Post by sue on Dec 28, 2012 13:38:20 GMT -5
I have just been diverted into considering the Curnows who benefit from the will of William Trewhella tinner of Towednack written 19 Apr 1732, in particular the children of David Curnow & Katherine Trewhella.
Katherine Curnow, the testator's married sister, gets £10; she is buried Towednack 11 months later, 3 March 1732.
David & Catherine Curnow's young children also receive money in William Trewhella's will: £2 10s. each to John, Thomas, Anne & Catherine.
These young Curnows were baptized in the order Anne 1725, Catherine 1727, John 1729 & Thomas 1731, following David & Catherine's marriage of 27 April 1725.
There is one further baptism of a child to David Curnow, Jone 7 March 1732 Towednack, the day before the baby's mother Katherine is buried. Jone is buried a few weeks later, 24 March 1732. Jone did not/could not appear in Uncle William Trewhella's will as she was born after he died.
Now, there is another child to David Curnow for whom no baptism can, I think, be found: David son of David Curnow buried 10 May 1733 Towednack.
When was young David born? He could biologically fit in between any of the other children given there was a gap of 22 months between siblings Anne & Catherine's baptisms, 22 months between Catherine & John, 25 months between John & Thomas. Yet it would be most odd for Uncle William Trewhella to omit a young David if he existed as of the will writing date of April 1732.
David is most unlikely to have somehow been squeezed into the 17 month gap between Thomas October 1731 and Jone March 1732, and as the children's mother Katherine was buried March 1732, that seems to leave only the possibility that David was a twin of Jone. Yet I would think it unusual for one twin, Jone, to be baptized without the other.
I have considered before when trying to differentiate Thomas Curnows - but had no supporting evidence for the theory - that the burial of child David Curnow May 1733 was perhaps really Thomas Curnow son of David deep in grief following recent death of wife + baby daughter, Thomas who would have been 19 months old at the time. (No way is it John 1729, he goes on to marry in 1755 with David Curnow, must be father, as a witness.)
In the light of now adding the information from William Trewhella's 1732 will to the Curnow baptisms and burials, I am thinking to resurrect this theory.
I would add that there is no known other future for Thomas Curnow 1731 – although there are several Thomas Curnows of the era, floating marriages etc., not yet “slotted into place”. I would also mention that there is a shortage of Thomas Curnow burials......
Does this theory of David Curnow 1733 burial really being Thomas have merit/legs/arms?
Sue
Katherine Curnow, the testator's married sister, gets £10; she is buried Towednack 11 months later, 3 March 1732.
David & Catherine Curnow's young children also receive money in William Trewhella's will: £2 10s. each to John, Thomas, Anne & Catherine.
These young Curnows were baptized in the order Anne 1725, Catherine 1727, John 1729 & Thomas 1731, following David & Catherine's marriage of 27 April 1725.
There is one further baptism of a child to David Curnow, Jone 7 March 1732 Towednack, the day before the baby's mother Katherine is buried. Jone is buried a few weeks later, 24 March 1732. Jone did not/could not appear in Uncle William Trewhella's will as she was born after he died.
Now, there is another child to David Curnow for whom no baptism can, I think, be found: David son of David Curnow buried 10 May 1733 Towednack.
When was young David born? He could biologically fit in between any of the other children given there was a gap of 22 months between siblings Anne & Catherine's baptisms, 22 months between Catherine & John, 25 months between John & Thomas. Yet it would be most odd for Uncle William Trewhella to omit a young David if he existed as of the will writing date of April 1732.
David is most unlikely to have somehow been squeezed into the 17 month gap between Thomas October 1731 and Jone March 1732, and as the children's mother Katherine was buried March 1732, that seems to leave only the possibility that David was a twin of Jone. Yet I would think it unusual for one twin, Jone, to be baptized without the other.
I have considered before when trying to differentiate Thomas Curnows - but had no supporting evidence for the theory - that the burial of child David Curnow May 1733 was perhaps really Thomas Curnow son of David deep in grief following recent death of wife + baby daughter, Thomas who would have been 19 months old at the time. (No way is it John 1729, he goes on to marry in 1755 with David Curnow, must be father, as a witness.)
In the light of now adding the information from William Trewhella's 1732 will to the Curnow baptisms and burials, I am thinking to resurrect this theory.
I would add that there is no known other future for Thomas Curnow 1731 – although there are several Thomas Curnows of the era, floating marriages etc., not yet “slotted into place”. I would also mention that there is a shortage of Thomas Curnow burials......
Does this theory of David Curnow 1733 burial really being Thomas have merit/legs/arms?
Sue
