Buckland Brewer, Devon - History and Genealogy

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Comment by Janet Few on March 13, 2013 at 10:40am

Just uploaded the last of the Buckland Brewer gravestone inscriptions http://tinyurl.com/a6trc6y 700+ gravestones and nearly 2000 names recorded. We will be adding those from inside the church and the war memorial soon. A full index of the burials for St Mary and St Benedict is almost complete. Still searching for the burial registers for Thornhillhead and Eckworthy

Comment by Christopher Gray on February 19, 2013 at 2:17pm

Wow!  Brilliant work.  Chris

Comment by Janet Few on February 19, 2013 at 9:43am

Plans and grid references now uploaded for all three churchyards - also added another 100 or so stones for St Mary and St Benedict this week - still another 100 or so to add. In total there are about 700 stones in the three churchyards and nearly 2000 entries in the database for people mentioned on the stones (some are duplicates).

Comment by Janet Few on February 4, 2013 at 2:15pm

Nothing available for Langtree or Little Torrigton yet but there is a newly formed historical society for Little Torrington so maybe they will get to work. Keep an eye on http://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/area.php?area=Devon&coun... nothing there yet but it is being added to all the time. Of course not everyone who is buried in Buckland Brewer had a gravestone. We will be indexing the burials too in due course. WEeve made a start. I've added a few more for St Mary and St Benedict today. Went out to check them but the Buckland wind was very keen so despite sunshine didn't get as many done as I'd hoped! 

Comment by John Cole on February 4, 2013 at 1:09pm

Hi Janet,

A job well done :-)

 

Unfortunately most of my Cole-Heal-Osbourn ancestors who passed away in Buckland Brewer dont seem to be buried there :-( Do you know where I can look for thier resting places? I think some of them would be in Langtree, Little Torrington as well as other niebouring places.

 

Keep up the gr8 work,

 

John

Comment by Christopher Gray on February 4, 2013 at 1:34am

Janet - I fully support your approach - partial information is certainly better than waiting for perfection.  Chris

Comment by Janet Few on February 3, 2013 at 6:08am

Thanks Chris - maps and plans are on the to do list! Debated waiting until everything was 'finished' before putting anything online but decided partial information was better than none.

Comment by Christopher Gray on February 3, 2013 at 3:08am

... and where is the spell-checker when one needs it?

Comment by Christopher Gray on February 3, 2013 at 3:07am

Janet - this looks to be a first class sourceof information about the Buckland Brewer graveyards.  The format looks good.  The only addition I would make is a map of the area showing the graveyards.  The minumum would be the address / co-ordinates.  Could you please pass on my thanks to the team.  Chris

Comment by Janet Few on February 2, 2013 at 4:22pm

Starting to get the Buckland Brewer gravestone inscriptions online http://thehistoryinterpreter.wordpress.com/community-history/buckla... click on the links for Thornhillhead and Eckworthy graveyards. Plans for these and the inscriptions for the main churchyard will follow shortly. Can use the 'find' facility to search for the names you are interested in. Eventually we may sell CDs including transcriptions, photographs of all gravestones and a database of all names mentioned, with additional detail from the burial registers. Comments welcome before I upload the hundreds of stones from the main churchyard

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