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Old 09-11-20, 07:55
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Thanks for looking, Phoenix. This is a query I am answering in my OPC capacity. I've got sucked in and researched a lot more than the initial query.

I'm glad it's not just me that can't find them.
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Old 09-11-20, 08:07
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I had look too, no luck, I tried every permutation.

I will have another look later.
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Old 09-11-20, 08:20
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It looks as if the poor man was blown up by a gun exploding that he had been hired to set off at a regatta at Fowey.

If I have the right report, he was a labouring man, above 60, with a family "mostly grown up and earning their own living"

And if he was Jane's step-father, was he also the father of her children???
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Old 09-11-20, 08:46
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In 1851, the household has three boys old enough to earn a living:Richard Curtis, 19, Joseph Blake 16 and Isaac Jago 13. Do we know where they were? Or their brother Edwin Jago aged 8 in 1851.

Also, do we know where John was living in 1862? I wouldn't mind betting that it was still Lostwithiel Street and for some reason they simply weren't counted.
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Old 09-11-20, 08:59
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Richard Curtis Blake is the man I'm investigating. He was Jane's son. He was married and at Passage Street, Fowey. This family emigrated to Australia later on.

1861 Census
Richard Blake Head Married Male 26 Farm Labourer Fowey
Charlotte Blake Wife Married Female 25 Fowey
M Margaret Blake Daughter Female 4 Fowey,
John Blake Son - Male 2 Fowey
Richard Blake Son Male 0 Fowey
Henry Hunter Lodger Unmarried Male 40 Ropemaker Scotland
Angelina Blake Visitor Female 13 Fowey
James Bollard Lodger Married Male 40 Farm Labourer Duloe

I'd love to know who Angelina Blake was! I couldn't find her yesterday.

Joseph Kendall Blake, another of Jane's sons, has eluded me.

Edwin has also proved to be elusive.
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Old 09-11-20, 09:16
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I thought Angelina was Fanny. Off to find out why!
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Old 09-11-20, 09:22
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No, not Fanny but Caroline?

1871:
William Davis Head - Male 81 1790 - Cornwall, England
Emma Davis Daughter - Female 49 1822 - Cornwall, England
Sarah Laura Bishop Daughter - Female 42 1829 - Hampshire, England
Elizabeth Richards Servant - Female 71 1800 - Cornwall, England
Angelina Caroline Jago Servant - Female 21 1850 - Cornwall, England
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Old 09-11-20, 09:27
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Ooh, thanks!
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Old 09-11-20, 09:23
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Gosh, the newspapers didn't hold back in those days!

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Old 09-11-20, 10:36
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Someone on Ancestry appears to think that a John Mitchell in Cardiff, born Fowey, is one and the same as Joseph Kendall Blake.

So far as I can see, this individual first married as John Murton Mitchell to Jane Howard in 1863. But he's a mariner, rather than an ag lab, so I think it must be pin sticking, without proof.
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