Samuel Worden and Jane Calloway

Samuel Worden and Jane Calloway were married on 24/5/1780 in the parish of St Kew, Cornwall. They lived in St Kew for about five or six years after their marriage and then moved to the adjacent parish of Endellion.

Samuel Worden was baptized on 27/3/1758 in St Kew; his parents were Samuel Worden and Grace Webber, who were married on 25/5/1755 in St Kew. A document held in the Cornwall Record Office, dated April 1801, tells us that the elder Samuel was a churchwarden at St Kew, apparently a member of the local gentry. Jane Calloway was baptized on 1/5/1760 in the parish of St Minver (which is south of Endellion and west of St Kew, and across the estuary of the River Camel from Padstow). Her parents were Richard Callaway and Elizabeth Frad, who were married in St Kew on 25/6/1759.

Grandparents of Samuel and Jane

St Kew parish records exist dating back to 1564, although the old register for the years 1564 to 1680 is largely illegible, having been damaged in a fire. There would, in any case, be little chance of tracing all of one's ancestors back so far: it seems clear that some births, marriages and deaths never made it into the parish register record, and some of the records have been lost or decayed to the point of illegibility. But I believe that I can, at least, go back one more generation with reasonable confidence.

Elizabeth Frad may have been the daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Frade who was baptized on 18th February 1734 in St Kew, and her parents may have been the Charles Frad and Elizabeth Jeffrey who were married on 30th December 1727 in Endellion. Richard Callaway may have been the son of John and Mary Calloway who was baptized on 18th March 1729 in St Kew, and his parents may have been the John Callaway of St Kew and Mary Schollar who were married on 8th July 1716 in Bodmin. Note that although the FamilySearch.org transcription has Mary's surname as Thaller, to me it looks more likely that it was Schollar, which is what appears in Phillimore's transcriptions (Volume XI, downloadable from the internet archive). The S has faded away, and maybe the writer hiccuped when he was doing the c.

Bodmin Register for 1558–1757 at FamilySearch.org (see image number 352)

Grace Webber was probably the daughter of William and Elizabeth Webber who was baptized on 2nd February 1730 in St Kew, and her parents may have been the William Webber and Elizabeth Rouse who were married on 11th June 1725 in Endellion. Samuel Worden (the elder) was probably the son of Samuel and Mary Worden who was baptized on 31st March 1730 in St Kew, and his parents were probably the Samuel Worden and Mary Jewel who were married on 18th September 1725 in St Kew. (Presumably Mary Jewel was not in any way related to Elizabeth Jewell, another ancestor of mine, who was from a different part of Cornwall.)

It appears that Samuel Worden and Mary Jewel had the following children: Ann (9th October 1726), Mary (13th May 1728), Samuel (31st March 1730), Martha (8th March 1731), Grace (5th March 1733) and John (22nd February 1736). I mention this because the daughter Mary is probably the Mary Worden who married John Pinch on 19th January 1746, and the daughter Grace is probably the Grace Worden who married William Air on 15/2/1753, and these people make separate appearances in my ancestor tree. See the John Huntington and Elizabeth Pinch page for more details.

I believe that the pre-1752 dates above are "old style": the convention then was that the new year started on March 25th rather than January 1st. Thus, for example, Grace Webber was born in late 1730 rather than early 1730, and was 24 at her marriage in mid 1754, not 25. (Incidentally, the Bishop's Transcripts apparently have 15th Feb 1752 rather than 15th Feb 1753 for the marriage of Grace Werdon and William Air. Perhaps the BTs continued with old style dates for a while. An image of the relevant page of the parish register clearly shows that the date of the event really was 15/2/1753 new style.)

Perhaps fortunately, the father of the Samuel Worden who married Mary Jewel was not another Samuel. He was the John Worden who married Grace Rogers on 27th February 1687. By closely examining the image of the relevant parish register page one can persuade onself that the child of John and Grace baptized on 2nd February 1697 was named Samuel.

(See the online image of the parish register page at FamilySearch.org)

Sources of information

• Obviously, FamilySearch.org is my chief source of information for marriages and baptisms. Happily for me they have now released on-line images of many of the parish registers that happen to be most relevant to my investigations, and so there are fewer times when I am forced to rely on transcriptions that I cannot easily check.

• The Cornwall Online Parish Clerks provide many transcriptions of parish birth, death and marriage records — frequently including things that are not available at FamilySearch.org — as well as a few other documents that are occasionally useful.

• The 1841 to 1891 censuses for Cornwall have been completely transcribed by the Cornwall Online Census Project, and the transcriptions are accessible via FeeCEN. Of course one should check the transcriptions by purchasing images of the original records.

• For Endellion research there is the very interesting document The History of Port Isaac and Port Quinn by Dr Frederick Trevan (written in 1833–1834), transcribed for the web by Jonathan Remick Richards. Along with information about who married who and where they lived, Dr Trevan has some amusing anecdotes and commentary. I particularly like the following paragraph:

  Tithes etc. estimated at £800 per annum. Equally divided between before-mentioned clergy and lay impropriators but God knows how long country is going to put up with these extractions. I cannot conceive wherein consists the policy of cherishing so many nests of spiritual and lay leeches who suck the very blood and vitals of the nation. they that support them in it are nothing better than a company of greedy caterpillars, enemies to their fellow subjects and a curse to the prosperity of their country.

  Dr Trevan did not believe in mincing his words!

  As far as genealogy is concerned, I presume that the information Dr Trevan supplies is correct. (But he does mistakenly says that Samuel Worden married Mary Calaway, when in fact there is no doubt that her forename was actually Jane.)

• The State Library of NSW provides access to digitized copies of assorted 18th and 19th century British newspapers, containing the occasional mention of a distant relative or two.

• For tracking those relatives of Samuel and Jane that came to Australia, the Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program has been of some use.

• Some of the information on the present page is taken from a file passed on to me by another Worden researcher; henceforth I shall call this file DT. I think that DT is reliable, but I have not been able to find other sources for some of the information it contains. Information in this category will be marked [DT].

• I am indebted to Ceri Beasley for sending me several photos of Worden gravestones in the St Kew churchyard. One of these, shown below, commemorates Samuel's parents and a brother named Richard. The inscription on the stone reads as follows. "Sacred to the memory of Samuel Worden of this Parish who departed this life the 1^st day of Nov^r 1811 in the 82^nd year of his age. Also to the memory of Grace, the wife of the above said Samuel Worden of this Parish who departed this life the 2^nd day of Jan^ry 1820 in the 90^th year of her age. Also to the memory of Richard Worden son of the above said Samuel & Grace Worden of Lower Amble in this Parish who departed this life the 9^th day of Dec^r 1834 aged 63 years."

  

  Grave of Samuel, Grace and Richard Worden

  Several other gravestone inscriptions are quoted below. These have been obtained from the photos mentioned above or from the William Worden page of The Family Tree of Tony King, or a combination of both.

• Also appearing on this page are three photos kindly passed on to me by Ron Worden of Vancouver. These bear the captions "The Parish Church at St Kew", "Grave of John and Jane" and "Worden family graves in the churchyard at St Kew".

In the "family graves" picture we see two gravestones attached to the church wall. The one on the left commemorates William Worden of Treweathen, who died in 1806, and his son Robert, who died in 1816. This William was another brother of the Samuel who married Jane Calloway. The other gravestone attached to the church wall is the one shown above: the elder Samuel, Grace and Richard. The small stone directly in front of this one in the "family graves" view may be the one commemorating Peggy Cundy (quoted below), and then (from left to right) come John Worden (died 1817), Mary Rowse, John and Jane, John Worden (died 1832).

The Cornwall Online Parish Clerks burials database includes the burials at St Kew of Samuel Worden on 4/11/1811, Grace Worden on 4/1/1820 and Richard Worden on 12/12/1834. I should say that I am greatly indebted to Christine Parker, the OPC for St Kew, for making her parish register transcriptions freely available.

Sources of possible confusion

Trying to identify the descendants of Samuel and Jane is made more difficult by the fact that there were other Worden families in St Kew at the same time, and the same names often occur in different families. For example, there were William Wordens born in St Kew in 1784, 1785 and 1791. To help us sort out who is who it will be necessary for us to pay some attention to the children of Samuel's brothers William, who was baptized on 7/3/1762, and John, who was baptized on 30/12/1766. We have already mentioned Samuel's other brother Richard; he was baptized on 20/1/1771, died at age 63 on 9/12/1834, and was buried at St Kew on 12/12/1834. At first I thought that he might be the Richard Werdon who, according to FamilySearch.org, married Elizabeth Thomas in St Kew on 10/1/1793; however, the St Kew OPC marriage transcriptions for this period has the groom's surname as Werren, not Werdon, and there is a also a burial of a Richard Werrin and a couple of baptisms of children with father named Richard Werren. The only strange thing about this is that an image of the St Kew parish register page listing the 1793 marriages is now viewable online at FamilySearch.org, and (in my opinion) it clearly says neither Werdon nor Werren, but Warren! In any case, I suppose that Richard Worden remained unmarried.

For the record, Samuel also had at least three sisters: Mary (baptized 9/5/1756), Elizabeth (baptized 16/4/1760) and another (baptized 18/4/1769). The following St Kew marriages are recorded: Mary Worden married Humphrey Williams on 4/5/1779, Elizabeth Worden married Malachi Davey on 7/12/1785, Grace Worden married William Williams on 20/5/1786. Both Humphry Williams and William Williams were from St Minver, and it is tempting to guess that they were brothers.

An 1841 census record shows a 70 year old widow named Grace Williams in the Lower Amble household of a 45 year old Humphry Williams, perhaps her son. This Grace Williams died at age 73 and was buried on 16/5/1842. The dates and ages are all consistent with the theory that Grace was the Worden child baptized on 18/4/1769 and was also the Grace Worden who married William Williams in 1786 (when she would have been aged 17). The document DT mentioned above also has 18/4/1769 as the baptism date for Grace Worden, perhaps indicating that the researcher in question used reasoning similar to that outlined above. But, unfortunately, it seems that the child baptized on 18/4/1769 was named Jane, not Grace. The parish register page is virtually illegible in places, but it does look as though the relevant entry begins "Jane daughter of Samuel Worden Jnr and Grace".

Worden baptism 1769 – see image of the parish register page at FamilySearch.org

The Cornwall Online Parish Clerks database also includes the baptisms of Mary, Elizabeth and Jane. But I suppose that it is possible that the child baptized in 1769 came to be called Grace, despite what the parish register says.

In fact it seems that the Humphry Williams mentioned in the previous paragraph was probably Grace's nephew rather than her son. The 1851 census record for his household gives his age as 63, suggesting that he was actually the son of Humphry Williams and Mary Worden who was baptized on 11/11/1787 in St Kew. The fact that Grace Williams was staying with Humphry Williams in 1841 does, to my mind, add a little weight to the theory that she was Humphry's mother's sister, rather than (merely) Humphry's father's brother's wife.

A William Williams, of St Minver, married Ann Roskilly on 25/2/1808 in St Kew. A marriage list on the St Kew OPC website includes the information that the marriage witnesses were Richard Worden and John Worden, who, I suggest, may have been brothers of the groom's mother. William and Ann Williams had a daughter named Grace Worden Williams, who was baptized in 1824 in St Kew. She married John Hosken in St Kew on 23/1/1851. An image of the relevant parish register page is viewable online at FamilySearch.org. (Note that the other marriage on the same page is that of John Samuel Guy and Amelia Ann Gray, who also feature in our story.)

Samuel's brother John

A John Worden married Priscilla Bishop at St Kew on 4/5/1797. I think that this John Worden was probably Samuel's brother. Samuel also had a son named John, as did Samuel's brother William, but these two John Wordens were only 15 and 8 in 1797. John brother of Samuel was 30 on 4/5/1797 and Priscilla Bishop was 25. (She was baptized on 13/10/1771 in Endellion; her parents were named Thomas and Elizabeth.) John and Priscilla had at least six children: Grace (25/4/1798), John (26/12/1799), Elizabeth (27/7/1801), Mary Ann (20/1/1806), Priscilla (1/1/1808) and one other daughter baptized on 22/5/1804.

Although the Cornwall OPC transcriber could not make out the name of the daughter born in 1804 – "forenames in dark page crease, not all visible" – in fact her name was Jane, according to another transcription from FamilySearch.org. (Indeed, a very clear image of the parish register page is also available online.)

Some things are known about the lives of the children of John and Priscilla.

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  Grave of John, son of John and Priscilla

  The son John died at age 17. One of the St Kew churchyard gravestone inscriptions referred to above reads as follows: "Sacred to the memory of John Worden the son of John & Priscilla Worden of Lower Amble in this Parish who departed this life the 25^th July 1817 in the 18^th year of his age." The photo only shows the first two of the lines that follow:

  Lo! here I lie cut down in youthful prime
  Where all must come when God appoints the
  ...

• The daughter Grace married Daniel Wills at St Kew on 3/8/1819. I believe that this Daniel was the son of Thomas and Grace (née Davey) Wills baptized at St Austell on 28/5/1793. Daniel and Grace had at least the following children, baptized at St Breock: John W. (9/5/1820), Thomas Davey (25/10/1823), Samuel (18/12/1825), Jane (20/2/1828) and Mary Priscilla (22/7/1830). Daniel apparently died before the 1841 census, where we find a household in Wadebridge, St Breock, consisting of the following people: Grace Wills (40, Draper & Grocer), Joseph Wills (35, Draper & Grocer), Thomas Wills (15), Samuel Wills (15), Jane Wills (10), Mary Wills (10), Thomas Edwards (15, Draper Apprentice) and Jane Lobb (20, Female Servant). I believe that the Joseph Wills in this record was Daniel's younger brother, baptized on 28/5/1804.

  Note that in the 1841 census the enumerators were instructed that ages of people over 15 should be rounded down to multiples of 5. Evidently this enumerator went beyond the call of duty and also rounded down the age of the 13 year old Jane.

  I cannot with certainty identify John W. Wills in the 1841 census, but in 1851 he is back in his mother's household in Wadebridge. Her age is correctly given as 52, she is a widow, and her occupation is "Draper Grocer Tallow Chandler". This is also the occupation of her sons John W., Thomas D. and Samuel. They and their sisters are all unmarried, and all the ages are consistent with the baptism records. The household also contains servants named Mary A. Pryor (24) and Mary A. Harding (15), and two of Grace's nephews: Thomas Symons and John Lawry, both aged 15 and both described as apprentices. These boys were sons of Grace's sisters Mary Ann and Priscilla. At the 1861 census we find Thomas Symons and John Lawry in partnership – Lawry and Symons, Drapers – at 15 Fore Street, Bodmin; both are still unmarried, and John's 27 year old sister Emmeline is their housekeeper. John Lawry apparently emigrated to Queensland some time between 1861 and 1870, because he was married in Brisbane on 9/7/1870 (see the section on the Lawry family below).

  John Worden Wills married Susan Tremain in the September quarter of 1851. One of their descendants kindly sent me some information about the children of John and Susan, supplementing the information I was able to obtain from census records and from FreeBMD:

  

  London Gazette, 12/9/1856
  • Their first child was Arthur Daniel Wills, whose birth was registered in the last quarter of 1852 as Auther Daniel Wills. An 1871 census record has his occupation as Grocer Apprentice; at that time he was the head of a household containing all his younger brothers and sisters, the parents having both died. Arthur later became a commercial traveller and then a shipping clerk. He married Jennie Harris in West Ham in 1885.
  • John and Susan's second child was Tremain Wills, whose birth was registered in the second quarter of 1854; the 1871 census record, which gives his occupation as Draper, is the last information I have about him.
  • John and Susan's third child was Grace Tremain Wills, whose birth was registered in the last quarter of 1855; she became a school mistress and never married.
  • John and Susan's fourth child was Mary Susan Wills, whose birth was registered in the third quarter of 1857. She married Richard Truscott; Marriage announcements appearing in the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser in September 1887 include one that reads as follows: "At St. Columb, September 7, Mr. Richard Truscott, of Wadebridge, to Mary Susan, second daughter of the late Mr. John Worden Wills, of Wadebridge."
  • John and Susan's fifth child was John Wills, whose birth was registered in the second quarter of 1859. He married Hannah Phillipps on 21/8/1890, and they emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, in September 1890. They moved to Western Australia in 1896 or thereabouts.
  • John and Susan's sixth child was Aleda Wills; her birth and death were both registered in the first quarter of 1861.
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    Royal Cornwall Gazette, 11/11/1864
    John and Susan's seventh and last child was Walter Wills, whose birth was registered in the second quarter of 1862. He emigrated to the USA in June 1882 and lived his life in Omaha, Nebraska. He was naturalized a US citizen in 1890.
  

  Royal Cornwall Gazette, 18/3/1869

  The 1861 census record of John Worden Wills' household describes him as a merchant, dealer in tea and sugar, employing 7 men.

  

  Edinburgh Gazette, 16/1/1863

  John Worden Wills died on 30/10/1864, and Susan Wills died on 15/3/1869.

  Thomas Davey Wills (born 1823) never married. In 1861 he was a boarder at 22 Egloshayle Road, Egloshayle, working as a wholesale grocer. He was still in Egloshayle in 1871 (at Park Place West, Egloshayle Road), and was described as a Wholesale Merchant of Goods. He died on 17 July 1877 in Devon and was buried in the St Breock Churchyard. (In fact there was also a Thomas Davey Wills who was born in 1862, died in 1863, and was buried at St Breock. I do not know his parentage.)

  Samuel Wills (born 1825) was also a merchant, conducting his business at Molesworth Street, Wadebrige, at least from 1871 to 1891. The 1871 census record of his household describes him as a Draper and Grocer, and also a Wesleyan and Local Preacher. The 1881 census record describes him as Tea Merchant and Provision Dealer, employing 10 men and 9 boys. The 1891 record has him as a Provision Merchant (employer), dealing in linen, silk, corn, tea, sugar. Samuel married Eleanor C Mudge Harvey in 1856 in Penzance, Cornwall, and they had 8 children:

  • Eleanor Harvey Wills, born 12/2/1858 in Wadebridge. She was was still unmarried in 1911.
  • William Harvey Wills, born 4/10/1860 in Wadebridge. He also became a wholesale grocer, and married Ellen Liddell Hawken in 1895. They had 2 children.
  • Mary Wills, born 24/9/1862 in Wadebridge. She was was still unmarried in 1911.
  • Edgar Wills, born 17/11/1864 in Wadebridge. Possibly married Eleanor Susannah Coles in 1901 in Somerset and died the following year.
  • Francis Wills, born 27/10/1867 in Wadebridge, died in the second quarter of 1868.
  • Samuel Henry Wills, born 9/6/1869 in Wadebridge. He died unmarried in the Bodmin district in the third quarter of 1897.
  • Thomas Edward Wills, born 17/9/1870 in Wadebridge. In 1891 was a boarder at 8 Houndscombe Place, Plymouth, Devon and was an Architecture Student. In 1901 he was a Government Clerk boarding at 39 Alderney Street, St George Hanover Square, London. He died unmarried in the second quarter of 1907, in St Thomas district, Devon.
  • Charles Vivian Wills, born 20/5/1877 in Wadebridge. In 1901 he was a Merchant's Clerk, boarding in the home of Mary Rule in Trelissick Road, St Erth, Penzance. By 1909 he had moved to Lancashire, where he married Kathleen Barrow Wilson. In 1911 they were living at Ladbrook House, Hayle, Lancashire, and Charles worked as a Builder's and Coal Merchant. They had no children up to that time.

  Jane Wills (born 1828) married John Holt Lord in 1853 in the St Columb district. They had five children:

  • Jane Wills Lord, born in Plymouth, Devon, in the second quarter of 1855. She married Alphonsus Barnicott in 1879, in Bath, Somerset.
  • Ada L Lord, born in Penzance in the last quarter of 1858. She married Herbert Isitt in 1883, in Bath, Somerset.
  • Bertha Lord, born in Penzance in the first quarter of 1861. In 1881 she was a pupil at the Wesleyan College in Lansdown Road, Charlcombe, Somerset in 1881. In 1891 she was in Harrogate, Yorkshire.
  • Lilian Lord, born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, in the third quarter of 1863.
  • Percy Lord, born in Halifax, Yorkshire, in the last quarter of 1865. He was also attending the Wesleyan College in Charlcombe in 1881.

  Mary Priscilla Wills (born 1830) married her cousin John Worden Symons (son of her mother's sister Mary Ann). The extra information that I have appears in the Symons section below.

• Elizabeth married Charles Menhinnick at St Kew on 28/4/1823. They had the following children: Eleanour Priscilla (19/4/1824), Priscilla Worden (4/11/1825), John (13/7/1827), Alexander (28/9/1828), Elizabeth Worden (27/7/1830), Rebecca (20/12/1831), Mary Jane (31/7/1833), Ann (6/10/1835, died aged 8, buried 4/8/1843), Charles (5/6/1837), Caroline Constance (30/7/1839), Emma Selina (16/3/1840), William Henry (26/7/1842) and Ann (22/9/1844).

  

  Royal Cornwall Gazette, 5/6/1813

  At the 1851 census the son John is living at Egloshayle; he is unmarried, a farmer of 390 acres employing 12 labourers, and his household includes his unmarried sisters Ellen and Priscilla. The other nine children are still living in their parents' home at Lower Amble; Charles (senior) is a farmer of 300 acres employing five labourers. (Note that the Cornwall Online Census Project's transcription of this census record gives the surname as Menheniot.)

  Elizabeth Menhennick died in 1855 and was buried at St Kew on 15/5/1855.

  In 1861 Elizabeth, Charles, Emma, William and Ann are all still unmarried and living with their father, now a farmer of 450 acres employing 10 men and 2 boys. The household also includes a 12 year old dairy maid servant named Grace, born at St Kew. According to FreeCen her surname is uncertain, but possibly Borden. I am confident this should be Worden, and that she is the the daughter of Samuel, son of Elizabeth's cousin John. The family of this Samuel is discussed below.

  Charles Menhennick died aged 79 in 1875 and was buried at St Kew on 18/3/1875.

• Jane Worden married Thomas Key (of St Breock) in St Kew on 16/1/1827. An 1841 census record shows that this Jane was aged between 35 and 39 in 1841, consistent with her being the daughter of Samuel and Jane born in 1804. The marriage witnesses included a Priscilla Worden and a Charles Menhennick, who no doubt were Jane's youngest sister (since her mother Priscilla was already deceased) and the husband of her elder sister Elizabeth.

  The census record also shows that by 1841 Thomas and Jane had five children: Jane (10), Thomas (12), Samuel (7), Anna (3) and John (2). The birth registration record for Anna (September quarter of 1837) tells us that her full name was Anna Priscilla Key, presumably named Priscilla in honour of her grandmother.

  At the 1851 census Anna and her mother were both missing from the household, and I do not know where they were.

  Carhart, St Breock, 1851:
  Name	Rel	Status	Sex	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
  Thomas Key	Head	M	M	52	Farmer 240 acres, 7 labourers	St Breock
  Thomas Key Jnr	Son	U	M	23		St Breock
  Jane Key	Dau	U	F	21		St Breock
  Samuel Key	Son	U	M	17	Student Scholar	St Breock
  John Key	Son	U	M	12	Scholar	St Breock
  Francis Charlie	Servant	U	F	23		St Kew
  John Bazley	Servant	U	M	15		St Kew
  Henry Bazley	Servant	U	M	10		St Kew

  
  Royal Cornwall Gazette, 19/12/1851

  The December 1854 death notices from the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser include the following, from the issue of Friday 1/12/1954:

  At Carhart, in the parish of St. Breock, on Wednesday last, Jane, the wife of Mr. Thomas Key, aged 51 years.

  In 1861 census records Thomas appears as a 64 year old retired farmer, a widower, living at Camel Terrace, Egloshayle. There are two other people in the household: his 22 year old unmarried daughter Anna P and a 28 year old servant named Mary Wick. Anna married Frederick George Hicks in the first quarter of 1868, but at the 1871 census she was again in her father's household; I have not been able to locate her husband. The 1881 census shows Anna as a widow with a 7 year old daughter named Charlotte, still living in the household of her father (who by that time was aged 84). Anna's occupation in 1881 was given as "interest of money".

  Jane, daughter of Thomas Key, died on 22/11/1855, aged 28.

  Royal Cornwall Gazette, 30/11/1855

  Thomas Key junior married Elizabeth Susan Tremain in St Columb in the first quarter of 1856. At the time of the 1861 census their address was Bodilick, St Breock, Thomas was a farmer, and they had sons named John Tremain (aged 3) and Thomas E (aged 1). The household also included three servants. John Tremain Key died in the last quarter of 1862, and at the 1871 census the household of Thomas and Elizabeth Susan included three children: Thomas Edward (11), Susan Jane (9) and William (6).

  Samuel Key married his cousin Rebecca Menhinnick in St Kew on 15/12/1858. The 1881 census has Samuel as a 46 year old farmer of 120 acres employing 2 men and 1 boy, his wife Rebecca is aged 48, and they have children Elizabeth J. (21), Annie (19), Amy (18) and Edward (17). The address of the household is Carhart, St Breock.

• Mary Ann married Henry Symons at St Kew on 21/11/1826. At the 1841 census their household was as follows.

  Roserrow, St Minver Highlands, 1841:
  Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
  Henry Symons	M	35	Farmer	Cornwall
  Mary Anne Symons	F	35		Cornwall
  John Symons	M	12		Cornwall
  Henry Symons	M	10		Cornwall
  Silas E. Symons	M	9		Cornwall
  William Symons	M	8		Cornwall
  Anna Symons	F	6		Cornwall
  Thomas Symons	M	5		Cornwall
  Mark Symons	M	4		Cornwall
  James Symons	M	4		Cornwall
  Elias H Symons	M	3		Cornwall
  Charles Symons	M	1		Cornwall
  Wm Worden	M	20	Male Servant	Cornwall
  John Dyer	M	14	Agricultural Apprentice	Cornwall
  Timothy Hill	M	12	Agricultural Apprentice	Cornwall
  Wm Treverton	M	9	Agricultural Apprentice	Cornwall
  Ann Menhinic	F	25	Female Servant	Cornwall
  Johanna Knight (?)	F	15	Female Servant	Cornwall
  Mary Arthur	F	20	Agricultural Apprentice	Cornwall
  Mark Symons	M	15	Mason's Apprentice	Cornwall

  Note that FreeCEN's transcription of the household incorrectly has "Elizabeth" in place of "Elias H".

  I conjecture that the William Worden in this Symons household was the son of a cousin of Mary Ann. He will be discussed later.

  Note that the Silas E. Symons above is not the Silas Edward Symons baptized in St Columb Minor on 18/11/1833; that Silas can be found in his parents' household at St Columb Minor in 1841.

  I am indebted to Pat Balmer, OPC for St Minver, for sending me more information about these Symonses. Henry Symons (sen.) was baptized on 1/1/1802 in Newlyn East. It appears that Henry and Mary Ann had fourteen children: Samuel Symons (baptized 15/6/1827), John Worden Symons (baptized 19/2/1829), Henry Symons (baptized 14/11/1830), William Silas Symons (baptized 7/1/1832), William Henry Symons (baptized 10/5/1833), Anna Symons (baptized 29/9/1834), Thomas Symons (baptized 31/12/1835), James Symons (baptized 10/12/1836), Mark Symons (baptized 10/12/1836), Elias Hescutt Symons (baptized 20/6/1838), Charles Symons (baptized 9/2/1840), Edward Rashleigh Symons (baptized 27/10/1841), Mary Gertrude Symons (baptized 28/9/1843), Milicent Symons (baptized 2/3/1845).

  I have identified William Silas Symons (baptized 7/1/1832) with the 9 year old Silas E Symons of the 1841 census record, because it seems to me that there was not enough time between Henry (14/11/1830) and William Henry (10/5/1833) to accommodate both Silas E and William Silas. Silas E Symons became a Wesleyan Methodist minister. Presumably the E stands for Edward, but I have not actually seen any evidence to support this guess.

  John Worden Symons married his cousin Mary Priscilla Wills (daughter of his mother's sister Grace). At the 1861 census Mary P Symons and her infant son John Wills Symons (who was born on 8/2/1860 and baptized on 24/3/1861) are found in the Wadebridge household of Mary's mother. John Worden Symons, who was a mariner, was on board the vessel "Little Liz" (a 79-ton schooner) in Fowey Harbour, St Austell. John and Mary also had a daughter Mary A. Symons, who was seven on census day 1871 and seventeen on census day 1881. I presume that she was the Mary Alice Symons whose birth was registered in the third quarter of 1863. On census day 1871 John Worden Symons, with his wife and son, were staying at a boarding house in London (at No. 33 Trinity Square, Old Tower Without, Whitechapel, an establishment run by one Jane Goldsmith); the daughter Mary A. Symons was staying with her grandmother Grace Wills at 73 Molesworth Street Wadebridge. On census 1881 the son John was boarding at 17 Gordon Street, London, and was working for the Local Government Department in Whitehall; the rest of the family were in Wadebridge. Mary Priscilla Symons died in 1902 and was buried in the St Breock Parish Churchyard on 11/6/1902; John Worden Symons died in 1905 and was buried on 25/11/1905, also in St Breock Parish Churchyard.

• Priscilla married Charles Lawry at St Kew on 16/12/1828. In 1841 their household was as follows.

  

  Brisbane Courier, 9/7/1870
  

  Brisbane Courier, 20/10/1881
  

  Brisbane Courier, 13/5/1898

  Trenant, St Endellion, 1841:
  Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
  Charles Lawry	M	30	Farmer	Cornwall
  Priscilla Lawry	F	30		Cornwall
  Mary Lawry	F	12		Cornwall
  Emblem Lawry	F	10		Cornwall
  Ann Lawry	F	8		Cornwall
  John Lawry	M	6		Cornwall
  Charles Lawry	M	4		Cornwall
  Thomas Lawry	M	2		Cornwall
  Mary Andrew	F	30	Ind.	Cornwall
  Thomas Andrew	M	3		Cornwall
  Samuel Andrew	M	1		Cornwall
  Mary Hambly	F	14	Female Servant	Cornwall
  Rosezanna Miller	F	15	Female Servant	Cornwall
  Samuel Rowe	M	15	Male Servant	Cornwall
  John Morrice	M	10	Male Servant	Cornwall

  John Worden Lawry, eldest son of Charles and Priscilla Lawry, was mentioned above in connection with the Wills family. He emigrated to Queensland, where he married one Maria Reed Munce. Their eldest daughter, Priscilla Mary Esther Worden Lawry, married one Samuel Robert Hart.

Priscilla Worden died in 1825. The inscription on her gravestone appears to say "Sacred to the memory of Priscilla Worden wife of John Worden of Lower Amble in this parish who departed this life on the 16th day of August 1825 aged 53 years." The age is not at all clear, and others have read it as 55. But 53 fits with the baptism date of 13/10/1771 and the common practice of baptizing children within a few weeks of birth. The COPC transcription of the parish burial record also gives her age as 53, but it gives the the burial date as 12/8/1825, obviously inconsistent with the date of death given on the gravestone. Perhaps 12 was a transcription error for 21.

I can only make out some of the words in the verse that appears at the bottom of Priscilla's gravestone. However, I think that the first four of the eight lines may be as follows:

These lines appear on another gravestone I have seen a photo of, and they fit with the words I can see in the present photo. I can read some words in the last four lines, and guess at the others, but I could be completely wrong:

John Worden died in 1832; the COPC transcription of his burial record gives the burial date as 13/5/1832 and his age as 66. The inscription on his gravestone appears to say "Sacred to the memory of John Worden of Lower Amble in this parish who departed this life 1832 on the 10th day of May aged 65 years". As far as I can tell from the photo it might equally well be 63 rather than 65, although that would not be consistent with the baptism date 30/12/1766.

Grave of William Worden and Robert Lean Worden

Royal Cornwall Gazette 6/7/1816

Samuel's brother William

We turn now to Samuel's brother William. He married Rebecca Lean, daughter of Robert and Esther (née Hawken) Lean, in St Kew on 12/7/1788. Rebecca was baptized on 8/1/1764 in the parish of Blisland. There is some information about Robert and Esther on a Lean Family Genealogy web site. The author of this site, Robert J. Lean, has transcribed the wills of both Robert and Esther, and it turns out that these documents mention William and Rebecca Worden and their children. Robert's will includes "I also give and bequeath to my daughter Rebecca, the wife of William Worden the sum of one hundred pounds", while Esther's includes "I also give unto my four grandchildren John Worden, William Worden, Robert Worden, and Elizabeth Worden the sum of five pounds each to be paid twelve months after my decease" and "I also give unto my daughter Rebekah Worden the sum of three pounds to be paid her twelve months after my decease".

FamilySearch.org has baptism records of the four children of William and Rebecca mentioned in Esther Lean's will: John Webber Worden (14/8/1789), William Worden (20/3/1791), Elizabeth Worden (February 1793) and Robert Leane Worden (23/12/1794). The Cornwall OPC burial database includes the burials of William Worden on 6/8/1806 (aged 44), Rebecca Worden on 3/10/1822 (aged 58), and Robert Lean Worden on 5/7/1816 (aged 21). The gravestone commemorating William and Robert is shown; the inscription reads as follows:

Here is what I know about the other children of William and Rebecca.

• John Webber Worden features in some legal documents that have been transcribed and posted on the St Kew OPC website. One of them quotes the will of William Worden:

  30th July 1806.

  By will of this date, duly executed and attested, for paying real estates, the said William Worden after bequeathing to his wife Rebecca Worden, one annuity or clear yearly rent charge of 15 Pounds to be paid to her by half yearly payments by his executor thereof and bequeathing to his said wife the use of the house wherein he then lived for her life and giving several personal and pecuniary legacies in no way affecting the said premises hereinbefore described —

  Gave devised and bequeathed all the rest and residue and remainders of his personal estate, lands and tenements whatsoever and wheresoever unto his John Worden

  TO HOLD to him the said John Worden and his heirs for ever — Subject nevertheless that if the said John Worden should happen to depart this life leaving no male lawfully begotten, then and in such case all that part of his estate which he had then lately purchased of the said John Wallis and others should descend to his Son Willm and the heir male of his body lawfully begotten, remainder to his son Robert and the heir male of his body lawfully begotten.

  It appears that John Webber Worden did secure the inheritance, since he married Mary Pope in Michaelstow on 9/11/1819, and lawfully begat sons named William and Robert (both born at Michaelstow). DT names the witnesses to the marriage as John Brown and John Folly; I suggest Finley rather than Folly.

  
  Michaelstow marriages 1814–1842 at FamilySearch.org (see image 4)

  Another legal document on the St Kew OPC website features John Webber Worden and Rebecca Worden and has an 1877 date attached to it, but this date must be the result of some transcription error. Maybe it should be 1817.

  William Worden, son of John and Mary, was baptized in Michaelstow on 30/7/1820; Robert Worden, son of John and Mary, was baptized at Michaelstow on 7/5/1823. (See Michaelstow baptisms 1813–1904 at FamilySearch.org, image number 9 and image number 10. The FamilySearch.org transcription of Robert's baptism gives the surname as Horton, but comparing with H's and W's elsewhere on the page makes it clear that it should have been transcribed as Wordon.) John and Mary's address was given as Helsbury at the time of John's baptism, and as Trevenning at the time of Robert's baptism; as far as I can work out from maps, these two places are sufficiently close together that perhaps their actual address had not changed. There was also a child named Ann Pope Worden, whose parents were named John and Mary, baptized at St Teath on 21/7/1833. I presume that these were the same John and Mary, and I wonder if there were other children between Robert and Ann. There were certainly none born after 1833, since John died in December 1832, as a St Kew burial record shows. I do not know what became of Mary Worden or Ann Pope Worden, but I believe that I have identified William and Robert in later census records.

  In 1841 there was a 15 year old servant named Robert Wordan in the household of a 50 year old Henry Williams at Trelill, St Kew. Mr Williams could be the son of Humphrey and Mary Williams baptized on 4/1/1890, and thus a cousin of John Webber Worden. As we have already mentioned, there was a 20 year old servant named William Worden in the household of Henry and Mary Ann Symons; observe that Mary Ann Symons was also a cousin of John Webber Worden.

  As we shall see later, William son of John Webber Worden had a cousin named William Worden and a second cousin named William Worden, and since all three were of similar ages we need to examine the data carefully to distinguish them. Census records show that the second cousin, son of John Worden and grandson of John Webber Worden's uncle Samuel, never married. The cousin, son of John Webber Worden's brother William, is discussed below: it is believed that he left Cornwall and ultimately became harbourmaster at Preston in Lancashire.

  William Worden, son of John Worden, married Grace Broad, daughter of Robert Broad, in Egloshayle on 20/4/1850. The witnesses were Robert Worden and Robert Broad, no doubt these were the groom's brother and the bride's father.

  
  Egloshayle marriages 1837–1895 at FamilySearch.org (image no. 62)
  

  Admiral Sir Provo Wallis

  The John Bligh Worden who was married in Egloshayle a few weeks after William was in fact William's first cousin; we shall discuss him further in due course.

  Grace Broad was baptized on 6/11/1825 at St Kew; her mother's name was Mary Ann.

  At the 1851 census William and Grace Worden have a 6 month old daughter named Ann; the family is living in Egloshayle, and William's occupation is "Farm Labourer". At the 1861 census the family is found in St Dennis, William is still a farm labourer, and there are four children: Annie (10), Mary A. (8), John (5) and Charles E. (3). They are still at St Dennis in 1871, by which time William's occupation has become "Waggoner", and the household also includes Annie's husband Philip Wills (a 23 year old brick maker born at Cornwood, Devon) and 1 year old daughter Annie Wills.

  William's other daughter, Mary Ann Worden, married Harry Hawke in the March quarter of 1877. At the 1891 census William, now a widower, appears in Harry Hawke's household in St Blazey. According to DT, William's wife Grace died on 9/4/1882, and William died on 3/4/1895.

  At the 1851 census William's brother Robert Worden is found in the household of John A. Tickell, age 60, whose occupation is "Lieutant (Marines) half pay". Robert Worden's occupation is "Officers Servant". The household also includes Lieutenant Tickell's wife and daughter, as well as a cook and a house maid.

  The 1881 census record of the household of Admiral Sir Provo Wallis GCB, at Funtington House, Funtington, Sussex, includes a Robert Wordin, who is the butler. Wordin's age is given as 54, and his birthplace as Michaelstow. Although the age is not quite right, I think that this must be the man we are discussing.

  

  Royal Cornwall Gazette, 22/10/1886

  According to DT, Robert Worden, son of John Webber Worden, died in Harry Hawke's house on 13/10/1886.

• Elizabeth Lean Worden married Charles Lang at St Kew on 3/7/1813. They had at least three children: Betsy Worden Lang, baptized 6/1/1814 in St Kew, Rebecca Lang, baptized 1/2/1816 in St Teath, and William Worden Lang, baptized 10/2/1817 in St Teath. Rebecca and William both died in infancy; they were buried in St Tudy, Rebecca on 19/3/1816 and William on 25/12/1819. At the 1841 census Betsy Worden Lang appears in the household of her uncle William Worden (to be discussed shortly); her occupation is given as "independent". I cannot find any further records relating to her parents Charles and Elizabeth, who I presume must have died. Note that the Charles and Elizabeth Lang in Stoke Climsland in 1841 and 1851 are a different couple, probably the Charles Lang and Elizabeth Martin who were married on 29/8/1814. (That Elizabeth was 57 on census day 1851 and her birthplace was North Petherwin, Devon, whereas Elizabeth Lean Lang would have been 59 and her birthplace was St Kew.)

• William Worden (son of William) married Prudence Bligh in St Teath on 27/10/1819. There are baptism records for the following children of William and Prudence: John Bligh (St Teath 21/5/1820), Peggy (St Teath 22/7/1821), John Bligh (St Teath 10/3/1823), William (St Teath 27/12/1825), Robert (St Teath 8/4/1828), Barbara (St Kew 16/2/1831), Prudence Elizabeth (St Kew 31/7/1833), Elizabeth (St Kew 30/12/1835), Prudence Emily Bligh (St Kew 28/12/1840), Eliza (St Kew 24/9/1843) and Julia (St Kew 24/9/1843). The first John Bligh Worden died aged 4 months, and was buried on 1/8/1820; the daughter Prudence died aged 1, and was buried on 18/3/1835; the twins Eliza and Julia both died aged 15 months, and were buried on 15/8/1844. (Eliza, Julia).

  There is a RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project website called "HMS Bounty Ancestors & Cousins", according to which Prudence Bligh's father William Bligh was a second cousin of William Bligh, the Commander of HMS Bounty and subsequently Governor of New South Wales. Prudence's father was baptized in St Tudy on 13/2/1757, buried in St Teath on 19/4/1833, and he married Prudence Doncaster in St Kew on 14/3/1797. This Prudence was baptized in St Kew on 25/4/1755 and buried in St Kew on 16/1/1813. William and Prudence Bligh's daughter Prudence was baptized in St Kew on 12/11/1798. It appears that she was their only child, which is unsurprising given their ages at the time of their marriage. (Note that the Cornwall OPC's transcription of Prudence Doncaster's baptism record has the child's name as M??? Dancaster, but FamilySearch.org's transcription has it as Prudence Dancaster, which seems consistent with the online image.)

  

  Royal Cornwall Gazette, 10/8/1877

  There is a burial record from 1/2/1876 for an 84 year old William Worden, and a burial record from 25/7/1877 for a 78 year old Prudence Worden.

  The 1841 census shows a 50 to 54 year old farmer named William Worden with a 40 to 44 year old wife named Prudence living at a place called Trewane in St Kew. The household includes children named Peggy, John, William, Robert, Rebecca, Elizabeth and Emily, the first three of whom were all aged between 15 and 19, while the others were (respectively) 13, 10, 6 and 6 months. The baby Emily can be identified with Prudence Emily Bligh born in 1840; in later censuses she is called Prudence. It looks suspiciously as though the 10 year old Rebecca is the same person as the Barbara born in 1831. I have checked the transcription of the baptism (using the image of the relevant baptism register page at FamilySearch.org), and it is certainly correct, but perhaps the child baptized as Barbara came to be called Rebecca. I can find no other record of Barbara Worden, but Rebecca Worden shows up again in the 1851 census (by which time she is apprentice to a draper named William Pascoe, at Fore St in Bodmin). Rebecca married Edwin Henry Martin in Egloshayle on 21/6/1854.

  Royal Cornwall Gazette, 30/6/1854

  The 1841 household of William and Prudence also included Betsy Lang (mentioned above) and four other people: William Rowe (15, agricultural apprentice), Samuel Prior (9, male servant), Margeret Bishop (15, female servant) and Joseph Cowling (35, agricultural labourer). Presumably William Worden was a prosperous farmer.

  
  Royal Cornwall Gazette 23/6/1843

  The family of William and Prudence were scattered far and wide in the decade from 1841 to 1851. This could well be due to the financial problems that beset William in 1843.

  London Gazette 15/8/1843

  London Gazette 27/10/1843

  At the 1851 census only one of the children – Elizabeth (then aged 15) – is found in the household of William and Prudence. The ages of William and Prudence are given as 60 and 52, in agreement with the baptism records. Prudence E. Wordon appears in the household of her brother, John Bligh Wordon, sister-in-law Ann, and 1 month old nephew Lewis John Wordon. John Bligh Wordon is a grocer's assistant in St Austell; FreeCen shows his his age as 38, although in fact it would have been 28. As we saw above, John Bligh Worden had married Ann Merefield Brenton in Egloshayle on 7/5/1850. Later census records show that Ann was born in St Wenn. In the 1861 census we find in Egloshayle a 37 year old John Worden (a merchant's labourer) with a 40 year old wife named Ann and children Lewan J. (10, born at St Austle), Lucy A. (8), Maria B. (7), Elizabeth (5), Samuel B. (3) and William F. (3m). At the 1871 census John Bligh Worden is an agricultural labourer and there is another child, Mary Grace (aged 8).

  At the 1861 census Prudence E. B. Worden, now a 20 year old draper's assistant, was again living with her parents. However, she later moved to London, and she married Edward Bray in the Greenwich district in the September quarter of 1866. The 1881 census record for their household shows them living at 6 Eden Road, Lambeth; both are aged 40, and they are the only two people in the household. The census record also tells us that Edward was a carpenter and was born in Egloshayle, Cornwall.

  According to Tony King's website one of the gravestone inscriptions in the St Kew churchyard says: "Saved to the memory of Peggy the wife of James Cundy and daughter of William & Prudence Worden of Wadebridge who died on 1st September 1863 aged 42 years. Also in memory of Rebecca sister of the above who died in Cleveland, USA on 24th day of August 1872 aged 41 years." (Surely the first word must actually be "sacred".)

  FamilySearch.org has a record of Rebecca Martin's death in Cleveland, Ohio, on 26/8/1872.

  Peggy Worden had married James Cundy in the September quarter of 1859. From 1861 census data we discover that he was a saddler and harness maker, born at St Stephen. It seems that Peggy and James did not have any children.

  I cannot find Prudence's sister Elizabeth in the 1861 census, but she married a blacksmith named Simon Robins in Egloshayle on 13/2/1862. The marriage record (Egloshayle marriages 1836–1895, image no. 126, at FamilySearch.org) tells us that Simon's residence was in Charlestown, and his father was named William Robins (and was also a smith). Later census records show that Simon was born in Gwennap, and was about four years younger than Elizabeth. They had children named William Charles (born 22/3/1863), Eliza Peggy Worden (baptized 3/9/1865), Simon (born 19/5/1868), Elizabeth Worden (December quarter of 1870), Christopher (March quarter of 1873), Ernest Edward (June quarter of 1874) and Frederick (March quarter of 1877).

  The William Worden page of The Family Tree of Tony King tells us that William and Prudence's son William had left Cornwall by 1851, and eventually settled in the Preston area in the north of England. It appears that he married Emma Anne Horrocks in the Gloucester District in the September quarter of 1857.

  FamilySearch.org's transcription of the 1881 census record of the household of William Worden at Lea Ashton Ingol & Cottam, Lancashire, tells us that William Worden was 55 years old, born at St Kew, Cornwall, and was Harbour Master at Preston. His wife's, Emma Ann, was aged 46, born in Preston. One of their children was named Kitty Bligh Worden, which strongly supports the theory that this William was the son of William and Prudence (since Bligh was Prudence's maiden name). Moreover, 55 is exactly the right age for the son of William and Prudence. According to Tony King's Family Tree "Kitty" was actually "Hetty". Hetty was 17 in 1881, and had four siblings: William John (19), Ada (12), Emma Bannor (12) and Annie Horrocks (4). The occurrence of the name Horrocks supports the theory that Emma Ann Worden's maiden name was Horrocks. Records listed on FamilySearch.org reveal that she was baptized in Preston on 23/5/1834, the daughter of James Horrocks and Eliza Braham, who were married at Preston (St John) on 14/1/1828.

  
  London Gazette 6/5/1887

  The Family Tree of Tony King website supplies the information that Hetty Bligh Worden married Thomas Waters, son of Joseph Waters and Mary Billing. Moreover, Mary Billing was the daughter of Joseph Billing, a son of Samuel and Mary Billing born at St Endellion in 1815. Since this Mary Billing was the eldest daughter of Samuel Worden and Jane Calloway, Hetty's husband was actually her third cousin once removed.

• William and Prudence's son Robert died in Victoria, Australia, on 1/7/1893. The death registration document provides the following information.

  Where and when died:	1st July 1893, Henry Street, Town of Northcote, County Bourke
  Name and Surname, Rank or Profession:	Robert Worden, Architect
  Sex and Age:	Male, 64 years
  Cause of Death, Duration of last Illness, Medical Attendant by whom certified, and When he last saw Deceased:	Syncope following congestion of the lungs, 7 days, Dr Fyffe, 30th June 1893
  Name and Surname of Father and Mother, if known, with Rank or Profession:	William Worden, Farmer, Prudence Worden, m. n. not known
  Signature, Description and Residence of the Informant:	John Shannon, son-in-law, Northcote
  Signature of Deputy Registrar, Date and Where Registered:	Samuel Angior, 3rd July 1893, Northcote
  IF BURIAL REGISTERED
  When and where buried, Undertaker by whom certified:	3rd July 1893, Melbourne General Cemetery, S. Raven
  Name and Religion of Minister, or Names of Witnesses of Burial:	not any, M. Brennan, Joseph Clowes
  Where born, and how long in the Australian colonies, stating which:	Cornwall England, 30 years in Victoria
  IF DECEASED WAS MARRIED
  Where, and at what age, and to whom:	(1st) Hampshire England, 21 years, Mary Grills (2nd) Northcote, 63 years, Jemima Sheppard
  Issue in order of Birth, their Names and Ages:	Mary (42 years), Elizabeth (40 years), Amanda Sarah (dead), William (dead), Emily Arthur (dead), Anzonette Prudence Maud (dead)

  Robert Worden actually married Mary Grylls in Stoke Damerel, Devon, in the last quarter of 1848. There are Devon and Cornwall birth registrations that probably correspond to the first four daughters listed above: Mary Ann Worden, 1st quarter of 1850 in Okehampton; Elizabeth Worden, 3rd quarter of 1852 in Okehampton; Amanda Sarah Worden, last quarter of 1855 in St Columb; Emily Arthur Worden, 3rd quarter of 1857 in St Columb. The son William was actually born before the daughter Amanda Sarah; his birth was registered in St Columb in the last quarter of 1853.

  I think that the Robert Worden under discussion must be the builder and contractor of that name who absconded from Cornwall in 1857 while bankrupt. It would appear that he prospered in Australia.

  Royal Cornwall Gazette, 5/6/1857

  The Argus, 22/4/1873 Mercury and Weekly Courier, 20/11/1885 Mercury and Weekly Courier, 8/10/1886 The Argus, 29/7/1890

  Robert Worden's second daughter, Elizabeth, married A. E. Fisher on 17/4/1873. A newspaper notice announcing Robert Worden's death enables us to deduce that his eldest daughter, Mary, married one W. D. Mitchell.

  The Argus, 4/7/1893 The Argus, 3/7/1893 The Argus, 3/7/1893

  The Argus, 8/12/1893

  Robert Worden' youngest daughter, Anzonette Prudence Maud Worden, was born in Victoria in 1863. According to a message posted on a genealogy mailing list Anzonette married John Shannon, and had four children: Frank William (born 1884, died 1953, married Emma Eileen Fuller), Robert Austin (born 1886, died 1887), Ruby Emily (born 1888, died 1974, married Thomas McDonald) and Bessie (born and died in 1890). Anzonette also died in 1890; perhaps she died in childbirth.

  
  The Argus, 30/6/1890

  William Worden, son of Robert Worden and Mary Grills, was married in Collingwood, Victoria, on 12/6/1877. The marriage register gives the following information concerning William: he was a carpenter, residence in Cromwell Street Collingwood, aged 23, born in Wadebridge Cornwall, the son of Robert Worden and Mary Grills. His father, Robert, was also a carpenter at this time; apparently it was only later in his life that he decided to be an architect. The woman William married was named – would you believe – Harriett Beecher Stowe. Not the famous Harriet Beecher Stowe, of course, but a person born at a time when the famous Harriet Beecher Stowe was becoming famous. The marriage register gives the following information concerning William's bride: she was a machinist, residence in Johnston Street Collingwood, aged 22, born in Melbourne Victoria, the daughter of James Stowe and Mary Anne Miller. (In the image I purchased, the mother's maiden surname is just about illegible: . A FamilySearch.org transcription has it as Wilks; I thought it looked like Miller or Fuller, and the death registration of Harriett's sister Grace Muir names her mother as Mary Anne Miller. Note also that William's birthplace has been transcribed as "Stadebridge", but I think it looks more like "Wadebridge".) James Stowe's Rank or Profession at the time of Harriett's marriage was "Attendant".

  Harriett was born on 27/10/1853. The birth registration record is close to illegible:

  HB Stowe birth registration

  The entry under "Abode" could perhaps be "Barracks". James' Quality or Profession was "Band of the 40th Rgt"; there are a number of mentions of the Band of the 40th Regiment in The Argus in the 1850's.

  The Argus 29/8/1916

  The Argus 6/8/1921

  William and Harriett Worden had four daughters: Olive Harriett, Maud, Mabel and Dorothy.

  The Argus 21/11/1933

The immediate family of Samuel and Jane

Since this couple are supposed to be the principal characters of this web page, I refer to this Samuel Worden as Samuel the 1st (despite the fact that his father and grandfather were also Samuels). We shall encounter Samuel the 2nd, Samuel the 3rd and Samuel the 4th in due course.

Samuel the 1st and Jane had the following children:

• Mary Worden, baptized 19/11/1780, St Kew;
• John Worden, baptized 27/12/1781, St Kew;
• Jennifer Worden, baptized 14/1/1783, St Kew;
• Samuel Worden, baptized May 1784, St Kew;
• William Worden, baptized 25/9/1785, St Kew;
• Grace Worden, baptized 11/4/1787, Endellion;
• Richard Worden, baptized 31/8/1788, Endellion;
• Betsey Worden, baptized 11/7/1790, Endellion;
• Cordelia Worden, baptized 19/7/1792, Endellion;
• Thomas Worden, baptized 29/4/1794, Endellion;
• Joseph Worden, baptized 20/10/1795, Endellion;
• Martha Worden, baptized 12/4/1797, Endellion;
• Elijah Worden, buried 2/2/1817, Endellion;
• Carolina Ann Worden, baptized 19/5/1803, Endellion.

The baptism records for Betsey, Cordelia, Thomas, Joseph and Martha give the mother's name as Jennifer rather than Jane; at this time the two names were regarded as variants of one another, and were used almost interchangeably.

It appears from the on-line images of the Endellion Baptism register for the years 1732 to 1806 that a (two-sided) page covering November 1800 to April 1802 is missing: image number 53 shows a baptism dated 2/11/1800 at the bottom of one page and a baptism dated 25/4/1802 at the top of the next, and typically the baptisms for each year occupied more than one page. No doubt Elijah Worden was baptized in 1801.

A 46 year old Jenny Worden died in 1806, and was buried at St Kew on September 12th. The burial record gives her residence prior to death as "Tresungas in Endellyon". Samuel Worden the 1st was still alive at the time of the 1841 census, and still living at Tresungers.

The Wikipedia article on St Endellion tells us that "the houses at Roscarrock and Tresungers are listed buildings: at Roscarrock part of the medieval house remains (it is Listed Grade I); Tresungers farmhouse was built in the late 16th century." Concerning Tresungers, Dr Trevan says "... build with material of Bodannan by a Mr. Matthews in 1666 from whom it is said to have passed to Vyvyan family of Trelowarren, some part of which resided here, likewise residence of Sir John Dalrymple, Bart., of Cranston who left during troubles of Scotland 1745. From thence to family of Author by purchase whose descendant, Mrs. Weman, inherited it. Farmed by Mr. Samuel Worden for upwards of half century. Mr. Worden originally of Kew. Married Mary Calaway of St. Kew. Large family." The word "Author" above is apparently a transcription error for "Arthur", because the book The History of Cornwall; from the earliest records and traditions, to the present time, written by Samuel Drew using material gathered by Fortescue Hitchins, and printed in 1824, says this about Tresungers.

The farmer in question was Samuel Worden. His household in 1841 was as follows.

Tresungers, Endellion, 1841:
Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
Samuel Worden	M	80	Farmer	Cornwall
Joseph Worden	M	45		Cornwall
Caroline Worden	F	35		Cornwall
William Worden	M	15		Cornwall
Grace Ford	F	20	Female Servant	Cornwall
Richard Taylor	M	15	Male Servant	Cornwall
Mary Male	F	15	Female Servant	Cornwall
Jane Billing	F	20	Female Servant	Cornwall
John Olver	F	15	Male Servant	Cornwall
Richard Masters	M	15	Male Servant	Cornwall
Thomas Steer	F	14	Male Servant	Cornwall

The Joseph Worden in the census data above is the right age to be Samuel's youngest son, and the Caroline Worden is the right age to be his youngest daughter. Possibly William is a grandson; possibly the son of John. Other conceivable theories – for example, that Caroline was Joseph's wife and William his son – are not supported by any other records that I know of.

Jane Billing and Grace Ford were granddaughters of Samuel, being daughters of Samuel's daughters Mary and Martha respectively.

The news item below appeared in the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser on Friday 3rd July 1840. No doubt the boy named Steer it refers to is the Thomas Steer in the above census record.

RICHARD HONEY, 19 — was charged with having stolen 12 gallons of barley, the property of Samuel WARDEN, his master, of Endellion, and JOHN SKINNER, 50, of Port Isaac, was charged with having received the same, knowing it to have been stolen. It appeared from the statement of the advocate, which was borne out by evidence that in February last, Skinner had a gun which he offered for sale to the other prisoner, Honey; and on the latter telling him that he had no money to purchase it, Skinner said there is plenty of barley at home in your master's granary; I will take it up in barley as well as in anything else. On one Sunday evening, Honey, when his master's family were at chapel, and his master in the house, went into the granary and stole the barley in question. He then got his master's horse, and put the bag on it, taking with him a boy named STEER, a fellow servant, and proceeded to the premises of the other prisoner. When he reached there, he placed the barley in the garden, and then went round to Skinner's front door, and went into the house. Skinner afterwards went up stairs, and the witness heard a door that led into the garden creak; and on Skinner's return he brought with him a bag which he handed to Honey. There was other evidence which fully established the guilt of both parties; and the jury found them Guilty.

Earlier, on the 15th of May, the paper had reported the arrest of Honey and Skinner by the Wadebridge policeman, a man named Ingleden.

On the 29th ult. Ingleden apprehended Richard HONEY, servant of Mr. WARDEN, of St. Endellion, who was charged with stealing 37 gallons of barley, belonging to his master, in February last. John SKINNER, of Port Issac, was also taken after a desperate resistance, on a charge of having received the barley from Honey knowing it to have been stolen. We believe that both the prisoners have been committed to take their trial.

I cannot speculate why 37 gallons at the arrest changed to 12 at the trial.

Probably Richard Honey was the son of John Honey, mentioned in Dr Trevan's History of Port Isaac and Port Quinn as a "hind" (farm servant) of Samuel Worden, tending a property known as Polworgy. At the 1841 census a 50 year old agricultural labourer named John Honey and his 45 year old wife Margrett are found living at Trewetha, Endellion, with seven others – presumably their children – the eldest of whom is the 20 year old Richard.

Samuel the 1st died on 18/4/1843. The West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser carried the following death notice on the 28th: "On the 18th instant, at Tresangers, in the parish of Endellion, aged 85 years, Mr. Samuel WORDEN, a farmer of the old school, highly esteemed by an extensive connexion."

Owing to disk quota restrictions, I have not uploaded the high resolution version of the photo above. The inscription is hard to read even in the high resolution version, but probably says this:

THIS
Stone is Erected
TO THE
MEMORY
OF
SAMUEL WORDEN
Late of Tresunger in this
PARISH
Who died on the 17th day
APRIL 1843
In the 86th Year of His
AGE

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FOR when the breath of man
Goeth forth he shall turn again to
This earth and then all his thoughts
Perish

---

Also in Memory of
CAROLINE ANN
Daug. of the above & Wife of James Billing
Of Port Isaac
Who died on the 22 June 1851
Aged 49 years

The "breath of man" stuff is a biblical quote: from Psalm 146.

We now proceed to discuss the children of Samuel and Jane.

Joseph (11th child of Samuel and Jane Worden)

An 1851 census record gives Joseph's address as Poletrewangy, Endellion. He is a widower, aged 56, and his occupation is "farmer of 110 acres 1 labourer". The other people in his household are as follows: Mary Cornelius (53, servant, unmarried, born at Lanteglos), Jane Thomas (16, servant, unmarried, born at St Kew), William Belling (41, nephew, unmarried, carpenter, born at St Endellion), Thomas Matthew (19, servant, unmarried, born at St Endellion), Warwick Scott (16, servant, born at St Kew), Matthew Blake (13, servant, born at St Endellion). No doubt William Belling was the son of Samuel Billing and Joseph's sister Mary. Warwick Scott was Warwick Worden Scott, son of Thomas and Grace Scott, this Grace being the daughter of Joseph's brother Samuel.

Unfortunately, I have not been able to locate any record of Joseph Worden's marriage or any burial record of someone who might have been his wife. Note that in the 1861 census records he is listed as unmarried rather than widowed; I think that his marital status was recorded incorrectly in 1851. It certainly appears as though he did not have any children.

No doubt the address "Poletrewangy" can be identified with Poltreworgy, which is the 1841 address of Joseph's brother Thomas. Perhaps this is also the place called "Polworgy" in Dr Trevan's History of Port Isaac and Port Quinn, mentioned above. In 1851 Thomas and family are found at Tresungers, Thomas having presumably taken over that estate when his father died.

At the 1861 census Joseph is found in the household of his nephew Mark Guy, a 43 year old farmer of 704 acres employing 16 men and 2 boys. This Mark was the son of Joseph's sister Jennifer, whose husband was also named Mark Guy. Joseph's occupation in 1861 is given as "leaseholder (land)".

Joseph Worden died at Roscarrock on 26th March 1863.

Mary (1st child of Samuel and Jane Worden)

Mary Worden married Samuel Billing, a shipbuilder, at St Endellion on 25/2/1800. Transcriptions of Endellion baptisms at FamilySearch.org tell us of five children of Samuel and Mary Billing: Pascoe (20/6/1802), William (15/7/1804), Mary Ann (12/10/1806), William (16/7/1809), John (28/4/1812). Two others appear in the Endellion Baptisms Register for the period 10/1/1813 to 30/12/1827 (digitized version available at FamilySearch.org): Joseph (27/8/1815) and Jane Worden (3/6/1821). (See image number 11 and image number 32 of the on-line version.) Dr Trevan says that Samuel and Mary had four sons and two daughters, and this would not have included the first William, who must have died in infancy. So we probably have the full list.

Presumably Jane Worden Billing is the servant Jane Billing appearing in Samuel Worden's household above.

According to Dr Trevan, the Samuel Billing who married Mary Worden was the son of another Samuel Billing and his first wife, Elizabeth née Stribley. So Samuel, Mary's husband, was baptized in Endellion on 14/12/1777.

In the 1841 census we find a St Endellion household consisting of Samuel Billing (ship carpenter) age 65, Joseph Billing (agricultural labourer) age 25, Susan Billing (age 25), and three Billing children: Mary (4), Susanna (3), Joseph (10m). Samuel's wife Mary died in 1838, buried on 18/9/1838. The 25 year old Joseph appearing in the census is Samuel's son, Susan is Joseph's wife, and Joseph and Susan are the children's parents. In fact Joseph Billing married Susanna Skinner in Endellion on 12/5/1836. Joseph's daughter Mary Billing married Joseph Waters in Endellion on 7/7/1855 (see the online image); this couple are mentioned again later, since their son Thomas married another Worden descendant.

John (2nd child of Samuel and Jane Worden)

A John Worden married Jane Grose at St Kew on 7/3/1809. It appears likely that this John was the son of Samuel and Jane Worden. Jane Grose can probably be identified with the Jenny Grose, daughter of Thomas and Jane, baptized on 23/1/1788 at St Kew, because this fits with her age as given in census records, and (as we shall see) there are other records that appear to link her indirectly with Thomas and Jane Grose. I guess that as a child she was known as Jenny, to distinguish her from her mother, though she appears consistently as Jane in later records.

By the time of the 1841 census John and Jane Worden have a large family:

Amble, St Kew:
Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
John Worden	M	55	Farmer	Cornwall
Jane Worden	F	50		Cornwall
Samuel Worden	M	25		Cornwall
Grace Worden	F	25		Cornwall
John Worden	M	20		Cornwall
Mary Worden	F	20		Cornwall
Nicholas Worden	M	10		Cornwall
Cordelia Worden	F	10		Cornwall
Harriet John	F	15	Ap.	Cornwall

There are baptism records for several children of John and Jane Worden born in St Kew, including some not appearing above: William (4/8/1809), Jenny Grose (29/1/1811), Ambrose Grose (11/5/1813), Samuel and Grace (both 29/12/1814), Richard (26/5/1816), John (1/5/1818), Wm (16/3/1823), Thomas Grose (11/12/1824), Elizabeth (15/4/1827), Nicholas (15/4/1827) and Cordelia Ann (31/12/1829).

The William born in 1809 died at age 11, and was buried on 16/3/1821. I think that the William born in 1823 is the William in the household of his grandfather Samuel in 1841. This William is discussed further below.

Elizabeth, born in 1827, died at age 4 months and was buried on 21/5/1827.

The daughter Mary who appears in the 1841 census record was baptized in Endellion on 9/11/1820, and there is a note that she was seven weeks old. (See Endellion baptisms 1813–1827 at FamilySearch.org, image no.29.) Mary married Richard Rowse at St Kew on 28/2/1843; an image of the parish register page is viewable online at FamilySearch.org. A marriage notice appeared in the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser on 10th March: "On the 28th ultimo, at St. Kew, Mr. Richard Rowse, of Trelawder, St. Minver, to Miss Mary Worden, of Amble, St. Kew." Further information about Richard and Mary Rowse is presented below.

We now proceed to a discussion of the children of John and Jane.

Jenny Grose and Thomas Grose

I do not know what became of Jenny Grose Worden (born in 1811); I have not been able to find any record of her at all apart from the baptism record. There is an 1841 census record of a Thomas Worden who I suspect was Thomas Grose Worden (born in 1824). His age is given as 14, which is wrong, but other aspects of the record make sense. He was a servant, at Amble in St Kew parish, in the household of a 50–54 year old farmer who I believe was a brother of Thomas Grose Worden's mother. FreeCEN have transcribed this farmer's name as Nicholas Grace, but having seen an image of the form I think the surname looks at least as much like Grose as Grace, and, unlike Grace, Grose fits with other records. Jenny Grose Worden's brother Nicholas was baptized on 7/2/1786, and so would actually have been 55 on census day 1841, but he appears in the 1851 census (aged 65, retired farmer, living in St Kew) and does not match any other 1841 census record.

Unfortunately, I cannot find Thomas Worden again in later census records.

Samuel

By the 1851 census Samuel Worden son of John and Jane had acquired a wife named Anna (age 24) and daughters Grace (8) and Anna (6m). We can be fairly sure that Grace's age was actually 3 rather than 8: her parents were not married until 1848, she was baptized on 8/10/1848, and later census records suggest a birth year of 1848.

In fact Samuel married Ann Collings on 29/4/1848 in St Minver. Ann was the daughter of a carpenter named William Collings; the marriage witnesses were John Worden and and Cordelia Ann Worden, presumably Samuel's brother and sister. An image of the parish register page is viewable online at FamilySearch.org. There are baptism records for ten children of Samuel and Anna:

• Thomas Grose (4/7/1852),
• Anna Collins Worden (27/10/1850),
• Cordelia Ann (2/7/1854, died 10/2/1860),
• Emma (19/5/1856, died 21/5/1856),
• Nicholas (20/1/1864, died 28/1/1864),
• Cordelia Anne (23/3/1864),
• Mary (23/3/1864, died 23/2/1876),
• Caroline Anne (9/2/1869),
• Jane Grose (14/2/1877),
• Caroline (14/2/1877).

Note, however, that the births of Mary and Cordelia were registered in the September quarter of 1857 and the December quarter of 1860 respectively; so they were aged 6 and 3 at their baptisms. Similarly, the birth of Jane Grose Worden was registered in the December quarter of 1865; so she was not baptized until she was 11. The birth of a Caroline Worden was registered at Bodmin in the December quarter of 1869, but additionally the birth of a Caroline Ann Worden was registered at Bodmin in the March quarter of 1867. This latter Caroline died at age 1 and was buried at St Kew on 17/2/1769. (The COPC transcriber notes say "age has 1 then 11 underneath it"; I think this means 1 year and 11 months, which is consistent with the birth registration.) Evidentally the first Caroline died within a week of her baptism, and the daughter born later that year was given the same names (and not baptized until she was seven).

The 1861 census record for this family is Piece RG9/1538, Folio 32, Page 11, Schedule 56. The surname is unreadable, but everything else is readable, and right.

Name	Rel	Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
Samuel	Head	M	47	Agricultural Labourer	St Kew, Cornwall
Anna	Wife	M	33	Agricultural Labourer	St Minver, Cornwall
Anna	Dau		10	Agricultural Labourer	St Kew, Cornwall
Thomas	Son		9	Scholar	St Kew, Cornwall
Mary	Dau		3	Scholar	St Kew, Cornwall
Cordelia	Dau		4m		St Kew, Cornwall

The missing 12 year old daughter Grace is in the nearby Menhennick household (schedule 53 in the census records).

The 1871 census record for the same family includes the daughter Jane Grose Worden mentioned above: birth registered at Bodmin in the March quarter of 1865, but not baptized until 1877.

Amble, St Kew, 1871:
Name	Rel	Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
Samuel Worden	Head	M	57	Agricultural Labourer	St Kew, Cornwall
Hannah Worden	Wife	M	44		St Minver, Cornwall
Thomas Worden	Son	U	18	Sailor	St Kew, Cornwall
Cordelia Ann Worden	Dau		10		St Kew, Cornwall
Jane Grose Worden	Dau		6	Scholar	St Kew, Cornwall
Caroline Worden	Dau		1		St Kew, Cornwall

In the 1871, 1881 and 1891 censuses Grace is found in Heavitree Parish, Devon, employed as a cook. Her sister Jane also moved to Devon, and in 1881 and 1891 was living in St Sidwell Parish, employed as a servant. Thomas Grose Worden, sailor and son of Samuel, married Jane Carhart in St Kew on 27/11/1884. By 1891 they had three children: Mary Grace (baptized 18/2/1885), Beatrice Ellen ( baptized 27/1/1887) and Thomas Samuel (birth registered in the December quarter of 1888).

Samuel and Anna's daughter Cordelia Ann married Robert England, a sailor, son of Josiah England, in Padstow on 15/5/1879.

Samuel and Anna's daughter Caroline Ann (born 1869, baptized 1877) is probably the 10 year old Caroline Worden whose death was registered in the Bodmin district in the March quarter of 1880. Thus five of the ten children of Samuel and Anna died in childhood, at the ages of 1 week, 8 months, 23 months, 5 years and 10 years. One more died at 19, leaving only four who reached the age of 21.

Samuel and Anna's daughter Mary (born 1857, died 1876) is presumably the 14 year old servant Mary Worden listed in the 1871 census record of the household of William Harris, a Farmer and Saddler of St Mabyn. Mary the servant's birthplace is given as St Kew. Apparently Mary had a daughter named Ellen, whose birth was registered in Bodmin in the second quarter of 1874, and who was baptized in St Kew on 13/2/1880. The baptism record says that the child's mother was a spinster named Mary, but makes no mention of the fact that Mary was deceased. However, the 1881 census record of the household of Samuel and Hannah includes their six year old granddaughter Ellen Worden (who is the only member of the household apart from Samuel and Hannah themselves).

It appears that Samuel's wife Anna died on 16/9/1888, and Samuel himself died on 18/9/1890. I guess that their orphaned granddaughter Ellen is the 16 year old servant Ellen Wordam listed in the 1891 census record of the household of George W. Clifford, a manufacturer's agent in Hadleigh, Exeter. Ellen's occupation is "Nurse (employee)" and her birthplace St Kew, Cornwall.

At the 1871, 1881 and 1891 censuses an Anna Worden who was born at St Kew is found as an inmate of the Bodmin union workhouse. My guess is that she was Anna Collins Worden, daughter of Samuel and Anna, and also mother of Fanny Gummow Worden, who we shall meet in our discussion of Samuel's brother William. The census records give workhouse Anna's ages in 1871, 1881 and 1891 as 23, 34 and 41, which do not match well with Anna Collins Worden's age in the 1851 census (6m) or birth registration (September quarter of 1850); however, there were only two births of Ann Worden's registered in Bodmin between 1846 and 1851, the other being the daughter of Samuel's brother John. John's daughter was born in the September quarter of 1849, which perhaps fits better with workhouse Anna's age, but the 1851 and 1861 censuses give John's daughter's name as Ann, whereas Samuel's daughter is consistently called Anna. Note that workhouse Anna had other children: Emma (aged 6 in 1881), William John (aged 1 in 1881 and 10 in 1891), Annie (aged 3 in 1891), and probably also Samuel, who was born in 1895. A great-granddaughter of this Samuel, who has been in touch with me, believes that Samuel's mother was Anna Collings Worden; she tells me that Samuel's birth certificate gives his mother's name as Hannah.

Grace

The marriage of a Grace Worden and a Richard Taylor was registered at Bodmin in the June quarter of 1847. I guess that this Grace was the twin sister of the Samuel we have just been discussing, but I can find no later records of Richard and Grace Taylor.

Richard

Richard Worden son of John and Jane married Ann Trebell on 17/12/1840. In the 1841 census we find Richard and Ann sharing a house with two elderly relatives of Ann: Maryann Trebell (80, annuitant) and Elizabeth Trebell (70, independent). Richard's occupation is "agricultural labourer". There are baptism records for the following children of Richard and Ann: Mary (22/8/1841), Eliza Jane (20/8/1843), Cordelia (3/8/1845) and Richard (20/11/1848). In the 1851 census we find a household consisting of Ann Worden (Head, 39, agricultural labourer), Mary Ann (daughter, 9), Cordelia (daughter, 5) and Richard (son, 2). The missing daughter Elizabeth J. Worden was in the household of her uncle Samuel Worden on census day 1851. Ann's husband Richard is found as a farm servant in the household of his sister and brother-in-law Mary and Richard Rouse. Richard Rouse is described as "farmer 87 acres 3 labourers".

Ann Worden, Richard's wife, died in 1860 and was buried at St Kew on 11/11/1860. Richard and Ann's daughter Elizabeth Jane Worden married Richard Broad at St Kew on 22/9/1860. Richard was the son of Robert and Maryann Broad baptized on 20/11/1831 at St Kew, and was the younger brother of the Grace Broad who married William Worden son of John Webber Worden. (Thus Richard Broad's wife was second cousin once removed to Grace Broad's husband.) The marriage record gives Elizabeth Jane Worden's age as 19, which may have been an exaggeration as the 1851 census record gives her age as 8 and the 1861 census record gives her age as 18. And I think that even these ages may be exaggerations, since her birth was registered in the September quarter of 1843.

At the 1861 census Richard and his daughter Cordelia are living at Kits Hill, St Kew; the FreeCEN transcription has their surname as "Norden" and Richard's first name as "Richus". At the 1871 census Richard is found as a boarder in the St Kew household of his son-in-law Richard Broad and daughter Elizabeth Jane (who have children Annie (10), Robert (9), Elizabeth Jane (7), Horatio (5), John (3) and Mary Ann (1)), while Cordelia is a domestic servant at Padstow in the household of John Blake. In 1881 Richard and Cordelia are back at Amble, St Kew, in the household of Richard's brother William, a cordwainer (discussed below).

At the 1861 census Richard's daughter Mary Ann is in the household of her grandparents John and Jane, which is not very surprising given that her mother had died just a few months earlier. Her brother Richard (born 1848) is a servant in the St Minver household of Mary and Richard Rowse (his aunt and uncle). Then in 1871 he is a farm servant in the household of a 39 year old farmer named Francis Coleman. I have been told that this Richard emigrated to Australia, where he married Elizabeth Torrens, and had children named William Stanley, Ambrose Turner, Agnes, Grace, Maud Linda and Ivy. The Sydney Morning Herald of 27/7/1881 lists a Mr R. Worden as one the passengers travelling from the Manning to Sydney on a ship named the Rosedale. Perhaps Richard had been visiting his uncles Ambrose and Nicholas who were living in the Hunter region at that time (see below). Richard Worden the younger died at Granville (Sydney) in 1929. His father died in 1900, and was buried at St Kew on 23/5/1900.

The Sydney Morning Herald, 27/7/1881

John

John Worden son of John and Jane married Rebecca Collings on 11/10/1845 in St Minver. An image of the parish register page is viewable online at FamilySearch.org. Rebecca was the daughter of a carpenter named William Collings; so clearly Rebecca was the sister of Anna Collings, wife of John's brother Samuel. FamilySearch.org has baptism records for both Rebecca and Anna: Rebekah Collings, baptized in St Minver on 29/6/1825, daughter of Wm and Ann, and Ann Collings, baptized in St Minver on 27/12/1827, daughter of William and Ann. Moreover, an 1841 census record shows a household at Treglin, St Minver Highlands, containing a 45 year old carpenter named William Collings, a 45 year old Ann Collings, and Collings children Rebecca (15), Anna (13), William (10) and Thomas (7), as well as a 75 year old agricultural labourer named Richard Wyatt and a 65 year old Ann Wyatt (presumably William Collings' parents-in-law).

John and Rebecca Worden had the following children:

• William Collins (11/1/1846),
• John (26/12/1847),
• Anne (4/11/1849),
• Jane Grose (9/3/1851),
• Susan Collins (5/9/1852),
• Mary Collings (26/3/1854),
• Catherine (25/5/1856),
• Cordelia Ann (15/8/1858),
• Grace (20/1/1861),
• Susan Collings (6/8/1865),
• Amelia (30/1/1870).

(As always, I am giving baptism dates. Amelia's birth was registered in 1869.)

John's occupation was farm labourer. The family moved from St Kew to St Minver some time between 1852 and 1856. The census of 1861 has them living at a place called Boldventum in St Minver Highlands, although where this actually was is unclear. In the baptism record for Grace the place is called Boldventure, a name that also appears in an 1851 census record. It was presumably near Mesmear, the address of the next household in the census records, and is surely not to be confused with Bolventor in Altarnun. From the mid 1860's the family lived in Penmayne in St Minver Lowlands.

The 1861 census record for the household is as follows.

Boldventum, St. Minver Highlands, 1861:
Name	Rel	Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
John Worden	Head	M	43	Agricultural Labourer	St Kew, Cornwall
Rebecca Worden	Wife	M	36		St Minver, Cornwall
Ann Worden	Dau	U	11		St Kew, Cornwall
Jane Worden	Dau	U	9		St Kew, Cornwall
Mary Worden	Dau	U	7		St Minver, Cornwall
Catherine Worden	Dau	U	5		St Minver, Cornwall
Cordelia Worden	Dau	U	3		St Minver, Cornwall
Grace Worden	Dau	U	4m		St Minver, Cornwall

The missing sons are found in the households of their grandparents: John Worden (aged 12) is with his father's parents (John and Jane) at Amble; William C. Worden (aged 15) is with his mother's parents, William and Ann Collings, at St Minver. Mr and Mrs Collings were aged 64 and 67 respectively in 1861. The census record gives William C. Worden's occupation as carpenter, the same as his grandfather's.

The death of the first Susan Collings Worden was registered in the Bodmin district in the June quarterr of 1853, and I found Bodmin death registrations that could well correspond to four of the other eight daughters of John and Rebecca Worden: Cordelia Ann (September 1868, age 10), Susan (September 1868, age 3), Grace (December 1868, age 7), Ann (December 1869, age 20). It also seems that the second son, John, died in the second quarter of 1868, aged 20. So four of the family died in in the latter half of 1868, and another one year later. Rebecca died in the June quarter of 1876, aged 51.

I have not found any record of the daughter Catherine beyond the 1871 census. Mary (born 1852) married Thomas Tremain in the June quarter of 1880; the 1881 census record for their household gives his age as 59 compared with her 28, and at the 1891 census Mary Tremain is a widow, a laundress, living with her widower father John Worden. The youngest daughter Amelia was at home with her father in 1881; in 1891 she was at Egloshayle employed as a cook in the household of one Samuel Hambly. She married Francis Tremain in the March quarter of 1896. The other daughter, Jane Grose Worden had a son named William John Worden, born in the September quarter of 1873. In 1881 Jane and the seven year old William were living with Jane's father John and eleven year old sister Amelia; Jane was the housekeeper. Jane married William Henry Heard, an agricultural labourer, in St Minver on 4/5/1889. An image of the parish register page is viewable at FamilySearch.org. By the 1891 census William and Jane had two one year old sons, Richard Henry and William George, who were born in the December quarter of 1889.

Jane's son William John Worden joined the Royal Artillery in the 1890's. His last posting was to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where his descendants still live. William John Worden's wife's name was Beatrice Donohoe.

William Collings Worden married Emma George in the last quarter of 1871; by the 1881 census they had four children (William George, Mary Ann, Emma Jane, Thomas Henry, Nicholas John) and by the 1891 census they had another four (Samuel James, Joseph Collings, Richard Alfred, Frederick Charles). A marriage notice in the Adelaide Advertiser of 18/12/1913 – which I chanced upon – shows that Richard Alfred Worden came to South Australia.

The Advertiser, 18/12/1913

It transpires that William and Emma had another son, Ernest Martyn Worden, who came to South Australia. The following information can be found in his service record, which is available on line (see below):

• he enlisted in the AIF on 1/10/1814, aged 23 years and 2 months;
• prior to enlistment he was a porter in the South Australian Railways and a member of the St John Ambulance Brigade, and lived on Jetty Road, Glenelg;
• he served with the 4th Field Ambulance at Gallipoli, where, on 4/5/1915, he sustained a gun shot wound to the head;
• he died at Alexandria on 10/5/1915, and is buried in the Chatby War Memorial Cemetery, Plot A, Grave 109.

The Advertiser 28/5/1915

Included with Ernest's service record are several letters written by his brother, R. A. Worden. The first, dated 31/5/1915, asks if it is true, as reported in the papers, that his brother, Ernest Martyn Worden, has died of wounds. The next, written on 24/8/1915, in his capacity as executor of Ernest's will, requests a death certificate. At this time Richard Alfred Worden's address was Green St, Brompton, Sth Australia. After the war the army's Records Section wrote to R. A. Worden asking if Pte E. M. Worden's parents were still living, and if so what was their address. This information was was duly supplied: Mr & Mrs W. Worden, Treverra Cottage, St Minver, Nr Wadebridge, Cornwall, England. At this time Richard Alfred Worden's address was 36 Cottage, Abbatoirs, Gepps Cross.

The Advertiser, 27/5/1915 The Advertiser, 10/5/1917

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Thomas Henry Worden, second son of William Collings Worden and Emma George, married Hilda Helen Westaway in Totnes, Devon, in 1910. A second cousin of mine who visited Cornwall in 1993 met a daughter of Thomas Henry and Hilda Helen, and from her obtained a copy of a photo of her paternal grandparents. The photo is shown below.

William Collings Worden and Emma Worden (née George).

Ambrose

The 1841 census shows Ambrose (Grose) Worden in the household of a 65 year old farmer named Ambrose Grose, at Amble, St Kew. No doubt this Ambrose Grose was some relative of Jane Worden. It appears that he was the son of Thomas and Jane Grose, baptized in St Kew on 24/11/1771, so that he was actually nearly 70 at census time in 1841. And indeed there is a burial record from 27/5/1842 for a 70 year old Ambrose Grose. He was a little too young to be Jane Worden's father, since the 1851 census data (see below) shows that she was 53 in 1841. So I conjecture that Ambrose was Jane's brother, and that Jane can be identified with the Jenny Grose, daughter of Thomas and Jane Grose, who was baptized at St Kew in April 1788.

The West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser of 11/4/1838 reports on the St. Kew Show Fair, at which Ambrose Grose won a prize for the best ox.

This show fair, held at St. Kew Church-town, on Tuesday the 3rd instant, was abundantly supplied with cattle. The show of fat cows especially attracted particular attention, and was allowed by all present, that both in number and quality, it far exceeded any exhibition held at that place, although on similar occasions the fair is well-supplied with cattle of a ... description. Prime fat cows sold at from 46s to 50s per cwt. Few sales, however, were effected, the number of buyers being unequal to the supply, owing, it is professed, to the fair not being more generally known. The garland for the best ox was awarded to A. Grose, Esq., of Chapel Amble, St. Kew, being the twelfth prize awarded to that spirited agriculturist within the last few years. The second prize was given to Mr. Ellery. The best prize for fat cows was given to Mr. John Wilce, of H..., and the second-best to Francis R. Hambly, Esq. of Treberrock.

Ambrose Grose's household on census day 1841 contained six people altogether: the two Ambroses, Joseph Wills (14), Joanna Wilce (2), Ann Menhenick (17) and Mary Hill (8). The last four – including the 2 year old! – are all described as servants. I cannot find a birth registration for a Joanna Wilce between 1838 and 1840, but a Johanna Wilce, daughter of George and Hannah, was baptized in St Kew on 6/8/1819. So I wonder if the age should be 22 (a more plausible age for a servant). Despite the fact that the names Wills, and Menhenick are linked with our Wordens via marriages, it appears that Joseph Wills and Ann Menhenick do not come from the relevant families. But Johanna Wilce was the sister of Elijah Wilce, baptized 30/5/1810, who married Jane Worden, fourth child of Samuel Worden the 2nd (see below).

Ambrose Worden (born 1813) emigrated to New South Wales. A message posted at RootsWeb says that Ambrose married Johannah Wilce at Plymouth, and FreeBMD shows that the event must have taken place in the June quarter of 1846. New South Wales death registration records show that Ambrose and Joanna Worden both died in the St Leonards district in 1900. These records include the given names of the deceased person's parents, and they confirm that Joanna Worden's parents were named George and Hannah.

Ambrose and Johanna Worden had two daughters born before they left England: Hannah Jane, whose birth was registered in the Stoke Damerel district (Devon) in the second quarter of 1847, and Mary, whose birth was registered in the Stoke Damerel district in the last quarter of 1853.

Ambrose Warden (aged 42) with his wife Johanna (36) and daughters Hannah (9) and Mary (1) arrived in Moreton Bay on 19/11/1855, on the ship Ramillies. Images of the passenger list for this ship are available online, courtesy of the NSW State Archives: see, in particular, State Records NSW, NRS 5316, [4/4792], Ramillies 19 Nov 1855, passenger list, page 5.

Passengers on the Ramillies

The heading of the last column of the passenger list is "Read or Write". I think that the assertion for the Warden family is that Johanna and Hannah, as well as Ambrose, could do both, though (unsurprisingly) Mary could not.

The records seem to suggest that the Warden family disembarked at Moreton Bay (then still part of New South Wales), although the Ramillies did continue to Sydney, arriving there on December 9th. Wherever they actually disembarked initially, they quickly made their way to the Maitland district, where their third daughter, Fanny Ann, was born in 1857. Their fourth daughter, Grace Jemima, was born in the Morpeth district in 1860.

The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser, 18/6/1881

The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser, 29/5/1886

Hannah Worden died unmarried in 1900, in the St Leonards district of NSW. (It is interesting that both of Hannah's parents also died in 1900, but they were both in their eighties by this time.) Fanny Ann Worden also remained unmarried, and died in the Chatswood district in 1939.

Mary Worden married James Charles Pearce on 30/1/1882 at St Thomas' Church, North Shore, Sydney. They had children named Jane Ann Pearce (1883), James C. Pearce (1884), Mary R. Pearce (1886), John E. Pearce (1888), Charles A. Pearce (1891), George A. Pearce (1893) and Thomas W. Pearce (1895); these births were all registered in the St Leonards district. Mary C. Pearce, parents' names Ambrose and Johannah, died in the St Leonards district in 1905.

Sydney Morning Herald, 8/3/1882

Grace Jemima Worden married William C. King in 1889. They had a daughter named Ruth M. King, born in 1900, and five sons: William Worden King (1890), Holden A. S. King (1893), John N. B. King (1896), Percy W. King (1897) and Roy E. King (1902). Grace Jemima King, parents' names Ambrose and Joanna, died in the Waverley district in 1944.

Nicholas

It appears that Nicholas, like his elder brother Ambrose, made his way to the Maitland district of New South Wales. The Maitland City Council Burial Register contains the information that Nicholas Worden, aged 64, died on 21/6/1894. I am identifying this Nicholas Worden with the son of John and Jane born in January 1827, who would actually have been 67 on 21/6/1894; so the dates do not match particularly well. But since New South Wales death records say that the parents of the Nicholas Worden who died in 1894 were named John and Jane, I think he must indeed have been the Nicholas from St Kew.

Unfortunately, I cannot find any immigration record for Nicholas. Indeed, between the 1841 census and his death in 1894, the only documentary mention of him that I have found comes in 1871, when Nicholas Worden married Annie Baalham in the Maitland district of New South Wales. My Nicholas would have been 44 years old.

Ann Worden also appears in the Maitland City Council Burial Register. She died on 23/9/1921, aged 91, and, like Nicholas, she is buried in the Campbells Hill Cemetery in Section C1. New South Wales death registration records reveal that Ann's parents' names were George and Hannah. Note that Ann would have been 41 in 1871; so it is conceivable that Nicholas and Annie could have raised a family.

Sydney Morning Herald 26/10/1895

On 9/10/1895, at St Mary's Church West Maitland, Charles Baalham Worden married Frances Mary Leckie. Surely the groom was the son of Nicholas Worden and Annie Baalham! Yet the registration record of the death of Charles Baalham Worden in Mosman in 1948 says that his parents were named John Charles and Annie. The solution to this puzzle is that Charles Baalham Worden's real name was in fact just Charles Baalham; he was the son of John Charles Baalham and Annie Wilce, who were married in the East London district in the last quarter of 1860. (FreeBMD has the groom's surname as Baatham.) Charles was born on 1/3/1866 in Finsbury, Middlesex, and evidently acquired his stepfather's surname when his mother remarried.

Annie Baalham, née Wilce, daughter of George and Hannah, was baptized in St Kew on 27/2/1830, and was the sister of Johanna Wilce who married Ambrose, elder brother of Nicholas Worden.

William

Some care is needed to avoid confusing William Worden the son of John and Jane born at St Kew in 1823 with William Worden son of William and Prudence born at St Teath in 1825, not to mention William Worden son of John and Mary born in Michaelstow in 1820. As mentioned above, the son of William and Prudence apparently left Cornwall and eventually settled in Preston. The son of John and Jane remained unmarried, and census records for 1861 and 1871 (see below) show him in his father's household. A message posted to the Worden Genealogy Forum says that a William Worden born at St Kew, son of John Worden, married Grace Broad; probably this William was the son of John and Mary.

The 1881 census shows two 57 year old William Wordens living in Cornwall with birth place given as St Kew. One is a waggoner and the husband of Grace, the other is a cordwainer (or shoemaker) and unmarried.

Census records of 1861 and 1871 tell us that the shoemaker was the son of John and Jane. The cordwainer William Worden in the 1851 household of Samuel Worden the 2nd is surely the same person. My guess is that he was also the William in the household of Samuel Worden the 1st in 1841.

The origins of the husband of Grace are perhaps not totally certain, although I believe that he was the son of John Webber Worden and Mary Pope (born in Michaelstow in 1820) and the same person as the Wm Worden who was in the Symons household (see above) in 1841. The main problems with this theory are that in the 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1881 censuses his birthplace is given as St Kew rather than Michaelstow, and his ages in 1851, 1871 and 1881 – given as 28, 46 and 57 respectively – are not consistent with the baptism date of 30/7/1820. At least his age was given as 40 in 1861! In 1891, according to the FreeCEN transcription, the household of Harry Hawke at St Blazey includes Harry's father-in-law, William Worden Hawke. Certainly this man is really William Worden: Harry Hawke married Mary Ann Worden in the March quarter of 1877, the census record for Harry Hawke's 1891 household shows that his wife's name is Mary Ann, aged 38 and born in Egloshayle, and the 1871 census record for William Worden's household includes his daughter Mary A, aged 18 and born in Egloshayle. Crucially, the 1891 census record gives William Worden Hawke's birthplace as Mickalstow, providing the most clear-cut evidence that he really was John Webber Worden's son.

The 1881 and 1891 households of cordwainer William were as follows:

Amble, St Kew, 1881:
Name	Rel	Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
William Worden	Head	U	57	Cordwainer	St Kew, Cornwall
Richard Worden	Brother	W	65	Agricultural Labourer	St Kew, Cornwall
Cordelia Worden	Niece	U	35	Housekeeper	St Kew, Cornwall
Fanny G Worden	Niece	U	8	Scholar	St Kew, Cornwall

Chapel Amble, St Kew, 1891:
Name	Rel	Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
William Worden	Head	U	68	Shoemaker (not em)	St Kew, Cornwall
Richard Worden	Brother	W	74	General Labourer (em'ee)	St Kew, Cornwall
Cordelia Worden	Niece	U	45	Housekeeper (em'ee)	St Kew, Cornwall
Fanny Worden	Niece	U	18	General Servant Dom.	St Kew, Cornwall
Nicholas Worden	Nephew	U	5	Scholar	St Kew, Cornwall

The birth of Fanny Gummow Worden was registered in the September quarter of 1872, and there is a baptism record from 26/7/1874 which says that her mother was a single woman named Hannah. The birth of Nicholas Thomas Worden was registered in the March quarter of 1886, but I do not know anything about his parentage.

Mary

The 1851 census gives more accurate ages for John, son of Samuel the 1st, his wife Jane and their daughter Cordelia, as well as telling us about some further descendants.

Name	Rel	Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
John Worden	Head	M	69	Farming 6 acres	St Kew, Cornwall
Jane Worden	Wife	M	63		St Kew, Cornwall
Cordelia Worden	Dau	U	21		St Kew, Cornwall
Mary House	GDau	U	7		St Minver, Cornwall
Richard House	GSon	U	7		St Minver, Cornwall

The surname for the grandchildren should be Rowse: Mary Worden married Richard Rowse on 20/1/1843, and birth records say that children named Mary and Richard Rowse were born in the December quarter of 1843. There are St Minver baptism records with the date 25/11/1843 for Mary and Richard; evidently these children were twins.

Richard Rowse was a widower when he married Mary Worden. His first wife, Mary Ann, died in 1842, buried on 17/4/1842. The 1841 census record for their household (with the surname commonly mistranscribed as Rowe) shows that they had a daughter named Jane who was born in about 1826; perhaps she was the Jane Rowse who was married in the Bodmin district in the March quarter of 1849. I am guessing that Mary Ann's maiden name was Hawken, since a Richard Rowse and Mary Ann Hawken were married in Padstow on 8/12/1824.

A web site called "Roe Family Tree" (http://roefamilytree.com/) has a Richard Rowse page with links to further pages dealing with his descendants.

On census day 1851, when the twins Richard and Mary Rowse were visiting their grandparents, their parents Richard and Mary Rowse were on their farm at Trelawder, St Minver, with their other sons John W. and W. H., as well as Mary's brother Richard and a 15 year old house servant named Jane Wills.

The 1861 Rowse household was as follows.

Trelawver, St Minver Highlands, 1861:
Name	Rel	Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
Richard Rowse	Head	M	56	Farmer 166 acres, employing 2 men	St Columb, Cornwall
Mary Rowse	Wife	M	39	Farmer's wife	St Kew, Cornwall
Mary Rowse	Dau	U	17	Farmer's daughter	St Minver, Cornwall
John Rowse	Son	U	16	Farmer's son	St Minver, Cornwall
William H Rowse	Son	U	13	Farmer's son	St Minver, Cornwall
Nicholas T W Rowse	Son	U	7		St Minver, Cornwall
Alfred G Rowse	Son	U	1		St Minver, Cornwall
George Thomas	Servant	U	17	Carter	St Minver, Cornwall
Richard Worden	Servant	U	12	Carter	St Minver, Cornwall
Susan Buscombe	Servant	U	15	Dairy Maid	St Minver, Cornwall

At this time Richard Rowse the younger was living in Bodmin as an apprentice to a draper named John Beswetherick (who was also born in St Minver). As remarked above, I believe that the Richard Worden in the above census record was actually a nephew of Richard Rowse, being the son of his wife's brother Richard.

There are St Minver baptism records for all the Rowse sons in the census record: John Werdon, William Henry, Nicholas Thomas Worden and Arthur George. Note that although this baptism record has his name as Arthur, all the census records have it as Alfred.

The 1871 Rowse household was as follows.

St Minver Highlands, 1871:
Name	Rel	Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
Mary Rowse	Head	W	50	Farmer 110 acres, employing 2 ag. lab.	St Kew, Cornwall
John W. Rowse	Son	U	26	Farmer's son	St Minver, Cornwall
Nicholas T W Rowse	Son	U	17	Farmer's son	St Minver, Cornwall
Alfred G Rowse	Son		11	Scholar	St Minver, Cornwall
Hannah Grose	Visitor	U	19	Farmer's daughter	St Kew, Cornwall
Mary Blake	Servant	U	25	Serv. domestic	St Minver, Cornwall
Samuel Rowe	Servant	U	22	Farm serv.	St Tudy, Cornwall

The Hannah Grose in this record married John W. Rowse later in 1871.

Mary Rowse, the daughter of Richard and Mary Rowse born in 1843, married James Johns on 17/1/1865 in St Minver; an image of the parish register page is viewable at FamilySearch.org. James was born in St Kew in late 1842, baptized on 1/1/1843, the son of William Johns, a yeoman of Lower Ammell, and his wife Margaretta née Scott (who were married on 16/12/1830). At the 1871 census James shows up as a farmer of 45 acres at Windmill, St Minver Highlands; John and Mary have children named Margaretta (6), Mary Rowse (4) and Anne (2).

Thanks to the Roe Family Tree web site mentioned above, I now know that James and Mary Johns emigrated to Canada. The 1881 Canadian census (see www.FamilySearch.org) shows them in Stanley, Huron South, Ontario; James is now a labourer, and there are six children: Margaretta (16), Mary (14), Annie (12), William (9), Tomas (6) and Charles (2). William was born in England, Tomas and Charles in Canada. They can be found again in the 1901 and 1911 Canadian censuses, still in Stanley, Huron South, and we learn of four more children.

It is very nice that in 1901 the precise birth dates were given; I wish the other censuse were like that! We find that John James was born on 14/10/1842, Mary James was born on 24/11/1843 (just one day before her baptism), and their children Tomas, John, Alfred J., Arthur M. and Eithwel M. were born on 20/8/1874, 20/7/1881, 18/8/1883, 23/8/1885 and 1/1/1889 respectively. We also find that John and Mary entered Canada in 1873. The strange spelling of the youngest daughter's name may be a one-off for this particular record: the birth registration has her name as Ethel May Johns, and in the 1911 census she appears as Ethel M. Johns. James Johns died on 22/7/1913 in Varna, Ontario, and his widow Mary died on 6/3/1915 in Stanley, Huron, Ontario.

I do not know what became of Mary's twin brother, Richard Rowse, after 1861. The US census of 1870 has a 27 year old Salesman named Richard Rowse, born in England, with a 25 year old wife named Annie, born in Ireland, living in New York. It may not be the right person, and anyway I cannot find any further record of this couple.

John Worden Rowse married Hannah Grose in Plymouth in the December quarter of 1871. This couple migrated to Canada and then to the USA. The Roe Family Tree web site lists their children as follows: Mary Grose Rowse (born May 1873, England), Annie Maud Rowse (born 27/1/1875, Goderich, Ontario), Augusta May Rowse (born 23/5/1876, Ontario), Alfred George Rowse (born 12/10/1878, Ontario), Jane Louise Rowse (born 17/7/1880, Ontario), Etta Fanny Rowse (born 5/2/1889, Michigan), John Worden Rowse (born 5/3/1891, Michigan). FamilySearch.org lists the baptism of Mary Grose Rowse in St Minver on 1/6/1873. The 1881 Canadian census shows the family living in Stanley, Huron South, Ontario, evidently not far from where John Worden Rowse's sister Mary Johns and her family were located, and the 1900 US census shows them in Pickford Township, Michigan.

A document called A History of Pickford Area Pioneer Families, by Daniel Morrison, has a half-page section dealing with John Worden Rowse and family (on pp 112–113). The photograph displayed below appears on roefamilytree.com.

John Worden Rowse's wife, Hannah Grose, was baptized on 3/5/1852 in St Kew; her parents were Nicholas Grose and Mary Hannah Rowse, who were married on 15/3/1845 in St Kew. This Nicholas, who was aged 59 in 1845 and 37 years older than his his bride, was a brother of the Jenny Grose who I have tentatively identified with Jane Worden. This would mean that his daughter Hannah was a cousin of John Worden Rowse's mother Mary. I do not think that Nicholas' wife Mary was related to Richard Rowse, despite the fact that her maiden surname was Rowse (or similar). Her parents were William Ruse (of Tintagel) and Susannah Lobb (of St Kew), who were married on 18/10/1823; Richard, who was the son of another Richard, was born in St Columb.

William Henry Rowse (born 1847) married Fanny Mably on 27/12/1876 in St Minver; an image of the parish register page is viewable at FamilySearch.org. William Henry and Fanny had a son William Francis Rowse whose birth was registered in the Bodmin district in the December quarter of 1879. At the 1881 census Fanny and the baby William are found in the household of Fanny's brother William, a farmer at Trewiston in St Minver Lowlands. Fanny, aged 33, is described as a Master Mariner's wife.

Fanny Rowse died in the June quarter of 1889, aged 39, and in the September quarter of the same year William married Annie Jane Manhire. Her maiden surname was Carkeet; she had previously married Robert Hicks Manhire, who died in June 1883. In 1871 Robert was a Solicitor's Clerk; the 1881 census shows him as a Grocer (with "Mine Accountant" crossed out). His marriage to Annie took place in the December quarter of 1876.

The 1891 census shows William Henry Rowse as a Grocer, aged 43, at Trevarren in St Columb Major. (FreeCEN's transcription has his surname as Rowe, which is an error, and age as 48, which is a more than reasonable interpretation of the unclear writing.) The others is his household are his wife Annie Rowse (38), son William F. Rowse (Scholar, 11), step-daughter Annie J. Manhire (Grocer's Assistant, 13), step-son Ernest J. Manhire (Scholar, 8), daughter Mary C. Rowse (4m.) and a lodger named John Tamblyn. The 1901 census record has William's age clearly as 53; his occupation is given as "Labourer in Reservoir", over which has been written "Water". Annie, aged 48, is now a Grocer. The two oldest children are not present, but Ernest J. Manhire (18) and Mary C. Rowse (10) are present, along with three more daughters: Catherine M. Rowse (9), Jessie Rowse (8) and Mabel A. Rowse (6).

Nicholas Thomas Worden Rowse (born 1853) married Catherine J. Lean in St Kew on 16/5/1874. She was 21, daughter of a carpenter named Richard Lean, residence at Trewethern. Nicholas was 22, son of Richard (a farmer), occupation China Clay Maker, residence at St Stephens St Austell. By the 1881 census Nicholas has become an Inn Keeper. The household, at the London Apprentice Inn, St Austell, contains only Nicholas and Catherine (now both aged 27) and a 25 year old lodger named William May, a Farm Labourer. In 1891 Nicholas and Catherine are at Yelverton House, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, William's occupation is Farm Bailiff, Catherine's is Caretaker of the House, and their 6 year old nephew John M. Rowse (born in St Kew) is with them.

Census data shows that by 1881 the widowed Mary Rowse, née Worden, had returned to Amble, St Kew, where she was living with her 21 year old unmarried son, Alfred George, who at that time was a cordwainer (as was his uncle William, who also lived at Amble).

Amble, St Kew:
Name	Rel	Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
Mary Rowse	Head	W	60	Annuitant	St Kew, Cornwall
Alfred George Rowse	Son	S	21	Cordwainer	St Minver, Cornwall

In 1891 Mary and Alfred were still at Amble, Alfred now an agent for an assurance company, still unmarried. But we discover two unexpected grandchildren of Mary.

Amble, St Kew:
Name	Rel	Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
Mary Rowse	Head	W	70	Living On Own Means	St Kew, Cornwall
Alfred Geo Rowse	Son	S	31	Agent For Assurance Co.	St Minver, Cornwall
Ethel Mary Rowse	Granddaughter	S	9	Scholar	St Minver, Cornwall
Arthur Rd. Rowse	Grandson	S	4	Scholar	St Kew, Cornwall

These children, and the John M. Rowse in Devon with his uncle Nicholas and aunt Catherine, must be further children of William Henry Rowse, siblings of William Francis Rowse who were sent off to live with relatives when their mother died and their father remarried. Indeed, there are St Kew baptism records for Arthur Richard Vernon Rowse, baptized on 11/5/1887, and John Mabely Rowse, baptized on 8/3/1885, sons of William Henry Rowse (a sailor) and his wife Fanny.

I guess that Alfred never married. His mother Mary died at age 83, and was buried on 30/12/1903 in St Kew. According to Tony King's website the inscription on her gravestone reads as follows: "In loving memory of Mary Rowse wife of the late Richard Rowse of Trelawder St Minver and daughter of John & Jane Worden who died Dec 26th 1903 aged 83 years".

John and Jane in later years

The 1861 census record for the household of John and Jane is as follows:

Amble, St Kew:
Name	Rel	Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
John Worden	Head	M	79	Agricultural labourer	St Kew, Cornwall
Jane Worden	Wife	M	73	Agricultural labourer	St Kew, Cornwall
William Worden	Son	U	36	Shoe Maker Master	St Kew, Cornwall
Mary Ann Worden	Granddaughter	U	19		St Kew, Cornwall
John Worden	Grandson	U	12		St Kew, Cornwall

The Mary Ann Worden here must be the daughter of Richard and Ann born in 1841, and I guess that the 12 year old John was the son of John's son John.

John and Jane were still alive in 1871:

Amble, Egloshayle:
Name	Rel	Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
John Worden	Head	M	89	Farmer of 10 acres	St Kew, Cornwall
Jane Worden	Wife	M	83	Farmer's wife	St Kew, Cornwall
William Worden	Son	U	45	Shoe maker	St Kew, Cornwall
Percillia Vickery	Servant	U	16	General Servant (Domestic)	St Endellion, Cornwall

Note that William son of John and Jane would have actually been been 48 on census day 1871.

The grave of John and Jane and their daughter Cordelia is shown. The inscription reads "In memory of John Worden of Chaple Amble in this parish. He died 23^d Feb^ry 1875 aged 93 years. Also Jane wife of the above died Nov 19^th 1871 aged 86 years. Cordelia Ann daughter of the above died 29^th July 1858 aged 28 years." The COCP transcription of the St Kew parish burial record for John Worden gives his age at death as 94 and the burial date as 28/2/1875. For Jane Worden the age at death is given as 83 and the burial date as 12/11/1871. And for Cordelia Worden the age at death is given as 28 and the burial date as 18/7/1858.

Jennifer (3rd child of Samuel and Jane Worden)

According to information submitted to the LDS Ancestral File, available at FamilySearch.org, Jennifer Worden married Mark Guy on 11/5/1815 in Endellion. The same Ancestral File submission includes a substantial amount of information on Mark Guy's relatives; presumably this is mainly reliable, although I note that it gives Lanteglos by Camelford as the parish of Mark's baptism, whereas another record on FamilySearch.org says that the event took place in Endellion. Both sources agree on the date of the baptism, namely 8/2/1780. Mark's parents were Warwick Guy and Grace Mallett, who were married in Endellion on 4/4/1776. The Ancestral File submission gives the bride's surname as Malle Ott, but agrees otherwise. I have not encountered any other occurrence of the name Malle Ott.

Sadly, Warwick Guy was probably not descended from the legendary hero Guy of Warwick!

The earliest Guy appearing in the Ancestral File submission is a John Guy of St Minver, born in about 1570. He had a son named Humphrey, born in 1591, and his son John (baptized 26/8/1627) married one Frances Marke in about 1649. They had a son named Mark Guy, baptized on 17/6/1662, who married one Joan Billing (whose mother's name was Catherine Worden), and they had a son Warwick Guy baptized in Endellion on 15/9/1691. It appears that for several subsequent generations this branch of the Guy family followed the tradition of naming the eldest son after the father's father, with the consequence that the names Mark and Warwick occur in alternate generations. The eldest son of Warwick (born 1691) was named Mark; he was baptized on 26/12/1715. His eldest son, Warwick, was baptized on 13/2/1746, and this is the Warwick who married Grace Mallett in 1776. Not content with simply naming their eldest son Mark, this couple chose to name their third son Warwick.

FamilySearch.org lists the following children of Warwick Guy and Grace Mallett (several of whom will feature in our story).

• Joan (bap. 28/9/1776)
• Sarah (bap. 21/4/1778)
• Mark (bap. 8/2/1780)
• Grace (bap. 8/2/1780)
• Catharine (bap. 19/1/1782)
• Anne (bap. 30/4/1784)
• Elizabeth (bap. 23/5/1786)
• Jonathan (bap. 6/4/1790)
• Warwick (bap. 13/9/1792)
• Richard Phillipps (bap. 13/5/1795, bur. 25/11/1806)

Endellion burial register 1806

Endellion burial register 1807

Grace, wife of Warwick Guy, died in 1807 at age 53, buried on 7/1/1807. Warwick died in 1819, buried on 25/2/1819.

Samuel Drew's The History of Cornwall; from the earliest records and traditions, to the present time mentions Warwick Guy. The following passage appears in the discussion of Endellion parish (on p. 221).

I consulted a dictionary and found that "barton" is a historical term for the part of a manor not let to tenants but retained for the owner's use. So Roscarrock's owner was able to defy logic and let that which is not let!

Presumably the above passage was originally written when Warwick Guy was still alive, say in 1815 or thereabouts. Perhaps he had purchased Roscarrock a decade or so earlier than that. Indeed, it seems very likely that he purchased it in 1802, since a newspaper advertisement from that year (shown at right) offered it for sale, whilst also naming the tenants as Messrs Jonathan and Warwick Guy. The advertisement reveals that the annual rent for the place was £400; so we can conclude that the asking price must have been quite substantial.

Dr Trevan's History of Port Isaac and Port Quinn includes the following description of Roscarrock.

Note that Mark and Jane (or Jennifer) departed somewhat from tradition by giving the name "Warwick" to their second son rather than their first. The Ancestral File has the following information about the sons:

• Mark was born on 31/3/1818, baptized on 27/8/1818;
• Warwick Richard was baptized on 14/7/1821;
• Jonathan Samuel was born on 24/12/1822 and baptized on 23/4/1823.

Jennifer Worden was Mark Guy's second wife: he had married Elizabeth George in Endellion on 20/6/1809. I do not know if Mark and Elizabeth had any children.

Dr Trevan's words quoted above were written in 1833 or 1834; so it would actually have been the father of the then owner of Roscarrock who had purchased the estate some 30 years earlier. In any case, it is clear that the Guy's were members of the local gentry – or aspired to that status – and very well off. Indeed, according to the web page Changing Fortunes at Port Gaverne, North Cornwall, "four generations of the Guy family dominated Port Gaverne: Warwick Guy, who died in 1819; his son Mark, who died in 1851; Warwick Richard Guy (1821-1905); and finally Mark Guy, who died in 1918." Although the first Warwick and Mark were nominally farmers, it seems likely that they made most of their money from the fishing industry. Probably Warwick Richard Guy was even richer than his father, owning several ships participating in coastal trade, notably the export of slate from the quarry at Delabole (four miles from Port Gaverne). And he also owned a large farm.

Dr Trevan has this to say about Port Gaverne.

There is a book by Monica Winstanley – which I have not seen – entitled "High Tide at Port Isaac: Life and Times of Warwick Richard Guy, 1821–1905".

As we remarked above, the names Jennifer and Jane are interchangeable, and in the various census and other records Jennifer Guy sometimes appears under one name and sometimes under the other. Here is the household of Mark and Jennifer (Jane) in the 1841 census.

Roscarrock, Endellion Parish:
Name	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
Mark Guy	60	Farmer	Cornwall
Jane Guy	55		Cornwall
Warwick Guy	20		Cornwall
Jonathan Guy	15		Cornwall
John Hawke	30	Male Servant	Cornwall
William Hawke	20	Male Servant	Cornwall
Richard Prout	20	Male Servant	Cornwall
Harris Blake	20	Male Servant	Cornwall
Johanah Blake	20	Female Servant	Cornwall
Mary Phillips	35	Female Servant	Cornwall
Elizabeth Hill	35	Female Servant	Cornwall
Richard Climas	15	Male Servant	Cornwall
William Climas	12	Male Servant	Cornwall
John Mably	15	Male Servant	Cornwall
William Jiles	14	Male Servant	Cornwall
Richard Giles	12	Male Servant	Cornwall
Warwick Bishop	15	Male Servant	Cornwall
John Mitchell	11	Male Servant	Cornwall
John Perry	60	Male Servant	Cornwall
Amelia Huntington	35	Ind	Cornwall

For some discussion of Amelia Huntington, see the Thomas Worden and Jane Huntington page.

The West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser of 2nd August 1844 carried a report of an inquest into the death of one of the servants listed above.

Another article in the same paper, this one from 13/10/1837, tells us something about the political views of Mr Mark Guy. In the process the newspaper makes its own political position clear enough.

Here is the 1851 census record for the household of Mark and Jennifer.

Roscarrock, Endellion Parish:
Name	Rel	Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
Mark Gay	Head	M	71	Farmer 698 Acres Employing 27 Labs	Endellion, Cornwall
Jenifer Gay	Wife	M	68		Endellion, Cornwall
Mark Gay	Grandson		3		Endellion, Cornwall
Elizabeth Hill	Servant	U	48	Servant	Endellion, Cornwall
Joannah Blake	Servant	U	34	Servant	Endellion, Cornwall
Jane Kempthorne	Servant	U	38	Servant	Endellion, Cornwall
John Hawke	Servant	U	46	Servant	Endellion, Cornwall
Charles Thomas	Servant	U	39	Servant	Endellion, Cornwall
John Mably	Servant	U	35	Servant	Endellion, Cornwall
John Mitchell	Servant	U	21	Servant	Endellion, Cornwall
John Prout	Servant	U	19	Servant	Endellion, Cornwall
Francis Giles	Servant	U	14	Servant	Endellion, Cornwall
William Chalk	Servant	U	14	Servant	Endellion, Cornwall
Charles Ivey	Servant	W	43	Malster	London
Thomas Ivey	Visitor	U	13	Servant	Wadebridge, Cornwall
William Couch	Servant	U	17	Servant	Endellion, Cornwall

The grandson here must have been the son of Warwick Richard Guy, who had married in 1846. Warwick Richard's elder brother, Mark, was not married until 1849, although he too had a son named Mark (born in 1856).

Mark Guy died on 22/11/1851 and was buried at Roscarrock. In the 1861 census we find Jennifer Guy living at Port Isaac:

Port Isaac, St Endellion:
Name	Rel	Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
Jinepher Guy	Head	W	78	Proprietor Of Houses	St Kew, Cornwall
Mary Thomas		U	16	House servant	Port Isaac, Cornwall

Jane Guy died in the December quarter of 1868, aged 85. She was buried in Endellion on 7/10/1868.

Mark, eldest son of Mark and Jennifer

Mark Guy, eldest son of Mark and Jennifer, married Elizabeth Martyn in the December quarter of 1849. Subsequent census records show that Elizabeth was born in Rotherfield, Sussex, but the marriage was registered in Bodmin, and so presumably took place in Endellion. In the 1851 census records Mark is described as a farmer of 30 acres, employing two labourers and living at Trewent, Endellion. The other members of his household are his wfe Elizabeth (aged 35) and three servants. However, he was due to inherit Roscarrock, and undoubtedly assisted his father in the running of that estate. In 1861 has duly become a farmer of 704 acres, living at Roscarrock and employing 16 men and two boys. Besides Mark and Elizabeth the household includes their 9 year old daughter Miliscent and 4 year old son Mark, the elder Mark's uncle Joseph Worden, a 20 year old "Landed Proprieter" named Joseph Burt, born in St Minver and described as Mark Guy's Ward, a 20 year old visitor named Elizabeth Liddell who was a merchant's daughter born in Bodmin, a 63 year old Charwoman named Margery Chalk, a 57 year old housekeeper named Elizabeth Hill, and eight other servants, all aged 20 or less and born in Endellion.

Mark died on 18/12/1868, aged 51, and was buried on 23/12/1868. Roscarrock must have then been sold, since at the 1871 and 1881 censuses it appears to be in the possession of one James Clarke, who was born in Selworthy, Somerset. In the 1871 census we find Mark's widow Elizabeth living at Park Villa, Endellion, with her children Meliscent and Mark, and two servants. On census day they also had a visitor named Samuel Martyn, a scholar aged 16 who was born in St John on the Isle of Man, and who was Elizabeth Guy's nephew.

At the 1881 census Elizabeth and Melliscent were living in Bodmin. Mark was in a lodging house in Exeter; he was a solicitor, unmarried. Elizabeth died in the second quarter of 1888, aged 74, and at the 1891 census Melliscent, still unmarried, is found in the Bodmin household of her brother Mark, a 34 year old widower with a three year old son named Henwood Guy. Mark had married Catherine Ann Henwood in Lanivet on 15/9/1886, and she died on 1/8/1887 at Trehere, Bodmin, aged 30. Melliscent died in the second quarter of 1914, aged 63, and Mark died in the last quarter of 1918, aged 70.

Warwick, third son of Mark and Jennifer

Warwick Richard Guy married Mary Stephens in Endellion on 15/10/1846. (A marriage notice appeared in the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser on 23/10/1846.) Mary was the daughter of James Stephens, a merchant of Port Isaac. FreeCEN's transcription of the 1851 census record of Warwick Richard Guy's household has the surname as "Grey"; the household (at Port Isaac) consisted of Warwick R. Grey (29, General Merchant), his wife Mary Grey (25), daughter Elizabeth J. Grey (2), son James S. Grey (7m.), a visitor named Joanna Thomas (26, unmarried, born in Fowey), and four servants: Lucy Mitchell (25), Sarah Carter (27), Ann Carter (24) and Elizabeth Apps (21). In 1861 Warwick and Mary are again found at Port Isaac; their household includes their five year old daughter Bertha, two servants (House Maid and Cook) and a visitor named Elizabeth Stephens, aged 65, described as a Retired Merchant's Wife. Clearly Elizabeth was Mary's mother. W. R. Guy is described as a Merchant Ship Owner, aged 40, and Mary Guy's age is 35.

The 1861 household of a schoolmaster named Robert Blight, at Penzance, includes a 13 year old Mark Guy and a 10 year old James L. Guy, both described as pupils born in Endellion. Clearly these boys were Warwick R. Guy's sons. His daughter Bessy Jane – the Elizabeth J. Grey of the 1851 census record – died at Roscarrock on 12/4/1853, aged 4; a death notice appeared in the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser on 15/4/1853.

In the 1871 census records Warwick R. Guy is described as a merchant farmer, living at Port Isaac. He has a wife named Mary (45) and sons Mark (20) and Lewis (9). In the 1881 census he is described as a farmer of 170 acres employing 5 men. He died in 1905 aged 84. (Note that FreeBMD have transcribed the age as 34, but after using their "view the original" facility I am prepared to call this a transcription error.)

Warwick's eldest son Mark married Mary Ann Haynes in the Bodmin district in the first quarter of 1876. At the censuses of 1881 and 1891 Mark is described as a coal merchant, living at Port Isaac. I know of three children: Lewis (1st quarter of 1877), Warwick James (3rd quarter of 1880) and Theodora (3rd quarter of 1886).

James Stephens Guy, second son of Warwick and Mary, became a mariner. He married Kate Rawle of Padstow in the third quarter of 1879. They had a son named Warwick Rawle Guy, born in the second quarter of 1880. Warwick, Kate and family moved from Padstow to Cardiff in the mid 1880's, and the 1901 census record for their household (at 68 Plasturton Avenue, Cardiff) lists six people: James S. Guy (Head, Master Mariner, 50, born in Port Isaac), Kate Guy (Wife, 43, born in Padstow), Kathleen S. Guy (Daughter, 19, born in Padstow), Lavinia M. Guy (Daughter 16, born in Cardiff), James S. Guy (Son, 12, born in Cardiff) and Jenefer Guy (Daughter, 11, born in Cardiff). In fact the S initials here all stand for Stephens, while Lavinia's second name was Mary.

Lewis Guy, third son of Warwick and Mary, died in the second quarter of 1872, aged 10. He was buried in Endellion on 3/4/1872.

Bertha Guy, the surviving daughter of Warwick and Mary, married Richard Johns Edwards, a farmer born in Cubert, on 20/5/1879. I know of two children: Gertrude Mary, born in the third quarter of 1880, and Janie Margaret, born in the last quarter of 1881. Gertrude Mary Edwards married Richard Ernest Tucker in the last quarter of 1907; Janie Margaret Edwards married Edward Thompson Hopkins in the second quarter of 1905.

Jonathan, second son of Mark and Jennifer

Jonathan Samuel Guy married Jane Stick in Roche on 1/1/1848 (see the list of Roche marriages on the OPC's website). It appears that Jane was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Stick, baptized in Roche on 26/11/1826, and that she had a brother named James who was baptized on 21/9/1828. Thomas Stick had married Elizabeth Roberts in Roche on 25/9/1825. I suspect that Jane and James' father was the 30 year old Thomas Stick who was buried on 8/4/1832 (see the list of Roche burials), and that their mother remarried. The list of Roche marriages (see link above) includes the marriage of Elizabeth Stick to Henry Wedlake on 27/11/1837, with the comment "Joseph Roberts may be related to Elizabeth Stick (?) – nee Roberts". Maybe Joseph Roberts was one of the marriage witnesses. I looked for this marriage in FreeBMD, and found that perhaps the groom's name was not Wedlake but Medland. Whatever way, in the 1841 census the 14 year old Jane Stick, described as "independent", is found in Roche Church Town in the household of Joseph Roberts, a 29 year old Draper and Grocer with a 28 year old wife named Catherine, and two children. No doubt Joseph Roberts was Jane Stick's uncle. I do not know what became of Jane's brother James.

There is an 1851 census record of a household at Porteath, St Minver Highlands, consisting of Jonathan T. Guy (28, birthplace Endellion, Farmer of 200 acres employing 3 labourers), his wife Jane (24, birthplace Roache) and four servants. We can be sure that a transcription error has occurred, and this was actually Jonathan S. Guy's household. In the 1861, 1871 and 1881 censuses Jonathan Samuel and Jane are found living at Trewint in Endellion parish; in each case Jonathan is a farmer of around 200 acres employing several labourers.

It is possible that Jonathan and Jane had a son named Jonathan Samuel Guy, whose birth was registered in the March quarter of 1852 and whose death was registered in the September quarter of 1854. I have found no evidence that they had any other children.

At the 1861 census there were two visitors in Jonathan and Jane's household: Mary Ann Bate, aged 63, and Jane Roberts, aged 3. I conjecture that the child Jane, at least, was some relative of Jane Guy, but I have not attempted to check this.

Jonathan Samuel Guy died in the September quarter of 1883, aged 60. His widow Jane continued to live at Trewint, dying there on 20/1/1900. In 1891 she was "Living On Own Means (Employer)"; the others in her household were servants named Thomas and Amelia Cowling, their son William and daughter Kate, and also one Hannah Stick, aged 38, who was Jane Guy's companion. Since Jane Guy's maiden name was Stick, it is natural to conjecture that Hannah Stick was a relative. However, the relationship was not very close. I believe that Hannah was the daughter of one Thomas Stick, who was born in Roche on 27/3/1826, the son of Thomas and Ann Stick. Perhaps this latter Thomas was a cousin of Jane's father Thomas Stick. However, the younger Thomas – Hannah's father – was born in the same place as Jane and in the same year, and so it is quite likely that they had known each other since childhood.

Samuel (4th child of Samuel and Jane Worden)

This Samuel Worden – herein referred to as Samuel the 2nd – married Catherine Guy at Endellion on 15/3/1810. She was baptized at Endellion on 19/1/1782, and was the daughter of Warwick Guy and Grace Mallett, and hence a sister of Mark Guy above. Samuel and Catherine had six children, all baptized in Endellion:

• Grace (baptized on 25/2/1811),
• Samuel (baptized on 6/10/1812, died in infancy, buried 29/3/1814),
• Warwick Guy (baptized on 20/9/1813),
• Samuel (baptized on 18/12/1815),
• Jane (baptized privately on 1/4/1817 and publically on 6/8/1817),
• Mark Guy (baptized on 24/5/1821, died aged 5, buried 6/4/1826).

The son Samuel who survived will henceforth be referred to as Samuel the third. He and his brother Warwick are both in their father's household at the time of the 1841 census.

Bokelly, St Kew:
Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
Samuel Worden	M	55	Farmer	Cornwall
Warwick Worden	M	25		Cornwall
Samuel Worden	M	25		Cornwall
Cordelia Soper	F	50	Female Servant	Cornwall
Dorothy Martin	M	15	Female Servant	Cornwall
Elenor Goodman	M	15	Female Servant	Cornwall
Thomas Rowe	M	15	Male Servant	Cornwall
Francis Kent	M	15	Male Servant	Cornwall
Edward Lugg	M	15	Male Servant	Cornwall
John Scott	M	15	Male Servant	Cornwall

Catherine had died in 1832 (buried 17/11/1832 at St Kew) and the daughters had both married before 1841.

Royal Cornwall Gazette, 24/11/1832

Note that the servant Cordelia Soper in the above census record was the sister of William Soper who married Samuel's sister Grace (see below), and was also Samuel's cousin, being the daughter of Cordelia Soper née Callaway, Samuel's mother's sister.

I am told that Samuel was a butcher at the time of the baptism of his son Warwick. The census information above shows that in 1841 he was a farmer. He apparently decided to give up farming in 1844 (at age 60), and by the 1851 census he had become a Corn Dealer.

St Kew:
Name	Rel	Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
Samuel Worden	Head	W	66	Corn Dealer	St Kew, Cornwall
William Worden		U	27	Cordwainer	St Kew, Cornwall

It is unfortunate that the census record does not give William's relationship to the head of the household. As explained above in the section on John (2nd child of Samuel and Jane), it seems highly probable that this William was the son of John, hence a nephew of Samuel the second.

A newspaper notice and a St Kew burial record show that Samuel the 2nd died on 25/3/1856.

Royal Cornwall Gazette, 4/4/1856

Grace

Grace Worden (daughter of Samuel and Catherine) married Thomas Scott at St Kew on 1/9/1828, at the age of 17. There are St Kew baptism records for 10 children of Thomas and Grace, as follows:

• Catherine Guy Worden Scott (14/4/1829),
• John Samuel Scott (16/1/1831),
• Thomas Scott (17/6/1832),
• Thomas Scott (28/7/1833),
• Warwick Worden Scott (17/5/1835),
• Ann Scott (2/7/1837),
• William Scott (18/4/1839),
• Mary Jane Scott (28/3/1841),
• Mark Worden Scott (11/2/1844),
• Elijah Scott (7/6/1846).

At the 1841 census there are seven Scott children in their parents' household: Catherine (12), Thomas (9), Grace (8), Warwick (5), Ann (4), William (2) and Mary (7m). Perhaps Grace was not baptized at St Kew but somewhere else, or perhaps the baptism record is illegible. The missing son John is surely the 10 year old servant John Scott in the household of his grandfather Samuel Worden.

At the 1851 census the eldest daughter Catherine is a servant in the household of her uncle Samuel; Grace is a servant in the household of John and Mary Menhenick (aged 79 and 78) at Egloshayle; Warwick is a servant in the household of his great-uncle Joseph Worden; I cannot locate John, Thomas or William; the other children are with their parents.

At the 1861 census both Ann and William are servants in the household of John and Johanna May at St Teath; Mark is a farm servant in St Teath in the household of one Thomas Keat; Elijah is a servant in the Michaelstow household of Thomas Coleman (father of Francis Coleman, mentioned above in connection with Richard Worden, a cousin of Elijah's mother).

Catherine Guy Worden Scott married Thomas Henry Hills in the first quarter of 1855. In 1871 Thomas and Catherine have a 15 year old daughter named Sophia and an 11 year old son named Harry, both born in Port Isaac. Thomas was a Sailmaker, born in Ireland, aged 41 in 1871.

Elijah Scott married Ann Jacobs in St Kew on 22/9/1866. An image of the parish register page is viewable online at FamilySearch.org. In 1871 Elijah and Ann have a 2 year old daughter named Mary J. and a 2 month old son named Ernest, and the whole family are boarding at Tregellis, St Kew, in the household of a 53 year old Agricultural Labourer named Samuel Jacobs, Ann's father. The household also contains Samuel's 53 year old wife Mary and 26 year old son James. Elijah was a mason. In 1881 Elijah and Annie C Scott are found in Church Village St Kew, now with six children: Mary J (12), Ernest(10), Elijah (6), Millie Annie (4), Warwick (2) and Lucy T (3m).

Jane

Jane Worden (daughter of Samuel and Catherine) married Elijah Wilce at St Kew on 5/11/1835; they had the following children: William (6/12/1835), Catharine Guy (14/5/1837), Anna Jane (3/9/1838), Frances Ann (22/9/1839), Elijah (11/3/1841), Samuel Worden (26/3/1843), George (September quarter 1845), Warrick (12/3/1848), Ellin (21/7/1850), Grace Worden (25/10/1852), Jemima (15/7/1855), Annie (26/7/1857). (Note that the Cornwall Online Census Project's transcription of Elijah's 1861 household has the surname as Wilie.)

Samuel

Samuel the third married Rebecca Knight on 19/5/1843; an image of the parish register page is viewable online at FamilySearch.org. They had a son named Samuel baptized on 25/12/1844 at St Kew; I have not located baptism records for their other children.

At the 1851 census Samuel the third is an innkeeper in Endellion, and there are three other people in his household: his wife Rebecca, their 3 year old daughter Jane, and their 22 year old niece Catherine Scott. (Catherine was the daughter of Samuel the third's sister Grace.) The only six year old Samuel Worden I can find in 1851 is a visitor in the household of a 60 year old farmer of 150 acres named John Moyse, at Tredarup in Michaelstow. The household also includes John Moyse's brothers William (55) and James (47), also described as farmers of 150 acres, and their 50 year old sister Jenifer.

In fact Samuel Worden (the 4th) is also found in Mr Moyse's household in the 1861, 1871 and 1881 censuses, and is described as a nephew of John Moyse. In 1861 their address is (still) Tredarrap in Michaelstow, now apparently 170 acres, but in 1871 and 1881 it is Trehannick, 200 acres, in St Teath. Samuel's occupation is "shepherd" in 1861 and 1881, and "farmer's assistant" in 1871. James Moyse has a separate farm at Carkeen, in St Teath, in 1861 and 1871, but in 1881 he is back with his brothers and sister. By this time their ages are 93 (John), 85 (William), 79 (Jenefer) and 77 (James). In 1871 census Samuel Worden's 21 year old sister Jane is also in the Moyse household, occupation Dairymaid, and described as John Moyse's niece; she is still there in 1881. In 1891 Samuel (the 4th) is the farmer of Trehannick, and the others in his household are his widowed mother Rebecca Worden, uncle Samuel Knight (a retired farmer), sister Jane Worden (housekeeper), and a servant named Samuel Cross.

I believe that the mother of Rebecca (and Samuel) Knight was born Susannah Moyse and was a sister of John Moyse, so that Samuel (4th) and Jane were actually great nephew and great niece of John Moyse.

At the 1861 census Samuel the third is a butcher in Port Isaac, and there are four children in his household: Jane (13), Rebe W. (9), William M. (3) and S. C. (1), all born at Port Isaac, the first three described as "schoolers". By the 1871 census Samuel the third and Rebecca have another son, Alexander (8), and the daughters "Rebe W." and "S. C." have become Rebecca and Susie. Samuel's wife Rebecca has changed her birthplace from St Kew to Port Isaac to match everyone else in the family, but she changes it back in 1881.

In 1881 the son Alexander has left home and is boarding in Egloshayle; his occupation is "Draper". I have not positively been able to trace him beyond 1881, although a 66 year old Alexander Worden died in Camberwell in the second quarter of 1929. Rebecca K. (age 29), William M. (age 23) and Susie (age 21) are still with their parents in Port Isaac in 1881. William is a butcher, clearly set to take over the business from his 65 year old father.

Rebecca Knight Worden married John Hawke in the second quarter of 1881. The 1891 census gives John Hawke's occupation as "Shipowner", and John and Rebecca have a six year old daughter named Mary. Susan Catherine Worden married Thomas Inch in Plymouth in the first quarter of 1887. At the 1891 census Susan C Inch, mariner's wife, is living in Endellion with her three year old daughter Phoebe M. and one year old daughter Katherine M.; Phoebe Mildred Inch and Katherine Mary Inch were born in the second quarter of 1888 and first quarter of 1890 respectively. Presumably Thomas Inch was at sea on census day 1891. William Moyes Worden married Jessie Roose in the second quarter of 1886, and in 1891 William and Jessie have three daughters: Jenefer Moyse (4), Olive Joan (1) and Lilian (2m).

I do not know what became of Samuel the 4th after 1891. In 1901 his sister Jane is back in Port Isaac, 53, unmarried, and living on her own means. She is the only person in her household, at 11 Church Hill, next door to her brother William and family at 10 Church Hill. By this time William and Jessie have two more children, sons named William E. and Samuel R., aged 7 and 4 respectively.

Warwick

Warwick Guy Worden, brother of Samuel the third, apparently remained unmarried. The only Warwick Wordens I have located in the censuses from 1851 to 1891 are as follows:

• 1851 — Warwick Worden, 33, unmarried, agricultural labourer, born at St Kew, lodger in the household of William Stephens at Looe;
• 1861 — Warwick Worden, 59, unmarried, agricultural labourer, born at St Endellion, lodger in the household of Joseph Clymens at Liskeard;
• 1881 — Warwick Wordon, 56, unmarried, agricultural labourer, born at St Germans, lodger in the household of Thomas Webber at Looe.

The death of a 76 year old Warwick Worden of Liskeard on 30/1/1887 was reported in the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser. I expect that these records all refer to the same person.

William (5th child of Samuel and Jane Worden)

Unfortunately there were several William Wordens living in Cornwall in the late 18th and early 19th century, and I cannot tell which is which. There was a William Worden married a Frances Cowlyn in Egloshayle on 6/6/1809. There was a William Worden who married Ann Kent in Egloshayle on 23/7/1810. There was a William Worden who married Jennifred Stephens in Liskeard on 1/11/1810. And there was a William Worden with a wife was named Prudence living in St Kew in 1841 and in Egloshayle in 1851. As for baptisms, there was a William Worden son of Richard and Ann baptized on 20/6/1784, there was the son of Samuel and Jane (baptized 25/9/1785) who I am trying to separate from the others, there was a William Worden son of Elizabeth Worden baptized in Egloshayle on 4/11/1787, and there was a William Worden son of William and Rebekka baptised in St Kew in March 1791.

I have been in touch with a Canadian Worden researcher who tells me that the William who married Ann Kent was the son of Elizabeth of Egloshayle. They had a son named Thomas who married Jane Brokenshaw on 8/2/1835 before they all migrated to Ontario. I have found no evidence that these Egloshayle Wordens were at all closely related to my St Kew Wordens.

On the basis of ages as given in the 1851 and 1861 censuses, I have identified William husband of Prudence with William son of William and Rebecca. He was six years younger than William son of Samuel and Jane. Unfortunately distinguishing William baptized 20/6/1784 from William baptized on 25/9/1785 is more problematic.

Apart from the husband of Prudence, only one William Worden in the right age range shows up in Cornwall in the 1841 census. He has a wife named Ann, evidently not the Ann Kent mentioned above. They were living in St Neot, and there were no sons or daughters in the household in 1841. William and Ann show up again the 1851 census, where their ages are given as 65 and 57, their birthplaces as St Kew and Boconnock, and William's occupation is "farmer of 20 acres employing 2 labourers and 1 boy". In the 1861 census their ages are given as 75 and 67, their birthplaces as St Ewe and Boconnoc, and William is "farmer of 20 acres". The age and birthplace are right for this William to be the son of Samuel and Jane. The William son of Richard and Ann would have been 66 on census day in 1851, since he was baptized on 20/6/1784.

It transpires that William Worden, bachelor of St Kew, and Ann Richards, a widow of St Neot, were married in St Neot on 13/5/1830. It seems likely that they did not have any children, since there were none with them in 1841. It may be that Ann was the mother of the Mary Richards who was baptized in St Neot on 22/10/1826 and is probably the same child who died of scarlet fever in 1835, buried on 20/9/1835. The child's father, whose name was Alfred, was probably the son of Thomas and Mary Richards baptized on 16/9/1787. He does not appear in 1841 census records, but unfortunately I have not been able to locate a record of his burial or his marriage to Ann.

In the 1861 census William Worden's household includes one Philippa Vivian, a 60 year old widow born in St Winnow, who is his sister-in-law. This ought to throw some light on the identity of William's wife, since presumably she must be either Philippa Vivian's sister or Philippa Vivian's deceased husband's sister. I could not find any evidence to corroborate the idea that William's wife was born Ann Vivian in Boconnoc in about 1794. However, from the 1851 census data we find that Philippa's husband was John Vivian, and there were also two children, Fanny (16) and Olivia (13), in their household. At the 1841 census the children are in a St Austell household consisting of Ralph Vivian (miner, 70), Catherine Vivian (65), Elizabeth Vivian (dressmaker, 20), Fanny (7) and Olivia (3). John can be found in St Cleer, but Philippa Vivian cannot be found. This led me to wonder if in fact John was a widower in 1841, and indeed it transpired that John Vivian married Philippa Lower in Liskeard in the March quarter of 1843.

In the 1841 census Philippa Lower is described as a widow, and Cornwall Family History Society marriage transcriptions show that Edward Scotchburn Lower, a woolcomber who died in Liskeard aged 33 on 30/9/1840, had married a Philippa Vendersluys in Liskeard on 13/8/1829. There was a Philippa Vendersluys, daughter of John and Elizabeth, baptized on 12/6/1800 in St Winnow (according to FamilySearch.org) or in Boconnoc (according to FreeREG). Moreover, John and Elizabeth Vendersluys had a daughter named Anna baptized in Boconnoc on 2/7/1793. So this must be William Worden's wife Ann! I do not know when she married Mr (Alfred?) Richards. A search at "Family History Online" (records now available at FindMyPast.co.uk) only found one marriage of an Ann Vandersluys: she married James Rynlls in Lostwithiel in 1835. However, I believe that this Ann was the daughter of Lambertus and Martha Vandersluce who was baptized in Lostwithiel on 20/2/1814; James and Ann can be found in the 1851 census records for Lostwithiel (with the surname given as Rennels).

Grace (6th child of Samuel and Jane Worden)

Grace married William Soper on 25/6/1818 at St Endellion, the witnesses being Samuel Worden and Elizabeth Worden; an image of the marriage register page is viewable at FamilySearch.org. I expect that the Samuel here was was not Grace's brother but her father; he witnessed a large number of Endellion marriages over thee years, perhaps rather than her brother, and perhaps Elizabeth was Grace's younger sister (Betsey). The History of Port Isaac and Port Quinn says this about William Soper: "Shopkeeper from Trecugoe St. Kew. Married his cousin Grace, daughter of Mr. S. Worden of Tresungers. No children." If indeed William and Grace had not had any children by the time these words were written (1834), we can be sure that they never had any, since Grace would have been 47 in 1834.

William was the son of William Soper and Cordelia Calloway, who were married on 1/11/1784 in St Kew; this Cordelia, who was baptized in St Kew on 5/4/1765, was the sister of Jane, wife of Samuel Worden. And William Soper, son of William and Cordelia, was baptized in Endellion on 28/11/1785.

William and Grace Soper are recorded in the 1841 and 1851 censuses. In 1841 they are living at Port Isaac, and William is described as a merchant. In 1851 he is described as a grocer. In both censuses there are no other people in the household. Grace died on 13/2/1855 and is buried with her father at Endellion (see the gravestone photo above). William also died in 1855, and was buried at St Kew on 15/6/1855.

Richard and Betsey (7th and 8th children of Samuel and Jane Worden)

Richard and Betsey died within two weeks of one another in May 1817. Richard was buried on 14/5/1817, Betsey on 25/5/1817.

Endellion burial register 1817

Cordelia (9th child of Samuel and Jane Worden)

Cordelia Worden, born in 1792, married Warwick Guy, a brother of Mark Guy (who married Cordelia's sister Jennifer) and Catherine Guy (who married Cordelia's brother Samuel). Cordelia and Warwick were married in Endellion on 6/3/1817; see the image of the marriage register page at FamilySearch.org. According to Dr Trevan's document, in 1833/1834 Warwick and Cordelia were living at a place called Trecreege.

The 1841 census information for Warwick and Cordelia is as follows:

Borrowpark, Endellion Parish:
Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
Warwick Guy	M	45	Farmer	Cornwall
Cordelia Guy	F	45		Cornwall
Warwick Guy	M	20		Cornwall
Cordelia Guy	F	20		Cornwall
John Samuel Guy	M	15		Cornwall
Jane Adelaide Guy	F	6		Cornwall

Note that the fourth child, Jane Adelaide, was born after Dr Trevan composed his document.

The 1851 census tells us the ages more accurately:

Name	Rel	Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
Warwick Guy	Head	M	58	Farmer	Endellion, Cornwall
Cordelia Guy	Wife	M	58		Endellion, Cornwall
Warwick Guy	Son	U	33	Farmer's son	Endellion, Cornwall

Note that the 33 year old Warwick Guy is not to be confused with his double cousin Warwick Guy (son of Mark and Jennifer) who was 5 years younger (but significantly richer). Similarly John Samuel Guy is not to be confused with his double cousin Jonathan Samuel Guy (son of Mark and Jennifer) who was about a year older. According to a record submitted to the IGI, John Samuel Guy was born on 19/9/1823, but a descendant tells me that the birth date was actually 20/8/1823.

On the day of the 1851 census Amelia Huntington (Annuitant, age 47, born St Germans) and Cordelia W. Guy (Farmer's daughter, age 29, born Endellion) were visitors in the household of Thomas Worden. And in 1861 Amelia Huntington appears in the household of Warwick Guy:

Name	Rel	Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
Warwick Guy	Head	U	43	Landed Proprietor	Endellion, Cornwall
Cordelia Guy	Mother	W	68	Housekeeper	Endellion, Cornwall
Amelia Huntington	Boarder	U	58	Gentlewoman	St Germans, Cornwall

The elder Warwick Guy had died on 14/4/1860, buried in Endellion on 18/4/1860. His widow Cordelia died on 10/1/1862, buried on 14/1/1862.

Royal Cornwall Gazette, 20/4/1860

Royal Cornwall Gazette, 17/1/1862

In 1864 the younger Warwick Guy became the St Kew Highway District Surveyor, but held this position for only about seven months before being ignominiously dismissed. No doubt this was to the great embarrassment of Mark Guy of Roscarrock, who had supported his appointment. Warwick remained unmarried, and in each of the censuses of 1871, 1881 and 1891 he was the only person in his household. From being a Landed Proprietor in 1861, he became an Agricultural Labourer in 1871, a Land Measurer and Surveyor again in 1881, and had No Profession in 1891. He died in Islington in the March quarter of 1894, aged 76.

Royal Cornwall Gazette, 6/5/1864 Royal Cornwall Gazette, 24/2/1860

Royal Cornwall Gazette, 9/12/1864

I found two articles in the Royal Cornwall Gazette reporting the proceedings of court cases involving Cordelia Worden Guy. One of these articles is shown above, the first part of the other is shown at right. In the former case Cordelia complained that a bailiff had failed to collect some money Cordelia was owed. In the other Cordelia sued Nathaniel Lang, her cousin (so the court was told), in his capacity as executor of the estate of Cordelia's uncle William Soper. Recall that William Soper was the husband of Grace, Cordelia's mother's sister; so he was certainly Cordelia's uncle. But I have not been able to find any genealogy whereby Nathaniel Lang was Cordelia's cousin. I believe that he was the son of Richard Lang and Miriam Cottell, neither of whom have any obvious connections with the parents of Cordelia Worden Guy. However, Nathaniel's wife Betsy was William Soper's sister; she was baptized in Endellion on 29/12/1790, had married Giles Rounseville in St Kew on 29/9/1812, and after Giles' death in 1818, married Nathaniel in St Tudy in 1824. So it was actually Nathaniel's wife who was Cordelia's cousin: first cousin once removed, in fact, since Cordelia Worden Guy's mother (Cordelia née Worden) was the daughter of Jane née Callaway, whose sister Cordelia was the mother of Betsey Soper.

It is perhaps of interest to observe that Cordelia's double cousins Mark and Warwick Guy both gave evidence in the court case, Mark's evidence supporting Cordelia and Warwick's supporting Nathaniel. And to confuse things further, Cordelia's brother Warwick Guy also gave evidence (as did her sister Jane). In the end, Cordelia was awarded the £50 she sought.

We learn from the evidence in the court case that in 1853 Cordelia had taken over the business that was formerly William Soper's. However, by 1861 she had evidently given it up, since the census shows her occupation as governess. She was living in lodgings in St Austell.

Jane Adelaide Guy married William Hodge in St Austell on 9/10/1863. The marriage record gives the bride's residence as Porthpean, St Austell, and the groom's as Barnstable, Devon. The groom's father was John Hodge, a carrier, and the groom was a railway clerk. However, at the 1861 census William, aged 28, had been described as a "Buss Proprietor", and he was living in his parents' household on New Road in St Thomas Hamlet, together with his siblings Martha (17) and Thomas (15), as well as his mother, Margaret, aged 50, who was described as "Wife of Buss Proprietor". William's father was absent on census day. William was born in Yealmbridge, Devon, although his siblings were born in Launceston.

Royal Cornwall Gazette, 16/10/1863

At the time of the 1881 census William and Jane Adelaide Hodge were living at Railway Station, Okehampton, Devon, where William was Station Master. They had three children: Warwick G. Hodge (15, scholar, born at Barnstaple), Elizabeth M. Hodge (14, scholar, born at Northtawton) and Arthur Hodge (12, scholar, born at Northtawton). Also in the household were William's 75 year old widowed mother Margaret and 36 year old unmarried sister Martha. William, Jane, Elizabeth and Arthur are still found at Okehampton in 1891; the 22 year old Arthur is a Railway Clerk. Also in the household is Jane's unmarried sister Cordelia Guy (aged 71). Cordelia died in Okehampton in the March quarter of 1896.

John Samuel Guy married Amelia Ann Gray, daughter of Richardson Gray (an inn keeper) on 6/1/1851. Amelia Ann was baptized in Endellion on 10/11/1832 (see Endellion baptisms 1828–1900, image no.12), and the baptism record tells us that her mother's name was Catherine. I have not been able to locate a record of Richardson's marriage to Catherine, who died about a year after Amelia Ann's birth, and was buried on 22/11/1833. Richardson married again on 18/8/1835; his second wife's name was Elizabeth Jenkin (see Endellion marriages 1813–1837 image no.31).

The record of the marriage of John Samuel Guy and Amelia Ann Gray, and the 1851 census record of their household, have John Samuel's occupation as Butcher. However, at the 1861 census he is a farm hand. FreeCen's transcription of his household lists the other members of it as his wife Amelia Ann (29), daughter Ann (7), sons Tharick (9, scholar) and Mark (10 months), sister Jane Adelaide Guy (27, unmarried) and sister-in-law Elizabeth Gray (12). No doubt "Tharick" was actually "Warick": the birth of a Warwick Guy was registered in Bodmin in the last quarter of 1851 (and there was no birth registered corresponding to a name anything like "Tharick").

Since FreeBMD does not show up any other Warwick Guy born in the 1840's or 1850's, it would seem that the one mentioned above must be the 20 year old Horse Keeper named Warrick Guy who at the 1871 census was a boarder in the household of a Van Driver named William Thomas Caddy, at St Thomas Hamlet. However, this Warrick's birthplace is given as St Kew, which is not right for the son of John Samuel Guy. Moreover, it turns out that Warwick son of John Samuel emigrated to the USA. He is found in the U.S. census of 1900, living in Coffee County, Tennessee. He has a wife named Bertha, who was born in Germany, and twelve children, whose names – including John, Mark, Warwick and Samuel – surely confirm that he is indeed John Samuel Guy's son. Crucially, the census record also gives the date of Warwick's entry into the USA, which, if correct, shows that he was not the St Thomas Horse Keeper.

Warwick and his three eldest sons are all described as farmers. Note that Warwick's birth date as given in the census record, namely October 1851, fits nicely with the British birth registration.

According to the census record, Warwick and Bertha had been married for 18 years. Bertha, who was born in April 1857 and came to the USA in 1870, was the mother of 12 children, all of whom were still living in 1900 (and listed in the census record). The information the census provides concerning the names and birth dates of the children has been largely confirmed by more detailed information provided by one of Warwick's grandsons, although there are a couple of discrepancies. In fact Warwick and Bertha had two children who were born and died before 1900, and the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th children were each actually born one year earlier than the census record would have us believe. Here is the full list of Warwick and Bertha's children (15 in total):

• John August Guy (born 22/7/1882),
• Mark Warwick Guy (born 4/3/1885),
• Warwick Herman Guy (born 15/4/1886),
• Martha Ann Guy (born 2/9/1887),
• Amelia Henrietta Guy (born 17/10/1888),
• Bertha Cordelia Guy (born 27/10/1889, died 9/11/1889),
• Samuel Warden Guy (born 25/10/1890),
• Paul Frederick Guy (born 22/10/1891),
• Benjamin James Guy (born 10/12/1892),
• Bertha Carolyn Guy (born 15/6/1894),
• Lillian Deena Guy (born 28/11/1895),
• William McKinley Guy (born and died in 1896),
• Daisy Ruth Guy (born 2/12/1898),
• Ruth Guy (born December 1899 and died in the summer of 1902),
• Clara Guy (born and died in 1902).

The first ten were born in Pierce County, Nebraska, the next three in Wartrace Tennessee, and the last two near Manchester Tennessee.

I am told that Bertha died on 21/3/1906, a few days after an unsuccessful operation (performed not in a hospital, but at home on the kitchen table). The eldest daughter Martha, then 18, took over the role of mother to the younger children.

The most surprising information in the census record is its claim that Warwick Guy had lived in the USA for 35 years, having entered the country in 1865. He would have been only 13 or 14 in 1865, and yet his parents and younger brother Mark remained in England. They can be found in the census records of 1871 and 1881, living in Endellion.

I could not find Ann, daughter of John Samuel and Amelia Ann, in the British 1871 census, and incorrectly guessed that she went to America at the same time as her brother Warwick. But Warwick's grandson has informed me that although Ann did go to America, she did not do so until much later. Ann married (in England) a man named John Lang Hawkins, who was her cousin. In fact an 1881 census record for Ann can be found, and on census day she was a visitor in the household of a 75 year old carpenter named Jonathan Brown, at Trelights in Endellion, her occupation given as Governess. (If I have identified people correctly, Jonathan Brown was a cousin of Ann's father. He will be mentioned again later.) I still cannot find Ann in the 1871 census, but her marriage is listed in FreeBMD: the marriage of John Lang Hawken and Ann Guy was registered in the Bodmin district in the second quarter of 1883. In fact they were married on 8/5/1883 in Endellion: see Endellion marriages 1837–1901 on FamilySearch.org, image number 191.

John Lang Hawken's parents were Nathaniel Hawken and Ann Guy, who were married in Stoke Damerel in early November 1845 (according to a marriage notice in the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser on 14/11/1845). This Ann Guy was a daughter of Jonathan Guy, second son of Warwick Guy and Grace Mallett, and therefore a cousin of John Samuel Guy (son of Jonathan Guy's brother Warwick). This means that John Samuel's daughter Ann and her husband John Lang Hawken were second cousins. But they were second cousins in another way too, because John Lang Hawken's maternal grandmother, the wife of Jonathan Guy, was Catherine Gray, daughter of Richardson and Joan Gray and sister of Ann Guy's maternal grandfather Richardson Gray. (Catherine Gray was baptized in Endellion on 19/5/1792. FamilySearch.org do not have a transcription of this event, despite having other Endellion baptisms from 1792. I guess that the transcriber just missed it.) Furthermore, Joan Gray, wife of the elder Richardson, was Joan Guy before her marriage; she was a half-sister of the Warwick Guy who married Grace Mallett.

Endellion baptism register 1732–1806 (image no. 42)

Eventually Mark Guy (youngest child of John Samuel and Amelia Ann) followed his brother's lead, emigrating to the USA in 1882. His parents joined him two years later. They all show up in the 1900 census, living in Bedford County, Tennessee.

The census record gives the following information about Mark and his parents. Mark was a farmer, unmarried, born in May 1861, naturalized American, immigrated in 1882. (Note that Mark's birth year was actually 1860.) John S. was born in August 1823, Ameali A. (sic) was born in September 1831, they had been married for 50 years, were both naturalized American and immigrated in 1884. Ameali was the mother of three children, of whom only two were still living.

US census of 1900, Bedford County, Tennessee

This enables us to deduce that the other three people in the household, a nephew and two nieces of Mark, must have been the children of his deceased sister Ann. Garnet and Pearl Hawkins were both born in May 1888, and Ruby Hawkins was born in April 1990. All three were born in Nebraska, and both their parents were born in England. The occupations of the children are given as "at school". Presumably Ann and John Lang Hawken came to America with Ann's parents in 1884.

I have been told that John and Ann Hawkins had two sets of twins; Ruby Hawkins' twin sister died at the same time as her parents. Apparently John and Ann and their four infant children had travelled to Colorado, John hoping to make his fortune in the mining industry. No doubt this was shortly after the discovery of gold at Cripple Creek in 1891. Back on his farm in Nebraska Warwick received a desparate telegram from his sister: "Come help us, we are all sick and in the hospital with Tick fever". When Warwick arrived he found John, Ann and one of the baby girls dead. The three surviving children were later cared for by Warwick's parents and brother Mark.

Apparently there is an obituary of Mark Guy in the Shelbyville Gazette, from 26/10/1939. (See the index to the obituaries of 1939.) His age is given as 79, which is correct, his birthplace as Plymouth, England, which I believe is incorrect, though perhaps close enough. It says that he lived in Omaha, Nebraska, for 15 years, and moved to Wartrace [Tennessee] 45 years previous to 1939. This cannot be quite correct since he entered America in 1882: he probably lived in Nebraska for 11 or 12 years, and (like Warwick and family) moved to Tennessee in 1893 or 1894. The obituary mentions Mark's nephew, Garnet Hawkins of Wartrace, niece Mrs Bob Harris of San Angelo Texas, and brother Warwick Guy of Thara Kan. In fact Warwick's home at this time was in a place called Thayer, in Kansas.

The 1930 USA census shows Warwick as the head of a three-person household in Chetopa Township, Neosho County, Kansas, the other two people being his 35 year old married daughter Bertha C. Vuloff and 3 year old granddaughter Imogene B. Vuloff. Bertha had married for the first time three years previously. (She did marry again at some time, because when she died in 1989 her surname was Coleson.) Imogene was born in Colorado and her father was born in Bulgaria. According to the Imogene B. Vuloff page of a Genealogy.com site called "The Swensen and Howard Family History" she married Earl Martin Nielson and died in 1993.

The 1930 USA census record for Mark Guy shows him as the only person in his household. He was a farmer, 65 years old, single, in Bedford County Tennessee.

Some further interesting items of family folklore concerning Warwick Guy have been passed on to me by his grandson. As a teenager Warwick decided to emigrate, considering Australia and Canada as possible destinations. He decided on Canada, and at age 15 or 16 he stowed away on a boat load of horses headed for Canada. He was discovered in mid-voyage, by which time he was assured of making it to Canada, although he was (of course) required to feed and water the horses, and clean their stalls, for the rest of the trip. He worked around in Canada for a while, then made his way to the USA to visit a cousin who worked in a bank in Philadelphia. While there he worked in mines. Then, hearing of free land in Nebraska, he worked his way across the States until he reached Nebraska, travelling any way he could, presumably often by foot.

This information leads me to doubt the correctness of the 1900 census information that Warwick entered the USA in 1865. If he was 15 or 16 when he stowed away, and then stayed in Canada for a while, then he would probably not have entered the USA until 1867. But maybe these events actually did not take place until Warwick was 20. After all, an English census record (mentioned above) tells us that in 1871 there was a 20 year old Horse Keeper named Warwick Guy in St Thomas Hamlet. This Warwick was allegedly born in St Kew, but no Warwick Guy was ever baptized in St Kew, and FreeBMD only shows one Warwick Guy birth registration between 1837 and 1865. Is it possible that the St Thomas Horse Keeper Warwick is the same person who stowed away to Canada with a boat load of horses?

There is another coincidence of sorts. William Hodge, who married John Samuel Guy's sister Jane Adelaide, lived in St Thomas and was a Coach Proprietor. He later became a Station Master, but his brother Thomas continued the coach business, and in 1871 was still living in St Thomas. Could it be that the Van Driver William Thomas Caddy, in whose household Warwick Guy was boarding in 1871, was employed by the Hodge family, and the horses Warwick looked after were Hodge family horses? In 1861 William T. Caddy's occupation had been Groom; perhaps he was elevated to the position of Driver when William Hodge went off to work for the railways, and William's nephew Warwick Guy was enlisted as the replacement groom!

This is all wild conjecture, of course. Nevertheless it is my guess that the St Thomas Warwick Guy was indeed our Warwick Guy, and he went to Canada in 1871, aged 20.

Thomas and Joseph (10th and 11th children of Samuel and Jane Worden)

Joseph was discussed above, and there is a separate page for Thomas.

Martha (12th child of Samuel and Jane Worden)

Martha married Thomas Ford in Endellion on 11/10/1817. (FamilySearch.org have an image of the marriage register page.) According to census records, Thomas, who was a miller, was born in St Kew in about 1793. It is believed that he was the son of George Ford and Jenefer Fradd, who were married in St Kew on 18/9/1792, and had eight children baptized in St Kew, coming along at about two-yearly intervals from 1800 to 1817. At first I could not find the baptism of Thomas, but in fact he was baptized in Endellion on 18/8/1793, as Thomas Vord.

Endellion baptism register 1732–1806 image no. 43

George and Jennifer Vord also had daughters baptized in Endellion in 1794 and 1797. The first letter of the surname is definitely written as V: in this person's handwriting the capital F of February is completely different. I suppose that he was obliged to write the name as he heard it; however, it seems clear that these Vords of Endellion were the Fords of St Kew.

The baptism records for the two youngest children of George and Jennifer (also called Jane) include the information that George was a miller. So it is no surprise that Thomas became a miller.

It is perhaps also worth noting that at the 1861 census Martha and Thomas – by this time a retired miller – are found at St Minver Highlands, apparently right next door to a 60 year old Miller Master named George Ford, who was surely the son of George and Jenifer baptized in St Kew on 27/4/1800.

Martha and Thomas had 7 children:

• Jane Worden Ford was baptized on 25/3/1818 at St Kew. A child Eleanour Ford, daughter of Jane Ford, was baptized at St Kew on 18/6/1837, and the 1841 and 1851 census data shows an Ellen Ford, granddaughter of Thomas Ford and the right age to be this Eleanour, in the household of Thomas and Martha. Jane married Samuel Prior in St Kew on 21/11/1839, and they had children Richard Ford Prior (born in the first quarter of 1840, baptised 5/4/1840), Martha (born in the first quarter of 1842, baptized 27/3/1842) and Mary (born in the first quarter of 1844, baptized 28/7/1844). The COPC transcription of the record of the marriage of Jane and Samuel has her second name as Hoskin, but the on-line image at FamilySearch.org shows this to be a transcription error. (Rev. Scobell's capital W's just look like H's: see "William" later on the page.)

  At the 1841 census we find a household at Trelill, St Kew, consisting of Samuel Prior (20, agricultural labourer), Jane Prior (20), Richard Prior (1) and Jane Ford (70). I presume that Jane Ford was Thomas Ford's mother, Jane Prior's grandmother.

  By the 1851 census Samuel Prior has died, Jane Prior (widow, 33) appears as a servant in the St Endellion household of James Billing (farmer) and his wife Caroline A., and the Prior children (Richard, Martha and Mary) are all in the household of their grandparents Thomas and Martha Ford (although in two of the three cases FreeCEN's transciption has the surname as "Price" rather than "Prior"). Note that Caroline A. Billing is Caroline Ann Worden, Jane Prior's aunt (see below).

  Samuel Prior was buried on 11/5/1850, in St Kew.

  Richard Ford Prior married Mary Jane Chapman, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Chapman, in Endellion on 7/5/1864 (see image no.120, Endellion marriages 1837–1910). She was about eight years older than Richard, having been baptized on 17/7/1832 in Endellion (see Endellion baptisms 1828–1900, image no.14). Richard and Mary Jane had a daughter named Jessie (baptized on 19/1/1866 in Endellion: see image no.72) who married one Charley Smith (on 18/4/1888 in Endellion: see image no.205). Mary Jane Prior died in January 1879, at the age of 46, buried on 14/1/1879 (see image no.35, Endellion burials 1856–1901).

• Grace Ford was baptized 22/10/1819 at St Kew. She married William Thomas on 8/10/1841 in Endellion. In the image of the marriage register entry reveals an amusing incident. The rector failed to fill in all the details of Grace and William's at the time, leaving the form blank except for the signatures. When the next marriage happened, some two months later, he accidentally wrote the details for that marriage on the form that had been signed by the other people two months earlier. I imagine that when the bride and groom went to sign their names, they found the space already occupied!

  Mr Hocken explains his error in a footnote:

  Having been seized with severe indisposition at the time of the entry No.33 the parties only affixed their signatures. but the duplicate not having been filled up at the time, was, by an oversight, partly filled up with the names of the parties to the subsequent marriage. the error was of course avoided in the other book, w^c will be found correct.

  W. Hocken, Rector, Janry 8th 1842

  I cannot guess the truth, but I do not buy the "severe indisposition" story!

  At the time of the 1851 census William Thomas' occupation is given as "tin man", and William and Grace have three children: Samuel (9), Mary (7) and Christiana (3), all born in Endellion. The birth of a Samuel Worden Thomas was registered in the Bodmin district in the December quarter of 1841 and the birth of a Mary Thomas was registered in the December quarter of 1843. FreeBMD lists the birth of Christian Thomas in the September quarter of 1847; presumably this was Christiana. By the 1861 census William's occupation has changed to "fisherman", and William and Grace have another child: a five year old son named Charles. He was also born in Endellion, birth registered in the December quarter of 1855. Samuel and Christiana are still at home in 1861, while Mary is a servant in the household of her great aunt Jennifer Guy.

  Grace Thomas of Port Isaac was buried on 20/4/1892, aged 72. (Endellion burials 1856–1901 image no.55.)

• Betsy Worden Ford was baptized in Endellion on 3/6/1821 (Endellion baptisms 1813–1827, image no.32) although she was presumably born in St Kew. She married James Bate, a mariner, on 5/3/1844 in St Kew (St Kew marriages 1837–1907 image no.25). The marriage witnesses were Thomas Ford and Warwick Guy Worden; recall that Warwick Guy Worden was the son of Samuel and Catherine, hence a cousin of the bride. (A side remark: the clergyman that conducted marriage ceremony was the Rev. Richard Portman Burton, curate of St Breock, who six years later was "a prisoner for debt in the gaol of Ipswich", as reported in the London Gazette of 11/1/1850.)

  James was the son of Thomas Bate and Jennifer Worth, born at Port Isaac, baptized on 23/5/1819 (Endellion baptisms 1813–1827 image no.24).

  James and Betsy had the following children: Thomas (March quarter of 1845), James (June quarter of 1847), William (September quarter of 1849), Martha Jane (September quarter of 1851), Betsy Worden (March quarter of 1854, name recorded as "Bessey" instead of "Betsy"), Nicholas (perhaps the John Nicholas Bate born in the June quarter of 1856) and Mary (either December quarter of 1863 or March quarter of 1864).

  

  Grave of James and Betsy

  At the time of the 1861 census James was the the Master of the 59 foot 57t schooner Bessie Jane whose home port was Padstow. I am told that the book "The Story of Port Isaac, Port Quin and Port Gaverne", by Monica Winstanley, mentions James Bate as a co-owner with Warwick Richard Guy of a vessel called the Spreightly built in 1830, and co-owner with James Stephens and W. Guy of a vessel called Betsy Jane. No doubt the Betsy Jane is the same as the Bessie Jane, since the length and tonnage are the same. The book also provides the information that the Betsy Jane had two masts and was built in 1850, and that her Master (at some time) was R. Mitchell. Note that the the Merchant Ship Owner and Farmer, Warwick Richard Guy, was Betsy Bate's cousin.

  The 1861 census data shows James, Betsy and their children William, Martha J., Betsy W. and Nicholas at home in Port Isaac. The nearly illegible census return for the Bessie Jane at Padstow Quay shows only one person on board on census night, namely James Bate, the cook. The form is totally illegible at the point where the cook's age should appear, but presumably he was James and Betsy's 13 year old son James. No doubt the eldest son, Thomas, was away somewhere on another ship; the only census record I can find for him is from 1881, by which time he is a master mariner.

  At the time of the 1871 census James is at Looe, Master of the the vessel Volunteer (described as "82t coasting, No 29286") out of Padstow. There are four other crew members: the Mate, the Cook and two Ordinary Seamen, one of whom is named "Nickles Bate". This is presumably James' son Nicholas, since he is aged 14. Betsy and her two daughters are at Egloshayle. I could not find William Bate in 1871 or in 1881, but in 1891 he shows up in South Shields, Co Durham, his occupation being "outfitter".

  Betsy Worden Bate died on 12/2/1903, at Port Isaac. James died on 7/10/1878, "drowned entering Holyhead Harbour" as we know from his gravestone.

• Thomas Ford was baptized on 29/3/1823 at St Kew. He was in his parents' household at the 1841 census, and presumably was the Thomas Ford who was a witness to his sister's marriage in 1844, but I can't find him after that.

• Richard Ford was baptized 26/3/1825 at St Kew. He does not appear in the household of his parents in the 1841 census, but neither can I find a burial record. Maybe he became a mariner and was at sea on census day 1841.

• Mary Ford was baptized 30/4/1826 at St Kew. She married James Smith on 28/5/1846 in Endellion; see Endellion marriages 1837–1901, image no.38. It says that James was a widower, superintendent of smelting works, residing at a place called Upper Bosington in Glamorganshire. Unfortunately, since I cannot find any trace of such a place, I suspect that the name may have been entered incorrectly.

• Martha Ford was baptized 25/4/1828 in St Kew, and was buried there on 27/4/1828. See the online image of the burial register page (St Kew burials 1813–1858, image no.15), which also records that she lived for 6 days.

Elijah (13th child of Samuel and Jane Worden)

All that is known of the unlucky 13th child of Samuel and Jane is the burial record which tell us that he died aged 15 in February 1817. Presumably he was baptized in Endellion in 1801, and the details were on the lost page of the register.

Caroline Ann (14th child of Samuel and Jane Worden)

The baptism record gives her name as "Carolina", but all other records I have found give "Caroline".

Caroline Ann Worden married James Billing in the September quarter of 1844. The 1851 census describes James as a 39 year old farmer of 5 acres, and does not list any children in the household of James and Caroline. Caroline's age in 1851 is given as 49, which would mean a birth date between 1/4/1801 and 30/3/1802, over a year before her baptism. FreeCEN does not show any 29 year old James Billing in the 1841 census records of Endellion; however, there is an 80 year old James Billing, and I think that the 80 is a transcription error for 30. Indeed FindMyPast have transcribed it as 30: see FamilySearch.org. The relevant household includes a 35 year old Thomas Billing, a 20 year old Eliza Billing and a 60 year old Pheoby Billing, and since Dr Trevan tells us that Phoebe Billing (née Worth), second wife of Samuel Billing, had children named Thomas, John, James and Eliza, I think this must be them. Note that (according to Dr Trevan) this James was indeed a farmer. Moreover, he was baptized in Endellion on 2/4/1809, which makes him the right age.

Assuming that this is all correct, it follows that the Samuel Billing who married Caroline's sister Mary Worden was James' half brother, being the the son of the elder Samuel by his first wife, Elizabeth née Stribley.

An image of the record of the marriage of Caroline Ann and James is now available at FamilySearch.org: Endellion marriages 1837–1901, image no.31. The date was 12/9/1844; James is described as a 33 year old bachelor, a farmer of Port Isaac; Caroline Ann is described as a 41 year old spinster of Polteworgey. (I get the distinct impression that no-one worried much about how this name should be spelled!) James' father, Samuel Billing, and Caroline Ann's father, Samuel Worden, are both described as yeomen.

Recall that Caroline Ann had been living at Tresungers in 1841, presumably as housekeeper for her father and unmarried brother Joseph. Caroline's brother Thomas and his family were living at Poltreworgey in 1841. So it appears that when her father died (in 1843), Thomas and family moved from Poltreworgey to Tresungers (where they were in 1851), while Caroline and Joseph moved from Tresungers to Poltreworgey.

Caroline Ann Billing died on 22/6/1851, as we know from the gravestone she shares with her father. Her husband James, who married again, is discussed further below.

Other inhabitants of Endellion

Attempting to unravel the history of the Endellion Wordens has inevitably involved investigating other residents of Endellion, most notably Guys, Grays and Billings. This section pursues these investigations a little further. My original investigations were hampered by not having access to Endellion parish register data for the years 1813 to 1837, but fortunately images of these records are now available at FamilySearch.org

Dr Trevan's descriptions of four men named Billing (as transcribed by Jonathan Remick Richards) seems like a good place to start this section.

In the description of Pascoe, the words "Mrs. Billing" presumably should be deleted, or placed somewhere else: it was surely Pascoe who was battered to death in the rigging. And as far as I can see the words "surviving son of above" should not have been attached to Pascoe but to the younger Samuel, who was still alive in 1841.

Billing-Trevethick marriage in 1741 (Endellion baptisms, marriages 1732–1806, image no.3)

Samuel Billing the elder was baptized in Endellion on 28th August 1748, the son of Pascoe Billing and Susanna (née Trevethick); Elizabeth Stribley was baptized in Endellion on 10th July 1737, the daughter of John Stribley and Elizabeth. Samuel and Elizabeth were married in Tintagel on 15/12/1770. Elizabeth was buried on 20/5/1804 (Endellion burials 1749–1812, image no.20); her age at death was 66, consistent with a birth date between late May and early July 1737. Samuel and Elizabeth had the following children: Susannah (late 1771), Elizabeth (14/11/1773), Pascoe (3/11/1776), Samuel (14/12/1777), William (20/9/1779). Phoebe Worth was baptized on 27/6/1779 in Endellion, and married Samuel Billing on 22/12/1804 in Stoke Damerel. Census records suggest that their son Thomas was born in 1804 or 1805; there are Endellion baptism records for John (15/5/1806), James (2/4/1809) and Eliza (4/1/1816). Eliza was about six months old at her baptism: see Endellion baptisms 1813–1827, image no.12.

A 48 year old Pascoe Billing was buried on 12/6/1825 in Endellion. The age is right for this to be the son of Samuel and Elizabeth; so they must have brought him home from Lancashire to be buried.

The quaker ancestor of Samuel Billing is mentioned again later in Dr Trevan's document:

John Mitchell married Charity Billing in Endellion on 26/9/1782, and Charity Billing was baptized in Endellion on 18/9/1756, her parents being Richard Billing and Elizabeth. Richard Billing of Port Isaac and Elizabeth Henwood of Endellion were married in Michaelstow on 8/3/1754. If Dr Trevan is right then the quaker must have been the father of Richard Billing.

The quakers kept meticulous birth, death and marriage records, preserved now in the National Archives, and it is possible to search these and purchase copies of the original records via the web site www.bmdregisters.co.uk. The authors of two pdf documents, one entitled Billing Outline and the other entitled Constable to Billing Outline have done this, whereas I have not. According to them, Richard Billing's father was named John Billing, born in Endellion on the 7th day of the 8th month of 1701, the son of Samuel Billing and Charity Roberts, who were married on 9th May 1700. John Billing's wife was named Sarah Rundell, born on 8-4-1702 to Gabriel Rundell and Mary Hawkin of Liskeard, who were married on the 16th day of the 5th month of 1701. (Note that quakers preferred to use numbers for months rather than names; they especially disapproved of July and August, named after the pagan Romans Julius and Augustus. The 5th month of 1701, old style, was July.)

Besides Richard, born 11-3-1732, John Billing and Sarah Rundell had three daughters: Sarah, Charity and Mary, born in Port Isaac in 1734, 1736 and 1738 respectively. All this comes from quaker records. However, it seems that the quaker was not in fact an ancestor of the Samuel Billings of Dr Trevan's document. To be fair, Dr Trevan only said that they were of the same family, which might mean nothing more than having the same surname. It is unclear what genealogical connection there may have been.

Caroline Ann Billing (née Worden), the wife of James Billing, was buried on 24/7/1851. Subsequently (on 24/11/1853) James married Charity Ships: see Endellion marriages 1837–1901, image no.75. We find that Charity's father was a laborer named William Ships. James is described as a yeoman, and Samuel his father as a farmer (reversing the descriptions they were given at James' previous marriage).

The 1841 census records for Endellion include a household containing Charity Mitchell, aged 85, Maryann Ships (20), Charity Ships (15) and Susan Ships (14). It seems likely the Ships sisters were grandchildren of Mrs Mitchell (hence greatgreatgrandchildren of the quaker). FamilySearch.org have images of the relevant baptism records: Endellion baptisms 1813–1827,

• Mary Anne Ships, baptized 24/3/1815, see image no.10,
• Charity Billing Sarah Ships, baptized 2/3/1825, see image no.46,
• Susan Ships, baptized 25/6/1827, see image no.54.

In fact there were two further siblings,

• Elizabeth Mitchell Ships, baptized 18/1/1818, see image no.19,
• William Chaise Ships, baptized 9/5/1823, "when publicly baptized two y^rs and h^f old", see image no.41.

The parents of these children were William and Elizabeth Ships. At Susan's baptism, William's Quality, Trade or Profession was Labourer; at all the earlier baptisms he was a Mariner. But he is completely mysterious: I can find no baptism, marriage, death or census records for him. I have also been unable to find any baptism record for his wife Elizabeth, but no doubt she is the 63 year old Elizabeth Ships who died in 1850, buried in Endellion on 12/5/1850. So she should have been baptized Elizabeth Mitchell in about 1787, but the Endellion baptism register does not contain any such record.

At the time of the 1841 census Elizabeth Ships was a servant in the household of Dr Frederick Trevan and his newly acquired wife. (Frederick Trevan married Elizabeth Moon Hingston in the Liskeard district in the first quarter of 1841.) This census record has Elizabeth Ships aged between 45 and 49, which is not consistent with the burial record, but is perfectly consistent wth the birth dates of her children.

William Ships, the son, married Mary Hoskin on 11/4/1845 in Padstow, and went on to raise a family. Like his father, he was a sailor.

There is an 1851 census record of an Endellion household containing (according to FreeCEN's transcription) Mary A. Ships (36), Charity Ships (25) and Susan Ships (23), all unmarried and described as dressmakers, and a 7 year old "visitor" named Mary Billing. I suspect that Mary Billing is the Mary Billing Ships who was born in the September quarter of 1844, and therefore the daughter of Mary A. Ships, since the 1861 census includes a household consisting of Mary A. Ships (Head, unmarried, 46, School Mistress) and Mary B. Ships (daughter, 16, Schooler). Who Mary B. Ships' father was is of course unknown (to me).

Recall that James Billing and Charity Ships were married on 24/11/1853. At the time of the 1871 census James and Charity Billing had three children living at home: Samuel (16), Thomas F. (14) and Gertrude (8). James Billing died in the last quarter of 1885, his age given as 77.

Mary Billing Ships married Charles Harwood in Endellion on 10/7/1865. (Endellion marriages 1837–1901, image no.125.) Nothing is entered in the spaces provided for the bride's father's name and occupation. Charles Harwood was a 23 year old mariner, son of a mariner named George Harwood. Charles died a couple of months later, buried on 24/9/1765 in Endellion. The 1871 census shows the widowed Mary Harwood and her five year old daughter Emily living with Mary's mother, Mary A. Ships.

Coincidentally, the other marriage on the same page of the marriage register as that of Charles Harwood and Mary Billing Ships is of more direct interest to my genealogical investigations: Joseph Pascoe Billing, son of Joseph Billing and Susanna (née Skinner), and grandson of Samuel Billing and Mary née Worden, married Mary Hill Couch on 4/7/1865. Joseph was a 25 year old mariner, and his 20 year old bride was the daughter of a master mariner named Francis Couch. On the nights of the 1871 and 1881 censuses Joseph Pascoe Billing was absent from his household, no doubt because he was at sea or in some remote port. The 1871 census record for the household shows three children: Joseph (4), Francis (2) and William (8m). The 1881 record shows six (without Joseph): Francis (11), William (10), John T. (8), Pascoe (5), Arthur (2) and Elizabeth J. (7m). Apparently the sons Joseph and William became mariners, and they perished when the ship Eastern Maid was lost somewhere between Morrisonshaven and Plymouth on or about 22nd October 1885. The master of the Eastern Maid was one Richard Hoskin, who on 3/7/1879 had married Tabitha Billing, sister of Joseph Pascoe Billing.

We now turn our attention to the children of Warwick Guy and Grace Mallett (listed above). The third, fifth and ninth of these – Mark, Catharine and Warwick – married children of Samuel Worden and Jane Calloway, and were therefore investigated in preceding sections, while the youngest child, Richard Phillips Guy, died at age 11. Some information on the others is available, and we start with the first child, Joan.

Joan Guy married John George on 1/6/1799 in Endellion. They had children Elizabeth (15/4/1800), John (23/6/1802), Warwick (2/6/1806) and Mary (20/9/1807). The following excerpt from Dr Trevan's History tells us something about Elizabeth:

The daughter was Mary Stephens, who married Warwick Richard Guy. So Warwick's wife's mother was also his first cousin. Dr Trevan also gives us some information about the property called Pennant.

The John George here is the one born in 1802. He married Johanna Brown West in St Kew on 28/9/1830, the witnesses including his sister Mary and brother-in-law James Stephens.

Dr Trevan says this about a place he calls Trevathen Peters: "Originally Robartes of Lanhydroch. Sold several generations ago to the Peters of Harlyn. Mrs. Agar recently purchased it back. Tenant Digory Gray. Farm occupied by Mrs. George and Edward Hawke". And concerning a tenement at Trelights he says this: "Mr. Warwick George's farm, property of Mrs. Agar. Married Sarah Brown, his cousin. Two children." Perhaps the Mrs George referred to is Joan Guy. No doubt Warwick George's wife was the Sarah Guy Brown who was baptized in Endellion on 24/7/1808, her parents being John Brown and Sarah, and Sarah the mother must have been Sarah Guy by birth. John Brown and Sarah Guy were married in Endellion on 15/5/1804.

Based on Dr Trevan's statement that Warwick George and Sarah Guy Brown were cousins, it is natural to conclude that the Sarah Guy who married John Brown in 1804 was the Sarah Guy born in 1778, second child of Warwick Guy and Grace Mallett, sister to Warwick George's mother Joan Guy. This would make Warwick George and Sarah Guy Brown first cousins. However, a Sarah Guy married William Billing on 17/2/1801 in Endellion, and this Sarah was "of Roscarrock" according to Dr Trevan's paragraph on William Billing (see above). Warwick Guy and Grace Mallett were resident in Roscarrock in 1801, and so it is natural to believe that "Sarah Guy of Roscarrock" means their daughter. Clearly there must have been two Sarah Guys, but which married John Brown and which married William Billing is not totally clear.

Endellion baptism records include only one other Sarah Guy of roughly the right age. She was a half sister of Warwick Guy, baptized on 17/5/1768. Warwick Guy's father, Mark, had married Jone Kent on October 1st 1740, and with her had children Jonathan (1741), Joanna (1743), Jone (1744), Warwick (1747) and Sarah (1749). The elder Jone Guy, Mark's wife, died in 1750, buried on October 8th, and on 21/12/1752 Mark married Ann Gray. They had children Anne (1755), Catherine (1757), Joan (1764) and Sarah (1768). This Sarah was surely "of Roscarrock", at least initially, and she would still have been young enough to marry and have children in the early 1800's.

If John Brown's wife was the elder Sarah then Sarah Guy Brown was a half first cousin to Warwick George's mother, making Warwick George and Sarah Guy Brown half first cousins once removed. It is conceivable that this would be enough for Dr Trevan to call them cousins. But certainly the natural hypothesis is that John Brown's wife was the younger Sarah, and this is currently the one I prefer.

To conclusively determine which Sarah was which, we need to find some record that gives the age of one of them. This has proved to be problematic. As far as I can see they must have both left Endellion: they do not appear in the 1841 census records for Endellion, and I have now looked through all the recorded Endellion burials from 1801 to 1841 without definitely finding either of them. There was a 60 year old Sarah Belling of Torbay buried on 18/11/1831 in Endellion, but this is not a wonderful match for Sarah Billing born in 1768 or in 1778.

Dr Trevan tells us that a John Brown was the tenant of a property called Tregavern. It turns out that John Brown of Tregavern was still alive at the 1841 census (aged 60). In his household were four other Browns, possibly his children: Mary (35), Ann (25), James (20) and Susan (20). I at first assumed that this John Brown was the one who had married Sarah Guy. But in fact a John Brown married a Mary Bosanko on 19/8/1800 (Endellion marriages 1755–1812, image no.28) and John and Mary Brown had children every couple of years for the next couple of decades, including a Mary in 1804, an Ann in 1814, a James in 1819 and a Susan in 1821. So John Brown of Tregavern was not the John Brown that married Sarah Guy.

FamilySearch.org has Endellion baptism details for four children of John Brown and Sarah Guy:

• Grace (16/4/1805),
• Johnathan Guy (12/1/1806),
• Richard (31/3/1807, bur. 26/5/1807),
• Sarah Guy (24/7/1808).

Endellion burial register 1897

I tried looking for these people in later records. Certainly "Johnathan" is the carpenter Jonathan Brown of Trelights mentioned by Dr Trevan. He married Betsy Gill in St Teath on 8/10/1831. The 1851 census shows them with nine children: Sarah (18), Elizabeth (17), Grace (15), Catherine (12), Jonathan (11), Mary J. (8), Richard G. (6), Emma (4) and Samuel J. (7m); the next two censuses show two more daughters: Eva Ann and Ellen (born in 1854 and 1856). A 72 year old Ann Gray was boarding with these Browns on census night 1861; we shall meet her again below. As we mentioned earlier, on census night 1881 Jonathan Guy Brown's household included a visitor Ann Guy, a granddaughter of Warwick Guy, sister of Jonathan Brown's mother Sarah (if I have identified the Sarahs correctly).

I have not been able to discover what became of Grace Brown, born 1805.

We know from Dr Trevan that Sarah Guy Brown married Warwick George, a farmer of Trelights. The 1841 census shows three children: Anne (10), Sarah (8) and Elizabeth (6). The daughter Sarah died on 16/9/1841; a death notice appeared in the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser on September 24th. At the 1851 census Elizabeth is still at home, aged 16. Ann is a visitor to the household of Walter and Ann Treleaven, at Breney in Lanlivery. We shall meet Mr and Mrs Treleaven again shortly. On 13/11/1856 Ann married Robert Andrew Guy; see Endellion marriages 1837–1901 image no.92. I believe that Robert Andrew Guy was usually known as Andrew, and looking at the image of the marriage record, I think that perhaps it originally said Andrew Guy (in two places) before Robert was inserted.

Ann George and Robert Andrew Guy were related in a rather close, if complicated, way. We shall meet Robert Andrew Guy again below.

We should also pay some attention to the other Sarah Guy, and her husband William Billing. The first problem is to identify William. Since Dr Trevan's paragraph on William comes straight after his paragraphs on Samuel, Pascoe and Samuel their father, it is natural to think that William was of the same family. On the other hand, the paragraph on Samuel includes "brother of the foregoing", and there is nothing analogous in William's paragraph. So perhaps we should conclude that he was of a different family. In fact Dr Trevan's has listed people in roughly alphabetical order; so we cannot read anything into the fact that all the Billings appear together.

There was a William Billing, son of Pascoe and Susannah, baptized on 2nd August 1742 in Endellion; presumably he was an elder brother of the Samuel who married Elizabeth Stribley. The next William Billing baptized in Endellion was a son of Richard and Elizabeth (née Henwood) baptized on 29/9/1773, and after that comes the son of Samuel and Elizabeth baptized on 20/9/1779. But there is an extra level of complication (as always!), since a widower named William Billing, a mariner, married a Catherine Guy on 10/12/1792 in Endellion. I presume this Catherine was not a widow, since the marriage record does not say that she was, and anyway I cannot find any record of a Catherine marrying a Guy in the appropriate period. So I guess that the bride was one or other of the two Catherine Guys born in 1757 (one being a daughter of Mark Guy and Ann Gray).

A mariner named William Billing had married Mary Hockin on 5/12/1766 in St Columb Minor. So I am guessing that this was Samuel's brother (born 1742) and that as a 50 year old widower he married the 35 year old spinster Catherine Guy. The William Billing who married Sarah Guy in 1801 was presumably either the son of Richard and Elizabeth or the son of Samuel and Elizabeth. Right now I am guessing that he was the son of Richard and Elizabeth, and was 27 in 1801 when he married the 33 year old Sarah Guy of Roscarrock. The authors of the "Billing Outline" mentioned earlier have made the same guess. A possible problem with the theory is that this makes William Billing a brother of Charity Mitchell and a grandson of the quaker, things which Dr Trevan would probably have considered noteworthy, but no such statements are made in Dr Trevan's document.

Dr Trevan tells us that William and Sarah Billing had four sons. FamilySearch.org includes the baptisms of two of them: William baptized on 5/2/1803 and Samuel baptized on 25/1/1806. Unfortunately, although one parish register book has the 25/1/1806 Samuel as the son of William and Sarah, another parish register book has him as the son of Samuel and Sarah! See Endellion baptisms 1732–1806 image no.56, and Endellion baptisms 1803–1812 image no.4.

The book that has Samuel as the son of Samuel also has the baptism on 22/3/1807 of Guy Billing, son of Samuel and Sarah. Could it be that the parson got confused about the christian name of Sarah's husband? I cannot find any marriage of a Samuel Billing and a Sarah, and it would make sense for Guy Billing to be the son of Sarah Guy. I am inclined to think that William, Samuel and Guy were three of the four sons of William and Sarah; unfortunately I cannot identify the fourth.

A William Billing who may have been Sarah's husband was buried on 23/10/1807; however, if this was him then it is perhaps strange that he is mentioned at all in Dr Trevan's document, written over a quarter of a century later. I am more inclined to believe that the William buried in 1807 was the brother of Pascoe and Samuel born in 1779. Nevertheless, William husband of Sarah was dead by the time of Dr Trevan's document, and I have not been able to locate any other burial record that fits.

I have not been able to trace William, the son of William and Sarah born in 1803.

Samuel Guy Billing married Mary Langman in Minster parish on 11/12/1836. Census records for 1841, 1851 and 1861 show Samuel and Mary living in Boscastle (in Minster), and reveal that Samuel was a saddler. The 1851 and 1861 records also confirm that he was born in Endellion, although his age is understated by a couple of years. Mary, who was a dozen or so years older than Samuel, died in 1862 and was buried on 5/7/1862 in Trevalga. On 22/1/1865, as a 57 year old widower, Samuel married Elizabeth Baker, a 58 year old widow. The marriage record tells us that Samuel's father was named William Billing and was a Customs Officer. I guess that this is compatible with Dr Trevan's term "preventive boatman".

The 1871 census shows saddler Samuel Billing and his wife and Elizabeth living in Egloshayle. I have not been able to find out when or where they died.

The death of a Guy Billing was registered in the Bideford district, Devon, in the 3rd quarter of 1837, and the death of another Guy Billing was registered in the Kingsbridge district, Devon, in the last quarter of 1842. Perhaps one or other of these Guys was the one born in Endellion in 1807. A child named Sarah Eleanour Billing, daughter of Guy Billing and Mary Perkin, was born in Bideford on 6/12/1836. It is certainly conceivable that Guy Billing went to live in Devon, and maybe his mother did too, because there was a 75 year old Sarah Billing in Plymouth at the time of the 1841 census. I have not purchased the census record, because I doubt if it really is the right Sarah.

Let us now move on the third and fourth children of Warwick Guy and Grace Mallett, the twins Mark and Grace.

We examined Mark's family by his second wife, Jennifer Worden. The only thing further to add is that his first wife, Elizabeth George, was very possibly a sister of the John George who married Mark's sister Joan. On 16/4/1768 a husbandman named John George (junior) married Elizabeth Rundell in Endellion, and they had children named John (2/2/1769), Mary (17/11/1770) and Elizabeth (1/1/1783). The John and Elizabeth here could easily be the ones who married Joan Guy (born 1776) and Mark Guy (born 1780). But nothing is certain, and there was also a husbandman named Nathaniel George who married Loveday Billing on 21/4/1767, and they also had children named John (1768) and Elizabeth (1771).

At least Grace Guy seems straightforward enough! She married Robert Pearse of Lanteglos on 23/5/1805 in Endellion. According to a submission to the LDS Ancestral File they had children named Elizabeth (1806–1818), Grace Guy (1807–1867), Warwick Guy (1808–1861), Thomas (1809–1879), Mark Guy (1811–1889), Peggy (1814) and Edmund (1817).

Two extracts frrom Dr Trevan's document provide some information on Anne Guy, sixth child of Warwick and Grace.

Francis Richards, mariner of Endellion, married Elizabeth Harry in Lelant on 27/12/1794. Francis Richards and Anne Guy were married in Endellion on 10/2/1818; see the image of the marriage register page. Since Anne was at least 33 by this time, I doubt if she had many children, if any. Presumably most of the "ten in family" were children of Francis Richards and Elizabeth Harry. But these presumed children were not baptized in Endellion, and I have not yet found them anywhere else either. Nor are there any very likely looking people named Richards in the 1841 census of Endellion. So the identities of these family members remain unknown.

In October 1845, in Plymouth, Ann married Walter Treleaven of Lanlivery. There was a marriage notice in the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser on October 24th. Note that Ann would have been 61 by this time. And note that the Ann Treleaven encountered above in our discussion of Ann George was the sister of both of Ann George's grandmothers. Ann Treleaven was Ann George's great aunt, on two counts.

Elizabeth Guy, seventh child of Warwick and Grace, married Digory Gray, mentioned above as the tenant of Trevathen Peters. He was also the owner of Trevathen Grays.

The cousin marrying continues! I conjecture that people were only prepared to marry people perceived to be of a similar station in life, and given that they did not move about much in those days, the choices were often limited. In this instance Digory Gray and Elizabeth Guy were actually half first cousins, because Digory's parents were Richardson Gray and Joan Guy, Joan being the half sister of Elizabeth Guy's father Warwick.

Digory and Elizabeth were married on 26/9/1815 – see Endellion marriages 1813–1837, image no.6 – and they had a daughter named Joan and a son named Digory. Joan married one John Chapple, and emigrated to Canada in 1855. A Canadian descendant, quoted on a web page entitled Pioneer Families in Victoria, Aust., says that Digory and Elizabeth also had two sons who died in youth. She also states that John Chapple was the son of the Governor of Bodmin Gaol, and a qualified architect. The 1841 census schedule for the household of Digory Gray, a 50 year old farmer of Trevathen in Endellion, includes Elizabeth Gray (50), Digory Gray (15), Joan Chapple (20) and John Chapple (20), as well as seven teenage servants. John Chapple is described as a "survayer".

Digory the son remained unmarried. The 1851 census shows him as a 29 year old farmer of 70 acres, at Trevathen. His widowed mother Elizabeth Gray is in the household, along with a 26 year old visitor named John Gray and three servants. I cannot find him in 1861 or 1871 census records, but in 1881 he was in Plymouth, a lodger in the household of one Justinian A. Nutt, a major in the army. He died in Plymouth in 1885, aged 64.

Recall that in 1861 a 72 year old Elizabeth Gray was boarding in Jonathan Guy Brown's household. We see now that Elizabeth Gray was Jonathan Guy Brown's aunt, being the sister of his mother Sarah.

The elder Digory Gray, husband of Elizabeth, was the son of Richardson Gray and Joan Guy, who were married in Endellion on 20/2/1787. Presumably Joan Guy was Warwick Guy's half-sister, baptized on 2/8/1764, rather than his full sister Jone, baptized in 1744, who had presumably died. Richardson Gray and Joan Guy had the following children, baptized in Endellion on the dates shown: Frances (19/1/1788), Digory (5/11/1790), Catharine (19/5/1792), Susanna (8/3/1794), Guy (8/10/1796), Anna (2/3/1799) and Richardson (22/12/1802). As mentioned above, FamilySearch.org's transcriber apparently missed the 1792 Catharine, but she is certainly there in the baptisms register.

It is worth mentioning that Richardson Gray was (according to Dr Trevan) one of the two lay impropriators – laymen who receive a share of the tithes – and hence, in Dr Trevan's estimation, a leech! Richardson husband of Joan had died in 1829 (buried on 1/5/1829), and so it seems that Dr Trevan was referring to the inn-keeper, father of Amelia Ann. But the younger Richardson was the youngest of the three sons of the elder Richardson, and I would have thought that the tithe entitlement would pass to the eldest son.

The elder Richardson Gray was baptized in Endellion on 5/1/1757; his parents were Digory Gray and Sarah Darley, who were married on 25/11/1753 in Endellion. This marriage also produced several other children: Sarah (22/10/1754), Fanny (5/11/1755), Henry (1759), John (30/11/1763), Degery (29/1/1766), Frances (23/2/1768) and William (1771). Note that Richardson was the eldest son.

Recall that Jonathan Guy, eighth child of Warwick and Grace, married Catherine Gray, sister of the younger Richardson. A submission to the LDS Ancestral File provides the following details: Jonathan and Catherine were married on 11/7/1816, and they had children named Anne (1818–1818), Joan Gray (1817–1863), Anne (1820), Jonathan (1822), Richard Gray (1824), Robert Andrew (1829–1878), Mark (1831), Grace (1826) and Catherine Grace (1834–1834). Note that the son Jonathan was born in the same year as Jonathan Samuel Guy, son of Mark Guy and Jennifer Worden, so that some care is needed when examining census records.

It is rather hard to find FreeCEN's transcription of the 1851 census schedule for the household of Jonathan and Catherine, since the surname has been transcribed as George instead of Guye. This error is made worse by the fact that there was also a Jonathan George with a wife named Catherine and a son named Jonathan! Here is a transcription of the schedule for the household of Jonathan and Catherine Guy:

Treswarrow, Endellion Parish:
Name	Rel	Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
Jonathan Guy	Head	M	61	Farmer 136 Acres	Endellion, Cornwall
Catherine Guy	Wife	M	59		Endellion, Cornwall
Joan Guy	Dau	U	33		Endellion, Cornwall
Jonathan Guy	Son	U	28		Endellion, Cornwall
Robert A. Guy	Son	U	22		Endellion, Cornwall
Mark Guy	Son	U	19		Endellion, Cornwall
Richard Hoskin	Servant	U	18		Tintagle, Cornwall
Mary Chapman	Servant	U	18		Endellion, Cornwall

We have already noted that Anne, eldest surviving daughter of Jonathan and Catherine, married Nathaniel Hawken in 1845. I cannot find the next daughter, Grace, in the civil records, and so I presume that she died before 1837. The second son, Richard, became a Draper and Grocer in Port Isaac; he married Elizabeth Blake Hicks in the first quarter of 1856, and by 1861 they had children named Annie (4) and Jonathan (2). The census record above shows that the other children of Jonathan and Catherine were unmarried in 1851.

The son Jonathan was still unmarried in 1871. The 1871 census shows him living at Treswarrow, a farmer of 120 acres employing one labourer. His age is given as 45, and he has a 34 year old housekeeper named Sarah Gray Hawken. Her parents were John Hawken and Joan Guy Gray, who were married in Endellion in 1833, and although I have been unable to find a baptism record it seems certain that Joan Guy Gray was the daughter of Richardson Gray and Joan Guy: the 1841 household of John and Joan Hawken includes a Joan Gray whose age – between 75 and 79 – is right for Richardson Gray's widow, the former Joan Guy. Probably Joan Guy Gray's baptism was on the missing page of the baptism register. Jonathan Guy married Sarah Hawken in the last quarter of 1875, though I doubt if they had any intention of having a family, given their ages.

It should perhaps be noted that although John Hawken (who married Joan Guy Gray) and Nathaniel Hawken (who married Anne Guy) were both born in St Breward, it appears that they were not closely related.

Jonathan and Catherine's son Mark must be the Mark Guy who died in the third quarter of 1853. Their daughter Joan Gray Guy was still unmarried in 1861, and died in 1863 (buried in Endellion on 4/2/1863). Jonathan died aged 80, buried on 24/3/1870, and Catherine died aged 74, buried on 4/5/1866.

Robert Andrew Guy married Ann George in the last quarter of 1856. This Ann was Warwick George's daughter, mentioned above, Trying to sort out their relationship makes one's head spin! In fact they were the genetic equivalent of first cousins: Robert Andrew Guy's father was a brother of both of Ann George's grandmothers.

The 1861 census record for Robert Andrew Guy's household is RG9/1538, Folio 60, Schedule 14 (Page 3), Although I have not purchased the image, I can tell that the page is hard to read: FreeCEN's transcribers have the surnames on that page as Blake, Brokenshire, Winter, Mitchell, Thomas, Courtis, May, George, <unreadable>, Bunt and Worden, while FindMyPast.co's transcribers have Clake, Catharine, Winter, Mitchell, Thomas, Cowling, Grey, George, Burnard, Bint and Wooden. I suppose that Robert Andrew Guy's name is actually given there as Andrew Guy, since one transcriber has "Andrew May" and the other "Henry Grey". Whatever way, Robert Andrew Guy, alias Andrew May alias Henry Grey, was a farmer of 75 acres employing 2 men and 1 boy, and the others in his household (at Trelights, Endellion) were his wife Ann, mother-in-law Sarah George, sister-in-law Elizabeth George and servant Elizabeth <unreadable>. In 1871 the family is still at Trelights; the household consists of Robert Andrew Guy, Ann Guy, Sarah George, Elizabeth George, three servants and an 11 year old visitor named John Lang Hawken.

Robert Andrew Guy died in the last quarter of 1878, and at the 1881 census his widow Ann has become a farmer of 90 acres employing 4 labourers (still at Trelights). Ann's mother Sarah George was still in the household, and John Lang Hawken was there again, now a farm bailiff, and now correctly described as the nephew of the head of the household. Elizabeth George had married Giles Lang Hawkey (not Hawken) in the last quarter of 1872; in 1881 Giles was a farmer of 190 acres at Trewornan in St Minver. Come the 1891 census and Ann Guy is no longer a farmer, but "Living On Own Means". Giles and Elizabeth Hawkey have moved to Trelights, perhaps to the farm that was Ann Guy's. At about this time John Lang Hawken was dying of tick fever in Colorado.