Hi,
Does anyone have anything on the whereabouts of a Thomas and Elizabeth Pollard, nee Cock, married circa 1833?
I'm tracing a g-g-grandmother, Elizabeth Ann Pollard, who married Abraham George in Redruth in 1852.
In the 1851 census, I found an Elizabeth Ann Pollard, 17, a tailoress, living with a Margaret Cock, widow, at 230 Roach Row, Redruth.
In 1841, aged 7, Elizabeth Pollard is listed as living with a Margaretta Cock, 55, and a Jane Cock, 20. Margaretta/Margreat is her maternal grandmother, born c 1786, nee Penberthy and married to a William Cock on 20 August 1803 at Redruth.
Elizabeth, who married Thomas Pollard was christened 29 January 1804, the first of eight children.
Thomas, son of John Pollard and Ann Williams, I believe, was christened 5 Sept, 1812, the last of five children.
What I'm hoping to discover is what happened to them following Elizabeth Ann's birth in 1834... And how she ended up with her grandma
And if anyone has any more on her grandparents, I'd be grateful too
GazT
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FAMILY WILLIAM COCK AND MARGARET PENBERTHY. REDRUTH
Hello, I am Francisca of Colombian origin, I have a Spanish passport and I live in Rome, Italy. I am looking for information about the family formed by William Cock and Margaret Penberthy of Redruth, this couple had 8 children: Elisabeth, William, Richard, Thomas, John who died as a child, Grace, Jane and John who was born on the same day as Jane ; I also know that William and Elizabeth emigrated to Australia. I am a great-great-granddaughter of Richard Cock who came from Redruth to work as an expert miner, hired by a company at the Candango mine in Brazil and then moved permanently to Colombia, he came with his maternal uncle Isaac Penberthy, we do not know if any brothers accompanied him; Her maternal uncle Isaac Penberthy, who identified himself as Hebrew and changed his religion in order to marry a Colombian woman in the Catholic rite, died in Colombia, as did his nephew. Richard Cock had a wife in Redruth, Mary Teague, and two daughters, one named Mary Cock and the other Martha Cock, born in Colombia. In Colombia he fell in love with a Colombian woman, who was my paternal great-grandmother and had 6 children with her. Richard and Isaac left a very large family in Colombia. I am also investigating the English daughters of Richard Cock, Mary Cock and Martha Cock, only Martha Cock (baptized in Colombia as Mariquita Isabella) had 2 children, she married Alfred Bailey, her children were called Selina Bailey who died with 15 years old and William Robert Teague Bailey, he married Millicent Jane
Polkinghorne and they had a son named William George Bailey (died 1993), who married Irene Thomas and they had a son named Geoffrey Bailey who died in 1970 aged 23. The Colombian descendants of Richard Cock are aware that Richard's English wife and daughters were left alone in Redruth without Richard and they must have suffered a lot, without their sacrifice, Richard Cock's family in Colombia would not exist, we feel sadness and pain for what happened. Richard's English wife, Mary Teague appeared in Colombia, after a very long and difficult journey, she discovered that Richard had another wife and other children, my Colombian great-great-grandmother did not know that he was married and had a daughter in Redruth, she thought that he was not he married her because he was Anglican and she was Catholic, then he discovered the reason and asked her to leave the house, Richard began to live in Colombia again with his English wife and they had their second daughter in Colombia, we don't know what happened, his English wife and their little daughter returned to Redruth, with a group of miners and 20 kilos of gold; Richard stayed with my great-great-grandmother and had one more son, it is the story that has been told from generation to generation, then we see with surprise in the 1851 census, that Mary Teague, her mother Martha Teague, her two brothers and her two daughters They lived modestly. Geoffrey Bailey Richard's English great grandson, he died very young at 23 years old, we are hopeful he may have left descendants, if anyone knows anything about this person and his family, I am attentive, we would like to meet them and say we are very sorry for what they it happened 180 years ago, we didn't want this story to have this ending, the abandonment of one family to create another. I will go to Redruth in the spring of this year, to continue investigating, I will look for the graves of Richard's wife, daughters, descendants and family of origin, I want to bring them flowers and say "I am very sorry, on behalf of my great Colombian family" . Two members of this forum in 2007, with usernames GAZ and DEB, were investigating Margaret Penberthy and William Cock Elizabeth Ann Pollard, one of them would be the great-great-grandson of Elizabeth Cock, sister of Richard Cock, I hope they have not stopped investigating and we can share information. I have used a translator to write this message and it will surely have errors. Thank you.
