HOORAH!

HOORAH!

HOORAH! We have reached our 100th published post, after just a year of being live. Thank you so much to all our researchers and authors and all the input you have had. Our latest publications include one on Edith Quantick, in her own words....

John William Beer

Early Life   John William Beer was born June 1922, in Bishopsteignton, Devon. Son of Willam Henry Beer and Mary Jane Beer (née Roberts). William Henry Beer was born in Bishopsteignton in 1881 and lived with his family in Ashwell, a short distance west of the main...

Raymond Sidney Evans

Early Life Raymond Sidney Evans was born July 1924 in Crediton, Devon. Son of Sydney (Sidney) James Evans, born 22 August 1896 in Crediton, Devon; and Rose (Rosie) May Evans (née Syms/Symes) born 26 September 1898 in Moretonhamptstead, Devon. Sidney married Rosie on...

Quantick family and related

Quantick Family Tree The following history relating to the Quantick family of Bishopsteignton has been compiled from conversations with David and Mavis Quantick and family history notes donated by them, including this family tree.   Samuel John Quantick, b.1871,...

Mrs E. Quantick…in her own words

Mrs E Quantick, (1909-1997) …in her own words Early life I came to Bishopsteignton in 1928. My father, Mr F. E. Dale, because of ill health, had to retire from his printing business in Upper Thames St, London. This area was all swept away with the blitz.   We...
Merry Xmas !

Merry Xmas !

Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers and researchers who came to our Xmas social yesterday, and thank you to Michael J Smith and the team at the Old Commercial Inn for making us so welcome. It was great to catch up with you all and to introduce new people to our...

Lewis Back

Early Life   Lewis Back was born 6 August, 1905 in Bishopsteignton, Devon. Son of John James Back and Lavinia Mary Back (née Widdicombe), he was the sixth born of nine siblings; two elder sisters Mary and Florence, three elder brothers John, Frederick and Alfred,...

John Michael Dixon

Early Life   John Michael Dixon was born April, 1922 in Epsom, Surrey.   Son of Harold Parson Dixon and Lena Gertrude Dixon (née Whitmarsh). Harold Dixon was born in London, 1888 and later served with the 2nd/5th Durham Light Infantry during WWI. Lena was...

A History of Delamore

Before the building of Delamore House, the ground was part of West Town Tenement, the property of John Comyns. The Comyns family were major land owners who lived at Wood from 1732 to 1957. John Comyns was parson of St John the Baptist Church from 1801 to 1856....
Frederick Charles Paget

Frederick Charles Paget

Early Life   Frederick Charles Paget was born 28 May, 1910 in Dursley, Gloucestershire.     Little is known about his early years apart from his mothers name, Alice Rose was on his Baptism records on 16 July, 1910 in Wotton under Edge, Gloucestershire....