Crediton

**Link: Crediton Area History & Museum Society**     Mid-Devon passengers on the "John" which sank in 1855

Medicine in Crediton 1791                           Crediton Workhouse           Crediton Poor Law Union

George Bent    Crediton and Exeter Physician 1730 -1780     John Dyer     Crediton Surgeon and Apothecary c1760

George Gregory- Rags to Riches: convict sent to Australia     William CookesleyPioneering Crediton Surgeon c1731

The Doctors Holman1803-1863     Giles YardeGrave Robber imprisoned in 1826, then transported to Tasmania in 1837 for theft

Pierre Serph  French P.O.W. surgeon 1809     Felo de se: 1838 Double suicide in Crediton Inn 

The Hectors' association with William Taylor, quadruple murderer 1862

Samuel Forward: Returned to Crediton in 1856 after being transported to New South Wales in 1821

Jane Roberts: Transported to New South Wales in 1791 for being a vagrant.

Thomas Lampin, born in Crediton, hanged in Nottingham in 1809 for forgery.

Grave Robbing in Crediton1826                       Freemasonry in Crediton1804-1806

John Hooper: Reprieved from a death sentence in 1831, after 8 years in jail he claimed to be a surgeon. His son became a millionaire in USA, and his granddaughter married into Parisian aristocracy

Ann Harris- Farmworker's daughter transported to Tasmania for theft - later owns an Oyster Saloon in Brisbane

Early Mid Devon convicts sent to America (1664-1775)      Caroline Arundell transported for highway robbery 1850