Location: Devon, England

Surnames/tags: England Devon



Welcome to our Devon page! Feel free to browse and check out the links below.
- Devon Category Page
- England Counties Team Page
- England Project Page
- England Sources
- Devon, One Place Studies
- Devon, Notables
If you are interested in helping out in Devon, please look at how to join the England Project
Our goal is to ensure that all Devon profiles are of a high standard, as complete as possible, and connected to the global tree.
Contents |
Team Members and Specific Interests
- Team Leader: Fran Weidman
:Team Members:
- Oscar Evans |
- Weldon Smith | Earliest Devon ancestors
- Courtney Birkes | Chittlehampton (OPS); Saunders, Symonds surnames
- Cathy Crandall |
- Pip Sheppard |
- Steve Bartlett |
- Dave Roberts | Roberts, Deal, Tutton, Hockridge, Stitson, Barrett, Curry.
- Martin Hobbs-Watson |
- Susan O'Callaghan |
- Duane Merritt |
- Carol Collins |
- Rob Pavey | Surnames: Pavey, Ellacott; Places: Yarcombe, Stockland, Plymouth.
- Alison Palmer |
- Marian MacLeod |
- Terry Conroy | Surnames; Wilton, Courtenay,
- Kai Schenck |
- Neil Stewart | surnames: Duniam Dinham Harper Babb Places: Teignmouth, St Juliens (Newfoundland)
- Jamie Karagianis |
- Keith Bowden |
- Carol Keeling |Main surnames Alger, Langworthy, Veal, Baker, Allen, Paige, Grey, Massey
- Cyndee Bayer |
- Stuart Beavis |
- Fran Weidman | Stuckes, Bidgood surnames. connecting, unknowns
- Stephanie Hill |
- Tracy Frayne |
- Susan Squires |
- Liza Gervais | Buckfastleigh OPS
- Carol Baldwin
- Mark Isaac
A BASIC TO-DO LIST – Focus for 2024
Remember that location fields need to be in the format village/town, county, country (the commas are important).
More than one person can work on these :)
Figures updated on 14 Feb 2025, data as at 9 Feb 2025
Link to village/town | Number of profiles to amend | Your ID | date completed |
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All of Devon, birth locations that need amending | started Feb 2024 with 4,295, now 881 | Steph Hill | |
19th century Devon, birth locations that need amending | started Feb 2024 with 2,675, now 0 | Carol K | completed 2 Jan 2025 |
All of Devon, marriage locations that need amending | started Feb 2024 with 2,437, now 1,365 | ||
All of Devon, death locations that need amending | started Feb 2024 with 2,019, now 941 | ||
19cen, married in Devon, needs birth location | started Feb 2024 with 952, now 906 | This one is going up again :( | |
19cen, orphan, with missing birth location, married or died in Devon | started Feb 2024 with 522, now 522 | Fran | This one is going up again :( |
Devon, orphan, unknowns | started Feb 2024 with 884, now 710 | Fran | |
Devon born 1880's/1890's, missing birth location | started March 2024 with 221, now 85 | This one is going up again :( | |
Devon born 1880's/1890's, missing birth location, but married between 1911 and 1921 | started March 2024 with 79, now 6 | Carol | I've cleared as many as I can, maybe someone else can sort out the last few |
Devon where birth location needs amending | started May 2024 with 328, now 0 | Done! |
Surnames that probably don't exist
If anyone can figure out what these names should (or could) be, it will enable us to get them connected to the main tree.
If you DO find the correct surname, be sure and check for duplicates, as there may be another profile already on WikiTree with the correct name.
For a true challenge
There are currently 685 unconnected profiles for early Buckfastleigh. They are mostly orphans, and most have the same single source. If anyone would like to have a go with these, please feel free and good luck!
Unconnected Buckfastleigh 17th Century
Devon Maintenance Categories
- Devon Maintenance Categories
- Devon Unsourced List
- Devon Unconnected List
- Devon Suggestion List
- Devon Unknowns List
The statistics for Devon are here:
The latest statistics for England and all counties are here:
and a commentary is here:
Research Resources
- Devon Research Resources
- England Project Research Resources
- Reliable sources for pre-1700s profiles in England
- GENUKI Devon
- FamilySearch Wiki Devon, England Genealogy
- Devon Archives, Libraries, and Museums
- Devon Family and Local History Societies
- Login to request to the join the Trusted List so that you can edit and add images.
- Private Messages: Contact the Profile Managers privately: Frances Weidman, Elizabeth Viney, and England Project WikiTree. (Best when privacy is an issue.)
- Public Comments: Login to post. (Best for messages specifically directed to those editing this profile. Limit 20 per day.)
- Public Q&A: These will appear above and in the Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum. (Best for anything directed to the wider genealogy community.)
Most notably are the location corrections, in which 8,621 were done since February! We were also in the top 10 for both connecting and unknowns.
Many thanks to all of you for your contributions, and wishing everyone a very Happy New Year!
I'm sorry, I'm just seeing this now but that is so cool - thank you for doing all that! It's amazing what rabbit holes can turn up sometimes ;)
I have added a "To-Do" list that Carol created for anyone interested. This was previously on another page which was basically forgotten.
Also, for anyone who would like to play detective, there is a list of surnames that don't appear to exist.
And for anyone feeling especially brave (or just plain bored), there are some early Buckfastleigh profiles that need some serious attention.
If you have anything that you would like to add to the table(s), please feel free to do so (or else just give me a shout).
Many thanks for all you do; our numbers have been amazing!
Fran :)
I have completed Crang-2 that appears in "All of Devon, birth locations that need amending". The profile now has a birth place in Somerset and death at Cardiff, as well as a fairly comprehensive biography. However, it still appears in the database search. I can't see a way to annotate the entry to say it is complete. Is there anything else I should be doing when dealing with any of these? Keith
No need to do anything else, The completed profiles will disappear automatically from the list at the next update, usually Tuesday or Wednesday. Thank you for working on these :)
Fran
Jo, England Project Managed Profiles team coordinator
edited by Jo Fitz-Henry
My issue is that the site could be so much better, and easier to use, with a simple rename of images. I will get off my soap box now and thanks for the pointer to UK Flags. Will add that to the search list. Craig.
As Craig noted, there wasn't a Devon county flag uploaded to this page until about a month ago when I linked the one from the UK Flags page.