Pender  genealogy

19 August 2006

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Dr G.M.W.Mann.      Baytrees

Burnhams Rd,    Lt.Bookham

Surrey, U.K.           KT23 3AU

geoff.mann@btinternet.com

 

 

 

 

 

5 Mary PENDER 1768-?

 

 

m John Carn BLUET 1786

 

 

 

 

 

Mary was baptised in 1768 at Paul, the parish church of the fishing village of Mousehole, and married John BLUETT, a Mousehole fisherman there, in 1786 when she was just eighteen.

 

Mary and John baptised four children at Paul in the following six years, but no further records of either Mary or John are known.

 

Although Mary was only 26 when she baptised her last known child, no burial or remarriage record has been identified, neither has she been found in the 1841 census when she would have been 73 years old

 

 

 

 

EVENTS

C=Christened

 

           age

   DATE   MP JB

 

                       EVENT

22May1768     

10Dec1786 18 21

 2Sep1787 19 22

12Dec1790 22 25

 8Apr1792 24 27

28Dec1794 26 29

  ???          

Mary C at Paul dau of John & Dorothy

married John Carn BLUETT, a fisherman of Mousehole

dau Mary C at Paul

dau Joan Carn C at Paul

dau Elizabeth C at Paul

son Michael C at Paul

no further records found

 

 

 

 

 

PRINCIPAL RECORDS

 

 

b=born  m=married  d=died

C=Christened      B=Buried

 

BIRTH

 

Mary was married at Paul in 1786 and baptised children up to 1794 so a birth date around 1760 would be expected.  There are only 2 suitable baptisms at Paul:

 

C  4Aug1751 Mary d Oliver & Mary PENDER

C 22May1768 Mary d John & Dorothy PENDAR

 

these give marriage ages of 35 and 18.5 respectively and last baptisms at ages 43 and 27.  The first marriage is thus rather early, though possible.  However, a witness at the marriage was Richard PENDER; he is unlikely to be Mary’s father, as there is no suitable parent of this name at Paul in 1786.  However, if Mary were the daughter of John and Dorothy, then her eldest brother would be named Richard.  It may be noted that John died later that year, which may account for his failure to witness the marriage.  There seems little doubt therefore that Mary was in fact the daughter of John & Dorothy.

 

There is only one other suitable baptism in the Cornwall IGI, at nearby Sennen.  This Mary Pender however may be married off in the same parish:

 

C  5Jul1767 Mary d Robert PENDER; m  5Jny1787 Richard OATS of St Just & Mary PENDER

 

 

MARRIAGE

 

Mary PENDER was married at Paul in 1786:

from Paul parish register

 

m 10Dec1786 John Carn x BLUET otp fisherman & Mary PENDER spr otp by banns at Paul; w: Stephen BARNES, Richard PENDER

 

 

DESCENDANTS

from Paul parish register

 

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

 

DEATH

 

 

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

 

 

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 no burial remarriage or census records of John Carn or his wife have been found at Paul after the baptism of Michael in 1794.  Possibly John Carn was lost at sea not long after 1794, the birth of Michael, but what happened to Mary?   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

 

 

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

 

CENSUS

 

no suitable Mary BLUET found in 1841 or 1851 Mousehole census

 

 

 

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