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From: Yvonne <>
Subject: Re: Benney in Cornwall
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:34:09 -0800


At 9:55 AM -0800 1/25/99, wrote:
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>Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 04:43:14 -0800 (PST)
>From: Lynne Bradley <>
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>Subject: Benney in Cornwall
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>Hello to everyone on the list from Narre Warren, Vic, Australia. My
>name is Lynne and I have been looking for my Benney family in
>Hampshire because that is where my gg grandfather's death certificate
>states that he was born. I haven't had much success and after
>stumbling across the cornish list yesterday and noticing that you have
>many Benneys and that this is apparantly a cornish surname I thought
>that it wouldn't hurt to ask the question, so here it is.
>George William Edwin Benney born around 1831 to John Benney and Jane
>LeMaison - does anyone out there know of these people?
>Thanks & best wishes, Lynne.

Lynne, welcome. I too have BENNEYS but I don't see an immediate
connection. Here goes:

My gggparents were William James (1815-1862) and Elizabeth BENNETT (mother
may have been Mary) BENNEY (1817-1884) prob. of St. Cleer. Their first 5
children were b. Cornwall (5th in 1845), their 6th b. Mineral Point, Iowa
CO., WI 4/3/1851. Their 7th child (my g-grandmother), Ellen, was b.
7/19/1855 Michigan Bar, Folsom, Sacramento, CA. An 8th child, Thomas J.
BENNEY, 4/6/1860 at Negro Hill, El Dorado CO., CA.

Between 1845 and 1855, the BENNEYs sailed from Cornwall, spent some time
in WI, and came to CA (sail or overland?). William was a miner. He died
in 1862 in a flood on the American River in California. Elizabeth
remarried William PARRY 5/17/1870 in Santa Clara, CA.

Good luck!
Yvonne Oliver Bowers, Listowner (Looking for BENNEY)
CORNISH-L and CORNISH-GEN-L
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