Month: December 2021
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Today’s Stop: The HOME OF THE GRYPHONS OF HALBERTON (DNA-07)
The water went flat when I asked it to. I didn’t think to ask for more. –Katherine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine in “The Lion in Winter”
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Standing in Phillip’s Shadow
I have some parting thoughts I wanted to share as I take my leave from Teignmouth. I’ve had an eerie feeling that I’ve been working in the shadow of Phillip of the Isles of Shoals. While the timeframe of this pedigree is after Phillip would have come to America the line has some hallmarks that…
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Today’s Stops: Teignmouth & Combeinteignhead
Once again, I find myself back tracking to the outskirts of Newton Abbot. This time we are working our way up the River Teign, to cover the records contained in Teignmouth and the corresponding known families here and in nearby Combeinteignhead, which is barely a mile outside of Newton Abbot along the same river. This…