The Ancestral home of
our branch of the Symons family is Rockbeare in Devon. Earliest records
dating from 1646 list Symons in the Parish Church of Saint Mary. Local
places such as Whimple, Marsh Green, Crabhayes, Tanner's Farm, Westcott,
Broad Clyst, Chulmleigh and Sidbury mix into the story. Earliest known ancestors were
farmers and butchers. A recently compiled history of the Symons, following a branch from Rockbeare to Ballarat in Australia,
provides the reader with significant social insight into the life and
times of the 1800's and early 1900's.
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