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Location: Devon, England

Surnames/tags: England Devon

Profile managers: Elizabeth Viney

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Our goal is to ensure that all Devon profiles are of a high standard, as complete as possible, and connected to the global tree.

Team Members and Specific Interests

Team Leader: Fran Weidman

:Team Members:

Oscar Evans |
Weldon Smith | Earliest Devon ancestors
Courtney Birkes | Chittlehampton (OPS); Saunders, Symonds surnames
Cathy Crandall |
Pip Sheppard |
Steve Bartlett |
Sally Douglas |
Dave Roberts | Roberts, Deal, Tutton, Hockridge, Stitson, Barrett, Curry.
Martin Hobbs-Watson |
Susan O'Callaghan |
Duane Merritt |
Carol Collins |
Rob Pavey | Surnames: Pavey, Ellacott; Places: Yarcombe, Stockland, Plymouth.
Alison Palmer |
Marian MacLeod |
Terry Conroy | Surnames; Wilton, Courtenay,
Denise Barrett |
Kai Schenck |
Neil Stewart | surnames: Duniam Dinham Harper Babb Places: Teignmouth, St Juliens (Newfoundland)
Jamie Karagianis |
Keith Bowden |
Carol Keeling |Main surnames Alger, Langworthy, Veal, Baker, Allen, Paige, Grey, Massey
Cyndee Bayer |
Stuart Beavis |
Sam Steel |
Fran Weidman | Stuckes, Bidgood surnames. connecting, unknowns
Stephanie Hill |
Tracy Frayne |

Devon Maintenance Categories

The statistics for Devon are here:

Devon Statistics

The latest statistics for England and all counties are here:

England Regional and County Statistics

and a commentary is here:

England Statistics Commentary

Research Resources

Images: 3

Historic Map of Devonshire

Flag of Devon

Devon with England map

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Comments: 8

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[Living Rayner]

HI. Could you arrange to upload a flag and Coat of Arms for use in immigrant movements please. I have a Flag loaded as https://www.wikitree.com/photo/png/Occupation_Image_Capture-6 for use in https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Elliott-15810 . It would make more sense to reference from your team this image. Thanks, Craig

posted Jan 30, 2022 by [Living Rayner]

Jo Fitz-Henry

Hi Craig, the full set of county flags for England and Wales are on the UK Flags page. The link to the Devon flag is https://www.wikitree.com/photo/png/UK_Flags-5 Edit: I have added the image to this page.

Jo, England Project Managed Profiles team coordinator

posted Jan 30, 2022 by Jo Fitz-Henry
edited Jan 30, 2022 by Jo Fitz-Henry

[Living Rayner]

Thanks Jo, I have found other county flags on the County Team pages, which is very helpful, as the poor Wikitree Search and Naming policy ensures that you never find the Devon Flag unless it is somehow linked to Devon. The fact that it is call UK Flag X does nothing to help the search process, The same issue happens in the Australian Team, with Australian Flag x for each state.

My issue is that the site could be so much better, and easier to use, with a simple rename of images. I will get off my soap box now and thanks for the pointer to UK Flags. Will add that to the search list. Craig.

posted Jan 30, 2022 by [Living Rayner]

Joe Farler

Hi Jo, this is a Devon flag for post 2003, created by Boy Scouts I think. It would not apply to most of the Devon profiles on Wikitree ! I had labelled it as post 2003 to avoid confusion and inappropriate usage, but it looks like somebody has changed that ( without collaboration or communication before editing )

posted Mar 06, 2022 by Joe Farler

Jo Fitz-Henry

Joe, Devon did not have a county flag of any description before 2003 until the county adopted St Petroc's cross. I had added all the adoption dates of all the England county flags back in July 2020 on the UK Flags page so that purists could choose not to use a recently adopted flag. Of the 40 county flags for England, 29 have been adopted since 2000 and all are recognised by the UK Flag Institute.

As Craig noted, there wasn't a Devon county flag uploaded to this page until about a month ago when I linked the one from the UK Flags page.

posted Mar 06, 2022 by Jo Fitz-Henry

Joe Farler

Yes. But it’s probably best to reinstate the “post 2003” to the flag’s name/ title to make it clear. Otherwise it could easily be used inappropriately on older profiles by mistake. And in the future there could be thousands of suggestions based on “wrong flag for time period”....

posted Mar 06, 2022 by Joe Farler

Pip Sheppard

Found a unique surname (for WikiTree) in Parracombe, Devon: Bagbeer. One family I created was for this father Christopher: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bagbeer-2. I cannot connect them to others of similar spellings in Devon or the several in Somerset that I found, but it could be an interesting project for someone. There are a multitude of spellings of the name, some of which can be found on Christopher's profile.

posted on EnglandDevonCountyTeam (merged) Nov 20, 2019 by Pip Sheppard

Sally (Rowe) Douglas

Delighted to be joining the Devon team. Thank you!

posted on EnglandDevonCountyTeam (merged) Jun 19, 2019 by Sally (Rowe) Douglas