CHAPTER 12. FAMILY TREES

 

  These family trees for the most part include only people born a hundred years or more ago. Some people born later are included, but anybody who is still alive has deliberately been omitted for reasons of privacy.

 

  There are two versions of each family tree or table: (1) a version in the form of a conventional chart; and (2) a text version that includes a lot more information about the individual people.

 

 

Table 1 shows a possible but unproven line of descent from the John Gorven who was renting Lambert in 1567 (and whose son was almost certainly the person who subsequently purchased it); and Richard Gorwyn (1689-1764) and John Gorwyn (1691-?1733), who were probably brothers and who are the ancestors of all today’s Lambert Gorwyns. Table 1 also shows how all the other tables fit together.

 

 

Table 2 shows the immediate descendants of Richard Gorwyn (1689-1764) and his son John Gorwyn alias Lambert of Lambert (1719-1765). They were the ancestors of the Lambert-Gorwyns and Lamberts of Lambert, Wallon, Spreyton and Exeter and have many descendants alive today..

 

 

Table 3 shows the descendants of William Lambert Gorwyn of Wallon in Drewsteignton (1750-1797), the third son of John Lambert Gorwyn of Lambert (1719-1765), so it follows on from Table 2. The Wallon branch has no known descendants in the male line.

 

 

Table 4 shows the Lambert Gorwyns of Spreyton, the descendants of George Lambert Gorwyn of Falkedon in Spreyton (1763-1837), the youngest son of John Lambert Gorwyn of Lambert (1719-1765), so it also follows on from Table 2.

 

 

Table 5 shows the descendants of Richard Lambert Gorwyn of  Haven House in Exeter (1820-1861), the younger grandson of George Lambert Gorwyn (1764-1837) of Falkedon in Spreyton, so it follows on from Table 4. This branch of the family has many descendants still called Lambert Gorwyn.

 

 

Table 6 shows the immediate descendants of John Gorwyn (1691-1733) and his son John Gorwyn alias Lambert of Bradleigh in Crediton (1720-?1778). So it follows on from Table 1.

 

 

Table 7 shows the descendants of William Gorwyn of Spirelake and Bradleigh (1780-1845), the grandson of John Gorwyn alias Lambert of Bradleigh (1720-?1778), so it follows on from Table 6. It includes the descendants of Henry Lambert Gorwyn (1835-1905), stationmaster at Moretonhamstead, who has descendants alive today called Gorwyn.

 

 

Table 8 shows the descendants of  George Gorwyn of Medland (1784-1762), another grandson of John Gorwyn alias Lambert of Bradleigh (1720-?1778), so it follows on from Table 6. It includes the Lambert Gorwyns of Hittisleigh.

 

 

Table 9 shows the descendants of John Lambert Gorwyn of Coxland (1828-1893), who was the youngest son of William Gorwyn of Spirelake and Bradley (1780-1845), so it follows on from Table 7. There are many descendants of this branch still called Lambert-Gorwyn.