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		The pictures show Tom Havill my Great Grandfather with wife Annie Bovett and daughters Clara, Emma and Winifred. They are thought to have been taken in Wimbledon, shortly after the family's move from Devon.

My co-researcher on these pages is George Riley. A great deal of the commentary and details on the early Havills are the result of his work. George has visited the descendents of Richard 1800 at Havill Farm in Canada.

The page map below links to pages for later families and locations for earlier records. It covers what we think is the main line of our descent. We have come to refer to them as the 'St Thomas Havills' as most of their records are in that registration district of Devon.

There is another group of Havill families that we have come to term the 'Exeter Havills'. There is a link to their own page map at the bottom of this page.

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The origins of the Havill family are to be found in Devon, where the early pre-18th century records confirm the Havills` were few in number and widely dispersed across the southern and eastern areas of the county.

Parish records, where they exist, usually record events with the minimum of detail, but some early wills give a tantalising glimpse into early Havill mill families and how for one such family the Havill name died out.

The records from the late 17th century to the 19th century show that for this period most of the Havills` were born and lived within an area formed from several contiguous parishes roughly centred on and around an area to the east of Exeter, identified as St Thomas. The 1851 census confirms this concentration by listing a total of 104 Havills resident in Devon, almost all living within the St Thomas area. Their occupations reflected the nature of a predominately rural society, and included farmers, butchers, gardeners, blacksmiths, masons, carpenters, cordwainers, and labourers, with some women working from home in the lace industry.

In the 19th century the development of the railways accelerated the migration of Havills from the area, many of whom made their way to London to ply their trade. In the 1881 census out of a total of 364 recorded Havills, 104 were living in Devon, whilst many of those born in the greater London area were descended from Devonian Havills. Many of our more recent Havill forebears can be found from within the Devon migrants.

The 'St Thomas' Havills

Click on the underlined names to open the detailed page.

Withycombe Raleigh	----------------	Plymtree Talaton Ottery St Mary Feniton Bradninch	------	Whimple South Molton Bishop's Nympton

John 1709

Henry 1719

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Elizabeth 1802

Elizabeth Esther

George 1865

Frank 1883

William

Clifford Havill

Richard 1895

Sylvia Bertha 1893

Florence Louisa 1880

Emily C 1869

Emma 1892

Peter

Birge 1921

Laurie MacIntosh Patterson
1924

George Riley 1910

Vera Collier 1899

Patricia Eileen Walder
1919

Gladys Emia Walder
1917

The Walder Family Link is on the site Home Page

David

Don Patterson

George Riley

Gerald Webber

Geoff Nutting

Paul Couper

Rodney Webber

The 'Exeter' Havills

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