Family Members
This is a list of all known family members (and their spouses) who descend from Gabriel Blewett and Ruth Waters up to the fourth generation of descent, including a few ring ins that help tell their story.
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Leonard Blewett Pearce was Emma Blewett's grandson. He emigrated to South Africa with his family in 1894, a newborn, and married Kathleen Lucy Logan in Johannesburg 25 April 1925. Leonard was probably known as Len (he signed his marriage certificate Len Pearce).
Both Leonard and Gertrude Pearce were given the middle name Blewett, their maternal grandmother's maiden name. That they weren't given their mother's maiden name, Redman, appears to confirm that Mary's father William Henry Redman was persona non grata, having more than likely abandoned the family, leading to the Redman family's separation by the 1881 census. It suggests to me that Emma Blewett was much loved by her daughter Mary.
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There is much much more to tell of Thomas's childhood in Castlemaine and Schnapper Point in the 1850s and 1860s, and his adult years, but it is not for sharing at this time. I have deep empathy for Thomas.
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Elizabeth Ann was probably known as Ann (she was noted as Ann in the list of parents’ other children on her brother David Rees Morgan’s birth certificate).
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There is more to tell of John's childhood in Castlemaine and Schnapper Point in the 1850s and 1860s, but it is not for sharing at this time.
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There is more to tell of Emma's childhood in Castlemaine, but it is not for sharing at this time.
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There is much much more to tell of Gabriel's childhood and adulthood, but it is not for sharing at this time. Gabriel was my great grandfather. He died a year after my father was born.
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Other names —
Fanny Stains/Staines
Frances Fanny Victoria Morgan
John Morgan could not have been Fanny's father, who was almost certainly William Staines. Fanny wasn’t a name favoured by the Morgan or Blewett families – it was a Staines family name, and marked Fanny definitively as her father William Staines’s daughter. Fanny was registered under the name Stains and was variably known as Fanny Staines and Fanny Morgan as a child, but mostly Fanny Morgan. In death Fanny claimed the lineage of John Morgan, named as her father on her death certificate. She also claimed the grander sounding full name of Frances Fanny Victoria Morgan.
There is much much more to tell of Fanny's childhood and short difficult life, but it is not for sharing at this time. I have deep empathy for Fanny.
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John Blewett was the only child of John Waters Blewett and his wife Anna, and only lived seven months.
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Emma was the first child of Gabriel and Grace Blewett. She only lived 8 months. Catherine was Grace's elder sister's name.
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Arthur was the only surviving child of Grace and Gabriel Blewett, orphaned at the age of four. He must have been taken in by his aunt, Catherine Clay, as death notices for the Clay family describe him as a child of the family, and his own death notice starts 'BLEWETT (Clay)'. Arthur was a musician, as was his son. Latterly he was a clicker.
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Mary was the eldest daughter of Emma Blewett. She emigrated to South Africa with her husband and young family in 1894. Her surviving children Leonard and Gertrude Pearce were given the middle name Blewett, their maternal grandmother's maiden name. That they weren't given their mother's maiden name, Redman, appears to confirm that Mary's father William Henry Redman was persona non grata, having more than likely abandoned the family, leading to the Redman family's separation by the 1881 census. It suggests to me that Emma Blewett was much loved by her daughter Mary.
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Emma was listed in Kelly's Directory of Cornwall, 1894, as Miss Emma Redman, dressmaker, 56 St James' Street, Penzance. Later in 1894 in her marriage to Charles Blake her name is given as Gertrude Emma.
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Bessie Redman was the youngest daughter of Emma Blewett and William Redman, born at the 'back of Marine Terrace', the Blewett family home in Penzance. She died at not quite two years old of marasmus, a wasting disease.
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Gertrude Emma Blewett married John Arthur Garrod (1870-1960) in Boston, Massachusetts, 17 April 1901. John, a construction superintendent in the building trade, was a lodger in the house of Gertrude's father Edward Blewett in the 1900 US census. Gertrude and John were married by Gertrude's father Edward Blewett. Gertrude and John had three children, John Edward Garrod (1902-1979), Constance Mary Garrod (1906-1950) and Ruth Frances Garrod (1911-1994). Sources: FamilySearch, Ancestry and personal communication, Pamela Blewett Sanborn.
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William John Brown (Bill)
William Brown was Ellen Brown's elder brother. He had two children – Alfred William Brown (1884-1952) and Myra Elizabeth Brown (Mrs Duncan Kennedy) (1886-1968) – and one grandchild, Laurie, when he died as the result of a terrible accident at the Little Dock in 1921. His spine was broken by a bag of sugar falling on him and an inquest was held.
I found a death notice for him placed by his sister Ellen, which indicates that they had remained in contact (The Age, 7 March 1921, p.1)
BROWN.—On the 24th February (result of an accident), William John, dearly beloved brother of Nellie Morgan, and loving stepbrother of Mary, Louisa and Alfred. —Inserted by E. E. Morgan, East Prahran.
A death notice was also placed by 'his fellow founders of the Yarraville Cricket Club', and his sister-in-law Lizzie Hoyle, 'a genuine, good man gone West'.
William's wife Catherine died 31 January 1940, aged 75.
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Other/married names —
Ellen Brown
Ellen Morgan
My father remembers Ellen as a lovely lady. It seems she was known as Nellie.
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Alfred was in the Merchant Navy (UK, Apprentices Indentured in Merchant Navy, 1824-1910, Ancestry) and was recorded at his parents' home in the 1881 UK census. Immigration/arrival information for Victoria not located. In Melbourne he worked as a fireman.
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James's father, William Oliver Pearce, also born in Falmouth, was a cab/coach man (Cornish Telegraph, 1 March 1871, p.3, c.3) in Penzance. James himself was granted a cab driver's licence at the age of 18 (Cornish Telegraph, 17 August 1870, p.2, c.6), but was noted as a hairdresser by the time of his marriage in 1887. He was active with the Primitive Methodists. He and his young family emmigrated to South Africa in 1894.
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Louisa was married to Arthur Blewett, the only surviving child of Gabriel and Grace Blewett. In 1891, the year after she married Arthur, Louisa signed the ‘Monster’ suffrage petition, from the address 458 Wellington Street, Clifton Hill.