|
|
BLEWETT BLEWITT BLUET genealogy |
21 October 2008 |
|
|
|
|
|
Dr Geoffrey Mann |
|
|
|
||
|
|
5 John Carn BLEWETT 1765->1794
|
|
|
m Mary PENDER 1786 |
|
||
|
John Carn was baptised in 1765 in Mousehole and named after his mother’s maiden name, Carn-Pezzack , but his mother was buried on the same day that John was baptised Like most men in Mousehole, John became a fisherman. He married Mary PENDER when he was 21 and they baptised four children at the parish church of Paul. Their last child was baptised in 1794 when John was 29, but no further record of his life has been found. He was not in Mousehole for the 1841 or 1851 census and in the absence of a burial record, it seems possible that he was lost at sea. Mary’s fate is also unknown, as there is no suitable burial at Paul |
C=Christened
|
age DATE
JCB MP |
EVENT |
|
4Dec1765 10Dec1786 21 18 2Sep1787 22 19 12Dec1790 25 22 8Apr1792 27 24 28Dec1794 29 26 ??? |
John Carne C at Paul; his mother buried on the same day John Carn & Mary PENDER m at Paul; John was a fisherman Mary C at Paul Joan Carn C at Paul Elizabeth C at Paul Michael C at Paul John Carn lost at sea??? |
b=born m=married d=died
C=Christened B=Buried
C 4Dec1765 John Carne s Stephen & Joan BLEWETT
dec
the
distinctive christian name identifies this baptism, and fits with a marriage in
1786, ie at age 21. Joan’s maiden name
was Carn-Pezzack (see Stephen‑6), and the use of the mother’s
maiden name as forename occurs not infrequently at Mousehole
Michael-4
was baptised at Paul parish church, son of John Carn & Mary BLEWETT in
1794. The baptism is preceded by a
suitable marriage, and the distinctive forename, identifies this marriage with
confidence
m
10Dec1786 John Carn x BLUET otp fisherman & Mary PENDER spr otp by banns at
Paul; w: Stephen BARNES, Richard PENDER
C 2Sep1787 Mary d John Carn & Mary BLEWETT
C
12Dec1790 Joan Carn d John Carn & Mary BLEWETT
C 8Apr1792 Elizabeth d John Carne & Mary
BLEWETT
C
28Dec1794 Michael s John Carn &
Mary BLEWET
the
following baptism was also noted:
C 5Jun1789 Mary d Mary Carn BLEWETT [possibly some words faded here
though rest of page is OK]
Mary Carn
BLEWETT has not been identified, but it is doubtful whether she is the daughter
of John Carn particularly as no burial of Mary BLEWETT between 1878 and 1789
was found
there is
no John Carn buried at Paul and only two whose burial age gives a birthdate
near 1765:
B
29Jul1844 John BLEWETT of Newlyn 79 [b 1765]
B
13Jul1856 John BLEWETT of Mousehole 81 [b
1775]
John of
Newlyn can be positively identified with the John BLEWETT C1765, son of John
BLEWETT & Julyan (PENTREATH), who married Mary ROUFFIGNAC in 1790 and moved
to Newlyn around 1800. John and Mary
of Newlyn baptised and buried a child named Julian PENTREATH and in the 1841
census he was in Newlyn with his son Thomas
John
buried in 1856 can be identified with John C1778 son of John & Jane
(HUFFNAM) He married Jane MATTHEWS in
1805 and baptised a daughter Jane Huffin.
Thus there
is no suitable burial of John Carn at Paul, and he does not appear in the 1841
or 1851 Mousehole census. Possibly he was
lost at sea not long after 1794, the birth of Michael.
There are
only two Mary BLEWETT burials at Paul after 1794 and which give a birth date
reconcilable with a marriage in 1786:
B
26May1815 Mary BLEWETT of Mousehole 56
[b 1759]
B
29Jan1832 Mary BLEWETT of Newlyn 62
[b 1770]
The 1815
burial almost certainly relates to Mary
BOTTREL, as her husband William BLEWETT, remarried later in 1815 as a widower,
and there is no other suitable burial of his wife. There is a possible baptism of Mary BOTTREL in nearby Sennen in
1762.
The 1832 burial can be identified with Mary ROUFFIGNAC who married John
BLEWETT in 1790 and moved to Newlyn ( as shown by baptismal and burial records
of their children) around 1800. No
suitable baptism of Mary ROUFFIGNAC has been found
It is believed that Mary PENDER was baptised in 1768, which again makes
the 1815 burial unlikely. She would
have been only 26 at the birth of her last child Michael, so did she remarry?
There are
three possible remarriages of Mary at Paul:
m
30Oct1794 William x CATTRAN otp & Mary x BLEWETT otp bb; w: Richard
WILLIAMS, William CATTRAN
m
29Jan1807 Richard RICHARDS otp & Mary BLEWETT otp bb; w: John BENNET?, --
COTTON
m
31Jun1819 William OSBORN soj otp & Mary BLEWETT bb; w: John BLEWETT, Thomas
BLEWETT
The last
two can be ruled out because baptisms to these parents continued to 1826 and
1831 respectively which is too late for Mary b1768 or earlier. The CATTRANs baptised Mary 1795, Ann 1797,
Mary 1800 and Mary 1804 and it is possible that this is Mary remarried as the
last baptism would have been when she was aged 36. If so, the remarriage took place two months before the baptism of
Michael. However, the Mary who married
John Carn Bluet signed her name, whereas the Mary who married William Cattran
signed with x. She can almost certainly
be identified as the son of Richard Blewett and Jane WILLIAMS, as Richard
WILLIAMS was a witness to the marriage.
The burial of Mary CATTRAN was not found at Paul before 1837.
m 23Feb1767
Richard BLEWETT otp husbandman & Jane WILLIAMS spr otp bb; w: Stephen
BARNES, John JACKA
C
26Dec1767 Mary d Richard & Jane BLEWETT
m
30Oct1794 William x CATTRAN otp & Mary x BLEWETT otp bb; w: Richard
WILLIAMS, William CATTRAN
Thus no
burial remarriage or census records of John Carn or his wife have been found at
Paul after the baptism of Michael in 1794.
Mary’s family was from St Buryan, but no suitable burial of Mary was
found there or in nearby Sennen.
It is
noteworthy that no records have been found of their daughters Joan Carn and
Elizabeth at Paul either. Did the
family move to another parish? Mary
however may have married Richard RICHARDS in 1807, and it is believed Michael
married Ann PENTREATH in 1814 both at Paul
m
29Jan1807 Richard RICHARDS otp & Mary BLEWETT otp bb; w: John BENNET?, --
COTTON
m
29May1814 Michael BLUETT fisherman otp & Ann x PENTREATH otp bb; w: Richard
PENTREATH, William NEWTON
No John Carn BLEWETT found in 41 or 51 census at Paul; the following John’s (c75) and Mary’s (c70) BLEWETT were found in the 1841 Cornwall census index, but none of them are likely to be John-5 or Mary-5:
John
BLEWETT 64 M
Fisherman CON Paul 20 -105
John
BLEWETT 65 M
Collector of Rates CON St
Clement 10 -97
John BLUET
65 M Navy
CON Falmouth 11 -175
John
BLEWETT 80 M
Labourer CON Phillack 2 –138
the
first can be identified with the John who married Jane MATTHEWS in 1805
Mary BLEWETT 75
F Charwoman CON St Wenn 12 -23
Mary
BLEWETT 80 F
Female Servant CON Gwithian 9 –2
St Wenn
is in central Cornwall