William Quick of Zennor

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CT

I am trying to decipher the will of Thomas Quick of Zennor, dated May 1st 1799. The parts that I can read are:
Wife Elizabeth
Son William Quick,
Daughter Mary - wife of William THOMAS,
Daughter Ann - wife of Arthur BERRIMAN.

However there appears to be another daughter Elizabeth, which makes sense given that Thomas's wife was Elizabeth. I am pretty sure of her name but cannot decipher her husband's name - looks like William ...? Do you have this recorded?

Actually, I do not have a daughter Elizabeth recorded for Thomas & Elizabeth. The only Elizabeth that I have in my database at the moment is one baptised 27 June 1756 at Zennor to Thomas & Mary. This child of Thomas & Mary is the only one that appears 10 years either side of 1756, whereas there is a long list of children baptised to Thomas & Elizabeth. Is this an error on the IGI and therefore is this the Elizabeth in the will?

Regards

Lannanta

[Cornish Terrier]

G'day Mate - I am not sure if I have a copy of that Will or not.
I certainly have noted the date it was written and also the date proved.

It may be that I have some details of it in one of my files of Wills Abstracts but I am not sure.

As for daughter Elizabeth - I have some notes regarding this in my database.

20th June 1997 - Nancy Tonkin to check the original Zennor Register.
Entry appears in both Transcript and IGI as d/o Thomas and Mary but Jean Nankervis says Thomas and Elizabeth had a daughter Elizabeth.
As Thomas (1759) has a problem also between Transcript and IGI I suspect Mary has been substituted somehow for Elizabeth.

And for Thomas (1759):-

20th June 1997 - Nancy Tonkin to check this entry in the original register.
In the Zennor Transcript Thomas appearss as s/o Thomas and Mary.
In the IGI Thomas appears as s/o Thomas and Elizabeth.

(I think we have seen this problem before. )

I will check my files in a few moments to see if I can find the details of the Will of Thomas Quick.

Meanwhile - the only possible marriage I can find at Zennor for this Elizabeth is the following which I have, so far, not connected:-

9th November 1793 at Zennor
Matthew Stevens m. Elizabeth Quick

Found It! (And looks like you can ignore this last marriage.)

THOMAS QUICK, yeoman, of Zennor

written: 10 Feb 1790
proved: 1 May 1799

son: WILLIAM
eldest daughter: ELIZABETH w/o WILLIAM LAWRY of Morval
2nd daughter: MARY w/o WILLIAM THOMAS of Treen, Zennor
3rd daughter: ANN w/o ARTHUR BERRYMAN JR. of Zennor
each of my grandchildren
wife: ELIZABETH executrix

So - the answer is William LAWRY.

Now I need to see if I can find the Marriage.

Note also that son Matthew is not mentioned in the Will so it would seem he also pre-deceased his father.

I am not sure where the information from that Will came from so cannot absolutely guarantee the information.

Other problem is that IGI does not show a marriage between the two relevent parties so I am not sure where to start looking.

One thing you might CHECK PLEASE - the name of the Parish associated with William.

If you can read it well enough does it actually say of MORVAL or is it of MORVAH???

It is also possible that Elizabeth had been previously married.

All can do for now - time to get back onto the St Ives records.

CT

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Gidday Ian

The will is on Kathie's website now that I take the time to look

The documentation that I have does not state where the daughters are living so I cannot tell whether it is Morvah or Morval.

Meanwhile - the only possible marriage I can find at Zennor for this Elizabeth is the following which I have, so far, not connected:-

Does this mean that you know who the Elizabeth Quick is who married John Matthews of Morvah in 1779 at Zennor? I assume you do, but just in case you don't a John Matthews was buried at Madron in December 1780, which if the same person, would make this Elizabeth a widow.

I assumed that the Matthew who was buried in Zennor in 1767 was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth

Lannanta

[Cornish Terrier]

Sorry mate - I do not know the identity of the Elizabeth who married John Matthews.

But it would be worth checking for a marriage between a William Lawry and an Elizabeth Matthews I think.

I also have not yet identified the Matthew buried at Zennor in 1767.

At this stage I have the son of Thomas and Elizabeth married off to Elizabeth Eddy at Zennor in 1799.

Obviously things I am going to have to take a look at as I progress through this damned QUICKMIRE!

You should see the fun I am having.

Instead of one problem for you and our cohorts to help sort out there will now be TWO.

The first deals with Robert Quick and Catherine Trewhella.

The second will be dealing with a family hitherto not entered into my database.

They were from St Ives.
Father James was, apparently, a 'joiner' and had a wife named Jane. (Cannot find the marriage.)

Five children all born St Ives.
Two sons known to have married and both were 'joiners'.
Only one of these, another Robert, appears in any Census and he dies sometime between 1861 and 1871.

Robert also married twice and I am yet to find his first marriage.

Will outline all once I have all information sorted so it will hopefully be later tonight.

CT