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Post by sue on Oct 8, 2011 11:52:49 GMT -5
Baptized 28 Jan 1849 St Ives. Can find this daughter of Robert Richards Curnow & Jane Trevorrow St Ives at home in 1871 as a milliner. After that....  Well, I can see a FBMD marriage Mar Q 1907 Penzance RD - but that would be age 58  Any sightings gratefully received.  Sue |
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Post by Cornish Terrier on Oct 8, 2011 23:57:10 GMT -5
Some of this has been dealt with offline but I will leave it to Sue to add all the necessary updates here.  Suffice for me to say that after a mini-Tsunami went racing through my brain I had a sudden thought! After a little checking I found a Death Record in the UKBMD Index for an Eleanor T Thomas age 84 in the Penzance R.D. in 1933. This equates to a birth around 1848/9 which is a fairly neat match for Eleanor Trevorrow Curnow.  This and a little more information has been sent to Sue and I am sure she will have something to add here once she has read it all. CT |
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Post by sue on Oct 9, 2011 6:26:24 GMT -5
Well, thanks to the good people who cleared this all up for me while I was sleeping! Young Eleanor apparently upped sticks to London where she was a parlourmaid, losing nearly 10 years in age along the way......  1891 Eleanor T Curnow at Dulwich, born St Ives, is the best indicator - I don't really see any other candidates to be this person other than the daughter of Robert Richards Curnow & Jane Trevorrow. So, she did indeed marry at 58 - though I'll wager that's not what's on the marriage certificate! (I was going to say there's hope for me yet if I get my skates on - but then again........  ) How Eleanor kept up the lie for 1911 once married to Mr Thomas is quite impressive, given that she was living at Skidden Hill, where her mother & sister & brother had lived..... Mind you, she was just copying sister Alice, who was born 1843, yet in 1881 is only 30..... ;D Sister Alice also married fairly late, to a much younger man. In her case it was 1889 and to be fair she did declare her age okay as 46. Seems Alice got to bring up her baby brother's 1st born, William Quick Curnow, so that puts another of my "strays" from 1911 in place. Sue |
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Post by foxgrapes on Apr 20, 2015 1:01:38 GMT -5
Does anyone know which Richard Pearce Thomas Eleanor married, and also a death date for said Richard? Thanks
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Post by sue on Apr 20, 2015 3:25:45 GMT -5
Hi again Yes. And if you look on OPC www.cornwall-opc-database.org/home/ , together with the 1911 census & other censuses, you will find that there is really only one possibility out of the 4 Richard Pearce Thomas baptisms - & his burial at St Ives is on OPC too. Sue |
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Post by Cornish Terrier on Apr 20, 2015 4:15:44 GMT -5
Sorry Sue but that is not quite correct. Whilst there are four baptisms recorded for Richard Pearce Thomas in the OPC records (2 in Baptisms and 2 in Non-Conformist Baptisms) they refer to only THREE people. The Baptism at St Ives in 1857 Non-Conformist records and that at St Ives in 1874 are for the same person. St Ives Wesleyan Methodist Baptisms 1856-1866 Richard Pearce son of Richard Pearce and Elizabeth Thomas of St Ives baptized 30th March 1857 (born 3rd March 1857) St Ives Parish Register Baptisms 1868-1881 Richard Pearce son of Richard Pearce and Elizabeth Ann Thomas of St Ives, engineer, baptized 4th February 1874 (born 3rd March 1857) It is not unusual to find occurrences such as this where a child was first baptized in a Non-conformist Chapel and sometime later in the Established Church. It also happened in reverse. CT |
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Post by sue on Apr 20, 2015 11:59:47 GMT -5
Excellent point, as ever!
Sue
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Post by foxgrapes on Apr 20, 2015 19:17:05 GMT -5
Thanks for that. I looked at that record and it didn't sink in..old age!!
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