Where (on earth) is Bearley?

[bugbear]

With Newton Abbot in mind, could "Bearley" be a local dialect pronunciation of Buckfastleigh?

Possibly -- but surely a newspaper advert (as I suggested earlier) is ordered in writing, by letter?

 BugBear

[stanmapstone]

There were agencies who supplied information to regional newspapers. You can see news reports in newspapers in various parts of the country with the same or similar wording.

Stan

[ScouseBoy]

They would transmit the stories by telegraph.

[StintonLomas]

Hi

There is a train service between Bearley  and Cranbrook (Devon).    So it looks like there is a railroad station called Bearley currently.

The only Bearley station I can find is in Warwickshire

[JenB]

Hi

There is a train service between Bearley  and Cranbrook (Devon).    So it looks like there is a railroad station called Bearley currently.

The only Bearley station I can find is in Warwickshire

Please see replies 3 and 4 

[[Ray]]

I can see her in '61.

I can't see their m.cert! Would someone send me the full detail ?

Thanks!

[Ruskie]

I saw a possible couple in Newton Abbot on a census .... or was it a birth? ... I will try to track it down ....

[bugbear]

I can see her in '61.

I can't see their m.cert! Would someone send me the full detail ?

Thanks!

If by "she" you mean Elizabeth Womack, b1817, that would be very valuable to me; do you have a census ref?

   BugBear

[bugbear]

This 1871 census entry caught my eye, Wellington being very close to Devon:

18 Fairford Grove, Lambeth

William Stevens  38 lodger - traveller for brewer - Wellington, Somerset
Elizabeth Stevens 33 wife - born Norwich

Wow - that record has lots of matches to the people we want, but the matches are a bit approximate;  Wellington is "not quite" Devon, Norwich is not quite Ipswich (although she lived in Norwich for a long time), and  her DOB of 1838 is a bit of a way from 1817 (her age should be 54, not 33, and it clearly says 33).

I'll add it to the "being considered" list.

  BugBear