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Dr Geoffrey
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7 William BLEWETT 1713?-1781
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William Blewett lived and died in Paul, Cornwall, but was not baptised there and may have been born in St.Levan, 6 miles round the coast in 1713. The parish of Paul contains two
fishing village, Mousehole and Newlyn. Many men in Paul worked as fisherman
but William’s occupation is not known. He married William was buried in Paul churchyard in 1781 a few years after the death of his wife |
C=Christened
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age DATE
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21Jan1706 14Jun1713 24May1733 20 27 27Mar1734 21 28 29Aug1736 23 30 8Oct1738 25 32 11Oct1741 28 35 22Jul1744 31 38 19Feb1748 35 42 26Jan1752 39 46 20Jan1767 54 61 19May1770 57 63 30Oct1771 58 65 14Jan1773 60 67 1Nov1781 68
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Elizabeth Bands C at Paul William C at St Levan? William & Elizabeth married at Paul son William C at Paul dau Elizabeth C at Paul dau Mary C at Paul son John C at Paul son Stephen C privately dau Anne C at Paul dau Jane C at Paul dau Mary m Philip TONKIN at Paul dau Jane married Nathan WILSON
seaman of HMS the Wolf at Paul dau Ann married Robert MACRAREY seaman of HMS the Wolf Elizabeth buried at Paul? (or in 1778) William buried at Paul |
b=born m=married
d=died
C=Christened B=Buried
William was
married in 1733 and died in 1781 so a birth date around 1700-1710 is
expected. The only William C at Paul
before 1733 however was C1721 son of John and there is no reason to suppose
that this was a late baptism (8 year old or more). This was the first BLEWETT family at
Mousehole and may have come from Padstow (see tree TP).
The baptism of William married in 1733 must therefore be sought outside
Paul. The following are closest to Paul
baptised between 1680 and 1716, excluding C at distant parishes St Blazey,
Launceston, St Germans:
C
16Nov1701 s William BLEWET at Madron
C
20Dec1706 s Will.BLEWETT at Gwinear
C
14Jun1713 s John BLEWETT at Saint
Levan
C
17Sep1716 s John BLEWETT at
Egloshayle
The Madron
William was buried there in 1716. The
Gwinear William was also buried in his parish in 1768 and probably married
there in 1756 though he would have been 50 at the time (see tree TG).
The Egloshayle William can probably be excluded as he would have been
only 16 years old at marriage, unless it was a late baptism on the other hand, William named a son Stephen and the only known earlier
instance of this name occurred at Egloshayle; also Egloshayle is near Padstow,
and as mentioned above, there is evidence of an earlier BLEWETT migration from
Padstow to Mousehole; the forename Stephen however probably derives from the
BANDS family (see below)
This
leaves the St Levan William as current favourite, as he does not appear to have
been buried or married at St.Levan, and assuming a baptismal age of two weeks,
he would have been just 21 at marriage (see tree TL).
It should
also be noted that a William BLEWETT married Mary in 1695 at St Buryan, a
parish which is adjacent to Paul. They
might be expected to have had a child named William, but no baptisms at all to
these parents appear in the St Buryan register.
Stephen
BLEWETT-6 was baptised in 1744 son of William & Elizabeth. There is a
suitable marriage of William & Elizabeth at Paul 11 years previously and
the intervening period contains other baptisms to William or to William &
Elizabeth. There are no other parents of
this name at Paul in this period and the only other possible marriage of William
and Elizabeth in the IGI is at Whitstone far away in N Cornwall.
m
24May1733 William BLUET & Elizabeth BANDS
C
27Mar1734 William s William BLUET
C
29Aug1736 Elizabeth d William BLUET
C 8Oct1738 Mary d William BLUETT; m 20Jan1767 Philip TONKIN &
Mary BLEWETT spr otp at Paul
C
11Oct1741 John s William &
Elizabeth BLEWET
C
22Jul1744 Stephen s William &
Elizabeth BLEWETT privately
C
19Feb1748 Anne d William &
Elizabeth BLEWETT; m 30Oct1771 Robert
MACRAREY of HMS the Wolf & Ann x BLEWETT otp at Paul
C
26Jan1752 Jane d William &
Elizabeth BLEWETT; m 19May1770 Nathan
WILSON seaman of HM the Wolf & Jane x BLEWETT spr otp at Paul
no other
William BLEWETT was baptising children at Paul at this time so there is little
doubt that the first three children were children of William & Elizabeth
B 1Nov1781 William BLEWETT
This is
the first burial of a William BLEWETT in the Paul register and the next such
burial is in 1804 age 75 [b1729], which is a reasonable fit to William's son
William C1734 if the burial age were exaggerated by 5 years
B
14Jan1773 Elizabeth BLEWETT
B 1Feb1778 Elizabeth BLEWETT
These are
the only two possible burials of Elizabeth in the Paul register; one may be
Elizabeth's daughter, C1736, but there is no way at present of deciding which
is which.