James Roach and Mary Barrons (50%)
Parents :
James Roach (m Mary Barrons 1813 St Erth)
Robert Roach (b abt
1820 Lelant, m Mary Reid 1844, d
Penzance Cornwall 1903)
Richard
Reid
Roach (b 1855 Towednack, m Hannah
Vine 1890 Flemington Vic, d 1934 Cheltenham Vic)
Leila Muriel Roach (b 1893
Rosebery Sydney, m Ernest
Harold Mitchell 1914 Kew, d 1972 Wodonga) .
Mary Roach (b 1817 Lelant)
(James = labourer, residence = Uny Lelant)
Henry Roach (b 1824 Lelant)
(James = mason, residence = Uny Lelant)
1841 Census
Parish Ludgvan, hundred Penwith, Registration
district Penzance, sub registration Uny Lelant
James Roach
45 Mason
Mary Roach 45
Henry Roach 15
Isaac Roach 14
John Roach 6
1851 Census
Parish Ludgvan, Road Baldue
James Roach 60
Mason b Towednack
Mary Roach
59 b St Erth
John Roach 16
(son) Mason b Ludgvan,
Elijah Jenkin (Grandson) 11 (Mary Jenkin widow 35 and
family live next door - age is right for her to be James and
Mary's daughter
1861 Census
Parish Ludgvan, Road Baldue
James Roach 67
Mason b Towednack, grandfather, widower
Emanuel Jenkin 23 Tin miner ,b Ludgvan
Elizabeth Jenkin 21 Dressmaker ,b
Ludgvan
Emanuel Jenkin 1 son , ,b Ludgvan
James and Mary Roach
The
Wachtel-Smith tree on Ancestry has more Wife is Mary Barrons,
married St Erth 1813, later children Isaac (1827 Lelant) John
(c1835 Ludgvan) and Elizabeth (c1843 Ludgvan)
No Robert but James' father is Robert. St Erth
is about one and a half miles south of Lelant
Thomas Roach (m Mary Mitchell 1819)
Jacob Roach (b 10 Nov
1834 Lelant) (Thomas = miner,
residence = Fogue)
Isaac Roach (b 10 Nov
1834 Lelant) (Thomas = miner,
residence = Fogue)
Elizabeth Roach
Jane Uren Roach (12 Jul
1834 Lelant) (illegitimate, mother = servant, ,
Residence Carn)
Mary Roach
Lavinia Roach (20 Sep
1836 Lelant) (illegitimate, Residence Carn)
Thomas Roach (m Mary Thomas 10 Aug 1817, d
1852)
Paul Roach (b 4 Sep 1828
Lelant, d 1865)
Frances Roach (b 14 July 1833
Lelant, d 1921)
Looking at all the candidates, possibly the best choice is James
and Mary
(1) Children best fit for Robert
(b abt 1820)
(2) Our Robert's children include
(Willian) Henry, Mary and James
(3) James is a mason, tying in
with Robert's profession of stonemason
Put it 50% chance
Lelant , St Ives, Nancledra and Towednack are all within two mor
three miles of one another
Research Notes
Documents
1841 Census James Roach
1851 Census James Roach
1861 Census James Roach
FHO gives the following baptism :Parish
Towednack,
Robert ROACH, Date 21 Mar 1819 Father Thomas ROACH Mother Mary.
This Robert married Mary Roscrow 1849 Burra,
South Australia. I have had contact with Glenys Savage, who is
descended from this Robert, and he is clearly different.
Census information in 1841 confirms this. Richard Reid Roach's
death certificate states he spent 3 years in SA, so there
may be some family connection
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