AROUND THE TOWN AND OVER THE POND - 09: 'CLIMBING THE CONANT FAMILY TREE IN OLD ENGLAND'
Continued from https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2024/06/around-town-and-over-pond-08-from.html AROUND THE TOWN AND OVER THE POND A walk around Budleigh Salterton to interest transatlantic visitors. Every so often there’s a diversion which may inspire you to visit places like East Budleigh, Exeter, Sidmouth, Colyton or even places in the United States and Canada. The walk is set out in parts. Here’s the ninth part: Still at the Raleigh Wall. 0.9 CLIMBING THE CONANT FAMILY TREE IN OLD ENGLAND 1. A news cutting from the Boston Globe newspaper, 13 September 1905 American visitors to the UK sometimes ask whether any of Roger’s descendants live in East Budleigh, hoping to meet offspring of his numerous siblings, and perhaps imagining that Conant family reunions take place in Britain as they do in the US. Looking down on the graves in All Saints’ churchyard from the tower No trace re...