Crediton, about 1900

East Street, Crediton about 1905

East Street, after a great snow storm in 1891.

Vine Cottage, East Street, Crediton. Four generations of Heards lived in the street over 100 + years.

In the 1928 Street Directory Heards are occupying at least 5 houses in East Street.

1909 Bemused onlookers in East Street, watching the 1000th anniversary celebrations of the consecration of Crediton's church as a cathedral in 909.

The Ring of Bells, one of East Street's pubs, which, with the cottages adjoining it, was demolished in about 1911.

Funeral procession of General Sir Redvers Buller, East Street, Crediton,1908 (See Links Page and The Artistic Gene)

The Heards had a grandstand view from number 46 - the thatched house centre top, immediately to the left of the building with bay windows.

The Fountain, at the junction of East Street and Charlotte Street

Two of the houses in this picture were occupied by Heards,one above the little girl with outstretched arms being my childhood home.

East Street and not a car in sight. On the right, Dean Street, where many of our Osborne, Haydon and Drew family lived.

East Street, Crediton

Mill Street, Crediton

Crediton Parish Church

North aspect of Crediton parish church

The church from the South-West

On the left of the picture the gatepost marks the entrance to the Berry family's builder's yard. The family moved the business here from St Lawrence Green in about 1860, when the grammar school was expanded to its present site.

Alms Houses, Church Street, Crediton

Crediton fair, in the High Street

Crediton High Street, about 1900

High Street Crediton about 1900

High Street, Crediton about 1903

Crediton High Street, early 1900s

High Street Crediton

What are those barrels?

Crediton High Street

Western end of the High Street, Crediton

Western High Street, looking East, Crediton

Crediton High Street, looking West from the Town Hall.

One of many, Gimblett's Economic Shoe Factory, behind the shop front on the right, received much of its leather on a railway running from Adams tannery a few doors up the street.

Crediton High Street and the Economic Shoe Factory, looking east

Crediton High Street in the 30s

Market Street, on Market Day

Crediton Playing Fields

Called here the War Memorial Playing Fields, always known to me and generations of kids who played here just as the Playing Fields, but also called Newcombe's Meadow. This is how I remember it, but inevitably even open space is now somewhat changed.

Parliament Street, Crediton

In the background is the chimney of one of the town's tanneries.

Now People's Park, formerly Buller Park, Crediton

Originally the Rack Field where Creditons kersies (woollens) would be laid out to dry before being sent to market.

People's Park,Crediton

Western Road, Crediton

The Berrys' lived in a house on the right from the 1840s until the 1970s. Their Builders yard was located here from the 1840s until the mid 1860s.

Crediton Green

Queen Elizabeth's School Crediton in about 1870. Photographed by William Hector

Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Crediton, about 1903

Attended by many of the sons of families on this site.

Crediton High School for Girls

Several of our family members were pupils here

Westwood, Crediton

Downs, the Buller family estate.

Creedy Bridge, Crediton

Woodland Head, Yeoford

Home for Turners, Canns, Heals, Labbetts and Bubears

Yeoford

Yeoford

Yeoford

Yeoford

Neopardy, Yeoford

Rose and Crown Hill, Sandford

The Lamb Inn, Sandford

Sandford Square

Wrights and Picketts lived in the cottage next to the shop. I spent several childhood Christmases there.

Sandford

Sandford School perhaps

Sandford school

St Swithuns, Sandford

Interior of St Swithun's, Sandford

Sandford on Market day

Sandford Mill

Sandford Village

Sandford

Shute, Sandford

The Square, Sandford

Sandford from the distance

A general view of Sandford

Colebrooke - after Crediton and Sandford the third most significant parish in our families' history

Colebrooke Church

Coleford Village

Coleford village

Copplestone; Turners, Heals and Linscotts lived here

Copplestone

Copplestone

Copplestone

Copplestone

Shobrooke: Feys, Coneybeers, Osbornes and Heards all lived in the village

Shobrooke Church

Shobrooke in the 1940s

Shobrooke

Cheriton Fitzpaine - home of Heards, Feys, Sharlands, Braggs, Wallers, Wensleys, Greenslades

Cheriton Fitzpaine

Cheriton Fitzpaine.

Cheriton Fitzpaine

Cheriton Fitzpaine

Morchard Bishop - in the heart of Devon, many of our families lived here

Morchard Bishop

Morchard Bishop. Pitts lived here in the 1920s -1940s

Morchard Bishop

Lapford - Pitts were born in the village

Lapford - home of the Heals.

The Bible Christians built the Chapel in 1860, and it was bought by the Independents to be used for a Sunday School in 1871

Lapford. Drews and Rudalls also lived here.

Lapford Station in about 1905

Emma Kathleen Pitts, 1878-1954 and baby Lewis Laurence (Laurie) Pitts, 1912-1999, at Higher Town Place, Lapford, about 1912

Zeal Monachorum - Feys and their in-laws, Rices and Coles lived in the parish

Zeal Monachorum

Zeal Monachorum

Zeal Monachorum

Zeal Monachorum

Down St Mary

Home of Feys, Linscotts, Cheritons, Drews, Wensleys

Cheriton Bishop, home of Saffins, Clarks, Northways, Conibeers

Cheriton Bishop

Cheriton Cross. Saffins and Clarks lived here

Cheriton Cross, Cheriton Bishop

Crockernwell: Turners, Saffins and Feys lived in the village

Drewsteignton, home of the Clarks, and probably of the Feys in the 17th-18th centuries

Drewsteignton

Drewsteignton

Drewsteignton

Tedburn St Mary

Home of Heards. Halls, Linscotts, Brownings and Cheritons

Tedburn St Mary

Bow

Feys lived here, also Linscotts

Bow in about 1900. Also called Nymet Tracey

Dunsford: home to several Heard in-law families, including Linscotts, Conbeers (Conibeers), Smallridges.

Dunsford again

North Tawton surrounded by the Dartmoor hills

Linscotts, Langs and Wensleys lived here

Winkleigh: home of the Luxtons

Fore Street, Okehampton

Drews, Metters, Gilberts, Coombes all lived here

South Molton

Witheridge - home of Partridges and Arscotts, Drews and Fursdons

Witheridge

Shebbear, Bible Christian Chapel. Home of Thornes, Horns, Petts, Larkworthys and Pernhales

As Shebbear was one of the founding sites for the Bible Christian movement it is hardly surprising that many of our family from there were involved with the Movement.

Chittlehampton - home of Partridges and Arscotts

Heathcoats' Lace Factory, Tiverton, about 1900

Several of our Tiverton ancestors worked here

The Exe at Tiverton

Fore Street, Tiverton

Castle Street Tiverton

Fore Street, Bampton

Rowes and Sharlands lived here

Halberton

Halberton

Wheelers, Rowes and Wrights lived in Halberton

Cullompton. Osbornes, Budds, Willings lived here

Payehembury

Home to Heards and Johns

Thorverton

Home to Niners, Baters, Halls, Thomases and Helmores

Thorverton

Thorverton

Thorverton Church

Exmouth

Home for Pitts, Waller, Hooker families.

... and holiday destination for many of our families

Exmouth

Approaching Newton St Cyres

Newton St Cyres

William Heard was apprenticed in the village as a wheelwright

Newton St Cyres

Newton St Cyres

Other Heard, Helmore and Bicknell family lived here too.

Exeter High Street about 1905

High Street, Exeter

High Street, Exeter

Exeter, High Street

Exeter High Street

High Street, Exeter

The Guildhall, Exeter . The Exeter Courts were held here.

The Castle, Exeter. Devon County Courts were held here. Members of our extended family appeared before courts in both these venues.

Exeter prison

Some of the family ended up here.

New London Hotel, Exeter

Theatre Royal, Exeter

Sidwell Street, Exeter

Originally outside the city, many family members lived in St Sidwell's parish

Sidwell Street Exeter, about 1905

Sidwell Street, Exeter

Sidwell Street, Exeter

St Sidwells, Exeter

Clock Tower, Exeter

Clock Tower, from Queen Street, Exeter

Clock Tower, Exeter

Queen Street, Exeter

Queen Street, Exeter, the Museum

Queen Street, Exeter

Queen Street, Exeter

The great Cathedral of St Peter's, Exeter

Cathedral Close, Exeter

East Southernhay, Exeter

In contrast to the West Quarter, this part of Exeter was home to surgeons (for the nearby hospital), solicitors, retired merchants, gentlewomen, and people "living on bank dividends"

South Street, Exeter. The eastern boundary of the West Quarter.

Fore Street, Exeter

The main artery of the West Quarter of Exeter

Fore Street, Exeter

Fore Street, Exeter

Fore Street, Exeter

Stepcote Hill, West Quarter, Exeter, about 1900

Stepcote Hill

Church of St Mary Steps, Exeter

Several family weddings took place here in the 19th century

St Mary Steps again. The West Quarter where several of our families lived.

West Street, Exeter

Frog Street, just beyond the city walls. One of the poorest parts of the city in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

A later view of Frog Street. It adjoins the West Quarter. Feys lived here.

This Merchant's House was the famous house that moved in 1962. It now sits in West Street: the inner bypass now runs through here.

West Exeter. Nearby, the river.

Exe Bridge - on the other side, St Thomas

Exeter, looking towards Fore Street and the West Quarter from St Thomas

Similar view of the bridge and the West Quarter

Old Exe Bridge, demolished 1903

New Exe Bridge

Ferry at Exeter

Exeter ferry

Exeter Canal

Exeter Canal

Countess Wear. Heards lived here.

Reuben Heard (1904-1925) is said to have developed typhoid after swimmingin the River Exe near his home here. His mother Emily Heard nee Warren was infected whilst nursing him. They both died in the Isolation Hspital at Pinhoe in 1925

Cottage in Countess Wear, Exeter - a Heard family home

Topsham High Street

Pinhoe Road, Exeter.

Pinhoe, nr Exeter. Wrights, Fursdons and Heards lived here

Heavitree, Exeter, about 1900

Heard, Fey, Physick and Waller family members have lived in Heavitreee, and Heards are there still!

Heavitree

Richard Hooker was born here in the 16th century when it was a village near Exeter.

Alphington - Wright in-laws/family friends Physicks and Lorams came from here

Alphington

Broadclyst: Wrights and Heards lived in the village throughout the 20th century.

Broadclyst

Bakery, Dog Village, Broadclyst

Bishops Nympton

Slightly North of our area, but Calls/Coles lived here, and married Zeal Monachorum families

Bishops Nympton

Torrington

Joys, Horns and Veyseys lived here

Sterridge Valley, Berrynarbour

Home of the Huxtables

View of the village of Berrynarbour

Hartland - origin of the Heards

The Terrace, Hartland

Hartland street

Paddle Steamers at Ilfracombe

Huxtables and probably Heards used the regular passenger ferries that plied between Ilfracombe and South Wales,

Ilfracombe - Fursdons as well as Huxtables lived here

Ilfracombe

Barnstaple - several family members lived here - notably Burges, Linscotts and Oatways