Robert and George Coysh of Highweek

[hanes teulu]

Was that White Street?

[AsH62]

Hi, yes, it's where I live so i am researching people who have lived there in the past

[hanes teulu]

I think I spotted the address on the National Archives item.

[athel_cb]

Just a very quick and minor correction. Highweek is reasonably close to Teignmouth, but it's a lot closer to Newton Abbot (adminstratively, I think, it's part of Newton Abbot).

[AsH62]

Ah! Thank you, that makes sense of a few documents and will make it easier to find births/deaths etc.
Thanks

[athel_cb]

I'm glad you found that helpful. I feared I might be just pedantic.

I lived in Newton Abbot as a small child (1943–1947; 1950–1954) and attended Wolborough Hill School from 1950 to 1956 (last two years as a boarder). I used to walk up the hill alone each morning to school when I was a dayboy; I don't think most parents would allow a little boy to do that today, but in those days no one thought anything of it.

I had a great-aunt (Winifred Alice Kitson) who lived in Highweek until she died in 1955 at the age of 80.