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- - Peter Tarr (http://genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=3916)

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Peter Tarr

Date and place of birth
1845, Bickington, Devon. I've never found a birth ref for him.

Names of parents
John Tarr & Susan (Northcott)

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
7th December 1845 Bickington Parish Church Found on PR.

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
5th November 1868 to Elizabeth Luscombe Willcocks at West Ogwell Parish Church in Devon

Occupation(s) - if any
Farmer & dairyman

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on.
1851 - 2 New house, Bickington, Devon
1861 - Knighton, Ilsington, Devon
1871-91 - South Knighton, Ilsington, Devon,
1901-2 - Farm House, Ilsington
1911 - 44 Tudor Road, Newton Abbot with his daughter Lilian. (his wife was still alive but was hiding on the 1911)

Date, place and cause of death
31st May 1923 according to One World Tree - I've got the GRO ref but haven't ordered the cert yet
EDIT 19-04-2010 Just received the cert - he died on 26th May... maybe 31st was a burial date??
"senile decay"

Date and place of burial / cremation.
unknown

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
unknown

Memorial inscription - if any
unknown

I suppose you've looked at this birth in Crediton district, Devon?

It's not that close to Bickington but the only Peter Tarr in Devon

June qtr 1848
Crediton
Page 10
Vol 97

Forget it, it's too late after the baptism

Do you think the GRO might have wrongly recorded the surname ?

Births Dec 1845
Farr Peter Newton Abbot 10 128

According to genuki, Newtown Abbot is the reg district for Bickington.
You could ask the local RO to check the entry to see if what the surname is in their registers.

Di

Well done Marquette

What confuses me is: I looked at the map and Bickington is MILES away from Newton Abbott

Well, I am only going on genuki's info, I don't know Devon at all. If I google, I find a town called Bickington just west of Newton Abbot, right up against Dartmoor National Park.

Di

Thanks Marg & Di,

Bickington is a little village just outside Newton Abbot.
I'll try the Farr ref that Di found.
I never thought of mistranscriptions at source!

Wonder if there are two Bickington's? I found one near Barnstable

Have you tried the OPC for the area?

Just laughed at myself - found a tribal pages site with him, was about to suggest it to you, then realised it was yours :d

lol! Thanks Joy!

Marg, I didn't know that there was a Bickington in North Devon.
This one is deffo the South Devon one though.

Added cert details today :)