Eastnor, Herefordshire, Devereaux family research
QI am emailing in the hope that someone may be able to help me as I am currently well and truly ‘stuck’ with a problem – trying to find the ancestors (parents) of a Thomas Devereaux, a labourer, who married Margaret Hatton in Berrow in 1700, thereafter living in Eastnor. Whereas we have found another Thomas Devereaux born in 1665 in Castlemorton and dying in 1669, this cannot obviously be the ancestor of ‘our’ Thomas Devereaux
Assisted by my friend, we have exhaustively searched parish records; Eastnor Castle records do not cover pre 1700 land records (we enquired about this on the assumption ‘our’ Thomas Devereaux may