Month: September 2021
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Today’s Stop: Plymouth
Today’s stop is a big one! It includes 2.5 cities in one. You find records under Stoke Damerel, Devonport or Plymouth. The two combined contain 87 Records dating back to 1590. I found over 1500 junk records that were outside of my query as they were after 1841 but were stored by FamilySearch.org as Text […]
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Today’s Stop: Newton St Cyres
This was a short but intriguing trip. Newton St Cyres contains just two marriage records for a William “Babb or Hext” in 1587. When I saw the record I got very excited. The name Hext has only been seen in a single Pedigree for the Manor Lords of Doddiscombsleigh, Devon, England. I immediately did a […]
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Today’s Stop: Yarcombe
As I continue my canvas of the early records of Devon, I come next to Yarcombe which has 35 Records dating back to 1586. Yarcombe is a village and civil parish in the county of Devon, England, situated in the East Devon administrative district on the A30 road near the towns of Honiton and Chard. It is sited in the steep rolling meadows and ancient woods of the Yarty […]
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The Babb Garden of Eden 2.0 – Babb Unabridged
Some of you may recall a post I made back in July 2020 which was similarly titled as The Babb Garden of Eden – Babb Unabridged. I had the best intentions of pushing through several thousand records in an attempt to solve the great riddle of how the Babbs of Devon are connected to each […]
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Eric Stanley Maggs on TV
Eric Stanley Maggs, ex-husband of Gwendoline Ellen Babb (b. 07 Oct 1917 – d. 25 Jun 1992) appeared on a match making show by the name of First Dates at the age of 101 and went on a date with a much younger woman. The trailer for this show can be found below: Gwendoline passed […]
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A Family Bible provides more than 1 Dozen Points of Proof
Family Bibles have long been used to record births, marriages and deaths of family members. Arene J. (Leggins, Babb) Gorton’s Family Bible is no different. The book was retrieved by one of her descendants while cleaning out her father’s house after his death. Before I get into the details of what this amazing find revealed, […]
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New Patriarch Added to the White Swans of Buckinghamshire
This revelation was accidentally uncovered with a duplicate tree in the master file, which happens sometimes with this much data when something presents itself in a different way that initially isn’t able to be matched. My co-researcher in England noticed that there was a duplicate entry for George Babb (b. 1835) in my last post […]
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The Ancestry of Walter George Babb (b. 1861) is revealed
I was forwarded a request to help match up a small tree to it’s parent, which was suspected to be the Dragons of Somerset. Her line stopped suddenly with a father son combo both by the name of Walter George Babb (1890-1947 & 1861-1928 Respectively). We had a vague undocumented reference to a father named […]