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EARLY
BLEWETT FAMILY TREES at Paul and Padstow TP 14 September 2008 b=born
m=married d=died Dr
Geoffrey Mann
C=Christened B=Buried geoff.mann@btinternet.com
Pd=Padstow CON BLEWETT
family summary Pl=Paul
CON William BLUETT-m-Isett B30May1709Pd | B2Apr1706Pd | | | Dorothy-DUNN-m1--John BLEWETT--2m-Amy
TRATH John
BLEWETT of St Levan? m1704Pd |
C1682Padstow | m1707
Padstow
| B1704Pd | d<1771 [1] |
B1771 Paul | | | | /---------/ |
Padstow Paul |see St Levan tree | 1-----^--2----------3-BLEWETT-4---------5--------6---------7 | [2]
Richard-m-Martha John Dorothy
Thomas Elizabeth Martha Martha
William William
BLEWETT-m-Elizabeth C1704Pd | mc1728? C1708Pd C1710Pd C1712Pd C1715Pd
C1718Pd C1719Pl C1721Pl bc1710 |
BANDS | B1731Pd m1744Pl B1719Pl B1792Pl B1781Pl
| m1733Pl | Wm BODINAR murdered | | [4] | Padstow
| |
| | 1-BLEWET-2--^---3 [2] Paul [2] 1-------2-BLEWETT-3-------4-------5----^--6------7 Richard
John Richard John----m-Julian [3] Richard-2m-Jane William Elizabeth
Mary John Stephen Anne Jane C1728Pd
C1730Pd BLEWETT |
PENTREATH BLEWETT | WILLIAMS C1734Pl C1736Pl C1738Pl C1741P C1744P C1748P C1752P B1729Pd B1734Pd
bc1740 | m1764P | m1767P | |m
Jane | | | | [3] |HUFFNAM | |
[1] The coincidence of relatively unusual names
(Amy, Dorothy, Martha) and a good fit in timing suggests that John arrived c1719
in Paul from Padstow. Thus there are
burials of Amy and Martha and a marriage of Dorothy at Paul, but no prior
baptisms for these names, whereas there are suitable baptisms at Padstow. The Paul baptisms of Martha 1719, and
William 1721 are registered only as children of the father John Blewett. Whether or not John and Amy came from
Padstow however, they do not appear to have started any of the Mousehole
Blewett lines.
[2] Three Blewett lines at Paul start from
William & Elizabeth, John & Julian, and Richard & Jane, any
connection between them being unknown.
The only nearby origin for William bc1710 that I have found is St Levan. Also at St Levan, there is a baptism of
John in 1740 who could have benn the John who married Julian at Paul - but there
are other possible nearby origins of John Blewett of Paul, eg: Madron 1739, St
Hilary 1744, Ludgvan 1744, as well as the John baptised 1730 at Padstow.
[3] A John Blewett m Julian Pentreath in 1764,
and a second John Blewett m Jane Huffnam in 1765; I assume the latter is the
son of William & Elizabeth because of the names of their children Stephen,
Elizabeth and Mary are common to both John & Jane, and William &
Elizabeth
[4] from the Paul parish
register:
buried 27Nov1792
Martha BLEWETT. This aged person on
Monday 26Nov1792 between 9 and 10 oclock in the forenoon as she was journeying
on the road from Mousehole to Paul church-town was robbed of all her little
property which she had by great industry and parsimony scraped together for the
support of declining age and most inhumanly murdered, her throat being cut from
ear to ear, for which William TREWAVAS junior of Mousehole, fisherman, (a young
man not exceeding the 26th year of his age) was on the Thursday (the same
evening that this unfortunate woman was buried) apprehended and from a variety
of depositions and corroborating circumstances committed to the County Goal
{sic} as the person supposed guilty of this atrocious and bloody deed.
Inscription upon a cross erected in Mousehole Rd near the place where the body
of Martha Blewett was found: "O remember the Almighty the Great King of
Kings and Lord of Lords hath in the table of his law commanded thou shall do no
murder" NB. William Trevawas was tried at Launceston for
this murder and found guilty and suffered the punishment due to his offence on
Wednesday 28Mar1793