Wear Gifford

[deb usa]

Hi Trees

I found this photo ... The Swan Inn, Torrington Street, Bideford....isn't it great to know your people lived/worked there? 

it's soooo pretty.

[deb usa]

Trees ...I think it's for sale ...shall we buy it?? 

this looks like an older photo or it could be newer ..not sure 

[bucksboy]

I had a good few pints in there, when I lived in Bideford.

Can't say I got the 'friendliest' reception, when I said I lived the other side of the river.  A bit of friendly rivalry between East the Water and West the Water(Bideford).
 
Lovely town.

Steve.

[deb usa]

I'm envious , Steve.... it looks so quaint!

deb

[Trees]

Yes it does look pretty i found the sale info earlier such a shame so many of these old houses are closing i do hope this one stays as a pub.
Steve are you still close to Bideford? any chance you can take a copywrite free photo for my collection please and the Royal there are so many HEARD connections in the family its only going to be time before these link in too
 
Been with fil most of the day so need to go over the whole thread and make sure the tree is up to date before I get back to finding more. I have now been in touch with one of Mary Jane Arnold's grandsons and need to check his notes too gosh this started as a very simple question and in less than a week you have built up a wonderful bushy family
Many many thanks
H

[Oxongirl]

I've followed this thread with interest I would agree with what has been suggested about who married whom as far as the Janes'go.  I am descended from John (Jury) Arnold's daughter Anna Arnold Jewry who was christened in Monkleigh on 13 FEB 1825. She married a John Parr (using the name Arnold) on 16 Jan 1844 at the Register Office in Bideford.  Interestingly one of the witnesses is a Ann Hookway.
I have to a degree become stuck at this point, since it seems likely that John Jury's father was an Arnold probably a John but back from then i'm not sure.  Ann Berman is also a sticking point as I can see some Bermans around  in Devon in the 1840's and 50's, but I had wondered if actually it could have been Berriman, Burman, Beerman etc but not really come up with any candidates.
Another fact to add to the mix is that John Jury is likely to have a brother William who was Christened In Ashreigney as William Jury mother Hannah in 1805

[Trees]

Hi Oxon girl  welcome to Rootschat I'm sure you will get a lot of help and meet many friends along the way. As you can see we can find quite a lot in a short time between us.
You need  to do 3 posts before you can use the PM system and we do not post our e mail addresses on the boards so please contact me through my web site and I'll put you in touch ( if you want me to) with one of the other researchers who has been tracing the Arnolds for quite a time ( the one who decends from Ann b 1844)  and i will let you have what i now have with the help from DebUSA

Welcome also to the extended and extending family 
Trees

[Trees]

Taking a look at the HEARDs in the Royal Oak they had a bootboy working there
William H BLIGHT from Shebbear worth noting he my fit in somewhere sometime it was interesting to see a metal works manager from Swansea there too there was a great deal of trade between S Wales and Devon at that time.

[Trees]

Oh my I can see on the 1871 census that John Dark's mother was a Grace  Dark and john was born in Alwington 1822. now I have a Grace Dark b 1825 on my main tree father John

ooops getting off topic sorry
back to the Arnold/Hookway /Jurys