Honor Curnow

[cwoh]

Honor Curnow b: 1819 of Cornwall married a Richard Eddy b: 1818. Of Cornwall. They bother immigrated to the Amerika . At the moment I do not have the exact year. However, they apparently married in New York shortly after arrival. My history tells me that Honor Curnow b 1819 also had at least 3 sisters that we currently know of; Alice, Elizabeth, and Amelia. Also of Cornwall. It appears that they were fairly well educated, and mining seems to be the trade of the spouse. We know that Richard Eddy and Honor (Curnow) married Richard Eddy have a son, believed also named Richard, Alice Jane Eddy B: 1856 , Mary Elizabeth Eddy b: 1852 and Honor Curnow Eddy B: 1853. Attempting to make heads and tails out of the connection in Cornwall. It also appears Abd as we know they : the immigrant families settled in Wisconsin and Nebraska. The interesting slim ant is the surname connections of James, Curnow and Eddy. They are all Cornwall names. Oh - "Bess" -Elizabeth married Clement James Emery . Anyone able to shed some Cornwall light on this family group?? Thanks

[sue]

I imagine you are aware of the website put together by someone in your family,
ibssg.org/emery/img/index.html

The place to start in tracking down these Curnows would be the 1841 & 1851 censuses.
www.freecen.org.uk

You know that Honor Curnow was born c1819. Bearing in mind that the 1841 census required adult ages to be rounded down to the nearest 5 years, you will I believe find only one candidate for Honor : age 20, servant to the Davys in Madron Penzance.

Also present is an Elizabeth Curnow age 15.

Now try finding Amelia Curnow, of an age to be Honor's sister: ignoring the wives called Amelia Curnow for now, as they were unlikely (although it is possible) to have had Curnow as their birth surname, you will find I believe just the one Amelia Curnow single girl – and she is helpfully age 8 in a household of William Curnow age 50, Mary Curnow 50, Margaret 15 and Alice 11.

Address: Amalebrea, Towednack, Cornwall.

If you spend some time reading various threads on this Penwith Genealogy board, you will find that Eddys are a joy to unravel, like Curnows & others! Having said which, your family information is that Richard Eddy was of an age with wife Honor Curnow, so if you search the 1841 census for Richard Eddy age 20 +/- 5 years, there is a shortlist of c.15 chaps in Cornwall - & only one 1841 in Honor's apparent home village of Towednack.......

You will of course want to do your own research, starting with the censuses, but we can usually point you in some hopefully right directions from time to time when you get really stuck. Just copying information from other people's trees etc. is not something this forum would advocate.

If you are not already aware of relevant free websites, in addition to
www.freecen.org.uk
(and the 1851 onwards census entries for the members of this Curnow family should be quite interesting to you )
you will find
www.cornwall-opc-database.org
very informative for baptisms, marriages & burials (but not all Cornish parish register details are there, and I can tell you now that Honor's baptism, for example, is not there), plus sundry other information - and then there's
familysearch.org/search
useful for US censuses etc. - and if you are patient and open your mind to quite variant spellings, you will find Honor Curnow~Richard Eddy's New York marriage there.

Also, for births, marriages & deaths post summer 1837,
www.freebmd.org.uk

And certainly not least,
west-penwith.org.uk/
which will give you a rich array of information about the west of Cornwall, including the parishes of your ancestors, and maps so that you can see the approximate distances between places.

Hope that helps! And apologies if you were already aware of these websites to go to for researching this family of yours – that is, I presume they are your family?

Sue

[cwoh]

Sue. Thank you so. Very much!! I will get back to you... I knew I was. Close. Felt the need the rest h out. I was 100% thanks Diane

[Cornish Terrier]

Richard Eddy and H. Curnow were married at Trinity Church, New York, New York 2nd May 1851 (information available via FamilySearch - New York, Marriages, 1686-1980)

CT

[cwoh]

Sue and CT, Thank you for your kindness in getting back to me . I have never used proboards and have realized there are so many places that have a wealth of information. I did not realize all of the different sites! So I thank you for the information. I've never taken a course of study in genealogy . pretty much everything that I have been able to locate has been quit by chance. Always exciting to uncover documents that were buried in a "secrete hiding place" , official office file drawers in which the documents have been folded , creased and yellowed by the poor storage and handling in a forgotten state of old age.. It often seems like a treasure hunt!! My worry is that I would find myself down the wrong limb of a tree. Then when I only have a first name to go by and that happens then to be the middle name that can throw a person off course... I also need to know how the surname and maiden name works... The use of the mothers maiden name as the middle name of the first born son, etc... That becomes a might bit challenging . Again, I greatly appreciate your thoughtfulness and assistance!! CWOH