Lannata - re the query about James Quick, joiner of St Ives, and the 1835 Admon.
I believe that this document certainly relates to the husband of Jane Michel so there is no problem there.
However there are other issues I am not so comfortable with.
Your suggestion that the date of death as recorded on the legal document is correct (i.e. 24th June 1814) and that the year of burial (i.e. 26th June 1812) is incorrect does not make a lot of sense to me.
After all - the legal document was written 21 years after the event!
Apart from the actual year of the death/burial the dates do tally quite nicely - died 24th June and buried 26th June - however I don't recall the St Ives Registers being that bad that an error of two years would occur.
They are certainly much better than some Parishes I have seen where there are many entries scribbled into margins and out of sequence.
So I would be inclined to believe that there was actually a burial for a James Quick at St Ives 26th June 1812.
Another 'oddity' that struck me is on the first page of the Admon.
Administration is dated
24th June 1835 and then the date of death is recorded near the bottom of this same page as
24th June 1814.
Exactly 21 years to the day!
One thing that still puzzles me is why it took so long for Administration to take place.
Even his wife Jane lived for another 12 years after James died yet it took a further 9 years after that before anything was done.
Thinking back to the 'conflicting' dates and another thought has also crossed my mind.
James may not have died at St Ives and also may not necessarily be buried there.
I don't really see why but could that possibly have anything to do with delayed Administration?
While this discussion is on the table again I think we could expand things just a little.
Your point about the date of 1814 (as per Admon.) being correct (thus making the burial date in error) but taking the age of 54 from said burial is noted and it would then provide a match for James' baptism in 1760.
However, there is still one more James Quick to think about.
James s/o Henry and Elizabeth Quick baptised at Ludgvan 11th February 1759 is still unaccounted for.
Most of his family were buried back at Towednack and his father Henry was buried at Towednack in 1811 'of St Ives'.
Based on that I would expect James also to be buried at Towednack - yet it would appear that he was not unless he died somewhere from late 1837 through until the 1860's from when Towednack burials appear on the OPC site.
But I have not found him in the 1841 Census (and certainly not later).
Unless he is the James you have asked me about who died in 1838 then it would seem he must have died earlier.
So compare the dat of his baptism - 11th February 1759 - to the date of the burial - 26th June 1812 - and I would suggest we are looking at extremely close to 54 years!
Given the choice between a conemporary date (date of burial) and a date recorded on a legal document some 21 years after the event I would be more inclined to accept the contemporary date.
I therefore refer back to my suggestion of the possibility that James did not die and may not have been buried at St Ives.
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