason , notes:- , Where:- St Marychurch
1851 census has the family living in Babbicombe (Babbacombe)
John Matthews Head Married Male 40 1811 Mason Kingsbridge, Devon,
Elizabeth Matthews Wife Married Female 36 1815 Laundress Harbertonford, Devon,
Charlotte Matthews Daughter - Female 13 1838 Scholar St Mary Church,
Sarah Matthews Daughter - Female 11 1840 Scholar St Mary Church,
George Matthews Son - Male 9 1842 Scholar St Mary Church,
Emma Matthews Daughter - Female 6 1845 Scholar St Mary Church,
John Matthews Son - Male 4 1847 Scholar St Mary Church,
Harriet Matthews Daughter - Female 1 1850 St Mary Church
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Devon / Re: Paris Street, Exeter
« on: Monday 08 October 18 10:00 BST (UK) »
Are you a member of Devon Family History Society? high quality images of St Sidwell parish registers are available in the members' area of the Society's website, as are 51 other parishes.
The Gale/Gill baptism is there- Exeter St.Sidwell: 3429A-PR-1-5_0276. The Pye/Page entry in the transcription could be either but the surname is definitely given as GALE.
The Gale/Gill baptism is there- Exeter St.Sidwell: 3429A-PR-1-5_0276. The Pye/Page entry in the transcription could be either but the surname is definitely given as GALE.
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Devon / Re: William Furneaux baptised 1579, Paignton: Son of Henry Furneaux
« on: Monday 25 June 18 21:54 BST (UK) »
Have you looked at the Guild of One Name Studies website, https://one-name.org/
There is a Furneaux one name study.
There is a Furneaux one name study.