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I am interested in tracing descendants of John Screech, a waterman b ca 1798/9 Saltash, Cornwall who married my great great great grandmother Ann Eastcott (b Jacobstow). Ann already had a son John Eastcott b 1816 at Pillaton. John and Ann Screech lived on Fore Street, Saltash and had several children together, all born as far as I can tell at Saltash, of whom I have identified:
William Screech b ca 1824
Mary Screech b ca 1824
Sarah Screech b ca 1830
Ann Screech b ca 1831
Susannah Screech b ca 1833
William Screech married Harriet Glanville in 1845 and they moved to Morrice Town, Plymouth and later to Stoke Damerel.
William and Harriet had numerous children:
Born in Saltash:- Harriet Screech ca 1846
Mary Screech ca 1849
Susannah Screech ca 1853
John Screech ca 1855
William Screech ca 1856
Sarah Screech ca 1858
Born Plymouth:- Thomas Screech ca 1860
Elizabeth Screech ca 1862
Margaret Screech ca 1864
Rebecca Screech ca 1866
Charles Screech ca 1869.
Ann Screech b 1831 married Thomas Harris and had a number of children.
Mary Screech (ca 1824) married William Garland. It does not look as if they had any children.
John Screech snr appears to have married a second time in 1856 a Mary Davey but I have not been able to trace the death of his first wife, my gt*3 gmother Ann Screech. He died in 1882.
It is curious to note that a 'legend' of Cornish Spanish blood was also in our family and indeed they had black hair, blue eyes and somewhat swarthy skin. I have put this down to a mid-nineteenth century attempt to dissociate themselves from any connection with a black African slave origin and that is another possibility.
I know that several of Ann Screech snr's siblings emigrated during the 1850's and at least one family was caught up in a shipwreck with massive loss of lives so this may account for the absence of a death registration for Ann.
If you have a connection or information on the Screeches of Saltash I should be very pleased to hear from you.
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