Transcript

of

Southwood Family

Devon & Cornwall Notes and Queries vol. VI, (January 1910 to October 1911), p. 208.

by

A.J.P. Skinner

Prepared by Michael Steer

Southwood is as a surname of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is either a topographical name for "a dweller by the south wood", or perhaps an English locational name from a place so named in Norfolk, recorded in the Domesday Book (1086) as "Suthuuide, or Sudwda". Both of these derivations come from the Old English pre 7th Century elements "suth", south and "wudu", a wood. The article, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

Note 193. SOUTHWOOD FAMILY (VI., par. 141, p. 152.) — Clement Southwood was the second husband of Grace Collins, she married first Thomas Haydon of Poltimore, Farway; the marriage is entered in the Parish Church Registers of Offwell: —

Thomas Haydon and Grace Collins married 27 November, 1581.

and her parents' burials: —

Thomas Collins, 16 May, 1598.
Joan Collins, wid., 4 May, 1609.

M.I. Offwell Church: - Here lieth Thomas Collyns of Offwell and Patron of this Church who deceised the 13 daie of May Anno Dfii 1598, Anno Ǣtatis Suae 74.

Here lieth the body of Johan Collyns, the wife of Thomas Collyns, gent., who died the 1 day of May Anno Dni, 1610.

In Farway Churchyard is a tabletomb: -

Here lieth the body
of Thomas Heydon
of Poltimore whoe
deceased iii Sep., 1610.

From Vivian's "Marriage Licences of the Diocese of Exeter":—

1611, Oct. 21. Clement Southwood of Crediton, yeoman, and Grace Haydon of Farway, widow, to be married at Holy Trinity, said Southwood in £100.

From Phillimore's Somerset Marriages, Taunton, St. Mary Magdalene: -

Samuel Southwood, of Burnworthy, in Parish of Church-stanton, co. Devon, and Frances Walrond, by licence,23 September, 1794.

In paragraph 141, the dates of the Marriage Licences are mistaken for the dates of the actual marriages, of Clement Southwood and Grace Haydon, and of Roger Southwood and Margerie Shortridge. 15 June, 1763, is the date of the baptism of Frances Walrond and not of her marriage as shown above. A.J.P. S.