Manor of Alverdiscott

[citation needed] Erchenbald (or Archibald) le Fleming probably originated in Flanders and the line of descent from him is not precisely documented.

[citation needed] The manor was sold by the Bellew family to James Welshe,[12] (alias Walshe), of Barnstaple and Alverdiscott, who according to the Devon historian Tristram Risdon (d. 1640), was a "counsellor of law".

[16] A small mutilated monumental brass survives in St Peter's Church, Barnstaple, in memory of Anne Pollard.

[17] James Welsh married thirdly at Barnstaple in 1623 to Lucy Reynell, fourth daughter of Sir Thomas Reynell (d. 1621) of East Ogwell;[18] and fourthly he married Jane Windham (d.1650),[19] a daughter of Sir Thomas Windham whose monument was said by Lysons in 1822 to have existed in Alverdiscott Church.

[20] By Jane Windham he had a son[21] and heir apparent Thomas Welsh (1629–1639), who died aged 10,[22] whose chest tomb with alabaster effigy survives in Alverdiscott Church.

The marriage produced two sons and one daughter, described on Sir Arthur's ledger stone of 1707 in King's Nympton Church as "deceased".

The 1754 Quit Rent Books in Jamaica record James Rowe as owning 2,709 acres in St Elizabeth parish.

[25][28] In 1800 the nephew of James Rowe sold the manor of Alverdiscott to Richard Preston, MP,[29] who still owned it in 1822,[30] in which year Rev.

However, he went on to say that his fortune "was far less than might have been expected from the income of 40 years disclosed in his fee books, but that he was better satisfied with the sacrifices he had made than to have oppressed a tenantry who in general are meritorious and have suffered by low prices".