Thanks Millipede, but that tree was probably copied from mine, as I made the stupid mistake in the early days of my research, to put my whole tree on Ancestry. Co.UK. It has been copied many time before I had time to remove it and much incorrect information and names have been added. They give Noah’s parents as John CROSS and Sarah LAND but I have not been able to find one reference to either of these people anywhere in the UK.
Thanks Trish1120. I used to work for FreeReg for a year or so, and have deeply studied their records transcribed so far. I have also got the BMD parish records from Exeter and the Devon FHS CD’s. No reference to him is to be found before his marriage to Sarah Maunder in 1819. The census information you suggest is all to do with another family of CROSS in Cullompton, there were also a rich family of CROSSE landowners.
Thanks jonw65, but I have all five pages of the Canadian records of his military history in the 28th Regiment of Foot. (I even bough a book about the battle of Albuerra!) I have been able to find no reference anywhere to John or Zachh(?) in any of my sources, even though they were all of a similar age and were all weavers from Cullompton. Maybe they were all the same family – I don’t know - I have no evidence to say so.
Thanks jaywit, it is possible that they were from a non-conformist family, as Noah’s eldest son, Charles was married to a non-conformist, Elizabeth EVELEIGH. However, other than that, I have been able to find no other record of their being a non-conformist family as all records of Noah were found in the records of St Andrew’s Anglican parish church in Cullompton. (Marriage, birth of his five children, death of himself and one of those children).
