This is a totally impossible time to start this ball rolling (I go to
Australia on 10th Jan) but in answer to Ros Haywood. YES I have Edwards
ancestors from Devon. Based in Hatherleigh, Devon, there are four
generations culminating in Louisa who went to Australia and is my
gtgtgtgtgrandmother. Her father was Israel Edwards, his father Nathaniel
Edwards and his father John Edwards who died in 1756. He was connected to
the Dissenting Church in Hatherleigh so there may be a non-conformist Welsh
link here.