Wallish

[Zenobia]

Looking for info on Nicholas Wallish of Penzance.

A Nicholas Wallish "of St. Leven" married Prudence Harry "of St. Buryan" in Sancreed in 1713.

One child, Nicholas, was chr. at St. Leven 8 Sep 1714.

Then, a Nicholas Wallish shows up in Penzance with three children:

Sarah Wallish 4 Feb 1721
Sarah Wallish 7 Sep 1722
James Wallish 4 March 1723

A Nicholas Wallish married Joan Nichols 1 Oct 1729 at Madron.

I have so far found no children of this marriage.

Were these all the same man?

[Cornish Terrier]

Not sure that I can add much to this one at the moment and may have to leave it to our intrepid 'new centurions' who are beginning to get involved.

I did try to work a little on the WALLISH/WALLIS family some years ago as part of my efforts to 'sort out' some of the families of the Land's End area but always ran into problems because of their inter-Parish connections.
One large problem was that I did not have access to information on those other Parishes to help me..

However, there is something I can offer that may either 'help or hinder' but here it is.

In 1714 one Samuel COURTIS of ST HILARY left a Will (proved 19th May 1715).
It would appear that Samuel was unmarried but he mentioned brothers Richard and Henry and also two sisters in his Will.
One sister was Ann THOMAS who would appear to be the Ann COURTIS who married William THOMAS at St Hilary on January 13th, 1702 and had, at the time of the Will, two daughters - Alice and Elinor.

The other sister is probably more relevant to your query, even thought it may not be of much help.

Alice COURTIS married Nicholas WALLISH sometime before 1699 and they had two children that I had found (back 2000) working from the Will and what other records I then had available.

Daughter Anne was born at Sennen April 14th 1699 and baptised April 27th 1699.
Then there was son Nicholas (mentioned in Samuel Courtis' Will) who was born sometime before that Will was made.

So you see that we have St Hilary, Sennen, St Levan all involved here and I think you may find that Paul, St Buryan, Madron and probably St Just will feature here.

Interesting thing, though, is that I do not recall many (if any) people of this name around Zennor and Towednack.

See if this helps and 'call me'.

[Zenobia]

A Diane Reilly has a Wallis(h) site online, and according to her Nicholas Wallis of Madron was b. in Senen in 1692 to Nicholas and Elizabeth Wallis and m. Sarah Lanyon in 1720 in Madron, then married Joan Nichols in 1729.

I was still thinking that he could also be the man that married Prudence Harry at Sancreed, until I found a Prudence w/o Nicholas of Sancreed being buried in 1733 in some of the online Quaker records.

Until I can get to the FHC and check the Ludgvan and Madron P.R.s this is probably on hold....

[Cornish Terrier]

A lot of stuff for Madron is now online but, unfortunately, starts at 1756 for Baptisms.

But I must ask the question! - How dare the WALLIS/WALLISH families use the name of NICHOLAS so often!

Were we researchers never thought of at all in those days? ;D

Will work on this one also, as I get the chance.