Mary BALSOM from Launceston Cornwall

[Abygail]

I must commend you all on the details you have turned up.   If you find a Mary Balsome born 1895 at Launceston, Cornwall / Devon to Mary and Christian Balsome I'd love to hear about.   Married George Harvie Symonds c 1822 , school master at Perranarworthal, Cornwall. 
Abygail

[tropicalj]

I must commend you all on the details you have turned up.   If you find a Mary Balsome born 1895 at Launceston, Cornwall / Devon to Mary and Christian Balsome I'd love to hear about.   Married George Harvie Symonds c 1822 , school master at Perranarworthal, Cornwall. 
Abygail

Hello there

Did she also come to Australia or are you looking at Uk information

Jenn

[Abygail]

Sorry, a tad vague.
Mary, husband George Symonds and most of their brood arrived in Australia in 1853, no trouble tracking them forward.  It's just that I am stuck re Mary.   I have info re her from the 1841 and 1851 UK census, but haven't had even a hint on finding a possible birth recording for her.     According to her death cert in Aust. her father was Christian Balsome and her mother Mary Ann unknown.
Abygail

[tropicalj]

What was the name of the vessell they came to Australia on please so I can check to see if her maiden name is  mentioned at all.

Jenn

[krisesjoint]

Hi Abygail,

I have separate your query as it does not concern Robert & Mary TAYLOR nee BALSOM - the subjects of ChrisKsans thread, so best to make it a separate request. If it is Cornish information you are after rather than Australian it would be best posted to the Cornwall board.

Cheers Kris 

[Abygail]

The family immigrated to Australia on the Stebonheath arriving Jan 1853.   The passenger listing included;
George H Symonds and wife Mary aged 55 and 57 respectively.
Mary A 29      Louisa, 24
Rebecca, 21      Sarah, 19
Charles, 17      Christiana, 15
At their date of immigration, it appears that the following remained in Cornwell,
George, engineer app.      Walter, tin mining   Eliza (beth?) married?

According to Mary's death registration (1862 Victoria Aust) her maiden name was Balsome and her father's first name was Christian and her mother was Mary unknown.
It seems that Mary was from Launceston, Devon / Cornwell and for George Harvie Symonds I have located parents (Walter Symons and Mary Harvie)and paternal grandparents (Walter Symonds and Mary Fowell) in / around Stoke Damerel, Devon.
I just haven't had much joy in finding references to Mary Balsom other than the 1841 and 1851 UK Census's. 
I'm flexiable with the varients in spelling of both Balsom and Symons, I have noted that it chops and changes back and forth, with an 'E' or with a 'D' .
Abygail

[Daisypetal]

Hi,

In case it helps finding her birth/baptism, the 1851 census shows Mary being from Newton Abbot, Devon,


1851  HO107/1911  f.10  p.13  Perranarworthal, Cornwall
Perran Well, Green With

SYMONS
George Thos    Head    54    School Master           Devon Port Devon
Mary              Wife    56    School Masters Wife    Newton Abbot Devon
Louisa             Daur    24    Dressmaker
Eliza               Daur    22    Tailoress
Rebecca          Daur    20    Dressmaker
Sarah Jane       Daur    17    House Maid
Christiana        Daur    13    At Home Scholar        All children Perranar^l Cornwall


Regards
Daisy

[Abygail]

Thank you Daisypetal.

[krisesjoint]

Hi Abygail,

link to earlier thread to avoid duplication.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,288989.0.html

I am concerned about father Christian. Christian is not a male name around Cornwall and Devon. It is a female name. ( this name is pronounced Christeeayne not pronounced anything like the male name Christian that we know)

I really find it hard to see parents being Christian and Mary as both are female names. (as far as a male name - Christopher perhaps, or I have seen Henry transcribed as Mary in the past - Christian and Mary just does not true to me.  )

Note a daughter Christiana born to George and Mary.

Do you have the death certificate?

As Daizi has said Mary lists Newton Abbot as her POB in 1851 and there certainly were Balsom's there.

Cheers Kris