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Family 1: Nicholas and Joan Cord and Sarah Hawkes

Nicholas 1753 was the son of Abel and Mary Snell from Menheniot and the grandson of Nicholas and Joan from St Gennys.

He was a labourer, for a time in Plymouth dockyards, working in October 1779 as a scavelman. This job involved maintaining ditches, canals and rivers. However he lost that job, fired for embezzlement, in January 1780. Unfortunate timing as four weeks later, he married Joan Cord in St Stephens, Saltash in 1780. Joan was born in 1753 in Stoke Climsland, the daughter of John and Mary Cord. They lived in Saltash in the 1780s and 1790s and all their seven children were baptised at St Stephen's. Later Nicholas and his second wife, Sarah, lived in Wilcove - just across the river from the dockyards and perhaps he worked there. But Antony was their parish church - when Joan died, she was buried in Antony in the week before Christmas in 1803.

Nicholas married Sarah Hawkes (aka Hawke or Hawkey) in Antony in 1805. Sarah (1748-1814) was very pro-marriage. This was her fourth wedding - she and her third husband, Joseph Hawkey, married in Antony in 1793. Banns were published for Nicholas and Sarah on Sundays May 26 Jun 2nd & 9th. Nicholas's son, Abel, was a witness. Sarah was buried in Antony in June 1814.

Nicholas survived Sarah - the following year on 26th July he would have witnessed the arrival of Napoleon, a prisoner on the HMS Bellerophon. Perhaps with thousands of others, he would have taken to the water to catch a glimpse before the ship sailed for St Helena ten days later.

Nicholas died  on 6th May 1821.

• daughter Mary 1780 born in Saltash. She married Daniel Cullis in Antony in September, 1800. In 1841, Daniel described himself as a farmer - by 1841 Mary has died but Daniel (born 1777) was living in Saltash a few doors away from their son, William Cullis, born 1803, a butcher married to Ann. Some of Mary and Daniel's sons emigrated to Ontario, Canada (Thanks to Dallas Manicom, we have more on this family: read here). In the 1881 census, Daniel Cullis, born 1829, Mary's grandson was living in Stoke Damerel and a labourer.
  
  
• son James 1783 was christened in Saltash in June but was buried there (as Ogle) in October 1783.
  
  
• son Abel 1785 - Family 2
  
  
• son Nicholas 1787 - this was Nicholas who marries Prudence Date and who emigrates to Pennsylvania in 1818 - Emigrant US Family 1
  
  
  • son Benjamin Franklin 1814
    
    
• son James 1790 joined the navy as a mariner. His first service was on the Astrea in 1823 and he later served on the San Joseph in 1841 - at that time, he was described as 5' 4", ruddy complexion, blue eyes and grey hair and living in Flushing near Falmouth. He was a carpenter's mate. In 1820(?) he married Grace (1793-1835) from Mylor. She and the children were living in Mylor from 1825 - Mylor Family 1
  
  
• son Benjamin Snell was christened on 23rd June 1793 in Saltash. He was probably named after his grandmother. He died when only 11 and was buried in Antony in February 1805.
  
  
• daughter Ann Sophia 1797 born in Antony. On the census, she was known as Sophia - she married William Deacon, a mason, in 1818 in Plymouth. Most of their children were born in and around Torpoint - in 1841, they were living with their children in the village. By 1851, Sophia was still living in Torpoint with her son, Benjamin, an apprentice mason, but her husband was missing and she was described as a pauper. She died in 1857. (Thanks to Dallas Manicom, we have more on this family: read here)

(Source: Letty  Fernandez and Dallas Manicom)

Family 2: Abel and Salome Venning

Abel 1785 was born in St Stephens, Saltash, the son of Nicholas and Joan Cord and the grandson of Abel and Mary Snell.

He married Salome Venning in 1805 in Antony. But Salome was from the north east of the county - probably christened on 15th July 1781 in St Clether, the daughter of John Venning and Jane Ham. Abel 1785 was a shipwright in Devonport dockyard. The family lives in Wilcove which is on the river, just north of Torpoint and just across the river from the dockyard.

Abel and Salome might have worked at Portsmouth dockyard for a spell as we have an IGI record for Nicholas Oglow, born there in 1812.

By 1841 Salome was in Bodmin Lunatic Asylum but she recovered and in 1851 was at 15 Fore St, Antony with her grandson, Thomas Weeks. Three weeks later, on 15th April 1851, she was re-admitted and stayed there until her death in March 1860. For all her time in the asylum, known as St Lawrence's, it was under the management of William Hicks (1808-1868), son of a Bodmin schoolmaster, maths teacher and humorist. He reformed the asylum and , in conjunction with the medical superintendent, introduced more humane modern methods.

Abel is impossible to find in 1841 - it's not inconceivable that he travelled to the USA with his son, Christopher - there is considerable evidence that Christopher, travelled to the USA and was living in Texas by 1838. They all return by 1842.

In the 1851 census Abel, described as a superannuated shipwright, was visiting a labourer, Benjamin Bassett, in St Germans. The Bassetts were quite numerous in this area - Benjamin's nephew would marry Mary Ann Gloyne Uglow in 1876, although there's no clear link to Abel.

In 1861 Abel was living with his daughter, Salome Weekes, at 23 Portland Place, Stoke Damerel. At the end of his life, he was living at Torpoint. He died in December 1868 and was buried in Antony on New Year's Eve, aged 84.

• son John 1806 born in Antony. He marries Salome in Plymouth St Andrew in 1832. She was born in St Clether in 1807 and was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Venning - it is probable that she is the elder sister of Emily who marries John's brother Christopher in 1842. See St Clether Family 1 [See comment on John 1816 - Helston Family 1a]
  
  
• son Nicholas 1812 probably born in Portsea, Hampshire with Abel and Sarah given as his parents. Various other records give different places of birth - Antony itself, Torpoint and St Anthony near Falmouth. This is the Nicholas who marries Jane Carlyon in 1844. Much of their lives was spent around Helston - Helston Family 2
  
  
• son Abel 1815 was baptised in Antony in April 1815 but does not appear on any records after this.
  
  
• son Christopher Venning 1818 (James' twin). He marries Emily Venning - Family 4
  
  
• son James 1818 (Christopher's twin). There is considerable evidence that his twin brother, Christopher, travelled to the USA and was living in Texas by 1838. It is likely that James (and their father Abel) went with him and died in Texas as I have been unable to find James in the 1841 (or later) census.
  
  
• daughter Salome 1821 was born in Wilcove. In 1841 she was at Ferry St in Torpoint (perhaps modern Ferry Lane?) and recorded as independent. It must have been hard: her mother was in Bodmin lunatic asylum, her father and twin brothers were in the US, brother Nicholas had just got out of jail. In 1843 she married Thomas Weeks, born 1812 in Saltash, in Stoke Damerel.
  
  In 1851, Thomas and Salome were at 14 Fore St, Antony with two year old John with them. Young Thomas Abel Uglow Weekes was next door at No. 15 with his grandmother, Salome Uglow. Also in the street was sister in law, Emily, at No 50. Thomas was a sailor, probably in the Royal Navy. Thomas and Salome eventually had four children - Thomas 1845 (an engineer in 1861), John 1849 (a RN sailor), Salome 1852 (a milliner) and Jane 1858 (in 1861 she was a servant with the Ireland family in Stoke Damerel).
  
  By 1861, Salome was living at 23 Portland Place, Stoke Damerel with four children and her widowed father - Thomas was presumably at sea. By 1871, Thomas was on a pension and they were living in Fore St, Torpoint, still close to Salome's sister in law, Emily. Salome died in 1876 in St Germans, aged 55.
  
  
• son Benjamin 1823 was born in Wilcove but he died in 1833 and was buried in Antony

(Source: Letty  Fernandez)

Family 4: Christopher Venning and Emily Venning

Christopher Venning 1818 was born in Antony, the son of Abel and Salome Venning and the grandson of Nicholas and Joan Cord.

Perhaps it is not surprising that Christopher, son of a shipwright, living close to a port from which immigrant ships set sail, sought to make his fortune abroad. There is evidence that he travelled to the USA and was living in Texas by 1838 - owning substantial amounts of land and also slaves. The Ancestry marriage record shows 'Christopher V Uglou' and Theresa H Smith marrying in Houston, Texas on 20th May 1839. There was a child, Theodore, born on 24th December 1841. We also know that this Christopher was born in England (stated by Theodore in the 1910 US census).

So far, so good - the problems emerge because Uglow researchers can only find one Christopher Uglow born in the early 19th century, namely Christopher Venning 1818. As a result, matters become quite difficult to unravel.

There was a Christopher Uglow serving as an ordinary seaman on HMS Blenheim in the First China Warin 1840-42.  The Blenheim's log shows them leaving Portsmouth around March 1840, east of the Cape of Good Hope by April that year and by July as in China. The crew of the Blenheim are awarded service medals for actions in January, March, May, August and October 1841.

We know that Christopher Venning 1818 is a seaman - he said so on his marriage record and on the baptism records of his three Cornish children. There is evidence that he enlisted in 1836 and served at least 9 years. The presumption is that he was serving on HMS Blenheim by early 1840.

This presents many difficulties for the time line. The options are:

a) the Christopher in Texas is NOT Christopher Venning 1818. When you have ruled out everything else, this becomes possible. It was not Christopher in Texas but his twin brother, James, who for some reason (escaping the law perhaps) needed a new identity and who better than someone he knew intimately?

b) that the seaman on HMS Blenheim is another Christopher Uglow but there are too many Royal Navy records which refute this

c) that within 12 months of the marriage, Christopher has abandoned his wife in Texas, returned to England to enlist in the RN and indeed was not the father of Theodore. Again the prospect of Christopher dashing across the globe to be in the Far East with his ship, in Texas with Theresa and Antony with wife, Emily, is far-fetched.

One piece of evidence is an article dated 12/25/1841 in the Houston "Morning Star," mentioning a Steam Boat accident aboard the "Albert Gallatin". Listed under the "wounded" was "A negro man belonging to Mr. Uglow" - this suggests that Christopher was still in Houston and was not our Torpoint Christopher.

It is almost certain that Theresa (and perhaps this elusive Christopher) died, perhaps from yellow fever, an endemic problem in Texas at this time with over 500 dying in Galveston in 1853, 175 in Houston in 1858 and over 700 dying in Galveston again in 1867. Do we assume that she or Christopher made arrangements with the Lubbocks for the care of little Theodore? Francis and his wife, Adele, have no other children and by the 1850 census have adopted Theodore. This is very fortunate for Theodore as Francis is a successful livestock rancher and a future governor of Texas. Theodore is known as Theodore Uglow Lubbock- he flunks out of Virginia Military Institute but, despite poor eyesight, fights on the Confederate side in the Civil War. He later served on the Texas legislature. (For more on this story, read here).

After China, Christopher returned to Cornwall – I'm not sure when HMS Blenheim returned to the UK but she was laid up in Sheerness by April 1843. For Christopher, there was the death of his twin brother, James, who died in Stoke Damerel in 1842. More happily, on 22nd October 1842, Christopher married Emily Venning, in Laneast, Cornwall – his occupation was given as seaman. Emily Venning was presumably a cousin,as she was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Venning and was born in 1816 in St Clether, the village where Christopher's mother, Salome Venning, came from. She was probably the younger sister of Salome 1806 who, in 1832, married Christopher's brother, John. [If Christopher is the Texas Christopher, this is probably bigamous although there's no death record for Theresa]

Within a few months, Christopher and Emily had a daughter, Mary Jane, born in the second quarter of 1843 and baptised on 7th January 1844 in Torpoint. At this point, Christopher was a seaman on the HMS Caledonian. This was followed by the birth of another daughter, Emma Salome Uglow, christened on 16th November 1845 in Torpoint. Christopher was now a seaman on the HMS Vulture.

He was registered as a merchant seaman in Hong Kong on 13th April 1846 - he was in the RN serving on the HMS Vulture at that time. He was 5' 5" tall with brown hair, hazel eyes and a sallow complexion. He had joined the RN aged 18, has completed nine years of service and cannot write.

Another contradiction turns up as Texas land records show that in 1845, Christopher had apparently returned to Texas and on 24th July 1845, purchased 640 acres of land in Harris County. An alternative scenario might be that Francis Lubbock, a successful stockman, bought the land in the name of Theodore’s father – there may be tax or succession issues which make this a sensible option? But whether Christopher was in Texas in 1845 or not, he was back in England in 1849 where a later son, James Christopher Venning Uglow was born, baptised on 27th May  but died later that year. At this christening, Christopher was again a seaman on the HMS Caledonian.

By the 1851 census, Christopher has apparently died – in Cornwall, wife Emily and daughters Mary and Emma were living at 50 Fore St, Torpoint and Emily described herself as a widow and was working as a laundress.  There were at least three families living in the house.  In 1861 and 1871, Emily was at 23 Fore St, Torpoint, a widow and was working as a charwoman.  In 1861, daughter Mary was at 1 Rock House, Antony, Devon, a doctor’s servant but in 1871 was living with her mother. Mary and Emma both worked as general servants around Torpoint. Emma married William Wyatt, an RN stoker, in Stoke Damerel in 1865.

Emily died in 1879. Did she ever know about Theresa and Theodore?

• daughter, Mary Jane Trevennen was born in St German's Union RD in the second quarter of 1843, although she was not baptised in Torpoint chapel until 7th January 1844. Perhaps the wait was for her father, Christopher, on the HMS Caledonia to return? In 1851 she was living with her mother at 50 Fore St, Torpoint. In 1861 she was at 1 Rock House, Antony where she was a servant for Dr Charles Chubb. In the 1871 census she and her mother were at 23 Fore St, Torpoint. Mary was still unmarried and working as a servant. After 1871, I've not been able to trace Mary. At 30, she may well have married but equally likely, she emigrated as "Jane" to New Zealand 1874 aged 32; travelled to New Zealand on the 'St Lawrence', leaving Plymouth on 22nd May 1874 and arriving in Lyttelton on 30th August. She travelled with her first cousins, the Carlyon children - Salome, Jane, Abel and Emily. If so, she married John Lock in Canterbury, New Zealand the following year.
  
  
• daughter, Emma Salome was baptised on 16th November 1845 in Torpoint. In 1851 she was living with her mother at 50 Fore St, Torpoint. In 1861, she was a servant, working for the Rowe family in Antony. In 1865, she married William Wyatt in Stoke Damerel - he was a navy stoker, born in 1845 in Cullompton, Devon. In 1871, the family was at North Terrace, Torpoint with their first child, Emily. In 1881, she was at 11 Macey St., Torpoint with five children: Emily, Elizabeth, William, George and Alfred. Presumably William was away at sea. There were two further children - Florence and Reuben before Emma dies in 1888 and the 1891 census finds William as a widower at 14 Fore St Torpoint with the children. He died on 29th March 1892 - the youngest child, Reuben, was just four. Wllliam was a mason, of the Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity. His fellow masons were at the burial and would have supported the family.
  
  
• son, James Christopher Venning 1849, born in St Germans RD, who dies in infancy.

Miscellaneous

• William (1766-1827) is buried in the village

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