| Name Relationship to others | Date & place of oath Literacy | Parish register/
Marriage licences/Acland
Survey of Lands 1726.
(1184add 6/110) Age in 1723 Wife alive in 1723 (Y) |
Offices held | Document references | Social status Property or holding |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayre, Arthur | 5 Oct., Witheridge Marked AA but could sign, see Doc ref 2 | m Katherine
Nicholls 1708 by
licence; d 1725
(at least 40, more probably 50) Y | On Jury list 1711 onwards | 1.Bought life lease of Canworthy
100 acres and moor rights for £50 1694, leased to tenant (1148m/add2/L36/10) 2. In 1705 one of 11 signatories to Colman pew application (Moger PR517/176) 3. Widow gave silver flagon to church in his memory 1725 (TDA 51 p106) | Yeoman
(Doc 1) (East Backstone) |
| Ayre, Dorothy wife of Thomas | 25 Dec., Exeter marked A | d 1750 | Yeoman's wife | ||
| Ayre, Thomas | 23 Oct., Chulmleigh signed | bapt 1678; m Dorothy
Crooke by licence 1707; d 1762
age 45 Y | 1. On jury list 1711 onwards 2.1729 Constable Witheridge 100 3. Overseer, 1740 & 1750 | 1. Sale of lease of village house shows educated signature 1703 (2309B/T52/36) | Yeoman (Doc 1) 4th generation freeholder of Worthy with Colson, 200 acres. House reduced from 4 hearths to 3 1680. |
| Burcher, Hugh (brother in law to Deborah Farr) | 23 Oct., Chulmleigh marked B | bapt 1653;
m Anna Crooke 1686;
d 1732 age 70 | Churchwarden 1705 and 1712 | Brother of yeoman | |
| Cockram, William | 23 Oct., Chulmleigh signed | d 1742
married Y | 1. Overseer 1728 2. On jury list 1726 and from 1734 3. Churchwarden 1737 | Party in tithe dispute 1741 (PRO E112/1104/175) | Yeoman (jury list). Originally leased but had bought Tidderson 200 acres by 1738 |
| Courtenay, Bartholomew brother to Philip and William | 23 Oct.,
Chulmleigh marked C | (bapt c 1673); d 1753 married age c.50 Y | Churchwarden 1728, 1744 (terrrier) 1745 | Marked terrier 1744 (Moger 264) | Father a butcher (Church Reg) |
| Courtenay, Philip Brother to Bart and William | 5 Oct., Witheridge Marked P | bapt 1668; m Susannah Hagley by licence 1697; d 1743
Age 55 | Overseer 1742 | 1. Deposition re will of P Quicke 1712 as yeoman aged 41 (Moger Test Causes series 11 P374) | Yeoman (Doc 1) (possibly Blindwell, son there 1768) |
| Courtenay, William Brother to Bart and Philip | 12 Dec., Exeter Marked C | bapt 1676; m Mary Stephens by licence 1697; d 1749
age 47 | Overseer 1734 | Lease to him as butcher; two tenements in Oakford 1722 for 21 years, rent £24. | Butcher |
| Crook, Peter Brother in law of Wm Handford the elder | 23 Oct., Chulmleigh Marked P | bapt 1677; m Charity Handford 1704; d 1731
age 46 Y | Other members of family were carpenters | Freeholder of tenement in village (Myrtle Cottage deeds) (carpenter) | |
| Farr, Deborah | 5 Oct., Witheridge Marked F | as widow of William Burcher of Rackenford m
Thomas Farr of Sampford
Peverell,
serge maker, by licence 1717
executrix to first husband with 2 children still under age 1723 | TNA, PROB11/558 William Burcher's will; yeoman; left £400 to younger children and rights in estate in Wilton to second son Thomas | Yeoman's widow | |
| Gammon, Mary | 5 Oct., Witheridge Marked | born Grant, m Anthony Gammon gent
widowed 1719
age 41 | Lease (1184 add 6/11) | Yeoman's widow. Paid £50 to add lives of children to lease of Canworthy 200 acres 1722. Son is yeoman in 1738 jury list. | |
| Greenslade, Hugh | 23 Oct., Chulmleigh Marked G | ||||
| Greenslade, Mary | Not known | d 1727 | Possibly widow tenant of E. Batsworthy Creacombe 1726(1184add 6/11) | ||
| Gregory, Grace | 23 Oct., Chulmleigh
Marked G | m John Veysey of Witheridge farmer by licence 1730 Two sisters also m by licence 1728 and 1733 |
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| Gunn, John Brother in law of William Veysey | 8 Oct., Exeter Marked G |
m Joan Veysey;
d 1731 Y | Overseer 1730 | Will shows legacies of £200 before main legatee and describes as yeoman (Moger Series II p1171 ) | Yeoman (will) Leased Middlecott 160 acres (55/8/6) |
| Gunn, Thomas Brother of John | 23 Oct., Chulmleigh
signed | born 1679; m Charity Voysey 1701 by licence; d 1754
age 44 Y | On jury list 1734-1747 | mentioned in probate dispute 1731 (Moger Series II p1171) | Yeoman (jury list) Paid £90 for Lease of Lower Bulworthy 1702 and £31 to add lives 1729 (1184m/add 6/11) |
| Handford, William Father of Wm Junr | 5 Oct., Witheridge
marked W | bapt 1677; m Eliz
Braddon by licence
Mar 1723/4
d 1743 age 46 | Parish constable 1732 (QS Process Bk
9/30) Jury list from 1727 | 1.Witness to lease 1703
(2309B/T52/36) with a
signature 2. Leased tenement 1707 for £37 also signed |
Tanner and miller (lease). Leased Blackdown Mill 1713 , bought it for £315 1726 (2309 B/T52/5 & 6) |
| Handford, William Junr | 5 Oct., Witheridge signed | b 1704; d 1754
age 19 | Tanner and miller | ||
| Heard, Malachi | 22 Oct., Chulmleigh marked H | d 1726 | George Heard husbandman sold Taddyport 1741 for £42 18s | (husbandman) freeholder of small tenement Taddyport in village | |
| Matthews, Joan | 23 Oct., Chulmleigh signed | d 1747 as a widow | |||
| Matthews, John | 23 Oct., Chulmleigh signed | d 1757 | Churchwarden 1734 | Signed terrier 1745 | Possibly an innkeeper; his father Adrian Matthews who died 1718 was a licensee |
| Mogford, Katherine | 11 Dec., Exeter marked M and wife of Lewis | born Parkhouse married Lewis Mogford of Oakford Jan 1713; (d Jan 1723/4) | Yeoman's wife. Lewis Mogford of Oakford described as yeoman on 1727 jury list. | ||
| Parker, Robert | 11 Dec., Exeter marked P | bapt 1688; m Eliz Pollard 1712
age 55 | Parkers a Rackenford yeoman family | ||
| Parkhouse, Frances Daughter of Humphrey | 11 Dec., Exeter marked P | bapt 1700; m Thomas Heyman of E Anstey farmer 1726
by licence age 23 | |||
| Parkhouse, Humphrey | 23 Oct., Chulmleigh marked | d 1723 Dec 30 | Witheridge hund. Constable 1700-1703 | 1.Signed as witness to lease 1703 (2309B/T52/36) and Colman
Pew application
1705 2. 1707 Appl. to discharge apprentice | Yeoman (Doc 2) (possibly Hilltown Witheridge; Church reg ref to grandfather) |
| Partridge, John | 5 Oct., Witheridge signed | d 1768 | 1. Parish Constable
1726 2. Churchwarden 1730 3. Petty jury list from 1722 | Compiled list of jurors 1726 describing self as yeoman | Yeoman (jury list) |
| Snell, William | Not known marked S | ||||
| Tanner, Robert
(crossed through; is probably Robert Tanner of W Anstey who signed on the same date) | 11 Dec., Exeter
Not signed or marked | bapt 1651 age 72 | Yeoman family of E & WAnstey and Creacombe. Probable lessor of W Batsworthy Creacombe 140 acres 1698 (1148m/add2/L17/7) Bought half Northcombe 1724 for lives £35 | ||
| Tarr, William | 23 Oct., Chulmleigh marked T | ||||
| Thomas, Alice | 5 Oct., Witheridge marked |
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| Voysey, John
(Veysey)
brother of Wm | 11 Dec., Exeter Signed | bapt 1674; d 1746
age 49 Y |
Yeoman. 3rd generation freeholder Higher Bulworthy (Cal.DeedsEnrolled) 2 hearths in 1684. 158 acres. | ||
| Voysey, William Brother of John Brother in law of John Gunn | 23 Oct., Chulmleigh signed | d 1769 | 1. Churchwarden 1711 Overseer 1734 |
mentioned in probate dispute 1731 (Moger Series II p1171) | Farmer, later of Creacombe |
| Webber, John | Not known signed | ||||
| Webber, Roger | Not known marked | CREACOMBE | |||
| Burston, Richard | 8 Oct., Exeter marked B | ||||
| Tanner, William | 5 Dec., Exeter marked T | m Agnes Venn by licence 1699; d 1747 | Yeoman in release naming him as trustee (47/3/1/6) | Tanners a yeoman family originally with freehold of Creacombe Barton Later leaseholders of E and W Batsworthy | |
| Tucker, Humphrey | 5 Dec., Exeter marked H |