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From: "BJ Turner" <>
Subject: Re: WILLS in Devon
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 20:33:37 +1100


Hi John,
Could you please tell us all HOW you were lucky enough to find deeds of
property from the past?
Was the property still owned within the family? Or is there somewhere one
could look on the offchance for these deeds?

I have been lucky that some of the TURNER family wills survived in
extract/handwritten duplicate form. There is however a frustratingly long
list in my research of wills that are listed as having existed but must
have gone up in flames. From the wills I have seen I have quite a few names
and locations of farms owned by the family in the late 1700s. Do i have
enough to go on to find the deeds?

Hopefully yours
Glynis
NSW Australia



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> From: John Hodges <>
> To:
> Subject: Re: WILLS in Devon
> Date: Sunday, 29 October 2000 7:48:am
>
> Hi Patricia,
>
> Most of the Devon wills were destroyed when Exeter was bombed in WWII.
The
> Burnet Morris Index may be as far as you get. If you are extremely lucky
> (like I was), you may be able to find deeds of property owned by the
family,
> and in some cases these quote substantial extracts of wills to show
> ownership. I found virtually the whole will of my g.g.g.g grandmother,
> Margaret GREENSLADE, quoted in a deed for property in Moretonhampstead.
The
> original will was unavailable, presumably lost in WWII.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> John
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patricia Rudkin <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 6:18 PM
> Subject: WILLS in Devon
>
>
> > After spending a very interesting week in Devon Record Office, I am now
> > trying to make sense of what I found.
> >
> > I found some very useful Wills for our family of Lamble, but the books
in
> > the DRO cover only a few years into the early 1800's.
> >
> > In the Westcountry Studies Library [next door to DRO] there is a very
> > useful " Burnet Morris Index" who mentions earlier and later Wills,
with
> > connections to our family. I wonder if there is anyone on this list,
who
> > can tell where I can find details of these Wills.
> >
> > I assumed, that the listings in the DRO were the only ones for Wills,
but
> > as the Burnet Morris Index [compiled from 1915-1940] mentions others,
> > there must be listings somewhere else.
> >
> > Can you help?
> > Regards
> > Patricia
> > Researching names:
> > BUDDEN Devon/London Pimlico
> > CAPRON France.
> > C[H]RISELL Suffolk
> > CO[O]MBER London or anywhere
> > EASON Somerset EASTON Dorset
> > EDEN Warks
> > FEARON/FERON Newcastle upon Tyne
> > FOSSEY Bucks
> > HOLDEN Northants.
> > HOOPER Somerset Merriott
> > LAMBLE Ashburton Devon/Bovey Tracey/Wolborough Newton Abbot.
> > MCKONE London or anywhere in 1800's
> > NORRIS Stanmore, Hendon Middx
> > ORD Newcastle upon Tyne
> > PEPPER Great Marlow Bucks and Throwley Kent.
> > SAWYER Suffolk, London St James Westminster/ Fulham
> > SERCOMBE Dunsford Devon
> > STEED Suffolk, Fulham West Middx, Hackney London, Bromley Kent
> > RAMSEY Suffolk/London
> > ROSE Bucks
> > ROW[E] Suffolk.
> > RUDKIN Essex/Norfolk/Suffolk/London
> > VICKERY Matilda c1869, mother Mary Ann VICKERY Somerset NOTHING KNOWN
> > WRIGHT Suffolk
> > Member of Bucks, Devon, Essex, Suffolk and West Middx FHS's
> >
> >
>
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