Mary – where do we start? A lot of you will have heard about her wartime activities, but there is a lot more that you don’t know. This is her story! She was born Dorothy Mary Bovey (but was always called Mary) in Buckfastleigh almost 104 years ago, attended a junior school…

Ships, Cargo and Voyages   John Hore captained the Abeona for seven years and on the voyage in 1834 was accompanied by his younger brother Robert, described as a mariner.  The Devon Shipping Records for the Ports of Teignmouth and Exeter hold these details of the…

I’ve endeavoured to trace the family line from the mid-19th century through to the life of my Grandmother, capturing not only names and dates, but the world in which they lived – one of rural labour, strong family ties, and gradual social change.   I have managed to add a…

As the Bishop’s Estate grew throughout the 13th-Century in the legacy of the Saxon receptor of the Bishopric in 1050, Leofric, Bishops’, or the Latin equivalent ‘Episcopi’, was added to form ‘Bishop’s Teynton’. This linguistic development towards ‘Teynton’ denotes the…

Origins The Poor Houses of Bishopsteignton were situated here and are shown on the Tithe Map published in 1840. The Land Owners were the “Bishopsteignton Feoffees of the Poor” and the Occupiers were “Andrew Holman and others”. The cottages and their occupants were overseen…

The Beginning: Origins on the Edge of Dartmoor Nicholas Cornish (1654–1735) Nicholas born and baptized in North Bovey in 1654 was to marry a Mary Endell on 30th May 1681.Nicholas would have been born shortly after the English Civil War, during a time of national recovery…