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been kindly contributed by Judith Nicholls.
Her family are descendants of the Daniel's, who are well known in
Pensilva, as the garage from which they operated for many years is still
there and is a local landmark.
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| I am interested
in one DANIEL family who lived in St Ive and who are connected with the
DANIEL'S of St Cleer. Here is some information about the family. The head of the family is Mark DANIEL. Born Polperro about 1836.(Although the main DANIEL family line is from St Cleer) From the 1851 census: Mark DANIEL is an apprentice Blacksmith,age 14 years, living with Richard CONGDON, Master Blacksmith,age 31 in Polperro (Talland). The rest of the household comprises Richard's wife, Jane,age 30 and children, Thomas age 5, Priscilla age 4, and Richard age 2. There is another apprentice, Thomas BASSETT, age 20. The address is Bevills Rowe, Talland. Mark's birthplace is Lansallos. From the 1871 census: Mark and his family are now living in St Ive and is still working as a Blacksmith. Besides the family, also present is Jane DANIEL's sister, Sarah COUCH and her daughters, Bertha and Clarinda. Sarah COUCH is the wife of Dr Jonathan COUCH of Polperro. From the 1881 census: Address: Charaton Cross, St Ive, Cornwall. Mark Daniel, occupation Blacksmith. There is also his eldest son William , another Blacksmith who was missing from the 1871 census entry. Dwelling: Charaton Cross Census Place: St Ive, Cornwall, England Source: FHL Film 1341548 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 2284 Folio 9 Page 11 Marr Age Sex Birthplace Mark DANIEL M 44 M Lansallos, Cornwall, Head Blacksmith Jane DANIEL M 45 F Poole, Dorset, Wife William DANIEL U 21 M St Ive, Son Blacksmith Margaret DANIEL U 15 F St Ive, Daur John DANIEL U 14 M St Ive, Son Blacksmith Thomas DANIEL 12 M St Ive, Son Scholar Annie DANIEL 11 F St Ive, Daur Scholar Jane DANIEL 10 F St Ive Daur Scholar Mark DANIEL married three times 1. 17 May 1859 The Parish Church, Parish of St Ive, in the County of Cornwall. Registration District Liskeard. Mark DANIEL age 22, Bachelor , Blacksmith, Residence - Charaton, father William DANIEL, rank of profession: Farmer. Mary JEFFERY age 22, Spinster, no occupation, Residence - Middlehill. Father: Peter JEFFERY, rank or profession:Farmer. Witnesses: Peter JEFFERY and Maria MUTTON Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns One child, William b abt 1860 2. April 6th 1861 Marriage Solemnized at the Weslyan Chapel, Liskeard in the District of Liskeard in the County of Cornwall. Mark DANIEL age 24 Widower Blacksmith Residence :Bodminland, St Ive. Father William Daniel, deceased, Rank or profession of Father, Farmer. Jane CAUNTER age 20 years Spinster, Domestic servant, Residence - Penhargt, Saint Ive, Father William CAUNTER, rank or profession of father: Farmer. Witnesses: John CAUNTER and the mark X of Elizabeth BOLTWELL ( maybe BOTTWELL) Married in the Weslyan Chapel according to the rites and ceremonies of the Weslyan Methodists. 3. 17th October 1863 Marriage solemnized at the Register Office in the District of Liskeard in the County of Cornwall. Mark DANIEL , 27 years Widower, Blacksmith, Residence: Bodmin Land St Ive, Father: William DANIEL deceased, rank or profession of father : Farmer. Jane ROOSE, 28 years, Spinster, no occupation, Residence: Polperro, Parish of Lansallos, Father: Robert ROOSE, Rank or profession of Father: Superannuated Coast Guard Officer. Witnesses: Nightwick KELLY and Sarah COUCH Married in the Register Office, before Rich. Chapman Registrar, Albert L Glubb, Superintendent Registrar |
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| ABOUT THE year 1850, Mark DANIEL came from Polperro to Charaton Cross, Pensilva, to open in business as a Smithy. Mark DANIEL's particular business was general agricultural machinery work - repairs and manufacture of agricultural implements. When a local farmer moved to Surrey, Mark found a steady stream of orders coming from that county where other farmers recognised highly skilled craftmanship when they saw it. |
The forge at Charaton Cross, Mark Daniel , holding the mallet, repairs part of some farm machinery with the help of his staff. Annie Daniel, his daughter, is helping her brother, Jack to hold the horse. The two young men are . c 1910? |
| Over the years it was Pensilva that developed and not Charaton Cross, but the business continued to prosper. Mark DANIEL died about the year 1918 whilst living in Plymouth with his daughter Anne. The business had earlier been taken over by his son John and the latter was succeeded by his son Harold who in 1934 purchased from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners the old Pensilva Church School, in which premises he set up as a motor engineer, with a smithy in one convenient corner. | |
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Descendants of Mark Daniel 1 .Mark was the son of William DANIEL ( bp Jan 25 1801 St Cleer, died bef 1851) and Margaret HITCHENS ( bp 1799 in Lansallos). They were married March 29 1820 in Lansallos. Their children: William bp 1826 Margaret bp 1828 m John Kingdon OLVER 1857, Plymouth Henry bp 1832 John bp 1834 Mark bp 1836 Luke born c 1840 ( from 1851 census) -all born Lansallos Mark Daniel was born 1836 in Polperro, Cornwall, and died Abt. 1918 in Plymouth, Devon. He married (1) Mary Jeffery May 17, 1859 in The Parish Church, St Ive, Cornwall, daughter of Peter Jeffery and Jane. She was born Abt. 1837. He married (2) Jane Caunter April 06, 1861 in Weslyan Methodist Chapel, Liskeard, Cornwall, daughter of William Caunter and Elizabeth. She was born Abt. 1841. He married (3) Jane Roose October 17, 1863 in The Register Office, Liskeard, Cornwall, daughter of Robert Roose and Eliza Lander. She was born 1835 in Swanage, Dorset. Children of Mark Daniel and Jane Roose are: i. Jane Daniel, born February 23, 1871 in St Ive Parish, Cornwall. ii. Margaret Daniel, born 1866 in St Ive, Cornwall. iii. John Daniel, born 1867 in St Ive, Cornwall. iv. Thomas Daniel, born 1869 in St Ive, Cornwall. v.Ann Daniel, born 1870 in St Ive, Cornwall 2.Mark had one son, William b abt 1860 by his first wife, Mary JEFFERY. He married Anna Children of William Daniel and Anna are: i.Sidney Daniel. ii. Maggie Daniel. iii. Stanley Daniel. iv. Olive Daniel. v.Wilfred Daniel Sidney Daniel (William4, Mark3, William2, ) He married Nellie. Children of Sidney Daniel and Nellie are: i. Sydney Daniel. ii. Una Daniel. 3.[The family of Jane DANIEL (born 1871)and Thomas PERKINS is my own family line - Judith] Jane Daniel was born February 23, 1871 in St Ive Parish, Cornwall. She married Thomas Charles Perkins December 15, 1890 in St John's Plymouth, son of Samuel Perkins and Mary Ayres. He was born December 29, 1866 in Devonport, Devon, and died Abt. 1950 in Plymouth, Devon, England. In the 1891 census, Thomas aged 24 and his wife Jane are living at 43, Monument Street, Devonport. Thomas' occupation is given as 'car man in the mineral water trade' but I believe he eventually went to work in the Dockyard as a painter. Children of Jane Daniel and Thomas Perkins are: i. Thomas Daniel Perkins, born August 06, 1895 in Devonport, Devon; died February 20, 1986 in Plymouth.. ii. Beatrice Olive Perkins, born June 06, 1891; died 1961. iii. Lilas Irene Perkins, born October 26, 1892; died April 15, 1981. iv. Percy John Perkins, born February 06, 1897 in Plymouth.; died March 20, 1979 in Paignton, Devon. v. Winifred Ruby Perkins, born January 29, 1894; died April 10, 1894. vi. Doris Amy Perkins. i.Thomas Daniel Perkins (Jane4 Daniel, Mark3, William2, John1) was born August 06, 1895 in Devonport, Devon, and died February 20, 1986 in Plymouth.. He married Elizabeth Eliza Williams in Plymouth, Devon, daughter of Edward Williams and Elizabeth Mewton. She was born January 04, 1896, and died December 02, 1967 in Plymouth, Devon, England. Children of Thomas Perkins and Elizabeth Williams are: i. Thomas William Perkins, born November 29, 1919 in Plymouth, Devon, England; died March 23, 1995 in Plymouth, Devon, England. ii. Ruby May Perkins, born December 19, 1917 in Plymouth.; died December 29, 1999 in Lincoln, England. ii.Beatrice Olive Perkins (Jane4 Daniel, Mark3, William2, John1) was born June 06, 1891, and died 1961. She married Alfred Uglow. He was born August 01, 1891. Child of Beatrice Perkins and Alfred Uglow is: + 27 i. Fred George6 Uglow, born July 18, 1919. iii. Lilas Irene Perkins (Jane4 Daniel, Mark3, William2, John1) was born October 26, 1892, and died April 15, 1981. She married Fred Trethewey July 17, 1918 in St Matthias, Plymouth. He was born February 04, 1892, and died June 1979. iv. Percy John Perkins (Jane4 Daniel, Mark3, William2, John1) was born February 06, 1897 in Plymouth., and died March 20, 1979 in Paignton, Devon. He married Winifred Mabel Blackmore December 09, 1922 in Plymouth, Devon.(St Jude's Church). She was born August 06, 1896 in Plymouth., and died October 13, 1976 in Paignton, Devon. 4. Margaret Daniel) was born 1866 in St Ive, Cornwall. She married Ned Foote. Child of Margaret Daniel and Ned Foote is: i. George5 Foote. 5. John Daniel was born 1867 in St Ive, Cornwall. He married Polly Hawke. More About John Daniel: Occupation: 1881, Blacksmith Children of John Daniel and Polly Hawke are: i. Harold Daniel. ii. Fernley Daniel. i. Harold Daniel (John4, Mark3, William2, John1) He married Gwennie White. She died Abt. 1959. Child of Harold Daniel and Gwennie White is: i. Cynthia Daniel. 6. Ann Daniel (Mark3, William2, John1) was born 1870 in St Ive, Cornwall. She married Joseph Sambells. Child of Ann Daniel and Joseph Sambells is: i. May Sambells, born Abt. 1900. She married Leslie Johnson. My main source of information about this family is my Great Uncle , Percy Perkins, who wrote accounts of the family in 1968 and 1971. The following edited narrative was written by him: I have omitted details of living relatives ,besides myself , my mother and my siblings. I am willing to share those details with anyone related to the family. from Percy Perkins written in 1971 Mark Daniel and Descendants ABOUT THE year 1850, Mark Daniel came from Polperro to Charaton Cross, Pensilva, to open in business as a Smithy. It was at the time of a boom era for the mines of Caradon. In 1844 the Liskeard to Caradon Railway was built. By 1853 there were 24 active mines around Liskeard. Caradon alone produced more than 300,000 tons of copper ore in 30 years. Mark Daniel's particular business was general agricultural machinery work - repairs and manufacture of agricultural implements. When a local farmer moved to Surrey, Mark found a steady stream of orders coming from that county where other farmers recognised highly skilled craftmanship when they saw it. Over the years it was Pensilva that developed and not Charaton Cross, but the business continued to prosper. Mark Daniel died about the year 1918 whilst living in Plymouth with his daughter Anne. The business had earlier been taken over by his son John and the latter was succeeded by his son Harold who in 1934 purchased from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners the old Pensilva Church School, in which premises he set up as a motor engineer, with a smithy in one convenient corner. By his first wife Mark Daniel had one son, William, who in later life moved with his wife Anna to Sutton, Surrey where he was employed as s Coach Builder. They became the parents of Sidney, Maggie, Stanley, Olive and Wilfred.. I had stayed with them in their Sutton home, but now only Maggie and Olive survive. Sydney, by the way, was in the GPO Telegraph service, Sutton and he was sent with a party of telegraph engineers to France to prepare lines of communication before war was actually declared on 4 August, 1914. Maggie was trained and passed all her exams for School Mistress at the Goldsmith College, near New Cross, South London. For many years and until her retirement she was headmistress at an Infant School in Sutton. Olive was for some years on the clerical staff of Brocks the firework people when their offices were in the Sutton district. Later they moved out to Hemel Hempstead, Herts. Olive also joined them there but probably found the travelling between Hemel and Sutton rather trying and eventually gave it up. Mark Daniel's first wife died at a comparatively early age. He remarried and this time without issue. His third wife was Jane Roose .Mark and Jane Daniel - at Charaton Cross - had five children: Tom, who died in early manhood, John, Jane, Anne and Margaret. John married Polly Hawke and their family comprised two sons - Fernley who died in his early teens, and Harold (who is referred to above). Harold married Gwennie White of Pensilva and she helped him a lot in the business as well as in the home. Their daughter Cynthia went to the Guildhall School of Music in London with a beautiful soprano voice. Gwennie's early demise about 12 years ago was a great blow and shock to many of the Pensilva folk by whom she was loved and greatly respected. Cynthia married Don March, a Flying Officer of B.E.A (see Footnote) Jane married Thomas Charles Perkins, and their family at the beginning of the century comprised Olive, Rene, Tommy and Percy. Olive died in 1961. She and Alfred Uglow were the parents of Fred (Junior School headmaster) . Rene married Fred Trethewey . Tommy married Lizzie Williams. Their offspring were Ruby and Tommy ("Young Tom") Ruby married William Dunn while he was at Chatham on active service with the Royal Navy. Ruby has devoted some fifteen years to the development of an educational college in Nigeria and has been accepted there even to the extent of her being made a Chief of one of the local tribes. Young Tom and his wife Mary have four children - Judith, Tommy, Rosanne and Jane. He has served in the Royal Navy as Engine Room Artificer - thus carrying on the old trade of blacksmith - and is now in the small boat building business. During his service in Prince of Wales the ship was torpedoed and fortunately Tom was one of those saved. Judith has thoughts at the present time of obtaining a place at University (after school terms are over) in order to study and qualify as an Archivist and it is for her benefit that I have prepared these notes.[ I did go on to get a BA in History but went into teaching. With hindsight, maybe I should have been an Archivist. I think Genealogy brings out the Archivist in me! - Judith] Percy and Winnie were married at St Jude's Church, Plymouth, in December 1922. Winnie's father was James Walter Blackmore. Anne Daniel married Joseph Sambells of Tokenbury Corner, above Pensilva. There the house that the Sambells lived in was known as Railway Cottage and line ran through at the back of their cottage. His father must have been employed by the railway company operating between Liskeard and Caradon. Both the father and the mother were well known to all our family and visits to Pensilva were usually accompanied by visits to Tokenbury Corner. Joe Sambells was another blacksmith by trade and for many years worked for the firm of Sir John Jackson Ltd in or alongside the Devonport Dockyard. He liked travel, and part of his service for the firm was, I believe, carried on in South Africa and later in Singapore. They had one daughter, May, born about the beginning of the century. They trio spent some years in Singapore but Annie and May returned a year or two before Joe and in the first few months a son Leonard was born - a fine healthy lad but he succumbed to some childish ailment and died at an early age. May married Leslie Johnson and died (without issue) at a relatively early age - perhaps around 55 years. Margaret Daniel married Ned Foote of Callington. He was an experienced miner and engaged in the mines around Kit Hill, Kelly Brae. They had one son George who married and went to South Africa to live about 1930. No one here seems to have heard from him since. |
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| Footnote. Harold Daniel's daughter Cynthia married a man called March. They had Juliet, Tony, and Sarah. Tony lives at the house in Pensilva and runs the garage that still bears the name Daniel. | |