David, I certainly appreciate this additional information. One oddity about the Land Tax Assessments is that Heale and Heale late Kemps appear among other properties at the beginning of the list, before properties in the city of Tavistock and then rural properties in West Division and in East Division. There must be some legal or historic explanation why all the properties in the rural areas of the West Division (since Heale/Heale late Kemps is near Coletown/Great Artiscome/Artiscombe, one would expect all of them to lie in the West Division) are not listed in the same portion of the list. Maybe the answer will be made plain as I work through the annual lists. I have from 1808 to 1832 to cover yet. More fun ahead, I'm sure. David Langenberg Newark, Delaware, USA On Jan 29, 2014, at 5:50 AM, Jan Fletcher wrote: > > > > Two farms, Artiscombe and Higher Artiscombe remain in existence today. > Higher Artiscombe is the closest to Rubbytown and the former Cole Farm > (Coletown?). And, indeed, Hele Farm is also very close, just to the west of > Rubbytown. > David Fletcher, Plymouth, UK.. > > Message: 9 > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:13:24 -0500 > From: "David L. Langenberg" <gallienus@mac.com> > Subject: [DEV] SLEEMAN at Coletown, Tavistock - Thomas ROCKEY, Jr. at > Heale, Tavistock > To: devon@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <648010DB-BECC-41CB-A1F4-9463654D2950@mac.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I have been going through the Tavistock Land Tax Assessments, 1780-1832, at > my local LDS Family History Library. It appears that J. SLEEMAN became a > tenant of Coletown in the West Division of Tavistock parish in 1807 while > Hy. SLEEMAN became a tenant of Great Artiscombe and Artiscombe (presumably > properties adjoining Coletown) in the same year. For some years previously, > Wm. Crabb had been the tenant of all three properties. Because they are > listed consecutively, I conclude that they are all contiguous properties. > All were owned by the Duke of Bedford. You might remember that later > censuses (1841 and 1851) indicated that John SLEEMAN was born at Coletown. > This establishes for certain that there was such a place in Tavistock > parish. > > Interestingly, Thomas ROCKEY, Junior, first shows up at Heale and Heale late > Kemps in the following year, 1808. I believe that Heale must be the same as > Hele, mentioned in The Place-Names of Devon, v. 1, p. 122. I have no idea > yet where it might be situated in the parish, but I have not examined old > Ordnance Survey maps. You might recall that Salome ROCKEY married John > SLEEMAN in Tavistock in 1805. > > David Langenberg > Newark, Delaware, USA > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message