A SPECIAL exhibition to celebrate 500 years of fishing links between Newfoundland and Devon, especially Teignmouth, is opening soon.

And the Teignmouth and Shaldon Museum is keen to hear from families whose descendants may have had connections with the trade.

The family names in Teignmouth include Bartlett, Bibbens, Brine, Butler, Clapp, Goss, Hayman, Keen, Penson and Warren.

From Shaldon, they are Bulley, Boden, Fox, Harvey, Gilpin, Mortimer, Row, Squarey and Stigings, and from Combeinteignhead, Bulley and Job.

Museum archivist Lin Watson said there will be many others as well, and anybody with more information can email [email protected].

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