| Elizabeth Uren: from St Keverne to Salt Lake City |
|
|
|
Page 1 of 5 Bob Richards discovers a fascinating family history tale of great endurance. Elizabeth Uren St. Keverne to Salt Lake City Elizabeth Uren was baptised on 14th September 1828 in the parish church of St. Keverne, the second child of Thomas and Mary Uren. Sadly tragedy was to follow Thomas and Mary throughout their short marriage. A daughter, Betsy was baptised on 2nd July 1827 but died as a small child and was buried on 22nd May 1828. A son, Thomas was baptised on 25th April 1830 and buried just two months later on 30th June. Another son, also named Thomas was baptised on 24th July 1831. He too sadly died and was buried on 16th October that same year at the age of just four months. Thomas the father also died young. He was buried on 14th August 1836 at the age of 42 years, leaving Mary a widow with their three surviving young children, Elizabeth, John and Betsy. The census of 1841 shows the family living at Churchtown, St. Keverne with Mary employed as an agricultural labourer. Elizabeth is out at work living in as a servant girl with Mr. William Williams and his family at Roscrowgie, just a couple of miles away. Across the Helford river in the parish of Constantine the 1841 census shows us a farming family of Emanuel Ould, with his wife Jane and children Emanuel, Jane, John and Mary living at Bar House, Helford Passage. Emanuel junior had been baptised in Constantine on 23rd November 1823. Members of the Ould family, as well as being farmers, were also ferrymen, taking passengers across the Helford River. The property they occupied at Bar is shown on the 1841 tithe map as a small farm at the junction of the Helford River and Port Navas creek. It is listed on census records next to Budock Vean which was then the family home of Francis Pender, listed as an Attorney on the 1841 census. His father had been a Packet Agent in the heyday of the Falmouth Packet service and Francis had been an Alderman and Mayor of Falmouth in earlier years. The farm at Bar, Helford was owned by the Pender family and tenanted by the Ould family who were there for several generations from around 1720 to the end of the 19th century. At some later date in the 1840’s, Elizabeth Uren and Emanuel Ould met and were subsequently married in Mawnan Church on 16th May 1850. Very shortly after their marriage they left Cornwall for a new life in South Africa. |
|||||||