Nb. Settled at Waye Barton, Devon in 1242. By the 16th Century Several Branches of the
Pollard's formed. The senior branch was seated at Horwood in Devon, and there were two
other branches in the same County at Langley Barton and King's Nympton. There were also
branches at St. Hillary in Cornwell, Nuneham Courtney in Oxfordshire, Castle Pollard in
Ireland and elsewhere. The Visitation of Devon in 1620 only recorded the Langley branch
of the family. The pedigrees of the Horwood and King's Nypmton branches are recorded
in Thomas Westcote's "Pedigrees of Most of the Devonshire Families" and are shown
in J.L. Vivian's "Vistations of Devon".The King's Nympton parish registers were
destroyed in Exeter during WWII. The Bishop's Transcripts from these are in the Exeter
City archives and from them the baptisms which took place in the generations following
William Pollard, have been recovered.