People Connected to Devon

People connected to Devon can be placed in the following groups.

Historical and Political people

- accommodated by the project Historic Devon (Link to follow) which covers the History of Devon and historical/political people. Some of these are also listed in the Famous people category.

Families with their roots in Devon.

Please add the earliest head of the family to the list of Devon Families on Geni below and link their profiles to the project. These should be male! Adding anyone with a Devon birthplace to the project would cause the project to be a little cluttered, so please restrict this to the earliest head of family!

Famous or Notable People

Those people of note with connections to the county are listed below. Some of these connections are a little tenuous - counties like to lay claim to people of renown! Please visit Devon - Famous People and add them to the listing there.

Emigrants

People from Devon who went to the "New world" and were early progenitors in those countries. Where the earliest ancestor is known please add them to the list of "Devon families on Geni" below if that was their roots, or to the appropriate county project.

Where the earliest known ancestor is the emigrant add them to the list below. In some cases if there is a project that covers them in detail please link the project - there is no point in duplicating the list.

Names with Bold links are to Geni profiles. Non-bold links take you to other biographical web pages.

Please add countries to the list as required.

Devon Genealogical Resources

• Genuki Devon Page
• Devon Family History Society
• IGI Batch numbers for Devon
• FreeReg Devon

Devon Families on Geni

How to add a link is explained in the attached document - Adding links to Geni profiles in projects.

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• George COURTYS Place of birth unconfirmed but Devon is probable.

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• John Jackman

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• George Strong of Chardstock

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• Richard Walrond
• William Webber (1786-1855) North Molton

Emigrants from Devon

Please add the names of people from Devon who settled in the "New World"

America

• Thomas Downham to Kent county, Delaware
• * Great Migration: Passengers of the Mary & John, 1630 "Nearly all of the Mary and John 1630 passengers came from the West Country counties of Somerset, Dorset , Devon, and West Country towns of Dorchester, Bridport, Crewkerne and Exeter."

Australia

Canada

Caribbean

Rowe Family of Jamaica

South Africa

1820 British Settlers in South Africa

Other