Whitfield:
Although living for some years in this place, the Whitfield family clearly had connections with Barnstaple. The men of the family would seem to have been labourers until one became an Exciseman.
Ann WHITFIELD, 1762
Charles WHITFIELD, 1780
Elizabeth WHITFIELD, 1730
Humphrey WHITFIELD, 1728
Humphrey WHITFIELD, 1769
Jane WHITFIELD, 1725
John WHITFIELD, 1767
Matthew WHITFIELD, 1738
Sarah WHITFIELD, 1782
William WHITFIELD, 1775
In a valley of the River Taw is the village and parish of Bishop’s Tawton.