Sarah Glasson of Madron

[Glazin2018]

CT et al

Seasons greetings.

CT I know you are busy with your tree fellas but I was wondering if you could check to see if you have the 1801 baptism of a Sarah Glasson, daughter of James Glasson and Ann Bottrall in your database.  If so would you also have a look and see if you have her burial a few years later in 1804 please?

The reason I ask is because I have just noted the marriage of Sarah Glasson and Richard Grigg in 1834 at St Columb Major.  (A wedding witness is John Glasson).  This couple appear in the 1841 census at St Ive along with a 20 year old Thomas Glasson.  They then appear in the 1851 census at Dinhams Bridge, St Mabyn but I cannot read the birthplace for Sarah, suffice to say that Sarah's looks a bit like Madron and she is aged 49.  Sarah's death happens in Bodmin in 1856 aged 54 years.  Richards birthplace is Colan and there is a baptism for him there that suits his 1841 census age and also suits the other wedding witness Jenny Henwood Grigg.

So then thinking on that information I went back to Sarah Glasson mentioned above, daughter of James.  I asked what if she did not die in 1804?  Going back to Thomas Glasson who appears in the 1841 census at St Ive, he could be a brother, Thomas Hoskings Glasson.  And then I noted that another brother John Glasson, married to Betsy Rowe, died in 1846 at ....... St Columb Major - his wife dying there four years later.

There was another marriage in Madron in 1790, Joseph Glasson, widower, to Sarah Robbins, widow.  The 1804 burial may well be her if not the Sarah mentioned at the start.

I would appreciate your thoughts and if anyone has access to the 1851 census image would they mind checking to see if they can interpret the birthplace of Sarah and Richard Grigg?

Many thanks
Lannanta

[Cornish Terrier]

Hi Lannanta - Sarah daughter of James Glasson was privately baptized 13th September 1801 at Madron.
I do not have a burial for her in the database although there is a burial for a Sarah Glasson at Madron 20th March 1804 with no other descriptive information. That lack of information will be the primary reason I did not assign the burial to James Glasson's daughter.

1851 Census - This entry is another example of the imagination of some transcribers!

The birthplace is definitely NOT Marlborough as transcribed for Ancestry but then it is not 'clearly' Madron either the way it is written although I do believe that is indeed what it is. The word begins 'Ma' and ends 'ron' but there are two letters in the middle with one perhaps being an error not totally correct. It almost looks like 'ld' joined together but then the 'd' looks almost like 'ol' joined together.

The handwriting is generally quite clear but the letters are not always consistently the same. For example the lower case 'r' is written two different ways on two consecutive lines. And in other examples the lower case 'd' sometimes looks like a regular 'd' but other examples are more like the 'ol' described above.

My opinion - the birthplace is definitely meant to be MADRON.

Also of note is that the signiature of John Glasson (Witness) is very similar to that of John Glasson who married Betsy Rowe. Not exactly the same but certainly enough similarities to suggest it might be the same person.

I've now entered both marriages into my database.

CT