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Subject: Devon's Ancient & Modern parishes - Seeking PASCHOE (House) DEV?
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 16:22:33 EDT


There has recently been some fascinating material on naming DEV Parishes -
led by good references from our old friend Brian Randell who is also kindly
steering some enquirers to <<http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/DEV/>>; under
Church History. Thanks for that lead too and to other helpful contributors to
the discussion.

Having tried usual research and archival channels before coming onto this
Forum for advice and possible help - as we should generally I believe - I
have sadly failed to find much on a specific and it seems *difficult* County
location - I would think from the 16th century or thereabouts. We have had
two members whose family roots formerly emanated from the locality who have
had for some years to remain curiously *unsatisfied* and I would still much
like to help them. Incidentally one now resides in Brisbane AUS and they
other turned out to be his third + cousin was living in Sweden and neither
knew the other was looking for PASCHOE in DEV
Happily I got them *together* for a first time at a SoG Exhibition W/end in
London!

The surname may be incidental really as its the place from which that family
emanated that holds the clues Even most of an afternoon on the DEV shelves at
SoG amongst other places has failed to disclose a Parochial History or
expected links Could it have been that the Manor or whatever changed from
one Parish to another at some time and doubtfully never bore the name which
is PASCHOE? Its that peculiar and particular spelling by the way as most of
our Cornish branches are more usually I think spelt as PASCO or PASCOE of
course. The PASCHOE
spelt version *sounds* almost medieval possibly? Only conjecturing on that
point.

The family concerned is HAMLYN or HAMLYNE but those to AUS ones changed
their surname I gather to HAMLYN-HARRIS on migrating In fact in the 1800's to
become prominent and distinguished as Founders of Queensland University and
leading academics generally.

Can any interested and/or specialist Dev FHS researcher help us throw light
on this please? It would be indeed greatly appreciated and surely of wider
interest..

ernest (Hamley0 HHH FHS International LONDON DFHS 6553 etc. END

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