There is an interesting query about a possible relation between Paulby/Pawlby family of Stoke Damerel and Parlby family of Gravesend that lived at Plymouth at the same period.
Thomas Parlby was the youngest son of a John Parlby born 1727. He was a famous civil engineering contractor. He built the Plymouth dockyard. His sibling were: Mary, married with his partner, James Templer, and two oldest brothers John and William. They were cabinet makers.
Thomas died at 1802.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_ParlbyJohn Pawlby was a builder and merchant of Stoke Damerel (1792-1834), son of another John Pawlby (1753-1832). As I mentioned before, he was a cabinet maker also, but there are some references about him as a builder and merchant. In an article of The Royal Cornwall Gazette of October 26, 1826, he is mentioned of the owner and builder of a "stadium" for a wrestling (Fotheringham´s coal yard) between the counties of Cann and Polkinghorne, with capacity for 10.000 sites. It is mentioned too as owner of a company named
Taman Timber Yard .
Some lines seems to be crossing:
1. The Manadon House mentioned before, with owner Rev. John Pawlby, is mentioned in the following link with a Rev. John Parlby:
http://www.parle.co.uk/genealogy/manadon.htm2. In the Gentleman Magazine of 1792, there is a mention of marriage of John Alexander (Thomas Paulby´s son) with Letitia Hall. But he is named John Alexander
Pawlby.
https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=L0Y3AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1054&dq=%22paulby%22+Plymouth&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitpIqC1vrgAhXAEbkGHeH4De4Q6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=%22paulby%22%20Plymouth&f=false3. John Lee, gentleman, father in law of John Pawlby (b.1792) was appointed master measurer of the Majesty´s dock at Plymouth abt. 1800.
3. The wife of John Lee, Jane Shepheard, was probably related with the family of the High society of Plymouth, with a big manufactory abt. 1760, as it mentioned in the following book, about the commerce in old Plymouth (Burnt, 1816) . Her brother probably was a Benajmin Shepheard Junior, gentleman, linen draper and mercer (witness in marriage records).
https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=0SEwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=william+burt+review+mercantile&source=bl&ots=kQhzx6cL4M&sig=ACfU3U1sjRpM04tA2GGYpLN4E5AKXCheJw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-1MSBjPvgAhXvEbkGHe_gC3MQ6AEwAXoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=william%20burt%20review%20mercantile&f=falseI believe that it is possible that John Pawlby Sr was a nephew of Thomas Parlby, and a son of his oldest brother John. Im still looking for new clues.
