William Andrew baptised 1763, Swimbridge
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William Andrew was baptised 24th. May 1763 in  Swimbridge. He married Mary Luxton in 1784 in High  Bickington and had two daughters, Susanna in 1785  and Jenny in 1787. Susanna was born in High  Bickington but shortly after, they moved to Alwington,  a very small village between Bideford and Parkham,  where Jenny was born.   The following year his wife Mary died and in 1789 he  married Elizabeth Nanskevile in Parkham.They had  four children; William 1790 who died in 1791, John  1792, William 1794 and Prudence 1795. The last two  baptised in Northam. 
William died in Alwington in 1797 aged 34. His wife Elizabeth and the surviving children  moved back to Atherington, near High Bickington, where William’s younger brother  James was living and working as a maltster. They had a relationship and Elizabeth fell  pregnant with James’s illegitimate child. She returned to her family in Parkham  where  Harriet was born in 1813. Harriet became the subject of a bastardy bond in  Parkham,  but it is clear that she grew up with both her parents in Atherington and her half  siblings John, William and Prudence.  Elizabeth  died  in  High  Bickington  in 1834  whilst  her daughter Harriet  went  on to  marry Thomas Avery in High Bickington, later moving to Barnstaple. Her father James  Andrew died in May, 1863. Her half brother John Andrew is our next descendant.