Hoare Genealogy 04: The Hore/Hoar/Hoare families of the Plymouth-Exeter Axis.

By David G Hoare.

(Copyright © 2014, David G Hoare; part of the hoareorigins.co.uk website)

 

Created December 2014; last updated 26 July 2017

 

            In this paper I explore in more detail the Hore/Hoar/Hoare families which descended from the ten growth points in the early 1500s which I identified along the line of the road joining Plymouth and Exeter in the introductory paper in this series, ‘Hoare Genealogy 03’ (Hoare, 2014a). In this paper, I am concerned particularly with the origins of each family, how in subsequent generations each family multiplied and radiated outwards and, after the advent of census records from 1841, their occupations.

Table 1, taken from Hoare (2014a), lists the ten growth points with the number of their descendants.

Table 1. Growth clusters along the Plymouth-Exeter axis.

 

A

B

C

D

St Keyne

28

0

1548

1539

Landulph

730

54

1542

1540

Plymouth

44

0

1581

1581

Ugborough

970

83

1543

1538

Buckfastleigh

613

42

1600

1596

Bovey Tracey

322

4

1540

1537

Hennock

20

0

1541

1541

Risford/Chagford*

117

1

 

 

Bridford

268

12

1539

1537

Exeter

429

24

1544

1538

TOTALS

3541

220

 

 

Column headings: A – number of descendants excluding spouses; B – number of male descendants with birth date in range 1881-1911; C – earliest Hore/Hoar/Hoare christening; D – earliest record in parish register;* - genealogy taken from Acton (2016) and excludes descendants of Charles Hore (b.1703) and James Hore (b.1709) who are in ‘Genealogy Bow Brickhill’, see text and Hoare (2012).

 

            The H600 Project lists only one family branch K03 (Richard Hore, m.1330 in Chagford, Devon) along the Plymouth-Exeter axis which corresponds to the Hore family of Risford/Chagford, but the Project has no active participants associated with this family branch.

 

Contents:

1. Introduction.

2. The growth and radiation of families from the growth points.

2.1. Risford (near Chagford).

2.2. Bridford (and Christow).

2.3. Bovey Tracey.

2.4. Hennock.

2.5. Exeter.

2.6. Buckfastleigh.

2.7. Ugborough.

2.8. Plymouth.

2.9. Landulph.

2.10. St Keyne.

3. Conclusions

4. References.

 

1. Introduction.

 

In the introductory paper in this series, ‘Hoare Genealogy 03’ (Hoare, 2014a), I have argued and cited evidence that families sharing the same surname and separated by the sort of distances between the Hore/Hoar/Hoare families along the Plymouth to Exeter road (10‑15 km) may well share a common ancestor, and that the outward radiation of such families over the generations generally occurs by successive quite short migrations of families over the same sort of distances. These migrations are explored in detail in this paper for which I have provided a map (‘Atlas Devon’) patched together from an old road atlas on which the relevant towns and villages can be located. It is marked in National Grid 10 km squares allowing easy estimation of distances. This map can be displayed using Windows Photo Viewer (or a similar product), zooming in to a suitable size and dragging the screen to a suitable position.

I have included information on many of the towns and villages usually taken from the GENUKI Genealogy UK and Ireland website (genuki.org.uk) which draws on sources such as Lewis (1849) and White (1850). The population figures and information on local industries, etc refers to the early to mid 1800s.

The information on the occupations of members of the Hore/Hoar/Hoare families is drawn from the census returns from 1841. They are intended to convey an impression of the diverse range of occupations reported, and do not match one-to-one the family members, since some report several occupation at various stages in their lives. There appears to have been a minority engaged in higher status professional, managerial, clerical ‘white collar’ occupations. The majority were engaged in occupations related to town or village life requiring some craft skill (such as wheel wright), occupational training and responsibility (such as policeman) or trading competence (such as grocer). A fair number were engaged in agricultural or rural occupations requiring some skill, responsibility and/or training (such as farmer or thatcher) with a larger associated group working in supportive roles (such as carter or dairyman) or simply as labourers. Many women, but generally widows or younger single women, were engaged in domestic work (such as housekeeper or servant) or home-based industries such as dress making. Many, including some women, worked in local industries where they were available, particularly in the metal and china clay mining industry of central Cornwall. A very small group were destitute on parish relief or in the workhouse.

The genealogies arising from each Hore/Hoar/Hoare growth point are descendant charts generated by the Pedigree programme (e.g. ‘Genealogy Bovey Tracey’) in which the vertical lines linking together the members of each successive generation are marked with the number of the generation to make the charts easier to follow. Use the search facilities provided by your web browser to navigate in the genealogies by locating any word, etc  such as a name (e.g. ‘George William’), an occupation (e.g. ‘baker’), a place (e.g. ‘23 Front Street’) or a date (e.g. ‘23Aug1765’).

The geographical spread of the larger Hore/Hoar/Hoare families are shown very approximately in maps (e.g. ‘Map families Bovey Tracey’) which show a set of three nested areas into which the family had spread from its origin in the periods 1538-1600, 1538­­-1700 and 1538-1800 with relevant towns and villages identified.

 

2. The growth and radiation of families from the growth points.

 

Risford (near Chagford) is the only one of these growth points for which there is definite evidence of a Hore/Hoar/Hoare family before the start of parish records in 1538, back to the 1300s (Hoare, 2012). Three other growth points, Bridford (and Christow), Bovey Tracey and Hennock lie about 12‑15 km ESE from Chagford. The other growth points, Exeter, Buckfastleigh, Ugborough, Plymouth, Landulph and St Keyne then radiate outwards along the line of the Plymouth to Exeter road. Landulph, Plymouth and Exeter (through its port of Topsham) all have ready access to coastal shipping (cf ‘Map families Bovey Tracey’, ‘Map families Bridford’, ‘Map families Buckfastleigh’, ‘Map families Exeter’, ‘Map families Landulph’ and ‘Map families Ugborough’). The majority of the numerous descendants of the cluster of Hore/Hoar/Hoare families of Bovey Tracey, Bridford, Buckfastleigh, Risford (near Chagford), Exeter and Hennock lived in an area roughly bounded by Okehampton, Crediton and Talaton (15 km NE of Exeter) in the north, Exmouth, Brixham and Dartmouth in the south east, and Totnes and Dean Prior in the south west. Some migrated further. Branches of the Bridford family migrated eastward to Axminster in the 1820s and to Axmouth in the late 1860s and a branch of the Bovey Tracey migrated to Colyton (7 km SW of Axminster) in the mid 1850s. Branches of the Buckfastleigh family migrated north from Crediton to Braunton (8 km WNW of Barnstaple) and Bideford around 1710, and south to Plymouth in 1786, 1801, and 1873.

            In the cluster of Hore/Hoar/Hoare families of Landulph, Plymouth and Ugborough, the original Hore/Hoar/Hoare family of Ugborough moved the Plymouth in 1594 to join the Hore/Hoar/Hoare family already in Plymouth, and over the years a large Hore/Hoar/Hoare community developed in Plymouth which was increased by inward migration by the Landulph Hore/Hoar/Hoare family in the later 1770s and the late1790s and by the Buckfastleigh  Hore/Hoar/Hoare family in 1786, 1801 and 1873. A branch of the original Hore/Hoar/Hoare family of Plymouth migrated to Tedburn St Mary (10 km W of Exeter) in 1605 but the original Plymouth family recorded no Hore/Hoar/Hoare births/christenings anywhere after 1742.

            Meanwhile, a major branch of the Ugborough Hore/Hoar/Hoare family migrated from the Plymouth area 50 km westward to the mining area around St Stephen in Brannel (8 km W of St Austell) in 1713 where they multiplied, and a branch of this family migrated back 32 km ENE to St Cleer (5 km N of Liskeard) in 1769 and a Hore/Hoar/Hoare community developed at St Cleer and Liskeard.

            The Hore/Hoar/Hoare family originating at Landulph multiplied greatly and radiated outwards in several directions over the years. A branch of the family (John Hore, b.c.1621) migrated 12 km north to Buckland Monachorum in the mid 1640s and in the next generation radiated east to Powderham (10 km S of Exeter, whence many descendants radiated outwards), north to Launceston, and 40 km north and west to Lanteglos by Camelford (8 km SE of the north Cornish coast at Tintagel) whence their descendants migrated south west as far as the mining area of Crowan (4 km S of Cambourne) by the mid 1830s.

From the 1720s, the Landulph Hore/Hoar/Hoare family radiated further through the children and descendants of William Hore (b.c.1636). One branch moved 4 km south to Saltash where they multiplied and two branches of the family moved to Plymouth in the late 1770s. Other branches of this family radiated far to the north and west into an area roughly bounded by Lanceston on the north, St Enodor (10 km SE of Newquay) in the west and St Blazey, near the coast 3 km E of St Austell, in the south.

The Hore/Hoar/Hoare family of St Keyne had migrated south and west away from St Keyne by the late 1500s towards Fowey and Lostwithiel, and the family recorded its last Hore/Hoar/Hoare christening in 1659.

 

2.1. Risford (near Chagford).

 

            The Hore/Hoar/Hoare family of Risford near Chagford (H600 family branch K03; Richard Hore, m.1330 in Chagford, Devon) can be traced back to the early 1300s based on the Heraldic Visitations to Devon of 1531, 1564, and 1620 and the subsequent work of Captain Edward Hoare (Hoare, 1883) and Lieutenant-Colonel J L Vivian (Vivian, 1895). I reviewed these findings and suggested a genealogy combining the information from these two sources (Hoare, 2012) and subsequent careful research by Acton (2016) has improved this genealogy and substantially extended it into Buckinghamshire and beyond (see below). The data presented in this paper embeds this family in a wider Hore/Hoar/Hoare cluster and suggests that the Risford/Chagford Hore/Hoar/Hoare family may have radiated further than indicated in these earlier genealogies (cf ‘Genealogy Chagford’).         

The first new branch of the family starts with Ralph Hore (b.1613 in Spreyton) and youngest son of William Hore and Catherine Nott. I have linked him as grandfather via his son Robert (b.c.1638) to Ralph Hore (b.c.1660) who married Wilmott Mole in Exeter in 1680, on the grounds that Ralph was a very unusual name in the Hore/Hoar/Hoare genealogy at this time (these two Ralphs are the only occurrence of the name before 1893). Ralph Hore’s descendants recorded 34 Hore/Hoar/Hoare christenings including one male christening after 1880. John Hore (b.1693 in Exeter) moved the family to Buckfastleigh around 1720 and Elias (b.c.1720) moved on again to Stokeinteignhead (5 km E of Newton Abbott) to marry Dorothy Endle in 1747.

            The second new branch starts with Thomas (b.1681 in Spreyton), a great-grandson of William Hoare and Catherine Nott, who moved around 1715 with his wife Agnes and their family to Hennock where they had four more children. Thomas’s descendants recorded 13 Hore/Hoar/Hoare christenings, the last in 1785.

Subsequent research by Acton (2016) has revealed that William Hore (b.c.1698), son of Charles Hore and Lady Mary Buck, was appointed in 1722 as Rector of Bow Brickhill near Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, and that his younger brother James (b.1709) settled as a farmer in Bow Brickhill and by 1732 had started what proved to be a large family. Charles Hore (b.1703) became an attorney in London and Daniel Hore (b.1704) became an admiral in the Royal Navy. These findings are reported in ‘Hoare Genealogy 07’ (Hoare, 2016; ‘Genealogy Bow Brickhill’).

 

2.2. Bridford (and Christow).

 

            Bridford is a small village (pop.560) 11 km southwest from Exeter and 9 km northwest of the Plymouth to Exeter road. When the parish records started in 1537, there were two active Hore families in Bridford with parents Thomas (b.c.1514) and Elizabeth Hore and Nicholas Hore (b.c.1530). There was also an active Hore/Hoar/Hoare family in the neighbouring village of Christow (pop.624, 2 km southeast of Bridford) as evidenced by marriage and burial records soon after the parish records started in 1555 and I am treating these two as a single Bridford family from which there are 268 Hore/Hoar/Hoare descendants, the last in 1911. (cf ‘Map families Bridford’, ‘Genealogy Bridford’)

            The original Bridford Hore/Hoar/Hoare family soon moved from Bridford.  Richard (b.c.1551) and Johane Hore moved to South Tawton (18 km WNW of Bridford), Edward Hore (b.c.1558) moved to Crediton (13 km north of Bridford) while Christopher Hore (b.c.1572) moved 2 km south to Christow. The descendants of the Bridford Hore/Hoar/Hoare family radiated outwards over the years with christenings recorded in about 20 parishes in a domain bounded roughly by Exeter, Exmouth, Teignmouth, Newton Abbott and South Tawton (18 km WNW of Bridford), extending to Torquay and Paignton in the late 1800s. This was extended eastwards when Jacob (b.1791 probably in Christow) and Sarah Hoare moved to Axminster in the 1820s, and Edward (b.1835 in Exeter) and Anne Hore to Axmouth in the late 1860s. There were 12 male christenings after 1880.

The information on occupations provided from 1841 by the censuses reveals that the dispersed Hore/Hoar/Hoare family of Bridford engaged in a wide range of occupations which included school master (2), post master and rate collector while two were of ‘independent means’. Most of the men were engaged in various skilled trades or small businesses, as butcher (3), cabinet maker, fisherman (2), florist fruiterer greengrocer (2), golf caddy, grocer, hair dresser, mariner (4), mason (2), painter, postman (2) and telegraphist messenger, shoe maker (3), tailor (2) and white smith.  Several worked in the railway or industry as railway guard, platelayer and labourer (2) and stationary engineman. Notably there were seven Hore/Hoar/Hoare thatchers working in Doddiscombsleigh and Ide (5 km E and 10 km ENE of Bridford). There were two small farmers and a market gardener, and a number of men working in agriculture or building as builder’s labourer, carter, clay cutter, coal carter, farm servant (2), game keeper, gardener and agricultural labourer (14). The women worked as dress maker (7), general servant (3), housekeeper, milliner (2) and tailoress.

 

2.3. Bovey Tracey.

 

            Bovey Tracey is a small ancient town (pop. 1823) about 3 km northwest from the Plymouth to Exeter road set in fertile farming land but with some coal mining also. When the parish records started in 1537, there are three active Hore families, John and Agnes, William and Agnes, and Richard and Jo. John was recorded at his death as a collier, and William as a saddle maker. When Jo died, Richard married Elizabeth but had no children. William and Agnes’ child died as an infant. John married three times and had 13 children and 318 Hore/Hoar/Hoare descendants in this genealogy. (cf ‘Map family Bovey Tracey’, ‘Genealogy Bovey Tracey’).

            Many of John Hore’s descendants thrived at Bovey Tracey until the late 1700s. There were 50 Hore christenings recorded (18 in the 1500s, 25 in the 1600s and 7 in the 1700s) of which only two were not descendants of John Hore. The last Hore christening was in 1774.

            Most of John Hore’s remaining 268 descendants radiated outwards from Bovey Tracey to occupy an oval domain about 42 km by 22 km with the longer axis roughly aligned with the Plymouth to Exeter road and bounded by Totnes in the south, Crediton and Whimple (12 km ENE of Exeter) and Colyton (3 km N of Axmouth) to the north, Widecombe in the Moor on the north west and Teignmouth in the south east. Successive generations crisscrossed this domain with Hore/Hoar/Hoare christenings of descendants of John Hore of Bovey Tracey recorded in 34 villages or towns but not including Exeter. Four descendants were born after 1879, on the coast just south of Exmouth at Dawlish, Teignmouth and Shaldon.

The information on occupations provided from 1841 by the census returns reveals that the dispersed Hore/Hoar/Hoare family of Bovey Tracey engaged in a wide range of occupations which included brewer’s manager, churchwarden, school master and ship master. Most of the men were engaged in various skilled trades or small businesses, as baker, boot binder or maker (3), cordwainer, corn miller, mariner’s merchant (2), master cooper (2) or cooper, grocer (3), miner and seaman. There were four farmers, farming up to 74 acres, and a number of men working in agriculture as carter, dairyman (3), gardener (2), timber wagoner (timber) and general labourer (8). The women worked as dress maker (3), lace maker (2) and nurse.

 

2.4. Hennock.

 

            Hennock is a small village (pop. 828) about 3 km northeast of Bovey Tracey and 3 km northwest from the Plymouth to Exeter road. There were local deposits of pipe and potters' clay, and of tin, iron, lead and copper ore, of which the tin and iron were about to be worked by the "Hennock Iron-Steel and Tin Mining Company," in 1850. When the parish records started in 1541, they record the christenings from 1541 of the family of John (b.c.1516) and Margery Hore, and their descendants are recorded in 19 Hore/Hoar/Hoare christenings, the last in 1644. The last christening of this family in Hennock was in 1594 as the family radiated outwards when Thomas (b.1548 in Hennock) and Elizabeth Hore moved to Powderham (14 km W of Hennock in the Exe estuary) in the late 1570s, and in the next generation Roger Hore (b.1580 in Powderham) moved to Buckfastleigh and Gregory Hore (b.c.1580) moved to Ideford (8 km SW from Hennock), both in the early 1600s. (cf ‘Genealogy Hennock’)

            Although the original Hennock Hore/Hoar/Hoare family had left Hennock after 1594, the parish registers of Hennock record 32 Hore/Hoar/Hoare christenings, the most recent in 1785, mostly in incoming families who were the descendants of other Hore/Hoar/Hoare families. From the Bovey Tracey family, Thomas (b.1540 in Bovey Tracey) and Marget Hore came to Hennock in the late 1550s, as did George (b.1582 in Bovey Tracey) and Suzan Hore, and George’s brothers William (b.1585 in Bovey Tracey) and John (b.c.1594) and Elizabeth Hore between about 1609 and 1620. From the Risford/Chagford family, Thomas (b.1681 in Spreyton) and Agnes Hore moved to Hennock around 1715.

 

2.5. Exeter.

 

            Exeter was a city (pop.31,312) with its port at Topsham 5 miles to the south, but vessels of 150 tons came up to the quay at Exeter. It had a cathedral, court-houses, public institutions for charity and education, &c, and was the seat of an extensive foreign and domestic commerce, and particularly it had a share in the fisheries of Newfoundland and Greenland. It had flourishing manufacturing of serges and other woollen goods. It had eleven parishes for which records had started before 1600 of which eight started before 1570. The records of St Mary Arches (started in 1538) recorded the marriage of Robert Hore (b.c.1519) to his wife Elizabeth in 1544 whose descendants are recorded in 428 Hore/Hoar/Hoare christenings, of which 193 were in Exeter, the last in 1911. The other 235 descendants radiated out from Exeter, of whom two branches in the 18th century are of particular note. (cf ‘Map families Exeter’, ‘Genealogy Exeter’).

            The first started with James (b.1680 in Exeter) and Susanah Hoare who moved 25 km east-north-eastward to Honiton and had 73 descendants, the last christened in 1907 in Plymouth. Subsequent generations recorded christenings at Farway (5 km S of Honiton), Hawkchurch (19 km E of Honiton and 4 km E of Axminster), Axminster (4 km W of Hawkchurch) and Broadwinsor (10 km E of Hawkchurch in Dorset), Payhembury and Upottery (respectively 8 km W and 8 km NE of Honiton), Butterleigh and Cullompton (20 km NW of Honiton), and finally in the late 1800s to the Plymouth area.

            The second started with William (b.1721 in Exeter) and Elizabeth Hoare who moved (temporarily) 5 km north-westward to Newton St Cyres near Crediton and had 109 descendants, the last christened in 1908, who settled principally at Exmouth and Dawlish on the coast 15 km SE from Exeter, and at Lympstone, Topsham and Woodbury (respectively 12 km SW, 3 km S and 11 km SW of Exeter).

            The remaining 54 descendants of the original family of Robert (b.c.1519) and Elizabeth Hore of Exeter recorded christenings in about a dozen parishes in an area roughly bounded by Okehampton (33 km W of Exeter), Buckfastleigh and Teignmouth (about 25 km S of Exeter) and Talaton (15 km NE of Exeter).

            The Exeter parishes recorded a total of 282 Hore/Hoar/Hoare christenings (5 in the 1500s; 47 in the 1600s; 69 in the 1700s; 140 in the 1800s; 21 in the 1900s) of whom 193 were descendants of Robert (b.c.1519) and Elizabeth Hore. The remaining 89 were descended from ‘incomers’ from other Hore/Hoar/Hoare families, most notably Richard (b.1595 in Crediton) and Margaret Hore of the Bridford family whose descendants recorded 24 christenings in Exeter, and James (b.1793 in Tiverton) and Ann Hore of the Colyton family whose descendants recorded 31 christenings in Exeter.

The information on occupations provided from 1841 by the censuses reveals that the Hore/Hoar/Hoare residents of Exeter were engaged in a wide range of occupations. A few had professional qualifications as schoolmaster, law clerk, dentist and dental anaesthetist, and apprentice mechanical dentistry, and five had clerical work in a variety of shops and offices. More active jobs included commissioned Coast Guard boatman and railway policeman, and there were two naval pensioners. Most of the men were engaged in various skilled trades or small businesses, as boot and shoe maker, brush maker (3), butcher, cabinet maker, carpenter and joiner, coach smith, cordwainer, French polisher, hair dresser, mason (2), meter maker, painter (3), printer’s compositor (2) and linotype operator, hawker (licensed) in crockery, and tailor (2). Several worked in engineering as general brass worker (2), brass finisher, founder, and fitter (2), foundry man moulder and lacquer (engineer’s works). Some men worked in supporting roles as porters (11) and shop assistants (2).  The women worked principally as dress maker (5), house keeper, lace mender, laundress (3), needle woman and tailoress. There were five labourers, either in brick laying, gardening or general work.

           

2.6. Buckfastleigh.

 

            Buckfastleigh was, around 1850, a large manufacturing village on the Plymouth to Exeter road, in two parts, called Higher and Lower Towns. It had about 300 woolcombers, several corn mills, and four blanket and serge mills; but only two of the latter were occupied, and gave employment to about 400 hands. Its parish had 1525 inhabitants, in 1801, 2445 in 1831, and 2576 in 1841; its prosperity in the 1800s was derived from woollen manufacture, and also some manufacture of mantle pieces from local limestone, and some copper working.

When the parish records started in 1596, there are four active Hore families in Buckfastleigh with parents Robert (b.c.1575), William and Barbara, Roger, and Robert (b.c.1590) and Elizabeth. I have concluded that Roger was an incomer to Buckfastleigh, born at Powderham (10 km SW of Exeter) and from a family originating in Hennock (near Bovey Tracey) but there is no evidence that the three other active Hore families were recent incomers and I have assumed that they were part of a Hore community rooted in Buckfastleigh and the forebears of the Buckfastleigh descendants which numbered 597 in total. (cf ‘Map families Buckfastleigh’, ‘Genealogy Buckfastleigh’).

            A substantial Hore/Hoar/Hoare community developed in Buckfastleigh. There were 114 Hore/Hoar/Hoare christenings recorded (32 in the 1600s, 27 in the 1700s and 55 in the 1800s) up to 1899. Of the original four families, Roger contributed only his son, Roger, but the other three original Buckfastleigh families contributed 98 descendants.

            A neighbouring Hore/Hoar/Hoare community was soon established at Dean Prior, a small village (pop. 522) 4 km south of Buckfastleigh on the road to Plymouth where 124 Hore/Hoar/Hoare christenings were recorded, the last in 1911. This community started when the families of two brothers, William Hore (b.1620 in Buckfastleigh) and Samuel (b.1624 in Buckfastleigh) and Mary Hore, moved from Buckfastleigh from the mid 1640s, but William and Samuel had only 15 descendants at Dean Prior of which the last was christened in 1694. Of the remaining 109 Hore/Hoar/Hoare christenings at Dean Prior, 103 were descendants of William Hore (b.1663 at Staverton, a village 5 km east of Buckfastleigh), a later incomer in the mid 1690s but also a descendant of the original Buckfastleigh community.

            Similarly, a Hore/Hoar/Hoare community started in Chudleigh in the 1660s, 17 km from Buckfastleigh on the road to Exeter, with the family of William (b.1640 in Buckfastleigh) and Ann Hore. Burial records at Chudleigh suggest that there may have been an earlier Hore/Hoar/Hoare family thereabouts in the 1500s. There were 111 Hore/Hoar/Hoare christenings at Chudleigh of which the last was in 1851 and 88 of these were descendants of William and Ann.

            The Buckfastleigh Hore/Hoar/Hoare community spread much further afield when Roger (b.1676 in Ashburton, 3 km from Buckfastleigh on the road to Exeter) and Honor Hoare moved to Crediton (10 km NW of Exeter) in the late 1690s where they and their descendants recorded nine Hore/Hoar/Hoare christenings up to 1743. Of these, John (b.1700 in Crediton) and Penelope Hoare moved 50 km north east to Braunton (7 km west of Barnstaple) around 1710 and then on to Bideford where their descendants included 18 Hore/Hoar/Hoare christenings, the last in 1768.

            Apart from the migration to Crediton, Braunton and Bideford, the Hore/Hoar/Hoare family originating in Buckfastleigh radiated outwards over the years from Buckfastleigh, Dean Prior and Chudleigh recording christenings in 32 parishes in a narrow domain lying principally along and around the Plymouth to Exeter road, extending east to the coast around Dartmouth, Brixham and Paignton, and in the early 1800s reaching as far as Plymouth and Exeter. There were 87 male Hore/Hoar/Hoare christenings after 1880 distributed around this domain.

            The information provided about occupation and residence by the censuses from 1841 for 62 Hore/Hoar/Hoare residents of Buckfastleigh and Dean Prior reveals that a significant number moved to and fro between the two communities and that most of the men were engaged in various skilled trades or small businesses. In particular, 21 of the men worked as carpenters and/or wheelwrights, or even as a coach builder, and of these many worked and resided at Half Moon Court at the south west end of Buckfastleigh where there appears to have been a substantial business. Other male occupations included butcher (2), commercial traveller, cordwainer, grocer, iron and metal merchant, painter and glazier (2), paper maker, publican (2) and tailor. There were eight farmers, farming up to 300 acres and employing several men and boys, and three agricultural labourers, principally at Dean Prior, of whom Charles (b.1851) was both farmer and woollen manufacturer. The women’s occupations included domestic service (3), dress maker and milliner (4), ‘independent means’, school teacher (4), and six women employed at the woollen mills, as sorters or pressers.

            The occupations at Chudleigh included labourer (3), post master, rate collector, school teacher (2) and tailor.

 

2.7. Ugborough.

 

            Ugborough is a large village (pop. 1532) 20 km east of Plymouth on the road to Exeter set in farming countryside. When the parish records started in 1538, they recorded in 1543/4 the marriage of William Hore to Marjorie Beard and the first christening in their family and also the marriages of Alicia and Elinor Hore, then in 1550 the marriage of another William Hore to Margaret Barnacott and subsequently the christening of their family, which suggests that a Hore family was established at Ugborough in 1538. This Ugborough Hore/Hoar/Hoare family had 970 Hore/Hoar/Hoare descendants, but of these only ten were christened in Ugborough and the last of these, William Hore (b.1565 in Ugborough) moved to Plymouth where he married Welthan Burt in 1594. William and Welthan Hore had 957 Hore/Hoar/Hoare descendants (17 in the 1500s; 56 in the 1600s; 183 in the 1700s; 671 in the 1800s; 44 in to 1900s to 1911) of whom 119 were christened in Plymouth. (cf ‘Map familes Ugborough’, ‘Genealogy Ugborough’).

            A major branch of the Ugborough Hore/Hoar/Hoare family migrated 50 km westward when Thomas Hore (b.1687 in Maker, now a part of Rame and 5 km S of Plymouth) moved to St Stephen in Brannel (8 km W of St Austell) and married Jane Tregenza in 1713. Thomas and Jane Hore and their descendants recorded 567 Hore/Hoar/Hoare births/christenings of whom the majority were at St Stephen in Brannel or St Austell but with a minority radiating outwards into the mining villages to the southwest. However, a significant branch of this family migrated back 32 km ENE to St Cleer (5 km N of Liskeard) when Joseph Hoar (b.1736 in St Austell) moved to St Cleer to marry his second wife Ann Wilton in 1769. Joseph Hoar and his descendants recorded 152 Hore/Hoar/Hoare births/christenings of whom a majority were at St Cleer and Liskeard.

            The occupations revealed by the census returns since 1841 of the members of the Ugborough Hore/Hoar/Hoare family who were born/christened in Plymouth are shown as part of the Plymouth Hore/Hoar/Hoare community in the next following section.

            The occupations of the branch of the family which settled around St Austell in 1713 reflected to importance of the clay and metal mining industry in this area. The included agents in tin mines (2) and in life insurance, as well as work as blacksmith, brick maker (2), china clay miner (52), coachman, coal merchant, cooper, copper miner (3), groom, inn keeper, iron miner, miner (2), painter, smith, stationary engineman, tailor (2), telegraphist, tin miner (15), tin streamer (16) and wood merchant. There were a several farmers (10) of whom two worked holdings from 20‑30 acres and in related rural occupations agricultural labourers (10) and an ostler. The women’s occupations included assisting at home (3), copper ore dresser (3), draper’s assistant, dress maker (8), house maid (2), servant (4), teacher and upholstress.

The occupations of the branch of the family which settled around St Cleer and Liskeard in 1769 contrasted with the St Austell community in lacking the clay and metal mining industry, and included the boot and shoe trade, bus proprietor, grocer, hawker, labourer in gunpowder works, mason (7), miller (3), miner (3), sawyer (2) and tailor. There were a couple of farmers, one working a holding of 50 acres, and others in rural work as agricultural labourer (10), carrier (4) and woodman. The women were occupied as charwoman (2), cook, draper’s assistant, dress maker (3), house maid and servant. 

 

2.8. Plymouth.

 

            Plymouth was a major port and dockyard (pop.37058) with only one parish (St Andrews, with records starting from 1581) until the parish of Charles the Martyr started its records in 1645. Other parishes followed, Stoke Damerel (from 1720), Egg Buckland (from 1735), Devonport (from 1831), Pennycross (from 1841), Stonehouse St George (from 1856) and East Stonehouse (from 1863). I have treated these all as constituent parishes of Plymouth.

When the records started in 1581 there appears to be a Plymouth Hore/Hoar/Hoare family established with both Peter and Morrice Hore with active families. This original Plymouth Hore/Hoar/Hoare had 43 Hore/Hoar/Hoare descendants of whom 19 were christened in Plymouth, the last in 1713. A branch of this family migrated when Robert Hore (b.c.1580) moved to Tedburn St Mary (10 km W of Exeter) to marry Joane Burnell in 1605; his descendants recorded 17 Hore/Hoar/Hoare christenings all at Tedburn St Mary, the last in 1669.(cf ‘Genealogy Plymouth’)

There are 441 Hore/Hoar/Hoare birth and christenings recorded in Plymouth (3 in the 1500s; 49 in the 1600s; 54 in the 1700s; 318 in the 1800s; 20 in the range 1900-1911). Of these, the original Plymouth Hore/Hoar/Hoare family contributed only 16, and the descendants of William (b.1565 in Ugborough) and Welthan Hore contributed 119. The substantial growth in the Hore/Hoar/Hoare population in the 1800s appears to arise principally from the descendants of incomers from the Buckfastleigh and Landulph Hore/Hoar/Hoare families.

The Landulph Hore/Hoar/Hoare family had 210 births/christenings in Plymouth which started when Nicholas Hore (b.1726 in St John, 10 km W of Plymouth via the ferry to Torpoint in Cornwall) and his second wife Margaret, and his nephew John (b.1746 at St Stephens by Saltash, 7 km W of Plymouth over the Tamar Bridge) and Grace Hoar moved to Plymouth in the late 1770s. Nicholas had 115 Hore/Hoar/Hoare descendants of whom 85 were born/christened in Plymouth, and John had 44 Hore/Hoar/Hoare descendants of whom 28 were born/christened in Plymouth.  Later and from another branch of the Landulph family, John Hore (b.1773 in Dean Prior) moved to Plymouth where he married Sarah Spry in 1799; they had 35 Hore/Hoar/Hoare descendants of whom 22 were born/christened in Plymouth.

The Buckfastleigh Hore/Hoar/Hoare family had 57 births/christenings in Plymouth which started when Samuel Hoar (b.1760 in Buckfastleigh) moved to Plymouth to marry Mary Fewings in 1786, John Hoar (b.1777 in Dean Prior) followed to marry Jane Fuge in 1801, and John Henry Hoare (b.1836 in Buckfastleigh) followed to marry Jane Phillips in 1873.

The information on occupations provided from 1841 by the censuses reveals that the Hore/Hoar/Hoare residents of Plymouth were engaged in a wide range of occupations. A few had senior positions including manager of the Hayter Granite Company (2), accountant, bank manager and marine insurance broker with others in the associated clerical work of bank clerk/cashier (4) and clerical work in the post office, the railway and the timber trade. There were school teachers (2) and music teachers (2). In the Royal Navy’s employment, there were Marines officers (5), Greenwich pensioners (2), a naval pensioner and a gunner. The six daughters of a Marines officer worked as lodging house keepers. Other jobs included merchant seaman (3), policeman and railway porter. A number of Hore/Hoar/Hoare residents were involved in trade as auctioneer & furniture dealer, clothes dealer, coal merchant, draper, haberdasher and general merchant with others as associated shop assistants (3) notably with a dairy, a draper, a milliner and a tailor. Many of the men worked as skilled tradesmen as baker (4), blacksmith, bootmaker, carpenter, cycle repairer, dairyman (2), dyer (2), gardener, house painter (2) employing up to 3 men, mason, plumber (2) and upholsterer - and in the dockyards as boilermaker, bricklayer, hammer-man, rigger, sail maker and shipwright. The women’s skilled trades were as dress maker (2), milliner (2), stay maker, straw bonnet maker and waistcoat maker. Some of the men worked as general labourers (5) or as labourer in the tannery or the woollen mill, and the women as housekeeper or domestic servant.

 

2.9. Landulph.

 

            Landulph is a village (pop. 550) 10 km west of Plymouth across the River Tamar in Cornwall. When the parish records started in 1538, the family of William (b.c.1517) and Florence Hore appears to be established and active. Their descendants recorded 730 Hore/Hoar/Hoare births or christenings, the last in 1911, but of these only 35 were in Landulph, the last in 1716 while many of the others radiated out very significantly across Cornwall and Devon. (cf ‘Map families Landulph’, ‘Genealogy Landulph’).

            William and Florence Hore’s descendants remained in Landulph until the family of their grandson John (b.1583 in Landulph) and Rebecca Hore including their sons Mathew (b.1619), John (b.c.1621), Jonathan (b.1622) and William (b.1636).

            Mathew Hore (b.1619 in Landulph), eldest son of John and Rebecca Hore, and his wife Mary remained with their family in Landulph but Mathew’s younger brother Jonathan Hore (b.1622 in Landulph) migrated to Pillaton (5 km NW of Landulph) where he married his wife Jane Hawking in 1651 and brought up his family. Neither son had further generations of legitimate Hore/Hoar/Hoare descendants.

John Hore (b.c.1621), the second son of John and Rebecca Hore, moved 12 km up the valley of the River Tamar to Buckland Monachorum in the mid 1640s, whence John’s family migrated widely and recorded 252 Hore/Hoar/Hoare birth/christenings. His eldest son William Hore (b.1646 in Buckland Monachorum) moved 40 km north and west in the mid 1680s and settled with his wife Ann and his family at Lanteglos by Camelford (8 km SE of the north Cornish coast at Tintagel) and his younger brother Thomas Hore (b.c.1654) settled nearby around 1680 with his wife Katurah and his family at Davidstow (6 km NE of Camelford). A younger son Samuel Hore (b.c.1656) migrated 20 km in the same direction up the Tamar valley to Launceston where he married Jane Perkyn in 1681 and raised his family. Another younger son Israel Hore (b.1654 in Buckland Monachorum) moved 50 km northeast over Dartmoor to Exeter to marry his second wife Elinor Leeg in 1686, and Israel’s younger brother Simon Hore (b.1661 in Buckland Monachorum, see below) moved to Powderham (10 km S of Exeter) in the mid 1690s.

            William (b.1646 in Buckland Monachorum) and Ann Hore of Lanteglos by Camelford had 71 Hore/Hoar/Hoare descendants. William’s grandson Francis (b.1722 in Lanteglos by Camelford) migrated on the mid 1750s with his wife Hannah 35 km south west to St Enoder (pop.1153; 10 km SE of Newquay) and Francis’ son John Buncombe Hore (b.1753 in St Enoder) moved on in the early 1790s with his wife Maria to St Columb Minor (pop.2250; 4 km E of Newquay) where his Hore/Hoar/Hoare descendants recorded 61 births/christenings during the next three generations, and spread also to Newquay and 30 km south to Falmouth. The family migrated further when John Buncombe Hore’s son Richard Hore (b.1809 in St Columb Minor) and his wife Elizabeth moved 30 km south west in the mid 1830s to Crowan (4 km S of Cambourne) and Richard’s son William Hore (b.1836 in Crowan) and his wife Susannah moved in the mid 1860s on to Breage (12 km S of Cambourne).

The occupations of this branch of the family revealed by the census returns after 1841 included, for the men, blacksmith, butcher, gardener, general servant, husbandman, labourer (5), miller and sanitary inspector and, for the women, dress maker (4). Notably, in the coastal towns of Newquay and Falmouth, the occupations included Channel pilot, fisherman, mariner (2), Master Mariner, pilot, shipwright and stoker, in the mining centre of Crowan (pop.3984) they included copper miner (3), miner and tin miner (3), but at Breage (pop.4543) where there was china clay, the Hore/Hoar/Hoare occupations were mostly agricultural.

            Simon Hore (b.1661 in Buckland Monachorum), the younger brother of William (b.1646), moved to Powderham (10 km S of Exeter) in the mid 1690s where his descendants radiated outwards and recorded 158 Hore/Hoar/Hoare births/christenings. Simon’s son John Hore (b.1695 in Powderham) moved around 1720 with his first wife Grace to Topsham (5 km SE of Exeter) whence the family moved in the next generation to Bridford (12 km W of Exeter). John Hore (b.1695) later settled with his second wife Elizabeth in the late 1720s in Brixham (35 km S of Exeter) whence the family radiated in subsequent generations to Dean Prior, Totness, Buckfastleigh, Dawlish and West Teignmouth. John Hore’s grandson, John Hore (b.1773 in Dean Prior) moved 30 km further west to Plymouth to marry Sarah Spry in 1799. Quite substantial families of Simon Hore’s descendants built up, with Hore/Hoar/Hoare births/christenings numbering 31 in Dean Prior, 16 in Buckfastleigh and 61 in Plymouth. The occupations of the Hore/Hoar/Hoare residents of Buckfastleigh and Dean Prior are reviewed in the Buckfastleigh section.

William Hore (b.c.1636), the youngest son of John (b.1583 in Landulph) and Rebecca Hore, and his wife Rebecka also had many descendants recording 447 Hore/Hoar/Hoare births/christenings. The descendants of their eldest son John (b.1662 in Landulph) and his wife Margaret migrated 40 km west northwest when Nicholas Hoar (b.1691) moved to Bodmin to marry Jane Clemo in 1717, and south when Matthew Hore moved to St John (8 km S of Landulph) to marry Martha Frank in 1721. Matthew and Martha’s descendants moved on to Saltash (4 km S of Landulph) and Antony and Sheviock (8 km S of Landulph) from the mid 1740s. The family flourished at Saltash recording 26 Hore/Hoar/Hoare births/christenings, and William and Rebecka’s great grandson Nicholas Hore (b.1726 in St John, 10 km W of Plymouth via the ferry to Torpoint in Cornwall) and his wife Margaret, and Nicholas’ nephew John Hore (b.1746 at St Stephens by Saltash, 7 km W of Plymouth over the Tamar Bridge) and his wife Grace moved to Plymouth in the late 1770s where they had many descendants (cf Plymouth section). The occupations of those who migrated to Plymouth are reviewed in the Plymouth section.

The descendants of Cyrus Hore (b.1666 in Landulph), the second son of William (b.c.1636) and Rebecka Hore, and his wife Mary recorded 181 Hore/Hoar/Hoare births/christenings and from the 1730s radiated far to the north and the west, up the valley of the Tamar past Pillaton, Callington, Stoke Climsland and Linkinhorne (15 km N of Landulph) to Lewannick, Lezant and South Petherwin (22 km N of Landulph), then skirting west along the southern fringe of Bodmin Moor via St Cleer, St Neot, Warleggan and Cardinam to Bodmin, and further west to St Enodor (10 km SE of Newquay) and south to St Blazey, near the coast 3 km E of St Austell. The occupations of this branch of the family revealed by the census returns after 1841 included, for the men, baker and master baker, blacksmith (3), butcher, boiler maker and hammer man, bootmaker, clerk in timber trade, confectioner, cycle repairer, inn keeper, insurance agent, mason, miner, plumber, publican, Royal marine, shipwright, skilled labourer in naval ordnance and watch and clock maker, and for the women, dressmaker and housekeeper. Notably, there were twelve farmers, some with substantial farms of up to 200 acres, radiating northwest from farmer and quarry owner at Saltash (3), to farmer at Pillaton, Callington (2), St Cleer (2), Linkinhorne, Lezant (2) and Lewannick (2), with men working on farms as cowman, farm servant, agricultural labourer and rabbit trapper (2).

 

2.10. St Keyne.

 

            St Keyne is a small village (pop.213) 20 km west of Plymouth across the River Tamar in Cornwall. When the parish records started in 1539, the family of John Hore (b.c.1528) appears to be established and active. John’s descendants recorded 28 Hore/Hoar/Hoare births or christenings, the last in 1659, but of these only 4 were in St Keyne, the last in 1581. The family migrated in the early 1600s to St Martin by Looe (7 km S of St Keyne), Fowey (15 km SW of St Keyne) and then to Duloe (2 km SW of St Keyne) and Lostwithiel (15 km W of St Keyne). (cf ‘Genealogy St Keyne’).

 

3. Conclusions.

 

These results suggest two areas of particular interest and priority.

 

(1) The Hore/Hoar/Hoare family of Risford near Chagford (H600 family branch K03; cf section 2.1 above and ‘Hoare Genealogy 02’) and its living descendents and DNA haplogroup. Although the Hore/Hoar/Hoare family of Risford is the only Hore/Hoar/Hoare with an established pedigree back to the early 1300s, we have so far no information on its DNA haplogroup, to establish whether it may be the progenitor of other Hore/Hoar/Hoare family, nor any reliable information of living descendants from which DNA results might be obtained. William Acton’s excellent work tracing the family forward to Bow Brickhill in Buckinghamshire has yet to identify living descendants. Jose J Hoard has claimed (cf ‘Hoare Genealogy 02; section 1) that the Hore family of Axminster (H600 Project family branch B01), for which a well established DNA haplogroup has been established, are descendants of the Risford family but she has not cited the essential supporting evidence. Progress in this area will be of great interest.

 

(2) A common ancestor for the Hore/Hoar/Hoare families of south Devon. Table 1 above shows a very significant cluster of Hore/Hoar/Hoare families in south Devon and beyond Plymouth into Cornwall. Their descendants criss-cross this area and extend widely beyond including into the mining and clay clay industrial areas of Cornwall and many were born in the 1881-1911 period suggesting that there are living descendants. The origins of these families are sufficiency close geographically to suggest that they may a common ancestor but so far we have no DNA results to test this idea.

           

4. References.

Acton (2016); ‘Hore of Risford Pedigree’ by William Acton, in ‘Research and Information’ section of this website Hoareorigins.co.uk.

Hoare (1883) “The Early History and Genealogy of the Families of Hore and Hoare.” Captain E Hoare. (Alfred Russell Smith, 36 Soho Square, London 1883)

Hoare (1999) “Hoare Genealogy 01: Origins of the Hore and Hoare Families: A Progress Report.” D G Hoare, in this website.

Hoare (2012) “Hoare Genealogy 02: The Family of Hore of Chagford, A Review.” D G Hoare, in this website.

Hoare (2014a) “Hoare Genealogy 03: The location and early radiation of Hore/Hoar/Hoare families.” D G Hoare, in this website.

Hoare (2014c) “Hoare Genealogy 05: The Hore/Hoar/Hoare families of Cornwall and North Devon.” D G Hoare, in this website.

Hoare (2014d) “Hoare Genealogy 06: The Hore/Hoar/Hoare families of East Devon and Dorset.” D G Hoare, in this website.

Hoare (2015) “Hoare Genealogy 07: The Hore/Hoar/Hoare families of Hampshire, Sussex and Wiltshire.” D G Hoare, in this website.

Hoare (2016) “Hoare Genealogy 08: The Hore/Hoar/Hoare families of the Buckinghamshire Cluster.” D G Hoare, in this website.

Hoare (2017) “Hoare Genealogy 09: The Hore/Hoar/Hoare families of Kent and Surrey.” D G Hoare, in this website.

Lewis (1849). Topical Dictionary of England. Samuel Lewis.7th edition. (S.Lewis, 13 Finsbury Place, London)

Vivian (1895) “The Visitations of the County of Devon comprising the Herald’s Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620 with additions by Lieutenant-Colonel J L Vivian” (Henry S Eland, Exeter, 1895).

White (1850) White's Devonshire Directory (1850).