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Fife / Re: Deas Family History
« on: Sunday 25 March 18 03:22 BST (UK)  »
 Thanks for your interest Sue. However since posting this message I have largely solved the mystery. David Deas also emigrated to Australia sometime after he was widowed from his first wife Jean Burnet (1818 - 1856). He later married Helen Scott in Victoria Aust. in 1859 and produced a further four children Margaret 1860, William 1861, George Hunter 1864 and James Reid 1865. David's eldest Son from his first marriage John (1843 - 1891) also came to Australia and married an Elizabeth Scott in 1873 having ten children. The youngest being Jane Burnet Deas (b 1891) born after John tragically drowned in the Yarra river. Both David and John were mariners which probably means they just jumped ship when arriving in Australia. My GGrandfather George probably came to Australia the same way about the same time as David as I have not been able to find any record of his arrival. Of George's other brother John the eldest stayed in Dysart and may have taken over the family business as a baker but I have not confirmed this. William seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. The last record I had was in 1841 when he was training as a ship's carpenter so I guess he also sailed away to some distant shore.

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Cornwall / Re: names: COURAGE & PETERS.
« on: Wednesday 23 February 11 06:48 GMT (UK)  »
I can also trace my descendants back to a Mary Courage who married William Trevithick 3/8/1763 in Sithney, Cornwall. But recently I noticed there were two Mary Courages married that year. The other married John Hodge (from Wendron) on the 10/3/1783 in Constantine. Pierre (then going by the name Peter) is shown as a witness as the Constantine wedding. And as a point of interest John Hodge was a witness at the Trevithick wedding.

From what I can see Pierre married Mary Rowling in Budock on 16/1/1762 and had three possibly six children Mary (b.1763), William Rowling (b.1766, m Elizabeth Powell 1786), Peter (d.1789 aged 19),John(m. Anne Eddy 1798), Joan (m. Thomas Hodge 1798) and Johanna (m. Samuel Pollard 1788) all in or around Constantine and spelling Courage with a double 'rr' and other variations.

However the marriage of Mary in Sithney in 1783 and Simon in Helston in 1797 may be from another family. Witnesses at Simon's wedding to Mary Eva were John and Arundell Pryor and William Trevithick's mother was a Charity Prior which I thought tied these two together.

So I wondered if there was any other evidence of more than one family. Did Pierre have a POW brother?

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Fife / Re: Deas Family History
« on: Friday 11 February 11 08:30 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Christine. My GGrandfather George Deas (b 1830) also came to Australia from Dysart. My grandfather James Freeman Deas claimed another James Reid Deas who lived in North Perth from late 1890's to 1940's was his cousin. I have not been able to verify this claim, but if true it would mean that James Reid Deas was the son of one of George's brothers. I have not been able to trace any of George's bothers : John b 1812, David b. 1814 and William b. 1823 (all born in Dysart) to Australia. Do any of these link to your Deas family in Australia?

Cheers Rod

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