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BLEWETT
FAMILY TREE at St Leven TL 14 September 2008 b=born
m=married d=died Dr
Geoffrey Mann C=Christened B=Buried geoff.mann@btinternet.com
The
tree is derived from transcripts of the St Leven parish
registers. The registers date only from 1694, so reconstruction before this date is
very speculative. All events at
St.Leven unless otherwise stated Francis BLEWETT | | | | [1] George-----------m----Jane C1593Plymouth | ? | [2]
Thomas BLEWETT-m-Elizabeth C1640Madron? | bc1640? mc1665? B1720 |
B1702 w of Thomas | |
1--------?-------2--BLEWETT---?-^-3-----------?-----------?4?------------------?-----------------5 John---m-? Mary Elizabeth Thomas?-m-Mary Jane bc1667 | bc1680
bc1680 [3] b1685? |bc1680 B1759 | m1709
S.PASCOE m1711 G.MARTIN of Paul | B1736 Mary (widow) | age92 | ? | | | |
1^----BLEWETT--2--------3-------------4-------5 1------BLEWETT------?-2 1---BLEWETT---2 John---m-? Abraham Elizabeth Mary William Thomas-m-Sarah_GARD
Mary Richard Frances bc1695 | C1700 C1703
C1710 C1713 bc1710?| m1734 B1762 Valentine C1713 B1760 | m1736 m1738 To Paul? B1787 | B1777 C1710 B1713 son of above | J.BARNICOATE V.TONKYN
[4] | | |
1------------^----BLEWETT--------------2 1------^-BLEWETT-2 Hannah John Thomas-m-Margery Sarah C1725 s John C1740 s John C1740 | B1807
C1743 B1776 to Paul?
| at St Buryan
[4] | 1------^2------3
Mary Sarah Thomas
C1770 C1774 C1777 |
[1] A George BLEWETT was baptised at Plymouth
1May1593 son of Francis. If this were
the George of Madron, then this suggests a
connection with the BLEWETT family of Holcumb Rogus in Devon rather than
with the BLEWETTs of Colan
[2] Thomas was buried at St Leven in 1720, and
his wife was buried in 1702. Assuming
the five children shown in the above tree were his, he would have been born
somewhere around 1630/50. But there
were no BLEWETTs at St Levan in the 1641 Protestation Return or the 1664 Hearth
Tax, which included all males over the age of 18. It can be assumed therefore
that the parents of Thomas were not of St Levan, and he was probably not born
there. The only Thomas found so far who
was born nearby c1640, is Thomas, son of George (& Jane) baptised 12 Jan
1640 at Madron. There is no burial of
this Thomas at Madron, and no other mention of him in the Madron registers. George of Madron is listed in the 1641 return
and is in fact the only Blewett mentioned in any of the 17C tax lists SW of
Camborne. The occurrence of the name
Jane at St Levan is suggestive, since Jane was relatively uncommon in the 17C,
so it seems possible that Thomas of St leven was the son of George of Madron. On
the other hand, if this derivation were correct, the name George would be
expected to occur in the St Levan tree.
[3] No evidence for this Thomas except that
the name Thomas occurs in the next three generations; the widow Mary buried
1736 could not have been the wife of either of the John's who both lived later
than 1736. The Thomas who married Sarah GARD in 1734 could have been born
c1710, giving a reasonable birth date of around 1680-90 for his father, which
makes him plausibly a son of Thomas & Elizabeth.
[4] see early Paul tree Paul is about 7 miles from St Leven, both on the coast of
Cornwall.