** Link: Crediton Area History & Museum Society **

Medicine in Crediton 1791                            Crediton Workhouse            Crediton Poor Law Union

George Bent    Crediton and Exeter Physician 1730 -1780      John Dyer     Crediton Surgeon and Apothecary c1760

George Gregory - Rags to Riches: convict sent to Australia      William Cookesley Pioneering Crediton Surgeon c1731

The Doctors Holman 1803-1863     Giles Yarde Grave Robber imprisoned in 1826, then transported to Tasmania in 1837 for theft

Pierre Serph  French P.O.W. surgeon 1809      Felo de se: 1838 Double suicide in Crediton Inn 

The Hectors' association with William Taylor, quadruple murderer 1862

Samuel Forward: Returned to Crediton in 1856 after being transported to New South Wales in 1821

Jane Roberts: Transported to New South Wales in 1791 for being a vagrant.

Thomas Lampin, born in Crediton, hanged in Nottingham in 1809 for forgery.

Grave Robbing in Crediton 1826                        Freemasonry in Crediton 1804-1806

John Hooper: Repreived from a death sentence in 1831, after 8 years in jail he claimed to be a surgeon. His son became a millionaire in USA, and his grandaughter married into Parisian aristocracy

Ann Harris - Farmworker's daughter transported to Tasmania for theft - later owns an Oyster Saloon in Brisbane