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Dorothy Mazasitisz (Bird) bought the Bakers shop in Kingskerwell, she and her daughter ran it. Janice and Alastair have memories of visiting there on their summer holidays
" I can always remember the delicious fancy cakes under glass on the counter, my favourites were small sponges covered in green marzipan with cream inside" Janice

The Birds were Vegetarians - see Vegetarian Section on this site click to view and the Bakery built up a strong reputation for its Wholemeal and Organic breads. Cousins delivered each morning to many Health Food and other outlets in the area.

The business had been in the family for a number of years It appears on the 1901 Census owned by Arthur L Bovey aged 33 yrs born Stoke Gabriel

Sadly this branch of the immediate family have declined to participate in the site so we have no 'first hand' information. They asked in February 2006 for the site to be removed from the internet. Therefore any contributions towards the history of the Boveys from other sources
would be most welcome so we can complete our family history for future generations.
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"My mum & dad's families were in Exeter so they settled back there and there they still are .
I can't see our connection I'm sorry to say. My exhaustive searches found the family to live in Torquay (where I found a distant cousin through Genes Reunited) and as far as I could get back, Ashprington and Cornworthy which are near Totnes. There has been mention of a miller but they were mostly ag lab paupers! I do feel as if we could be one link away from the connection.They are a very localised group but I never found any link to Kingskerswell. Actually that's not true. I have a Marie Bovey who married Samuel Neck from there but he was born in about 1815." Janice Bovey

We have Edward W Bovey born Ashprington - is this the connection?? Janice

William Lang's headstone is still in Ashprington cemetery but in poor condition - JB
(Research into the Lang name at present being carried out)

Bakery


Information we have gleaned so far

1901
Alfred Lang Bovey - 33 - Baker - Fore Street Kingskerswell
Thomas Tucker - 74 - Gardener - stepfather - born Cornwall
Maria Tucker - 63 - Mother - born Berry Pomeroy
Lily M Tucker - 20 - stepsister - shop assistant

Maria Fletcher born Berry Pomeroy c 1839 working as a servant in Totnes on the 1861 Census
One of 10 siblings. Daughter of John b 1800 Husbandsman and Ann Beer 1801. We can trace the family back to Joseph Fletcher b 1720 all of Berry Pomeroy. Joseph married an Elizabeth Bovey.

1891
Alfred L Bovey - 22 - Baker journeyman b Stoke Gabriel
Edward W Bovey - 19 - Baker journeyman
Tom F Bovey 26 - Drapers Porter
Maria Tucker - 52 - mother
Marian Tucker - 10
Thomas Tucker - 65 - General Labourer
All living 25, All Saints Road St Mary Church with three lodgers

1881
Alfred L Bovey - 12 - Errand boy
Edward W Bovey - 9 - Born Ashprington
Maria Tucker 42 - mother
Thomas Tucker - 51 - General Labourer
Mary A Tucker - 7 months
All living 3 Pensylvania Terr Torquay

1851
Living at 'Maisonette' Stoke Gabriel
Thomas Bovey 42 - Gardener b Ipplepen
Mary Ann Bovey - 38 - b Woodland
Elizabeth Jane Bovey - 18 - Dressmaker - born Cockington
Edward Bovey -16 - b Cockington
William Lang Bovey - 15 - b Cockington

1841
Living St Mary Church 'Southampton House'
Thomas - 30 - Gardener - b Ipplepen
Mary Ann - 25 -
Elizabeth - 8
William - 5

John Bovey b 1818 was a Baker in Ipplepen in the mid 1800's
William Bovey b 1814 m Anne Blatchford b 1802 Ipplepen

See the Blatchfords of Ipplepen (Healey side ) ...click

Ipplepen

Ipplepen
 
Our branch of the Bovey family originated in Ipplepen Devon...

Thomas Bovey c 1689 m Eleanor Lowe c 1695 on 21 Sep 1714 Ipplepen

Edward Bovey b 26 Sep 1729 - Ipplepen
Edward Bovey b 15 Mar 1757 m Mary - Ipplepen
Nicholas Bovey b 20 Jun 1774 m Philippa - Ipplepen
Thomas Bovey b 17 Mar 1809 m Mary Ann b 1779 - married Brixham in 1801

Children
Elizabeth Jane Bovey 1833 b Cockington
Edward Bovey 1835 b Cockington
William Lang Bovey b 1836 Cockington m (Anna) Maria 1862 Totnes

Children
Alfred Lang Bovey b 1869 Stoke Gabriel
Edward William Bovey b 1872 b Ashprington

William Lang Bovey died Totnes (Ashprington) 1874
Maria remarried Thomas Tucker


From Morris's 1870 Directory Ipplepen:
Bovey James, thatcher
Bovey Miss Mary, grocer
Bovey Samuel, farmer, Dainton
Bovey Thos., butcher and timbermerchant

Post Office - Wm. Bovey, sub-postmaster. Letters from Newton Abbot arrive at 8.40 a.m.; dispatched at 4 p.m.; on Sundays at 10.30 a.m. Newton Abbot is the nearest money order office
Bovey William, thatcher and sub-postmaster

The Blatchfords ( Mabel Louisa married into the Healey family ) also came from Ipplepen
Anne Blatchford b1802 married William Bovey b1814 (Thatcher) 16.2.1838
On the 1841 Census the two families were living next door to one another in the village...
Link to Healey pages

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IPPLEPEN (ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST), a parish, in the union of NEWTON-ABBOTT, hundred of HAYTOR, Teignbridge and S. divisions of DEVON, 3¾ miles (S. S. W.) from Newton-Abbott; containing, with the chapelry of Woodland, 1172 inhabitants. It comprises 2726 acres, of which 180 are common or waste. The church has a handsome screen, and an enriched wooden pulpit; it formerly belonged, with some adjoining lands, to the priory of St. Peter de Fulgeriis in Brlttany, and attached to it was a cell to that establishment. The Wesleyans have a place of worship." [From Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of England (1844)]

Family Outing with the Boveys early 60's

Family Outing with the Boveys early 60's

Family group outside the Bakery

Family group outside the Bakery
shop
After the Boveys sold the business and moved away it was taken over by a young couple who struggled for a few years. Sadly the building burnt down and the site has been replaced by new housing.