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Families covered: Wreford of Lower Shobrooke, Wreford of Middlecott, Wreford of Morchard

                               
Mathew Wreford of Middlecott in Morchard (bur 06.11.1698)
m. Bridget Chidley (b 1648-9, bur 29.04.1729, dau of Robert Chidley)
1. Matthew Wreford of Middlecott & Lower Shobrooke (bpt 22.10.1682, bur 07.06.1763)
  m. (22.07.1706) Elizabeth Manley (bur 10.09.1757)
  A. Matthew Wreford of Lower Shobrooke (bpt 02.06.1712, bur 14.03.1752)
  m. (1740) Sarah James (bur 06.05.1763, dau of John James)
  i. Matthew Wreford of Lower Shobrooke & Week Barton (bpt 23.6.1741, bur 29.01.1821)
  m. (19.10.1762) Mary Wreford (bur 28.05.1831, dau of William Wreford of Cleavanger)
  a. Matthew Wreford (bpt 25.11.1766, d before 1822, 3rd son) had issue
  m. (12.09.1808) Anne Webber
  b. Roger Wreford of Lower Shobrooke (bpt 18.01.1769, bur 21.08.1826)
  m. (09.09.1793) Mary Pope (bur 20.03.1851)
  (1) George Wreford of Sandford (bpt 12.01.1796, bur 21.04.1852) had issue
  m. (03.07.1821) Anne Norrish (bur 21.11.1889, dau of William Norrish)
  (2) Elizabeth Wreford
  m. (30.06.1853) Robert Tucker
  (3) Mary Wreford
  m. (07.05.1828) Peter Tucker
  c. Samuel Wreford (bpt 23.10.1770, bur 04.10.1841) had issue
  m. Anne Spencer (bur 05.02.1845)
  d. George Wreford of Week (bpt 04.07.1774, bur 22.02.1858) had issue
  m. Grace Bidgood (bur 01.03.1834)
  e. Simon Wreford of Crediton (bpt 04.02.1777, d 02.03.1853) had issue
  m1. (16.12.1803) Jane Lee (bur 26.03.1814)
  m2. ??
  f. Richard Wreford (bpt 16.05.1786, d 31.10.1874) descendants in USA
  m. _ Phippen
  g. Mary Wreford
  m. (12.12.1798) John Heyman
  h. Elizabeth Wreford
  m. (02.10.1806) John Pope
  i. Grace Wreford
  m. (17.05.1805) Daniel Palmer
  j.+ other issue - William (bpt 07.06.1763, dsp before 1821), John (bpt 23.01.1765, dsp bur 15.03.1845)
  ii. John Wreford (b 1742, bur 20.02.1795) ancestor of Wreford of Hill in Morchard, some descendants in Australia
  m. Thomasine (bur 03.04.1812)
  iii. William Wreford (bpt 04.02.1744, bur 30.07.1798)
  m. (29.10.1767) Elizabeth Wreford (bur 06.10.1828, dau of William Wreford)
  a. William Wreford of Morchard (bpt 29.5.1776, bur 01.02.1847)
  m1. (16.02.1799) Anne Snell (bur 11.09.1805)
  (1) William Wreford had issue
  m. Sarah Brownstone
  (2) Matthew Wreford of Tiverton (bpt 18.07.1802, d 10.03.1873) had issue
  m. (1830) Mary Ann Venn
  (3) Roger Wreford (dsp bur 24.02.1848)
  m2. (01.04.1807) Joan Webber
  (4) John Wreford (bur 26.12.1885) had issue
  m. (12.02.1828) Tammy Smith (bur 05.10.1866)
  (5)+ other issue - George Augustus (b 1810, a 1892, had issue), Robert (dsp 1836)
  b. Matthew Wreford (bpt 04.11.1791, dsp 15.09.1865)
  m. Harriet (d 20.03.1872)
  iv. Roger Wreford (bpt 11.04.1748, d 1801)
  m. Betty Glanvill (bur 30.12.1805)
  a. Sarah Wreford (bpt 02.02.1774, bur 15.11.1775)
  v. Elizabeth Wreford
  m. Richard May
  vi. Sarah Wreford
  m. (07.02.1767) John Wreford of Middlecott @@ just below
  B. William Wreford of Middlecott (bpt 07.04.1717, bur 08.08.1763)
  m. (05.10.1742) Thomasine Manley (bur 12.08.1794)
  i. John Wreford of Middlecott (bpt 28.05.1745, bur 05.12.1822, 2nd son)
  m. (07.02.1767) Sarah Wreford (dau of Matthew Wreford of Lower Shobrooke) @@ just above
  a. John Wreford of Chulmleigh (bpt 18.09.1767, bur 17.04.1840)
  m. (25.08.1790) Mary Labbett (b 1768-9, bur 29.05.1860)
  (1) William Wreford (bpt 16.7.1793, d 26.11.1866) descendants in Onehunga, New Zealand
  m. (11.04.1814) Drusilla Howard
  (2) Matthew Wreford (bpt 06.01.1795, bur 23.02.1865) had issue
  m. (19.01.1834) Grace Miller (b c1800, d 28.12.1879)
  (3) John Wreford of Chulmleigh (bpt 06.01.1806, bur 23.07.1888) had issue
  m. (19.02.1828) Anne Miller (bur 30.11.1880)
  (4) Sarah Wreford
  m. (25.08.1813) Charles Brooks
  (5) Jane Wreford
  m. (19.11.1822) James Davey
  (6) Mary Wreford (a 1892)
  m. (19.11.1822) Thomas Miller
  (7) Caroline Wreford
  m. (10.06.1838) William M. Bibbings
  b. William Wreford of Barton Place Farm, Exeter (bpt 22.03.1769, bur 24.02.1841) had issue
  m. (28.11.1803) Elizabeth Clotworthy (bur 21.07.1838, dau of Joseph Clotworthy)
  c. Matthew Wreford (b 1772, dsp bur 26.02.1818)
  m. (14.05.1804) Grace Labbett
  d. Robert Wreford (b c1774, bur 07.08.1850) had issue
  m. (31.12.18100) Mary Steer
  e. Simon Wreford (dsp 1847)
  f. Roger Wreford (bpt 25.11.1782, bur 09.09.1839) had issue
  m. (05.12.1812) Thomasine Mare
  g. Sarah Wreford
  m. _ Bennett
  ii. Matthew Wreford (bpt 17.01.1749, bur 12.12.1823) ancestor of Wreford of Southcott and Tucker's Middlecott, Morchard
  m. (23.11.1778) Joan Elston (bur 29.09.1797)
  iii. Simon Wreford (bpt 12.06.1759, bur 19.06. 1844) ancestor of Wreford of Ash in Morchard
  m. (19.05.1784) Ann Page
  iv. Elizabeth Wreford
  m. (29.10.1767) William Wreford (son of Matthew)
v Thomasine Wreford
  m. Roger Leach
  vi. Frances Wreford
  m. (22.05.1781) William Maunder
  vii.+ other issue - William (dsp bur 22.06.1762), Robert (dsp bur 07.03.1796)
  C. Elizabeth Wreford
  m. (05.08.1736) John Gotham
  D. Frances Wreford
  m. (1735) Richard Kelland
2. William Wreford (bpt 27.03.1684, bur 09.02.1769) had issue
  m. (17.06.1707) Mary Manley (bur 14.07.1725)
3. Johan Wreford
  m. (26.04.1691) Richard Elston
4. Dorothy Wreford
  m. (20.04.1708) Henry Webber
5. Elizabeth Wreford
  m. (30.05.1710) Thomas Manley

Main source(s): Visitation (J.L. Vivian (1895), Devon, 1531+1564+1620+additions, Wreford of Morchard Bishop and Clannaborough)
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