Name Index

To

Devonshire Families Resident Abroad,

being letters addressed to Sir Roper Lethbridge

on the occasion of his Presidential Address to the Devonshire Association, 1901

Devon Heritage Centre  Z19/29/22a-c, via Family Search

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Compiled by

Peter Selley

This index is derived from the replies to a survey done by Sir Roper Lethbridge of Exbourne in 1901, when he asked USA and Commonwealth correspondents for details of their Devonshire heritage. He placed newspaper announcements all over the world. The letters are very interesting - a mixture of people with Devon connections, people hoping they have Devon connections, people seeking inheritances and people with no connections. Some of it is fanciful Pilgrim Fathers stuff. This happened just after General Redvers Buller had been victorious in the Boer War.

To see the actual letters, click on the link above to Familysearch. There are 200 letters in over 1000 pages; each individual letter is numbered on the first page in alphabetical order according to the author's surname. The fourth column gives the main subject's name, and the last column other associated surnames e.g of mothers or spouses. Not all the letters contain genealogical information.

At present, letters whose authors surname begins with A-C have not been digitalised; this explains why the first letter (from Timothy DRAKE) is number 80.

See also Devonians in the Colonies - Letters to the Devonshire Association in 1900 and 1901, transcribed by Jean Harris.

Reference:
Lethbridge, Sir Roper. Hands Across the Sea (Presidential Address) Trans. Devon Assoc. (1901) 33, pp.39-76. [Full text]