Search Locates A Cousin

The search by Mrs Pamela Smith, of Rostrevor, South Australia, for other descendants of her great grandfather, Thomas Judd, of St Giles-in-the-Wood, has succeeded. It has turned up another cousin.

He is Mr Derek J Hambly, of Judd Farm, Pyworthy, but, remarkably, the Judd after whom the farm was named had nothing to do with this family.

Mr Hambly has written to Mr Gordon Judd, of Westward Ho! whom Mrs Smith contacted in the first place, saying that he is the great-great-great grandson of Patience and Peter Judd, parents of Thomas and Frederick who, with their wives, sisters Caroline and Christina Nethaway, and an unmarried brother, William Judd, emigrated to Australia in 1857.

What was not known by Mrs Smith, suggests Mr Hambly, was that another marriage took place between the families. Ann Judd, sister of the three brothers, married at St Giles-in-the Wood on February 4, 1857, Henry, the brother of Caroline and Christina, two brothers and a sister having married two sisters and a brother.

Henry and Ann Nethaway lived at Dogaport, Langtree, the old Nethaway Farm, and had two children, Henry Ezekiel and Mary Ann. Henry was Mr Hambly’s great grandfather.

He adds that he has done some research on the Nethaway family tree and, with the help of a cousin in Canada, has traced it back to a marriage in 1709. And he explains that although the Judd ancestors were on his mother’s side of the family the farm that is his home was from his father’s side.

From Torrington to New Zealand – and Reverse

On their way this week to the other side of the world were a Torrington doctor and his family. Due soon to make the trip in the reverse direction is a New Zealand doctor and his family.

The ‘swop’ of jobs, which will last six months, is between Dr Ben Armstrong, his wife Gillian and their three sons, of Torrington, and Dr David Robins, his wife Catherine and their three children, who live on New Zealand’s North Island.

The two doctors met at Oxford and were later house doctors together at Truro. The idea of exchanging practices, their houses and even their cars appealed to both of them.

Dr Robins, who is due to arrive in North Devon on Monday week, will join three other doctors at Torrington in a practice based at the town’s health centre. Dr Armstrong will work in a group of six in an urban practice. They will revert to their own jobs in July.

Bound For Cambridge

An exhibition to Clare College, Cambridge, has been gained by Siobhan Fallon, of Sylvantor, Beech Road, Westward Ho! a student at North Devon College.

Aged 17, she is the younger daughter and third of six children of Mr James Fallon, a master at Edgehill College, Bideford, and Mrs Teresa Fallon, a nurse at the Health Centre.

Siobhan will spend this year studying for additional GCE A-levels and intends then to work on the Continent for a year before going to Cambridge to read English. She is keenly interested in journalism. Her sister is now studying at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Gazette article dated 6 January 1978