Unfortunately, I can't help with the Dawlish PRs but there are references to earlier 18th century Stooke residents of Dawlish on Access to Archives (A2A)including this one to a James Stooke 1744: Dawlish parish register of Apprentices John Daymond apprenticed to James Stooke, Yeoman 971 A/PO 266 1744   There is a will of a James Stooke of Mamhead 1835.  Mamhead is about 3 miles from Dawlish.   This isn't immediately relevant to your query but when I was looking on A2A I came across the following document which intrigued me. 1/360/38 1646 These documents are held at Plymouth and West Devon Record Office Contents: Bond from James Stooke of Ashburton, hosier, to leave Plymouth and never to reside in the Town for more than 6 days Any historians on the list know why Mr Stooke would not be allowed to remain in Plymouth for more than 6 days?  It was during the Civil War and just after the seige of Plymouth and I wondered if it was political. Joy  ________________________________ From: Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> To: devon@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, 21 January 2014, 8:15 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