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Legasick, Joane {I11021} (b. BEF. 20 JUL 1650, d. UNKNOWN)

Source: (Baptism)
Title: IGI
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 20 JUL 1650 Ermington, Devon, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 11021

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Legasick, Arthure {I11022} (b. BEF. 18 MAR 1642, d. UNKNOWN)

Source: (Baptism)
Title: IGI
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 18 MAR 1642 Ermington, Devon, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 11022

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Lagassicke, Henry {I11023} (b. ABT. 1560, d. UNKNOWN)

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 11023

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Stone, Martha {I11024} (b. ABT. 1715, d. 15 MAR 1802)

Note: The following note has kindly been provided by Guy Roberts

According to the headstone in the graveyard of Modbury Church, Martha died on 15th March 1802 aged 80.

Source: (Burial)
Title: Modbury Parish Registers
Media: Church Record

Death: 15 MAR 1802 Modbury, Devon, England

Burial: 20 MAR 1802 St. George's Church, Modbury, Devon, England

Reference: 11024

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Legassicke, Elizabeth {I11025} (b. BEF. 9 JAN 1747, d. UNKNOWN)

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Modbury Parish Register
Media: Church Record

Baptism: 9 JAN 1747 St. George's Church, Modbury, Devon, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 11025

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Legassicke, Martha {I11026} (b. BEF. 30 DEC 1748, d. UNKNOWN)

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Modbury Parish Register
Media: Church Record

Baptism: 30 DEC 1748 St. George's Church, Modbury, Devon, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 11026

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Legassicke, Prestwood Love {I11027} (b. BEF. 21 DEC 1750, d. 1823)

Note: The following notes have kindly been provided by Guy Roberts:

Prestwood and her husband John Froude had eleven children, not including two who died in infancy. Accounts of her written by her descendants in the 19th century tell two stories about her.

Firstly, while staying with the family of Philip Hancock (whose son William eventually married her daughter Mary) she awoke the whole household in distress one night. She had had a dream in which she saw her brother James with his hair matted and wet, clinging to a ship's spar, trying to avoid drowning. News that James had died in the sinking of the Glorieux came through to the family six weeks later.

The second story is that she once attended a ball in Exeter without the company of her husband. A young man became so infatuated with her during the course of the evening that he proposed marriage to her. She said that she could not marry him and that, if he called upon her the following day, she would give him twelve good reasons why. The young man dutifully turned up the next day and was presented to her husband John and their eleven children.

Prestwood died in 1823 and her will was proved in 1824 (Devon Record Office reference 1078/IRW/F/480).

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Modbury Parish Register
Media: Church Record

Baptism: 21 DEC 1750 St. George's Church, Modbury, Devon, England

Death: 1823

Reference: 11027

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Legassick, James {I11028} (b. BEF. 7 NOV 1755, d. SEP 1782)

Note: The following note was kindly provided by Guy Roberts:

According to 19th century accounts written by descendants of James' sister Prestwood Love Legassicke {I11027}, James was a naval surgeon and was drowned at sea in the sinking of the battleship Glorieux.

An extract from "HMS Pallas by Paulo Monteiro, subarqaz@@hotmail.com, Draft version, February 2000:

"Later, it was decided that the whole battle fleet should be coppered. In January 1782, eighty-two capital ships, fourteen of 50 guns, hundred and fifteen frigates and one hundred and two sloops and cutters had been coppered to that time. However, at the end of that year, doubts about the effectiveness of the protection of iron bolts from the corrosive effects of the copper were raised very forcibly.

The chief reason was the violent storm of September 1782 off the Banks of Newfoundland, when the captured French ships, the Ville de Paris (110) and the Glorieux (74), and the British Ramillies (74) and Centaur (74) all foundered with the loss of 3500 lives. A thorough inspection of the 74-gun ships Edgar, Fortitude and Alexander showed irrefutably that the iron bolts of all three ships were in a dangerous condition."

see http://www.abc.se/~m10354/publ/pallas.pdf (numbers in brakcets indicate the number of guns carried by an individual ship. 74 guns indicate a Battleship of the Third Rate)

Also from Guy Roberts:
James Legassick had a first warrant as a naval surgeon in 1778 on HM Frigate Richmond
(reference ADM 104/51 Surgeons Lists page 36). As his uncle John Lewis Gidoin was Captain of HM Frigate Richmond during 1778 it seems highly likely that he was involved in the commission!

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Modbury Parish Register
Media: Church Record

Baptism: 7 NOV 1755 St. George's Church, Modbury, Devon, England

Occupation: Place: Naval Surgeon

Death: SEP 1782 Drowned at sea off Newfoundland when 'Glorieux' sank

Reference: 11028

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Legassicke, Mary {I11029} (b. BEF. 20 JAN 1743, d. UNKNOWN)

Note: The followng note has knidy been provided by Guy Roberts:

She outlived her husband, proving his will on 23rd March 1796. It is believed that in widowhood she moved to Lympstone and that she died in 1803.

Source: (Baptism)
Title: IGI
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 20 JAN 1743 Ermington, Devon, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 11029

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Legassicke, Henry {I11030} (b. BEF. 22 DEC 1752, d. UNKNOWN)

Note: The followng note has kindly been provided by Guy Roberts:

In 1770 Henry, while still a minor, brought a case in the Chancery Court (PRO reference C 12/1322/46) in which he tried to recover property and lands from his uncle James Legassicke {I10941} which he believed should have been his by right. Although his father Henry {I10937} had been the oldest son, the major part of the family estate had passed to the younger brother James.

Although he married, Henry does not appear to have had any children and his will (made in 1824 and proved on 3rd June 1826) leaves most of his property to nephews and nieces.