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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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I had look too, no luck, I tried every permutation.
I will have another look later. |
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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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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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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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I thought Angelina was Fanny. Off to find out why!
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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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Ooh, thanks!
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Gosh, the newspapers didn't hold back in those days!
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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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