All their children were born in Stoke
Climsland. About that time the mining industry in Cornwall was
in decline. Stoke Climsland was a mining town. The family all
seem to have built their lives around the docks and the navy or
migrated to Australia
Some geography: Stoke Climsland is about ten milis north of the
Plymouth port complex. Devonport, Saltash, St Germans, Stoke
Dameral are all part of that area
Dartmouth is about 30 miles E of Plymouth as is Totnes
Deptford was a major ship building facility of the time, near
Greenwich
About 40 trees in
Ancestry have Mary Ann as Francis and Jane's daughter, born 2
July 1820. None give any documentation of this. I have
searched Ancestry, Family Search, Genes Reunited and the
Cornwall OPC site and can find nothing.
Francis and Mary married 12 Mar 1820, so if this was a shotgun
wedding they were cutting it a bit fine. Also Francis called a
daughter Mary Ann in 1850. She is by his second wife (Mary Ann
Knight). Treat Mary Ann as sus.
A Jane from
Stoke Climsland of exactly the right age married Thomas Brown
from Devonport in 1849
In 1871 they are living in Chelsea. The census reports Thomas as
having lost one arm, Many Ancestry trees have her dying in 1892
but have found no evidence
In 1858 Judith
Hawton Spinster marries George McTaggett (Mariner) in Great
Yarmouth Norfolk - groom father John Mctaggett (Mariner),
brides father Francis Hawton (Miner)
In 1863 Judith Hawton Spinster marries Dugle McTaggett (Coast
Guard Service) in Chelsea - groom father John Mctaggett
(Deceased Warrant Officer), brides father Francis Hawton
(Labourer)
In 1895 Judith McTaggett dies in Greenwich
"Possibly married a Dugald McTaggart and lived in Deptford,
London. In 1871 half-brother John Knight staying with her -
his wife was still in Stoke Climsland with her parents."
- Doug
I cannot find Doug's 1871 census record. But Jane living
in Chelsea as well is the clincher?
"Not on 1841
census with family - possibly working at nearby farm. A James
of this age went into the navy and lived at Devonport." Doug
In 1871 James is a baker in Devonport.
In 1881 James is a widower living in Devonport. He is a Naval
Ensioner (seaman). Assuming that census entry is pensioner, he
has joined the navy and gone to pensioner in 10 years
In 1891 James is living as a naval pensioner is Saltas. He is
living with his father in law who is a Dockyard Writer. Still
there im 1901, but died 1903 in St Germans
James' twin, died age 2
Has her own page
(see link above)
She came to Australia in December 1861 on the Prince of Wales
Brother Samuel was also on this ship
1851 Labourer in
Stoke Climsland
1856 marries Mary Grigg Stoke Dameral. William is Petty
Officer on a ship
By 1871 William is a Warrant Officer in the R N
1874 William marries Mary Baskerville in Stoke Climsland, and
is a carpenter, Father Francis is also given as carpenter
1881 William is a boatswain aboard a naval vessel
1891 William is a retired Chief Boatswain in Stoke
Dameral with second wife Mary
1901 William and Mary are still together
1911 William dies in Devonport
1851 Joined the
navy aged 18
1851 Served on the W coast of Africa in the Kafir wars (HMS
Styx)
1856 Invalided for Syphilis
1856-64 served on various ships
1866 Francis marries Eliza Charity Lavers Prouse
1867-69 Eliza living in Dartmouth
1871 Francis Lodger in a hotel in Stoke Dameral
1871 Eliza living in Loddiswell Devon with four year old son
John . 18 month old son William not present
1873 Eliza lving in Kingsbridge Devon
1873 Francis Pensioned by Navy
1873 Eliza living in Loddiswell Devon
1875 Eliza living in Stoke Climsland
1877 Eliza living in Launceston Cornwall
1877 Francis accidentally killed by the tail of a crane at
which he was working (Devonport Dockyard) - see accident
description below
1878 Stoke Damerall, one year old son James dies 4 months
after Feancis' death
1881 Eliza is in the Devon County Lunatic Asylum, She is a
needlewoman
1891 Eliza living in Totnes Devon with 16 year old daughter
Hester. Eliza is a dressmaker/upholsterer
1911 Eliza is visitor in a house in Plympton St Mary, Devon
1911 Eliza dies in Plympton St Mary, Devon
In the 1851 census
15 year old Robert is living at home but is described as a
miner
1853 Robert Hayton, farmer, arrives in Victoria Australia on
the ship Aitken, He is exactly the right age, and there is
no-one else who even looks close.
It has to be our Robert, even though his obituary says he
arrived in 1873
1872 Robert goes to Hill End NSW
1873 Robert and Louisa Hosting marry in Hill End
1881 Robert and Louisa (bless them) name a son William Hambly
Hawton - Clearly our Robert. William's birth is registered in
Hill End
1905 Robert dies and is buried in Charters Tower. Mary dies in
1824 and is buried with him
Hill End is 75 Km NW of Bathurst. It owes its existence to the
New South Wales gold rush of the 1850s, and at its peak in the
early 1870s it had a population estimated at 8,000 served by
two newspapers, five banks, eight churches and twenty-eight
pubs. The town's decline when the gold gave out was dramatic:
by 1945 the population was 700.
Fred Mitchell has a note that William Mitchell visited Robert
Hatton in Hillend. Check of William's diaries should come up
with this
Unusual name, but
she was named after an aunt on the Hawton side. Her birth
registration was to the spelling above.
But finding her in Ancestry is a nightmare. She has been
indexed under : Dynih. Dionisia, Dyomora Dionysia
In 1861 she marries Robert Lavers Prowse and has three
children 1863 Florence, 1864 Amanda and 1865 Frank in Totnes
Devon
In 1866 brother Francis married Eliza Charity Lavers Prouse
who has to be a sister to Robert Lavers Prowse?
Amanda died 1n 1864 in Totnes and Frank was buried in the City
of London and Tower Hamlets in 1866
In 1869 she marries George Russell a Beverley Yorkshireman, in
Deptford.
Robert Prowse also remarries in 1871
In the 1871 Census she and George are still in Deptford. They
have an 11 month old son Francis, and Florence is living with
them
From 1863 sister Judith was in Deptford, and sister Jane was
in Chelsea. This explains how she ended up in Deptford. She
went to her sisters for help?
Robert Prowse went on to marry Emma Hooppell, and they had
eleven children
Dyonisea's daughter Florence survived what must have been a
difficult childhood. In 1911 she was single, a Post Office
Assistant, living in Kent
Samuel Hawton
arrived at Melbourne on the Prince of Wales in Dec 1861 - the
same voyage that sister Margaret and her family travelled on.
Prior to that he was a copper miner in Stoke Climsand
Fred Mitchell has a note that William Mitchell visited a
Samuel Hawton in Sydney.
Samuel died in Albury in 1894
‘…Fatal
Accident
in Devonport Dockyard. A sad accident befell two men in
Devonport Dockyard on Saturday morning. Two labourers in
the employ of Mr. John Pethick, contractor, named Francis
Hawton of Princes Street, and John Tonkin of James Street,
were engaged at the west side of the ropery stacking
blocks of granite taken from the dock which Mr Pethick is
enlarging, and a ballast crane was used to hoist up the
stones. Hawton, working the handle, and Tonki, steadying
the stone. Whilst a stone weighing between two and a half
tons and three tons was being hoisted, the chain to which
it was attached broke and the stone fell on Tonkins’s
feet, severely injuring him. The crane, owing to the
sudden jerk, fell back on Hawton injuring him so severely
in the lower part of the body that, although he was
promptly taken to the surgery and thence to the Royal
Albert Hospital, he died in less than an hour. Hawton, who
had been in Mr. Pethicks’s employ only a week, was a
pensioner and leaves a wife together with six children
under ten years of age…’
The fractured chain link was never
found and no compensation was paid.
Thanks to Roopuk on
Ancestry