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Title: Devon notes and queries
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Amery, Peter Fabyan Sparke, d. 1907 Amery, John S Rowe, Joshua Brooking, 1837-1908
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Publisher: Exeter, England : J. G. Commin
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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er age). Will dated May 1st, 1771 ; proved Nov. 13th,1772. In the parish records of East Greenwich is theentry of burial of Sybilla Halley, 1772, surgeons widow.This last will proves that Dr. Edmond Halley hadone granddaughter; why not twu ? There should bea record of the birth of the daughter or daughters ofSurgeon Halley and Sybilla Halley his wife, perhaps atGreenwich, circa 1720-1735. Dr. E. Halleys younger daughter, Katherine, or Catherine,was twice married ; first, to Richard Butler, of St. Martins-le-Grand, widower, Oct. 2, 1721 ; secondly, Henry Price, butseems to have died without issue by either marriage. Among the witnesses to will of Humfrey Halley, No. 2was Thomas Mewce, which lends colour to the supposedrelationship between the Halley and Mewce families ofLondon. P.S.—Commenting further upon Sybilla Halleys will,Mr. R. J. Beevor says: We know from the will ofSybilla Halley that the astronomer had a granddaughter,and there is but little ground for concluding that he had
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Devon Notes and Queries. 197 but one. Sybilla Halleys will reads like that of a personin no very affluent circumstances. Her two daughters, wemay suppose, both predeceased her. The granddaughterswho lived with her at Greenwich had the first claim on her.The children of her other daughter were able to supportthemselves, or had migrated to Scotland, Ireland, or evenacross the seas. Why, except to oblige the genealogists ofthe next century, should they be mentioned in her will ? MS. 180, penes Society of Antiquaries, is said to relate tothe parish of East Greenwich. Eugene F. McPike. 112. Tympanum at Bondleigh.—In the accompanyingillustration of an early Norman carved stone tympanumover the internal doorway of the south porch of Bondleighparish church, may be descried two birds, presumably doves(though one more resembles a parrot), standing one on eachside of the Agnus Dei enclosed in the circle of Eternity. I remember seeing somewhere a drawing of two dovesperched on the rim of a bowl

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