Jacobstowe-related Settlements, Apprenticeships, etc.

Records from other parishes with references to Jacobstowe families.

Compiled by

Kathryn Barnett

Exbourne Parish - A2A Catalogue Ref. 3326 A

SETTLEMENT

Thomas Ruby - ref. 3326 A/PO 2/2 - date: 1795

Born in Jacobstowe, lived there till 12, apprenticed himself to Rev. John Vickary of Okehampton till 21, after 41/2 years taken ill and returned to his parents who were living in Inwardleigh, he went to Jacobstowe and worked for Mr George Hill by the year, went to ... for a year and returned to Mr Hill for a year, a year with Richard Turner in Jacobstowe and then a year in Egg Buckland, returned to Exbourne as a weekly or daily labourer and married there.

Removal Orders

1722 - Sarah Edwards from Jacobstowe - ref. 3326 A/PO 3/7

1738 - Robert Medland junior and Elizabeth his wife settled in Jacobstowe - ref. 3326 A/PO 4/4

APPRENTICESHIP

Indentures

1681 - Mary Rattenbury apprenticed to George Bent of Jacobstowe, yeoman, for an estate in Exbourne - ref. 3326 A/PO 5/1/4

1798 - Ann Eastabrook, 9, apprenticed to George Hill of Jacobstowe for the Parsonage of Exbourne - ref. 3326 A/PO 5/3/17

1798 - George Turner, 10, apprenticed to George Hill of Jacobstowe for the Parsonage of Exbourne - ref. 3326 A/PO 5/3/18 - date:

Hatherleigh Parish - A2A Catalogue Ref. 2917 A

SETTLEMENT CERTIFICATES

1738 - Charity Frost, widow, Jacobstowe - ref. 2917 A/PO 6/22

Removal Orders (From Hatherleigh)

1810 - Florence Essery and Mary 51/2, William 31/4 and Ann 11/4 her childen to Jacobstowe - ref. 2917 A/PO 7/35

1823 - William Chammings, Mary his wife and Elizabeth their daughter to Jacobstowe - ref. 2917 A/PO 7/49

Bastardy orders

1733 - Bastardy order William Nethaway of Jacobstowe, father of Susanna Hill's female bastard to pay 10s and 8d a week - ref. 2917 A/PO 10/4

Bastardy Bond

1736 - William Good of Iddesleigh, miller and Henry Reed of Jacobstowe, for maintenance of Alice Bissett's male bastard - ref. 2917 A/23

APPRENTICESHIP

1742 - Nathaniel Richards, apprenticed to Mathew Westlake of Jacobstowe, gent - ref. 2917 A/PO 13/14

Colebrooke Parish - A2A Catalogue Ref. 541A

SETTLEMENT

Removal Orders

1809 - Elizabeth Medland, George 6, Mary 4 and Elizabeth 2 her children, to Jacobstowe - ref. 541A/PO 534