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Pedigree of Dudderigge alias Dodderidge, of Dotheridge, South Molton, and Barnstaple, Co. Devon

Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries, vol. 3, Part 5 (1905), pp.163-169.

by

Sidney E. Dodderidge

Prepared by Michael Steer

It has been perhaps been erroneously believed that the Dodderidge family took their name from a manor in the parish of Sandford, near Crediton. However, the author asserts that the name derives from a place in Alwington. Richard Dodderidge was the son of a wool merchant and was born in South Molton, in which town he married. With his wife and eight children before 1582 he moved to Holland Street, Barnstaple and served as Mayor of Barnstaple in 1589. A certain John Dodderidge, perhaps a relation, is recorded earlier in 1579 as mayor of Barnstaple. In 1585 he bought a house in Cross Street from his fellow burgess Thomas Skinner, that descended in turn to his sons Sir John and to the latter's brother Pentecost Dodderidge (d. circa 1650), MP for Barnstaple in 1621, 1624-25 and mayor of Barnstaple in 1611, 1627 and 1637.The Internet Archive makes available, in its Community Texts Collection (originally known as Open Source Books), books that have been digitised by Google from a number of libraries. These are books on which copyright has expired, and are available free for educational and research use. This rare book was produced from a copy held by the New York Public Library, and is available from the Internet Archive.