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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Suffolk => Topic started by: turramurra on Wednesday 09 March 22 00:52 GMT (UK)
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Eliza DEVEREUX was born 7th July 1794 in Beccles, Suffolk
married Samuel Carman 21st Nov 1816 in Norwich, Norfolk.
She died Oct 1853 Harleston, Norfolk
William and Elizabeth nee Ellis were her parents.
Could anyone shine a light on the ancestors please?
Turramurra
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Could anyone shine a light on the ancestors please?
Do you mean occupations, etc? What online tools are you using? The usual pay subscription sites and/or Family Search and FreeReg?
The BNA mention a Wm DEVEREUX in Beccles. Date: May 1793. Is he Eliza's father? The OCR text describes him as "fanner" - but that could be tanner or farmer.
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The history of this family may be Huguenot
I am trying to see if there is link to Normandy.
Devereux is a French name,
Thank you for any help.
Turramurra
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You've probably seen this document before? The surname Devereux is on the list.
https://huguenotsociety.org.uk/uploads/FRF_web.pdf
This older RC thread may help as well: https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=710920.0
It mentions there were/are many Devereux's found in East Anglia.
Weren't you researching another Huguenot name recently?
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Yes I am continuing to research HUGUENOT
FAUCHON for my husband's family
and PARMENTER for my son in law
The Huguenot research is certainly not easy because it has French beginnings and then English references...sometimes the surnames are anglicised.
Thank you for the help with Eliza DEVEREUX
I would like to find any Suffolk/Norfolk connections and be able to trace back to France.
Turramurra
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Eliza DEVEREUX married Samuel CARMAN by banns in 1816 at Redenhall with Harleston and Wortwell, Norfolk (FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-RD8D-Y?i=1582&cc=1823613)).
The will of William DEVEREUX (or DEVEREOUX, as catalogued at Suffolk Archives (https://www.suffolkarchives.co.uk/collections/getrecord/GB173_IC_AA1_231_9)), was proved in Suffolk Archdeaconry's probate court in 1811. An abstract made for the administration of death duty is currently downloadable free of charge from TNA (here (https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7862780)). It refers to property in Bury St Edmunds and Beccles. Eight children are named: William, John, Joseph, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Mary, Charlotte and Eliza. Most of them were baptized at Beccles between 1777 and 1794, their mother Elizabeth's maiden name (ELLIS) being noted from 1784. Eliza (born 7 July 1794) was baptized again at Redenhall with Harleston and Wortwell in 1813 (FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/5aba48cbf493fda8efea2767/eliza-devereux-baptism-norfolk-redenhall-1813-06-05?locale=en) + FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-RX99-XW?i=8)).
William DEVEREUX married Elizabeth ELLIS at Weston in 1772. His burial on 12 September 1810 is recorded in the parish registers of both Worlingham and Beccles, the latter with the surname DEVEREAUX and the same date of death (8 September) as a gravestone at Worlingham (Suffolk FHS transcripts). Aged 64, he would have been born c.1746, if not in Suffolk then perhaps in Norfolk, which the 1841 census appears to give as the county of birth for Elizabeth DEVEREUX of Mendham Lane, Redenhall with Harleston. She was not buried there (FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-RDD1-2?i=199&cc=1823613)) nor at Beccles, the only town mentioned in the announcement of her death in The Norfolk News on 31 May 1845:
On Friday, May 23rd, Mrs. Elizabeth Devereux, relict of Mr. William Devereux, Castle farm, Beccles, aged 95 years.
David
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Devereux is a Norman surname and pre dates the arrival of the Huguenots, people who came from the town of Évreux.
There are many Deveruex in Ireland too.
SM