John Pengelly -Of Devonport 1780/90's ?

[ppen]

Hi 

  My GGG-Grandfather a John Pengelly was born sometime in the 1780/1790's.
He dies in 1878 aged 86 making his date of birth 1792ish
On the 1851 census his place of birth is Devonport ,1861 Devon and in 1871 it is Newport,Devon .

I was always of the opinion that Newport was just that the New port in Plymouth which later became known as Devonport, rather than Newport which is an area near Barnstable ? Is this a reasonable assumption? Or am I looking in the wrong area ?

The area of Devonport is/was? in the parish of Stoke Damerel ,I am unable to get to Devon at the moment would it be possible for some kind soul to do a search for any Pengelly Baptisms in the 1780-1790s period in the parish.
On IGI I have found one John in that time period and that is for the 20th April 1780 but that seems a little too early to me .

Thanks
Paul

[ciderdrinker]

Hi
Had a little look on Familysearch and there is this-
John Pengilly s of Jacob and Elizabeth born 10.1.1792 bapt 12.2.1792 Stoke Dameral .
It's only one letter out and it is nearer the date.

Ciderdrinker

[ppen]

 Cheers !

           I have (eventually) found the John Pengilly 1792 you had located ,funny I had been on IGI and I swear that was not shown ,I never seem to get on that well with that site.

Anyway thanks a lot that looks to be the best match I have seen .

On my recent visit to IGI I had  found what looks to be 3 other children born to a Jacob and Elizabeth Pengelly in Stoke Damerel :Jacob 1786 - Mary 1788 with a gap that John fits into nicely at 1792 before Sarah 1794 so that is another point in its favour.

Thanks again for a job well done .

P