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Devizes

Market Place in Devizes Great Porch House. St Mary's Church in Devizes. Coaching inn near St Mary's Church. The Bear Hotel. A narrow street leading to the church in Devizes. St John the Baptist, Devizes. Near St John the Baptist Churchyard. Near St John's Church. Millennium Cross at St John the Baptist.

Halcomb:

A family with connections to the Bear Hotel, as well as some other establishments in Devizes.

King:

This family traces through a number of parishes in Wiltshire back to the early 1700s.

McIlquham

Part of an important family with connections to the Kennet and Avon Canal.  

Betty HALCOMB,  1768

Hetty HALCOMB,   1776

James HALCOMB,   1780

John HALCOMB,   1763

Mary HALCOMB,   1772

Nancy HALCOMB,   1775

Richard HALCOMB,   1771

William HALCOMB,   1770

William HALCOMB,   1790



Albert KING,  1865

Alfred KING,   1866

Amy Lavinia KING ,  15 March 1897

Catherine Mildred KING,   1895

Constance Gertrude KING,   1887

Dorothy Ida KING,   1890

Elsie Elizabeth KING,   06 August 1888

Emma Louise KING,   1881

Ethel Mary KING,   1883

Leonard Charles KING,   1891

Marjorie Winifred KING,   25 March 1898

Martha KING,   1868

May KING,   1894

Walter KING,   1870


Alice Louisa McILQUHAM,   1862

Ellen Sabina McILQUHAM,   1867

Hester Kate McILQUHAM,   1871

Martha Maria McILQUHAM,   Abt Sep 1860


Also born in Devizes:

Harriett FILLIS,  1855

Laura Mary Selvina HAYTER,  Abt 1824

Harry Lowe PRYOR,  1875

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Neate:

The father of these children was probably a linen draper.

Elizabeth NEATE,   1737

Jane NEATE,   1726

Martha NEATE,   1722

Robert NEATE,   1725

Thomas NEATE,   1729

William NEATE,   1731


Devizes is a market town, receiving its charter in 1141.  Nearby is Caen Hill where there is a flight of 16 locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal

In the News ……….. 1914

The death of William King.

In the News ………. 1775

William Halcomb takes over a public house in Devizes.

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