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