Colon Tippett and Marina Bath
Parents William Tippett
and Ann (Nancy) Bettinson
James Bath and Honour Greet
Colon Tippett (b 1810 St Columb Major(Colen)
Cornwall, m Marina Bath 1836 Madron Cornwall, d 1888 St Columb)
Marina Bath (b 1804 Mylor Cornwall, d 1887St Col;umb)
Louisa Tippet (b 1838 St Columb, d bef 1840)
Louisa Tippet (b 1840 St Columb, m Thomas
Bullock 1863 St Enoder. d 1874 St Columb Major)
Joseph Tippet (b abt 1842 St Columb, d June
1851 St Columb) with his grandfather in 1851
census
William Henry Tippet
(b 1843 St Columb Major, m Eliza
Julian 1865 Cornwall, d 1927 Brunswick Vic)
Annie Tippett (b 1879
Fraddon, St Enoder Cornwall, m Herbert Oscar Smalley
1908 North Fitzroy, d 1955 Kew Vic)
We were quite perplexed
by the unusual name Colon. It turns out Colon's maternal
grandfather is Colan Bettison. His grandfather is Colan Bettison
and his grandfather is Colan Bettenson (b 1637)
This early Colan was living in St Columb Minor, about two miles
from the Colan parish church. One of his sons (Francis)
was baptised in the Colan church. We visited Colan in 2008.
there is no village - just the church and a large farmhouse
complex. The church was renovated in the 1890s. It is a charming
church. It and the grounds obviously well cared for. Google it.
Les Rowley
This couple's names have
had various spellings eg Colan Colen Mariana Marinea
Tippitt Teppit.
Mylor is about 4 miles N of Falmouth and about 20 miles SSE of
St Columb
Madron is twenty miles to the west, nearly to Lands End
Timeline
1804 Marina born in Mylor, about 4 miles N of
Falmouth and about 20 miles SSE of St Columb
1810 Colon born in St Columb
1833 Record of discharge of Colon Tippett, apprentice woolstapler
from Bodmin Goal
1836 Colon and Marina marry in Madron, about twenty miles to the
west, nearly to Lands End
1841 Colon and Marina are living in a household of 13 run by
Colon's parents. Colon is a woolcomber. They have with them 10
month old daughter Louisa
1843 son William Henry Tippet born St Columb
1851 Colon, Marina, children Louisa and William Henry are living
in the village of Talskiddy,. Colon is still a woolcomber
Talskiddy is a small
rural village about two miles north of St Columb
Major in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It prospered
in the 19th century as a centre of the wool-combing industry.
1861 Colon, Marina and Louisa are living in St Enoder.
Colon is an agricultural labourer. St Enoder is about 5 miles
south of St Columb
1871 Colon and Marina are living in St Columb
1878 Colon recorded as a Railway
Pumper working for Great Western in the St Denis Division
1881 Colon and
Marina are living in Trevarron Village (Trevarran? - a hamlet
north of Indian Queens) Colon is a railway labourer. Marina
born Flushing
1882 Colon recorded as a Railway Pumper working for Great
Western in the Newton Abbot Division
1887 Marina dies
1888 Colon dies St Columb
More detail including Census data is to be found in Supporting Data
Acknowledgement
Susan Old, the Online Parish Clerk for St
Columb Major supplied a wonderful response to a query on Colen's
baptism. She added three generations back, for someone who had
been a very murky figure to us.
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