Marriage for Grace Hingston Richards

[snydly]

I don't have access to marriage records past 1900 through the OPC database. Can someone look up an April 1903 Marriage for Grace Hingston Richards, she either married George Dunn or Richard Arthur Eddy ... I would expect that this was in St Ives.

[Cornish Terrier]

Snydly - I don't have access to St Ives marriages past 1900 at the moment but I think I have identified which of the two that Grace married.

I believe she married George Dunn.

Assuming of course that they remained in England!
I searched FreeBMD for any possible children but then realised that Grace would have been about 37 when she married meaning that searching past 1910 would not be of any help.

However - I did search for a death looking first for Grace H Eddy and then Grace H Dunn.

FreeBMD Deaths
December Qtr 1922
Penzance Registration District
Volume 5c Page 258
Grace H DUNN age 56

That equates to a birth about 1866 which is the year Grace was born so I think it is a reasonable chance that I have the right person.

CT

[Cornish Terrier]

Snydly - a little bird has just passed on some information to me that might be of some assistance.

1911 Census Tregenna Pl., St Ives
Samuel James RICHARDS, head, 51, single, fisherman, St Ives
Susan Carter do., sister, 58, single, housekeeper, St Ives
Grace Hingston DUNN, sister, 45, widow, fruiterer, St Ives

So she did indeed marry George Dunn and he died in 1909 age 43.

George Dunn, miner of Tregenna Place was buried July 1909 at Barnoon Cemetery, St Ives age 42

Grace H Dunn age 56 of Skidden Gardens, widow of Geo Dunn was buried 4th December 1922 at Barnoon Cemetery, St Ives.

That should keep you going for a little while.

CT

[snydly]

Thanks Little Bird ;D

[sue]

May I just add, in case you're interested, as I've done some work on this family:

George Dunn was a gold miner like his brother John; he was born 18 November 1864 Halsetown, eldest son to George Dunn & Nanny Williams (surviving headstone for George & Nanny in Barnoon also.)

Father George can be found as a baptism 1837 to William Dunn & Jane Roach, on OPC.

Marriage of George to Nanny Williams, showing Williams witnesses, also to be found on OPC.

Sue

[snydly]

Thanks Sue ... that is a great start for me with the Dunn's.

Is their a record for Barnoon Cemetary or link to pictures from the cemetary? I am unaware of a source for this ATM.

[sue]

The Dunns can be found fairly readily in the censuses.

In the 20th century, many locals were familiar with Dunns as shopkeepers in Ayr in St Ives, & in Halsetown. Cricketers, too.

As to Barnoon Monumental Inscriptions, some excellent work was done on these which can be found on
west-penwith.org.uk/
which is a huge, wide-ranging website, a must read for you if you have close ancestors in the area, I would have thought.

Methinks you are also going to want to have a read of the website of the Lelant OPC, Chris Uphill
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chrisu/cornwall/lelant/lelant.htm
(she also has M Is for various cemeteries including Barnoon, on her website)
and that of Maxwell Adams, all about Lelant
www.lelant.info/index.htm

Those will keep you busy for weeks - nay, months!

Sue


PS What's an ATM? I thought it was a hole-in-the-wall machine that doles out cash.....

[Cornish Terrier]

Is their a record for Barnoon Cemetary or link to pictures from the cemetary?

Snydly - the Cornwall Heritage Centre at St Ives has a copy (or at least a transcript) of the Barnoon Cemetery Burial Register.

For Monumental Inscriptions of Barnoon (and other) cemeteries you can check West Penwith Resources.

The OPC site also has MIs.

CT