Hayne, Stowford

Hayne in the parish of Stowford in Devon, is an historic manor, about 11 miles (18 km) south-west of Okehampton.

Thomasine Hayne, heiress of Hayne, married William Harris (died 1547) of Stone in the parish of Lifton, Devon, son and heir of John Harris (second son of John Harris of Radford in the parish of Plymstock in Devon) by his wife, the heiress of the Stone family of Stone in the parish of Lifton, Devon.

[5] John Harris (c. 1586 – 1657), son and heir, of Hayne and of St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall,[9] was a Member of Parliament.

He married twice: Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet (c. 1650 – 1686) of Hayne, only son and heir,[5] three times a Member of Parliament for Okehampton in Devon.

he married Theophila Turner (died 1702),[5] a daughter of John Turner, Serjeant-at-Law, of St Bride's in the City of London, and of York, by his wife Jane Pepys, a remote cousin of the diarist Samuel Pepys.

[3] He married Margaret Tuckfield (1686–1754), a daughter of Roger Tuckfield of Raddon, Devon, and widow of the wealthy Samuel Rolle (died 1717) of Heanton Satchville, Petrockstowe, Devon, MP, elected to Parliament 18 times.

His other estates of Lifton and Kenegie in Gulval, Cornwall, were inherited by his nephew William Arundell (1730–1792) (who adopted the surname "Arundell-Harris").

He assumed the surname Harris in lieu of his patronymic, and rebuilt Hayne House[10] in about 1810 in the Gothic revival style,[11] which survives today.

Robert Blackburn (1812–1899), a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, Rector of Selham in Sussex, who inherited from his mother's uncle, Rev Lancelot Bellas, the old Manor House, Brampton Hall, near Appleby in Westmorland.

[14] Edward's grandfather was Robert Blackburn (1779–1841) of the Island of Madeira, of Yorkshire ancestry, who married Mary Ballas, daughter of Rev.