I need to refer back to the thread 'George Family of Penwith' which was updated by myself yesterday.
Kernow60 - I think you may need to revisit your conclusions regarding the identities of Joseph George and Anne Nicholas as all 'is not as it seems'. I believe I initially agreed with your conclusions being 'very likely' but on further investigation I have altered that conclusion to 'most unlikely'.
There appears to be but one marriage for a Joseph George to anyone named Ann(e), at least anywhere within a timeframe supported by the events surrounding this couple. Therefore the list of 8 children that can be found baptized to Joseph and Anne George in the period 1798-1813 appear clearly to belong to this one marriage. It is in pursuing this family through the Census that the cracks begin to appear in the initial conclusions.
In 1841 and again in 1851 Anne George is a widow living at Penzance along with her daughter Anne who had been born about 1804-1806 at Sennen. (In fact in 1851 both mother and daughter claimed to have been born at Sennen.) I did check back for any other birth/baptism records for an Ann George around that time but found only the daughter of Joseph and Anne.
Now, as the mother was recorded in 1841 as a 'widow' and age 70 she most certainly could not have been the daughter of Gregory and Alice Nicholas and this was confirmed in 1851 when she claimed to be age 80!
A search for Joseph George burials prior to the 1841 Census provided just one entry that might have been the husband of Anne. Remembering that in 1841 and in 1881 Ann and her daughter were living at Penzance then the following must have been the husband and father:-
Joseph George of Penzance buried 12th September 1840This then suggests that Joseph must have been the son of Joseph George and Elizabeth Jenkyn who married at St Just in 1758. At that time this Joseph George was resident at St Hilary and in 1759 their daughter Margery was baptized in that Parish. This was followed in 1761 by the baptism of son Joseph at Crowan before the family moved back to the Land's End area where it appears a daughter Sarah was baptized in 1764 (St Just) and Elizabeth in 1777. Joseph Georeg senior appears to have been buried at Sennen in 1790 followed by his widow Elizabeth in 1791.
I believe the elder Joseph to have been baptized at Sennen in 1731 to Joseph George and his elusive wife Margery.
Once I found the Census entires and then the 1840 burial for Joseph George the problem of Joseph himself became a little easier. But Anne Nicholas is/was another problem altogether with no baptisms showing up as a match based on her age in the Census. Compounding this problem was the fact that when Ann was buried at Penzance in 1855 her age was recorded as 90!
I thus had options of 1770 or 1765 for her birth
but still no obvious candidate for a baptism.
Without the burial record the closest match I could find was the 1773 baptism of Ann daughter of John and Jane Nicholas at Sennen but in this case no marriage could be found. If working from the age at burial then there are no options for Ann in the 1760s from the OPC database. I am, however, quite willing to accept that the age recorded at the burial may be incorrect. In 1841 and 1851 when Ann was still living her age was consistent with a birth around 1770/1.
But now that Kiwichick has mentioned the possibility of Ann being the daughter of Emanuel Nicholas and Ann Harris it puts a different complexion on things. Ann's baptism was at St Gluvias in 1775 which of course is quite at odds with the information from the Census. However as the marriage of Emanuel Nicholas and Ann Harris took place back in 1768 and I have been unable (at least so far) to find any further children then it is entirely possible that their daughter was born several years before her baptism. This makes much more sense when evaluating the names of the children of Joseph and Ann George.
Now, before there is any 'jumping up and down' regarding St Gluvias I should point out that Emanuel Nicholas was buried at St Gluvias in 1806 at the age of 64. A search of baptisms shows that there is only one baptism that is even a close match:-
Emanl. son of Wm Nicholas and Eliz: his wife December 25 1745 at SancreedWe now have examples of both the George and Nicholas families in this case venturing well away from home and, at least in some cases, returning. It is therefore quite possible that Emanuel and Ann Nicholas returned to the Sennen area, at least for a short time, after their 1768 St Gluvias marriage. Daughter Anne may well have been born at Sennen as stated in the 1851 Census and then later baptized at St Gluvias.
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I thus had options of 1770 or 1765 for her birth 
but still no obvious candidate for a baptism.
The wife of Joseph George COULD NOT POSSIBLY have been the daughter of Emanuel and Ann Nicholas from St Gluvias!!
