Hi Listers Just wondering if there is someone out there who might be able to help me please, or might have a "Willey" line in their tree about the Mawgan-in-Meneage area. I have a John Willey who married by Licence to a Joan Mayne on the 5th June 1802 at Mawgan-in-Meneage, and the entry says that at the time of the marriage he was a Widower. I have spent the day searching about the area records that I can find, and cannot seem to locate a John who has lost a wife pre 1802 that would be the candidate I am after .Anyone know where he is hiding? Thankyou Margaret . ******************** Margaret Bauer Qld, Australia bauerm@tpg.com.au ********************

Just a thought Margaret - there is a burial of a Mary, wife of John WITHEY 26 Nov 1797 at Mawgan in Meneage.  The transcriber has noted that the "Register page is very difficult to read as very faded" and I am wondering if it is a mistranscription of WILLEY?  I couldn't see any other entries for Withey (not that I looked very hard).   http://www.westcountrygenealogy.com/cornwall/mawgan/ There is a burial of a John WILLEYof Bersnoon aged 74 at Mawgan in Meneage 12 Jun 1820. There is a marriage of John WILLEY, sojourner, to Mary JENNINGS both of this parish at Mawgan in Meneage 17 Apr 1769.  If the John WILLEY aged 74 is the one who married Mary in 1769, he would have been 23 then and 56 in 1802. There is a burial of Joan WITHEY of Treak in Cury, aged 70 at Mawgan in Meneage 23 Jan 1830.  She would have been 42 in 1802. It might be worth getting a copy of the original page for the Mary WITHEY burial from Cornwall Record Office to see if it might be WLLEY or is definitely WITHEY. Regards, Joy ________________________________ From: Margaret Bauer <bauerm@tpg.com.au> To: cornish-gen@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, 17 July, 2010 9:56:47 Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] John Willey Hi Listers Just wondering if there is someone out there who might be able to help me please, or might have a "Willey"  line in their tree about the Mawgan-in-Meneage area. I have a John Willey who married by Licence to a Joan Mayne on the 5th June 1802 at Mawgan-in-Meneage, and the entry says that at the time of the marriage he was a Widower. I have spent the day searching about the area records that I can find, and cannot seem to locate a John who has lost a wife pre 1802 that would be the candidate I am after .Anyone know where he is hiding? Thankyou Margaret . ******************** Margaret Bauer Qld, Australia bauerm@tpg.com.au ******************** ------------------------------- Listmom:  ybowers@gmail.com or CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com Visit the OPC (Online Parish Clerk) web page for transcription information http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CORNISH-GEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message