John Hutchens and Sarah Rowe
Much of the material on this page was originally based on a book entitled The Family History of Thomas Hutchens (henceforth referrred to as [TFHTH]), produced by Grantley Hutchens, using (in part) information provided by a researcher he hired to look up the parish registers. This information has been revised in the light of later research by Grantley Hutchens and myself, using the online resources that are now available.
Most of the people discussed on this page were born in the part of Cornwall near Penzance, notably in the parishes of St Buryan, Paul and St Levan. See Google's map of the area.
St Levan churchyard
John Hutchens and Sarah Rowe were married ar St Levan on 2/10/1824. Before discussing their children we list what is known or conjectured about their ancestors.
Ancestors of John Hutchens
When attempting to piece together a family history based solely on data from old parish registers, one can seldom identify people with absolute certainty. It is always possible that a marriage or baptism record refers not to the person you think it refers to, but to someone else of the same name. The further back one attempts to go, the greater the risk of errors. Hence the following story, while plausible, could well be wrong in places.
A Samson Huchens, son of William Huchens, was baptized in the parish of Paul on 23/9/1638, and a Samson Huchens, presumably the same one, was married at Paul on 15/6/1663; his wife's forename was Elizabeth. These two events are listed in the IGI. According to [TFHTH] Sampson was buried at St Buryan on 23/11/1713, and Elizabeth was buried on 13/6/1729. The Cornwall Online Parish Clerks burials database does not include Sampson's burial, although it contains data from St Buryan for 1713; moreover, besides the Elizabeth Hutchens buried in 1729, there was also an Elizabeth Hutchens buried in 1720, as well as an Elizabeth Hutchings buried in 1705.
The IGI lists St Buryan baptisms for the following children whose parents were named Sampson and Elizabeth: John Hutchings (8/5/1664), Nicholas Hutchings (20/7/1666), Sampson Hutchings (9/8/1668), William Hutchins (11/8/1672), Elizabeth Hutchins (14/7/1677) and Margarett Hutchins (13/2/1681). The one we are primarily interested in is William, but whether or not the right William has been identified is debatable, since there was a William Hutchins, son of Martin and Elizabeth, baptized at St Buryan on 27/8/1665.
Will Hutchens married Dina at St Buryan on 27/1/1694. Data from the IGI indicates that this couple had the following children: Jane Hutchens (baptized 30/6/1695 at Paul), Sarah Hutchens (11/12/1698, died 9/2/1699-1700), Sarah Hutchens (baptized 6/4/1702), Charles Hutchens (baptized 16/10/1703), William Huchins (baptized 22/10/1708, mother's name not given). Note that the IGI has the date of the first Sarah's death as 9/2/1700, but the COPC database has 9/2/1699 for her burial. Presumably the IGI transcriber adopted the convention that the new year begins on January 1st while the COPC transcriber preserved the pre-1752 convention that the new year did not begin until March 25th. I am left wondering whether Will and Dina were married in 1693-4 or 1694-5.
According to [TFHTH] William, son of William and Dina, married Elizabeth (of Borah), and they had children named Sampson, Catherine, Richard and Nicholas.
William and Dinah's other son, Charles, married a woman named Ann, and [TFHTH] lists the following children: William (baptized 28/4/1728), Charles (baptized 15/9/1730), Francis (baptized 15/2/1732), Sampson (baptized 19/5/1734), Ann (baptized 11/10/1736), Joan (baptized 15/10/1738, buried 11/11/1747), John (baptized 1/1/1742, buried 21/11/1747), Elizabeth (baptized 16/5/1744, buried 29/11/1747), Elizabeth (baptized 2/7/1748), John (baptized 12/7/1751). Although the IGI includes St Buryan baptisms from this era, the baptisms of Charles, Francis, Sampson, Joan and the first John do not appear in the IGI, and I have not been able to confirm them.
Apparently there is a headstone commemorating Francis Hutchens in the churchyard at St Buryan, erected by his children (about whom I have no further information). It is not completely legible, but says that Francis Hutchens died on 18/2/1813 aged 81 years, and worked in HM Dockyards at Plymouth for 45 years. He was buried on 21/2/1813.
Ann Hutchens, wife of Charles, was buried on 30/9/1759. A Charles Hutchens was buried on 8/1/1767.
It is believed that William, the eldest son of Charles and Ann, was a grandfather of the John Hutchens who married Sarah Rowe. Some things are also conjectured about the other children of Charles and Ann.
- Charles possibly married Mary Ladner in Sancreed on 15/1/1757. A Charles and Mary Hutchens had the following children in St Buryan (baptized on the dates shown): Charles (4/3/1758), Mary (9/12/1759), Ann (6/7/1762), Elizabeth (18/10/1763), Nicholas (24/6/1765, buried 10/6/1767), Nicholas (26/6/1767, buried 19/9/1775). However, it is also possible that that Charles married Alice Symmons on 20/9/1759, and that this was the Alice Hutchens who was buried on 24/2/1793. I have no way of distinguishing between the Charles who married in 1758 and the Charles who married in 1759. Note that if the dates are correct then the marriage of Charles Hutchens and Alice Symmons occurred 10 days before the burial of Ann Hutchens, wife of the elder Charles Hutchens; so we can presumably discount the possibility that Alice was the second wife of this Charles.
- Sampson married Honour Daniell at St Buryan on 5/10/1763. They had a child named Hannah, baptized 10/3/1765, buried 17/2/1767, and a second child named Hannah, baptized in Penzance on 10/6/1767. There was a Sampson Hutchens buried on 31/3/1788 and another buried on 22/1/1792; Honour Hutchens was buried on 10/9/1790.
- Ann may have married Richard Harvey on 20/2/1762.
- John married Margaret Williams on 30/4/1773. They had the following children: John (1773–20/10/1829), Mary (born 1775), Ann (baptized 28/7/1776, married John Ladner), Charles (29/8/1777–12/9/1777), Elizabeth (1779–20/5/1840), Charles (b. 1781), Francis (baptized 17/9/1782, died 15/7/1812), Thomas (2/4/1784–7/10/1784), Margaret (born 1785) and Thomas (born 1786). John died at age 64 and was buried on 27/8/1814. Margaret died at age 63, and was buried on 24/12/1815.
William Hutchens, son of Charles and Ann, married Ruth Lanyon on 29/11/1756. They had the following children:
- William (baptized 14/5/1758, buried 6/8/1775),
- Ruth (baptized 14/5/1764),
- Nicholas (baptized 11/5/1766),
- Dinah (baptized 12/5/1771).
A Ruth Hutchens was buried on 10/5/1798.
Dinah, daughter of William and Ruth, married Richard Jeffery on 10/10/1795.
The parents of John Hutchens
Nicholas, son of William and Ruth, married Mary Tonkin on 1/1/1793; these were the parents of the John Hutchens who married Sarah Rowe. At the time of his marriage Nicholas was a cordwainer by trade. I am told that the LDS film of the parish register entry shows that Mary was a widow when she married Nicholas. Given this it seems likely that her maiden name was Dobell (or Doble): a Mary Dobell married James Tonken on 16/12/1780 at St Buryan, and "Doble" appears several times as a second forename amongst Mary's descendants.
William Dobell, an Officer of Excise, and an Elizabeth Simpson of St Buryan, were married at Sennen on 6/12/1761, and Mary Dobell, daughter of William and Elizabeth, was baptized at St Buryan on 17/12/1762. However, there was also a Mary Doble, daughter of James and Kath, baptized at East Newlyn on 27/4/1761, and for all I know the Mary who married James Tonken could have been either of these. She was still alive at the time of the 1841 census, widowed for the second time, and living in the household of a 35 year old James Tonkin, husband of her youngest daughter Nancy. I have been unable to find any relationship between this James Tonkin and Mary's first husband. The census record says that Mary was aged over 80 on 6/12/1841, but this is not incompatible with the baptism date of 17/12/1762.
Nicholas died at age 72, buried on 20/6/1837. A relative who has obtained Mary's death certificate tells me that she died on 31/1/1846 at St Buryan Churchtown, and was buried there on 11/2/1846. The cause of death is given as "Unknown, No medical attendant", and the informant was Mary's son-in-law James Tonkin, who was "Present at the death". The death certificate gives Mary's age at death as 84, which fits perfectly with the 27/4/1761 baptism date. She was a month or two short of 85. There is a St Buryan burial record dated 11/2/1846 for a Mary Hutchens whose age is given as 34; it seems likely that this was actually our Mary, the age being mistranscribed.
It appears that Mary had at least one child by her first marriage, since a Mary Doble Tonkin, daughter of James, was baptized at St Buryan on 25/12/1785. Mary Doble Tonkin married Charles Rodda, a butcher, at St Buryan on 27/3/1808. They had sons named William (8/3/1808), Charles (7/1/1810) and Thomas (25/1/1817).
The children of Nicholas and Mary were as follows:
- William (baptized 30/6/1793, buried 4/1/1794),
- William (baptized 24/2/1795),
- Betsy (baptized 24/5/1799),
- Nicholas (baptized 24/5/1799, buried 27/3/1828),
- Nancy (baptized 13/9/1801),
- John (baptized 1/5/1803),
- Phillis (born about 1805).
I could not find a baptism record for Phillis.
and Nancy Hutchens (at Laura).
Four of the children of Nicholas and Mary emigrated to South Australia:
- William, who married Mary Ann Rowe (possibly sister of Sarah) and had children named William (15/6/1828), Sarah Rowe (23/1/1831), Mary Ann (29/7/1832) and John (9/8/1835), sailed on the Waterloo in 1840;
- Betsy, who married Enoch Tonkin (son of Richard Tonkin and Honour Guy) and had children named William (13/3/1825), Amelia (15/10/1826), Elizabeth (11/10/1829), Charles (10/10/1831), John (13/10/1833), Mary Ann Doble (12/10/1834), James (3/4/1836), Mary Ann Doble (6/8/1837) and Thomas Henry (29/9/1839 ), sailed on the Java in 1840;
- Nancy, who married James Tonkin (brother of Enoch) and had children named James (8/2/1829), Joseph (29/3/1831), Henry, William Doble (10/5/1840) and Elizabeth Ann (28/2/1847), sailed on the Cressy in 1847;
- Phillis, who married William Trenowth and had children named John (20/8/1826 ), Elizabeth (24/2/1828), Prudence (15/3/1831), William (10/3/1835), Samuel, Amelia (15/3/1842 ) and Rosetta, sailed on the Lady McDonald in 1855.
The other two children of Nicholas and Mary to survive infancy were Nicholas, who apparently died unmarried, and John, who we shall discuss shortly. Before doing so, we discuss the ancestry of John's wife, Sarah Rowe.
Ancestors of Sarah Rowe
Sarah Rowe was baptized at St Levan on 5/10/1802; her parents were named Ezekiel and Sarah. She had a sister named Mary Rowe, who was baptized on 22/5/1804, and apparently no other siblings.
Ezekiel Row married Sarah Blewett at St Levan on 5/12/1801. Working on the assumption that most marriages took place in the bride's home town, we can conjecture that Sarah was the daughter of Thomas and Margory Blewett, born at St Levan on 14/10/1774, baptized on 19/10/1774. There is no other recorded St Levan baptism that fits. Similarly, it seems clear that Ezekiel was the son of Thomas and Ann Rowe baptized at St Levan on 20/8/1768.
Sarah, wife of Ezekiel, was buried at St Levan on 12/11/1806; Ezekiel was buried at St Levan on 11/2/1838. Ezekiel's burial record gives his age as 70, which is reasonably consistent with the baptism date, and also gives his residence as Treen. Thus it is quite possible that at the time of his death he was living with his son-in-law John and daughter Sarah, since it is known that Treen was their residence from 1835 (or earlier) onwards.
The IGI includes records of two other Ezekiel Rowes baptized in Cornwall in the 18th century: a son of William and Rebecca Row baptized at Sennen on 5/5/1776 and a son of Thomas Rowe baptized at St Levan on 29/3/1712. (The COPC record for this baptism gives the year as 1713, which I assume is an error.) In addition, there was an Ezekiel Rowe, son of James and Mary, baptized at St Levan on 21/12/1812. It is tempting to believe that these various Ezekiels were related, but the documentary record seems to be too incomplete to permit definite conclusions.
A Thomas Rowe, of St Levan, married Anne Richards at St Buryan on 5/12/1767. No doubt these were the parents of Ezekiel born in 1768, and they also had two other children, baptized at St Levan:
A Thomas Row, son of Thomas, was buried on 25/11/1780, and a John Row, son of Thomas, was buried on 1/12/1780.
An 80 year old Anne Rowe who could easily have been the wife of Thomas and mother of Ezekiel died in 1823 and was buried on 3/11/1823 at St Levan. A 72 year old Thomas Rowe of St Levan was buried on 23/4/1818. However, there was also a Thomas Row of unspecified age buried on 16/7/1788 and another buried in 1808; I am unable to say which (if any) of these was the father of Ezekiel. I cannot find any baptism record that fits with the 72 year old Thomas Row who died in 1818, but the 80 year old Anne who died in 1823 could have been the daughter of John Richards baptized on 27/3/1743.
It is an interesting question whether Sarah Rowe's younger sister Mary was the Mary Ann Rowe who married John Hutchens' elder brother William. Given that the marriage took place in St Levan, whereas William's residence at the time was Ludgvan, it seems reasonable to assume that Mary Ann Rowe was from St Levan. Apart from Sarah's sister, who was baptized in 1804, there was a Mary Ann Rowe, daughter of James and Mary Rowe, who was baptized on 1/4/1806. This Mary Ann had several siblings, including the Ezekiel who was born in 1812. However, she was definitely not the Mary Ann Rowe who married William Hutchens in 1827, since the 1851 census shows her as unmarried and living with her parents. The wife of William Hutchens emigrated to Australia with her husband and three children. In 1840, when the family applied for free passage to Australia, Mary Ann's age was given as 34, which fits well enough with the baptism date of 1804, bearing in mind that it was quite usual for ages to be understated in such applications. I think it probable that William's wife was indeed Sarah's sister.
Mary died on 27/5/1843, and was buried in Adelaide's West Terrace Cemetery.
Family of John and Sarah
John and Sarah had the following children, all of whom were baptized at St Levan:
- John, baptized 16/1/1825 (COPC record);
- Thomas, baptized 4/6/1826 (COPC record);
- Sarah Rowe, baptized 26/6/1831 (COPC record);
- Nanny, baptized 4/1/1835 (COPC record);
- Edwin, baptized 20/9/1840 (COPC record).
John died on 19/6/1845 (buried on 23/6/1845) and Sarah died on 25/6/1876 (buried on 29/6/1876).
In [TFHTH] the baptism date of the son John is given as 16/1/1827, presumably because of a transcription error. It also gives another child: Thomas, baptized 4/6/1825, died in infancy. It seems a remarkable coincidence that the this Thomas was baptized on the 4th of June 1825 and other on the 4th of June 1826. Furthermore, 4/6/1825 is too close to the baptism of John on 16/1/1825. With the Cornwall OPC's failing to find the first Thomas, I am sceptical about his existence.
There was another Sarah Rowe Hutchens born in 1831: she was a daughter of William and Mary Hutchens, baptized on 23 January 1831 in Ludgvan. This Ludgvan Sarah Rowe Hutchens was a cousin, and perhaps a double cousin, of the St Buryan one, since William and John were brothers and Mary and Sarah may have been sisters. However, Sally Rowe Hutchens of Ludgvan died at seven weeks of age, and was buried on 11/3/1831. William, Mary and family emigrated to South Australia in 1840; I am told that William's death certificate (1871) mentions a deceased child that must have been Sarah Rowe.
The following item of family folklore was provided by Connie Fraser, a daughter of Thomas Hutchens' granddaughter Mollie. Connie wrote as follows:
"Family stories told to me by my mother concern Thomas Hutchens' parents. When Thomas' mother was a small girl, the family of the local squire took an interest in her and she spent quite a lot of time with them. They introduced her to some of the niceties of life, manners and grammar in particular, but most importantly, they taught her to read. It would seem that she had opportunities the other village children did not have. Of Thomas' father the story concerns how he died – he overturned his cart into a ditch one night when driving home, regrettably not quite as sober as he should have been."
The story of John's death, at least, has the ring of truth, but I do not know whether to trust the story about Sarah. It sounds too much like a good story that someone might invent, or something that might be easily attached to the wrong person. Casting further doubt on it is the fact that (as I have been told) Sarah and John both marked the marriage register with X's, rather than signing their names, and Sarah similarly marked her will. I suppose that it is conceivable that she learnt to read but never learnt to write, or that by the time of her will she was too infirm to write anything other than an X. But I think it more likely that she was never able to write.
At the time of his death John was the keeper of the Logan Rock Inn, at Treen (or Treryn). A report of the inquest into his death was published in the Cornwall Royal Gazette for the parish of St Levan, on 27/6/1845:
He was returning from a trip to Penzance when the horse bolted going down the steep Buryan Hill near his home. He was seen to be pulling hard on the reins and was thrown from the cart and sustained a fractured skull.
In 1835, at the time of the baptism of his daughter Nanny, John's occupation was given as "shopkeeper". The 1841 census record for the household is as follows.
| Treen, St Levan, 1841: | ||
| Name | Age | Occupation | John Hutchins | 35 | Publican | Sarah Hutchins | 35 | John Hutchins | 16 | Thomas Hutchins | 15 | Shoemaker Apprentice | Sarah Hutchins | 12 | Nancy Hutchins | 6 | Irwin Hutchins | 10m |
|---|---|---|
At the marriages of John's children John, Sarah, Nanny and Edwin, their late father's occupation was given on each occasion as "farmer". Thomas also used to say that he worked on his father's farm, and never mentioned the inn. Maybe the inn was also a farmhouse?
In the 1851 census John's widow Sarah is described as an innkeeper and head of the household. The son John, whose age was then 26, is described as a farmer of 16 acres employing one labourer. There is a 23 year old farm servant named William Angove in the household, as well as Sarah's daughters Sarah and Nanny (again listed as "Nancy") and son Edwin.
According to The Family History of Thomas Hutchens Sarah continued as keeper of the Logan Rock Inn until her death (from "natural decay") on Sunday 25th June 1876, after which her daughter Nanny took over the inn. Sarah was buried on 29/6/1876.
Children of John and Sarah
Thomas, the second son and my great great grandfather, emigrated to Australia, sailing on the Santipore in 1848. He later married Elizabeth James, who had grown up in Sancreed parish, which adjoins St Buryan. See the Thomas Hutchens and Elizabeth James page for more information.
John
John Hutchens the younger married Jane Sampson at St Levan on 16/11/1852. Here is the Cornwall Online Census Project's transcription of the 1861 census record of their household.
| Chyoon, Paul, 1861: | |||||
| Name | Rel | Status | Age | Occupation | Birthplace | John Hutchens | Head | M | 36 | Farm 36 Acre Emp Inmates Only | St Levan, Cornwall | Jane Hutchens | Wife | M | 31 | St Breage, Cornwall | Mary J Hutchens | Dau | 7 | Scholar | St Levan, Cornwall | Susan Hutchens | Dau | 5 | St Levan, Cornwall | Agnes Hutchens | Dau | 3 | St Levan, Cornwall | John G Hutchens | Son | 2 | St Paul, Cornwall | Thomas Hutchens | Son | 9m | St Paul, Cornwall | Alice W Pollard | Servnt | M | 21 | Dairymaid | Mawgan, Cornwall | John Roberts | Servnt | M | 19 | Carter | St Paul, Cornwall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
By 1871 the family has moved to Penzance, and John has become an innkeeper.
| 38 North Street "Farmers Arms", Penzance, 1871: | |||||
| Name | Rel | Status | Age | Occupation | Birthplace | John Hutchens | Head | M | 46 | Innkeeper | St Levan, Cornwall | Jane Hutchens | Wife | M | 41 | St Breage, Cornwall | Mary J Hutchens | Dau | 17 | Assistant | St Levan, Cornwall | Sarah Hutchens | Dau | 15 | Assistant | St Levan, Cornwall | Agnes Hutchens | Dau | 13 | Scholar | St Levan, Cornwall | John G Hutchens | Son | 12 | Scholar | St Paul, Cornwall | Thomas Hutchens | Son | 10 | Scholar | St Paul, Cornwall | William Hutchens | Son | 7 | Scholar | St Paul, Cornwall | Edwin Hutchens | Son | 5 | Scholar | St Paul, Cornwall | Richard J Hutchens | Son | 3 | Penzance, Cornwall | William Hayes | Lodger | M | 26 | Comedian | Manchester, Lancashire | Kate Hayes | Lodger | M | 26 | Comedian | Manchester, Lancashire | James Hayes | Lodger | M | 28 | Comedian | Manchester, Lancashire | Caroline Hayes | Lodger | M | 30 | Comedian | Manchester, Lancashire | Henry Hertelli | Lodger | M | 28 | Comedian | Bradford, Yorkshire | Jessie Hertelli | Lodger | M | 28 | Comedian | Dundee, Scotland | James Hayes | Lodger | 5 | Manchester, Lancashire | William Hayes | Lodger | 3 | Manchester, Lancashire | Emma Cariot | Lodger | W | 58 | Comedian | London, Middlesex | Mary E Cooke | Lodger | U | 18 | Comedian | Manchester, Lancashire | Alice Cooke | Lodger | U | 12 | Manchester, Lancashire | Jane Hayes | Lodger | W | 25 | Manchester, Lancashire |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
It appears that the name of John and Jane's second daughter was incorrectly transcribed in the 1861 record: she was Sarah, not Susan. The birth of a Sarah Hutchens was registered in the Penzance district in the March quarter of 1856, but there is no record of a Susan Hutchens being born at about that time.
The Cornwall Online Parish Clerks' database includes baptism records for the following children of John and Jane: Mary Jane Hutchens (St Levan, 7/8/1853), John Hutchens (St Levan, 23/7/1854), Sarah Hitchens (St Levan, 27/4/1856), Agnes Hitchens (St Levan, 5/8/1857), John George Hutchens (St Levan, 5/12/1858), Thomas Hutchens (Paul, 23/9/1860), William Hutchens (Paul, 22/6/1862), Edwin Hutchens (Paul, 1/10/1865) and Richard James Hutchens (Newlyn St Peter, 16/8/1868). The first John was buried at St Levan on 5/8/1857.
In 1873 John was the keeper of the "Wellington Hotel & Posting House" in St Just (see the list of pubs, inns, taverns and hotels provided by West Penwith Resources). At the 1881 census John is back in Penzance as the keeper of the "Duke of Cumberland", the four youngest children are still living at home but the others have left. In fact Mary Jane Hutchens married William Thomas Reynolds in Paul in June 1875, Sarah Hutchens married Thomas Eddy in the Penzance district in the September quarter of 1876, and Agnes Hutchens married Walter Holman in the Penzance district in the June quarter of1880. They had families of ten, six and two children respectively.
In the 1881 census John George Hutchens is found in Lee, Kent, working as a clerk in the establishment of one Charles Henry Reed, a Draper, Stationer & House Furnisher. Among the 53 other people listed in the same household there is a 22 year old housekeeper named Ellen Kekwick, and John George Hutchens married Ellen Kekwick in Lewisham in the second quarter of 1881. I know no more about these people.
William Hutchens married Mary Jane Peak in Penzance in the first quarter of 1882. I am told that they had five children.
Edwin Hutchens married Emma Jane Roberts in Penzance in the third quarter of 1883. At the 1891 census Edwin and Emma have a seven year old son named William J., their address is 50 Causeway Head, Penzance, and Edwin's occupation is given as "Pony establishment".
Richard James Hutchens married Annie Roberts James at the High St. Chapel, Penzance, on May 5th 1893. They also had five children.
Sarah
Sarah Rowe Hutchens married Henry Jones at St Levan on 31/12/1856; the witnesses were Sarah's brother John and sister Nanny. Henry and his father John Jones are both described as mariners. At the time of the 1861 census Henry and Sarah Jones appear in the household of Sarah Hutchens, innkeeper, at Treen. Henry is described as a fisherman and Sarah as a fisherman's wife.
| Treen, St Levan, 1861: | |||||
| Name | Rel | Status | Age | Occupation | Birthplace | Sarah Hutchens | Head | W | 59 | Innkeeper | St Levan, Cornwall | Henry Jones | Sonlaw | M | 37 | Fisherman | Manaccan, Cornwall | Sarah Jones | Dau | M | 29 | Fisherman's wife | St Levan, Cornwall | Nanny Johns | Dau | M | 26 | Engaged In Domestic Duties | St Levan, Cornwall | Sarah Johns | Grndau | 2 | St Levan, Cornwall | Martha Osborn | Lodger | U | 48 | Charwoman | St Buryan, Cornwall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
There are St Levan baptism records for six children of Henry and Sarah Jones: John Hutchens Jones (22/11/1857), Thomas Jones (29/9/1861), Mary Roe Jones (28/12/1862), Harvey Jones (15/4/1864), Catherine Jones (11/8/1867), Mary Jones (7/5/1870) and Catherine Jones (21/1/1872). John Hutchens Jones died aged 3 months, buried on 27/1/1858, Mary Rowe Jones died aged 14 weeks, buried on 11/5/1863, and the first Catherine lived only nine weeks, buried on 10/10/1867. There was also a three week old Thomas Jones buried on 23/12/1859, and the Harvey Jones baptized on 15/4/1864 was presumably the nine week old Harry Jones buried on 3/6/1863.
At the 1871 and 1881 censuses the households at the Logan Rock Inn were as follows.
| Treen, St Levan, 1871: | |||||
| Name | Rel | Status | Age | Occupation | Birthplace | Sarah Hutchens | Head | W | 68 | Innkeeper | St Levan, Cornwall | Sarah Jones | Dau | M | 40 | St Levan, Cornwall | Nanny Johns | Dau | M | 36 | St Levan, Cornwall | Henry Jones | Sonlaw | M | 47 | Fisherman | Manaccan, Cornwall | Sarah Johns | Grndau | 11 | Scholar | St Levan, Cornwall | Tom Jones | Grnson | 9 | Scholar | St Levan, Cornwall | Mary Jones | Grndau | 1 | St Levan, Cornwall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treen (Logan Rock Inn), St Levan, 1881: | |||||
| Name | Rel | Status | Age | Occupation | Birthplace | Henry Jones | Head | M | 57 | Inn Keeper | Sarah R. Jones | Wife | M | 50 | St Levan, Cornwall | Thomas Jones | Son | 20 | Fisherman | St Levan, Cornwall | Mary Jones | Dau | 11 | Scholar | St Levan, Cornwall | Kate Jones | Dau | 9 | Scholar | St Levan, Cornwall | Nanny Johns | Sislaw | M | 46 | Nurse | St Levan, Cornwall | Edwin Hutchens | Boarder | M | 26 | Stone Mason | Sevington, Somerset | Sarah Hutchens | Boarder | M | 21 | St Levan, Cornwall | Hutchens (unnamed male infant) | Boarder | 1m | St Levan, Cornwall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The unnamed male infant must have been the Nicholas Thomas Hutchens whose birth was registered in Penzance in the December quarter of 1880.
Nanny
Nanny Hutchens married William Johns at St Levan on 6/4/1859. The marriage record states that William and his father Richard Johns were both farmers, and that William's residence was in St Just. William and Nanny had one daughter, Sarah Hutchens Johns, who was baptized on 17/7/1859. The census records above show Nanny Johns and her daughter Sarah living at the Logan Rock Inn in 1871 and 1881, but I have been unable to identify William in any census records, before or after his marriage to Nanny. Note that in the 1861, 1871 and 1881 census records Nanny's marital status is given as "married" rather than "widowed", suggesting that William was still alive. I am forced to conjecture that the marriage broke down very early on.
As we shall see below, Nanny's brother Edwin Hutchens had a son named Edwin, and as we have seen above her brother John also had a son named Edwin. In view of this it is a somewhat remarkable coincidence that Nanny's daughter Sally married another (unrelated) Edwin Hutchens.
Edwin
Edwin Hutchens married Grace Gilbert in St Buryan on 25/12/1860. His occupation is given as carpenter, his age was 20, hers 25. Her father was Samuel Gilbert, a labourer. At the time of the 1861 census Thomas and Grace were in St Buryan; Thomas is the head of the household, and described as a Carpenter Journeyman. There were two others in the household: Grace's mother (a 62 year old charwoman and widow) whose name is given as Jane Gelbart, and a six year old girl whose name is given as Ellen Gilbart, a niece of Thomas and Grace. At the 1871 census Edwin and Grace are living in Penzance at 49 Chapel Street, a beer shop. Edwin's occupation is given as "carpenter, keeps beer shop". There are two sons: Edwin J., aged 9, and Thomas, aged 3. Jane Gilbert is still living with them. In 1861 Jane's birthplace was given as "Cornwall - Gulval", but in 1871 it is given as "Lancashire - Manchester". The household also has two lodgers, equestrians travelling with a circus, whose birthplaces are given as "Lancashire - Preston" and "unknown"; I suspect that it was actually one of lodgers who was born in Manchester. At the 1881 census Edwin and Grace are living at 46 Adelaide Street, the son Edwin has disappeared, the son Thomas is a telegraph messenger, there is a 9 year old son named Harry and 7 year old daughter named Sarah Jane, and Jane Gilbert is still there, now aged 81 and with her birthplace returned to Cornwall - Gulval.