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You can read more about the Vellacott family and their link to Hoar Oak Cottage by following this webpage https://hoaroakcottage.org/vellacotts-2/
There are photos on that page but many more are available as well as several interesting documents which will be uploaded onto this page in due course.
In the meantime, if you would like to contact The Friends for more information about the Vellacotts or you have information to share about the Vellacotts please email info@hoaroakcottage.org.
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History of the Vellacott family prepared by Lorraine Vellacott and self-published in 1979. 50 pages. Black and white. Contains background history of the family from pre-Domesday up to the 1970s including text, family trees, anecdotes etc. A digital copy is available through the Friends of Hoar Oak Cottage. Email info@hoaroakcottage.org.
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Jim Vellacott at Hoar Oak Cottage c1975. Jim and his wife Mabel were huge contributors to finding and recording the history and heritage of Hoar Oak Cottage. Jim’s part of the Vellacott of North Devon family farmed at Furzehill and were allotted Hoar Oak Cottage and the land around it when the Royal Forest of Exmoor was sold into private hands in 1818. Their allotment was for 3 generations and 2 of those generations actually lived in the cottage. Mabel had done vast amounts of family research – for which we shall be forever grateful.
The first Vellacotts to live, full-time, in Hoar Oak Cottage were Charles Vellacott and his wife Elizabeth (nee Passmore). They had married in 1814 and moved into Hoar Oak Cottage sometime after the birth of their first child. Then the cottage was a tiny one down and one up home but during their time there the fireplace and chimney and bread oven was added. They spent their lives living in and around the home farm of Furzehill and had nine children. This photo of their headstone is in St Mary’s Churchyard in Lynton. Elizabeth died in 1847 and Charles in 1861. The grave includes two sons – John and Charles.
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This image, donated by Jim and Mabel Vellacott, is believed to include one of the Vellacott sons – Josiah – who emigrated to Australia at the end of the 19th century. Although he sadly died as a youngish man – falling off his horse near Jimbour, Queensland and drowning in a river – he left behind several children. Josiah’s descendants have researched their Vellacott history back on Exmoor and shared their findings with the Friends of Hoar Oak Cottage. All available on request to info@hoaroakcottage.org
