MORCOM/BE ONE NAME STUDY

Family Code: PROBUSwilliam PROBUSgeorge

BIRTH:
18Mar1891 in Negaunee, Marquette MI USA. USA Census 1900: dau., 8, b. March 1891 in Pennsylvania, father b. England, mother b. Pennsylvania. Age on mother's death in Oct.1939 was 53.

RESIDENCES:
BEF 1900-AFT 1900: 128,Third Avenue,District 29,Jermyn,Lackawanna Co.PA USA
BEF 1939-AFT 1939: 49,Prospect St,Mt.View,NJ USA

SOURCES:
1900 USA Federal Census
1900 Census Jermyn Lackawanna PA USA
Will Mary MORCOM PA USA

Family Code: GWENNAPhercules GWENNAPjohn

BIRTH:
02Apr1898 in Henley Park, Hindmarsh SA AUS. Ref.No. b620 p74

SOURCE:
Births-Index of Registrations South Australia 1842-1906

Family Code: St ISSEYjohn GWENNAPthomas

BIRTH:
1892 in Grampian Mountains, nr.Stawell VIC AUS. Reg.No.8156. Dau. of Richard and Rachel nee RANDALL

DEATH:
19Mar1902 in Grampian Mountains nr. Stawell VIC AUS. Ref.3529. Daughter of Richard and Rachel RANDALL Age at death: 10yrs 3mths

BURIAL:
19Mar1902 in Pleasant Creek Cemetery, Stawell VIC AUS. Ida "Lawra"? in grave 2511. Source 799 says she shares grave with her grandmother Mary RANDLE nee BROWN. Ida was a Wesleyan.

RESIDENCE:
1890-1902: Stawell,AUS

SOURCES:
BMD Records Victoria AUS Federation Index 1889-1901
Personal EDWARDS Kym Adrian
BMD Records VIC AUS PRO 1896-1913
BMD Records Victoria AUS Edwardian Index 1902-13
Cemetery Record-Death Dates:Stawell VIC AUS 1870-1982
Personal ARCHER Margaret

Family Code: St ISSEYjohn GWENNAPjoseph1

BIRTH:
04May1909 in Swansea GLA. GRO Births: Q2 1909. !911: 1 year, son, b. Morriston

DEATH:
Jan 1989 in Sheffield YKS. Probably died in Q1 1989.Age at death: 79

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1911-AFT 1911: 248,Chemical Road,Morriston,Swansea,

GENERAL NOTE:
Jennie MORECOMBE died aged 31 in Sheffield in Q1 1943 - any connection?

SOURCES:
GRO Index Births
GRO Index Deaths

Family Code: GWENNAPjohn2

BIRTH:
1905 in NSW AUS.

RESIDENCE:
1905-AFT 1926: NSW AUS

SOURCE:
BMD Records NSW Registry Indices

Family Code: St ISSEYjohn GWENNAPjohn2

BIRTH:
12Apr1932

DEATH:
23Aug1977 in Adelaide ONT CAN.

BURIAL:
AFT 23Aug1977 in Strathroy Municipal Cemetery, Adelaide, Middlesex Co.ONT CAN. Section J,K,L,M,N Reference MX-153-4

RESIDENCE:
ONT CAN

SOURCES:
Personal JANES Mary
Mar 1999 Cemetery Finding Aid Ontario, Canada (OCFA)

Family Code: GWENNAPhercules St ENODERrichard

BIRTH:
Q4 1891 in Tywardreath, Par CON. Registered in St Austell District, Ref. No. 5c 99. Census 1901: age 10, dau., b.Tywardreath; 1911: "Irenen MORCOM, 19, single, assistant, b. Luxulyan

RESIDENCES:
BEF 1901-AFT 1901: Methrose,Luxulyan,CON
BEF 1911-AFT 1911: Bodwinnick,nr Bodmin,CON

OCCUPATION:
BEF 1911-AFT 1911: Assistant Housework in Bodwinnick.

SOURCES:
GRO Index Births
Census England & Wales 31 March - 1st April 1901
Census England and Wales 2nd April 1911
Personal:Jessica MORCOM

Family Code: GWENNAPjohn2

BIRTH:
1898 in Glebe NSW AUS. Reg.No. 1898/3081. Daughter of William J and Ellen L

RESIDENCE:
1898-AFT 1923: NSW AUS

SOURCE:
BMD Records NSW Registry Indices

BIRTH:
Q3 1909 in Penzance CON. Census 1911: 9 months[?], granddaughter of Amelia PENROSE, b. St Just

DEATH:
28Jan1969 in Penzance CON. Q1 1969 Age at death: 59

PROBATE:
£2206

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1911-28Jan1969: 5,Falmouth Place,St Just in Penwith,CON

SOURCES:
GRO Index Births
Census England and Wales 2nd April 1911
GRO Index Deaths
Will Somerset House Index

Family Code: St ISSEYjohn GWENNAPdigory1

BIRTH:
26Mar1914 in Dudley STS. Q2 1914

DEATH:
Aug 1997 in Dudley STS. Age at death: 83

SOURCE:
GRO Index Marriages

Family Code: PROBUSwilliam PROBUSgeorge

BIRTH:
Q4 1847 in St Austell CON. Census 1851 UK: 2 yrs, son, St Blazey; 1861: 12, son, b. St Blazey; 1870 NJ: 21 yrs, as Isaac MORKAM, b. England, parents foreign born, can read and write, lodging with family of John ?BARNS?; 1880 PA: as MARKAM, 30, b. in ENG. As `MORKUMB' in GRO.QUERY: could the discrepancy in Census ages & GRO/IGI date of birth/baptism be due to a previous Isaac having died in infancy?

CHRISTENED:
27Dec1847 in St Blazey CON. son of George & Mary Ann MORCUMB

DEATH:
14Dec1887 in Plymouth, Luzerne Co.PA USA. Ancestral File - an often inaccurate source - has 14 Dec 1887 in Plymouth

EMIGRATION:
Arrived in USA BEF 1870

NATURALIZATION:
Applied for Naturalization on 06Oct1876 at Luzerne Co., PATook oath on .Naturalization Note: Number 70 [? for that date] on a 1850-1906 film.

RESIDENCES:
BEF 1851-AFT 1851: East Bridge,St Blazey,CON
BEF 1861-AFT 1861: Bridge Road,St Blazey,CON
BEF 1870-AFT 1870: Rockaway,Morris Co.NJ USA
BEF 1876-AFT 1886: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Ward,Plymouth,Luzerne Co.PA USA <

Residence Notes:
Probably boarded with family of John BARRON in 1870. In my copy of the Census transcript, the numbers 2114 and 1029 appear but I don't know if they were part of the original census schedule. The BARRON family were also 1029.
Census PA 1880: FHL Film 1255151. national Archives Film T9-1151 Pg 421A.Application for citizenship places him in Luzerne Co., PA by 1876

OCCUPATIONS:
BEF 1861-AFT 1861: Copper Miner in St Blazey.
BEF 1870-AFT 1870: Miner in Rockaway, Morris Co, NJ.
BEF 1880-AFT 1880: Miner in Plymouth, PA.

SOURCES:
GRO Index Births
BEF 1994 IGI UK
Ancestral File LDS
Census England and Wales 30 March 1851
Census England and Wales 7 April 1861
1870 Census Morris Co., NJ USA
Census USA 1880 - LDS Index
IGI USA & Canada
Personal:HALPIN Anna M

Family Code: PROBUSwilliam PROBUSgeorge

BIRTH:
1878 in PA USA. Date on grave.

DEATH:
1879 in Jermyn PA USA.

BURIAL:
1879 in Jermyn cemetery PA USA. Same grave as William H MORCOM and Mary Ann DAVIS and described as their son

SOURCES:
1900 Census Jermyn Lackawanna PA USA
Personal DARWIN Toni
Monumental Inscription Jermyn Cemetery, PA USA

BIRTH:
20Dec1894 in PA USA.

DEATH:
Nov 1975 in Irwin, Westmoreland PA USA. Age at death: 81

SOCIAL SECURITY:
SocialSecurity No: 163-50-5837State No.Issued: PALast Residence: Irwin (or Harrison City),Westmoreland,PA 15642

SOURCE:
1996 Social Security Death Index

BIRTH:
ABT 1868 in Pennsylvania PA USA. US Federal Census 1870: 2, born PA.

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1870-AFT 1870: Knox Township,Jefferson County PA USA

SOURCE:
1870 USA Federal Census

Family Code: St GLUVIASwilliam

BIRTH:
05Feb1911 in Newton Abbot DEV. Ivy M MORCOM reg in Newton Abbot Q1 1911. 1911 Census: Ivy Maud MORCOM, 2 months, visitor in same JOHNSON household as her aunt May MORCOM. Named by Harry MORCOM as being his child by Clara in his 5 September 1919 Army Discharge papers

DEATH:
Q1 1973 in Weston Super Mare SOM. Ivy Maud BROOKMAN was born 5 Feb 1911

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1911-AFT 1911: 40,Wallace Road,Portsmouth,DEV

SOURCE:
GRO Index Births

Family Code: St ISSEYjohn GWENNAPthomas

BIRTH:
1890 in Stawell AUS.

RESIDENCES:
1890 Stawell,AUS
1914 Hanan,Beach Avenue,Brighton, Henty,Melbourne,VIC AUS
1914 "Lacriston Hall",Wellington par.,Melbourne East,VIC AUS

SOURCES:
Electoral Rolls - Australia 1901-1936
Personal EDWARDS Kym Adrian

BIRTH:
ABT 1827 in Plymouth DEV. Census 1851: 24, unmarried, lodger, b. Plymouth

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1851-AFT 1851: West Street,Gravesend,KEN

OCCUPATION:
BEF 1851-AFT 1851: Plumber in Gravesend.

SOURCE:
Census England and Wales 30 March 1851

BIRTH:
ABT 1872 in ENG. Census 1901: J.H.MORCOM, 29, single, inmate, imbecile from birth, b. England

RESIDENCE:
1901-1901: Rainhill Asylum Annex,Eccleston,LAN

SOURCE:
Census England & Wales 31 March - 1st April 1901

Family Code: GWENNAPjohn2

BIRTH:
ABT 1820 in Trevethan, Gwennap CON. Presume he usually used Josiah and also on a few occasions Peter J.S. Pioneer's index gives his parents as Joel A[!] and Ann

CHRISTENED:
03Mar1820 in Truro Bible Christian Circuit CON. BUT father is a miner on this occasion.

DEATH:
23Apr1878 in Vacy estate, Paterson NSW AUS. Reg.No.1878/8875. Extra details from Paterson Courthouse records. Jabez Josiah Searle MORCOM son of Joel A[!] and Ann nee SEARLE. Notice in Maitland Mercury of 27 April 1878 Age at death: 59

BURIAL:
25Apr1878 in St Paul's Anglican Church, Paterson NSW AUS. There is a headstone for him at the Anglican Church, St Paul's PATERSON. His mother Ann Searle is on the same headstone.

EMIGRATIONS:
1840 in "Arthur" Arrived in NSWImmigration Note: From the index to Bounty Immigrants to NSW 1828-1842:Morcom, Josiah, 21 years, on the ship ‘Alfred’, 1840, native place Probus, Cornwall, England, farmer, Protestant, son of Joel and Anne Morcom, Reel 1308. He was brought out by MrJohn MARSHALL.
Immigration Note: Bounty Migrants came to NSW in 1828-1840 on free passages which required them to agree to work for an assignated employer for an agreed time. Bounty ships also sometimes carried the wives and families of deported convicts.
Immigration Note: Ann CAMPBELL, who looked up this record, thought that the ‘Alfred’ from 1837-1860 carried immigrant workers for the Australian Agricultural Company.

RESIDENCES:
BEF 1845-AFT 1845: Black Creek,Bulwarra,NSW AUS
BEF 1847-AFT 1847: Alnwick,NSW AUS
BEF 1852-AFT 1855: Black Creek,Bulwarra,NSW AUS
BEF 1859-AFT 1861: Maitland,NSW AUS
BEF 1862-1878: Residence attached to school,Vacy,Paterson,NSW AUS

OCCUPATION:
ABT 1848-1878: Teacher for Gilbert Cory's property was at Vacy nr Patterson in Maitland & Vacy.Occupation Note: In an email message to Ann CARSON, Jocelyn LLOYD, writes that "Javez Josiah Searle MORCOM was teacher for 16 yrs at the school on Gilbert CORY's property Vacy". In an email to me in 2007 Jocelyn dates tke first appointment of Jabez to Vacy school as 1862. He had previously spent 14 years teaching at a church school in Maitland.The first slab and shingle school was built at Cory in 1850, and Vacy Public School was established in 1859. Greville's Post Office Directory 1872 lists a "MORCOM Josiah Teacher Vacy". Cory was Mayor of Toowoomba..

GENERAL NOTES:
Obituary Notice in Maitland Mercury of 27 April 1878: "it is with extreme regret we have to announce the death of Mr Josiah Morcom, for many years the esteemed teacher, first of the National School of Vacy, and after the present system of education was established, he conducted[?] the same school under the Council of Education as a Public School - and must have been ........... with Vacy for upwards of twenty years. Mr Morcom had been seriously ill for some considerable time past, but only in the last day of two has his illness assumed such a nature as to leave his friends to apprehend any fatal effect{?]. On Monday, last, however, he gradually became worse, and at an early hour on Tuesday breathed his last. Mr Morcom was highly esteemed by all classes of our community, and his death will be regreeted by many>"
Letter from "Joshia MORCOOM" toThe Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser Thursday 5 June 1856 p 4"DENOMINATIONAL VERUS NATIONALSCHOOLS.INEFFICIENT v. EFFICIENT TEACHERS.To the Editors of the Maitland Mercury.GENTLEMEN-In your issue of the 29th in-stant, you published an extract from the so-called Report of the Commission on Education,on which, through your valuable paper, I begto offer a few remarks.Some ten or twelve months since, four indi-viduals (strangers) made their appearance atthe school of which I have charge, at fifteenminutes past eleven o'clock; three of theseindividuals announced themselves as the com-missioners appointed by the Government toinspect the sohools, &o., the fourth was aMr. Holmes—duty not stated. About twentyminutes past eleven o'clock they commencedtheir so-called "examination," but which inreality was a mere farce-finished it at tenminutes before twelve, and took their depar-ture.In their report of my school they state thatthe children "read badly, spell tolerably, andwrite fairly," &o. ; that I had had charge ofthe school for "ten years," but that the state ofthe school did not show efficiency on my part.How in the name of common sense was itpossible for them to ascertain what progressthe children had made in their studies, whenthe examination lasted only some twenty-fiveor thirty minutes, I trow not. It would takemuch more tact, talent, and ability than thetrio exhibited.With respect to my efficiency or inefficiencyas a teacher, it was impossible for them to de-clare with anything approaching to "truth;"however, I leave my qualifications for those tojudge who have supported me for the lasttwelve years, and who are far better able togive an opinion on them than the " trio " fromtheir half an hour's acquaintance.But what justice could be expected whenWilkins, the avowed champion of the " Stanley,"or, as it is miscalled in this county, "nationalsystem," was the chief of the trio ; the otherswere "nonentities," beyond taking a view ofthe' schoolroom, tumbling the copy books, notinspecting them—such was the rule at myschool.On looking through the report I find veryfew of the " denominational teachers" efficient,the chief part of the national teachers com-petent, or (something rotten here) qualificationsnot stated. Yet, strange to say, tbe denomi-national children under inefficient teachers, arefar higher in their attainments than thechildren wider the competent national teacher."

SOURCES:
BEF 1994 IGI UK
Parish Register copy
BMD Records NSW Registry Indices
CD Australia Vital Records Index 1788-1905
Death Index New South Wales, Australia 1865-1899
The Ryerson Index
Personal CARSON Ann, Australia
Personal PATTERSON Violet/Parish Records etc

BIRTH:
in CON. See 04162

EMIGRATION:
Arrived in America 1890

GENERAL NOTE:
Left St Austell for US in 1890 with wife Mary and two children.

BIRTH:
04Jul1921

DEATH:
13Aug1974 in NZ. Death Notice of Jack MORCOM in Nelson Mail Cuttings. He was Presbyterian. Reg No 1974/38233 Age at death: 53

BURIAL:
21Aug1974 in Purewa Cemetery B03 32 NZ. Ref B/R M/125/099. Cremated

SOURCES:
GRO Index Births
NZ Historical Records: Birth, Death & Marriage