Richard Caddy and Elizabeth Jewell
This couple appear on the Jewell Family website and also on the Caddy, Combellack & Associated Families website (henceforth referred to as CCAF). Although it seems to me that the material on these sites is not entirely accurate, CCAF has a great deal of interesting information about the Caddys, and I have no doubt that it is mainly reliable. Another page with useful information – mainly reliable I believe – is www.thecaddys.co.uk ("Welcome to the Caddy family tree"). This page gives Richard a middle initial, namely "H".
The I.G.I. lists a Wendron baptism record from 12/6/1774 for Richard Caddy, son of William and Alice Caddy, and the Cornwall Online Parish Clerks database lists a Wendron marriage record from 28/10/1799 for Richard Caddy and Elizabeth Jewell. Whether or not it is the same Richard Caddy is of course a matter of conjecture. The websites referred to above identify Elizabeth Jewell with the second child of Absolam Jewell and Sarah Tregonning, baptized on 12/1/1777 in Wendron. The I.G.I. also lists this baptism, extracted from parish records.
CCAF and www.thecaddys.co.uk both say that Richard Caddy's parents were William Caddy and Alice Pryor, and that his father's parents were William Caddy and Dorothy Thomas. The former William was born in 1737 or 1738, the latter in 1717. The Wendron Parish Register (as transcribed for the I.G.I.) says that William born 1717 was the son of a Richard Caddy, but the mother's name is not given. CCAF asserts that this Richard was born in 1658, married Sarrah Rowe in 1697 at Abbotsham in Devon, and married Christian Bolitho at Helston in 1724. I expect that two or three different Richard Caddy's have been confused here. The I.G.I. has children born to Richard Caddy in 1717 and 1719, and to Richard and Christian Caddy in 1726 and 1734, and while it is not impossible that Richard born in 1658 fathered a child when he was 76 years old, I regard it as unlikely.
According to the Jewell family website, Elizabeth Jewell's father Absolam was either the son of Absolam Jewell and Catherine Davies or the son of Mathias Jewell and Grace Pedler, Mathias and the latter Absolam were both sons of Mathias Jewell and Jane Jenkin, and this latter Mathias was the son of William Jewell.
The Cornwall Online Parish Clerks database includes the burial of Elizabeth Caddy, aged 33, on 1/11/1810. This fits with the baptism date given for Elizabeth Jewell.
The situation is complicated by the fact that Wendron census data from 1841 includes a household whose two occupants are Richard Caddy, a 67 year old tin miner, and Elizabeth Caddy, also aged 67. Note that Richard Caddy baptized on 12/6/1774 would certainly have been 67 on census day (June 6th) in 1841, but Elizabeth Jewell baptized in 1777 would probably have only been 64. Of course ages as given in census data are not necessarily reliable, and transcription errors also occur, but Richard and Elizabeth Caddy also appear in the 1851 Wendron census data, where now Richard is a retired tin miner, and Richard and Elizabeth are both aged 76. Moreover, Elizabeth's birthplace is given as Mylor. It appears that after the death of his first wife Richard Caddy married another woman named Elizabeth, one who was born in Mylor in 1774.
A search at Family History Online found three Cornwall marriages with groom named Richard Caddy in the years between 1810 and 1840, and in two cases the marriage was at Wendron and the bride's name was Elizabeth. On 26/12/1818 Richard Caddy married Elizabeth Blewett, and on 3/11/1836 Richard Caddy married Elizabeth Rowe Pengilly. Of course there were several Richard Caddy's at Wendron. The Richard Caddy born in 1792 can be ruled out, since the Cornwall OPC burials database includes the burial of a 12 year old Richard Caddy at Wendron in 1804, but there there was a Richard Caddy born at Wendron in 1813 who could easily have been married in 1836. Indeed, in the 1851 census we find a Richard Caddy aged 36, birthplace Wendron, with a wife named Elizabeth R Caddy, birthplace Gulval, and eldest child aged 12. It is a safe bet that the Richard Caddy who married Elizabeth Rowe Pengilly in 1836 was the Richard born in 1813.
So I guess that our Richard Caddy married Elizabeth Blewett in 1818, and that she was born in Mylor. Since she would have been 45 in 1818, I guess that she was a widow. I have discovered that a Nicholas Blewett married an Elizabeth Lemon at Sithney on 24/4/1800; moreover, the Lemon family was prominent in Mylor, and a Nicholas Blewett was buried at St Erth on 8/4/1806. Unfortunately I cannot find any birth or baptism record for Elizabeth Lemon, but as far as I am aware, Mylor baptism records for the period have not been transcribed. It is all of little consequence really, since it seems clear that Richard Caddy's second marriage did not produce any children.
Besides Richard Caddy (born 1774) who married Elizabeth Jewell and then Elizabeth Blewett, and Richard Caddy (born 1813) who married Elizabeth Rowe Pengilly, there was also a Richard Caddy born 1823 – a grandson of Richard Caddy and Elizabeth Jewell – who married a Mrs Elizabeth Johns in 1850. Apparently the Richard Caddy's of Wendron were mysteriously drawn to women named Elizabeth!
The death of a Richard Caddy was registered in the Helston district in the March quarter of 1858. His burial does not appear among the Wendron burials listed on the Wendron COPC website. Deaths of Elizabeth Caddy's that could have been his (second) wife were registered in the Helston district in the September quarter of 1856 and the June quarter of 1857.
Google found for me a photograph of the grave of a Richard Caddy in Wendron (see below). Unfortunately I cannot read much of the inscription, but it is clear that his wife's name was Elizabeth. No surprise there! However, further down the stone I think I can make out the name William Henry,and I presume that he was a son of the deceased Richard. In fact all three of the Richard's just mentioned had sons named William; however, in the case of Richard born in 1813 the son William was definitely William Henry, since this name is given in full in the census returns of 1851, 1861 and 1871. So probably the grave is that of Richard Caddy born in 1813.
The parents of Richard born in 1813 were named John and Christian. A John Caddy and a Christian Toy were married in Wendron in 1801, and children of John and Christian were born in 1806, 1808, 1810, 1812, 1813, 1815, 1817, 1818, 1821, 1823 and 1825. If these were the children of the couple married in 1801 then it is remarkable that there were no children born before 1806, but I could not find any other marriage of a John Caddy in Cornwall between 1801 and 1806. Now there were John Caddy's born in Wendron in 1776, 1777, 1778, 1781 and 1785. The last one was too young to be married in 1801, though not too young to be having children from 1806 on. The ones born in 1777, 1778 and 1781 apparently died as children: the John born in 1778 had the same parents as the one born in 1785, and for the other two the I.G.I. baptism record includes a death record, indicating that the parish register includes the death information. So my best guess is that John father of Richard was born in 1776. This John was a cousin of the Richard who married Elizabeth Jewell, his father being a Richard born in 1751, who was a son of William and Dorothy.
The name of Richard Caddy of Halebezack appears on the "Poldark Mine" web page in a list of names of tin streamers working alluvial deposits of tin on Bodilley Moor. Apparently the owner of the land in question was one Henry Crease Esq., to whom Richard and the other streamers had to pay 1/15th dues on the tin they recovered. The document quoted refers to the period from 1837 to 1841. The Richard Caddy in question is probably the one born in 1774, who certainly lived at Halebezack. But in this period the Richard who was born in 1823 was also living at Halebezack. So it is also possible that the document is referring to this Richard.
Richard Caddy and Elizabeth Jewell had the following children (all baptized in Wendron).
- William Caddy, 14/4/1800;
- Elizabeth Caddy, 22/8/1802;
- Catharine Caddy, 17/4/1804;
- Mary Caddy, 16/3/1806;
- Charity Caddy, 5/6/1808.
CCAF says that the daughter Elizabeth married John Williams in St Hilary on 14/2/1818. I think that this is unlikely since she would probably have only been 15 years old on 14/2/1818. There were several other Elizabeth Caddy's in Cornwall at the time who could have married John Williams. Indeed, a message in archiver.rootsweb.com says that the Elizabeth Caddy who married John Williams was the daughter of John and Christian Caddy baptized in St Hilary in 1785. (Obviously not the same John and Christian mentioned above.) I believe that Elizabeth daughter of Richard and Elizabeth married Samuel Eva in Wendron on 19/1/1824. See the Samuel Eva and Elizabeth Caddy page for more details.
There is a Wendron burial record from 27/11/1826 for a 19 year old Charity Caddy. This could perhaps have been the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth, if she was actually only 18 when she died, or if she was not baptized until seven months old.
The marriage of a Mary Caddy to a William George was registered in the Helston district in the September quarter of 1838. Census data from 1851 shows that Mary George was born in Wendron. However, her age is given as 43, making her a year or two too young to be the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth baptized in 1806. In the 1861 census her age is given as 53, and in the 1871 census it is given as 64. While these ages are inconsistent with each other, they strongly suggest that she was not born as early as 1806, unless she lied about her age. Since her husband was younger than her (born in 1809), it is, I suppose, possible that she had put her age down by a couple of years. The I.G.I. does not have any Wendron baptism records for Mary Caddy's born between 1807 and 1815.
Unfortunately, even if one accepts the hypothesis that the Mary Caddy who married William George was born in 1806, it does not follow that she was the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth, since there was a Mary Caddy daughter of John and Christian Caddy baptized in Wendron on 25/12/1806. This Mary would indeed have been 64 on census day 1871. Moreover, she had a brother named John (born in 1810), and it is probable that the 13 year old Elizabeth Caddy who was a visitor in the George household on census day 1851 was John's daughter: census data from 1841 shows that he had a daughter named Elizabeth born in about 1838, and she is missing from his household in 1851. So I conclude that Mary George was not the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth but the daughter of John and Christian.
A search at Family History Online found that a Mary Caddy married a Francis Gluyas at Wendron on 30/10/1826. Moreover a 22 year old Mary Gluyas was buried at Wendron on 15/4/1828. So it looks as though this was the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth. The I.G.I. does not list any children born to Mary and Francis Gluyas.
CCAF believes that Catherine Caddy, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth, married one Daniel Cannell in Whitehaven, Cumberland, in 1831. I do not know if they have any evidence to support this. On the surface it seems to me more likely that the Catharine Caddy who married Daniel Cannell was the Catharine Caddy born in St Bees, Cumberland, in 1805. Moreover, Family History Online found that a Catherine Caddy married a William Jenkin at Wendron on 31/10/1824. This William was born in Wendron in about 1800. His age at the 1851 census is given as 49 and at the 1861 census it is given as 60. His death appears to have not been registered, but there is a burial record for a 68 year old William Jenkin who died in Wendron in 1868, buried on 25/8/1868. The closest baptism record in the I.G.I. is that of William son of John and Grace Jenkin, baptized on 22/3/1799. However, this could more easily be the baptism of the the farmer William Jenkin whose ages at the 1851, 1861 and 1871 censuses are given as 51, 60 and 71 respectively. It is most likely that there is no surviving baptism record for the William who married Catherine Caddy.
The I.G.I. lists baptism records for the following children of William and Catherine Jenkin:
- Catherine Jenkin (baptized 13/6/1830),
- Elizabeth Jenkin (baptized 6/3/1825),
- Ann Jenkin (baptized 6/3/1828, died 10/5/1829),
- James Jenkin (baptized 25/5/1833),
- William Jenkin (baptized 7/2/1836).
There is also a Wendron burial record from 10/5/1829 for a one year old Ann Jenkin. However, I believe that the Ann Jenkin who died in 1829 was not the daughter of William and Catherine Jenkin, but the the daughter of John and Eliza Jenkin baptized on 31/8/1828. John and Eliza had another daughter named Ann baptized on 1/10/1829, indicating that their previous Ann had died. Probably when the death was entered in the parish register it was linked to the wrong baptism. The 1851 census returns indicate that Ann daughter of William and Catherine survived infancy. The only Ann Jenkin of approximately the right age appearing in the 1841 Wendron census data is the daughter of John and Liza, whose age is given as 10, although she would actually have been 11.
The 1851 census provides the following information on the family of William and Catherine.
| Carnkye, Wendron: | ||||
| Name | Rel | Age | Occupation | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Jenkin | Head | 49 | Copper Miner | Wendron |
| Catherine Jenkin | Wife | 47 | Wendron | |
| Ann Jenkin | Dau | 23 | Wife's Assistant | Wendron |
| James Jenkin | Son | 18 | Tin Miner | Wendron |
| William Jenkin | Son | 15 | Tin Miner | Wendron |
| Richard Jenkin | Son | 13 | Tin Streamer | Wendron |
| Mary Jane Jenkin | Dau | 10 | Scholar | Wendron |
| John Jenkin | Son | 8 | Scholar | Wendron |
The last three children were too young for the I.G.I. list of Wendron baptisms, which only goes up to 1837. The mother's age fits well enough with Catherine Caddy's baptism date of 17/4/1804: she could have been born on or before 30/3/1804, making her 47 on 30/3/1851. The ages given for the children Ann, James and William also match their baptism dates reasonably well.
Unfortunately, the 1841 census data presents a puzzle.
It is evident that in several places things have been rubbed out and changed.
The Cornwall Online Census Project's transcription lists the children as William, Jane, Catharine, William, Richard and Mary. The transcriber probably decided that "James" had been erased and replaced by "Jane". Of course William and Catherine would not have had two sons called William alive simultaneously; so when I first saw this transcription – believing that Ann had died in infancy – I presumed that Jane and the 8 year old William were visitors, perhaps children of some brother of William. But I could not find any baptism records to support this idea. Now my best guess is just that some bizarre errors were made when the enumerator was transcribing the data from the Jenkin household's form.
It looks to me as though the age 13 was first entered in the female column, rubbed out and entered in the male column, then rubbed out again and moved back. The 8 in the age column might have originally been a 5, and the 5 is written over something that may have been an 8. The name that now appears as "Jane" does seem to have previously been "James", but it could well have been something else before that. And William Jenkin's employment has been changed from "Miner on Tin" to "Tin Miner". This last change suggests that after first transcribing the data verbatim, the enumerator decided to go back and sanitize it. It is even conceivable that everything was right initially!
Here is a hypothetical scenario. The data has been entered as follows.
| Name | Age | Employment | |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Jenkin | 40 | Miner on Tin | |
| Catharine " | 35 | ||
| William " | 5 | ||
| Ann " | 13 | ||
| Catharine " | 10 | ||
| James " | 8 | ||
| Richard " | 3 | ||
| Mary " | 4m | ||
Now the enumerator thinks that the ages of William and James are around the wrong way, and so he changes them. The he realizes that it was right before, and decides to now swap the places of "William" and "James". After all, it is appropriate for the older son to precede the younger! So he rubs out "James" and writes in "William". Now he goes to rub out "William" and replace it by "James", but inadvertently rubs out "Ann". After writing in "James" he sees that the age is in the female column when it should be in the male column. He rubs it out and puts it in the right place. Later he notices the error, or remembers that the oldest child in that family is actually a girl, and, misremembering the name he had erased, changes "James" back to "Jane". And finally he forgets that he still has to change "William" to "James".
Horrible errors like this can happen late at night when one is tired!
I have been unable to discover what happened to the daughter Catherine between 1841 and 1851. The death of a Catherine Jenkins was registered in the Helston district in the September quarter of 1847. Maybe that was her. I could not find any likely marriages.
The 1861 census has the following data.
| Carnkye, Wendron: | ||||
| Name | Rel | Age | Occupation | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Jenkin | Head | 60 | Tin Miner & Farmer Of 6 Acres | Wendron |
| Catherine Jenkin | Wife | 56 | Tin Miner's Wife | Wendron |
| James Jenkin | Son | 27 | Tin Miner | Wendron |
| Richard Jenkin | Son | 22 | Tin Miner | Wendron |
| Mary Jane Jenkin | Dau | 20 | Domestic Labourer | Wendron |
| John Jenkin | Son | 18 | Tin Miner | Wendron |
I cannot locate Catherine Jenkin after 1861. I suppose that it is possible that she was the Catherine Jenkins buried at Wendron on 21/10/1865, aged 62. The age, as well as the name, is not quite right.
The children of William and Catherine Jenkin are discussed below. We now turn now to William Caddy, eldest child of Richard and Elizabeth.
According to the Jewell Family website, William married Grace Hocking on 5/5/1822 in St Austell. This Grace was the daughter of Richard and Ann Hocking, and she was baptized on 13/5/1802 in Redruth. However, according to a list of St Austell marriages maintained by the OPC for St Austell, the William Caddy who married Grace Hocking was from St Blazey. Close examination of baptism and census records also strongly suggests that two or more different William Caddy's have been confused.
The I.G.I. lists St Austell baptism records for two children of William and Grace Caddy: Caroline (6/6/1824) and William Henry (24/12/1826). In addition the I.G.I. lists Wendron baptism records for five children with parents named William and Grace Caddy: Grace (23/7/1823), William (30/8/1823), William (1/4/1825), Ann (19/11/1826) and James (14/1/1836). The closeness of the baptism dates for Grace (23/7/1823) and William (30/8/1823) creates a puzzle: were they twins, or were they from different families?
There is a Wendron baptism record from 21/1/1832 for Grace Caddy, daughter of James and Grace Caddy, and an 1841 Wendron census record of a household consisting of James Caddy, aged 50, Grace Caddy, aged 50, William Caddy, aged 17, and Grace Caddy, aged 10. Is it possible that William baptized on 30/8/1823 was actually the son of James and Grace rather than William and Grace?
There is a record of the burial in Wendron in 1839 of a 44 year old William Caddy, and a Grace Caddy married a Josiah Martin in the June quarter of 1840. Census data from 1841 includes a household containing Josiah Martin (shoe maker, 20), Grace Martin (35), Pheolix Martin (9m.), Grace Caddy (17), William Caddy (16), Dorothy Caddy (11) and James Caddy (5). In particular, the William Caddy baptized in 1825 survived infancy, which surely proves that the William and Grace Caddy of Wendron were not the same as the William and Grace Caddy of St Austell, or the son born in St Austell in 1826 would surely not have been named William.
The William Caddy who died in 1839 was too old to be the son of Richard and Elizabeth born in 1800. In fact it appears that his parents were named James and Grace, and that he was the brother of James Caddy, mentioned above, who also married a woman named Grace! James, son of James and Grace, was baptized in Wendron on 8/2/1789, and William, son of James and Grace, was baptized in Wendron on 11/1/1795.
Although it is really of no relevance to the main focus of this page, it is perhaps worth mentioning that census data for 1851 shows Grace Martin, widowed for the second time, as head of a household containing her daughter Ann Caddy and sons James Caddy and Felix Martin.
CCAF believes that William Caddy, son of Richard and Elizabeth, married Elizabeth Dunstan (or Dunstone) on 2/8/1823. This seems highly likely to be correct. Possibly Elizabeth was the daughter of Wearne and Ann Dunstone, baptized at Wendron on 10/11/1799. There are Wendron baptism records for the following children of William and Elizabeth: Richard (25/12/1823), William (28/1/1826), Elizabeth (10/10/1827), William (21/4/1829), Wearn (22/12/1830), Charity (2/12/1832), Mary (13/4/1834) and James (5/1/1837). The 1841 census data shows that they also had a son named John; his birth was registered in the December quarter of 1838.
| Halebezack, Wendron: | ||||
| Name | Rel | Age | Occupation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Caddy | Head | 35 | Copper Miner | |
| Elizabeth Caddy | 35 | |||
| Richard Caddy | 15 | Copper Miner | ||
| Elizabeth Caddy | 13 | |||
| William Caddy | 12 | |||
| Whearn Caddy | 10 | |||
| Charity Caddy | 9 | |||
| Mary Caddy | 7 | |||
| James Caddy | 5 | |||
| John Caddy | 2 | |||
William Caddy died in 1850 and was buried at Wendron on 2/11/1850. In the 1851 census data his widow Elizabeth is described as a laundress (aged 51), and her household contains her sons William (22, copper miner), Wearne (20, copper miner), James (15, tin streamer) and John (13, tin streamer), as well as her daughter Charity (18, helper home) and her two year old grandson Richard. This grandson was the son of Elizabeth's eldest son, Richard, and his first wife Margaret, née Roberts, who had died in 1849, presumably in childbirth. The birth of the child Richard Caddy was registered in the March quarter of 1849. In 1851 Richard son of Elizabeth had his own household with his (second) wife Elizabeth, her son Alfred Johns (aged 6) and his daughter Margaret Caddy (aged 5). (The census return describes Alfred's relationship to Richard as "sonlaw", no doubt meaning stepson. It also describes Margaret's relationship to Richard as "daulaw", which is surely just an error. In later census returns Margaret is Richard's daughter and Alfred his stepson.) It should be mentioned that Richard and Margaret had another child: a daughter named Elizabeth Jane Caddy, born in the March quarter of 1848. At the 1851 census Elizabeth Jane Caddy is in the household of her mother's parents, Anthony and Margaret Robarts. In fact she is still in their household in 1861.
Elizabeth Caddy, widow of William, died in 1855 and was buried at Wendron on 27/11/1855.
Children of William and Elizabeth Caddy
I have not had much success tracking the daughter Elizabeth. Probably she is the Elizabeth Cady who at the 1851 census is a 23 year old general servant in the household of a 55 year old farmer named Thomas Dunstan at Helston. I have not been able to identify her in any later marriage, census or death record. It is possible that Mr Dunstan was some relative of Elizabeth's mother (whose maiden name was Dunstone).
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At the 1851 census there is a 17 year old Mary Caddy who is a servant is the household of a 66 year old Miller named John Williams, at Stithians. Since this Mary was born in Wendron and is the right age, it seems likely that she is William and Elizabeth's daughter Mary. It also seems likely that she married Thomas Collins in the September quarter of 1853. Thomas, who was born in Wendron in about 1826, was a tin miner. At the 1871 census the household of Thomas and Mary contains the following children: Mary (aged 15) James H (tin miner, aged 13), Thomas (tin miner, aged 11), Martha (aged 9) and Bessie (aged 6).
At the time of the 1861 census Charity Caddy was an unmarried seamstress with an eight year old daughter named Mary and a two year old son named William. In the December quarter of 1862 she married William Jolly. He had married Elizabeth Moyle in the December quarter of 1858, but she died in the June quarter of 1862. At the 1871 census the household of William and Charity Jolly contained the following children: Mary P Caddy (aged 17), Mary A Jolly (aged 12), William Caddy (aged 11), Margt Jolly (aged 6), James Jolly (aged 4), Jane Jolly (aged 3) and John F Jolly (aged 1).
Richard Caddy (born 1823) married Margaret Roberts in the December quarter of 1845. She was the daughter of Anthony and Margaret Roberts, baptized at Wendron on 7/8/1822. In the 1841 and 1851 census return the surname is rendered as "Robarts" and in 1841 the daughter Margaret appears as "Peggey". As mentioned above, Margaret died in 1849 (buried 5/2/1849), and Richard then married Mrs Elizabeth Johns. I have not been able to discover Elizabeth Johns' maiden name or the name of her first husband. At the 1861 census the household of Richard and Elizabeth is as follows:
| Menherion, Wendron: | |||||
| Name | Rel | Age | Occupation | Birthplace | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Caddy | Head | 37 | Tin/cop Minr Methdst Loc Prchr | Wendron | |
| Elizabeth Caddy | Wife | 38 | Miner's Wife | Wendron | |
| Alfred Caddy | Son | 16 | Mine Smith Tin | Wendron | |
| Richard Caddy | Son | 12 | Miner Tin | Wendron | |
| Mary Caddy | Dau | 9 | Scholar | Wendron | |
| William Caddy | Son | 6 | Scholar | Wendron | |
| James Hy Caddy | Son | 4 | Wendron | ||
| Elizabeth J. Caddy | Dau | 23 | Miners Daughter | Wendron | |
| John Michael Caddy | Son | 2 | Wendron | ||
At the 1871 census the household is as follows:
| Halwin, Wendron: | |||||
| Name | Rel | Age | Occupation | Birthplace | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Caddy | Head | 49 | Miner & Grocer | Wendron | |
| Elizabeth Caddy | Wife | 48 | Wife Grocer | Wendron | |
| Alfred Johns | Stpson | 25 | Black Smith | Wendron | |
| Elizabeth J. Caddy | Dau | 23 | Miners Daughter | Wendron | |
| Richard Caddy | Son | 22 | Miner | Wendron | |
| Mary Caddy | Dau | 18 | Wendron | ||
| Willm Caddy | Son | 16 | Miner | Wendron | |
| James H. Caddy | Son | 14 | Miner | Wendron | |
| John M. Caddy | Son | 12 | Miner | Wendron | |
| Wearn Caddy | Son | 10 | Scholar | Wendron | |
| Charles R. Caddy | Son | 8 | Scholar | Wendron | |
William Caddy (born 1829) married Grace Reed in the September quarter of 1852. At the 1861 census their household is as follows.
| Halabezack, Wendron: | |||||
| Name | Rel | Age | Occupation | Birthplace | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Caddy | Head | 32 | Tin Miner | Wendron | |
| Grace Caddy | Wife | 33 | Tin Miner's Wife | Wendron | |
| Grace Caddy | Daughter | 8 | Scholar | Wendron | |
| Elizabeth C Caddy | Daughter | 6 | Wendron | ||
| John W Caddy | Son | 1 | Wendron | ||
A John William Caddy died in the Helston district in the December quarter of 1861.
At the 1871 census the household of William and Grace is as follows.
| Name | Rel | Age | Occupation | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Caddy | Head | 41 | Tin Miner | Wendron |
| Grace Caddy | Wife | 43 | Tin Miner's Wife | Wendron |
| Grace Caddy | Daughter | 17 | Dressmaker | Wendron |
| Elizabeth Caddy | Daughter | 15 | Dressmaker | Wendron |
| Wearn Caddy | Son | 6 | Wendron |
According to www.thecaddys.co.uk, the youngest child was named Frederick Wearne. Quite possibly he used the name Frederick to distinguish himself from his several relatives named Wearn Caddy. It also appears that the spelling "Wearn" has been replaced by "Wearne", at least in the Caddy family.
Wearn Caddy, born 1830, married Jane Oliver in the September quarter of 1853. They appear not to have had any children. In 1861 Wearne (sic) is described as a tin miner and Jane as a miner's wife. In 1871 Wearne is described as a miner and dairy man and Jane as a dairy man's wife.
John Caddy, born 1838, should not be confused with another John Caddy, baptized on 10/5/1835, whose parents were named John and Ann Caddy. This John is found in his parents' household at the 1841 and 1851 censuses, his age in 1841 being given as 6 and his age in 1861 being given as 15. I cannot find him in the 1861 census, but he seems to have reappeared in the 1871 census as head of a large household. I suspect that the 1871 record is incorrrect, and that John son of John and Ann either died in 1855 or left Cornwall. Deaths of four John Caddy's were registered in the Helston district in the 1850's, three of these appear in the Cornwall Online Parish Clerk's burial database and are not the right age, but the son of John and Ann could have been the John Caddy who died in the June quarter of 1855. But he might also have been the John Caddy who married either Prudence Phillips or Fanny Richards in Redruth in the September quarter of 1855, and they might have emigrated.
On census night 1861 John son of William and Elizabeth was one of four lodgers in the household of a widow named Mary Opie. In the June quarter of 1861 he married one Emily Johns, and by 1871 they had three children.
| Halabezack, Wendron: | |||||
| Name | Rel | Age | Occupation | Birthplace | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Caddy | Head | 32 | Tin Miner | Wendron | |
| Emily Caddy | Wife | 33 | Miner's Wife | Stithians | |
| Elisabeth Caddy | Daughter | 9 | Scholar | Wendron | |
| William Caddy | Son | 7 | Scholar | Wendron | |
| John Caddy | Son | 3 | Scholar | Wendron | |
James Caddy married in the September quarter of 1858. His wife may have been Mary Eathorne, but was probably Mary Jane Tresidder, since in later censuses his wife's name is always given as Mary J Caddy. Moreover, www.thecaddys.co.uk also says that she was Mary Jane Tresidder, and the compiler of that page may have access to information handed down through the generations. Mary Jane was the daughter of James and Thomasine Tresidder, born in the March quarter of 1839. She would always have used the double-barrelled name since she had an elder sister called Mary. (Note that in the 1851 census returns this family's name is given as Tressider, and the ages of the daughters Mary and Mary Jane have been interchanged.)
At the 1861 census the household of James and Mary Jane is as follows.
| Halabezack, Wendron: | |||||
| Name | Rel | Age | Occupation | Birthplace | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Caddy | Head | 25 | Tin Miner | Wendron | |
| Mary J Caddy | Wife | 22 | Miner's Wife | Stithians | |
| James Caddy | Son | 1 | Wendron | ||
| William H Caddy | Son | 3m | Wendron | ||
| Caroline Dunstone | Niece | 8 | Scholar | Wendron | |
I do not see how James could have had a niece named Dunstone, but he could well have had a cousin (or cousin once removed) of that name, since his mother's maiden name was Dunstone.
I can find James Caddy's family in the 1871 census, but they are attached to a John Caddy rather than a James Caddy!
| Halabezack, Wendron: | |||||
| Name | Rel | Age | Occupation | Birthplace | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Caddy | Head | 35 | Tin Miner | Wendron | |
| Mary J Caddy | Wife | 34 | Tin Miner's Wife | Wendron | |
| James Caddy | Son | 12 | Scholar | Wendron | |
| William H Caddy | Son | 10 | Scholar | Wendron | |
| Thomas R Caddy | Son | 9 | Scholar | Wendron | |
| Elizabeth A. Caddy | Dau | 7 | Scholar | Wendron | |
| John Caddy | Son | 5 | Scholar | Wendron | |
| Wearn Caddy | Son | 3 | Wendron | ||
| Mary Caddy | Dau | 1 | Wendron | ||
| Elizabeth C. Caddy | – | 17 | Wendron | ||
Taken on face value this would appear to be the family of a John Caddy born in 1834 or 1835, such as the John son of John and Ann mentioned above. But with the the names and ages of the two eldest children matching, and with the wife's name also matching, I think that we can be very confident that the census enumerator made a transcription error, writing John instead of James. The occurrence of the name Wearn and the fact that the address is Halabezack is further evidence of this. Moreover, we can find the family again in the 1881 census, reattached to James.
I do not know who were the parents of the Elizabeth C. Caddy above. She should not be the Elizabeth C Caddy daughter of James' brother William, despite being about the right age, since that Elizabeth appears in her father's house on census night 1871. However, I guess it is conceivable that someone could get counted twice.
Here is the 1881 household of James and Mary Jane.
| Whitallice, Wendron: | |||||
| Name | Rel | Age | Occupation | Birthplace | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Caddy | Head | 44 | Farmer of 114 Acres | Wendron | |
| Mary J Caddy | Wife | 42 | Wendron | ||
| James Caddy | Son | 21 | Ag Lab | Wendron | |
| Wilm H Caddy | Son | 20 | Ag Lab | Wendron | |
| Thos R Caddy | Son | 18 | Ag Lab | Wendron | |
| Elizth A. Caddy | Dau | 16 | Wendron | ||
| John Caddy | Son | 14 | Wendron | ||
| Wearn Caddy | Son | 13 | Wendron | ||
| Mary Caddy | Dau | 10 | Wendron | ||
| Martin Caddy | Son | 7 | Wendron | ||
| Margret Caddy | Dau | 5 | Wendron | ||
To me 114 acres sounds like a lot. I wonder how he managed to acquire so many!
Children of William and Catherine Jenkin
As mentioned above, I do not know what became of William and Catherine's daughter Catherine.
William and Catherine's son William married Elizabeth Reed in the June quarter of 1856, and by 1861 they had a four year old son named William, a three year old daughter named Jane, and an 8 month old daughter named Elizabeth. By 1871 the family has disappeared completely. Perhaps they emigrated.
I cannot trace William and Catherine's daughter Ann with any certainty. There were three Ann Jenkin's who died in the Helston district between 1851 and 1861: one in the March quarter of 1853, one in the June quarter of 1854 and one in the March quarter of 1858. However, the Cornwall Online Parish Clerks' database includes the burials of these three, and none were the right age to be the daughter of William and Catherine. (1853, 1854, 1858.) In fact they also have a burial record for another Ann Jenkin, whose death was apparently not registered, but who was also not the right age for us.
There is a Helston district marriage registration record showing that an Ann Jenkin married William Bennett Ninnis in the December quarter of 1853, but subsequent census data indicates that she was too young to be the daughter of William and Catherine. It is more likely that she was the daughter of Joseph and Ann baptized on 20/2/1832. There was another Ann Jenkin married Henry Williams in the June quarter of 1861. I suppose that it is possible that this marriage occurred before the census on April 7th, and the couple then left Cornwall, but more likely the marriage was after the census. I cannot find the couple in the 1861 census, the 1871 census or the 1881 census. There is a 42 year old unmarried Henry Williams boarding in the household of one Thomas Dunstan in Wendron on census night 1861, but I cannot find Ann Jenkin. So my best guess is that our Ann Jenkin was somehow missed in the 1861 census, married Henry Williams shortly after the census, and then died shortly after that. There were deaths of six Ann Williams' registered in the Helston district between mid 1861 and mid 1864. And in the September quarter of 1868 Henry Williams married 36 year old Jemima Dunstan, daughter of the Thomas Dunstan mentioned above.
Mary Jane Jenkin married Richard Prior Eathorne in the September quarter of 1861. He was born in Wendron in about 1841 and was the son of John and Elizabeth Eathorn. He was a tin miner in 1861. This was still his occupation in 1871, by which time there were six children in the family: Catherine J (9), Susan J (8), Elisabeth A (6), Margaret (4), Richard J (2) and Lavinia (2m). By 1881 Richard has become a dairyman, the family has moved to Constantine, and there are two more children: Athanasius (4, born in Wendron) and Emily (2, born in Constantine).
James Jenkin married Eliza Carter in the December quarter of 1866. She was the daughter of William Carter, a farmer of Camborne, and his wife Susan. Eliza was born in about 1840. By 1871 James and Eliza Jenkin have a 3 year old daughter named Susan. By 1881 the family has moved to Camborn, James is now a farmer of 9 acres, and there are six children: Susan (13), John (9), Cathrine A (7), Mary C (5), William H (2) and Eliza J (0). All the children are listed as born in Camborne, although in 1861 Susan's birthplace is listed as Wendron. James' age in 1881 is given as 42 – it was given as 36 in 1871 – although he would actually have been 47 or 48. At least his birthplace is correctly given as Wendron.
I cannot positively locate either Richard Jenkin or John Jenkin after 1861.