Have looked at TL Stoate's Devon Surveys. In the 1520s, there are Wises scattered all over Devon, but only rich ones in Marystow, and none in Totnes.
None in Totnes in the 1540s either, but there are a couple in Dawlish.
In the 1619 survey of shipping there are two sailors in their twenties in Dawlish, one called Christopher.
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