Hoare Genealogy 05: The Hore/Hoare/Hoar families of Cornwall and North Devon.

By David G Hoare.

Created: December 2014; last updated: 26 July 2017

In this paper I explore in more detail the Hore/Hoare/Hoar families which descended from the coastal growth points in the early 1500s which I identified in Cornwall and north Devon in the introductory paper in this series, ‘Hoare Genealogy 03’ (Hoare, 2014a). Here, 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. The genealogy in this area has been enhanced by the family tree reported by Shona Hore (Hore, 2016) originating with William Hore (b.1475) and centred around Roche and St Austell before her branch of the family emigrated to Australia and New Zealand.

Table 1, taken from table 2 in Hoare (2014a) lists the five growth points with the number of their descendants.

Table 1. Growth clusters around the Devon and Cornwall coasts.

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G
St Austell	1299	116	1700	1564	3	45
St Just	201	3	1576	1540	0	75	5 km NE of Falmouth
Kilkhampton	363	18	1540	1539	5	370	7 km NE of Bude
Hartland	1	0	1562	1558	4	392	5 km W of Clovelly
Barnstaple	5	0	1542	1538	0	412
TOTALS	1869	137

Column headings: A – number of descendants excluding spouses; B – number of male descendants with birth date>1880; C – earliest Hore/Hoare/Hoar christening; D – earliest record in parish register; E – distance from the coast/km; F – distance from Plymouth along the coast/km; G – location.

The H600 Project lists only one family branch (B20) in the Cornwall and North Devon area (cf section 1.1 below).

Contents:

1. Introduction.

1.1. Relating this research to the H600 Project.

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

2.1. St Austell and Roche.

2.2. St Just in Roseland.

2.3. Kilkhampton.

2.4. Hartland.

2.5. Barnstaple.

3. Conclusions.

4. References.

1. Introduction.

The five Hore/Hoare/Hoar growth points considered in this paper are more widely spaced than the 10‑15 km spacing between the Hore/Hoare/Hoar growth points along the Plymouth to Exeter road considered in ‘Hoare Genealogy 04’ (Hoare, 2014b). This raises the question whether migrations of around 50 km by road, or greater distances by coastal shipping, may also provide a mechanism by which these growth points may share a common ancestor.

The migrations involved in the growth and outward radiation are explored in detail in this paper for which I have provided a map (‘Atlas Cornwall’) on which the relevant towns and villages can be located, and which is marked in National Grid 10 km squares allowing easy estimation of distances. The information on towns and villages is 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/Hoare/Hoar families is drawn from the census returns from 1841. The genealogies arising from each Hore/Hoare/Hoar growth point are descendant charts generated by the Pedigree programme (e.g. ‘Genealogy St Just’) 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 St Just’) 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.

These practical matters are explained more fully in the ‘Introduction’ section of ‘Hoare Genealogy 04’ (Hoare, 2014b).

1.1. Relating this research to the H600 Project.

The H600 Project lists only one family branch (B20) in the Cornwall and North Devon area and its defining ancestor (John Hore, d.1589 in Roche, Cornwall) is a member of the St Austell and Roche family in this paper. The Y-DNA of this family branch places it in haplogroup R1b-U106 but this is based on the identification of only a single SNP-U106 marker. However, this is sufficient to suggest that the B20 family branch diverged at least 4500 years ago from the other family branches currently listed in the H600 Project. Shona Hore is a descendant of the B20 family branch who has published a family tree documenting the emigration of her family to Australia and New Zealand and this is included in the St Austell and Roche genealogy and discussed in section 2.1. below.

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

The largest Hore/Hoare/Hoar clan in this area grew from the growth point at St Austell and the neighbouring village of Roche and over the years expanded principally to the south west where many of its members worked in the metal and china clay mines. Another Hore/Hoare/Hoar clan grew from the growth point at St Just in Roseland, near to Falmouth, and soon expanded principally northwards to the mining community at Kenwyn adjoining the city of Truro where they were augmented in the 1790s by the south‑westerly migration of the St Austell/Roche clan (cf ‘Map families Coastal’).

Another substantial Hore/Hoare/Hoar clan grew from the growth centre at Kilkhampton near to Bude on the north Cornish coast near to the boundary with Devon. This clan expanded principally to the east and north into Devon as far at Bideford and Barnstaple on the north Devon coast around 1730, joining a branch of the Buckfastleigh family which had arrived in the 1720s. The parish records also contain evidence of early Hore/Hoare/Hoar growth points at the small town of Hartland near Hartland Point, the most north-westerly promontory of Devon, and at Barnstaple, but neither of these two growth points yielded many Hore/Hoare/Hoar descendants.

The growth points at Kilkhampton, Hartland and Barnstaple appear to have been established when parish records began in 1538 but the growth point at St Just, and possibly the growth point at Roche, appear to have started a generation later. If these growth points share a common ancestor with each other and with the growth points around Plymouth, Exeter and Colyton, then migration via coastal shipping would seem to provide a plausible mechanism, although communication between Roche and Plymouth along the Penzance road would also be feasible.

2.1. St Austell and Roche.

The town of St Austell and the neighbouring village of Roche, both in the tin, copper and china clay mining area of Cornwall, are both growth points for the Hore/Hoare/Hoar family and I have treated them as two branches of a single growth point for reasons discussed below. (cf ‘Map families Roche-St Austell’, ‘Genealogy St Austell’).

Roche is a large village (pop.1863) 8 km northwest of St Austell and 45 km west of Plymouth on the road to Penzance, set in high moorland where there was tin mining, and near to the clay-mining villages of Stenalees and Bugle 4 km to the south-east. When the parish records started in 1571, the family of John Hore (b.1552) seems to be established. Shona Hore’s family tree (family branch B20 in the H600 Project; 101 Hore births, 1475-1994) can be embedded in the wider ‘best-fit’ genealogy of the area; it provides three generations before John Hore (b.1552) back to William Hore (b.c.1475) but without specifying locations, and requires the tentative insertion of one extra generation (Lancelot Hore) between 1601 and 1706 for compatibility. If an interruption in the baptismal records of Roche from 1623 to 1680 is bridged with two hypothetical Ancestor Roche Hore’s, the Hore/Hoare/Hoar descendants of William Hore (b.c.1475) recorded 1299 births/christenings (20 in the 1500s; 55 in the 1600s; 308 in the 1700s; 845 in the 1800s; 72 in the 1900s).

St Austell is a substantial town (pop.10750), historically a centre of tin and copper mining and since 1780 also for china clay mining. Although it is only 3 km from the coast it appears to have had no port until the tiny fishing village of Charleston, which worked from the beach, was developed as a port for the china clay industry in the late 1700s, but the small ports of Mevagissey, Tywardreath and Fowey were only 7 km to the south and 5 km and 12 km to the east, respectively, providing possible access to coastal shipping. Marriage records are available online since 1564 but baptismal records only since 1690 (although earlier records since 1564 are catalogued). These online records suggest that the Hore/Hoare/Hoar family came to St Austell with John Hore (b.c.1596), possibly from the same origins as the Hore/Hoare/Hoar family of Roche, who married Jane Keyme at St Austell in 1621, but John Hore’s descendants recorded only 15 Hore/Hoare/Hoar births/christenings, the last in 1762 in St Austell.

The first parish records of a Hore/Hoare/Hoar family established in 1572 at Roche are 30 years after the first records of Hore/Hoare/Hoar families in the early 1540s further to the east around Plymouth at Landulph, Ugborough, Bovey Tracey, Hennock and Bridford. The earlier members of the family back to William Hore (b.c.1472) from Shona Hore’s family tree are not linked to any location. Family links by migration of about 45 km between these growth centres at Roche and around Plymouth seem very possible, either via St Austell by coastal shipping between Plymouth and Fowey, Tywardreath or Mevagissey, or by the Plymouth to Penzance road.

Some of the descendants of John Hore (b.c.1547) of Roche multiplied at Roche recording 159 births/christenings, the last in 1900. The census returns from 1841 reveal that most of the men were engaged in the iron, tin or china clay mines as china clay labourer/miner (5), engine driver/tin miner, iron labourer, labourer (2), miner (1) and tin miner/streamer (4), but two worked as cab driver and as railway packer. The miners sometimes changed their occupation to and fro between tin and china clay mining. The women’s occupations included farmer (widow) and farmer’s daughter (dairy), housekeeper and servant.

The first radiation of the Hore/Hoare/Hoar family from Roche probably arose when Robert Hore (b.c.1638) moved 6 km ESE to Luxulyan in the mid 1660s, but his descendants only recorded six Hore/Hoare/Hoar births/christenings.

When Benjamin Hore (b.1689 in Roche) moved to St Austell in 1711 to marry Ann Rogers, joining the descendants of John Hore (b.c.1596), his family multiplied recording 303 births/christenings, the last in 1911, of which 150 were in St Austell.

A substantial Hore/Hoare/Hoar community built up in St Austell recording 562 births/christenings (133 in 1700s; 411 in 1800s; 18 in 1900s to 1911). Of these, 381 were descended from the Roche/St Austell Hore/Hoare/Hoar family and 187 from the Ugborough (20 km E of Plymouth) Hore/Hoare/Hoar family. The latter arrived when Thomas Hore (b.1687 in Maker, 5 km from Plymouth) moved to St Stephens in Brannel (8 km W of St Austell) and married Jane Tregenza in 1713, and subsequently several of their sons and their descendants moved to St Austell. Some descendants have been counted twice in this calculation as Lancelot Hoar (b.c.1718) of the Roche/St Austell family married Elizabeth Hore (b.1717 at St Stephen in Brannel) of the Ugborough family in 1743 so their descendants belong in both families.

The principal occupations declared in the census entries from 1841 for the male members of the Hore/Hoare/Hoar community born/christened in St Austell were in the mining industry. Some worked in a variety of types of mine as clay labourer (68), copper miner (6), iron miner (3), lead miner (3), miner (6), mine labourer (2), tin miner (23), tin mine labourer (7) and tin streamer (27). Others worked in related roles in the mines as clay wagoner, engine fitter, haulage engine tender, mine engineer (2), miner whim driver (2), stationary engine driver (2) and tin mine agent. Some of the women also worked in the mines as clay labourer (6), mine girl (2) and tin labourer (2). It was not uncommon for a person to move between the various types of mining, and there was a marked overall shift from a predominance of mining metals in the mid 1800s to a predominance of clay mining in the late 1800s, as the clay mining industry rapidly grew in size.

In parallel with mining work, some members of the Hore/Hoare/Hoar community born/christened in St Austell also worked as farmers (21) with farms ranging from 3 to 150 acres. Related occupations included land agent, land steward, and two farmers combined farming with being clay agent and agent of a tin stream work. Others worked on farms as agricultural labourer (11), cattleman, dairy maid (5) and wagoner (3). There were also a variety of other occupations for the men as bank clerk, carpenter, carrier, coal merchant, coast guard, coats carrier, cooper, house servant, inn keeper, mason, tailor, victualler and miller, and wheel wright and, for the women, as domestic assistant, draper’s assistant, dress maker (5), general servant (3),house keeper (2), house maid (2), milliner, teacher and upholstress.

Apart from the substantial Hore/Hoare/Hoar communities at Roche and St Austell, the descendants of the Roche Hore/Hoare/Hoar family radiated outwards during the 1700s to record 118 Hore/Hoare/Hoar christenings in about 20 parishes in a triangular area bounded by Falmouth and Gwennap (12 km NW of Falmouth) in the south, Tywardreath (5 km E of St Austell), Lostwithiel and Bodmin in the east, St Teath and St Breock (11 km NE and 3 km W of Wadebridge respectively) to the north. This outward radiation gathered momentum in the 1800s and early 1900s recording 450 Hore/Hoare/Hoar births/christenings in about 50 parishes principally in a triangular area bounded by Mylor (4 km N of Falmouth) and Phillack (5 km E of St Ives) in the south west, St Ervan (12 km NNE of Newquay) in the north, and Plymouth and Tavistock in the east, but with several more far-flung parishes towards the end of this period.

Many of the men’s occupations in this extensive family, revealed by census entries from 1841, were in mining as clay labourer (10), copper miner (6), lead miner (2), miner (3), stone quarryman (2), tin miner (16), and in related occupations as engine driver (3), engine worker, mine foreman, stationary engine man, and timber man in tin mine. One woman described herself as a tin mine labourer. These occupations were centred around St Austell and Roche but extended over an area stretching 25 km to the south west bounded by Kenwyn (in the western suburbs of Truro) and St Agnes (pop.6673; 10 km N of Redruth, near the coast and “one of the great mining districts in Cornwall abounding in tin and copper”), and 35 km to the north east bounded by Linkinhorne (pop.2005, 12 km NE of Liskeard) where there had been tin mining and streaming since the mid 1600s, and Menheniot (pop.1944, 5 km ESE of Liskeard) where the discovery of lead in 1843 caused a minor boom in mining and the population doubled in a very short time. The enormous social consequences for the village were matched only by the dramatic physical change, with massive engine houses soon dominating the skyline. By the 1870s the boom had collapsed, the miners sought pastures new and the village reverted to its agricultural life.

There was a variety of other male occupations as accountant, post master, reporter (2), solicitor’s clerk and as baker (2), boot/shoe maker (4), butcher (2), carpenter (5), coachman (2), coal merchant (2), cooper, grocer (3), draper (3), general merchant, groom (2), mariner (2), mason (2), ostler, painter, plumber, railway packer/plate layer (2), servant/coachman, shoemaker, smith, tailor, wagoner, warehouseman, with also post office assistant, grocer’s assistant (3) and pauper. The women were occupied as apprentice/assistant in drapery (2), domestic duties/help (5), dress maker (11), house keeper (4), post office assistant (2) and teacher (4). Agriculture was also important with farmers (5) working farms ranging from 7 to 300 acres with others in supporting roles as horse man and agricultural/farm labourer (24).

2.2. St Just in Roseland.

The parish of St Just in Roseland (pop.1557) includes the town of St Mawes which lies 5 km to the east of the port of Falmouth across the estuary of Carrick Roads. The estuary provides access to the port of Truro 10 km to the north. The first Hore/Hoare/Hoar entry in the parish baptismal records, available from 1540, is for the family of John Hore (b.c.1549) in the mid 1570s. In view of the absence of any Hore/Hoare/Hoar entries in the preceding 35 years, it seems probably that John Hore was an incomer to the parish, and may well have arrived via coastal shipping from the Hore/Hoare/Hoar families which had been thriving at least since the early 1540s at Landulph near Plymouth, at Exeter and at Colyton near Seaton and Axmouth. (cf ‘Map families St Just’, ‘Genealogy St Just’).

The family of John Hore (b.c.1549) of St Just multiplied, recording 200 Hore/Hoare/Hoar births/christenings (9 in the 1500s; 34 in the 1600s; 91 in the 1700s; 66 in the 1800s) of which the most recent was in 1890. Of these, only 10 were at St Just, the last in 1625 as the family soon radiated outwards. John Hore himself migrated 15 km north east around 1590 to St Ewe where is daughters Johana and Elizabeth were christened, and his eldest son Thomas (b.c.1574) migrated 15 km up the estuary to St Clement (4 km SE of Truro) in the late 1590s. John Hore’s second son Stephen remained at St Just but his eldest son John (b.1600 at St Just) migrated with his wife Katherine 17 km NNW to Perranzabuloe (9 km NW of Truro) in the mid 1630s, and his two youngest sons Stephen (b.1625 at St Just) and Francis (b.c.1639) both migrated 12 km north in the mid 1660s up the estuary to Kenwyn, a village adjoining the northwest suburbs of Truro where Stephen’s descendants established a substantial Hore/Hoare/Hoar family recording 149 Hore/Hoare/Hoar births/christenings of which 116 were in Kenwyn or Truro.

The Hore/Hoare/Hoar community at Kenwyn and Truro recorded 200 Hore/Hoare/Hoar births/christenings of which the most recent was in 1903. Nearly all of these were accounted for by 130 descendants of the St Just Hore/Hoare/Hoar family and 45 who had originated by migration southwest from the Hore/Hoare/Hoar family of Roche and St Austell when Robert Hore (b.1768 in St Austell) moved to Kenwyn in 1792 to marry his second wife Frances Ralph. The census returns since 1841 reveal that the majority of the men were occupied in mining as copper miner (8), lead miner (2), mine foreman, miner (7), timberman in tin mine and tin miner (16), and two women who described themselves as miners. There were two farmers and a market gardener with other men working as farm labourer/servant (6) and women as agricultural labourers (4). Other male occupations were carpenter, cattle dealer, horse dealer and reporter, and for the women domestic servant (3), dress maker (2), general servant, housekeeper, monitress at school and tailoress in factory.

The 70 descendants of the St Just Hore/Hoare/Hoar family who were not born/christened at Kenwyn or Truro did not radiate outwards beyond the triangular area bounded by Helston in the south, St Agnes (10 km N of Redruth) in the north and St Just in the east, with the exception of John Hore (b.1830 in Kenwyn) who migrated with his wife Jane and his family to Linkinhorne (12 km NE of Liskeard) to work in the tin mines. The census returns since 1841 show that these descendants were also principally miners (at Perranzabuloe and Linkinhorne) but also included a cabinet maker and a general dealer.

2.3. Kilkhampton.

Kilkhampton is a large village (pop.1221) 6 km NNE from the small port of Bude (pop.2100) on high ground near the north Cornish coast on the road to Bideford in Devon (the ancient Ridgeway). When the parish records started in 1539, the family of John Hore (b.c.1515) was active in Kilkhampton and his descendants multiplied and ultimately recorded 362 Hore/Hoare/Hoar births/christenings (8 in the 1500s; 29 in the 1700s; 77 in the 1700s; 236 in the 1800s; 12 in the 1900s up to 1911), the last in 1911. The origins of this family could well have been linked via the port of Bude and coastal shipping to other Hore/Hoare/Hoar coastal growth points at St Austell, Landulph, Exeter or Colyton. (cf ‘Map families Kilkhampton’, ‘Genealogy Kilkhampton’).

The family did not remain long at Kilkhampton and the two sons of William Hore (b.1540 at Kilkhampton) migrated to nearby parishes. Nicholas Hore (b.c.1570) moved to Marhamchurch (pop.584; 3 km SSE of Bude) in the mid 1590s but his descendants recorded only 10 Hore/Hoare/Hoar christening, the last in 1633. His brother John Hore (b.c.1570) moved around 1590 with his wife Agnes to Buckland Filleigh (pop.275; 22 km east of Kilkhampton) in Devon and their descendants recorded the other 352 Hore/Hoare/Hoar births/christenings of the Kilkhampton family. However, the Kilkhampton Hore/Hoare/Hoar family later returned to Kilkhampton when William Hore (b.c.1730) moved from Bideford to Kilkhampton in the mid 1750s, and Henry Hore (b.1769 in Cookbury, 15 km ESE from Kilkhampton) moved to Kilkhampton in the mid 1790s. Their families recorded 39 Hore/Hoare/Hoar births/christening in Kilkhampton, the last in 1911.

During the 1600s the family radiated outwards from Buckland Filleigh, 12 km N to Buckland Brewer (pop.1103; 8 km SW of Bideford), 12 km ENE to Dolton (pop.922), 5 km WSW to Bradford (pop.530) and 22 km W to Launcells (pop.728; 3 km E of Bude). During the 1700s the family migrated to ten other parishes within a similar general area bounded by Bideford and Northam (3 km N of Bideford), Roborough by Torrington (15 km SE of Bideford), Black Torrington (21 km S of Bideford), Whitstone (8 km SE of Bude) and Morwenstow (9 km N of Bude).

A significant Hore/Hoare/Hoar community developed at Bideford and Northam, 3 km to the north, recording a total of 86 Hore/Hoare/Hoar births/christenings, the last in 1906. Bideford (pop.5211) was a prosperous town and port. “In 1685, many French Protestants settled in the town, and established the manufacture of silk and cotton; a great quantity of wool was imported from Spain and, in 1699, its trade with Newfoundland was inferior only to that of London and Exeter. Ship-building is extensively carried on: during the late war (written in 1840), several frigates were launched at this port, and there are eight or ten dockyards, in which smaller vessels are built. The principal articles of manufacture are cordage, sails, and common earthenware; there are also several tan-yards, and a small lace manufactory.” Northam is a large village (pop.3578), pleasantly seated on the peninsula between Barnstaple Bay and the river Torridge. Its parish includes the pretty little seaport of Appledore, and Westward Ho!

The original Hore/Hoare/Hoar family of Barnstaple who arrived at Bideford in the 1560s were succeeded by a branch of the Buckfastleigh Hore/Hoare/Hoar family when the family of John (b.1700 in Crediton) and Penelope Hoare moved from Braunton (7 km west of Barnstaple) to Bideford around 1720 where their descendants included 13 Hore/Hoare/Hoar christenings. The Buckfastleigh family were then joined by the Kilkhampton family when Thomas Hore (b.c.1705) and his wife Elizabeth moved from Dolton (12 km ENE from Buckland Brewer) to Bideford around 1730 and his brother Erasmus Hore (b.c.1712) moved with his wife Ann to Northam in the mid 1730s, and they were joined subsequently by other members of the Kilkhampton family. The census returns after 1841 show that some worked in the boat building industry as foreman at shipbuilder yard, ropemaker, ship carpenter (2) and shipwright (3). Most however worked in other occupations as assurance agent and school master, or as boot and shoe maker (4), carpenter, cordwainer (2), discharged soldier (Chelsea pensioner), joiner, printer/compositor (2), plumber, postman, smith and tailor (2). Some worked agricultural labourer (2) and stonecutter labourer. The women’s occupations included assistant in shop, dress maker (2), employee at collar/shirt factory and teacher.

During the 1800s the Kilkhampton Hore/Hoare/Hoar family radiated outwards to another 38 parishes as far as Plymouth and Exeter. The census entries since 1841 reveal that their occupations varied widely (excluding those at Bideford and Northam listed above). There were two landed proprietors (at Kilkhampton and at Pancrasweek, 8 km SSE from Kilkhampton) and two farmers farming 100 acres and 5 acres. Many worked in agriculture as labourers (21) (one on the roads) and other occupation in this area were cattleman, engine driver (assistant), gardener, rabbit trapper, steam thrasher and store quarry man. Others worked as skilled craftsmen or small businessmen as AB Seaman gunner, baker, blacksmith, boot dealer, box maker, bricklayer, brick man and tile maker, carpenter (2), glove maker (cotton), glove maker (leather), grocer journeyman, joiner (2), lace factory worker, mason (3), porter, railway guard, railway signalman, rigger, shoemaker, smith, tailor and teacher. The women’s occupations included char woman, domestic help (2), dress maker (3), farm labourer, general servant, house keeper, housemaid, laundress, glove machinist, glove maker, glove maker (silk, 2), lace mender, organist and teacher (3). There was one pauper.

2.4. Hartland.

Hartland is a “small decayed market town” and parish (pop.2223) 20 km W of Bideford on high bleak land near Hartland Point, the northwest extremity of Devon. It had access to the sea at Hartland Quay, 3 km west of Hartland. Parish records are available from 1559 and record the marriages of Agneta and Alicia Hore in 1562 and 1571, and the christening of (the possibly illegitimate) Jane, daughter of Mary Hore in 1613 but no subsequent christenings. There is therefore some evidence of an early Hore/Hoare/Hoar family at Hartland which could have been linked via Hartland Quay and coastal shipping to other Hore/Hoare/Hoar coastal growth points at St Austell, Landulph, Exeter or Colyton.

2.5. Barnstaple.

Barnstaple was a prosperous port (pop.7902) on the estuary of the River Taw with a woollen industry. When parish records began in1538, the family of Harry Hore (b.c.1517) appears to have been active in Barnstaple but his two sons, David (b.c.1531) and Richard (b.1542 in Barnstaple) moved 15 km southwest to Bideford where each recorded the christening of a son after which the family recorded no further births/christenings. However, a Hore/Hoare/Hoar presence in Barnstaple was re-established when Edward Hoar (b.c.1793) of the Kilkhampton Hore/Hoare/Hoar family moved with his wife Mary 11 km east from Northam to Barnstaple around 1815.

The Hore/Hoare/Hoar family at Barnstaple could well have been linked via coastal shipping to other Hore/Hoare/Hoar coastal growth points at St Austell, Landulph, Exeter or Colyton.

3. Conclusions.

The main question of interest and priority arising from these results is whether the Cornish Hore/Hoar/Hoare families of St Austell and Roche, of St Just, and of Kilkhampton (cf table 1 above) share a common ancestor with the cluster of Hore/Hoar/Hoare families of south Devon (cf ‘Genealogy Hoare 03’). Coastal shipping would have provided communication between Exeter (Topsham), Plymouth and Landulph in the Devon cluster and St Just and Kilkhampton in Cornwall. St Austell is not far from the coast but without a nearby harbour in 1500s but would have been accessible by road from Devon for migrants seeking work in the local mines at Roche. DNA results for Devon and Cornwall are required to address this question but so far only one DNA result based on a single marker is available for St Austell/Roche (cf section 1.1 above).

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