Maria Kendall (born circa 1817) was a visitor at Benney household at St Mawgan in the 1851 census:

• MARY KENDALL (baptised 21 September 1869 at Mawgan-in-Pydar),
  
• ROGER KENDALL (baptised 11 April 1871 at Mawgan-in-Pydar),
  
• HORACE KENDALL (baptised 24 February 1876 at Mawgan-in-Pydar [private baptism]) and
  
• ELLEN TRELEAVAN KENDALL (born 6 March 1881, baptised 6 June 1881 at Mawgan-in-Pydar).

3.1.2 ♦ Thomas Kendle (c1787…1861+) m. Susanna Kestle (c1799…1881)

Thomas Kendle (born circa 1787, son of THOMAS KENDALL and JOAN ELLERY) and his wife Susanna Kestell (Kestle/Kestall) (born Devonport, Devon, circa 1799) married at St Breock, Cornwall, on 21 November 1821; they were the parents of:

• CORDELIA KENDLE (born circa 1821, baptised 28 July 1822 at St Breock; died 15 February 1908; married William Vercoe; at least one child),
• THOMAS DANIEL KENDLE (baptised 10 May 1825 at St Breock, apparently died an infant),
• JOHANNA KENDLE (born circa 1826, St Breock, baptised 30 April 1826 at Egloshayle; died 1893; married Samuel Wills at St Kew in 1852; probably three issue),
• ELIZABETH ANN KENDALL (christened at the Mt Zion Independent Church, Fowey CON on 21 August 1827),
• JOHN KENDLE (born circa 1828, baptised 11 March 1831 at St Breock),
• MARIANNE KESTLE KENDLE (baptised 10 August 1828 at St Breock),
• JANE KENDAL (christened at St Austel on 5 July 1829),
• another THOMAS DANIEL KENDEL (baptised 21 January 1830 at St Breock; died early 1902; married Mary Jane — circa 1858; at least one child),
• SOPHIA KENDALL (christened at St Austell on 16 December 1831 ) and
• SUSANNA KENDLE (born circa 1837, baptised 17 September 1837 at St Breock)
  

Name	Age	Occupation	Birthplace	eYoB
William West	60	Farmer	in county	1781
Johanna West	25	.	in county	1816
Prudance West	20	.	in county	1821
William West	20	.	in county	1821
Martin West	15	.	in county	1826
Joseph Carveth	25	Ag. Lab.	in county	1816
Thomas Kendle	12	Ag. Lab.	in county	1829
Elizabeth Oliver	14	F. S.	in county	1827

eYoB = estimated year of birth (Not included in Census: based on simple subtraction of age from Census year).
[per http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kayhin/149238.html]

Perhaps related to Susanna (born circa 1801), there lived nearby in 1841:
(St Breock/ Ruthurn Bridge [1 inhabited dwelling] [page 16, folio 12])

3.1.2.1 Cordelia Kendle (c1821…1908) m. William Vercoe (c1813…1897)

Patricia Foley (née Vercoe) [29jun2006] kindly contributed the basic details regarding Cordelia and her family.
The marriage of Cordelia Kendell (born circa 1821 and baptised at St Breock on 28 July 1822, daughter of THOMAS KENDLE and his wife SUSANNA KESTELL [KESTLE/KESTALL]) and farmer William Varcoe was registered in the St Columb district, Cornwall, during the last quarter of 1855 . William, born circa 1813 at St Wenn CON, was the son of WILLIAM and GRACE VERCOE [a William Varcoe and Grace Menneer had married at Withiel CON in 1810; a comment (perhaps a placename) "Cabmrer" is associated with this marriage in Pallot's Marriage Index for England]. William and Cordelia were the parents of at least one child, a son:

• CHARLES KENDALL VERCOE (born 1857; died 1910; married ladies maid Grace Rogers (born 1856, died 9 May 1924), four issue - William Thomas Vercoe (1881-1933; married Mary Elizabeth Raby (1880 -1964)[forebears of Patricia Foley] - lived in Boggabri NSW Australia after leaving Cornwall around 1910), Maud Cordelia May Vercoe (born 1882; married John James), Charles Preston Vercoe (born 1889) and Monro Kendall Vercoe (born 1894)).

The 1841 census shews William Vercoe at St Breock CON with his parents and sister [ages rounded];

(Burlawn Commons, St Breock / Pyder [1 inhabited dwelling] [HO107/149/5, folio 13; p18, lines 12-15; GSU# 241271])
Name	Age	Occupation	Birthplace	eYoB
William Vercoe	55	Ag. Lab.	in county	1786
Grace Vercoe	55	.	in county	1786
William Vercoe	25	Ag. Lab.	in county	1816
Mary Vercoe	15	.	in county	1826

The 1851 census shews William Vercoe at St Breock CON with his mother and now-married sister;

(St Breock / Padstow () [1 inhabited dwelling] [HO107/1905, folio 11; page 14, entry 48; GSU# 221057])
Name	Position	Marital Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace	eYoB
William Vercoe	Head	Unmarried	38	Farmer 18 acres Empl. 2 Lab.	St Wenn Cornwall	1813
Grace Vercoe	Mother	Widowed	64	House-keeper	St Breock Cornwall	1787
Mary A Eplet	Sister	Married	25	Dressmaker	St Breock Cornwall	1826

The 7 April 1861 census shews William Varcoe a farmer of 27 acres at St Breock, together with Cordelia and Charles; with labourer Thomas Kestell the previous entry and a farming family named Broad the next:

Name	Position	Marital Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace	eYoB
(Hussan Gate / St Breock /Padstow () [] [RG9/1541, folio 77; page 12, entry 63; GSU# 542828])
Thoms Kestell	Head	Unmarried	24	Labourer	St Breock Cornwall	1837
Hussan Gate [entry 64]
William Varcoe	Head	Married	48	Farmer 27 acres	St Wenn Cornwall	1813
Cordelia Vercoe	Wife	Married	64	Farmer's daughter	St Breock Cornwall	1823
Charles Varcoe	Son	.	4	.	St Breock Cornwall	1857
Beacon [entry 65]
Willm Broad	Head	Married	73	Farmer of 50 acres 1 Labourer	St Kew Cornwall	1788
Ann Broad	Wife	Married	72	House Servant	Cubby Cornwall	1789
William Broad	Son	Unmarried	34	Son	St Kew? Cornwall	1827
Ann Broad	Dau	Unmarried	25	Daughter	Laddock Cornwall	1836
Ann Ham	GDau	.	12	Grand Daughter	St Breock Cornwall	1849

The 1871 census shews William Varcoe a farmer at St Breock, together with Cordelia and Charles and Cordelia's widowed mother Susannah:

Name	Position	Marital Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace	eYoB
(St Breock /Padstow () [] [RG10/2254, folio 84; page 15, entry 82; GSU# 834879]) [entry 81] Tom's Tenament
William Broad	Head	Unmarried	42	Farmer 40 acres	St Austell Cornwall	1829
Ann Broad	Sister	Unmarried	38	Farmer labourer	Ladock Cornwall	1833
Sarah Broad	Niece	Unmarried	17	Farmer labourer	St Breock Cornwall	1854
[entry 82] ~~ Moreshead
William Vercoe	Head	Married	57	Farmer	St Wenn Cornwall	1814
Cordelia Vercoe	Wife	Married	48	.	St BreockCornwall	1823
Charles Vercoe	Son	Unmarried	14	.	St Breock Cornwall	1857
Susannah Kendall	M-i-L	Widowed	70	.	Devonport Devon	1801

In 1881 the census shews William Varcoe, Cordelia and Susannah at Burlawn, St Breock:

(Burlawn, St Breock /Padstow () [] [RG11/2295, folio 79; page 12, entry 58; GSU# 1341551])
Name	Position	Marital Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace	eYoB
William Varcoe	Head	Married	68	Farmer	St Wenn Cornwall	1813
Cordelia Varcoe	Wife	Married	60	Farmer's Wife	St Breock Cornwall	1821
Susannah Kendall	M-i-L	Widowed	80	Formerly Farmer's Wife	Devonport Devon	1801

The 1891 census shews William and Cordelia at Burlawn, St Breock:

(Burlawn, St Breock /Padstow () [] [RG11/2295, folio 79; page 12, entry 69; GSU# 1341551])
Name	Position	Marital Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace	eYoB
William Varcoe	Head	Married	78	Retired Farmer	St Wenn Cornwall	1813
Cordelia Varcoe	Wife	Married	70	.	St Breock Cornwall	1821

Susannah Kendall née Kestell died aged 81 years late in 1881.
William Vercoe died in 1897. Cordelia Vercoe née Kendle or Kendall died 15 February 1908.

3.1.2.2 ♦ Johanna Kendell (c1838…1893) m. Samuel Wills (1852…1893)

Johanna Kendle, born circa 1826 at St Breock, was baptised on 30 April 1826 at Egloshayle, the daughter of farmer THOMAS KENDALL and his wife SUSANNA of St Breock. Johanna married Samuel Wills; they had probably three issue. For further details refer to Section 7.1.

3.1.2.3 Thomas Daniel Kendle (c1830…1902) m. Mary Jane - (c1833…1881+)

The 1861 census appears to shew Thomas, born c1830, son of farmer THOMAS KENDALL and his wife SUSANNA, married and residing at St Wenn CON (7 miles west of Bodmin and 5 miles south of St Breock):

(Kernick, St Wenn (St Cloomb) [1 inhabited dwelling] [RG9/1543; folio 70; page 4, entry 12])
Name	Position	Marital Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace	eYoB
Thomas Kendal	Head	Married	31	Ag. Lab.	St Breock Cornwall	1830
Mary J Kendal	Wife	Married	28	.	Roche Devon	1833
Emily J Kendal	Dau	Unmarried	10m	.	St Wenn Cornwall	1860

By 1871 this family, with the same composition, was living at Mawgan CON (7 miles west of Bodmin and 5 miles south of St Breock):

(Kernick, Mawgan (St Cloomb) [1 inhabited dwelling] [RG10/2256; folio 74; page 19, entry 94])
Name	Position	Marital Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace	eYoB
Thomas Kendall	Head	Married	37	Farm Labourer	St Breock Cornwall	1834
Mary Jane Kendal	Wife	Married	35	Labourer's Wife	Roche Devon	1836
Emily Jane Kendal	Dau	Unmarried	10	Scholar	St Wenn Cornwall	1861

By 1881 Emily was working as a General Servant to the family of Joseph Clemow at Tresawna, St Enoder CON [RG11/2298, Folio: 10, Page: 13] while Thomas and Jane were living at St Columb Major [the neighbouring entry was a Kessall family]:

The death of Thomas Daniel Kendall, aged 71 years (born circa 1831), was registered in the St Columb registration district, Cornwall, in the first quarter of 1902 (vol 5c p63).

4. ♦ Richard Watters (c1781…1841-1877) m. Jane Johns (1791c…1841-1877)

Miner Richard Watters married Jane Johns in February 1814 at Crowan in Cornwall. They raised at least five children, probably at Crowan or Camborne, Cornwall, where their daughter Phillipa was born circa 1831, and the family was living in 1841. The five known children were:

• EDWARD WATTERS (born circa 1822),
• ELIZABETH WATTERS (born circa 1822),
• JOSEPH WATTERS (born circa 1826),
• JOHN WATTERS (born circa 1828) and
• PHILLIPA WATTERS (born circa 1831 CON; died 1918, NSW; married Frederick Broad Green in Crowan, 1851; eleven issue).

The family appears in the 1841 census (done) at Horse Down, Crowan, in Cornwall:

(Crowan/Horse Down [1 inhabited dwelling] [folios 16/17; pages 25/26])

Name	Age	Occupation	Birthplace	eYoB
Richard Watters	60	Miner	in country	1781
Jane Watters	50	.	in country	1791
Edward Watters	19	.	in country	1822
Elizabeth Watters	19	.	in country	1822
Joseph Watters	15	.	in country	1826
Phillipa Watters	10		in country	1831
John Watters	13	.	in country	1828

eYoB = estimated year of birth (Not included in Census: based on simple subtraction of age from Census year).

A will for a Richard Watters of Crowan was proved on 27 June 1855.

In 1861 a widowed Jane Watters (perhaps the relict of Richard, above) was living with her unmarried son Richard at Napheme in Constantine CON:

(Constantine/Napheme [1 inhabited dwelling] [folio 1568; page 66, entry 12)

Name	Position	Marital Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace	eYoB
Richd Watters	Head	Unmarried	45	Farmer	Constantine Cornwall	1816
Jane Watters	Mother	Widowed	71	.	Constantine Cornwall	1790
Christiana Polenham	Srvnt	Unmarried	37	House Servant	Constantine Cornwall	1824
Richd Watters	Srvnt	Unmarried	15	Farm Servant	Constantine Cornwall	1846

eYoB = estimated year of birth (Not included in Census: based on simple subtraction of age from Census year).

In 1861 daughter Phillipa and her husband Frederick Green were living in Leedstown; near to them lived a John and Mary Watters and their family; at 38 years in 1861, perhaps John was the elder brother of Phillipa:

(Crowan/Leedstown Road [1 inhabited dwelling] [folio 1575; page 4, entry 25])

Name	Position	Marital Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace	eYoB
John Watters	Head	Married	38	Tin Miner	Crowan Cornwall	1823
Mary Watters	Wife	Married	35	.	Crowan Cornwall	1826
John Watters	Son	Single	12	Tin Miner	Crowan Cornwall	1849
William Watters	Son	Single	10	.	Crowan Cornwall	1851
Abraham Watters	Son	Single	4	.	CrowanCornwall	1857
Mary Watters	Dau	Single	1	.	Crowan Cornwall	1860

eYoB = estimated year of birth (Not included in Census: based on simple subtraction of age from Census year).

 

5. ♦ James Green (…1877-) m. Jane Green (…1877+)

James Green and Jane Green were the parents in Cornwall of (at least):

• FREDERICK BROAD GREEN (born Cornwall circa 1829, died NSW June 1900 aged 71; married Phillipa Watters in Crowan in 1851 CON with eleven issue).
  

James and Jane are identified on Fredericks death certificate, where Jane' s name is written as Jane [formerly] Green: it is unclear whether this indicates Jane's maiden name or a previous marriage. The death certificate is also the only currently located instance of Frederick's middle name, "Broad". James was apparently deceased and Jane was known alive in Cornwall when Frederick emigrated to Australia in 1877.

5.1 ♦ Frederick Broad Green (1829…1900) m. Phillipa Watters (1832…1918)

Frederick Green was born at St Hilary in Cornwall England c1829-1832 to JANE GREEN; Jane was known to be still living in Cornwall in 1877. Frederick married Phillipa Watters at Crowan Cornwall in January 1851; 19 years old, she was the daughter of miner RICHARD WATTERS, born about 1781, and his wife JANE JOHNS, born about 1791. Phillipa had been born at Crowan or Camourne c1832; both her parents were deceased by 1877. Crowan is a small parish and village in West Cornwall, 8km NNW of Helston; a local landmark is Crowan Beacon, 721' high. The children of Frederick and Phillipa, all born in Cornwall, were:

• JANE WATTERS GREEN (baptised at Crowan, May 1851, alive in 1900),
• HENRY [or HARRY] GREEN (baptised at nearby St Erth in April 1853; alive in 1918),
• PHILLIPA ANN GREEN (born at Crowan in December 1853, died at Orange or Cobar NSW in October 1905; married Samuel Kestel Wills at Camborne in 1873 with some fourteen or fifteen issue),
• twins ELIZABETH (born c1855, baptised at Crowan in 1855, died 1885, NSW; married John Rowe in Conwall)
• and CHRISTIANA GREEN (born c1855, baptised at Crowan 1855)[the IGI lists the mother of Elizabeth and Christina as Phyllis],
• CHRISTINA GREEN (born c1861; alive in 1918?),
• FREDERICK GREEN (born c1863; alive in 1918?),
• ABRAHAM GREEN (born c1866),
• GRACE GREEN (born c1867, Crowan, died 1937; married James Sallans) and
• SARAH GREEN (born c1868; married Arthur Ellis; alive in 1918).
  
  

Plate 1 : Map shewing St Ives, St Erth, St Hilary, Leedstown, Crowan and Camborne, Cornwall [per www.multimap.com]

 

Frederick and Phillipa appear in the 1861 census (done Sunday 7 April) at Crowan in Cornwall:

(Crowan/Leedstown Road [1 inhabited dwelling] [folio 1575; page 5, entry 27])

Name	Position	Marital Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace	eYoB
Frederick Green	Head	Married	32	Miner	St Hilary Cornwall	1829
Phillipa Green	Wife	Married	30	.	Crowan Cornwall	1831
Jane Green	Dau	Single	10	Scholar	Crowan Cornwall	1851
Harry Green	Son	Single	8	.	Crowan Cornwall	1853
Phillipa Ann Green	Dau	Single	7	.	CrowanCornwall	1854
Elizabeth Green	Dau	Single	5	.	Crowan Cornwall	1856

eYoB = estimated year of birth (Not included in Census: based on simple subtraction of age from Census year).

Frederick and Phillipa and most of their children emigrated to Australia aboard the 1,444 ton Aberdeen-built Samuel Plimsoll, departing Plymouth on the 9 June 1877 and arriving at Sydney on 27 August 1877. The shipping lists include Frederick Green, 45, a miner born to Jane Green still living in Cornwall, and Phillipa Green, 44, whose parents were both deceased. With them were their unmarried children Henry, 24, a miner, Christiana, 16, engaged in home duties, Frederick, 14, and dependant children Abraham, 11, Grace, 10, and Sarah, 9. Phillipa Ann, 23, was with her miner husband Samuel Kestel Wills, 24, son of Samuel Wills of Cornwall, and their children Phillipa, 2, and infant Thomas Henry. Elizabeth, 22, travelled with her husband John Rowe, 25, a carpenter the son of Richard Rowe still living in Cornwall. John's labourer brother Richard, 23, was making the passage with his wife Susan, 21, daughter of John Stevens of Cornwall, and their daughter who had been born en voyage.

The Green and Wills families were all born in Cornwall, excepting two-year old Phillipa who had been born in Cumberland. They had no relatives resident in the colonies; all were members of the Church of England except Christina and Elizabeth who were Wesleyan, and all except Henry (and the younger children) could read and write. Both families arrived in good health with no complaints regarding the voyage. Two of Frederick and Phillipa Green's children, the first-born Christina (who had probably died prior to 1861) and Jane, were not among the emigrants.

All the Rowes were described as literate Wesleyan with no relatives resident in the colony, and all were in good health except Susan who required hospital treatment following her child's birth. The Samuel Plimsoll's voyage of 79 days witnessed five deaths and five births on board.

Frederick Broad Green, 71 years old, a cemetery caretaker, son of James and Jane, died 30 June 1900 at Bathurst Road, Orange NSW. He was noted as the son of miner JAMES GREEN and JANE GREEN (formerly GREEN); born in Cornwall, he had married there when aged 21 years to Philippa Walters (sic), and had been in New South Wales for 22 years. He was survived by Phillipa and children Jane (49), Henry (48), Phillipa A. (46), Christina (38), Frederick (36), Grace (34) and Sarah (32), and predeceased by two male and two female issue. He was buried in the Wesleyean Cemetry at Orange.

Phillipa Green, daughter of Richard Waters and Jane Johns, died aged 88 years 22 October 1918 at Schofields near Blacktown NSW, the death was registered at Windsor by her daughter Sarah Ellis who gave her own address as Orange NSW though Sarah and her husband were known to have been resident at Pendle Hill near Schofields at one time. Phillipa was buried in the Methodist Cemetery at Orange after a Congregational service.

5.1.1 ♦ Phillipa Anne Green (1853…1905) m. Samuel Kessell Wills (1852…1919)

Phillipa Anne Green was the daughter born in Cornwall in December 1853 of miner FREDERICK GREEN and his wife PHILLIPA WATTERS/WATERS. On her twentieth birthday at Caraburn / Camborne near Corrimal in Cornwall, Phillipa married Samuel Kessell (or Kastell or Thomas) Wills, the son of labourer SAMUEL WILLS and his wife JOHANNA KENDALL and christened at St Kew Cornwall in 1852. Samuel and Phillipa, with their first-born two children Phillipa and Thomas Henry, emigrated to Australia in 1877 aboard the Samuel Plimsoll, together with most of Phillipa's family and some relatives by marriage. Phillipa died in a sulky accident in 1905, Samuel afterwards marrying a widow, Lydia Clara Keays nee Kilpatrick, who bore him at least one child. Further details of their families follow.

5.1.2 Elizabeth Green (c1855…1885) m. John Rowe (c1852…1907)

Elizabeth Green, born c1855 and baptised 1855, was the daughter of FREDERICK GREEN and PHILLIPA WATERS. Elizabeth married John Rowe, carpenter born c1852 to RICHARD ROWE and MARY DAVY. John had been baptised in 1853 at Madron Cornwall. John and Elizabeth emigrated to Australia with the Green and Rowe families, and John's brother Richard and his family, aboard the Samuel Plimsoll in 1877. In New South Wales, Elizabeth bore John at least three children; this family is further described below.

5.1.3 Grace Green (b1867c…1937) m. James Sallans (1853…1909)

Grace Green, daughter born c1867 to FREDERICK GREEN and PHILLIPA WATERS, spinster of Orange, married wheelwright James Sallans, bachelor of Lithgow, at Lithgow on 29 November 1883 . Witnesses were Minnie Green and Fannie Rutledge. The eleven children of Grace and James were:

• FREDERICK JOHN SALLONS (Fred, born 1884 NSW ; died 1909 at Orange?; married Gertrude May Tunny, Coonamble, 1912; at least nine children born at Coonamble),
• ANNIE SALLANS (born 1886 at Lithgow; died 1971; married Walter William Tucker, Orange, 1916; four children - Charles, Phylippa, Jean and Mavis),
• PHILLIPPA SALLAUS (born 1888 NSW, died 1890, Orange),
• GEORGE HENRY SALLANS (born 1890 at Orange, died at Carcoar 9 January 1915),
• PHILLIPA SALLANS (born 1892, Grenfell NSW; died 1893 at Grenfell),
• RICHARD W SALLANS (Dick, born 1893, Orange; died 21 June 1957, Orange; married Elizabeth Whitworth, April 1926 or Elizabeth W Folster at Orange in 1926, "Bessy" producing three children - Elaine, Phyllipa and James [per Jean Todd of Tuross Head NSW, September 2002]),
• CHARLES H SALLANS (born 1895, Grenfell; alive in 1909),
• WILLIAM ARTHUR SALLANS (born 1897, Orange; died 1955 in Western Australia),
• SARAH F SALLANS (born 1900, Orange; married Milton Dooley, Orange, 1920; later married — Trigg),
• EDWARD R SALLANS (born 1903, Orange; died 1904) and
• HARRY G SALLANS (born 1906, Orange, died 1910, Orange)
  

The death of Grace Sallans nee Green was registered at Lithgow in 1937. Coachmaker James Sallans, son of farmer John Sallans and Ann Brett, died at Coonamble on 8 November 1909, aged 56 years. He had arrived in Australia circa 1880.

5.1.3.1 Frederick John Sallons (1884…1950) m. Gertrude May Tunny (1889… 1954)

Frederick John Sallons, son born 1884 to JAMES SALLANS and GRACE GREEN, married Gertrude May Tunny at Coonamble in 1912. Gertrude's birth to JOHN H TUNNY and MARY BRENNAN (married 1882, Coonamble) had been registered at Coonamble in 1890.The nine children of Frederick and Gertrude were:

 

• JAMES SALLANS (),
  
• JOAN CATHERINE SALLANS (death on 27 December 1977, 'late of Erina', noted in the Sydney Morning Herald on 29th inst. [father noted in registration as Frederick James]; marriage to Frederick William McWilliam registered at Marrickville in 1945; parents of Stephanie Joan McWilliam (born 1951; death on 4 September 1970, 'late of Erina', noted in the Sydney Morning Herald on 7 September 1970)),
  
• LIGOURI SALLANS ('Sister'; death on 12 April 2007 noted in the Sydney Morning Herald on 16 April 2007),
  
• MARY GRACE SALLANS (“Mollie”, born 1913; died 1987; married Jim Ticehurst; parents of Mary Catherine Tccehurst (died 1966); a lot of the Ticehurst family live at Coolah nsw]),
  
• JOHN JAMES SALLANS (born 1914 at Coonamble; died 1958),
  
• HENRY ARTHUR SALLANS (born 1916 at Coonamble; died 1964),
  
• RICHARD HAMPTON SALLANS (born 1923; died 1947),
  
• ANTHONY GEORGE SALLANS (born 1925; died 1977) and
  
• FREDERICK PETER SALLANS (born 1926).

 

The death of Frederick John Sallans was registered at Orange in 1950. The death on 18 December 1954, aged 65, of Gertrude May Sallans, 'late of Dulwich Hill', was noted in the Sydney Morning Herald on 20 December 1954 and registered at Redfern in 1955.

5.1.3.2 Annie Sallons (1886…1971) m. Walter William Tucker (1887… 1965)

Annie Sallons, born 1886 at Lithgow to JAMES SALLANS and GRACE GREEN, married Walter William Tucker at Orange in 1916.The nine children of Walter and Anne were:

 

• PHYLIPPA GRACE TUCKER (born c1919; death of Phillipa Grace Corker on 3 January 1986, aged 67, 'at Westmead Hospital' and 'late of Denistone', noted in the Lithgow Mercury on 10 January 1986 and the Sydney Morning Herald on 4 January 1986); marriage to Harry Corker registered at Lithgow in 1943),
  
• WALTER CHARLES TUCKER (“Charles”, born 1920; death of registered at Lithgow in 1972; married Lola Elizabeth Boyle (1927-2004)),
  
• JEAN VIVIENNE TUCKER (born 1921; death of Jean Vivienne Tucker on 25 May 2001, aged 80, 'at Lithgow District Hospital, late of The Vale, Lithgow', was noted in the Lithgow Mercury on 29 May 2001; married Stewart Edward Young (1913-1995); parents of Walter Arthur Young (1941-1970)) and
  
• MAVIS DAPHNE TUCKER (born 1924; death rigistered at Gilgandra in 1967; marriage to Thomas Andrew John Fyfe registered at Lithgow in 1945).

 

The death of Walter William Tucker, son of WILLIAM and MARY, was registered at Lithgow in 1965. The death on 30 October 1971 of Annie Tucker, aged 86, 'late of Lithgow', was noted in the Sydney Morning Herald on 1 November 1971..

5.1.4 Sarah Green (b1868c) m. Arthur Ellis (b1870c)

Sarah Green, daughter born c1868 to FREDERICK GREEN and PHILLIPA WATERS, married Arthur Ellis (born c1870) near Orange in 1890. Arthur and Sarah Ellis later lived at Pendle Hill NSW. Arthur was a heavily bearded quack with jars of patent medicines made from his home-grown herbs, guaranteed to prevent all kinds of ills, and a healthy country smell. His son took over the Pendle Hill property, raising chickens in underground incubators. All traces of the family's activities are now gone. Sarah had one daughter,

• OLIVE M ELLIS (born 1891 about Lithgow NSW).

Olive married Charles Arnold in 1916; the marriage was registered at Windsor NSW. Charlie, who sometimes took Sid Brown fishing, is remembered as a "nice bloke".

[Apparently unrelated, the birth of a William Ellis was registered to Arthur and Sarah J Ellis at Moree in 1896.]

 

6. Richard Rowe (c1823…1881-91) m. Mary Davy (c1822…1891+)

The marriage of bachelor farmer Richard Rowe, aged 25, of Landithy, and spinster Mary Davy, aged 24, of Trengwainton, was solemnized in May 1847 at Madron CON. The registers record that Richard was the son of farmer JOHN ROWE, and Mary the daughter of farmer THOMAS DAVY.

Mary was most likely the daughter of miner THOMAS and ELIZABETH DAVEY of Kenijack baptised in August 1822 at St Just in Penwith, near Lands End.

Richard was probably baptised at Sancreed in July 1821, the son of labourer JOHN and ELIZABETH ROWE of Sancreed. The 1841 census indicates that John had been born about 1799 and Elizabeth about 1785.

A John Rowe, yeoman residing at Paul, and Elizabeth Marrack of Sancreed had married by licence at Sancreed in May 1817; these were likely to have been Richards parents. Their apparent issue were John Rowe (baptised at Sancreed in May 1818), Mary Rowe (baptised at Sancreed in December1819), Elizabeth Rowe (baptised at Sancreed in December 1820), Caroline Rowe (baptised at Sancreed in June 1821), Richard Rowe (baptised at Sancreed in July 1821) and Clarinda Rowe (baptised at Sancreed in March 1824). It is likely that several earlier baptisms to a John and Elizabeth were of a different family.

[Note though the marriages of John Rowe [X], bachelor of the Town of Penzance, and Elizabeth Lubert [X], widow of the Town of Penzance, married at Madron in August 1814; of John Rowe, bachelor of St Just in Penwith, and Elizabeth Eddy [X], spinster St Just in Penwith, married at St Just in Penwith in November 1820; and of John Rowe [X] of Paul and Elizabeth Reynolds [X] married at Paul in October 1823.]

 

It seems that six children were born to this Richard and Mary:

• MARY ELIZABETH ROWE (baptised April 1848, Madron),
• JOHN ROWE (baptised December 1850, Madron),
• ELLEN ROWE (born circa 1851, Madron),
• JOHN ROWE (baptised May 1853, Madron) and
• RICHARD ROWE (baptised June 1855, St Hilary Cornwall) and
• HANNAH ROWE (born circa 1858?, St Creed CON).
  
  

Richard and Mary Rowe appear in the 1861 census at St Creed in Cornwall:

(St Creed/??)[1 inhabited dwelling][folio 1596; page ?, entry 79]

Name	Position	Marital Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace	eYoB
Richard Rowe	Head	Married	38	Carrier	St Creed Cornwall	1823
Mary Rowe	Wife	Married	39	.	St Just Cornwall	1822
Mary E Rowe	Dau	Single	13	.	Madron Cornwall	1848
Ellen Rowe	Dau	Single	10	.	Madron Cornwall	1851
John Rowe	Son	Single	8	.	Madron Cornwall	1853
Hannah Rowe	Dau	Single	?3	.	St Creed Cornwall	1858?

eYoB = estimated year of birth (Not included in Census: based on simple subtraction of age from Census year).

6.1 John Rowe (c1852…1907) m. Elizabeth Green (c1855…1885)

John Rowe, baptised 1853 at Madron Cornwall, son of RICHARD ROWE and MARY DAVY, married Elizabeth Green, the daughter born c1855 of FREDERICK GREEN and PHILLIPA WATERS. John, bachelor carpenter aged 25 of Stoke Climsland, son of farmer Richard Rowe, and Elizabeth Green, spinster aged 22 of Stoke Climsland, daughter of mine captain Frederick Green, were married at Stoke Climsland in April 1877. Stoke Climsland is a village in the River Tamar Valley, East Cornwall.

John, a carpenter, and Elizabeth emigrated to Australia with the Green family aboard the Samuel Plimsoll, sailing from Plymouth in June 1877.

John and Elizabeth's children were:

• THOMAS ROWE (birth registered at Boorowa nsw in 1878),
• LAURA ROWE (birth registered at Orange nsw in 1879; death registered at Parramatta in 1933; marriage to Thomas Stephen Hobbs registered at Redfern in 1898, three known issue),
• possibly GRACE ROWE (born near Lithgow nsw in 1883i; died near Lithgow nsw in 1884) and
• BESSY ROWE (Elizabeth, possibly born near Lithgow in 1884).

Note that the births of both Thomas Rowe, son of John Rowe and his wife Elizabeth Green, and of his cousin Laura Wills, daughter of Samuel Kestle Wills and his wife Phillipa Ann Green [Elizabeth's older sister] were registered at Boorowa in 1878. Boorowa, between Cowra and Yass and 243km west-southwest of Sydney and 133kn south-southwest of Orange, is a farming town though gold, copper and iron have been mined locally. It was connected to Sydney by rail in 1874.

The death of Elizabeeth Rowe née Green, daughter of Frederick and Phillippa, was registered at Lithgow in 1885.

6.1.1 Thomas Rowe

Thomas Rowe had four children:

• RODERICK ROWE,
• JACK ROWE,
• BETTY ROWE and
• ROBERT ROWE.

6.1.2 Laura Rowe (1879…1933) m. Thomas Stephen Hobbs (…1949)

Laura Rowe married Thomas S Hobbs in 1898, the event being duly registered at Redfern NSW. Their children were:

• ALBERT THOMAS STEPHEN HOBBS (born 1899 near Lithgow nsw; died 1975; marriage to Mary Alison Bowern registered at Orange in 1927, with issue),
• WILFRED S V HOBBS (birth registered in 1900 at Rylstone, perhaps born at St Leonards nsw; death registered at Carcoar in 1913) (was this STANLEY HOBBS) and
• LAURA DOROTHY EILEEN HOBBS ([“Dorothy”?] born 1908 near Lithgow nsw; died 2001; marriage to Leslie George Keeble registered at Parramatta in 1934, with issue).

The NSW Electoral Roll shews Thomas Stephen Hobbs [mine manager], Laura Hobbs [home duties] and Laura Dorothy Eileen Hobbs [clerk] at Bungaree road, Wentworthville, in 1930 and 1933.

The death of Laura Hobbs née Rowe, daughter of JOHN and ELIZABETH, was registered at Parramatta in 1933.The death of Thomas Stephen Hobbs, son of STEPHEN and MARY, was registered at Lithgow in 1949.

6.1.2.1 Albert Thomas Stephen Hobbs (1899…1975) m. Mary Alison Bowen (1896…1975)

The birth of Albert Thomas Stephen Hobbs [“Bert”] on 28 March 1899 was registered to THOMAS S and LAURA at Lithgow. Bert married Mary Alison Bowen [“Molly”] near Orange nsw circa 1927. Mary's birth on 27 September 1896 had been registered to THOMAS C and EMILY J at Orange. Children of Thomas and Mary included:

• JEANETTE HOBBS (perhaps married Benedict Durand; the NSW Electoral Rolls shew a Benedict Charles Durand [manager] and Janette Emily Durand [bookkeeper] at Fifth Ave., Macquarie Fields),
• LAURA EILEEN HOBBS (born March 1931; death of Laura Eileen Hunter in January 1992, aged 60, 'late of Kingswood Park', noted in the Sydney Morning Herald next day; marriage to William George Hunter (born July 1932) registered at Penrith in 1956; the NSW Electoral Roll list William George Hunter [bricklayer] and Laura Eileen Hunter [typiste] at 229 High street, Penrith, in 1958, William with Laura [home duties] at 36 Woodriffe street, Penrith, in 1963, and William and Laura joined by Anthony Hunter [labourer] at 26 Kareela avenue, Kingswood, in 1980),
• TOM ALBERT STEPHEN HOBBS (marriage to Margaret Ann Lee registered at Moss Vale in 1958 with apparently two issue (son (married — Schniders, five children) and daughter (married — White); the NSW Electoral Rolls shew Thomas [fitter and machinist] at 108 Doonmore street, Penrith, in 1958; Thomas [engineer] and Margaret [teacher] were listed at Lot 10, [Great] Western Highway, Faulconbridge and ([qual. Cont. end] and [home duties] at 140 Derby street, Penrith, in 1963; the 1980 Rolls shew Thomas [engineer], Margaret [tchr.], Craig Stephen Hobbs [crpntr.] at 12 Greenhills Ave., Penrith) and
• STANLEY HOBBS and
  
• stillborn HOBBS (death registered at Auburn, 1937).

The NSW Electoral Roll shews Albert Thomas Stephen Hobbs [railway employee] at Allenby road, Orange, Orange, in 1930, with Mary Alison Hobbs [home duties] at Nile street, Ophir near Orange. Albert and May Alison Hobbs [home duties] at 170 Cumberland road, Auburn, in 1936 and 1937. Albert [railway fireman] and Mary Alison Hobbs were at 194 Derby street, Penrith, in 1943 and 1949. Albert [engine driver] and Mary were at 112 Doonmore street, Penrith, in 1960.

The death on 19 September 1975 of Mary Alison Hobbs, 'late of Penrith', daughter of THOMAS CHARLES and EMILY JANE, was noted next day in the Sydney Morning Herald. The death on 3 October 1975 of Albert Thomas Stephen Hobbs née Bowen, 'late of Penrith', son of THOMAS STEPHEN and LAURA, was noted in the Sydney Morning Herald on 4th inst..

6.1.2.2 Laura Dorothy Eileen Hobbs (1908…2001) m. Leslie George Keeble (1900…1975)

Laura Dorothy Eileen Hobbs (Dorothy) married Leslie George Keeble (Les) at Parramatta in 1934. Les was the son of (and perhaps the only child of) WILLIAM G KEEBLE and his wife HARRIET; his birth was registered at Woolahra NSW in 1900. Leas and Dorothy had children:

• LESLIE BARRIE KEEBLE (“Barry”, died August 1990, of Parramatta)) and
• ROBERT WAYNE KEEBLE.
  

The NSW Electoral Roll shews Leslie George Keeble [motor salesman] at Station street, Wentworthville, in 1930 and at 2 Station street, Wentworthville, in 1933; Leslie George Keeble [sales manager] and Laura Dorothy Eileen Keeble [home duties] at Bungaree road, Wentworthville, in 1936; at 2 Station street, Wentworthville, in 1937; George [sales organise] and Laura at 37 Campbell street, Parramatta, in 1943, 1949, and 1954, joined there by Leslie Barrie Keeble [clerk] in 1958 and also by Robert Wayne Keeble [insurance officer] in 1963.

The death of Leslie George Keeble in October 1975, 'late of Parramatta', was noted in the Sydney Morning Herald the following day. The death of Leslie Barrie Keeble in August 1990, 'late of Parramatta', was noted in the Sydney Morning Herald on 3 September 1990. The death of Laura Dorothy Eileen Keeble in October 2001, aged 93, 'late of Parramatta', was noted in the Sydney Morning Herald on 11 October 2001..

6.2 Richard Rowe (1855…) m. Susan Stevens

Richard Rowe, baptised June 1855, St Hilary Cornwall was the son of RICHARD ROWE and MARY DAVY. Richard married Susan Stevens, perhaps the daughter born 1851 of ELIZABETH STEVENS. Richard and Susan emigrated to Australia with the Green family and Richard's brother John aboard the Samuel Plimsoll in 1877.

7. ♦ Joseph Wills m.(1824) Jane Kempthorne

Bachelor Joseph Wills and spinster Jane Kempthorne were married in the Parish Church of St Kew CON in November 1824 after publication of Banns; both were noted as residents of the parish and made their marks in the register; neither had details of parents recorded. It is possible that Jane was the daughter of JAMES and JANE KEMPTHORNE baptised at Sithney CON in August 1802, or (less likely) of SAMUEL and MARGARET KEMPTHORNE baptised at Monaccan CON in August 1793. If the former then Sithney-baptised siblings would seem to include Elizabeth (born 18 November 1808, baptised 27 January 1809), Mary (baptised 22 April 1810), Anne (baptised 9 February 1812 when three weeks old) and Edward (born 27 July 1815, baptised 3 September 1815; father a miner, residence Lower Prispidnic). The Phillimore transcripts (p105) list the marriage of James Kempthorn and Jane Pascoe at St Sithney on 4 May 1802.

Between 1822 and 1836 Jane bore Joseph six children:

• ANN WILLS (baptised June 1825, St Kew),
• JOSEPH WILLS (baptised July 1828, St Kew),
• SAMUEL WILLS (baptised October 1830, St Kew; died in Tintagel parish in June 1893; married Johanna Kendell of St Breock at St Kew in 1852 [Samuel's father noted as a labourer]),
• THOMAS WILLS (baptised July 1832, St Kew),
• MARY HANNAH WILLS (baptised September 1834, St Kew; aged 12, of L Ammel, was buried at St Kew in February 1847) and
• JANE WILES (baptised August 1836, St Kew).

Joseph and Jane were possibly also the parents of:

• ANN WILLS (baptised November 1822, St Ewe) and
• BENJAMIN WILLS (baptised January 1824, St Ewe).

• John Wills (bachelor labourer age 22, of Amble, married spinster Elizabeth Keruch, 22, of Amble, daughter of Thomas, at St Kew in October 1851: viz. born c1829).

A Joseph Wills, aged 38, of L Ammel, was buried at St Kew in June 1838.

The Francis Profit Wills who married Charity Ann Kendall, 37, of Amble, daughter of labourer William Kendall, at St Kew on 12 July 1893, was the son of farmer Joseph Wills of St Minver and Matilda Proffitt (married at St Minver on 22 June 1844. At the time of his marriage Francis was noted as a bachelor mariner of full age, of St Minver, His father Joseph was a son of farmer Anthony Wills..

7.1 ♦ Samuel Wills (1830…1893) m. Johanna Kendell (b1828c…1893)

Samuel Wills, male child of JOSEPH WILLS and JANE KEMPTHORNE his wife, was christened in 1830 at St Kew Cornwall, the church, where Joseph had married Jane Kempthorne on 1824.

Samuel Wills married Johanna Kendell in January 1852 St Kew: Samuel was a bachelor labourer of Amble, of full age (over 21) and son of Joseph, also a labourer. Johanna, daughter of farmer Thomas Kendall, was noted as a spinster of full age from St Breoch Cornwall. The ceremony was witnessed by Thomas Wills and Sarah Williams. It is likely that Johanna was the daughter of THOMAS KENDALL and SUSANNA KESTELL, married at St Breock in 1821, and that she had siblings Elizabeth Ann Kendall, christened at the Mt Zion Independant Church, Fowey Cornwall in 1827, Jane Kendal (christened at St Austel in 1829) and Sophia Kendall (christened at St Austell in 1831). Johanna may have been born in Devonport DEV

A Samuel Wills, 20, unmarried and a native of St Kew, is listed in the 1851 St Kew census returns as a servant in the large household of (p 25, entry 86, Penpont?) of William and Barbara Grose. William Grose was a farmer of 230 acres, employing eight labourers.

The known children of Samuel and Johanna were:

• (?)THOMAS WILLS (born pre1852??),
• SAMUEL KASTELL WILLS (born September 1852, St Kew; died November 1919 in NSW; married Phillippa Ann Green at Camborne CON in December 1873 with some fifteen issue, a widower, he married widow Lydia Clara Keays née Kilpatrick in NSW in 1906 with one issue [Lydia had four chidren from her first marriage]) and
• THOMAS KENDALL WILLS (baptised  April 1854 at St KewDover).

Samuel and Johanna were living at Tintagel when the 1881 census was taken:

(Penpethy House)[census place: Tintagel, Cornwall, England; Piece 2272, Folio 64, p14] [FHL Film 1341546]

Name	Position	Marital Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace	eYoB
Samuel Wills	Head	Married	50	Farm Labourer	St Kew Cornwall	1831
Joanna Wills	Wife	Married	54	Farm Labourer's wife	St Breock Cornwall	1827
Thomas B Wills	GSon	.	6	Scholar	St Issey Cornwall	1875
William Hutchings	Brdr	Single	54	Farm Labourer	St Teath Cornwall	1836

eYoB = estimated year of birth (Not included in Census: based on simple subtraction of age from Census year).

 

Samuel and Johanna were still living at Tintagel when the 1891 census was taken:
(Penpethy Farm)[1 inhabited dwelling][census place: Tintagel, Cornwall, England; RG12; Piece 1799, Folio 55, p16, entry 108]

Name	Position	Marital Status	Age	Occupation	Birthplace	eYoB
Samuel Wills	Head	Married	60	Shepherd	St Kew Cornwall	1831
Joannah Wills	Wife	Married	63	.	St Breque Cornwall	1828
Thomas Wills	GrandSon	Single	16	Farm Servant	St Issey Cornwall	1875
Elizabeth E Graves	Visitor	Married	41	Living on her own means	St Issey Cornwall	1850
Ophelia B Biddick	Visitor	Single	36	Living on her own means	St Issey Cornwall	1855

Samuel Wills, parishioner of St Kew parish Cornwall, died at Penpethey in Tintagel parish on 9 June 1893 aged 62 years; his wife Johanna Wills née Kendell died 4 July 1893 aged 66 years: both were buried in the churchyard of St James the Great, St Kew. Penpethey Farm is 3¼km southeast of Tintagel and 11km NNE of the St Kew parish church.

7.1.1 ♦ Samuel Kestel Wills (1852…1919) m1. Phillippa Ann Green (1853…1905),
m2.(1906) Lydia Clara Keays née Kilpatrick (1864…1946)

Samuel Kestel (Kessell / Kastell / Thomas) Wills was born in Cornwall England in September 1852, the son of labourer SAMUEL WILLS and his wife JOHANNA KENDALL. At Caraburn / Camborne near Corrimal in Cornwall, in December 1873, Samuel married Phillipa Ann Green. Phillipa was the daughter born in Cornwall in 1853 of miner FREDERICK GREEN and his wife PHILLIPA WATTERS/WATERS who had married in Crowan Cornwall in January 1851.

Samuel Kestel and Phillipa Ann Wills landed in Sydney on 27 August 1877 aboard the Samuel Plimsoll. The shipping lists note that Samuel, 24, was a miner born in Cornwall to Samuel Wills living in Cornwall, and that Phillipa, 23, was born in Cornwall to Frederick Green. Both could read and write and were members of the Church of England. They had no relatives residing in the colony, but brought with them their children Phillipa, 2, born in Cumberland, and Thomas, an infant born in Cornwall. Also aboard the Samuel Plimsoll were Phillipa Ann's parents, siblings and other relatives.

There were several twins amongst some fourteen or fifteen children of the marriage of Samuel Kestel Wills and Phillipa Ann Green. The children were

• PHILLIPPA WILLS (born 1875 con; died 19 July 1965 nsw; marriage to James Phillip Flynn registered at Blayney nsw district in 1897, three issue),
• THOMAS HENRY WILLS (born 1876 (or 1877?) con; died 1966 Sacramento California USA; emigrated to NSW in 1877; emigrated to California in 1906; married Winifred Gilman or Gilbert, perhaps in Sacramento, two issue; divorced; married Katherine Penaluna née Davenport),
• LAURA WILLS (born 1878 near Boorowa nsw, died 25 April 1952 nsw; marriage to Harrie Ashcroft Edwards (Harry) registered at Wellington in 1899, some ten issue),
• ELINNA ANN WILLS (Helena, born 1880; died  April 1977; never married),
• twins SAMUEL WILLS (born 1881 near Orange nsw, died  January 1882, possibly buried at Adelong nsw though his death was registered at Orange)
• and FREDRICK WILLS (born 1881 near Orange nsw, died  January 1882, possibly buried at Adelong nsw though his death was registered at Orange),
• twins FREDRICK GREEN WILLS (born 1883 near Dubbo nsw, died March 1884)
• and SAMUEL EARNEST WILLS (born 1883; died Adelaide, South Australia in 1945; marriage to Esther Lucy Smith [“Ettie“] registered at Broken Hill nsw in 1911, five children) [the Wills family Bible suggested another Samuel Wills was born in this family c1884, but research in 2011 tends to discount that idea),
• ADA WILLS (born 1885 near Orange NSW; died February 1939 [death registered at Windsor in 1934??]),
• JOHANNA WILLS (born 1886 near Orange; died December 1976, Moruya NSW; married George Herbert Brown, Auburn 1909; four issue),
• possibly UNKNOWN WILLS (born c1887 - ?),
• LILLIAN ADELAIDE WILLS (“Lily”, born 1888 near Orange NSW, died July 1976 at Wahroonga; marriage to George Alexander Mitchell registered at Cobar in 1908, two issue),
• SIDNEY AUIBLE WILLS (born 1890 near Orange, died 1917, France (killed in action)), and
• KENWITH WILLS (born 1893 near Orange, died November 1893).

Note that the births of both Laura Wills, daughter of Samuel Kestle Wills and his wife Phillipa Ann Green, and of her cousin Thomas Rowe, son of John Rowe and his wife Elizabeth Green [Phillipa's younger sister] were registered at Boorowa in 1878. Boorowa, lies between Cowra and Yass and 243km west-southwest of Sydney and 133kn south-southwest of Orange.

Phillipa Ann Wills née Green died at Orange (?or Cobar) NSW in October 1905, after a fall from a sulky on ?Lucknow Road. Samuel remarried after Phillipa Ann's death; his second wife was Lydia Clara Keays née Kilpatrick. The marriage was registered at Cobar NSW in February 1906. A birth was registered at Cobar NSW to Samuel K Wills and Lydia C:

• KESTEL KILPATRICK GLADSTONE WILLS (born  June 1907; died June 1910 aged 35 months, 'late of Wrightville' near Cobar : notice printed in The Sydney Morning Herald on 2 July 1910 read “WILLS.-June 14, 1910, at his parents' residence, Wrightville, Kessel Gladstone, dearly loved infant son of Samuel and Lydia Wills, aged 2 years 11 months.”).

The Family Bible records that Lydia Clara Wills was born in April 1867, though the birth of Lydia C Kilpatrick to JAMES and ELIZA KILPATRICK was registered at Picton NSW in 1864. Her siblings were Esther A Kilpatrick (Camden, 1856), Cecilia C Kilpatrick (Picton, 1859), Eliza J Kilpatrick (Picton, 1860), Frances T Kilpatrick (Picton, 1862) and Edwin W Kilpatrick (Picton, 1869). Lydia married William Keays in Sydney in 1890; to their union were born:

• LYDIA EILEEN KEAYS (born 1892 [1893], died June 1893 [1894] near Glebe NSW),
• JACK KARL KEAYS (born 1893 [1894] near Glebe),
• ERIC WILLIAM KEAYS (born 1894 [1895] near Glebe),
• FRANCIS OLIVE [FRANCES OLIVER] KEAYS (born 1898 near Cobar).

William Keays, Lydia's husband, son of JAMES and MARY A KEAYS, died near Cobar in February 1903 [1904].

Samuel Kessell/Thomas Wills died November 1919 at 66 Queen Street, Auburn NSW.

The NSW Electoral Rolls shew Lydia Clara Wills [home duties] at 56 Trafalgar street, Annandale in 1930, at 54 North avenue, Leichhardt East in 1933, at 13a Trafalgar street, Annandale in 1936, 1937 and 1943.

The death of Lydia Clara Wills, daughter of JAMES and ELIZA JANE, was registered at Annandale in 1946.

7.1.1.1 Phillipa Wills (1875…1965) m. James Phillip Flynn (1869…1928)

Phillipa Wills, born January 1875, first-born of SAMUEL KESTEL WILLS and PHILLIPA ANN GREEN, married James Phillip Flynn in the Blayney NSW district in  February 1897i. James Flynn, born in May 1869 at Sofala, the son of JOHN and CAROLINE, lived most of his life in Lithgow NSW.

The couple had three children,

• JAMES PHILLIP FLYNN (born 1897, Lucknow NSW, died March 1924, Cordeaux Dam NSW) and
• IRENE B FLYNN (born and died 1899 near Wellington NSW) and
• EDMUND WILLS FLYNN (“Wills” [“Billy” to some]; born near Wellington in July 1900, died 5 November 1975; married Amelia Gladys Ryan [“Glad”] at Rydalmere in August 1925, two issue.)

The 1930, 1936 and 1937 NSW Electoral Rolls shew Phillipa Flynn [home duties] at 15 Roy street, Lithgow. The 1943, 1949 and 1954 Rolls shew Phillipa at 37 Roy street, Lithgow.

James Phillip Flynn died on 1 October 1928, Phillipa Flynn née Wills died 19 July 1965, aged 90 years. They and their son, Constable James Phillip Flynn, lie buried in the Roman Catholic portion of Lithgow General Cemetery.

7.1.1.1.1 James Phillip Flynn (1897…1924)

James Phillip Flynn, born August 1897 at Lucknow NSW, was the first-born of JAMES PHILLIP FLYNN and PHILLIPA WILLS.

James Phillip Flynn died 9 March 1924 at Cordeaux Dam NSW. After working for the NSW Government Railways, James Flynn (born 1897) had joined the NSW police force on 4 July 1921. He was initially stationed at Darlinghurst, an inner-Sydney suburb, on 18 August 1921, and transferred to Cordeaux Dam construction site, near Appin NSW, on 27 June 1923. He was 6' (1.83m) tall and weighing 12st. 9lb., of fair complexion with blue eyes and wavy or bushy brown hair.

On 9 March 1924 Constable James Flynn arrested a man named Stintson, a driver at the dam site, on a charge of breaking and entering. Site resident engineer Guy Chalmers Clift, aged 37, used his car to drive Flynn and his prisoner to the lock-up at Campbelltown; Stintson was un-handcuffed, Flynn apparently relying on his own renowned great strength to control the prisoner. After travelling some 11 miles and when within about one mile of Appin, Stintson drew a revolver, placed it at Flynn's side and fired, killing James Flynn almost instantly. Clift stopped the car immediately and struggled with Stintson, during which Clift was shot in the groin before wresting the gun from Stintson, who ran off down the road and escaped. Clift managed to drive to Camden hospital; Stintson was arrested by mounted policeman Constable Porter that evening near the Appin hotel. Clift, a married family man, died that evening. William George Gordon Simpson, a veteran of WW1, who had pleaded that he had accidentaly shot Flynn and Clift while attempting suicide, was hanged at Long Bay Gaol on 10 December 1924 for the Appin murders of Guy Chalmers Clift and Police Constable James Flynn.

7.1.1.1.2 Edmund Wills Flynn (1900…1975) m. Amelia Gladys Ryan (1901… 1991)

 

Edmund Wills Flynn ["Wills", “Billy” to some] was born near Wellington NSW in July 1900. Edmund married Amelia Gladys Ryan [“Glad”] at Rydalmere in August 1925: Amelia's birth seems to have been registered at Wallerawang in 1901, the daughter of JAMES and CAROLINE. The 1949 NSW Electoral Roll shews Phillipa Catherine Caroline Flynn [cannery hand] at 52 Fitzroy street, Cowra; the 1954 Roll shews John Edward Downes [farmer] at Broula, via Cowra, and Phillipa Catherine Caroline Downes [home duties] at Grenfell road, Cowra.

Edmund and Amelia had two children:

• EDMUND WILLS FLYNN ( died soon after birth in 1933) and
• PHILLIPA CATHERINE CAROLINE FLYNN [“Cassie”] (born 1928; marriage to John Edward Downes registered at Cowra in 1951; mother of Karen Downes)).

The death of Edmund Wills Flynn on 5 November 1975, aged 75, 'late of Cowra', was noted in the Sydney Morning Herald on 7 November 1975. The death of Amelia Gladys Flynn on 20 May 1991, 'late of Cowra, formerly of Lithgow', was noted in Sydney's Daily Telegraph on 22 May 1991 and the Lithgow Mercury the following day.

7.1.1.2 Thomas Henry Wills (1876…1966) m1. Winifred Gilman or Gilbert (…), m2. Katherine Penaluna née Davenport (…)

[Much of the information in this section is from the recollections of Elinna Wills to Susan Ellyard, with corrections and additions from Lowell Nicolaus in Sept2004 and further research by this author in 2011]
Thomas Henry Wills, an engineer born November 1876, son of SAMUEL WILLS and his wife JOHANNA KENDALL, lived with his family near Nymagee in western NSW and probably Lucknow in the NSW Central Tablelands. Thomas prospected in NSW and went to Tasmania and/or New Zealand mining copper and gold. He emigrated to America when he was 29, departing Sydney on 24 September 1906 and arriving in San Francisco on 20 October 1906 aboard the Ventura, giving his calling as an engine driver. Arriving just a few months after the great earthquake and fire in San Francisco [18 April 1906, magnitude about 7.9Mm] he had difficulties finding a place to live, eventually finding a boarding house across the Bay. He worked in the ship yards until 1917
.
An engineer, Thomas married twice, (?once in Sacramento?); his first wife, Winifred Gilman or Gilbert, bore him two children:

• DORIS B WILLS (born March 1909, California or Nevada; died 11 September 1982 at Butte, California; married — Segur; resided at Paradise, Butte, California) and
• SIDNEY WILLS (born December 1910, Alameda County, San Francisco, mother's maiden nameindexed as Gilman; was 81 years old in 1991.

Thomas married Katherine Davenport after his divorce from his first wife. Thomas had no issue by Katherine, who from a previous marriage already had two children, William Penaluna and Effie Penaluna (Effie married George C Nicolaus and had two children, George Nicolaus Jr. and Lowell Keith Nicolaus (wife Jan; Lowell served in the USS Saint Paul 1967-68 off Vietnam, moved back to Oregon in June 1994).

The following funeral notice was printed in a (presumably) Sacramento newspaper:

Wills – Thomas, in this city, January 25, 1966, beloved husband of Kathryn Wills, father of Sidney Wills, Doris Wills, Effie Nicolaus and William Penaluna, seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. A native of England, aged 88 years. Friends are welcome at the Sacramento Memorial Garden Chapel Mortuary and are invited to attend funeral services Saturday at 1 Memorial Lawn.

7.1.1.2.1  Sidney Wills (c1910…1991+) m. Vivienne - (…c1989)

Sidney Wills, born circa 1901 in the USA, son of THOMAS WILLS and his wife WINIFRED -, married Vivienne -; they were the parents of:

• VIVIENNE MARIE WILLS.

7.1.1.3  Laura Wills (1878…1952) m1. Harrie Ashcroft Edwards (c1868…1927)

Laura Wills, born July 1878, daughter of SAMUEL WILLS and his wife JOHANNA KENDALL, married Harris Ashcroft Edwards (Harry) in April 1899. Harrie's birth at Emerald Hill vic, son of JOHN ASHCROFT EDWARDS and LOUISA JOHNSON, was registered in 1868. Though many of their children were born near Cobar and later near Yass, Harrie and Laura apparently lived most of their married lives at Moulamein NSW, about 40km NE of Swan Hill and the Murray River. They had some ten children:

• KESSELL ASHCROFT EDWARDS (born 1899 near Cobar; died c1961, Tocumwal nsw; married Mollie Doyle at Narrandera nsw c1926; married Molly Dolye; children Marie and Cathleen),
• unnamed male (born 1901, died 1901, near Cobar),
• LESLIE A EDWARDS (born 1904 near Cobar, died there the same year),
• PHILIPPA ASHCROFT (BONNY) EDWARDS (born 1906 near Cobar; death on 2 June 1992, aged 86, 'late of Glenbrook', noted in the Sydney Morning Herald on 6th inst.; married John Campbell [Jack] Crozier, Chatswood nsw c1930 [death of John Campbell Crozier on 8 July 1959, aged 56, 'late of Glenbrook', noted next day in The Sydney Morning Herald]; daughter Joan married Robert Howes and produced five children - Roberta, Barbara, Susan, Jennifer and James),
• GEORGE ASHCROFT EDWARDS (born 1908 near Orange; a recipient of the British Empire Medal [1 January 1971, 'of Finley', 'For services to the community'], George and his wife 'Freda (Wills)' are buried at the Finley Cemetery; married Freda Green; children John, Robyn, David and Narelle),
• LOUIE ASHCROFT EDWARDS (born 1910 near Yass; death of Louise Ashcroft Howard on 17 December 1997, aged 84, 'late of Banksia', noted next day in The Sydney Morning Herald ; married Philip Kennedy Howard, Sydney c1929 [Phillip's death on 10 February 1990 noted in The Sydney Morning Herald on 12 February; children Noelene (married Lloyd Amery, issue Lyndall), Judith (married Doug Parker, issue Kelvin, Rodney and Scott) and Jeffrey (married ?Danuta)),
• DONALD ASHCROFT EDWARDS (born 1911 near Yass; death aged 61 at Heal[sville] vic registered in 1973; married Eva Pearl Best; children Graham and Margaret [death of Eva Pearl Edwards, aged 69, at Hew vic, daughter of JOHN PETER BEST and ELIZABETH VIOLET, was registered in Victoria in 1984]),
• OLIVE ASHCROFT EDWARDS (born 1913 near Yass; death of Olive Ashcroft Cady on 19 March 2006, aged 93/96, 'late of Edgeworth', was announced in funeral notices in the Newcastle Herald on 21 and 22 March 2006; marriage to Dudley Hugh Cady registered at Auburn in 1936 [death of Dudley Hugh Cady, son of GEORGE and EMILY ANGUS [CADY] on 1 August 1972, 'late of Muswellbrook', was noted in The Sydney Morning Herald on 3 August 1972], at least one issue),
• LEO ASHCROFT EDWARDS (notice regarding his death aged 87 published in Melbourne's Herald Sun on 30 December 2002; married Dorothy Ena Ballam, Manly nsw c1944; one child Jeffrey),
• JOY ASHCROFT [TOPSY] EDWARDS (married Eric Allan Hetherington, Glebe nsw c1938; children Zara (married William Kelly, issue Matthew, Gordon, Robyn and Heather), Robyn (married Philip Parkin, issue Merinda and Lindsay) and Lindsay) and
• HARRY ASHCROFT EDWARDS ([“Major”] born 1 August 1917 at Swan Hill vic; death on 2 November 1970, aged 53 years, registered at Lockhart nsw c1970, buried in Presbyterian portion of General Cemetery at The Rock nsw [headstone has 52 years; buried with his (second) wife Ainis Gweneth [Billie] Edwards (passed away 2 February 2002, aged 81 years, 'loving mother Billie of Jill')]; married Margory Valerie Muckle at Balranald nsw c1940 with children Harrie and Victoria; Harrie and Margory separated and her subsequent marriage to Robert Edwin Irvine was registered in Charlestown nsw in 1951 [the death on 8 May 2007 of Robert Edwin Irvine, 87, 'late of Georgetown', was noted in the Newcastle Herald on 12 May 2007]).

The death of a Harrie A Edwards, son of JOHN A and LOUIE, was registered at Deniliquin in 1927. Laura Edwards née Wills, daughter of SAMUELL KESSEL [WILLS] and PHILLIPA ANN, died in NSW 25 April 1952, and was buried on 28th instant at Rookwood cemetery.

7.1.1.4  Ellinna Ann Wills (1880…1977)

Ellinna (or Helena or Lena) Ann Wills, born February 1880, daughter of SAMUEL WILLS and his wife JOHANNA KENDALL, ran a boarding house in Darlinghurst NSW with another lady c1970. About 1977, she moved into a two bedroom home unit in Water Street, Auburn, which she shared with her sister Johanna Brown. Helena died 3 April 1977.

7.1.1.5  Samuel Wills (1881…1882)

Twin Samuel Wills, son of SAMUEL KESTEL WILLS by his first wife PHILLIPA ANN GREEN, was born in October 1881, the birth registered at Orange nsw; he and his twin brother Frederick died in January 1882, apparently killed by an epidemic; they were supposedly buried at Adelong nsw though his death was registered at Orange.

7.1.1.6 Frederick Wills (1881…1882)

Twin Frederick Wills, son of SAMUEL KESTEL WILLS by his first wife PHILLIPA ANN GREEN, was born in October 1881, the birth registered at Orange; he and his twin brother Samuel died in January 1882, apparently killed by an epidemic; they were supposedly buried at Adelong nsw though his death was registered at Orange.

7.1.1.7  Frederick Green Wills (1883…1884)

Twin Frederick Green Wills, son of SAMUEL KESTEL WILLS by his first wife PHILLIPA ANN GREEN, was born circa 1883, his birth registered at Dubbo nsw, and was given one of the names of his recently deceased twin brothers. The death of Frederick Green Wills was registered at Orange in 1884.

7.1.1.8 Samuel Ernest Wills (1883…1945) m. Esther Lucy Smith (…1945+)

The birth of Samuel Earnest Wills, twin son of SAMUEL KESTEL WILLS by his first wife PHILLIPA ANN GREEN, was registered at Dubbo in 1883, and was given one of the names of his recently deceased twin brothers. It appears that Samuel was the only one of the two sets of twins to survive infancy.

The marriage of Samuel Ernest Wills and Esther Lucy Smith [“Ettie“] was registered at Broken Hill nsw in 1911. Samuel and Ettie had five children:

• SAMUELGEORGE WILLS (birth in February 1912 registered at Broken Hill; married Dorothy Irene Taylor in South Australia in February 1931),
• SIDNEY WILLS,
• THOMAS HENRY WILLS (born at Rosewater SA in June 1916),
• KESSELL/KESTLE JAMES WILLS (born in Adelaide on 7 February 1920; possibly married Ada Tonkin) and
• ADA WILLS (who married, probably to — Tonkin).

Samuel was living in Adelaide sometime after the death of his brother Sidney in France in April 1917.

Samuel Ernest Wills died in South Australia on 1 May 1945. Adelaide's The Advertiser of Wednesday 2 May 1945 noted (p12):

WILLS.—On May 1, at hospital, Samuel Ernest Wills, beloved husband of the late Esther Lucy Wills, late of Rosewater and Kilburn, and loving father or Sam, Sid, Tom, Kessel and Ada, and daughter-in-law Dorothy, and grandchildren, aged 63 years.

The Advertiser notice implies Samuel had been born late 1881 to early 1882.

7.1.1.8.1 Samuel George Wills (1912…1944+) m. Dorothy Irene Taylor (…1941+)

The birth of Samuel Earnest Wills in February 1912, son of SAMUEL ERNEST WILLS and ESTHER LUCY SMITH, was registered at Broken Hill. Samuel married Dorothy Irene Taylor in South Australia in February 1931.

Samuel George Wills enlisted in the Australian Army at Prospect, South Australia, on 19 December 1941 [service number S48572] detailing that he was born at Broken Hill nsw in February 1912, his 'next-of-kin' as Dorothy Wills and his nominal locality (residence) as Kilburn, South Australia; he was discharged as a Private from '6 W/S & PK' on 23 March 1944.

7.1.1.8.2 Thomas Henry Wills (1916…1940+)

Thomas Henry Wills, son of SAMUEL ERNEST WILLS and ESTHER LUCY SMITH, was born at Kadina, South Australia in June 1916.

Thomas Henry Wills enlisted in the Australian Army at Alberton, South Australia, on 12 Augugt 1940 [service number S29892] detailing that he was born at Kadina, South Australia in June 1916, his 'next-of-kin' as Samuel Wills and his nominal locality as Rosewater, South Australia; he was discharged as a Private from '8 Auxiliary Horse Transport Company A A S C.

7.1.1.8.3 Kestle James Wills (1920…1946+)

Kestle James Wills, son of SAMUEL ERNEST WILLS and ESTHER LUCY SMITH, was born in Adelaide in February 1920.

Kestle James Wills enlisted in the Australian Army at Finchhafen, New Guinea, on 16 February 1944 [service numbers SX39574 (S40899, S43996)] detailing that he was born in Adelaide in February 1920, his 'next-of-kin' as Ada Tonkin and his nominal locality as Rosewater, South Australia; he was discharged as a Sapper from 7 Docks Operating Company on 8 February 1946..

7.1.1.9 Ada Wills (1885…1934/9)

Ada Wills, born February 1885 NSW, was physically impaired, a hunchback of short stature with a crippled right hand. She spent some of her adult life living at Auburn NSW with her sister Johanna Brown, in the Brown's five-bedroom house. Ada used the fifth bedroom, and kept it carpeted and well furnished with deep-drawered mahogany items (lovely though dark); though crippled, she nonetheless did her own housework and was self-sufficient.

The NSW Electoral Roos list Ada Wills [home duties] at 66 Queen street, Auburn in 1933 and [at 68 Queen street, Auburn] in 1933.

Following the death of her brother Sidney in France in 1917, it was Ada who received a small War pension of 25/- per fortnight.

Ada spent many of her days sitting on a seat in front of C T Lorenz's shop at Auburn, opposite the real estate agency run by Jack Lang, "The Big Feller" who became a controversial Premier of NSW. Ada admired Lang and his politics immensely.

The death of Ada Wills, daughter of SAMUEL K and PHILLIPA K, was registered at Windsor nsw in 1934; in the family Bible the date appears to be  February 1939 [perhaps a poorly handwritten 1934].

7.1.1.10 ♦ Johanna Wills (1886…1976) m. George Herbert Brown (1882…1948)

In November 1909, Johanna Wills married George Herbert Brown at St Phillip's CoE, Auburn NSW. Johanna, born at Orange NSW in March 1886, was the daughter of SAMUEL KESSELL WILLS, an engineer-miner, and his wife PHILLIPA ANNE GREEN. Johanna's death certificate has her father named as Samuel Thomas Wills.

George Herbert Brown was born at Derwent Street, Glebe in August 1882, the son of SAMUEL WILLIAM BROWN and his wife FANNY ARMSTRONG nee MOONEY. For both Samuel Brown and Fanny it was their second marriage, each having been widowed prior to their marriage in 1881 at which their declared ages were 56 and 34 years respectively. George had a younger sister and brother, and fourteen step-brothers and step-sisters from his parents' previous marriages.

Johanna Wills bore George Herbert Brown four children:

• GEORGE RONALD BROWN (born July 1910, Auburn NSW, died July 1977, Berala NSW),
• SYBIL BROWN (born August 1913, Auburn; died May 2000, Sutherland NSW; no issue),
• LEONARD PERCY BROWN (born February 1915, Auburn; died April 1982, Granville NSW) and
• SIDNEY MORRIS BROWN (born June 1920, Auburn; died December 2000, Westmead NSW; two issue).

Further details of this family are in the Brown file.

7.1.1.11 Lillian Adelaide Wills (1888…1976) m. George Alexander Mitchell (1883…1973)

Lillian Adelaide Wills, born November 1888, was the daughter of SAMUEL KESTEL WILLS and his first wife PHILLIPA ANN GREEN. Lillian married George Alexander Mitchell near Cobar in 1908. George's birth was registered to ROBERT A and ELIZA at Hillston in 1883. Among other things, George Mitchell was known for his singing of ditties. George and Lillian had two children:

• DAPHNE ADELAIDE MITCHELL (born April 1909, near Paddington, died 1999; married Eric James Bamfield at Willoughby in 1935, one daughter) and
• GEORGE ROBERT MITCHELL (born 1915, near Waverly).

The NSW Electoral Roll lists George Alexander Mitchell [inspector] and Lily Adelaide Mitchell [home duties] at 44 Edinburgh road, Chatswood in 1930 and 1933, the latter includes Daphne Adelaide Mitchell [stenographer] at 42 Edinburgh road, Chatswood. Another 1933 Roll lists George [stationer], Lily [home duties] and Daphne [typiste] at 131 Darlinghurst road, Darlinghurst. The Rolls shew George [inspector] and Lily at 42 Edinburgh road, Chatswood in 1936, 1937, 1943, 1954, 1958 and 1963.

The death of George Alexander Mitchell on 10 January 1973, 'late of Willoughby and Cobar', son of ROBERT and ELIZA, was registered at St Leonards and noted in The Sydney Morning Herald on 13 January 1973. The death of Lily Adelaide Mitchell née Wills on 13 July 1976, at Wahroonga, aged 86, 'late of Willoughby', was noted tn The Sydney Morning Herald on 15 July 1976.

7.1.1.11.1 Daphne Adelaide Mitchell (1909…1999) m. Eric James Bamfield (1906… 1980)

The birth of Daphne Adelaide Mitchell, daughter of GEORGE ALEXANDER MITCHELL and LILLIAN ADELAIDE WILLS, was registered at Paddington nsw in 1909. Daphne was an accomplished violinist, ballet dancer and especially a pianist, she gained he ACLM at the London College of Music. After school she worked as a comptometrist and secretary. Daphne married Eric James Bamfield at St Stephen’s CoE, Willoughby, in 1935. Eric, born in 1906 near Randwick nsw, was the son of FRANCIS W J BAMFIELD and ELIZABETH JOHNSTON, who had registered their marriage at Newtown in 1893. Eric had at least two siblings, Frank J Bamfield (born 1899 near Petersham nsw) and Bruce H Bamfield (born Petersham, 1902).

Daphne and Eric had one child, a daughter:

• JENNIFER DAWN BAMFIELD (married, three children).

The NSW Electoral Rolls shew Eric James Bamfield [clerk] and Daphne Adelaide Bamfield [home duties] at Wodonga Flats, Sailor's Bay road, Northbridge, in 1936 and 1937; Eric [soldier] and Daphne at 42 Edinburgh road, Willoughby, in 1943, 1949, 1958.Eric and Daphne were joined 42 Edinburgh road by Jennifer Dawn Bamfield [physiotherapist]in the 1963 Roll; Daphne alone was enrolled thereat in 1980. [rf Mitchell enrollments above.]

Daphne was a keen tennis player, and later took up lawn bowls with enthusiasm. She also enjoyed cards and gardening. When Eric died in NSW in 1980, Daphne stayed alone in the family home at Castlecrag / East Willoughby until 1989, then to Belrose, and finally to Goulburn late 1998. Daphne died in March 1999 at Goulburn; a short obituary, accompanied by a photograph, was published in the Goulburn Post on Friday 9 April 1999..

7.1.1.12 Sidney Auible Wills (1890…1917)

Sidney Auible Wills was the second last of the thirteen definite children of SAMUEL KESTEL WILLS and his first wife PHILLIPA ANN GREEN. Sidney, born 18 October 1890 near Orange, was the youngest of the nine children to survive early childhood. He was killed in action in France in 1917.

Lance Sergeant Sydney Wills, son of Samuel Kessel Wills Phillippa Ann Wills, native of Lucknow NSW, member of the 50th Battalion Australian Infantry Force, died on 3 April 1917, aged 26 years. He was buried in the Pozieres British Cemetery, Ovillers-LA, Boissell, Somme, France.

7.1.1.13 Kenwith Wills (1893…1893)

Kenwith Wills, born 5 November 1893 near Orange, was the last of the thirteen definite children of SAMUEL KESTEL WILLS by his first wife PHILLIPA ANN GREEN. Kenwith survived only a fortnight.

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Possibly Related Families:

 

Wills (and its phonetic variants Wiles, Wilce et cetera) was a not uncommon Cornish surname, occuring from the earliest surviving records dating from the mid sixteenth century. Entries of baptisms and marriages in the St Kew parish registers c1800-1850, extracted nonexhaustively from the 1984ed IGI, include the following (with IGI batch and serial numbers in square brackets [] after individual particulars):

Henry Kendall, shoemaker, was the father of:

• WILLIAM KENDALL (in 1844 at St Kew as a full age bachelor labourer of St Ammell married Temperance Mutton, full age spinster daughter of labourer John Mutton - he made his mark in the register whilst she signed) and
• MARY KENDALL (aged 17, she married Joseph Latherny, bachelor labourer aged 21, on 12 May 1838 at St Kew).
  
  

Joseph Wills m. (c1807) Jenifer

The IGI lists christenings to another Joseph Wills and his wife Jenifer, and it is interesting to compare the details with those of Joseph and Jane.
The children of Joseph (yeoman and later farmer) and Jenifer were:

• JOHN WILLS (christened 12 October 1808, St Ewe),
• ANN WILLS (christened 25 December 1809, St Ewe),
• JOSEPH WILLS (christened 29 July 1812, St Ewe),
• THOMAS WILLS (christened 10 May 1814, St Ewe),
• JANE WILLS (christened 6 April 1816, St Ewe),
• RICHARD WILLS (christened 5 July 1818, St Ewe) and later perhaps
• another JOHN WILLS (christened 20 January 1827, St Kew).
  
  

On 25 October 1851 this last-named John Wills, a bachelor labourer of Amble aged 25, son of JOSEPH, married Elizabeth Keruch, aged 22, a spinster of Amble and daughter of THOMAS KERUCH. Their marks in the register were witnessed by Richard Williams and ??James? Kendall.

Children christened at St Kew to John Wills and Elizabeth included:

• ELLEN WILLS (baptised 22 July 1855, St Kew),
• ANN WILLS (baptised 27 July 1856, St Kew; mother listed as Betsey),
• JOHN WILLS (baptised 25 January 185?, St Kew) and
• JOSEPH WILLS (baptised 20 March 1859, St Kew).
  
  

Godfrey Wills and Mary were parents to:

• SAMUEL WILLS (baptised 12 August 1798, St Kew),
• JANE WILLS (baptised 1 July 1804, St Kew),
• WILLIAM WILLS (baptised 20 July 1806, St Kew),
• MARGARET WILLS (baptised 10 July 1808, St Kew),
• GRACE WILLS (baptised 10 January 1811, St Kew) and
• ELIZABETH WILLS (baptised 19 June 1814, St Kew).

Samuel Wills (?son of Godfrey and Mary) married Elizabeth Edevean at St Kew on 23 April 1821; their children included:

• SAMUEL WILLS (baptised 14 April 1822, St Kew),
• MARY WILLS (baptised 30 November 1823, St Kew),
• THOMAS WILLS (baptised 20 August 1826, St Kew),
• WILLIAM WILLS (baptised 25 September 1829, St Kew) and
• ELIZABETH ANN WILLS (baptised 27 September 1835, St Kew).

Grace Wills (?daughter of Godfrey and Mary) bore Benjamin Lane a daughter:

• JANE WILLS (baptised 29 January 1831, St Kew).

Another Godfrey Wills (?elder brother of Samuel above) married Hannah Pope at St Kew on 25 January 1817 with children:

• HANNAH POPE WILLS (baptised 14 December 1817, St Kew),
• JOHN WILLS (baptised 16 May 1819, St Kew) and
• HENRY WILLS (baptised 20 May 1821, St Kew).
  
  

Henry Wills married Anna Pope (sic) were married 2 August 1845 at St Kew; their children were:

• HENRY WILLS (baptised 25 September 1847, St Kew),
• WILLIAM WILLS (baptised 25 September 1847, St Kew),
• JOHN WILLS (baptised 25 September 1847, St Kew) ?and
• CHARLES WILLS (baptised 14 February 1854, St Kew; father listed as Harry).

Mary Ann Wills bore James Curgenven a daughter:

• ANN WILLS (baptised 2 February 1827, St Kew).
  
  

Thomas Wills and Elizabeth had a daughter:

• MARY JANE WILLS (baptised 2 October 1853, St Kew).
  
  

A John Wills married Catherine Thomas on 3 May 1817 at St Kew.

An Ann Willis married Robert Cleave on 14 July 1825 at St Kew.

An Ann Wills (perhaps the abovementioned or the daughter of Joseph and Jane) married John Prior on 10 May 1847 St Kew.

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