Hello - I have put together a summary
of what I have .... This will be expanded
on the website, with narrative and census
and register details, etc ....
Joseph Fry ( soldier ) m Mary Stephens
Madron 26th January 1768
I believe him to have come from Devon,
I have two parallel leads which point in that
direction.
Their son was Joseph Fry, a sailor. He
lived in Penzance and sailed to the Channel Islands,
and I have reliable published narrative that
confirms that he was in Penzance in 1808.
I believe he married in Guernsey. I have some
information from the Guernsey census and
someone on the Island that confirms this.
I also have historical information which gives
background to the Devon and Channel Islands
connection with Penwith.
His son was also Joseph Fry, born Guernsey 1812.
He arrived in Landewdnack ( near the Lizard )
and married Jane Williams Eddy 3rd November 1835.
The Marriage Certificate shows he was named
Joseph John Fry. "A labourer of Lizard Town".
There was a cholera epidemic in Penwith in 1832,
which would explain the death of both his father
and wife before 1838, since at that time it is shown
on the register entry that his father was deceased.
Jane died and he re-married to Mary Ann Hall
in Germoe Parish. 6th October 1838. Joseph is
noted at "Joseph Fry, widower and husbandman,
son of Jospeh Fry, sailor. ( I have read the original
entry in the Registry ). They had 12 children.
Joseph Fry became a tin mine worker.
The Cornishman newspaper announcement of
his death 6th January 1882 gives his age as 62.
The address was given as 12, Prospect Place.
The 12 children were
Ann, Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Elizabeth,
Susanna, Joseph Thomas, Rebecca, Martha,
Joseph Thomas, John Edwin and William George.
A number did not survive to adulthood.
Joseph Thomas Fry m Victoria Jasper.1878
They had seven children.
Joseph Thomas, Ernest, Elizabeth, Jessica,
Leonard, Annie and Joseph.
I am descended from
Jessica Fry m Edward Forward 1911
"Jessie" was my grandmother.
Best Wishes
Raymond
