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From: "Ron Reed" <>
Subject: Re: [CON] Farmers & Bakers--&, Stonemen & Miners
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 19:25:48 -0500
References: <20040203.005533.-505971.26.annberry@juno.com> <401FBE68.8000107@pacbell.net>


Emily - what Guild are you referring to? Was it in the States or back in
Cornwall? Do you know where you can locate their records?

My ancestors were stonemasons and miners as well.

Thanks..... Ron
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From: "Emily Symons Jorge" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [CON] Farmers & Bakers--&, Stonemen & Miners


> Ann, If your ancestor was a stonemason he was probably in a Guild. You
> might find information on him in those records.
>
> Emily in California
>
> Ann T. Berry wrote:
>
> >Bob and List--
> > Various censuses (censi?) list my great-great-grandfather
> >Humphrey Richards in Wendron (1797-1873) as farmer, stonemason and (once)
> >miner; he had four acres of land at his death. It's not clear whether he
> >considered himself first a farmer or first a stonemason, but mining
> >obviously came third and he did it only when he had to.
> > His eldest son became a tailor and remained a highly successful
> >one after moving to Australia. The second son left home early and was in
> >later life a stonemason in London.
> > At age 19 the third son, who became my great-grandfather, was
> >listed (as were his brothers aged 17 and 16) as a miner (1851
> >census)--but on his emigration to America three years later he too became
> >a stonemason until he married a girl whose father needed help with an
> >Indiana farm. Ultimately he had his own farm in Kansas. Those two younger
> >brothers also came to America. None, as far as I know, was the least bit
> >interested in mining here; all three ultimately became farmers.
> > To me this suggests this Wendron family may have had a long
> >tradition of small scale farming, supplemented with stonework, with
> >mining as a last-resort fallback. Maybe they were, like me, a bit
> >claustrophobic, making life underground even more unpleasant. P.S. They
> >were good masons. Their work still stands, 125 years later, in Kansas.
> > Ann Berry in North
> >Carolina
> >
> >On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 12:02:46 -0800 "Bob Hocking" <>
> >writes:
> >
> >
> >>My grandfather was a butcher in Redruth and emigrated to Canada in
> >>1920
> >>after serving in the British Army in WWI. Whether he was
> >>disenchanted with
> >>the opportunities in Cornwall at the time or was just looking for a
> >>new
> >>start in Canada, I don't know. I do know he wanted to be a 'farmer'
> >>and
> >>tried to become one in Ontario. However farming in Canada was not
> >>what it
> >>was in the Old Country and making a living from a small acreage
> >>especially
> >>in the 'Dirty Thirties' was very difficult. He even tried delivering
> >>meat by
> >>horse and wagon as he had in Cornwall but that didn't work in Canada
> >>either.
> >>He eventually relinquished his dream and moved into the city. Maybe
> >>this is
> >>just a small anecdote in Cornish social history.
> >>
> >>My gg-grandfather, Richard Hocken of the St Austell area-St Mewan/St
> >>Ewe,
> >>was a baker. On the marriage certificate for my great-grandparents
> >>in
> >>Bodmin, he is noted as a 'master baker'. I've always been curious
> >>about the
> >>'bakers lot' in 19th century Cornwall. Seems the family moved around
> >>a lot
> >>in mid-Cornwall. Was this because of work or the the custom for
> >>families to
> >>move from one community to another? Maybe someone could comment on
> >>this
> >>topic.
> >>
> >>Always wanting to learn more, Bob Hocking
> >>
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