Thanks for your help deb usa, I do have a list of family that came to Australia, not sure if it was all the family or some remained in Cornwall or if some of the older ones were married and came with their spouses, which would have them recorded separate to 'family' being a unit on their own.
I have records for;
Symon(d)s- deaths
Geo Harvie father Geo Harvie mother Mary Balsom
aged 59 yrs at Clunes Vic in 1882 born 1823
Geo Harvie parents unknown aged 66 yrs born at Plymouth died 1863
Mary Ann Symonds nee Balsome
father Christian Balsom mother Mary unknown
aged 67 yrs died 1862, born Devon
The family came out on the Stebonheath arriving Jan 1853;
George 55 Mary 57
Mary A 29 Louisa 24
Rebecca 21 Sarah 19
Charles 17 Christiana 15
am reasonably sure that Walter came out as well, there are a lot of Symon(d)s buried in the cemetery at Clunes, Vic close to Ballarat, so it is a possibility.
George Harvie Symons and family are in Folio 10 Page 13 Greenwith Common for the 1851 census.
Working from the names in the 1841 census, there were 9 children and the only ones from 'missing' from the passenger list for the Stebonheath were ;
George 15 engineer app. Walter 15 tin mining and Eliza(beth)? 12 scholar.
As I said need to revisit the passenger listings.
I'm gratefull for the naming pattern of the era, using mothers maiden name as a second name. Helps when looking for unknowns. Wonder if we could convince todays parents to adopt it?
I know I'm getting into difficult territory re records but it is nice to find a few crumbs re George and Mary's parents, and now I do have some re George's parents.
Maybe Walter (1780's) Symons mother was a Maunder?
It seems to be a reasonable guess that George and Mary were married c1822 given that Mary, George, Walter and Louisa were all listed at 15 for the 1841 census. Apparently they worked on 5 year increments for ages. plus it seems all the children were born in Perranarworthal. Wonder where they married, perhaps in Perranarworthal as well? Nah that would be too easy.
