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Notes on the history of a North Devon parish: Aissa, Rose Ash

Trans. Devon. Assoc. vol. 32 (1900), pp. 212-228.

by

Helen Saunders

Prepared by Michael Steer

ROSE-ASH is a village and parish in South Molton district. The village stands 6 miles E S E of South Molton, and 9 E N E of Eggesford railway station; and was formerly called Ralph-Esse. The parish also contains the hamlet of Yard and part of Ashmill; and its post town is South Molton. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. The church is ancient. There are a Brethren's chapel, a school, and charities. Google with the Archive Organization has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. The Internet Archive makes available, in its Community Texts Collection (originally known as Open Source Books), books that have been digitised by Google from a number of libraries. These are books on which copyright has expired, and are available free for educational and research use. This rare book was produced from a copy held by the New York Public Library, and is available from the Internet Archive.

An extensive pedigree for the ownership of Esse Rafe is presented between pp 214-5.

A pedigree showing eight generations of the Southcomb family is presented on p. 219.