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.

Interested onlookers in East Street at the ninth centenary of Crediton's church,1909.

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

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

Crediton High Street, early 1900s

High Street Crediton

What are those barrels?

Western end of the High Street, Crediton

Market Street, on Market Day

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.

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.

Woodland Head, Yeoford

Home for Turners, Canns, Heals, Labbetts and Bubears

Rose and Crown Hill, Sandford

The Lamb Inn, Sandford

Sandford School

Sandford Mill

A general view of Sandford

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

Shobrooke Church

Shobrooke in the 1940s

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

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.

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

Copplestone; Turners, Heals and Linscotts lived here

Copplestone

Copplestone

Coleford Village

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

Cheriton Bishop

Cheriton Cross. Saffins and Clarks lived here

Crockernwell: Turners, Saffins and Feys lived in the village

Bow

Feys lived here, also Linscotts

Bow in about 1900. Also called Nymet Tracey

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

Newton St Cyres

William Heard was apprenticed in the village as a wheelwright

Newton St Cyres

Other Heard, Helmore and Bicknell family lived here too.

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

Dunsford again

Hartland - origin of the Heards

Winkleigh: home of the Luxtons

Fore Street, Okehampton

South Molton

Heathcoats' Lace Factory, Tiverton, about 1900

Several of our Tiverton ancestors worked here

Fore Street, Tiverton

Castle Street Tiverton

Halberton

Halberton

Wheelers, Rowes and Wrights lived in Halberton

Witheridge - home of Partridges and Arscotts, Drews and Fursdons

Witheridge

Chittlehampton - home of Partridges and Arscotts

Payehembury

Home to Heards and Johns

Exmouth

Home for Pitts, Waller, Hooker families.

... and holiday destination for many of our families

Exmouth

Radford House Plymstock, where the Davis family were in service.

Radford Estate

Plympton St Mary - home of Davises, Pittses, Burges

Exeter High Street about 1905

High Street, Exeter

High Street, Exeter

Exeter, High Street

Exeter High Street

Sidwell Street, Exeter

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

Sidwell Street Exeter, about 1905

Sidwell Street, Exeter

St Sidwells, Exeter

Theatre Royal, Exeter

Clock Tower, Exeter

Clock Tower, Exeter

Queen Street, Exeter

Queen Street, Exeter, the Museum

The great Cathedral of St Peter's, Exeter

Cathedral Close, Exeter

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

Stepcote Hill, West Quarter, Exeter, about 1900

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.

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

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"

Pinhoe Road, Exeter.

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

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

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

Broadclyst

Bakery, Dog Village, Broadclyst

Thorverton

Home to Niners, Baters, Halls, Thomases and Helmores

Thorverton Church

Combe in Teignhead. Nestling above the Teign estuary, Wrights from Sandford settled here in the nineteenth century

Combe in Teignhead

And from Combe in Teignhead they went to neighbouring Stoke in Teignhead

Stokenham. The South Hams parish for the Pitts family.

Stokenham. Most of our other South Hams families could be found in the parish at some time.

Stokenham

Stokenham

Tradesmens Arms, Stokenham Village

Stokenham

Stokenham

Stokenham

Stokenham

Stokenham

Stokenham Village...

... and neighbouring Torcross

Chillington, in Stokenham parish. Loyes, Pitts, Prettejohns and Randalls lived here too.

Chillington

Aveton Gifford - Birthplace of Elliotts, Leighs, Coles, Prettejohns, Blacklers - 4x, 5x, 6x grandfathers, grandmothers, great aunts and great uncles

Kellaton, nr Stokenham, birthplace of 2xgreat grandmother Elizabeth Loye, nee Cole 1824-1870 and daughter, great grandmother Ann Cole Loye 1842-1884

In 1861 great grandfather William Pitts,1839-1898, is lodging with the Loyes "learning farming". He would marry their daughter Ann three years later.

Chivelstone - home for Pitts and Collings

Sth Allington House, Chivelstone, home to Elizabeth nee Harris and husband Nicholas Pitts.

There has been a manor here of some kind since Domesday. The facade of the house was extensively remodelled by Lionel and Thomas Ponsford in 1837. The house has been sympathetically restored and is now offering bed and breakfast and self-catering accomodation. See Links Page

Portlemouth. Pittses and Prettejohns had property around the village

Kingsbridge

Fore Street, Kingsbridge

Bigbury. Home for Blacklers, Coles, Hamlyns.

Modbury, South Devon, early 1900s

Malborough in about 1905. Loyes, Adams and Fairweathers lived here.

South Pool, home of 3xgreat grandmother Randall