Fact I : Parents of Henry are unconfirmed by any  baptismal record. They were probably John VINGOE: bt Jun 1742 Sennen-bur Aug 1794 Sennen. He marr.   Margaret ELLIS  1769 St Just. She was baptised 1752  St Buryan - buried Dec 1794 Sancreed as a 'widow'. When husband John VINGOE died Margaret had probably returned to her home parish of Sancreed. Their first-born child, Margaret Ellis Vingoe, was bt 1770 St Just. Son Henry was probably their second born c1772. There is also another possible daughter. Mary Vingoe c1775 had a base born son baptised as Thomas VINGOE in 1800  Paul.   He  went on to entered the Coastguard service. He married 07 Dec 1830  at Burham in KENT a Louisa SEYMOOR.

Fact 2   Henry Vingoe &  Grace Mann   marriage : Paul Parish Record 1752 St Just

Paul Church

Fact 3  1841 Census :  Henry Vingoe 70,  living with Henry Ellis Vingoe, Occupation: both fishermen

Fact 4  Henry Vingoe Reg. March 1/4 1843 PZ RO Ref 9/177 Died  10 Feb 1843 at  Newlyn, Age 70.

Fact 5  Henry Vingoe burial : Paul Parish Record Henry Vingoe, Age 73

Fact 6  Death notice  in "The Cornwall Royal Gazette" Feb 17 1843  Henry  Vingoe "died from starvation"  

Fact 7   Grace Mann bapt.  & marriage:  Paul Parish Record  

Fact 8   Grace Vingoe burial :  Paul Parish Record  

Fact 9   Grace Vingoe died during the cholera epidemic and was buried in a mass grave in the meadow field, acquired for the purpose of burying all the many victims. The headstones, now arranged around the perimeter wall of the 'Cholera Graveyard' on Trungle Moor, do NOT relate to those buried within  in a mass grave. Their identity can only be deduced from the burial records of the appropriate date. The headstones on display were removed  from the graveyard that lies behind the Church Schoolroom situated on the  local village 'Green', which is opposite the Parish Church, and previously known as the 'Common'. The  headstones  were removed to their present location on the moor when there was a major clearance and closure of the 'overflow' schoolroom site in the 1950's. The bodies, however, were never exhumed.   No church burials now take place in either burying ground. only cremated remains can be interred.

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Fact  1. John Vingoe ( 1798 -1841) was resident at the Coastguard Residence called Lepe in the New Forest, Hampshire at the time of his death.  He was buried on 09 November 1841.

Coastguard Cottages Lepe. (c) Robin Somes 2007

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1891 Census
Piece: RG12/1856 Place: Penzance -Cornwall Enumeration District: 3
Civil Parish: Paul Ecclesiastical Parish: St Peter Newlyn
Folio: 43 Page: 14 Schedule: 85
Address: St Peter's Hill, Newlyn
    HUMPHREYS   Richard  Head  M   M  45   Fisherman Mousehole      
    HUMPHREYS   Mary      Wife   M   F   47        -          Newlyn      
    HUMPHREYS   Richard    Son   S   M   19   Fisherman Newlyn      
    HUMPHREYS   Stephen    Son   -   M   13   Scholar     Newlyn

Maggie Humphreys, 18, charwoman, and Bessie Humphreys 15 domestic servant, are living with their widowed Aunt Grace This move was probably due to the ages of the adult male & female offspring in the  HUMPHREYS household. Grace had two girls and a boy only 10 years, so it made for easier sleeping arrangements. The elder nieces probably assisted their widowed aunt with the finances and domestic  running of the house-hold.

1881 Census
Piece: RG11/2344 Place: Penzance -Cornwall Enumeration District: 3
Civil Parish: Paul Ecclesiastical Parish: St. Peter Newlyn
Folio: 52 Page: 13 Schedule: 60
Address: St Peter's Hill, Newlyn
    HUMPHREYS Richard       Head  M  M   36   Fisherman       Mousehole      
    HUMPHREYS Mary            Wife  M   F   38   Home Work     Newlyn      
    HUMPHREYS Richard H.     Son  -   M     7     Scholar         Newlyn      
    HUMPHREYS Margaret       Dau  -   F      9     Scholar         Newlyn      
    HUMPHREYS Bessie           Dau  -   F     4      Scholar         Newlyn      
    HUMPHREYS Stephen B.    Son  -   M     2        -                Newlyn      
    HUMPHREYS Robert          Son  -   M      3 mo.  -               Newlyn

1871 Census
Piece: RG10/2338 Place: Penzance -Cornwall Enumeration District: 1
Civil Parish: Paul Ecclesiastical Parish: -
Folio: 7 Page: 7 Schedule: 36
Address:  Mount Pleasant, Mousehole
    HUMPHREYS   Robert     Head   M   M   73   Fisherman             Mousehole      
    HUMPHREYS   Elizabeth  Wife   M    F   71   Fishermans Wife    Mousehole      
    HUMPHREYS   Richard     Son    U   M   26   Fisherman             Mousehole 

1861 Census
Piece: RG9/1592 Place: Penzance -Cornwall Enumeration District: 1
Civil Parish: Paul Ecclesiastical Parish: -
Folio: 6 Page: 8 Schedule: 42
Address:  Mount Pleasant, Mousehole
    HUMPHRIES   Robert     Head     M   M   65   Labourer         Mousehole      
    HUMPHRIES   Elizabeth   Wife    M    F   60        -                Raginnis [Mousehole]      
    HUMPHRIES   Richard      Son    U    M   16    Fisherman      Mousehole

1851 Census
Piece: HO107/1918 Place: Penzance -Cornwall Enumeration District: 1a
Civil Parish: Paul Ecclesiastical Parish: -
Folio: 187 Page: 25 Schedule: 90
Address:  Mount Pleasant, Mousehole
    HUMPHRIES   Robert      Head  M  M   53   Fisherman      Mousehole      
    HUMPHRIES   Elizabeth   Wife   M  F   50         -              Mousehole      
    HUMPHRIES   Richard      Son   -   M    6   Scholar           Mousehole  

1841 Census
Piece: HO107/143/10 Place: Penwith -Cornwall Enumeration District: 21
Civil Parish: Paul Ecclesiastical Parish: -
Folio: 22 Page: 5
Address: Mousehole
    HUMPHRIES   Robert      M    45     Cornwall    Fisherman  
    HUMPHRIES   Elizabeth   F    41     Cornwall      
    HUMPHRIES   John         M    20     Cornwall      
    HUMPHRIES   Robert      M    18     Cornwall -marr Eliz HARRIS 24 May 1846 Paul    
    HUMPHRIES   Elizabeth   F    16     Cornwall      
    HUMPHRIES   Henry       M    13     Cornwall      
    HUMPHRIES   Sally         F     11     Cornwall      
    HUMPHRIES   Richard     M      2     Cornwall

Fact 1 Bapt. of  Margaretta Vingoe : Ruan Minor  Parish Record  Photo

Fact 2:  Death of Margaretta Berryman [nee Vingoe] :  Registered Penzance March 1/4 1889 : Ref  5c 175, 19th January 1889 in Newlyn from cerebral apoplexy 12 months, widow of Stephen Berryman, Mariner Merchant Service.  Her death was registered by her daughter Mary Humphreys.

Fact 3:  John Vingoe  cause of death from "a disease of the heart & lungs"   Death Certificate : ref  Sylvie Vingoe

Fact 4:  Grace Vingoe- cause of death " of consumption"  Death Certificate  : ref  Sylvie Vingoe

Fact 5:  Parents of Stephen Berryman were Stephen Berryman  bt 04 May 1794  Paul  &  Sarah Richards  bt 07 Dec 1794 Paul, married  8 June 1817 Paul.  Sarah was a daughter of Richard Richards and  Sarah MARK  who married 13 Oct 1777 Paul.  All the children  of Stephen and Sarah, except Stephen [1819] were given the middle name of Richards. Stephen [1819] had a sister named Mary Mark Berryman b1825 but does not appear to have named his daughter Mary with Mark as a middle name. Sarah Berryman was know as "Queen of the Fisherwomen" and was at the dinner in Penzance Market Hall  in to commemorate Queen Victoria's Coronation in 1840.

Fact 6  Marriage of Stephen and Margaret  gives  Stephen as, 'full age, Labourer of Paul -Father: Stephen Berryman, Labourer.  Margaret as ' full age, Servant of Paul -Father: John Vingoe, Dead ' Witnesses were  Howell Richards & Charles Madan '[Maddern]

Fact  7    Stephen and Margaret's children's baptisms : Paul Parish Records.

Fact  8    Mary Berryman : birth registered  Sep 1/4  1844.  Ref. PZ 1X 179

Fact  9    Stephen Berryman : birth registered Sep 1/4 1845 Ref. Pz  IX 212 d Dec 1/4 1845  Ref. PZ IX 119                  

Fact 10   Grace Harvey Berryman : birth registered  Jun 1/4 1848 Helston  9 114 as Grace BERRIMAN

Fact  11  Grace H Berryman : Marriage  June 1/4  1878 PZ Ref. 5c 400

Fact  12   Stephen Berryman : birth registered  Mar 1/4  1850   Ref. PZ  IX 234 bt 1853

Fact  13  Stephen Berryman b 1850 : marriage Jun 1/4 1878  Helston  Ref 5c  280  

Fact  14   1861 census:  Margaret Berryman  widow : living  St. Peter's Hill  near entrance to Primrose Court.

Primrose Court, Newlyn

Fact 15   Stephen Berriman [sic husband of Margaret] Death June 1/4 1856   Ref. PZ 5c 197 

Fact 16   1871 Census: Margaret BERRYMAN, widow + 3  children  living at District 5 sch. 007 [Newlyn]    Margaret's occupation : seamstress : Mary: 27  Domestic duties : Grace: 22  Net Mending :  Stephen: 20  Fisherman. All children unmarried.

Fact 17  1881 Census :  Margaret BERRYMAN on her own living  Boase St, Newlyn : Dressmaker

Fact 18  1881 Census :  Stephen BERRYMAN 1850, married with two children; Fisherman living Sithney Parish, wife & 2  children give place of birth as Porthleven.

Fact 19  1891 Census 

Porthleven

Helston Church

Fact 21  Stephen Berryman :  birth registered  Mar 1/4  1879  Helston : Ref 5c 195 

Fact 22 Stephen Berryman :  b 1879 : marriage registered  Mar 1/4 1911  Helston: Ref  5c 253

Fact 23  William Henry C Berryman : birth registered Dec 1/4 1880 Helston   Ref  5c 170   

Fact 24 1901 William Henry b 1880  living in Pontypridd, Wales

Fact 25 1901 Census : Stephen Berryman b.1850 living in Sithney + sons John 10 Scholar: Peter 17  Fish packer:

Fact 26   Marriage of  William H C Berryman  b. 1880 :  marriage registered Jun  1/4 1904 Penzance :  Ref.5c 371

Fact 1:  Baptisms of Francis Vingoe and Honor Richards  : Paul Parish Records

Fact 2:  Marriage of Francis Vingoe and Honor Richards  : Paul Parish Records 22 Jan by  banns.  Honor Richards made her mark. Witnesses were  Richard Cotton & William Mann.

Fact 3: Francis' occupations: 1829-1831 Navy: 1831-1835 Coastguard: Master of Fishing boat 'Gem'. Naval & Coastguard records per Sylvie Vingoe.

Fact 4:  Three children  Ben, Nancy and John  [listed as Vingoe] were born to  Honor's brother, Benjamin Richards and his wife  Mary Smith TASKES ,who  married 01 Jan 1824  Paul.  Sadly both parents died in the Cholera epidemic and were  buried in the Cholera Meadow at Paul ; Mary Richards  03 Sep 1832  & ten days later her husband, Ben Richards, buried  13 Sep 1832. Francis & Honor  Vingoe appear to have brought up the 3 children who survived, and on the 1841 census were recorded as Vingoe. 

Fact 5:  Baptisms/marriage/burials of Richards family  :  Paul Parish Records.

Fact 6:  Dates of deaths of Francis  Vingoe and Honor Vingoe:  per Sylvie Vingoe

Fact 7:  Burial of  Honor Vingoe: 14 Mar 1854 'of Newlyn aged 57' Paul Parish Records

Fact 8:  Burial of  Francis Vingoe: 21 Jun 1868 'of Newlyn age 68' Paul Parish Records

Fact 9:  Death of  Honor  Vingoe  Registered  : Penzance. Mar 1/4 1854 :  Ref  5c  241.

Fact 10:  1841 Census. Francis and  Honor Vingoe living at Fore St., Newlyn +  3 children with surname Vingoe, which should read Richards. Also with them is was another child, George Angwin age 10.

Fore Street, Newlyn

Fact 11: 1851 Census. Francis Vingoe age 50  on boat "Jem" [sic GEM] listed as Master & net owner, Nicholas Mann married. 67; Wm Kelynack married 50: Wm H Tregurtha married. 38: John Nicholas unmarried. 25:  Thos. C. Roberts unmarried 17: 

Fact 12: 1851 Census. Living with Honor Vingoe, age 52 at Trewarvanneth (Trewarveneth ) Street was her nephew, George Angwin un. age 20, who was one of the 4 children listed as living with them on the 1841.

Fact 13:  Francis'  marriage to  his second wife, Lucretia Nicholas, 27  May 1855 states he was  of  ' full age, widower of Paul parish, fisherman : father Henry Vingoe, Fisherman'. Lucretia was ' off full age' and made her mark. Her father was listed as 'Robert Nicholas, Fisherman.' Witnesses were William Harry & James Richards.

Fact 14: 1861 Census.  Benjamin Richards, age 36, Fisherman: lodger with Francis Vingoe  & his  second wife, Lucretia at North Corner  Ben was originally listed  with his  brother & sister as a Vingoe on the 1841. He was a son of Honor's  brother, Ben and his wife, Mary, who died in the cholera epidemic of 1832.

North Corner, Newlyn

Fact 15:  1871 Census.  Lucretia Vingoe, 57 Fisherman's widow & visitor Grace Tregurtha 14  living Trewarveneth Street- Boase St. area of Newlyn.

Fact 16:  1871/81Census  Ben Richard  age 46/ 56, fisherman, unmarried : lodging at  Trewarveneth Street with James  & Ann Maddren [Maddern]   

Fact 17:  1881 Census. Lucretia Vingoe,  age 67: Fish Dealer, living at North Corner, Newlyn..

Fact 18:   Lucretia Vingoe : Death Registered  Jun 1/4 1889 : Penzance  : Ref  5c 180. 

Fact 19:  Lucretia Vingoe : Burial  23 Apr 1889  ' Lucretia Vingoe of Newlyn age  75'. Paul Parish Records

Fact 1  Henry Ellis Vingoe bapt Paul Parish Record                                                                                                                                                                             Fact 2  Sarah Trevelyan bapt. Paul Parish Record                                                                                                                                                                               Fact 3  1841 Census Henry E. Vingoe at Fore St, Newlyn . Unmarried living with father  Henry                                                                                                       Fact 4  Henry Ellis Vingoe  & Sarah Trevelyan married  1/4  Dec 1841 PZ RO  Ref  9/257 & Paul parish record                                                                           Fact 5  1851 Census Henry & Sarah Vingoe living at Fore St. Newlyn Town                                                                                                                                     Fact 6  1871 Census Henry and Sarah  living at different address Boase street Newlyn                                                                                                                 Fact 7  Henry Vingoe died  age 73 after falling down steps at Albert Wharves, Penzance Harbour Death Jun 1/4  1875  PZ RO  Ref 5c/226 *                     WEST BRITON & CORNWALL ADVERTISER - Thursday 24th June 1875  "On Monday afternoon an old man named Henry Vingoe , a fisherman residing at Newlyn, accidentally fell over a steep fight of steps at the Albert Wharves and received such injuries that no hopes are entertained of his recovery."      Fact 8  Sarah Vingoe death recorded as  'Sally' age 68,  Dec 1/4 1883 PZ RO  Ref 5c/179.                                                                                                          Fact 9  1881 Census  Sarah Vingoe, widow living at  St. Peters Court, Newlyn                                                                                                                                 Fact 10  No Issue  from the marriage of Henry Ellis Vingoe & Sarah Trevelyan

Boase Street, Newlyn

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Street an Nowan, Newlyn. by Stanhope Forbes

Fact 1  1841 Richard & Ann Vingoe living  Street-an- Nowan, Newlyn

Fact 2 1871 Richard M Vingoe  Occupation  Fisherman

Fact 3  1881 Ann Vingoe  Fisherman's widow : 5 Clifton Terrace Newlyn.

Clifton Terrace Newlyn

Fact  2.   Mary Annie  Harvey sailed on the ship "Commonwealth"  with three children to join her husband 

Fact  3    Mary Annie and the three children  arrived in Australia on the  30 Oct 1915.

Fact  4    Abednego's ashes were spread at a previous home "Kingsgrove" 

ABEDNEGO HARVEY

Abednego  [b 31 Jul 1884 at Florence Place, Newlyn (1891 census) later moved  with his family to 2 Bon Villas, Paul Hill.  

Abednego married Mary Annie Vingoe [b 31 Jul 1883] on 21 Oct 1908.  Mary Annie had been living at a store owned by a Mr Reseigh at Fore Street, Newlyn.  The descendants have post cards that were sent from Abednego to Mary Annie   addressed to "c/o Mr Reseigh’s store". Prior to his marriage Abednego was living at  Charles Street. Newlyn. Abednego and Mary moved into the home above Mary's family grocery store at  Fore St. Newlyn, which became their family home until they migrated to Australia.   There were four children born in their Fore St. home - Sylvia, Harold, Mary and Abednego.  Sylvia died in 1911 age 9 months and is buried with her grandfather, Abednego, at Paul cemetery.

Abednego did not wish to follow his forefathers and become a fisherman or seaman and employment was difficult to find, he could see no future in Penzance so decided to emigrate to Australia. In March 1913, leaving his children, Harold and Mary and his wife one month pregnant in Newlyn, Abednego sailed to Australia endeavouring to provide a better life for his family. As money was a problem for Abednego at the time, his passage to Australia was paid by his uncle William, a chemist and his mother's brother. He was a Grocer at the time, probably working at his in-laws store.   Although his family were land holders in Penzance, Abednego was not going to receive anything from the properties as they were going to be left to his sisters. He was a proficient organist and would have been the official organist at the local Newlyn Wesleyan Church, had he remained in Newlyn.

After leaving from Tilbury, London, as a 3rd class passenger and a 16 week voyage, he arrived in Sydney 03 Jul 1913, on the "Osterley".  In Australia, Abednego found work with an engineering firm for a short period, then with the Postmaster Generals Department as a Postal Worker,  a position that he held until his retirement at the age of 62.

Mary Annie, with children Harold, Mary Annie, and Abednego, sailed from London via the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, on the ship “Commonwealth” arriving in Sydney on the 30 Oct 1915.   En route, in the Indian Ocean, a cruising enemy submarine was sighted, thus forcing the ship to stop all engines and turn off all lighting to prevent detection.

Abednego and his family lived at Henrietta St. Waverley for a number of years. His mother Jane and  sister Winifred joined them, after they too had  immigrated, arriving in Sydney on  26 Feb 1920 on the "Megantic". Abednego and Mary had another four children in Australia -- Betty,  Peggy,  Arthur Thomas and Richard.  The family moved to Waterloo Road, Greenacre  for four years, then to Broadway at Punchbowl  for three years and then made one final move to the home they had built in 1928 at 58 Catherine Street, Punchbowl. This became the Harvey home, the only home that all the grandchildren knew as Nan and Grandpa's.   We remember Nan’s rock cakes, fruit cake and ginger beer in large earthen-ware bottles, bought from the man with the horse and cart: also the tea she would serve us from the saucer.   Grandpa taught most of his grandchildren to walk. We grandchildren were often in trouble as our face, hands and clothes would often be coloured purple, from eating mulberries and climbing the large mulberry tree, in their backyard. 

The family became involved in the Greenacre Methodist Church, Abednego being a foundation member.   He became a lay preacher and wrote several hymns for the church. His preaching days ceased when confronted by the local minister regarding the content of his sermons as they did not reflect the writings within the Bible.  Abednego questioned the minister asking him if he really believed that the whale had swallowed Jonah.   The minister replied that if the Bible stated that Jonah had swallowed the whale he would believe it.   With this difference in their methods and beliefs Abednego did not ever preach again.  

After his retirement, Abednego became keen in playing his weird home made musical instruments and he was quite a menace with them, insisting on playing them at the least provocation. They all sounded ghastly, but it did give him an interest in his retirement, was the comment from by his son Arthur. Abednego died in his sleep from heart failure on 08 Dec 1957.His ashes were scattered in the garden of his son Harold's home at Warejee Street, Kingsgrove.  Mary Annie died 03 Oct 1960, requesting her ashes be scattered in Newlyn Harbour. Daughters Betty & Peggy were not able to achieve this and  so her ashes were eventually scattered in the north eastern corner of the gardens of Greenacre Methodist Church. The church altar is dedicated to Abednego and Mary Annie through monies donated by the Harvey family when the church was refurbished.   Their daughter Peggy, still attended this church until her death in 1999.          

     Abednego Harvey                                                            Jane Harvey nee Carter. c1924                Abednego & Mary Annie

Jane Harvey  & daughter Winifred, joined  Abednego & Mary Annie in Sydney, Aus. , arriving on the "Megantic" 26 Feb 1920

Please contact:-   Barry Philip Harvey, 3 Murrie St, Windang  2528. Australia  E-Mail

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Revised: November 09, 2019 .

Fact 1  Jane Mary Willis was a  g. g. grand daughter of William Willis b1731 & Margaret Vingoe b1732 who married at Paul  in 1753. Margaret Vingoe was dau. of John Vingoe & Mary Reed marr 1729 Sennen

Fact 2   1871  Richard E. Vingoe, Fisherman living with parents at  North Corner, Newlyn

Fact 3   1881 Census Richard E. with parents & Jane M Willis and parents all living North Corner, Newlyn

Fact 4   1891 Richard E  and Jane M. living with 4 children at Fore St. Newlyn.

Fact 5   1901 Family at South Fore Street Newlyn: Richard age 52 Fisherman: wife Jane, age 46: dau Mary - charwoman at home & sons Richard age 16 fisherman & Arthur age 14

Fact 6   Death of Richard Vingoe b 1885 - d 1973 Florida: USA Social Security Record

Fact 7   Death of Edith Vingoe:  b 1889 - d 1981 : USA Social Security Record.

Fact 8   Death of Emily Vingoe:  b 1902 - 1966 :   USA Social Security Record

Fact 9   Edith  M Vingoe resided at same address as Emily who died 1966 and  Edith who died 1981. There is a problem with either a] date of  birth of Emily 1902 or b] Edith 1889 as this makes the mother  too young unless 2nd wife

Fact                                                                    

Fact 1. Arthur & Jessie were 2nd cousins, once removed, & shared descent from Henry VINGOE & Grace MANN: Jessie  was a 2 x g.granddaughter & Arthur was a 1 x g.grandson. 

Fact 2. Arthur & Jessie had a son, John Davies VINGOE b1915, just 2 years old when his father died  

 Arthur, Jessie & son John Davies Vingoe c1916                                                 Jessie Davies 1895

 Photos courtesy of Phil Vingoe

Commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Arthur Vingoe is commemorated on the 1914-18 Newlyn War Memorial and
also on a Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial in France.
Cause of death was 'illness:  peritonitis.

He was buried in the French Military Plot at Trouville, Normandy, a town at the mouth of the River Touques.

which also contains  two Commonwealth burials of WWI & two from WW II.

The cemetery is 12 kilometres north-west of Pont l'Eveque,

Trouville Cemetery Military Section where flowers mark the graves of veterans of both wars.

On 11 Nov each year, on the anniversary of Armistice Day, the children of the town place potted flowers,

grown by local nurseries, on the graves of the fallen, and tie a ribbon in the French colours to the cross marker posts.

The grave of Arthur Vingoe  is in the foreground, marked with a War Graves Commission Headstone.

 It is tended with great care all year round!
   

   Fact 1  Thomas E Vingoe bapt Paul Parish

   Fact 2  Margaret Pollard Gilbert bapt & burial in Paul Parish

  Fact 3   Marriage of Thomas E. Vingoe marr 1] Margaret Pollard GILBERT Paul Parish.

 Fact 1:  1871 Census  Robert L, Occ . Fisherman. & Grace Harvey +4 children + sister Elizabeth Gilbert Vingoe [marr. Thomas Batten Blewett] all living Trewarveneth St, Newlyn Town.

Fact 2:  Grace Harvey of Newlyn:  buried 02 Jan 1880 age 39:  Paul Parish Burial Record

Fact 3:   1881 Census:  Robert L Harvey, widower occ Fisherman living  Pascoe's Court [nr Barbican] Penzance, St. Mary's Parish  Still living with him were sons William C 19  occ fishermen & Robert H  Fisher boy 14 & daughter Margaret G  17 + sons Andrew 12, Thomas Ellis 6  & Joseph 5.  Dau Grace is absent from the household and is some miles away in a church orphanage at St Winnow near Liskeard. Her mother Grace was buried 02 Jan 1880, father Robert was working and  eldest daughter Margaret was looking after the household   and the male younger ones.  Father  Robert L HARVEY himself died and was buried 28 Nov 1886 Paul. Poor little Grace:  she had probably never seen her father again as she was sent, age 7 years old, to a church orphanage miles from home in  St. Winnow, to live with strangers.                                                                                                                                                                       By the census of 1891 we find Grace Harvey age 16, living nearer home, working as a  pupil teacher at Madron Workhouse orphanage. Her cousins, Margaret Vingoe Gilbert  Blewett         age  11 & Martha A Blewett age 5, were  orphan Scholars at the same  orphanage!         

CLIFT, Edward Matthew widower b. 1912 Cornwall

wife; 

child; Millicent b. 1913. 

Fact 4:  28 Nov 1886  Paul Parish Robert Leah HARVEY  buried by 'Coroners Request'. Going to work in the dark he slipped, fell off  the quay into the water and was drowned.

Fact 5: 1891 Census : Daughter Grace Harvey age 16, pupil teacher at Madron Workhouse orphanage  28 Nov 1886

Fact 6: 1891 Census Grace's cousins, Margaret Vingoe Gilbert  Blewett age 11 & Martha A Blewett age 5, were  orphan scholars at the same  orphanage! 

1891
Piece: RG12/1857 Place: Penzance - Cornwall Enumeration District: 103
Civil Parish: Madron Ecclesiastical Parish: Madron
Folio: 32 Page: 7 Schedule: 35
Address: Nanceglos Orphanage

BATTEN     Margaret  Head    W  F  46    Matron Of Orphanage Sennen
HARVEY     Grace                      S    F  16    Pupil Teacher     Newlyn
BLEWETT    Margaret V.G.      S    F   11   Scholar                Newlyn *
BLEWETT    Martha A               S    F     5    Scholar                Newlyn **
MADDERN  Jessie C                 S    F   12    Scholar                Penzance
UREN            Emily                     S    F   10    Scholar                Penzance
JONES           Mary                     S    F     9    Scholar                 Madron
CHIRGWIN   Mary F                 S    F   11    Scholar                 St Just
SYMONS Isabella A                  S   F   11    Scholar                 Lostwithiel
SYMONS       Mary J                   S   F      8    Scholar                 Lostwithiel

*      Margaret Vingoe Gilbert BLEWETT
**    Martha A BLEWETT

Margaret Vingoe Gilbert BLEWETT:    b 25 Jul 1879 Mousehole-d 10 Sep 1950 Akron, Ohio.
+ Edward Matthews CLIFT: Widower b 28 Fe  1873 Mousehole-d -- Aug 1929 Akron, Ohio. age 56  
marr:  24 Mar 1912 Paul

They answered the 'Call to Arms ' We will 'remember them and give thanks!'

1901 Census   Glenwood, Manitoba, Canada. 

William Henry VANSICKLE  b 03 Jun 1876 b Brantford, ONT      Foundry labourer                                                                

Bessie VANSICKLE Wife  England 

Sarah Ann VINGOE  nee Roberts mother-in-law England

[father Richard Henry VINGOE]

                                                                                                  
Regimental Number: 55732 Private                                                         
Canadian Expeditionary Force                                                                                                      
Enlisted:26 Jan 1915     Age 38 Toronto, Ontario                                                                                      

Married: Bessie Vansickle, [nee Vingoe ] wife.                                                               
59 Gray Street, Brantford, Ontario                                                            
occ: Labourer                                                                                                       

Religion: Baptist                                                                                             
 

Prior Military Experience: Yes
                       
Height: 5 Feet 6 Inches
Chest:   34 Inches
Expansion: 3 Inches 

Ernest Lorne VANSICKLE b 1896 -d  22 Dec 1962 age 66   R.C.A.M.C  Canadian Expeditionary Force

19th Battalion Canadian Infantry [28th Dragoons]        Enlisted 11 Nov 1914  Age 22 Toronto, Ontario

Regimental Number: 55049 Lance Corporal

occ     Mechanic

Religion: Church of England    
                       
Single    age 22 yrs     

Next Of Kin:  Mother

address : 59 Gray Street, Brantford, Ontario 

Father & son had left Camp  in Toronto, Canada  together on 23 May 1915.

They were with the 19th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force bound for West Sandling Camp, Shorncliffe, England for Training

WW1 Canadian Expeditionary Force [CEF] Hut Canadian Camp, Sandling, Kent 'Happy Home ' Hut

WW1 Canadian Expeditionary Force Hut Canadian Camp, Sandling, Kent

         Canadian Expeditionary Force - Canadian Camp, Sandling, Kent, England    Training on a West Spring Gun  

                              WW1 Canadian Expeditionary Force  Troopship leaving Folkestone

                      On 14 September 1915 the Battalion left for France where it served from 1915 -1919.

        William Henry VANSICKLE was part of a 6 man crew on a bomb-throwing catapult called the West Spring Gun.

           This was designed in 1915 to throw a hand grenade high into the air and to fall into the enemy trenches.

                 Both father and son  were assigned with  the rest of the Canadian units to Vimy Ridge.

                                                                   Vimy:  Canadians Trucks

Ernest was a Signaller  and  later that year he was badly wounded and in hospital while his father remained in action with the Brantford Bomb throwers On 08 Aug 1916  William H and Ernest were both hospitalised in England:   Father  William H  in Gosport, Hampshire and  son Ernest  in Ramsgate, Kent,  where it  was thought his arm might have to be amputated. 

 By 29 Sep 1916  Ernest was now a Sergeant, and was invalided home to the Military Hospital in Toronto. He was severely wounded at Vimy Ridge as  the result of a bursting shell.

Father William H remained in France but by 22 Nov 1917 he was on the staff at a [military?] hospital in Bunston, Derbyshire,  where he was badly burnt on the hands & body as a result of an accident. This family had  more than their fair share of bad luck as 8 year old  son, Eugene was at that time recovering from an illness in the Brant Sanatorium.

Father William Henry  retuned home  at last on 23 March 1918.  So many men did not!  'Lest we Forget'
 

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Fact 1   Lloyd  R Little was 23 at the time of  marriage & b Thorold, Ontario -parents named 

Fact 1  Jesse Edgar MOTT was born 09 Jan 1874 in Barton Township, Wentworth County, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, son of Valentine Mott and Celeste Emily Fletcher. Jesse died 25 March 1958 and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

Fact 2. Jessie Edgar Mott is on the Canadian Census 1881 living Barton, Wentworth South, Ontario: Father's occ. Farmer, Religion Methodist : Children are : George  9 yrs., Jessie 7 yrs., Mary R.  5 yrs., William H. 3yrs.  & James F.  1yr  Ref Family History Library Film 1375891.

Assiniboia, c.1885, photo O.B. Buell

Jessie Edgar Mott,  known as Edgar ,was living in the district of Assiniboia in Saskatchewan in the 1911 census.                                                  

They had a male domestic, Alex McDonald, living with them.     

Ref. Sylvie Vingoe.

Edgar and Edith  MOTT moved from Ontario to Manitoba and then to Saskatchewan, where they had a farm homestead from 1903: this has stayed in the family. Their granddaughter, Edith King, lives there with her husband and family. They celebrated the centenary of Mott Farm recently and the road it is on is now named Mott!

From a letter Cousin Edith received from the National Children's Home I also found out the story behind the emigration of the four children of William Henry Vingoe to Canada. After his death in 1882, Sarah Ann, his widow, was finding it hard to make ends meet. She applied to the National Children's Home to take Edith, who was received into the home on 17 March 1885. 

The letter confirms that  Sarah Ann earned two shillings and sixpence per week as a needlewoman and so was unable to maintain her family on her  limited income,

"Edith " lived at our London Home until emigrating  to our Canada Branch in Hamilton in 1890. She was described as an honest, good tempered, spirited child.  She was placed as a servant in the home of Rev Dr and Mrs Cochrane at Brantford.  She was very keen to train as a nurse, but was not accepted because she was not tall enough.  It appears that she then worked at our Hamilton Branch until the late 1890s and she married Edgar Mott in 1899.  She returned to England for a short while in 1898 and visited her mother. During this time she worked for a while at our Alverstoke Branch on the South Coast, looking after crippled and delicate children, returning to Canada in 1899.  She last wrote to National Children's Home in 1956, with the help of her daughter Mrs S W Jefferson.  She was then living in New Westminster.  She was then aged 84."

Elizabeth (Bessie) Roberts Vingoe [c1872] "was admitted to the Home 13 May 1889, aged 17.  She had been in service in Penzance, but times were hard, she was unhappy and her mother felt she would have a better chance in life if she was able to go abroad. Bessie sailed to Canada on  17 May 1889 and was placed in the household of Rev and Mrs Holmes at Stratford and Owensands, where she stayed until May 1892, when she moved to Toronto, Ontario.  The last letter on her file was from the home of a Mr and Mrs Manton.  Bessie had a considerable amount of ill health".

William Henry Vingoe  b 01 Feb 1880 "went to Canada in March 1896 after an application from his mother, who felt he would have a better chance in life.  After a brief stay in Hamilton, he went to live with Bessie and her husband at Brantford. He was there for three years and then worked for a firm called James Smith & Co, making harness and saddlery for horses and goats, returning to Hamilton for holidays. These three people kept in touch with each other and with mother."

Mabel Vingoe  b 1877, youngest daughter of  Sarah & William, was never admitted to the National Children's Home.  She married William Thomas Jordan  at St Peter's Newlyn  in 1898  age 20 yrs, and shortly after the birth of their first child Mabel in 1899, they moved to Ontario, Canada. William Thomas Jordan was recorded as being a 'Foundry Labourer' in the 1901  Canadian Census. Mother, Mabel  Jordan  is recorded on 1930 Census for San Francisco, living with her sons, Thomas Jordan aged 28,  Horace Vingoe Jordan and daughter Nora Jordan .

William Ernest only lived 12 hours, dying of  "debility from birth".  Death registered by his aunt, Mary Roberts of Street an Nowan.

Fact 1    

Marr: 20-Apr 1839 Paul
Hugh WEEKS     of age of Paul    occ: Mason   Father Hugh    occ: Miner
Patience COTTON  age 20 of Paul occ:  Servant Father  Charles occ: Fisherman
Groom Signed - Bride Marked
Witnesses Robert TREGENZA & James RICHARDS

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Bapt.  03-Nov  1839 Paul      Harriet WEEKS
Bapt.  27-Jan  1841   Paul     William WEEKS

    Patience COTTON was a daughter of  Charles COTTON & Deborah PENDER married  17 May 1812 Paul      
    Patience WEEKS  was buried 27-Jan 1841 Paul
    Patience WEEKS  age 27 of Newlyn
 

 Fact 3                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           1841
Piece: HO107/143/9 Place: Penwith -Cornwall Enumeration District: 18
Civil Parish: Paul Ecclesiastical Parish: -
Folio: 38 Page: 21 North Place                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 WICKS sic WEEKS   Hugh     M  25      Mason     Cornwall  [widower ?]
WICKS  Harriet  F  18mo       -         Cornwall
WICKS  William M   6mo        -         Cornwall
COTTON Deborah F 45 Fisherman's Widow   Cornwall [Mother in Law ?]

1851
Piece: HO107/1918 Place: Penzance -Cornwall Enumeration District: 1d
Civil Parish: Paul Ecclesiastical Parish: St. Peter Newlyn
Folio: 272 Page: 30 Schedule: 147
Address: Brys Square

WICKS  sic  WEEKS Hewey  Head M M 34 Mason Falmouth      [HUGH WEEKS] 
WICKS Martha Wife M F 34 - Paul
WICKS Willm.  Son - M 10 Scholar Paul
WICKS Harriet Dau - F 7 Scholar Paul
WICKS John      Son - M 4 Scholar Paul
 

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 Fact 6

Fact 1     Thomas E Vingoe  was employed in later years by the Cornwall County Council  as a  teacher of net-making, rope-splicing and other nautical skills at the Institute in Newlyn.                                                        Obituary  ' Cornishman'  Penzance 3 Dec + 7 Dec 1901

Fact 2     Thomas E Vingoe b 1842  death MI   Sheffield Road Cemetery, Paul

Fact 3     Harriet Weeks bapt.  Paul Parish Record

Fact 4     Harriet Vingoe death  MI Sheffield Road Cemetery Paul

Fact 5    1881  Martha WEEKS, widow age  64 : son Henry age 22 single : mason : living at North Corner 

Fact 5   Thomas E Vingoe died  from a tumour

Fact 1    1871/81/91 Census :  unmarried domestic duties :

Fact 2    1901 Census : with parents :  unmarried age 31

Fact 3    MI inscription Sheffield Road Cemetery, Paul  -                  BURIED WITH PARENTS    

Fact 1     Census Helena's  Residence:
1871-1881 Prospect Place Newlyn
1891 Trewarveneth Street Newlyn
1911 Lower Green Street Newlyn

Fact 2     1891 Census :dressmaker : unmarried 

Fact 3     Marriage  of  Helena Vingoe  :  Reg. PZ  Sep  1/4  1898  :  Ref. 5c/389

Frederick's Residence:
1871 - 1881 Church Street Newlyn
1911 Lower Green Street Newlyn
 

Fact 1  1871/81/91 Census

Fact 2    1901 With parents unmarried age 31                               

Fact 3  MI inscription Sheffield Road Cemetery, Paul  with parents

Fact 1 There is no sign of John S Davies' father, John Davies, on the 1871/1881 Census. However, he is present at the marriages of his sons, Walter Davies b1867 to Mary Phyllis Maddern, 10 Aug 1890 St Peter's Newlyn, and Alfred James Davies b 1874 to Blanche Jenkin, 23 June 1895 St Peter's, Newlyn

Fact 2  1881 45 Queen St. Penzance: John S Davies age 14 Blacksmith [Father John Davies: Mariner : Absent]

Fact 3 Annie Vingoe married John Sampson Davies Sep 1/4 1894

Fact 4  1895 -96 John S Davies was an "Uit-Lander" in the Kruger Republic. He witnessed the Jameson Raid which triggered the Boar War. The Gold Rush  influx of miners reached a peak in 1895 and at this time  John S Davies had a foundry in Doornfontaine, Johannesburg, SA.

Fact 4   Photo of John Sampson Davies & Annie Vingoe is in a mount with the studio name of Dan W Volkryn, Randfontein, Transvaal -clearly taken when they were both in the Johannesburg area c1920 [assuming they were in their late 40`s when the picture was taken].  Photo and Information supplied by Phil Vingoe, G/grandson of this couple. Click on photo to see a larger view.

 Annie Vingoe

Fact 5  Annie Vingoe On 1881 Census &  1891 Census  : Domestic work at home 

                                                                                                        Jessie Davies  b 1895 Newlyn                 

Fact 1  Arthur Vingoe & Jessie Davies were 2nd cousins, once removed & shared decent from Henry VINGOE:  Jessie  was a 2 xg granddaughter & Arthur was a 1 xg grandson.  See descent as recorded on Arthur's line. 

Fact 2. Jessie & Arthur's had a son, John Davies VINGOE  born 1915. He was only 2 years old when his father died due to an illness whilst on active service and he was buried in France.

Arthur Vingoe is commemorated on the 1914-18  War  Memorial, Newlyn  & also on the Commonwealth War  Graves Commission memorial. He is buried in Trouville-sur-Mer, Normandy, a coastal town at the mouth of  the River Touques, about 12 kilometres north-west of Pont l' Eveque. The cemetery is in the south of the town in the Rue de Manoire   high on a hill above the town. Arthur lies buried in the French Military Plot, which also contains two Commonwealth burials of  WW I & two from WW II, as well as various French nationals.         

Fact 3. After the death of Arthur Vingoe,  Jessie moved away from Newlyn and married to James Masefield, and had 3 more children.  

 Photo courtesy of Phil Vingoe

NOTE:

Descendant lines

6, 7 & 8  above appear under line of Arthur Vingoe  as generations 5, 6, & 7.

        Arthur Vingoe &  Jessie Davies  were  2nd  cousins, once removed.

 Anne Margaret Davies:  b 27 Jun 1897  Newlyn

Fact 1 Birth dates etc from Naturalisation application of Annie Margaret and William John Haydon

Fact 2 Arrived in USA  14 Dec 1925 from Southampton on  SS Mauritania.

Fact 3  Naturalisation application papers for Anne, William Haydon and son Dennis says they emigrated  in 1925.

Information on Haydon line  per Lillian Vingoe, widow of Stanley, son of Hugh Vingoe in Akron, Ohio USA + Linda Mann's unstinting  research at Akron's County Courthouse for  the fast disappearing documentation.       Photos courtesy of Phil Vingoe

Fact 1  Robert John Davies, Lieut. in Canadian Regiment WW1

To Read more about Robert John Davies go HERE

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Lillian Maude Davies born 1902

 Photo courtesy of Phil Vingoe

Fact 1: 1881 Census:  Thomas Ellis Vingoe III  b 1873 Newlyn. with parents

Fact 2: 1891        "                     "              working as a fisherman unmarried 

Fact 3: 1901        "                      "                     "                      "                "

Fact 4:   Thomas E Vingoe  became second coxswain of the  Elizabeth & Blanche II  Penzance lifeboat  in about 1907. His  Uncle Alfred Vingoe, only  4 years his senior, was coxswain.

Fact 5:  Thomas E Vingoe was made coxswain when the lifeboat Elizabeth & Blanch II  moved to Newlyn. He served from 1908-1913 and retired when the Elizabeth  & Blanche II was moved to the Penlee Station. Photo

Fact 6: West Briton  reports Thomas E Vingoe was coxswain of Newlyn lifeboat  Elizabeth & Blanche that saved 14 lives  in the great gale of December 1911

Fact 7:  Lay Preacher at the old Ebenezer Chapel in Boase St. Newlyn, and later at the Primitive Methodist Chapel on Church Lane, Newlyn [built in 1927] 

Ref:  Large Red Leather presentation Bible on his retirement from the circuit.. [now lost]

Fact 1: 1881 Census:       Phyllis Sampson  b 1880 Newlyn. with parents. Higher Green St. Newlyn

Fact 2: 1891        "                      "            with parents

Fact 3: 1901        "                      "            unmarried.  Living at home with parents

Fact 4 :  Family Bible entry July 1901:                                                                                                                   Thomas E Vingoe & Phyllis Sampson marriage: New address Penwith House. Thomas Ellis and Phillis were married in Paul Church.  Phillis was of St Peter's Parish Witnesses were:-  Thomas Sampson & Grace Sampson. Thomas was a brother to Phyllis and the lifelong companion of her husband, Thomas Ellis Vingoe.  They are together in  every photo I have yet found.  Grace was her sister.