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…

Born on the 9th of April 1965, my first home was to be the beautiful hamlet of Teigngrace in Devon and it was here I was to live with my mother ‘Violet’ and father ‘Harry’ for the first 8 months. Mother had quite a tragic upbringing, losing her brother Victor to a road…

  At the heart of this story is my fourth great-grandfather, James Cornish, born in 1790. In 1810, he married a Mary Grills, who had come from Modbury, and together they built part of their life at Wolfsgrove Farm.   Over the years, they raised a large family of seven…