MORCOM/BE ONE NAME STUDY

BIRTH:
ABT 1871 Guess from age at death.

DEATH:
12Sep1928 in Burnley LAN.

SOURCE:
Will Somerset House Index

BIRTH:
ABT 1822 in Pailton WAR. Census 1881: age 59

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1881-AFT 1881: Monks Kirby,WAR

Residence Note:
Census 1881: Film 1341743 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 3118 Folio 6 p.12

SOURCE:
Census England and Wales 3rd April 1881

Family Code: GWENNAPhercules St ENODERwilliam

BIRTH:
ABT 1837 in Shaugh Prior DEV. Census 1881: age 44

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1881-AFT 1881: Bara Kellas,St Stephen in Brannel,CON

Residence Note:
Census 1881: FHL Film 1341553, PRO Ref.RG11, Piece 2305, Folio 74 p.3

SOURCE:
Census England and Wales 3rd April 1881

Family Code: PROBUSwilliam PROBUSgeorge

DEATH:
BEF 10Oct1998 Described as `late' in daughter's 1998 obituary.

SOURCE:
11Oct1998 Newspaper Obituary Nepa News, Scranton

Family Code: PROBUSwilliam PROBUSjohn

BIRTH:
ABT 1870 in MI USA. USA Census 1930: 50, wife, age at first marriage 35, Anna and parents b. Michigan,

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1930-AFT 1930: District 89,San Francisco,San Francisco County CA USA

SOURCE:
1930 USA Federal Census

Family Code: PROBUSwilliam PROBUSgeorge

BIRTH:
ABT 1876 in PA USA. Census 1930 NY: 54, head, first married at 21, b. Pennsylvania, father b. England, mother b. Pennsylvnia.

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1930-AFT 1930: Inglewood Drive,Rochester,Monroe County NY USA

Family Code: GWENNAPhercules St ENODERrichard

BIRTH:
'of Mexico'

SOURCE:
Personal REDICAN Joe

RESIDENCE:
AUS

Family Code: St ISSEYjohn GWENNAPwilliam2

BIRTH:
in ENG. It is possible that she was Mary Anne SKEWES (see note on marriage) - but this will be difficult to confirm or disprove, unless the full baptism records give where in Camborne the parents came from, or an informative will can be found

DEATH:
22Dec1866

SOURCES:
Census USA 1880 - LDS Index
Personal WALKER Ross

RESIDENCE:
1715 Devonport,Plymouth,DEV

SOURCE:
Plymouth Parish Registers in FindmyPast

Family Code: St ISSEYjohn GWENNAPdigory1

BIRTH:
ABT 1821 in St Keverne CON. Census 1881: age 60

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1881-AFT 1881: Coinagehall Street,Helston,CON

SOURCE:
Census England and Wales 3rd April 1881

BIRTH:
ABT 1835 GUESS 20 years pre birth of Elizabeth

RESIDENCE:
Briton Ferry,GLA

SOURCE:
BEF 1994 IGI UK

BIRTH:
ABT 1838 in Gwennap CON. Census 1891:Ann UREN, 53, head, widow, b. Gwennap

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1891-AFT 1891: Gordon, Gwennap Parish,CON

OCCUPATION:
BEF 1891-AFT 1891: Charwoman in Gordon.

GENERAL NOTE:
Is she, in 1901, Ann MORCOM, 66, head, widow, charwoman, b. Gwennap living at south Downs, Lannarth, with her grand-daughter Ally POPE, 10, b. Gwennap. Is it a misleading coincidence or significant that there an Ally and a ALLIE in this family with Ann (if it is the same person) in successive censuses

SOURCES:
Census England and Wales 5 April 1891
GRO Index Marriages

Family Code: PROBUSwilliam PROBUSgeorge

BIRTH:
1878 USA Census 1900: wife, 22, b. March 1878 in Pennsylvania, father b. Germany, mother b. New Jersey, m. 3 yrs, one child; 1910: 30, b. in ?England?, father b. Germany, mother b. Pennsylvania, married 12 yrs with two living children:1920: 41, married, b. in PA. father b. in Germany, mother b. in Pennsylvania. Possible gravestone possibly gives d.o.b. of "Arnie" as 24 May 1878 - but difficult to decipher.

DEATH:
ABT 1920 In 1920 census, but husband remarried 5 June 1921.

BURIAL:
05Jul1920 in Jermyn Cemetery PA USA. Grave partly sunken - date of death not readable.

RESIDENCES:
BEF 1900-AFT 1900: 130,Third Avenue,District 29,Jermyn,Lackawanna Co.PA USA
BEF 1910-AFT 1910: Jefferson Avenue,Jermyn,Lackawanna Co.PA USA
BEF 1920-AFT 1920: Jefferson Avenue,1st ward, District 61,Jermyn,Lackawanna Co.PA USA

Residence Note:
Rented his home in 1900. Paid rent to his mother in 1920. Census PA 1910 Registration District: 137 0035 0131; 1920: 143 61 7 24.

GENERAL NOTE:
"Arnie" in two versions of 1920 Census - assume error.

SOURCES:
1900 USA Federal Census
1900 Census Jermyn Lackawanna PA USA
1910 Census Jermyn Lackawanna PA USA
Census PA 1910 Soundex
1920 Census Jermyn Lackawanna PA USA
Census PA 1920 Soundex
1920 USA Federal Census
Monumental Inscription Jermyn Cemetery, PA USA
Personal DARWIN Toni

Family Code: St ISSEYjohn GWENNAPdigory1

BIRTH:
ABT 1891 in MO USA. Census 1930 AZ: 39, married at 16, b. Kansas, father b. Tennessee, mother b. Indiana

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1930-AFT 1930: North 16th Street,Madison,Maricopa County AZ USA

SOURCE:
1930 USA Federal Census

BIRTH:
New Jersey State Census 1895: "foreign born female other than Irish or German, between 20 and 60 years old".

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1895-AFT 1895: Randolph,Morris Co.NJ USA

SOURCE:
Census NJ State 1895

Family Code: St ISSEYjohn PENZANCEbawden

SOURCE:
Census England and Wales 5 April 1891

Family Code: St ISSEYjohn GWENNAPdigory1

DEATH:
09Sep1899 in Glasgow. Glasgow Herald (Glasgow, Scotland), Monday, September 11, 1899; Issue 217: "TAYLOR - Suddenly on Saturday morning, Annie, the dear wife of T Morcom Taylor, B.A., Wesleyan Minister

BURIAL:
AFT 09Sep1899 in Windsor Hills Wesleyan Church, Glasgow.

SOURCE:
Newspaper Death or Burial Notice

Family Code: ADELAIDEannie

BIRTH:
ABT 1839 Age 35 at death in 1874 but the Asylum records may have been inaccurate.In all records she is known as Annie MORCOM but there is insufficient evidence whether MORCOM was her maiden name or partner's name. Therefore, we find it convenient to refer to her as ""Sad Annie"

DEATH:
15Aug1874 in of Adelaide SA AUS. Age at death: 35

BURIAL:
17Aug1874 in West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide SA AUS. Reference for Annie MORCOM reads: "Ade sym S b59 p98". No relative recorded. The grave contained "unlicensed burials" until a license was taken out in 1912. WATKINS children in the same grave were also probably paupers.Annie, age 35, died of pthisis at the Adelaide Destitute Asylum

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1872-1874: Adelaide,SA AUS

GENERAL NOTES:
The 1872 entry for James & Peter states that they were born in England, but elsewhere they are "Born Australia", However the "English" may have been an incorrect assumption based on Annie herself being entered in the hospital records as English. By 1872 she may not have been well enough to give accurate information to the Board of the Industrial School about the birth places of her children. Alternatively she may have lied. Yet another possibility is that as many of the female inmates of the Asylum were recent immigrants, Annie and her children were, therefore, assumed to have also recently arrived. There is no match for Peter or James in the UK birth registrations, or in the South Australia birth records which suggests they may be illegitimate, as is also confirmed by the Asylum records. If so Annie could have named them after herself (if her maiden name was MORCOM) or after their MORCOM father.
In 19th century South Australia there was more of a stigma attached to being poor than to being mentally unstable. Susan PIDDOCK wrote that "The destitute ....... were seen as bringing misfortune on themselves, there was not meant to be an underclass in a society developed by free settlers." This attitude was particularly harsh when many of the destitute were in that situation due to no fault of their own. They included mothers expecting illegitimate children and the terminally ill, neither of whom were accepted by hospitals. Some of them had been left stranded when their miner or other partners did not return from distant areas.Early provision had been made for the mentally handicapped or ill, the Adelaide Lunatic Asylum having been opened in 1836. The Destitute Asylum was established in 1849 to cope with the large number of destitute caused largely by an excessive number of single female immigrants who could not find employment. By 1869 numbers in the Asylum had fallen to 55 women, 119 men and 190 children, and in 1878 there were 102 women, 188 men and 155 children. The Asylum was a makeshift institution with poor premises, inadequate finance, and only able to find work for a minority of the inmates even in services within its own premises. A 1885 Royal Commission described the Asylum as "a hospital for the aged, decrepit, diseased" rather then as a workhouse such as those in Britain.
In the Destitute Asylum Registers Annie MORCOM is described as "Now living Adelaide. Age not stated. Nationality E [presumably English]. Living Adelaide. Circumstances: Mother of two illegitimate children James MORCOM no. 271 and Peter MORCOM No. 272. [Source GRG 28/5/1 271,272 Date: 29.8.1872]Bronte GOULD found the following information in the South Australia State Record Office:Register of Admissions to Industrial School, Boy's Reformatory and Girl's Reformatory School 1863-1882 (1 volume) GRG28/9 on microfilm:1872No 73 James MORCOM age 9, born E [England], C of E, admitted 29th AugustNo 74 Peter MORCOM age 6, born E, C of E, admitted 29th AugustComment: Illegitimate children of Annie MORCOM who has surrendered them to the care of the Board.
Baby farming - the practice of boarding out destitute, orphaned or neglected children for profit was common in South Australia until public outcry following several deaths led to protective legislation being passed in the 1870s. A leading reformer Catherine Helen SPENCE [1825-1910] wrote an Autobiography which has a page about the Magill Industrial School [page 71 in http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ozlit/pdf/p00014.pdf].The Magill School was opened in 1869 and some of the children were farmed out for profit. When, in 1872, the school was overflowing its capacity of 230 boys, Catherine SPENCE and colleagues succeeded in persuading the State authorities that they should be allowed to pay couples 5s.0d a week to look after the overflow of children. These adoptive homes were checked by lady visitors and the scheme was judged a great success in greatly improving the conditions of the children who were fortunate enough to be looked after by the Boarding Out Society rather than the Destitute Board. The home was subsidised until the boys were 13, and the supervision continued until they were 18 if they went out to service. it is not yet possible to say which regime decided the fate of James and Peter.
More information may be available as "The Indexes to the Destitute Asylum" are not just an index, they are in fact, a copy of the entry in the register. From memory they not only include the name plus date of admission and discharge (e.g. death), but also age, nationality, religion, ship and year of arrival (some times not correct), reason for admission, occupation (or former occupation), and details of any relatives in the colony. Unmarried mother's were also admitted to the Asylum (there was a lying-in ward) and these entries include the putative father.The indexes to the (Royal) Adelaide Hospital [to which ill patients were transferred], are slightly less informative,but do include ship and year of arrival."However a most helpful correspondent in Adelaide has not been able to find additional information about Annie MORCOM in the Asylum and Hospital records
The entry for John James MORCOM [04751] in the Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-85 includes the following:"m. (1/2) unknown"m. (2/2) 25,12,1863 Adelaide SA Sarah Ann nee BILNEY......" This suggests that John James could have had an earlier marriage than the one to Sarah Ann BILNEY. However, the Biographical Index is not a very reliable source as it depended on the accuracy of local contributors and no other evidence has been found for an earlier marriage in the fairly complete South Australian registrations, If John James did have an earlier unregistered liaison. a possible partner is this Annie MORCOM, and his elder son, possibly conceived before his marriage to Sarah Ann BILNEY, could have taken his name "James". If Peter was also John James's son then the liason could have continued after his marriage to Sarah. Bronte GOULD who is researching John James's family thinks it unlikely that he had a relationship with Annie MORCOM.
It has proved very difficult to identify "Anne MORCOM", If MORCOM was her maiden name then one possibility to investigate is Ann MORCOM who was recorded in the 1851 census as age 10, b. Ladock, pauper from birth. No other information has been found about Ann. Some paupers were being sent to South Australia in the 1850's and 1860s.

SOURCES:
Birth Index NSW Pioneers
BMD Records NSW Registry Indices
CD Australia Vital Records Index 1788-1905
Destitute Asylum Registers Adelaide, SA
Death Index:South Australia Registrations 1842-1915
Burial Index West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide SA -1940
1903 Book Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885

Family Code: MEETHwilliam ASHBURTONgeorge

BIRTH:
ABT 1844

DEATH:
14Apr1938

BURIAL:
AFT 14Apr1938 in North Brighton SA AUS.

Family Code: GWENNAPhercules GWENNAPjohn

BIRTH:
ABT 1850 in NSW AUS. US Federal Census 1900: age 49, wife, b. Australia, parents born in England, married 29 years, had six children, non living, immigrated 1876. No record of Annie's marriage to John or their six children has been found in the Australian recordsUS Census 1910: Annie MORCUM, 59, head, married 38 years, born in ?NSW? , parents born in England, arrived in USA 1877. Mother of eight children, none of them living [Could Annie have been counting miscarriages and stillbirths]

DEATH:
1912

EMIGRATION:
Left Australia 1876 Arrived in USA

RESIDENCES:
BEF 12Jun1900-AFT 12Jun1900: University Avenue,Oakland Township,West Berkeley, Sixth Ward SE,Alameda County CA USA
BEF 19Apr1910-AFT 19Apr1910: San Pablo Avenue,Oakland Townaship,Berkeley City,Alameda County CA USA

SOURCES:
1900 USA Federal Census
1910 USA Federal Census
Personal:HARDIMAN Allister

BIRTH:
ABT 1866

DEATH:
23Apr1940 in Penzance CON. Widow Age at death: 74

PROBATE:
£587 19s. Executor: William Henry MORCOM, carpenter

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1940-23Apr1940: 15,Bosorne Fields,St Just in Penwith,CON

SOURCES:
GRO Index Deaths
Will Somerset House Index

Family Code: MEETHwilliam

BIRTH:
ABT 1868 in ONT CAN. Census Ontario 1891: 23, daughter -in-law with children age 2 yrs and 2 months

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1891-AFT 1891: West Wawanosh,ONT CAN

SOURCE:
Census Canada 1891

Family Code: GWINEARjohn

BIRTH:
ABT 1871 in Holywell FLN. Census 1891: age 20, wife, b. Holywell

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1891-AFT 1891: Huyton Road,Huyton & Roby,nr. Liverpool,LAN

SOURCE:
Census England and Wales 5 April 1891

SOURCE:
BMD Records NSW Registry Indices

DEATH:
ABT 1974 in Darlinghurst NSW AUS. Ref 20814/1974 Audrey MORECOMBE

SOURCE:
BMD Records NSW Registry Indices

Family Code: PROBUSwilliam PROBUSjohn

BIRTH:
ABT 1828 in POL. Census 1880: age 52, widow, Augusta and her parents born in Poland. Named in her daughter Henrietta's marriage certificate.

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1880-AFT 1880: Highland,Iowa Co.WI USA

SOURCES:
Marriage Records Iowa County, WI
Census USA 1880 - LDS Index

Family Code: GWENNAPjohn GWENNAPdiggory

RESIDENCE:
ABT 1835 CON

SOURCE:
CD Australia Vital Records Index 1788-1905

Family Code: St ISSEYjohn GWENNAPedward

Family Code: GWENNAPhercules St ENODERwilliam

BIRTH:
14Feb1903

DEATH:
Q4 1983 in Newton Abbot DEV. Presume she died as Beatrice Anne MORCOMBE

SOURCES:
GRO Index Marriages
GRO Index Deaths

Family Code: St ISSEYjohn GWENNAPwilliam2

BIRTH:
ABT 1864 in MO USA. Census 1920 TX USA: 56, wife, b. Missouri, parents b. Ohio

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1920-AFT 1920: 204,Harriet,Ward 2 District 42,Houston,Harris County TX USA

SOURCE:
1920 USA Federal Census

Family Code: PROBUSwilliam PROBUSgeorge

BIRTH:
06Nov1919

DEATH:
15May2004 Age at death: 85

SOCIAL SECURITY:
SocialSecurity No: 203-03-1036State No.Issued: PALast Residence: Jermyn,Lackawanna,PA 18433 Lump Sum Payment to: Davenport,Polk,FL

RESIDENCES:
BEF 1952-AFT 1952: RD,Jermyn,Lackawanna Co.PA USA
BEF 1959-AFT 1959: 709,Lincoln Ave.,Jermyn,Lackawanna Co.PA USA
BEF 1961-AFT 1961: 718,Lincoln Ave.,Jermyn,Lackawanna Co.PA USA
BEF 1968-AFT 1997: 709 Lincoln Avenue,Jermyn,Lackawanna Co.PA 18433-1635 PA USA

OCCUPATION:
BEF 1952-AFT 1952: Operator for Lenore Dress Co.in Jermyn.Occupation Note: Probably not in employment in after 1959.

GENERAL NOTE:
May be sister-in-law of Charlotte (00020)

SOURCES:
Web Site Anybirthday.com
Street Directory Carbondale City etc Polk's 1952 PA USA
Street Directory Carbondale City etc Polk's 1959 PA USA
Street Directory Carbondale City etc Polk's 1961 PA USA
Street Directory Carbondale City etc Polk's 1968 PA USA
Street Directory Carbondale City etc Polk's 1975 PA USA
Street Directory Carbondale City etc Polk's 1980 PA USA
Street Directory Carbondale City etc Polk's 1988 PA USA
Feb 1997 Phone Directory Yahoo

Family Code: GWENNAPjohn GWENNAPdiggory

BIRTH:
1906 in VIC AUS.

DEATH:
15Aug1983 in Springvale VIC AUS.

SOURCE:
Personal: MORCOM Liz

Family Code: PROBUSwilliam PROBUSgeorge

SOURCE:
Family History Online

BIRTH:
ABT 1818 in OH USA. USA Federal Census 1860: age 42, b. in NY State

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1860-AFT 1860: Nearest Post Office: Nora,Troy,Oakland OH USA

SOURCE:
1860 USA Federal Census

Family Code: PROBUSwilliam PROBUSthomas

DEATH:
15Jan1935

SOURCE:
Personal MORCOM George David

Family Code: MEETHwilliam OKEHAMPTONwilliam2

BIRTH:
ABT 1880 in OH USA. Census 1930 OH: 50, wife, first married at 28, b. Ohio, parents b. Scotland

RESIDENCE:
BEF 1930-AFT 1930: Cleveland,Cuyahoga County OH USA

SOURCE:
1930 USA Federal Census