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From: Chris Burgoyne <>
Subject: Re: Kingsand - Parish or Town!!
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:43:50 -0800 (PST)


On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Brian Randell wrote:

> >Can anyone tell me where Kingsand is? And is it a town or a Parish?
> >According to the 1851 my g.g. grandmother Mary Ann Ackman was born in
> >Kingsand - Devon.
> >
> >Is Kingsand in Devon or Cornwall? I need to know before research can
> >continue!
>
> A way to answer this sort of question, at least with regard to Devon, is to
> check the Online Devon Gazetteer in GENUKI/Devon - you'll find a link to it
> near the top of the GENUKI/Devon home page, which is at
> http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/DEV.

Not much help there!

Kingsand is now in Cornwall, but is on the promontory that sticks out to
the South West of Plymouth Sound, which I think is part of Maker Parish,
which was part of Devon until ...? I suppose when boat travel was the
norm it would almost have been a suburb of Plymouth, but now it is quite a
long car journey to get from one to the other.

I am not sure when Maker was transferred from being a detached part of
Devon to being part of Cornwall - perhaps others can help/correct what I
have said.

Chris Burgoyne

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