The Pitts family, their ancestors and in-laws in the main came from the South Hams, and spread to other South Devon parishes.
In the early 20th century some of them moved to Mid-Devon. There had always been movement in the opposite direction, with
Mid-Devon families moving to the South Devon coast, to the South Hams and to Plymouth.
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Stokenham. The South Hams parish for the Pitts family.
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Stokenham. Most of our other South Hams families could be found in the parish at some time.
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Stokenham
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Stokenham Church - popular postcard subject
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Stokenham
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Stokenham
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Tradesmens Arms, Stokenham Village
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Stokenham
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Stokenham
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Stokenham
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Stokenham
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Stokenham
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Stokenham Village...
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... and neighbouring Torcross
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The Kingsbridge-Dartmouth coach waits at Torcross
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Chillington, in Stokenham parish. Loyes, Pitts, Prettejohns and Randalls lived here too.
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Chillington
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Aveton Gifford - Birthplace of Elliotts, Leighs, Coles, Prettejohns, Blacklers - 4x, 5x, 6x grandfathers, grandmothers, great aunts and great uncles
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Aveton Gifford
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Aveton Gifford
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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. |
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Chivelstone - home for Pitts and Collings
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Slapton - neighbouring village to Stokenham, Pitts and Willing family lived here
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Slapton
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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 |
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Portlemouth. Pittses and Prettejohns had property around the village
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Kingsbridge
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Fore Street, Kingsbridge
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Kingsbridge harbour
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Kingsbridge from the quay
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Bigbury. Home for Blacklers, Coles, Hamlyns.
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Bigbury
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Modbury, South Devon, early 1900s
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Modbury - home of Pittses, Crockers, Blacklers
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Malborough in about 1905. Loyes, Adams and Fairweathers lived here.
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Malborough
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South Pool, home of 3xgreat grandmother Randall
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Ugborough - birth place of Cornish, Crocker, Elliott and Lakeman families
Taken in about 1920 - note the new,gleaming white war memorial in the wall. |
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Ugborough
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Ugborough
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Thurlestone - typical of the landscape inhabited by South Hams ancestors, combining small villages, farmland and coast. Willings lived here.
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Thurlestone, home of Lakemans and Willings
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Thurlestone
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Thurlestone
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Newton Ferrers - home to Loye and Pitts family members in the nineteenth century
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Ringmore - home for Blacklers and Loyes
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Ringmore
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Cornworthy - home of Cames, Donathornes, Shillabeers and Peekes
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Light house at Start Point, in the south of Stokenham parish
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Combe in Teignhead. Nestling above the Teign estuary, Wrights from Sandford settled here in the nineteenth century
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Combe in Teignhead
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And from Combe in Teignhead they went to neighbouring Stoke in Teignhead
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Stoke in Teignhead
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Bishopsteignton: G-G-Grandfather Pitts farmed here for a while untill his premature death; Sharlands moved here, and Conibeers
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Bishopsteignton
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Loddiswell. Home to Willings, Lakemans, Moyseys and Prettejohns
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Loddiswell
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Loddiswell.
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New Mills Loddiswell. Willings were millers here.
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Totnes
Pitts and Michelmores lived in the town |
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Monument at Efford cemetery, Plymouth, to civilian victims of aerial attacks in Plymouth 1939-1945.
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Communal grave at Efford cemetery for 397 Plymouth civilians killed in enemy air raids.
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Radford House Plymstock, where the Davis family were in service.
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Radford Manor
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Plympton St Mary - home of Davises, Pittses, Burges
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Plymouth - many of our South Hams families moved to Plymouth, but Feys, and Fursdons moved here from Mid-Devon
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Plymouth Bedford Street
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George Street, Plymouth
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Derrys Clock, Plymouth
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Union Street, Plymouth
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Plymouth Hoe and pier, early 20th century
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Plymouth Hoe
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Barbican, Plymouth
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Fish quay at the Barbican, Plymouth
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Devonport - home for Berrys, Blacklers, Trelivings and Labbetts
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Devonport
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The naval barracks, Devonport
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Newton Abbot. Heards, Hookers and Wrights lived here
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Teignmouth - As well as Sharlands and Conibeer in-laws, Great-great grandmother Milton settled here as Mrs Holcombe on her second marriage
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Teignmouth. Also a popular destination for holidays for family members at the end of the 19th and throughout the 20th centuries.
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Teignmouth
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Dawlish. Another popular holiday destination. Feys and Conibeers lived here
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Dawlish
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Torquay - Blacklers, Fursdons and Wrights settled here
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Torquay
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