Notice
Elizabeth Howard sadly passed away 24th September 2023. This website and the others listed below are in a read-only state for preservation.
This is the website covering the history of the Glover family in North Devon, England.
If you have a relation to this family or the others below, please contact me:
Bennetts of Greenwich, London, England
Rogers of Wiltshire, Somerset and Devon, England
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Elizabeth
Glovers History
Glover family history
Picture of Parkham, taken May 2003
Surnames come in three broad groups. Place names such as those with ton or ham at the end, personal names such as Rogers, Peters , Jackson , Anderson etc and trade names such as Taylor, Mason, Smith and Glover. And to a certain extent with these three categories , you have a greater or lesser chance of finding documentary evidence of their lives . With the place name people , inevitably you will have at some period, land ownership or tenanting, and with that comes the chance of wills , IPMs , land tax assessments, subsidies , musters, Hearth Tax and many other bureaucratic documents. With the latter two categories the chances are slimmer although there are always the Overseers and Churchwardens accounts , settlement certificates and removal orders , local bureaucracy, and despite the paucity of their belongings, wills . ..
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