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DEVON NAMES - ARCHDEACONRY COURT OF LONDON
Extracted by Jean E. Harris
Some testators had connections with other counties in England and, given the tremendous loss of the Devon probates in WW2, the following relate to places or people in Devon. These names appear in the volumes published by the Index Library, British Record Society.
(abbreviation <O.W.> - Original Will)
| Vol 89 Part I (1363-1649) | ||||||
| BORANE | Jn | chaplain | St And. Hol | 1414 | 1 | 318 |
| Exeter dioc(ese) | nun cup | |||||
| (St Andrew, Holborn) | ||||||
| EDGCOMBE | Peers [in margin Wm.] | gent | St Bot. Alders. | 1628 | 7 | 33 |
| Maker, Devon | <O.W.> | [6 | 44v] | |||
| (St Botolph, Aldersgate) | ||||||
| NOTE: A large part of this parish was in Devon | ||||||
| until it was transferred to Cornwall in 1844. | ||||||
| RANSOME | Rd. | cit(izen) & armor(er) | St And. Hol. | 1603 | 5 | 370 |
| Normanstown (Northmoston), Devon | ||||||
| (North Molton) | <O.W.> | [4 | 215] | |||
| (St Andrew, Holborn) | ||||||
| RONDELL | Tho. | <O.W.> | 1617 | [5 | 70] | |
| nephew Philip R., principal of Hart Hall, Oxford. | ||||||
| St M.M.; St Mich.; St Pet.-in-the E.;St Mart.; | ||||||
| St Giles(field names);St Aldate,in Oxford; | ||||||
| E.Woolvercott; Kidlington; "Hawkwell the Lynch" | ||||||
| & "Little Close"; Northam nr Oxford. | ||||||
| (Nich. R., unc(le). dec'd of Lamerton, Devon; | ||||||
| bequests to Wm R. k., Milton Abbot, Devon, | ||||||
| & Jn R. unc(le). Cornwall) | ||||||
| TYRER | Edw. | Westminster, d(ied) in Exeter | 1643 | |||
| adm./nun.cup. | <O.W.> | [17 | 137] | |||
| W to Anne OAGLE als T(YRER) m(other); | ||||||
| no exor names | ||||||
| Vol 98 Part II (1661-1700) | ||||||
| LOVE | Wm | St Jas Cls. | 1689 | 15 | 107 | |
| d(ied) in ship "Success" at Plymouth | ||||||
| Eliz. rel(ict) ren(ounced) adm. | ||||||
| (St James, Clerkenwell) | ||||||
| POLLEXFEN | Judith, spin. | St Ste. Wa. | <O.W.> | 1678 | 10 | 388 |
| d(ied) in Elsdon | [12 | 4v] | ||||
| (either Elston, Churchstow, or Elston, | ||||||
| Crediton) Devon. adm/W to bro(ther) Jn P. | ||||||
| (St Stephen Walbrook) | ||||||