I've probably asked this before, but no matter.
James T. Houssemayne du Boulay, having run out of things to discover about his own family, turned his attention to that of wife, née Alice Mead Cornish. He wrote a self-published book entitled Cornish of Devon, which was widely known in my family, but probably totally unknown otherwise. In it, he says "Phillip Cornishe, youngest son of Thomas and Margery, born 1578, married English Rogers (in the Register latinised as Anglicia), of one of the leading families in Thurlestone."
If they were really one of the leading families in Thurlestone there must be some information about the background of English, my great[9]-grandmother, but I have completely failed to find any. I don't even know her parents' names. If I were a lot younger than I am, and still often going to Devon, I would try to consult the Thurlestone registers, but it's too late for that. These don't appear to be available on the web -- not yet, anyway. Unfortunately Rogers is a reasonably common name in England, so it's not much good looking the family up at genealogy sites.
