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Finding that he would be safer at Dartmouth he returned there, and met with his people nightly in his own house, until in 1687, on the relaxation of the penal laws, they built a meeting-house for him. Just before his death he acted as moderator at a meeting of dissenting ministers held at Topsham.
Biography. Plumleigh belonged to a merchant family which rose to prominence in Dartmouth in the second half of the sixteenth century. Like many of his kinsmen, he profited from the town’s lucrative trade with Newfoundland, France and Spain. 4 In 1613 he began lending money to the corporation, and three years later he travelled to London on ...
Dartmouth Academy is a non-selective, co-educational school within the English Academy programme, in Dartmouth, Devon, in the south-west of England. The academy was opened in September 2010 following the merger of two schools, Dartmouth Community College and Dartmouth Primary School.
Born about 1395, he was the son of Walter Reynell (died after 1424), a landowner who sat as MP for Devon in 1404, and his second wife Margaret Stighull (died before 1399), daughter of William Stighull and his wife Elizabeth Malston. His paternal grandparents were John Reynell (died before 1365), reported to have been MP for Cambridgeshire in ...
Nov 21, 2023 · Born to Elias and Sarah Newcomen of Dartmouth, Devon, England in 1664, Thomas Newcomen grew up as part of a merchant family.
The Dartmouth Steam Railway, formerly known as the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway, is a 6.7-mile (10.8 km) heritage railway on the former Great Western Railway branch line between Paignton and Kingswear in Devon, England. Much of the railway's business is from summer tourists from the resorts of Torbay, who travel to Kingswear, where the ...
Mar 27, 2021 · Is this your ancestor? Explore genealogy for Joan (Talbot) de Dartmouth born 1282 Eccleswall Manor, Herefordshire, EnglandEngland including ancestors + descendants + 1 genealogist comments + more in the free family tree community.
