Robert Eastchurch of Kingsteignton

[Lee Ross]

Hello,

I've got a baptism record for Thomas Eastchurch in Kingsteignton in 1681 that lists his father as Robert Eastchurch of ?Teigngow?

I'm struggling to find a locale/estate by this name but likely I'm reading it wrong. Does anyone have information on the 17th century Kingsteignton Eastchurch family that might be able to help?

The other children I could find for this Robert Eastchurch and his wife Mary are Samuel (1683), Elizabeth (1688), Agnes (1690), Susanna (1692) and Thomasin (1693). All baptised in Kingsteignton but no other mention of a location but Robert is variously listed as gent or Mr in these records. 

I have tentatively linked this Robert Eastchurch (1640-1713) as the son of Thomas Eastchurch and Thomasin Balle (d. 1640 shortly after his birth), she was possibly of the Balle family of Mamhead. His father Thomas might be the Thomas Eastchurch of Kingsteignton (a 1655) that married Susan Waltham (bpt 15.04.1621, a 1655). Link: https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/ww/waltham1.php

Thanks in advance for any help

[Kay99]

Might it relate to the nearby settlement of Teigngrace ??  https://maps.nls.uk/view/257576651#zoom=5.8&lat=7445&lon=4370&layers=BT

[Lee Ross]

It might but I haven't been able to find a connection of the Eastchurches to Teigngrace but I'll keep looking.

I did find something possibly interesting in the 'History of Chudleigh':
"Its western boundary, the Teign, (anciently written and now generally pronounced Ting, called by the Britons, for that " it is narrowly pent with narrow banks") is thus described by Lysons, " rises on the borders of Dartmoor with two heads meeting near Holy-street, Chagford, near Whiddon Park and Moreton Woods, near Dunsford, Christow, Hennock, Chudleigh-Knigh ton, and Teigngrace, where on an estate called Teignyeo, it is joined by the Bovey-river, thence to Kingsteignton ; hereabouts it becomes a wide estuary, and falls into the Sea between Shaldon and Teignmouth, its course having been about thirty miles."
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_History_of_Chudleigh/oNEIo5SDiHMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Teignyeo%22+chudleigh&pg=PA90&printsec=frontcover
Could it be a version of Teignyeo perhaps?

[Kay99]

It certainly looks more like Teignyeo

[Lee Ross]

Some interesting history about what happened to 'Twinyeo Farm'
https://www.geocities.ws/anthonyblackmore/hist3.html

Can't quite link the Eastchurches yet but the estate was a settlement in Domesday Book so it's been around for a while
https://opendomesday.org/place/SX8476/twinyeo/

[Kay99]

Fascinating -  I think this is the location https://maps.nls.uk/view/106005647#zoom=4.3&lat=9625&lon=7319&layers=BT

[goldie61]

Could it be a version of Teignyeo perhaps?

The last two letters of the place name in the baptism entry are "ow".
The letter before it COULD be a 'y'.
The word 'Yeo' is pronounced 'yow', with the 'o' pronounced as a capital 'O', (Yo).   (I've lived in a place with 'Yeo' as the place name!).
The rest of it is actually spelt 'Teing' - the 'n' coming before the 'g' as you would normally get in 'Teign'.
Whether this is just a slip by the vicar is anybody's guess, but it would mean a pronunciation more like 'Ting' than 'Teen'.