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From: "wyvern" <>
Subject: Fw: BASKERVILLE, SAMELLS (SAMELS)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 08:07:46 +0800


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> From: wyvern <>
> To: @idirect.com;
> Subject: Re: BASKERVILLE, SAMELLS (SAMELS)
> Date: Tuesday, 21 April 1998 7:49
>
> Re Baskerville. I have no connectionto this name but when we were in
Devon
> in 1991 we met an elderly historian (in his eighties then) named
Honeywill
> in the village of Ilsington near Newton Abbott. He was researching and
> writing a history of the Baskervilles. May be worth asking the group if
> anyone knows what happened to him and his work. A letter to the Post
Office
> even may generate a response if he is still around as that is how we
found
> him. He was a wonderful old man and it was a pleasure to meet him.
>
> Joan Malpass
> ----------
> > From: Earl & Jean Bailey <>
> > To:
> > Subject: BASKERVILLE, SAMELLS (SAMELS)
> > Date: Monday, 20 April 1998 21:15
> >
> > This is my first posting to the list. Thanks for the opportunity.
> >
> > Looking for birth dates and parents of:
> >
> > WILLIAM BASKERVILLE - died 5 Feb 1827 in Ashwater
> >
> > and his wife: (married in Ashwater 20 Jan 1771)
> >
> > GRACE PALMER - birth, death dates and parents unknown
> >
> >
> > Also searching for any information on the origin of my
g-g-g-grandfather:
> >
> > JOHN SAMELLS (SAMELS) probably born about 1800. He appears on the
> Ashwater
> > parish register when he married Grace Baskerville 4 Jan 1827. Together
> > they had 6 children but he is not on the 1841 nor 1851 census even
though
> > his wife Grace appears. Any help about his place of origin or his
> apparent
> > disappearance would be appreciated.

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