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This is the fourth volume in a series attempting to write a social history of Trist families in Devon. It is the first of four volumes devoted to farming and village life in the Tudor, Stuart and Georgian eras (roughly 1530-1830). This social history is not unique to the Trist family. Nearly all English-speaking families today would have had many forbears who followed a similar way of life in a rural community.
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This family history has largely been based on original (primary source) documents, many of which were recently discovered and progressively sent for safe-keeping to the archives of the Devon Heritage Centre (previously the Devon County Record Office). About a quarter of these are sufficiently important to this family history to be calendared (summarised) in this volume.
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If your ancestors were Devon farmers and country dwellers this volume is of great relevance and interest because it examines the daily life of villagers using the statistical data accumulated by social historians. It answers some of the questions we would have asked our ancestors if we could travel back in time to their era. Questions are discussed regarding• marriage partners• life span• bereavement• re-marriage• size of families• mobility•...
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This series of e-Books will chiefly be of interest to family historians with Devon ancestry. This ninth volume contains information about how the politics and trade of Devon may have affected our ancestors.It also contains information on Dartmoor and the semi-moorland parish of South Brent and genealogical charts and notes regarding the Trist families at South Brent.
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