This document gives a brief history of the local early WILLS family and covers all those descendants of the Lustleigh WILLS family who are known to have emigrated abroad.

1. Introduction and Acknowledgements
2. The Early Lustleigh Wills Family.
3. Chart of Lustleigh Wills Known to Have Emigrated.
4. 1, 2 & 3. Richard to St Helena 1785, John and John to Australia.
5. 4. Thomas to Wolfe Island, Canada in 1839.
6. 5 & 6. Leslie to New Zealand 1930, Thomas in 1950.
7. 7. Thomas to Australia c1906 from Willesden.
8. 8 & 9. Mary & John to Ontario 1847 and Henry to Ontario 1860.
9. 10, 11 & 12. Thos and Charles to Tasmania 1854. William of Exeter in 1750 later family to Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
10. 13. Henry Le Vesconte to Newfoundland, William John and Thomas to Australia 1852 and Dr William to Australia 1853.
11. William John Wills, Australian Explorer.

• For more information on the farms of the family visit Farms of the Lustleigh Wills Family by Mike Wills.
• For details of the Wills pedigree see Greg Ramstedt's database on Rootsweb.
• Index of Wills family photographs on the Dartmoor Archive.
• Also, see the Wills Family of Devon web-site.