Here the Berry family and their ancestors, in-laws and cousins - the Hookers, Miltons, Furseys, Bellringers and our Scots connection, the Donalds, Andrews, and Fergusons.  The Berrys are connected to some notable families: Richard Hooker the theologian, Samuel Dunn, the astronomer and cartographer, George Donald the writer and , William Jackson Hooker and Joseph Dalton Hooker, Directors of Kew Gardens, Adrian Bell, journalist, writer and crossword compiler, Martin Bell, journalist and MP.   Click on the thumbnails to see a larger version of the picture.

 
               
John Hooker 1527-1601
civic administrator and MP for Exeter. Uncle of Richard Hooker.  		    Richard Hooker, 1554-1600. Theologian and author of "The Laws of Ecclesiatical Polity."   Unveiling Richard Hooker's statue in Exeter in 1907   Statue of Richard Hooker in Cathedral Close, Exeter      Road named after Hooker in Heavitree, Exeter
                 
Samuel Dunn   john berry   william milton      john berry
Samuel Dunn 1723-1794. First cousin of Martha Berry née Prawl 1780-1845  

John Berry 1780-1851
husband of Martha Prawl

   William Milton 1782-1851   Elizabeth Niner née
Kelland, 1774- c.1823		    John Berry 1804-1869, son of John Berry
                 
 william Berry            
 William Berry 1807-1874, son of John Berry    Susan Berry, née Boddy, 1814-1893. Second wife of William Berry   MI of William Berry 1807-1874 and his wife Susan née Boddy 1814-1893 in Crediton churchyard   The family grave of Wiliam Berry, and his wife Susan née Boddy, in Crediton Churchyard.   John Niner, 1821-1868, brother of William Berry's first wife, Susan Thomas Niner
                 
               
Isabella Catharine Burnett Niner, 1828-1903. Wife of John Niner   John Niner ,
1821-1868		   Ann Horsey née Anstice, 1809-1884      Dorcas Anstice,
1805-1872		    Elizabeth Fursey née Berry 1812-1884 daughter of John Berry
                 
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Grave of Catherine Jefferis née Milton 1823-1913 and her husband George Jefferis 1819-1887     Mary Martha Berry, 1851-1939, daughter of John Berry.    Mary Martha Wright née
Berry,  1851-1939  		    Mary Martha Wright with daughters Ida Mary Wright, and Kate Pitts née Wright and granddaughter Sadie Pitts    Mary Martha Wright née
Berry,  1851-1939  .
             
                 
 William Boddy Berry 1838-1907.   .William Boddy Berry 1838-1907 
    William Boddy Berry 1838-1907      Mary Eleanor Berry née Burge, 1836-1920, wife of William Boddy Berry     Grave of William Boddy Berry and Mary Berry née Burge alongside her parents' grave at Crediton
                 
                 
 Mary Susan Niner Berry, 1830-1894     Mary Susan Niner Baker née Berry, 1830-1894      Mary Susan Niner Berry, 1830-1894     Mary Susan Niner Baker née Berry, 1830-1894 . Wife of druggist John Baker of Romsey.    John Baker, 1834-1927
                 
                 
 John Baker, 1834-1927      John Baker, 1834-1927    John Knight , 1826- 1911
Father of William Anstice Knight		    Anna Knight née
Horsey 1836-1922
Mother of William Anstice Knight		   Anna Knight née Horsey, 1836 - 1922
                 
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  Fanny Horsey, sister of Anna, 1839-1922    Elizabeth Martha Adams née Berry, 1831-1911        Samuel Dunn Berry 
1846-1924 		     Samuel Dunn Berry 1846-1924      Grave of Samuel Dunn Berry 1846-1924 and his wife, Catherine Berry née Cliff 1849-1918
                 
                 violet christein Fursey
Edward Bellringer, 1848- 1931       Elizabeth Bellringer, née Williams, 1843-1919. Daughter-in-law of
Mary Berry		    Grave of  George Fursey, 1839 -1904, and his wife Eliza Fursey née Baker, 1849-1909.    Samuel Dunn Fursey, 1842-1886      Elizabeth Charity Fursey, née Adams, and daughter Violet Christine Fursey,wife of Samuel Dunn Fursey 
                 
 Merton House        george donald    Agnes donald nee wilson    
 Merton House, Southwick, where Samuel Fursey lived and taught    Mary Jane Wood née Adams, 1841 -1917. Sister of Elizabeth Fursey née Adams       George Donald 1826-1893     Agnes Donald née Wilson, 1839-?     Mary Susan Niner Baker with daughter Edith Mary Louise Baker
                 
                 
  Young Edith Baker     Edith Baker with her mother in the New Forest     Edith Mary Louise Baker 1871 - 1953       Edith Mary Louise Baker, 1871 - 1953    Edith Baker's husband-to-be, William Anstice Knight, left, with his brothers James, centre, and Frank
                 
                 
   William Anstice Knight, 1870-1926    Edith Mary Louise Knight née Baker, 1871 - 1953    Ann Watson Knight, 1864-1890. William Anstice Knight's sister.   Reginald Arthur Knight, 1869-1942. Brother of William Anstice Knight      Reginald Knight, 1869-1942
                 
 Edith Mary Louise Knight née Baker 1871 - 1953      John Adams, 1854-1901    Eliza Niner Adams, 1855-1933    Edward Adams,  1857 - c1915    Elizabeth (Lizzie) Martha Adams, 1860- 1925.John, Eliza, Edward and Lizzie were the children of John Adams and Elizabeth Adams née Berry.
                 
      Charled Berry's grave   Dartmoor Sanatorium , Chagford
Crediton Rugby XV in 1887-1888 season
with William John Berry		   Grave of William John Berry, 1866-1933 and wife Lydia Berry,1868-1947, in Winston, Suffolk   Hubert Berry, 1869-1947      Grave of Charles Berry, 1876-1958,  at Winston, Suffolk,   Dartmoor Sanatorium, Chagford, where Charles Berry was a doctor for many years
                 
           
 Susan Hooker, 1870-1946, daughter of Eliza Hooker Berry     Susan Hooker, daughter of Eliza Hooker Berry      William Jackson Hooker 1785-1865. A botanist who became the director of Kew Botanical Gardens   Sir William Jackson Hooker of Kew Gardens. He was second cousin once removed of both Susan Hooker's parents   The Palm House in Kew Gardens, opened in 1848. 
                 
                 
  Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, son of Sir William.    Jane Eleanor Bellringer,née Batchelor, 1871-1938 .Wife of Francis Henry Bellringer    George Bellringer, 1889 -1955    George Bellringer     George Bellringer, 1889 -1955
                 
             James Wallace Donald    
 Gladys Barry Bellringer née Brake, 1897-1983    Gladys and George Bellringer       Left: George Bellringer, 1889 -1955and Gladys Barry Bellringer née Brake, 1897-1983, with friends    James Wallace Donald, 1874-1935.     Grave of James Wallace Donald, and Violet Christine Donald née Fursey, Hawaii
                 
 Alexander T Mc Donald                
  Alexander T Mc Donald b.1880. Brother of James Wallace Donald    John Andrew b.1852.     Grace Annetta Andrews,
mother of Ralph Rillman Miller Jnr 		     Grace Annetta Andrews,1889-1969      Grace Annetta Andrews,1889-1969 
                 
                Ruth Donald MI 
 Ernest Veysey and family grave in Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado     George Howard Veysey grave in  Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado, USA    Thomas Boyd Miles,1910-1998, husband of Elizabeth Vielchin Donald     Ruth Wallace Donald,1913-1995, at the University of Hawaii, in 1934        Ruth Wallace Barnes née Donald, memorial inscription
                 
                 
  Margaret Winifred Donald, 1917- 1981    . Margaret Winifred Miller née Donald, 1917- 1981.     Ralph Rillman Miller Jnr.,  1915-1994     Ralph Miller with some of his artwork    Robert Edwin Miller,1914-2009, brother of Ralph. 
                 
 James wally Donald    wally            sproul andrew and ferguson
  James Wallace Donald at the Grand Canyon    James Wallace Donald 1924-2008. Son of James Wallace Donald  Margaret Sproull Andrew,  1876-1957, aged 17. Daughter of John Andrew  Margaret Sproull Ferguson  née Andrew,  1876-1957  Margaret Sproull Ferguson née Andrew 1876-1957, and husband James Ferguson 1871-1961 
                 
 golden wedding               Doreen Ruth Watney, left, with sister Marjorie Joan 
  Golden wedding of James and Margaret Ferguson in 1951     Charles Henry Veysey, 1912-2003, Grandson of Martha Prall Fursey    Martha Veysey, 1920-1967   Major General Stephen Lamplugh, 1900-1983. Husband of Mary Lewis Veysey     Doreen Ruth Watney,
with sister Marjorie Joan
                 
             Doreen Ruth Berry nee Watney at her 90th tea party    
 Marriage of Samuel Berry to Doreen Ruth Watney, in Uganda     Doreen, Rosalind, David and Samuel John Berry    Doreen Berry née Watney,1906-1998    90th birthday of Doreen Berry née Watney, widow of Samuel John Berry    Sheila Elizabeth Denton née Dunlop, daughter of Frances Berry
                 
         
Dorothy Lillian Bellringer 
1923-2021 		   Adrian Hanbury Bell, 1901-1980
A Bellringer in-law. 		    Adrian Bell. Married to the great granddaughter of Francis Bellringer and Mary Berry   Adrian Bell, 1901-1980, and his wife, granddaughter of Francis and Mary Bellringer, Marjorie Gibson, 1908-1991   Adrian Bell, 1901-1980
writer and journalist on rural matters, and first Times crossword setter.
                 
       
Anthea Bell, eldest daughter of Adrian and Marjorie Bell. Highly regarded translator. 1936-2018   Anthea Bell. Her translations included the Asterix books.    Anthea Kamm née Bell, with son in 2015.   Martin Bell, journalist and former MP. Son of Adrian Hanbury Bell and Marjorie Gibson.   Sylvia Proudman née Bell, 1938-2019. Twin to Martin Bell.
                 
alan wallace ferguson             berrymemorial
Alan Wallace Ferguson 1906-1954, son of James Ferguson and Margaret Andrew    James "Kimo" Miles 1940-      James Miles 1940-   James Miles 1940 -       Memorial to the Berry family in Berrynarbour Church. Alleged ancestors of the Berrys of Sandford
                 
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