Thank you so much Bill. Disappointing, but it is better to know when you are barking up the wrong tree eh? So I will move right along and keep looking. I appreciate your help to me and to everyone. Marg A ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Curnow" <wjcurnow@kernow.com> To: <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 10:50 PM Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] John Uren - Long Rock > Marg, > > I believe you are referring to the John UREN, 58, of Long Rock, who was > buried at Ludgvan on 18 Dec 1852. > > In my opinion, this man was the son of James UREN & Anne NICHOLLS who was > baptized at Gulval on 14 Jun 1795. He was married at Gulval on 07 Apr > 1822 > to Elizabeth CORIN, and they had two children prior to her death in 1827. > He then married Alice THOMAS at Madron on 18 Nov 1831, and they had at > least > 8 children. > > John and family lived at Long Rock at the 1841 and 1851 Census. He was > described as a farmer in 1841 and as a farm labourer in 1851. > > Long Rock is a community that straddles the parishes of Ludgvan and > Gulval. > It is located on the flat, fertile coastal land along the shore of Mounts > Bay. Two major occupations of people living at Long Rock in the 19th > century were farming and market gardening and also jobs associated with > the > GWR that ran through Long Rock on its final approach to Penzance. > > > Bill Curnow > Ludgvan OPC > Port Charlotte, FL, USA > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marg & Neil Andrews" <margay@tadaust.org.au> > To: <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 7:52 AM > Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] John Uren - Long Rock > > >> Hi all, >> On the wonderful Cornwall database I have found what could be the burial >> of my JOHN UREN aged 58 at Long Rock. Transcribed by Bill Curnow. >> Wikepedia tells me where Long Rock is, but my question is: >> >> My John Uren was a miner at Chacewater - would there have been any copper >> mines in Long Rock in 1852 that may have tempted him to move? >> He was married to Ann/Nanny (nee Hawke) with 10 kids and I understand >> that he 59 on the 1851 census but absent from the 1861. >> >> Freebdm has 2 possible deaths: >> 1. June Q 1852 at Truro >> 2. March Q 1855 at Truro neither of which match the one at Long Rock. >> I have a couple of options for John's birth/christening and can't decide >> on >> that either :-) I am pretty sure he was born/chr 1792 to 1795. >> >> Marg A in Oz