Hawkridge, Chittlehampton
Hawkridge in the parish of Chittlehampton in North Devon, England, is an historic estate, anciently the seat of a junior branch of the Acland family which originated at nearby Acland, in the parish of Landkey and later achieved great wealth and prominence as the Acland Baronets of Killerton, near Exeter. The former mansion house is today a farmhouse known as Hawkridge Barton, a grade II* listed building.[1] The Devon historian Hoskins (1959) stated of Hawkridge: "Externally there is nothing remarkable except a decaying avenue of ancient walnuts, so often the first indication of a 16th or 17th century mansion".[2] The interior contains a fine plaster heraldic overmantel showing the arms of Acland impaling Tremayne, representing the 1615 marriage of Baldwin II Acland (1593-1659) of Hawkridge and Elizabeth Tremayne.[3]
Contents
Descent
de Hawkridge
The earliest known holders of the estate was the de Hawkridge family, which took its surname from the estate, as the Devon historian Tristram Risdon (d.1640) stated: "Hawkeridge hath had lords so named".[4] According to the Devon historian Sir William pole (d.1635), the arms of this family were: Gules, a bend undée argent in sinister point a hawk on a perch or.[5] Nothing is known about this family other than that the last in the male line was William de Hawkridge, who left a daughter and heiress named Alicia de Hawkridge, wife of John II Acland of Acland, in the parish of Landkey, North Devon, about 4 miles north of Hawkridge.
Acland
In the opinion of Risdon (died 1640), the de Acland family first settled at Acland during the reign of King Henry II (1154-1189).[6] He further stated that "of which lineage five of the first were called Baldwin". The family's historian Anne Acland (Lady Acland, wife of Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, 15th Baronet (1906–1990)) (who donated most of the family's vast estates to the National Trust) stated: "However the name is spelt, there is no branch of the enormous family which does not stem from the tree which first took root at Acland Barton".[7] By the end of the 12th century the Aclands of Acland held an estate of about 400 acres of land.[8] In the opinion of the Devon historian Hoskins (1981), based on its early and repeated use of the Flemish firstname of Baldwin, the Acland family probably migrated to England from Flanders soon after the Norman Conquest[9] of 1066. It was in the late 20th century probably the oldest surviving landed family in Devon, which by the 19th century possessed a huge estate in the West Country of almost 40,000 acres.[10]
Acland of Acland & Hawkridge
John II Acland
John II Acland of Acland was the son and heir of John I Akelane by his wife a certain Agneta, of unrecorded family, and was the grandson of Baldwin III de Akelane, living in 1320[11] He married Alicia de Hawkridge, daughter and heiress of William de Hawkridge, by which marriage he inherited the estate of Hawkridge. For the next six generations although still a possession of the family, no record of its occupancy survive, and the senior male line of Acland continued to reside at Acland. The descent from John II Acland was as follows:
Baldwin IV Akelane
Baldwin IV Akelane (son), who married Joane Rivertor (sic) (Riverton?), daughter and heiress of William Rivertor (sic) (Riverton?). Today's estate of Riverton in the parish of Swimbridge, is situated 3 miles south-east of Acland, and was owned by the Acland family as is revealed in the 1726 survey of the family's landholdings, where it is listed as "Riverton Manor", comprising several properties let to several tenants.[12] The arms of Riverton were: Argent, a fess enarched sable three fountains issuant proper.[13]
Robert Akelane
Robert Akelane of Akelane (son), who married Cicely Hawkworthy, daughter and co-heiress of Robert Hawkworthy, whose arms were: Argent, two bends wavy ... (of tincture unknown).[14]
Baldwin V Akelane
Baldwin V Akelane (son), who married Jone Prideaux, daughter and co-heiress of Sir John (or William[15]) Prideaux of Adeston in the parish of Holbeton, South-East Devon.[16] The family of Prideaux, originally from Prideaux Castle in Cornwall, was one of the leading gentry families in the south-west. The manor of Adeston was not inherited by the Aclands but passed to the heir male of Prideaux.
John III Akelane
John III Akelane of Akelane (son), who married Elizabeth Fortescue, daughter of John Fortescue (died 1538) of Spridleston, Brixton, Devon. The Fortescues of Spridleston were a junior branch of the ancient and prominent Devon family of Fortescue, which originated in the 12th century at Whympston in the parish of Modbury, which survives today as Earl Fortescue, seated in Gloucestershire, but until recently long seated at Castle Hill, Filleigh in North Devon, about 4 miles north-east of Hawkridge.[17] His eldest son and heir was John IV Akeland (died 1539), who predeceased his father, having married Elizabeth Hext, daughter of Thomas Hext of Kingston, Devon.
John V Akeland
John V Akeland, grandson, son of John IV Akeland (died 1539) by Elizabeth Hext. He also predeceased his father, having married Elizabeth Cruwys, daughter of John Cruwys of Cruwys Morchard, Devon, another especially ancient Devon family. His second son was Anthony Acland (died 1568), to whom was given the estate of Hawkridge, where he established his own branch of the family.[18] His eldest son and the heir to Acland, was John VI Akeland (1522–1553), described as "the first of the (Acland) family to emerge from the shadows of history as a visible human being".[19] Little if anything is known of his life and career, he was possibly a minor Tudor official,[20] but he is chiefly remembered for his surviving portrait which is displayed at Killerton House, the earliest surviving image of an Acland and the most cherished in that family's former collection.[21] he was the ancestor of the Acland Baronets of Killerton.
Acland of Hawkridge
Anthony I Acland (died 1568)
Anthony I Acland (died 1568), second son of John V Acland of Acland, who was given by his father the estate of Hawkridge, where he established his own branch of the family.[22] He married Agnes Courtenay, a daughter of John I Courtenay (1466–1510)[23] of Molland, North Devon, by his wife Joan Brett, the sister of Robert Brett (died 1540), lord of the manor of Pilland[24] in the parish of Pilton and the last steward of Pilton Priory who in 1536 following its dissolution purchased the Prior's House (now called "Bull House") next to Pilton Church.[25] Courtenay was descended from the Courtenay family of Powderham, descended from Hugh Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon (1303–1377). Anthony Acland's 2nd son was James Acland of Coombe[26] in the parish of Goodleigh, about 5 miles north of Hawkridge, who established his own branch of the family there, monuments to which family survive in Goodleigh Church.
Baldwin I Acland (1533-1572)
Baldwin I Acland (1533-1572), eldest son and heir to Hawkridge. He married Gertrude Stapleton (d.1604),[27] daughter and heiress of George Stapleton of Rempstone,[28] Nottinghamshire, by whom he had four sons and one daughter. Gertrude (possibly a sister of Anthony Stapleton (c.1514–1574), MP) inherited the manor of Rempstone from her cousin Faith Stapleton, daughter and heiress of Henry Stapleton of Rempstone, and sold it to Gabriel Armstrong.[29][30] The arms of Stapleton of Rempstone (Argent, two bends wavy sable)[31] are the same as the ancient arms of Stapledon of Annery, Monkleigh in North Devon, as visible on the monument of Walter de Stapledon (d.1326) Bishop of Exeter in Exeter Cathedral. Baldwin's eldest surviving son was Anthony II Acland of Hawkridge (see below) and his second son was John I Acland (d.1641), of the parish of St Olave in the City of Exeter, a merchant who was Mayor of Exeter in 1627 and founded his own prominent but short-lived branch of the Acland family who were merchants in that city. His own second son was John II Acland (1615-1674) of Exeter, also Mayor of Exeter (in 1666), but died without surviving male progeny, leaving two daughters as co-heiresses, both of whom married into the prominent Exeter family of Duck, Margery Acland (1656-1695) having married the lawyer Arthur Duck (1580-1648), MP.[32] The eldest son of John I Acland (d.1641) of Exeter was Baldwin Acland (1607-1672), Treasurer of Exeter Cathedral and one of the Worthies of Devon of the biographer John Prince (1643–1723), whose wife was his niece.[33]
Widow's remarriage
Gertrude survived her husband and remarried to Leonard Yeo (d.1624)[34] of North Petherwin, near Launceston, Cornwall,[35] a junior branch of the ancient Yeo family of Heanton Satchville, Petrockstowe in Devon.[36] She appears to have remained in the parish of Chittlehampton, possibly at Hawkridge or at a dower house and had a further son Edmond Yeo (d.1636), who married Elizabeth Killigrew, a sister of Sir William Killigrew, 1st Baronet (died 1665)[37] and a daughter of John Killigrew (c.1557-1605) of Arwenack, near Falmouth in Cornwall,[38] thrice MP for Penryn in 1584, 1586 and 1597, Captain of Pendennis Castle (1584–98) and Vice-Admiral of Cornwall, who had notorious dealings with local pirates and who due to his extravagance died in poverty.[39] Elizabeth's mother was Dorothy Monck, a daughter of Sir Thomas Monk (1570–1627) of Potheridge[40] Merton, Devon (9 miles south-west of Hawkridge), MP for Camelford in 1626, and a sister of George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608-1670), of Potheridge,[41] whose attainment of greatness in 1660 occurred long after Edmond Yeo's death in 1636. Edmond Yeo had by his wife Elizabeth Killigrew three daughters who all died before the end of their third decade, as is recorded on their mural monument in North Petherwin Church.[42] Edmond Yeo's mural monument survives in Chittlehampton Church inscribed as follows:
- "To the memorie of Edmond Yeo of North Petherwin, Esqr., who was borne and departed this life in this parish An(n)o D(omi)ni 1636 commending his godly loving wife of the noble family of the Kelligrews in Cornwall w(i)th two sonns and foure daughters living to God the Father of ye fatherles(s) defendor of ye cause of ye widow(s). Praemisimus non amisimus" (i.e. we have sent him ahead, we have not sent him away).
Above is an escutcheon showing the arms of Yeo (Argent, a chevron sable between three ducks azure) impaling Killigrew (Argent, an eagle with two heads displayed sable a bordure of the second bezantée); the bezants are an allusion to the descent of the Killigrews from the Earl of Cornwall. Inscribed underneath on the frame: "Edmond Yeo" (under the dexter side) "Eliz. Killigrew" (under the sinister side). On the sides of the frame is inscribed in Latin: left side: Leon(ardus) Yeo ducens uxorem ("Leonard Yeo taking as his wife..."), right side: filiam et haeredem Stapletoni ("the daughter and heir of Stapleton"). At the bottom is a shield displaying Killigrew alone, around which is inscribed in Latin: Elizabetha vidua relicta hoc monument(um) maerens posuit ("Elizabeth, widow left behind, placed this monument, sorrowing")
Anthony II Acland (1568-1614)
Anthony II Acland (1568-1614) of Hawkridge, eldest son and heir, who was aged 4 at the death of his father. His mother Gertrude re-married to Leonard Yeo (fl.1586) of North Petherwin, Devon, by whom she had a further son Edmond Yeo, whose mural monument survives in Chittlehampton Church, who married Elizabeth Killigrew, daughter of John Killigrew of Arwennack in Cornwall.[43] Anthony married his step-father's niece, Anna Weekes, the daughter of William Weekes of Honeychurch, Devon, by his wife Arminell Yeo, daughter of John Yeo of Hatherleigh.[44] Anthony left two children: a son and heir Baldwin II Acland (1593-1659) (see below) and a daughter Gertrude Acland, who in 1611 at Chittlehampton married Abell Rolle (born 1583), eldest son of Robert Rolle, 5th son of George Rolle (d.1552) of Stevenstone (founder of the wealthy, influential and widespread Rolle family of Devon), and a younger brother of Henry Rolle, who married Margaret Yeo, daughter and sole heiress of Robert Yeo of Heanton Satchville. The ancient principal seat of the Yeo's thenceforth became the seat of this junior but very wealthy branch of the Rolle family, which inherited the title Baron Clinton. Abell Rolle's first cousin Joachim Rolle (died 1639) also lived in the parish of Chittlehampton, at Hudscott,[45] as he had married Mary Venner (died 1651), daughter of William Venner[46] of Hudscott. Joachim was the 5th or 6th[47] son of John I Rolle (1522-1570) of Stevenstone, the eldest son of George Rolle, founder of the Rolle family. Joachim's mural monument survives on the north wall of Chittlehampton Church, and both he and his wife were buried at Chittlehampton.[48] Joachim's progeny (if any) did not inherit Hudscott, but later his distant cousin Samuel I Rolle (1669-1735), MP (descended from the Heanton Satchville line), inherited Hudscott from his wife Dorothy Lovering. His son Samuel II Rolle (d.1747) purchased the manor of Chittlehampton and died without progeny, having bequeathed his property at Chittlehampton to his wealthier cousins the Rolles of Stevenstone.
Baldwin II Acland (1593-1659)
Baldwin II Acland (1593-1659), son, who in 1615, a year after his father's death, married Elizabeth Tremayne at Lamerton. In Hawkridge Barton survives a plaster overmantel showing the arms of Acland impaling Tremayne, representing this marriage.[50] Elizabeth was the 5th daughter of Arthur Tremayne (1553-1635) of Collacombe,[51] in the parish of Lamerton, Devon (great-grandson of John Tremayne (d.1482), Sheriff of Cornwall in 1486/7[52]), by his wife Mary Grenville, a daughter of Admiral Sir Richard VIII Grenville (1542-1591), of Stowe, Kilkhampton, Cornwall and lord of the Manor of Bideford, North Devon. Sir Richard Grenville was the famous Captain of the Revenge, MP for Cornwall, Sheriff of Cork from 1569–70, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1576–77, and an Armed Merchant Fleet Owner, privateer, colonizer, and explorer. He died at the Battle of Flores (1591), fighting heroically against overwhelming odds, and refusing to surrender his ship to the far more numerous Spanish. Mary Grenville's mother was Mary St Leger (c.1543-1623), daughter of Sir John St Ledger (d.1596) of Annery, Monkleigh, North Devon, and heir to her brother. The ancient manor house of Collacombe survives,[53] but in 1675 the Tremaynes inherited Sydenham House, Marystow, Devon, from the Wise family, which they made their seat from about 1700.[54]
Plaster overmantle
A fine plaster overmantel survives in the "Inner Room", next to the Great Hall in Hawkridge Barton showing the arms of Acland impaling Tremayne, representing the 1615 marriage of Baldwin II Acland (1593-1659) and Elizabeth Tremayne.[55] It consists of "a strapwork cartouche with small heads probably of Cain and Abel to each side flanked by foliage and figures of Adam and Eve, with the serpent above".[56]
Arthur Acland (born 1616)
Arthur Acland (born 1616), son, who had four sisters, Mary (born 1617), Anne, Elizabeth (born 1621) and Martha (died young in 1624). The pedigree of Acland of Hawkridge recorded in the Heraldic Visitation of Devon ends in 1620.
Chichester/Yeo
Hawkridge was inherited in two moieties by the families of Yeo and Chichester,[57] possibly the Chichester family of the adjoining large estate of Hall, Bishop's Tawton, a junior branch of the prominent ancient Chichester family of Raleigh, Pilton. In 1785 Charles Chichester "of Bath" (possibly Charles Chichester (1723-1798) of Hall[58]) sold his moiety to the Yeo's.
Yeo
William Mounier Yeo (d.1809)
William Mounier Yeo (d.1809), an apothecary of The Mall, Clifton, near Bristol in Gloucestershire, who in his will dated 1809 bequeathed Hawkridge and Hawkridge Wood of 70 acres to trustees with instructions that they should sell the estate and pass the proceeds to his widow for the maintenance and education of his two younger infant sons, Beauple Yeo and George Barbor Roch Yeo.[61] The will referred to: "All that farm with the messuages and tenements thereto belonging situate at Hawkridge in the parish of Chittlehampton in occupation of William Boulfield". He was the son of Rev. Beaple Yeo, Rector of Atherington, Devon, (across the River Taw from Hawkridge) and heir to his cousin Edward Rouse Yeo (1742-1782), (who sold the manor of Huish), MP for Coventry (1774–80).[62] William Mounier Yeo married Phillis Arundell O'Neill (d.1846), only daughter and heiress of Clotworthy O'Neill, of Ireland, by his wife, Mary Arundell, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Arundell, of Trevelver, in the parish of St. Minver, Cornwall. The eldest son of William Mounier Yeo was William I Arundell Yeo (d.1862) who inherited from his mother various properties in Cornwall and from the Barbor family the grand Georgian mansion of Fremington House, built by Richard II Acland (1679-1729), MP for Barnstaple 1708-13), and the manor of Fremington, near Barnstaple, North Devon. The ancestry of Richard II Acland of Fremington is not well recorded. He was the son of Richard I Acland (d.1703), of Fremington, a merchant of Barnstaple, who purchased the Manor of Fremington in 1683 and was nominated Mayor of Barnstaple in 1688,[63] but did not serve.[64] Richard II Acland married Susannah Lovering, one of the two daughters and co-heiresses of John II Lovering of Hudscott in the parish of Chittlehampton. The other daughter, Dorothy Lovering, whose moiety of her paternal inheritance included Hudscott, married Samuel I Rolle, MP, of Hudscott, whom Richard II Acland succeeded as MP for Barnstaple.
The Acland family of Barnstaple and Fremington appears to have been a junior branch of the Aclands of Acland, but the exact relationship of the Aclands of Barnstaple to that family is unclear as the Barnstaple "mercantile family" of Acland is not mentioned in the Heraldic Visitations pedigree of the Acland "gentry family".[65] The coat of arms of the two branches is identical, (Chequy argent and sable, a fesse gules) but the crests differ.[66] It cannot be established from surviving records whether the Aclands of Fremington were descended from the Aclands of Hawkridge. The Yeo family did however inherit both Hawkridge and Fremington. William I Arundell Yeo was a Deputy Lieutenant for Devon and was High Sheriff of Devon in 1850 and married Eliza Bernard, daughter of Dr. C. E. Bernard, of Clifton, Bristol.[67][68] The 1843 tithe award showed the manor of Raleigh (previously owned by Barbor) held between three owners: William Arundell Yeo, 147 acres; Robert Newton Incledon (of Yeotown, Goodleigh), who held 160 acres, together with William Hodge. William Mounier Yeo, as stated in his will, owned a reversionary interest in lands in Fremington and Barnstaple during the life of his aunt Mrs Agnes Roche.
Shortly before 1822 "Mrs. Yeo of Clifton", near Bristol, duly sold Hawkridge to Mr. Owen of Dolton.[69]
Hawkridge appears to have existed subsequently for many years as a tenanted farm. In the 19th century the tenant was the Buckingham family.[70] In 1903 the occupant was William T. Scoynes.[71] In 1948 the occupant was Henry William John Hosking, a farmer.[72]
Sources
- Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp. 3–8, pedigree of Acland, especially p. 7, Acland of Hawkridge
- Acland, Anne, A Devon Family: The Story of the Aclands, London and Chichester, 1981
- Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p. 320, Hawkeridge
- Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p. 260
- Andrews, Rev. J.H.B., Chittlehampton, Transactions of the Devon Association, vol.94, 1962, pp. 233–338, p. 250-1
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- ↑ Listed building text
- ↑ Hoskins, W.G., A New Survey of England: Devon, London, 1959 (first published 1954), p.365
- ↑ Pevsner, p.260 (erroneously "a plaster ceiling"); Vivian, p.7
- ↑ Risdon, p.320
- ↑ Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.486
- ↑ Risdon, p.325
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- ↑ Acland, Anne, p.2; & foreword by W H Hoskins, p.xv
- ↑ Acland, Anne, foreword by W H Hoskins, p.xv, xvi
- ↑ Vivian, p.3
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- ↑ Vivian, p.3
- ↑ "Sir John Prideaux" per Vivian, p.618, pedigree of Prideaux; "William Prideaux" per Vivian, p.3, pedigree of Acland
- ↑ Risdon, p.191
- ↑ Vivian, pp.352-367, pedigree of Fortescue
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- ↑ Vivian, p.251; Date of death as inscribed on his gravestone in Molland Church, Visitation of Devon states 27 March 1509
- ↑ Lord of Manor per Dean Milles' Questionnaire, 1745, (quoted by Reed, Margaret, Pilton, its Past and its People, Barnstaple, 1985, p.3)
- ↑ Reed, p.152
- ↑ Erroneously called "Corfe in Somerset" in Vivian, p.7; No estate called Corfe exists in Somerset. Corfe Castle is in Dorset; An estate called Corfe exists in the parish of nearby Tawstock, North Devon, but was never owned by the Aclands
- ↑ Date of death 1604 per her inscribed monumental brass in North Petherwin Church [1]
- ↑ Erroneously Kempston per Vivian, p.7
- ↑ Reports of Sir George Croke, Knight: Formerly One of the Justices ..., Volume 4, By Sir George Croke, Thomas Leach, p.639 [2]
- ↑ For information of Stapleton of rempstone see also
- ↑ See depiction on monumental brass in North Petherwin Church
- ↑ Vivian, p.7
- ↑ Vivian, p.309
- ↑ Date of death 1624 per his inscribed monumental brass in North Petherwin Church [3]
- ↑ Vivian, p.7 & p.837, pedigree of Yeo of Hawkridge
- ↑ Vivian, pp.834-7, pedigree of Yeo
- ↑ Vivian, 1887 (Cornwall), p.269
- ↑ "John Killigrew of Cornwall" per inscription on mural monument in Chittlehampton Church to Edmond Yeo and his wife Elizabeth Killigrew
- ↑ History of Parliament biography [4]
- ↑ Vivian, J.L., ed. (1887). The Visitations of Cornwall: comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620; with additions by J.L. Vivian. Exeter: W. Pollard, p.269 [5]
- ↑ Vivian, 1895, p.569 (Monck)
- ↑ See
- ↑ Per inscription on mural monument in Chittlehampton Church to Edmond Yeo and his wife Elizabeth Killigrew
- ↑ Vivian, pp.835 (Yeo), 776 (Weekes)
- ↑ Andrews
- ↑ Mary is stated incorrectly in the Rolle Pedigree in the 1620 Heraldic Visitations of Devon to have been the daughter of Humphry Venner (Vivian, p.653) but is shown correctly in the Venner pedigree (Vivian, p.746) as the daughter of William Venner, as confirmed by the surviving monument to Joachim Rolle in Chittlehampton Church
- ↑ 5th son per Vivian, p.653, 6th son per brass in St Giles in the Wood Church
- ↑ Vivian, p.653, pedigree of Rolle
- ↑ Vivian, p.730
- ↑ Pevsner, p.260 (erroneously "a plaster ceiling"); Vivian, p.7
- ↑ Vivian, p.7 (Acland), p.731 (Tremayne)
- ↑ Vivian, p.730 (Tremayne)
- ↑ Pevsner, pp.277-8; Pole, p.342
- ↑ Pevsner, pp.277-8, 774
- ↑ Pevsner, p.260 (erroneously "a plaster ceiling"); Vivian, p.7
- ↑ Listed building text
- ↑ Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons, Magna Britannia, Volume 6, Devonshire, London, 1822,Parishes: Cadbury - Clawton, pp. 92-102 [6]
- ↑ Vivian, p.178 (Chichester)
- ↑ Per research conducted by Sheila Yeo of the Yeo Society [7], based on stained glass depictions of Yeo arms in churches of Petrockstowe (Yeo of Heanton Satchville) and Hatherleigh (Yeo of Hatherleigh) both in Devon. The ducks are described as of various breeds by different sources. Heraldic sources give contradictory tinctures: Argent, a chevron between three shovelers sable (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.834) and Argent, a chevron between three mallards azure (Pole, Sir William (died 1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.510)
- ↑ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.834
- ↑ Will of William Mounier Yeo (d.1809)
- ↑ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.836, pedigree of Yeo
- ↑ History of Parliament biography [8]
- ↑ Lamplugh, Lois, Barnstaple: Town on the Taw, South Molton, 2002, List of Mayors, p.157
- ↑ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp.3-8
- ↑ See arms and crest of Acland of Fremington (crest:a wyvern) on archway to rear service yard at Fremington House. The crest of Acland of Acland is a man's gloved hand holding a falcon
- ↑ Vivian, p.836 & www.yeosociety.com
- ↑ Vivian, p.836 (Yeo)
- ↑ Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons, Magna Britannia, Volume 6, Devonshire, London, 1822,Parishes: Cadbury - Clawton, pp. 92-102 [9]
- ↑ See
- ↑ Announcement published the Tamworth Herald Newspaper, Staffordshire, 7 March 1903: February 28, at Hawkridge, Chittlehampton. the wife of William T. Scoynes, a daughter"[10]
- ↑ "Henry William John Hosking farmer, of Hawkridge, Chittlehampton, was stopped Barnstaple on April 9th by Police Constable. P. R. Dunsford and asked..." North Devon Journal Devon, 20 May 1948 [11]
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