The Westaway Chronicle

The Westaway Chronicle is an extremely useful source for all Westaway researchers. Bob Westaway used an exemplary systematic approach to his family research which he records in detail in the book. Ron Upham and his daughter Marianne helped him and extracted many of the Westaway names from various parish records and typed up the book for Bob. Another Westaway researcher, Loveday Coombes also helped. The study included extracting information from the original Sampford Courtenay Manorial deeds which are held by Cambridge University and the background social history of the period, which together give a great incite into life in the Devon village during the period 1506 to 1790. Whilst some of the early trees have since been proved to be inaccurate, (the discovery of the wills), the rest of the content is very thorough. The book was published in 1989 and unfortunately Bob has since died. There were very few copies and these can only be found in some Devon Record Offices, The Devon Family History Centre and the Society of Genealogists. Bob's daughter, Elaine has very kindly given me permission to publish on the internet some of the book, but at the moment there is alot of editing to do because Ron originally typed it out on an Amstrad Computer which is not PC compatible. However below is the index which clearly illustrates the depth of his study and some examples of early manorial deeds.

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