Robert & Martha Cornwell of Glandford
Robert Cornwall was born on 31th December 1815 (according to his headstone), probably in Glandford, but no baptism or other record of hs parents has ben found.
Martha Allison, the daughter of William and Mary was baptised in Hindringham on 22nd May 1814.
Robert and Martha married in Blakeney on 9th August 1836 and they had eight children, mostly born in Glandford:
Mary Ann
1835
Rebecca
1840
Susanna
Q4 1843
Hannah
Q1 1846
John
Q3 1848
twin
James
Q3 1848
twin
William
1851
Robert was a farm worker and lived all his life in Glandford. His address was given as Mill Lane in 1851, Cley Road in 1861, Bayfield Road in 1871 and Blakeney Road in 1881.
Robert died on 15th April 1889 and was buried in Glandford where his headstone still stands.
In 1891 Martha was in Cley Road with her unmarried son, William, and a grand-daughter, Robina Cornwall. In 1901 she was staying in Holt with her daughter, Mary Ann Horne. Martha died in 1903, aged 88.
Of Robert and Martha’s children:
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Mary married Thomas Horne, a farm worker, in Blakeney on 5th April 1857 and they lived in Holt with their children whose baptisms were:
William
11 Jan 1857
Glandford
Thomas Robert
29 May 1859
Holt
George
19 May 1861
Holt
John
22 Nov 1863
Holt
Elizabeth
13 May 1866
Holt - bur. 23 May
Elizabeth
29 Sep 1867
Holt
Martha
12 Feb 1871
Holt
Sarah
7 Sep 1873
Holt
Emma
7 Jan 1877
Holt
Frederick
25 Apr 1880
Holt
- Elizabeth was a house servant visiting her married sister, Mary, in Holt in 1861. On 1 June that year she had an illegitimate daughter, Hephzibah, by William Gooch, a farm labourer. Two years later she married George Jackson and they lived in Cley-next-the-Sea and she had ten more children.
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Rebecca was a house servant at the Kings Head Inn in Leatheringsett in 1861 and the following year she had an illegitimate daughter:
Naomi Cornwell
1862
In 1868 she married Samuel Dix, a farm worker. In 1871 Rebecca was in Glandford with Naomi and the first two of her children by Samuel Dix. Samuel, meanwhile, along with Rebecca’s brother James, was lodging at 59 Wapping, South Shields, Durham. Later Samuel and Rebecca lived at Newgate Green, Cley-next-the-Sea, with Naomi and their eight children:
Elizabeth Ann
bapt.19 July 1868
Cley-next-the-Sea
Edith
6 Nov 1870
Wiveton
Martha
6 Apr 1873
Wiveton
Alfred
8 Nov 1874
Wiveton
Richard William
27 May 1877
Cley-next-the-Sea
George
20 Jul 1879
Cley-next-the-Sea
Beatrice Rebecca
24 Oct 1880
Cley-next-the-Sea
Frederick William
Q2 1883
Rebecca died in 1927.
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Susanna married a farm worker, James Beavis, in 1861 and they had ten children in Glandford:
Hannah Maria
Q3 1862
Robert Wells
Q1 1864
Julia A
Q1 1866
Alice M
ca. 1867
Sarah Martha
Q1 1870
Agnes
Q3 1874
Dorothy
Q3 1876
Beatrice Anna
Q1 1879
Alfred James
Q1 1883
Willie Ernest
Q4 1885
- John does not appear to have married. He was shown as ‘AB & Lamp Trimmer’ on board the vessel ‘Ouse’ at Whitby in 1881 and has not been found in later census records.
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James was a farm worker and was lodging in South Shields, along with Samuel Dix, his brother-in-law, in 1871. Later that year he married Mary Elizabeth Blackwood, who according to the census records was born in Wiveton. However they were married in South Shields which is also where their first child was born. The rest of their children were born in Norfolk:
Hannah
Q4 1872
South Shields
John William
Q1 1876
Glandford
Walter Ambrose
Q3 1878
Glandford
Benjamin
Q4 1883
Glandford
Alice Mary Anne S
Q1 1885
Wiveton
Robert
Q1 1887
Wiveton
Rose Elizabeth
Q2 1889
Wiveton
Harriet Delilah
Q3 1891
Wiveton
Henry Bertie
Q3 1895
Wiveton
In 1881 they were living in Glandford but in 1891 and 1901 they were in Wiveton.
- Hannah married James William Claxton in Cley on 18 October 1890.
- William was a farm worker and did not marry. He was living with his widowed mother in 1891 and died on 4 April 1892.