Hi, Devon Family History Society has 53 Stooke marriages in their Surnames indexes, 1754-1812 which should include this James b c 1742. Also FODA`s lists of Oaths 1723 and Freeholders 1711-99 have many Stook entries. It might be worth uncovering each entry and trying to make a pattern of names and places . Other than that you are dependent on the DRO . life is hard . soften it with a cat \\\=^..^=/// ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Hayes" <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> To: <devon@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 8:15 AM Subject: [DEV] STOOKE family of Dawlish > John STOOKE of Dawlish married Mary BARTER at Kingskerswell in 1808, and > they > had 10 children (that we have been able to trace), and we have been able > to > trace at least some descendants of five of those children. > > John STOOKE was apparently born in Dawlish in 1784, the son of James > STOOKE > and Mary BARGERON or BARJERON or BAREGON or BARRIGAN (there seem to be a > number of ways of spelling it), who were married in Dawlish on 28 October > 1771. > > What is not clear is where this James STOOKE came from. Some family trees > identify him with James Stooke of Trusham, the son of Edward STOOKE and > Elizabeth DINGLEY, who was baptised in Trusham on 28 June 1742. While this > is > possible, it also seems that there were other STOOKE families living in > Dawlish at the time of the marriage of James and Mary, so it would be > useful > if we could see the Dawlish parish registers and do a reconstruction of > all > the Stooke families there. Unfortunately the Dawlish registers do not > appear > to be available online, either on FreeReg or anywhere else, nor do they > appear to have been filmed by the LDS, so it would mean travelling to the > Devon Record Office in Exeter to try to find them. > > I would be very grateful if anyone with access to the Dawlish registers > could > look up the marriage of James STOOKE to see if it gives any clue to his > origin, such as "of Trusham". > > More here: > > http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/stooke-family-of-dawlish/ > > > -- > Keep well, > Steve Hayes > Blog: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com > Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm > E-mail: shayes@dunelm.org.uk > > > ------------------------------------------ > 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 >