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picture gallery
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Vanstone people and places. Click on the images for a larger version. If you have queries about this site. Richard Vanstone (possibly), born in 1789 in Broadwoodkelly and settled in Devonport with wife Elizabeth Smith. Francis Vanstone (1839-1914). Son of Richard Vanstone and Elizabeth Smith. He emigrated to New Zealand but returned to Devon. He married three times. Francis's first wife Susannah Sullivan accompanied him to New Zealand and died on the voyage home, buried at sea on the Red Sea. Rosa Jane V...
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Untitled Document
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General Register Office Index. Registration of births, marriages and deaths 1837-1850. If you have queries about this site. Registered births, marriages and deaths can, of course, be searched with ease at FreeBMD. However, for ease, I have collected the Vanstone entries here - so far, up to 1850. The marriage index includes names of possible spouses (thanks to Carol). Where the spouse is known for certain, he/she is recorded in bold type. Certificates can be ordered from the GRO website.
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Vanstone locations
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Places connected to the Vanstone clan. Click on images for a larger version. If you have queries about this site. Useful sites for reference:. With information on each parish. Project to publish photographs from every grid square in the Ordnance Survey Grid. And surrounding area, including Winkleigh, Wembworthy, Honeychurch in 1765. Invaluable information about this parish and the Vanstones who lived there is to be found in Buckland Filleigh; a continuous thread.
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other records
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Other records-war, wills and wickedness. If you have queries about this site. These are links to assorted Vanstone records that don't fit elsewhere. If you have any thoughts on other records that should be included here, let me know. Vanstones round the world. Emigration and immigration. This is largely a collection of statistics, but it includes some fascinating details on convict transportation. I ncluding war graves. Wills, probate and graves.
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parish records
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Including entries in the International Genealogical Index. If you have queries about this site. An explanation of several points. Time scale. The tables include later entries, but generally speaking go up to 1837, when civil registration of births and marriages began. Dates I have included a year column and a precise date column, because my spreadsheet is reluctant to recognise dates prior to the 20th century, but it has no problem ordering straightforward numbers (the year column).
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maps
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Devon parishes and Vanstone distribution. If you have queries about this site.
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census returns
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If you have queries about this site. Trancripts of Vanstone Census returns. 1 I have included addresses, primarily in order to differentiate between different families living in the same village, which means that I have written down something, even if it reads as gobbledegook because the original was illegible. 2 I have included some other names, where I know, or suspect that they are Vanstone relatives. 4 ID numbers relate to the parish baptism records. C.IDs refer to the parish marriage records.
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The Vanstone Web
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Wills, crime, military, migration, and early records. Buckland Filleigh: A continuous thread. A book with valuable Vanstone information. A History of the Vanstones in New Zealand. By Carol Bell, available in several PDF downloads. If you have queries about this site. Alias Smith and Jones Trivia. Welcome to the website of the Vanstone Family. New to this website! Of all the Vanstones I have any information on, for you to download and view in your own family tree programme. History of the Family. For Aust...
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family trees
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If you have queries about this site. Click on the link and choose "save," then import into your own Genealogical programme. If you have any trees in similar form or as GEDCOM files that you would be happy to be published on the web, please contact me. Don't include living people without their consent). Benjamin Vanstone and Mary Rix. Richard Vanstone and Elizabeth Smith. Tree 2 (povided by Carol Bell) - includes New Zealand links. John Dennis Vanstone and Joanna Bradford. Tree 12 (provided by Robin).
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histories
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If you have queries about this site. Here are links to histories that give more personal accounts of branches of the family than straightforward genealogical records provide. Contact me if you have any accounts you would like to add. Stephen Vanstone of Buckland Filleigh. Speculation and facts provided by Jane Taylor, author of Buckland Filleigh, a Continuous Thread. The Vanstones of New Zealand. By Carol Bell. 7 parts now complete in PDF format. The Mystery of the Vanstone Vinyard. Now, this link will n...