perranuthnoe

Perranuthnoe Branch

John and Thomasin Goninan had five children, all baptised at Breage -

Thomasin 19^th Sept 1700

Richard 14^th April 1703

John 18^th Feb 1706

Henry 13^th Sept 1711 (buried 14^th Sept)

Henry 25^th April 1717

Their son Henry died in 1750 at the young age of 33 and there is a probate document relating to him at the Records Office in Truro. He must have been reasonably prosperous as the list of his assets comes to £73, quite a large sum in those days - it makes interesting reading. His possessions included:-

six pewter platters and one and a half dozen pewter plates

one table and seven timber chairs

six timber plates

two brass candlesticks

one bellows

a silver watch

a one eighth share in a boat (did he do a bit of smuggling which was rife on the coast near Breage ?)

a twelfth share in Wheal Reeve Bounds (this is interesting as it refers to tin mining rights and shows that the Goninans were involved in mining as early as the 1750's). Wheal is one of the Cornish words for a mine.

Richard (born 1702) married Jane Ripper at Breage Church on the 28^th Nov. 1730 and the following children were all baptised at Breage:-

Their son Richard married Grace Rodda at Perranuthnoe on the 2^nd Feb 1763. Only two children have been traced:-

Richard baptised at Perranuthnoe on the 11^th Sept 1763 and

Henry baptised at Perranuthnoe on the 16^th July 1769 (Henry married Jane Waters in 1803 and they had two daughters, Grace and Mary. Both married and migrated to the US, settling in Wisconsin)

Richard married Ann Walters at Breage Church on the 13^th December 1783. He was a blacksmith. They had six children baptised at Perranuthnoe Church:-

Richard married Ann Vine at St Erth Church on the 2^nd Nov 1807 and the baptisms of five children have been traced:-

Richard married Letitia Curtis on the 5^th June 1837 and by the 1841 census they have two children Eliza Ann and John William

The family then migrated, initially to New Zealand before settling finally in Australia. They sailed from Plymouth on July 2^nd 1842 in a ship called the Blenheim which had a total of 159 passengers. The captain was a John Grey and the ship was sailing to New Plymouth in New Zealand. The Blenheim stopped briefly at Wellington before going on to New Plymouth where it arrived on the 19^th November. The Blenheim was only the fifth ship to sail from the UK with colonists for the settlement of New Plymouth. For details of this voyage follow this link - The Blenheim

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