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The WILLS Family of Lustleigh Devon

The Farms Where they Lived from 1439

Introduction

I am Mike WILLS, descended from the Eastwrey branch of the Lustleigh WILLS family. This site is intended to supplement the information on our family that is available on other sites. In particular to integrate pictures of the farms and villages where many of our ancestors lived and worked with the large family pedigree published and researched by my 5th cousin Greg. My 6th cousin Tom has a site for Australian WILLS families, including our own. Links to both of these sites are provided above. Much of the research into the family was carried out by the late Dick WILLS, another 6th cousin, without his work our main source of research would not exist.

More recently our Australian Holiday details were added, the Eulogy to Dick and now a section based on a talk I gave to The Lustleigh Society in September 2005 about those Lustleigh Wills who emigrated.

Lustleigh Village

Thatching in Lustleigh	Church House Lustleigh

Lustleigh is a small village on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England. The village centre is south of the main road between Bovey Tracey and Moretonhampstead in the valley of the small river Wrey or Wray. It was mentioned in the Domesday book of 1086 where reference is made to a John in Lustleigh. The earliest part of the present Lustleigh church dates back to the 13th century but the Christian graveyard is believed to date from the fifth or sixth century. Many of the old farm houses have now been restored as private residences and are not now part of working farms.

The Old Mill	Lustleigh Village Centre