A MAN from Hampshire is asking for help from Okehampton residents to trace his family tree.

Mike Neil is looking to trace any descendants of Joseph Samuel Evans and Mary Sophia Evans (née Jones) who lived in Okehampton in the early 1900s. They were originally from London and Joseph worked for the railway.

They had seven children — Edith, Mike's grandmother, Ernest, Ethel, Horace, Elsie, Arthur and Sydney, who died at the age of 21 in 1923, and is buried in Okehampton.

If anyone has any information, they are asked to e-mail Mike Neil on [email protected]">[email protected]