Replying to the messages below...... Thanks to all who replied (or will!). > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Rollcall: MELHUISH (Jeff Butler) > 2. Rollcall: MELHUISH ([email protected]) > 3. Re: Rollcall: MELHUISH (Terry Leaman) > 4. Re: Rollcall: MELHUISH (Paul Hockie) > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Message: 1 > From: "Jeff Butler" <[email protected]> > > Hello Keith > When you say you have look at the PR for Washfield was that on fiche. I > have > three fiches with with the PR on them there is no dates on them but would > think they would start about 1530-50. > Last time I look it was poor quality and hard to read. I also have > Melhuish > but my ones are from Cheriton Fitzpaine 1780 with Thomas. > Regards > Jeff > They were transcribed from the original PRs by the DRO in the late 1990s. > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > From: <[email protected]> > > HI, there are any number of worries with > Melhuish, firstly being the endlessly various spellings ......Washfield > is > a comparatively small village and these are well to do people . The > DFHS > parish map for Mid Devon shows that Washfield is surrounded on the east > and > south by Tiverton a busy market town . just north of that is Bampton > another > busy market town . On Washfield`s immediate borders are Stoodleigh , > Loxbeare, Calverleigh and Templeton . Then there is the survival of the > registers, I see Washfield has registers as early as 1554 , but in what > condition ? According to the DRO, the registers were in good condition in the late 1990s when I had the transcriptions done. As to name variations, that has caused me some grief over the years. It also caused the DRO to have conniptions, but they did finally get them all, er at least they said they did. > Richard Hagley of Tiverton clothier speaks > of him being an old and an aged man . and he wishes to be buried in > Tiverton. He forgives his wife Amy the dowry promised on their marriage > but > "which yet I never had ." He speaks of the "five youngest" of my > daughter > Jane Melhuishes . And then of my daughter Joan Melhuishes son Thomas who > gets one silver salt . He makes Robert Melhuishe my son in law one of > his > executors . > It is worth perhaps getting all these 17th > C > wills of the Melhuishes and Hagleys and just noting how many have the same > surnamed relatives ......all these wills are fascinating in their own > right > , but if you are related to the families they are very personal . We have all the wills from Devon that were in Worthy's Wills and Oswyn Murray's transcriptions as well as those from the PCC and the Bank of England. There are others, but I can't remember the sources. > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 15:47:57 +0000 > From: Terry Leaman <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [DEV] Rollcall: MELHUISH > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed > > Washfield registers have been filmed and are on FMP- the early ones look > to be in quite good condition. > > Terry To Terry & Paul. Thanks for that. My memory was still thinking of Familysearch as the CoE didn't allow them to be transcribed by the Church of Latter Day Saints. I had a look and a lot is missing. Most of the marriages are missing as are burials around 1600. Some useful stuff was there however. And condition does look good. Thank you all kindly, Keith Jeffery