Hi, whilst looking for Benj Vanstone, I came across John Rockey , junr, buried aged 9 , 21.12.1835 of Moor Mill buried at Petrockstowe .. And Emanuel Rockey, buried aged 16 in Roborough 28.2.1839. .And Sally Rockey, buried aged 15 at Meeth, of Hatherleigh, 27.1.1814. And Elizabeth Rockey buried aged 4, 6th ? 1836 , Dowland. And 2. at Beaford, Rachel Rockey, aged 9 of Arlington Mill, on 31.01.1819 and Susanna aged 63, 04.02.1837 of Monk Okehampton. life is hard . soften it with a cat \\\=^..^=///

Elizabeth, Thanks for thinking of me and my quest for ROCKEYs. I have some tentative ideas about how these ROCKEY burials might fit in, but I am still building my database. My CD for the Archdeaconry of Tavistock has not arrived from England, but I believe you must have been using another CD, which goes to show me that I should perhaps invest in that one as well. Yesterday, while working on some of the censuses for ROCKEY, I ran across the name VANSTONE as well, but in checking my notes, I find I didn't write the household down. (I was looking at Stoke Amerel, Beerferris, Werrington,, Broadwoodwidger, Virginstow, Lifton, Buckfastleigh, Whitchurch, Dolton, and Chittlehampton in Devon, and Stratton in Cornwall, so it was probably in one of those places.) VANSTONE struck me as a rather "un-English" name. When you do research, as I do, in the Delaware River valley of the northeast United States, you would immediately think it was a Dutch name. Does anyone know whether the name is pronounced with the accent on the first syllable or the second? I suspect the first. David Langenberg Newark, Delaware, USA On Feb 3, 2014, at 9:26 AM, elizabeth howard wrote: > Hi, whilst looking for Benj Vanstone, I came across John Rockey , junr, buried aged 9 , 21.12.1835 of Moor Mill buried at Petrockstowe .. And Emanuel Rockey, buried aged 16 in Roborough 28.2.1839. .And Sally Rockey, buried aged 15 at Meeth, of Hatherleigh, 27.1.1814. And Elizabeth Rockey buried aged 4, 6th ? 1836 , Dowland. And 2. at Beaford, Rachel Rockey, aged 9 of Arlington Mill, on 31.01.1819 and Susanna aged 63, 04.02.1837 of Monk Okehampton. > > > > > life is hard . soften it with a cat \\\=^..^=/// > ------------------------------------------ > 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