WINGATEs & WINGETTs - Kingsbridge tree

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On this page: [Introduction] [Where's Kingsbridge?] [Other Names]

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I kept coming across these Dodbrooke and Kingsbridge folks so I thought I would try and make some sense of it all.    The families mostly spell their surname WINGATE or WINGETT.

Two families?

By the time of the first useful census in 1841, there appear to be two family branches in the area:

• WINGEAT/WINGET in Dodbrooke, and
• WINGATEs in Kingsbridge itself

It is just possible that these two families are related because William WINGET, aged 51, in Dodbrooke is a Mason, the same profession as John WINGATE, aged 48 in Kingsbridge.  They could be cousins.  However, until we find out more definitely, I have put them on separate pages.  Select the links above for more information.

Kingsbridge - where is it?

It's in Devon, England.  Link to the England Map

More specifically it's in South Devon at the head of the Salcombe-Kingsbridge Estuary.

Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey   and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland.

Link to a more detailed Devon Local Studies map of the area and a modern photo looking towards the probable location of Addlehole farmhouse. Link to a Genuki Devon page for  Kingsbridge and Dodbrooke Link to Ray Osborn's South Hams pages for Kingsbridge, and Dodbrooke. Link to Kingsbridge Museum resource page and the Kingsbridge History Society's brief history of the town.

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Other Names

BELCHER, BROWN, CHANTER, COLE (2X), COOMBES, COUCH, COWLING, CRIMP (3x), CROSS, DAMMERELL/DAMARELL/DAMRELL/DOMERILL, DOWNING, EASTERBROOK, EDWARDS (3X), FAST, HAYMAN, HILL, HURFORD, JAMES, JARVIS (X2), KELLOND, LAMBLE, MUTTON, PARSLEY (2X), PATEY, QUICK, ROSEWEARE, RYDER, ROWE, SHILLABEER, STEER, STEVENS, THORNE, THORNING, THORNTON, WEEKES (2x), WHITE, WOTTON

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