Fortescue at Modbury

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Margaret Bauer

Fortescue at Modbury

Legg inn av Margaret Bauer » 20 mai 2007 07:57:47

Hi everyone
I have recently joined the group, and been looking at postings in amazement
at the knowledge out there.
Could someone therefore help with a little information please.
Adam Fortescue is supposed to have taken up living on a parcel of land that
William Duke of Normandy gave to his father Richard Le Fort (as Richard
returned to Normandy and family there).
Adam had been with his father at the Battle of Hastings, and was he who took
up the land near Modbury in Devon, and is said that the majority of
"Fortescues" in England descend from him.
I was trying to look at the Domesday records for Modbury in Devon at the
British Archives site (as I am in Australia) to see if I can locate some
small snippet of information about where Adam might have been located
(presumably with wife and family), thinking that it would sort of pinpoint
just where this so called "parcel of land" actually was.
Alas I could not locate anything looking remotely like more information.
Adam was supposed to have died about 1118, so he should have been somewhere
about that Modbury district at 1086 (twenty years after the conquest) I
would have thought, or am I missing something.
Any helpful views or suggestions will be appreciated and might point my nose
toward a little more success.

Thanking you
Margaret

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Margaret Bauer
Queensland, Australia
bauerm@tpg.com.au
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Paul Mackenzie

Re: Fortescue at Modbury

Legg inn av Paul Mackenzie » 20 mai 2007 12:56:13

Margaret Bauer wrote:

Hi everyone
I have recently joined the group, and been looking at postings in
amazement at the knowledge out there.
Could someone therefore help with a little information please.
Adam Fortescue is supposed to have taken up living on a parcel of land
that William Duke of Normandy gave to his father Richard Le Fort (as
Richard returned to Normandy and family there).
Adam had been with his father at the Battle of Hastings, and was he who
took up the land near Modbury in Devon, and is said that the majority of
"Fortescues" in England descend from him.
I was trying to look at the Domesday records for Modbury in Devon at the
British Archives site (as I am in Australia) to see if I can locate some
small snippet of information about where Adam might have been located
(presumably with wife and family), thinking that it would sort of
pinpoint just where this so called "parcel of land" actually was.
Alas I could not locate anything looking remotely like more information.
Adam was supposed to have died about 1118, so he should have been
somewhere about that Modbury district at 1086 (twenty years after the
conquest) I would have thought, or am I missing something.
Any helpful views or suggestions will be appreciated and might point my
nose toward a little more success.

Thanking you
Margaret

******************************
Margaret Bauer
Queensland, Australia
bauerm@tpg.com.au
******************************


Hi Margaret:

Welcome to the group. It is great to see another Queenslander out there
interested in this area.

Kind Regards
Paul
Glass House Mountains
Queensland.

P.S. You may wish to try the A2A website, http://www.a2a.org.uk/

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