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Maps
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A map of the historic boundaries of
Cornwood
Parish has been preserved by Kain & Oliver in a publication
entitled
Historic
Parishes of England and Wales. It offers views of the various
regions of the country prior to 1850. This map is also presented,
courtesy of the authors, as background to the pages on this web
site.
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Other historic maps of Devon County are available for viewing
at
Genmaps, which
is a non-profit site for genealogists that contains scans of, or
direct links to, maps from England, Scotland and Wales from the
14th to the 19th century
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Cornwood Drawing by William
Crawley Yonge, ca 1811
William Crawley Yonge (1795 - 1854) was the eighth child of the
Reverend
Duke Yonge, vicar of Cornwood and his wife, Catherine Crawley
Boevey. William was educated at Ottery St. Mary and Eton, from where,
at sixteen, he
joined the army (52nd Light Infantry). He took part in the Peninsular
War
and, at the age of twenty, fought in the Battle of Waterloo. He
finally
left the army in 1822. William married Fanny Bargus in 1823. They
lived at
Otterbourne House, in Hampshire, until their deaths. Their children
were
Charlotte, born in 1823 and Julian, born in 1830.
The drawing was done, apparently from memory in about 1811, when
William
sixteen years of age. The original is owned by Barbara Thomas,
who resides
at the "Glebe", which is the former vicarage in Rev.
Duke Yonge's time.
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