Married names — Elizabeth Morgan Elizabeth Staines Elizabeth Pocock

Edward Blewett was the youngest surviving son of Gabriel and Ruth Blewett, and ultimately the only one of their children to live a 'successful' and long life. He spent 5 years in Victoria, ending up in Sandhurst (Bendigo) before returning to England, enrolling directly at the Pastor's (later Spurgeon's) College, London, to train to be a religious minister. Whilst in Sandhurst he may have been involved with the Sandhurst Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association. He married and had several children before emigrating to the United States in 1892. Edward is the only one of Gabriel and Ruth's children that I have located photographs of. He is the means by which I visualise the others. I am so grateful for these photographs.

Married names — Anna Blewett Anna Paul Anna was baptised Hannah Jane Brewer, but her name was later given as Anna Jane (Hannah in the 1841 census, Anna in the 1851 census). After John Blewett's death she and her baby son John (1862-1863) went to live with her brother in country Victoria. Anna remarried in 1867 to Walter Paull and had five more children. She was widowed in 1886 and died in Yackandandah in 1915, aged 79.

Married names — Grace Lenderyou/Landeryou Grace Blewett

William Henry Redman was a Penzance local, baptised 26 June 1836, and like his father a painter and glazier by trade. In Coulson’s Directory of Penzance for 1864 William Henry Redman, painter, is listed at 11 Daniel’s Place (or Daniel Place) - directly behind the Blewett family home 11 Marine Terrace, Penzance. William was prosecuted for waste of water during the 1864 drought, a fascinating little glimpse of life in Penzance. William had returned from a day at work to find no water available, so went to a well for drinking water and to clean up from work. Then he went fishing till midnight (remembering my brief visit to Penzance in June, the evening would have been very long and lovely, and perfect for fishing until midnight). (Penzance Petty Sessions, heard at the Town Hall, 25 July 1864, reported in The Cornish Telegraph, 27 July 1864.) He was still with his family at the time of the 1871 census, but disappears from all records after that. In the period between 1852 and 1865 William Redman’s own family had suffered greatly. He was one of four sons born to William and Mary Redman. All three of his brothers had died by 1862: John died 3 September 1852 (age 14); Charles died 8 April 1854 (age 21, ‘greatly beloved and respected’); James died 25 April 1862 (age 18, ‘much respected’). Mary, his mother, died in 1865 ‘after a lingering illness’. William’s father was an inmate in the Union Workhouse, Madron, Penzance, which he entered sometime around July 1869, (The Cornish Telegraph, 24 November 1869). Why could William Henry Redman not have housed and fed his widowed father at this time? William Redman senior died 16 May 1875, still in the Penzance Union Workhouse (Cornwall OPC, Burials database; 'Deaths', The Cornish Telegraph, 2 June 1875, p.3, c.2). Taken together with the situation of his wife and two daughters, all separated by the 1881 census, it appears the family fell on very hard times.

Other names — Bill Staines 'Bill the Butcher' William Stains William Steines William Hadden (alias) William Jenkins (alias) William Smith (alias) William Beaumont (alias) William Staines had a long criminal record and was known under various aliases: Bill Staines, William Steines, alias Haddon, alias Jenkins, alias Smith, alias Beaumont, alias ‘Bill the Butcher’ (for his profession rather than his personal tendencies). He was younger than Elizabeth Morgan by three or so years. Although named as the father of Elizabeth's son Edward on Edward's death certificate, William cannot have been the father, as he was still serving a two year sentence on the roads for ‘stealing money from the person’ (which means he was a pickpocket) when Edward was conceived. William's origins and ultimate end elude me still.

Married name — Ellen Vontom Ellen had her first child at 19 and second at 23. No father was named on their death certificates. Both children bore the name Brown on their marriage certificates, giving their father's name as William Brown (shoemaker). Ellen married labourer John Vontom in 1873 and they had four children: Mary Louisa (1875), John Peter (1877), Louisa Annie (1880) and, in the year that her eldest daughter Ellen married Gabriel Morgan, a son, Alfred Gabriel (1883). When Ellen married John her son William was eleven and daughter Ellen was six. Ellen's death certificate stated that she was born in Cork, Ireland, and had been about 3 years in Queensland, about 3 years in New South Wales, then 37 years in Victoria. The Hurley family migrated to Australia in several waves. The eldest daughter of John and Mary Hurley, Honora (c.1830-1863), married John Goold in 1851 and together they travelled to Australia on the Beejapore, arriving in January 1853 in New South Wales, Honora giving birth to their first child Mary at sea. Five weeks of distressing quarantine followed, given contagion on the ship. Also on the Beejapore as assisted immigrants were Honora's younger sisters Eliza Hurley, 22, house servant and Mary Hurley, 15, nursemaid. John and Mary Hurley followed on the Conrad, arriving in Brisbane 15 November 1855. Their eldest son Thomas Hurley, 23, sailor, came out on the Forest Monarch 21 December 1858, Sydney, sponsored by his father, living in Sydney according to the ship's records, which also noted that Thomas's mother Mary was dead. Mary died in tragic circumstances in 1857. Her death certificate didn't list her children Patrick or Ann, which suggests that Patrick was in fact deceased before the family left Ireland, and that Ann must have died between their arrival in November 1855 and her mother Mary's death in October 1857. The Goolds were in Melbourne by 1854, Eliza by at least 1856, Mary by at least 1857 and Ellen had her first child in Melbourne in 1862. All the siblings bar Thomas and Ann (who I've not yet been able to trace) ended up in Melbourne, but their mother Mary died in New South Wales in late September/early October 1857. It doesn't appear that John Hurley left New South Wales. He may have died in 1872.

Elizabeth and her widowed mother were living in the household of Gabriel and Ruth Blewett in Penzance when the 1841 UK census was taken. Elizabeth was Ruth's elder sister by a year. The census noted that she was of independent means. Elizabeth was still living in her sister's household when the 1851 census was taken, this time noted as 'maintained by her relations'. She was 54. In all probability she would have stayed on with Ruth in the years that Gabriel and the two elder Blewett sons were in Australia. She did not travel to Australia with Ruth in 1859. I have not found a death or marriage record for her, nor located her in the 1861 census.

Elizabeth Blewett died in February 1809 in Perranuthnoe, aged 1 (almost three years to the day of the death of Gabriel and Ann's first daughter called Elizabeth). She was likely the Elizabeth Bluett (Bluets, OPC) born to Gabriel and Anne [sic] baptised at Marazion, in January 1808.

Ann Blewett (c.1767- ) was the mother of Gabriel Blewett (1799-1870). Baptism records indicate that she was living with her husband Gabriel in Perranuthnoe and they had three children there, Gabriel (1799), Elizabeth (1804-1806) and Elizabeth (1808-1809). They may have had a son Edward, in Gwinear, in 1795. An Ann Blewett, who could have been Gabriel’s mother, was admitted to Penzance Dispensary several times in 1828 and 1829, noted as a poor widow or poor woman. This was probably the Ann Blewett who died in 1831, aged 65, buried at Madron. Unconfirmed.