Another " long shot " Elizabeth is to look at newspapers and try to build up a history of the area through reading them. For instance we know that Rev. E. EDGELL of West Alvington must have been the vicar there in 1814 because his marriage notice is in the Oxford Journal dated Sat. May 14th 1814. Then by looking at the West Alvington PR's we see that he has signed off as Edward EDGELL in 1806 By 1849 in the London Standard has Rev. Douglas MACDONALD is the Vicar. By 1859 Rev COLE is Vicar In The Morning Post [London] in 1860 the death notice appears for Rev. Edward Cole appears, he was Curate of Rodden in Somerset, formerly of West Alvington. I will go through my Devon Life magazines to see what I can find, but do not hold your breath that I will find anything. Regards Bev -> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Elizabeth Drummond" <e_m_drummond@yahoo.co.nz> > To: <DEVON@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2013 7:56 PM > Subject: [DEV] Background reading for West Alvington, Northam,Buckland > Brewer areas > > >> First of >> all, Happy New Year to everyone! >> I know it’s >> a long shot but maybe somebody has come across a diary or journal about >> the >> areas around these parishes. I know of no relevant published books and >> have >> trawled through “British manuscript >> diaries of the 19th century: an annotated listing”, to no avail. Any >> suggestions would be gratefully received. I’ll be in the UK next summer >> so could read any manuscripts then- if there are any! >> Beth Drummond from NZ