BLEWETT BLEWITT BLUET genealogy	21 October 2008
		Dr Geoffrey Mann
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4 Michael Blewett	5 John Carn BLEWETT 1765->1794	6 Stephen Blewett
spouse's records	m Mary PENDER 1786

John Carn was baptised in 1765 in Paul and named after his mother’s maiden name, Carn-Pezzack , but his mother was buried on the same day that John was baptised

Like most men in Paul, John became a fisherman. Probably living in the fishing port of Mousehole. He married Mary PENDER when he was 21 and they baptised four children at the parish church of Paul.

Their last child was baptised in 1794 when John was 29, but no further record of his life has been found. He was not in Mousehole for the 1841 or 1851 census and in the absence of a burial record, it seems possible that he was lost at sea.

Mary’s fate is also unknown, as there is no suitable burial at Paul

EVENTS

C=Christened

age DATE JCB MP	EVENT
4Dec1765 10Dec1786 21 18 2Sep1787 22 19 12Dec1790 25 22 8Apr1792 27 24 28Dec1794 29 26 ???	John Carne C at Paul; his mother buried on the same day John Carn & Mary PENDER m at Paul; John was a fisherman Mary C at Paul Joan Carn C at Paul Elizabeth C at Paul Michael C at Paul John Carn lost at sea???

PRINCIPAL RECORDS

b=born m=married d=died

C=Christened B=Buried

BIRTH

from Paul parish register

C 4Dec1765 John Carne s Stephen & Joan BLEWETT dec

the distinctive christian name identifies this baptism, and fits with a marriage in 1786, ie at age 21. Joan’s maiden name was Carn-Pezzack (see Stephen‑6), and the use of the mother’s maiden name as forename occurs not infrequently at Mousehole

MARRIAGE

Michael-4 was baptised at Paul parish church, son of John Carn & Mary BLEWETT in 1794. The baptism is preceded by a suitable marriage, and the distinctive forename, identifies this marriage with confidence

from Paul parish register

m 10Dec1786 John Carn x BLUET otp fisherman & Mary PENDER spr otp by banns at Paul; w: Stephen BARNES, Richard PENDER

DESCENDANTS

from Paul parish register

C 2Sep1787 Mary d John Carn & Mary BLEWETT

C 12Dec1790 Joan Carn d John Carn & Mary BLEWETT

C 8Apr1792 Elizabeth d John Carne & Mary BLEWETT

C 28Dec1794 Michael s John Carn & Mary BLEWET

the following baptism was also noted:

C 5Jun1789 Mary d Mary Carn BLEWETT [possibly some words faded here though rest of page is OK]

Mary Carn BLEWETT has not been identified, but it is doubtful whether she is the daughter of John Carn particularly as no burial of Mary BLEWETT between 1878 and 1789 was found

DEATH

there is no John Carn buried at Paul and only two whose burial age gives a birthdate near 1765:

B 29Jul1844 John BLEWETT of Newlyn 79 [b 1765]

B 13Jul1856 John BLEWETT of Mousehole 81 [b 1775]

John of Newlyn can be positively identified with the John BLEWETT C1765, son of John BLEWETT & Julyan (PENTREATH), who married Mary ROUFFIGNAC in 1790 and moved to Newlyn around 1800. John and Mary of Newlyn baptised and buried a child named Julian PENTREATH and in the 1841 census he was in Newlyn with his son Thomas

John buried in 1856 can be identified with John C1778 son of John & Jane (HUFFNAM) He married Jane MATTHEWS in 1805 and baptised a daughter Jane Huffin.

Thus there is no suitable burial of John Carn at Paul, and he does not appear in the 1841 or 1851 Mousehole census. Possibly he was lost at sea not long after 1794, the birth of Michael.

There are only two Mary BLEWETT burials at Paul after 1794 and which give a birth date reconcilable with a marriage in 1786:

B 26May1815 Mary BLEWETT of Mousehole 56 [b 1759]

B 29Jan1832 Mary BLEWETT of Newlyn 62 [b 1770]

The 1815 burial almost certainly relates to Mary BOTTREL, as her husband William BLEWETT, remarried later in 1815 as a widower, and there is no other suitable burial of his wife. There is a possible baptism of Mary BOTTREL in nearby Sennen in 1762.

The 1832 burial can be identified with Mary ROUFFIGNAC who married John BLEWETT in 1790 and moved to Newlyn ( as shown by baptismal and burial records of their children) around 1800. No suitable baptism of Mary ROUFFIGNAC has been found

It is believed that Mary PENDER was baptised in 1768, which again makes the 1815 burial unlikely. She would have been only 26 at the birth of her last child Michael, so did she remarry?

There are three possible remarriages of Mary at Paul:

m 30Oct1794 William x CATTRAN otp & Mary x BLEWETT otp bb; w: Richard WILLIAMS, William CATTRAN

m 29Jan1807 Richard RICHARDS otp & Mary BLEWETT otp bb; w: John BENNET?, -- COTTON

m 31Jun1819 William OSBORN soj otp & Mary BLEWETT bb; w: John BLEWETT, Thomas BLEWETT

The last two can be ruled out because baptisms to these parents continued to 1826 and 1831 respectively which is too late for Mary b1768 or earlier. The CATTRANs baptised Mary 1795, Ann 1797, Mary 1800 and Mary 1804 and it is possible that this is Mary remarried as the last baptism would have been when she was aged 36. If so, the remarriage took place two months before the baptism of Michael. However, the Mary who married John Carn Bluet signed her name, whereas the Mary who married William Cattran signed with x. She can almost certainly be identified as the son of Richard Blewett and Jane WILLIAMS, as Richard WILLIAMS was a witness to the marriage. The burial of Mary CATTRAN was not found at Paul before 1837.

m 23Feb1767 Richard BLEWETT otp husbandman & Jane WILLIAMS spr otp bb; w: Stephen BARNES, John JACKA

C 26Dec1767 Mary d Richard & Jane BLEWETT

m 30Oct1794 William x CATTRAN otp & Mary x BLEWETT otp bb; w: Richard WILLIAMS, William CATTRAN

Thus no burial remarriage or census records of John Carn or his wife have been found at Paul after the baptism of Michael in 1794. Mary’s family was from St Buryan, but no suitable burial of Mary was found there or in nearby Sennen.

It is noteworthy that no records have been found of their daughters Joan Carn and Elizabeth at Paul either. Did the family move to another parish? Mary however may have married Richard RICHARDS in 1807, and it is believed Michael married Ann PENTREATH in 1814 both at Paul

m 29Jan1807 Richard RICHARDS otp & Mary BLEWETT otp bb; w: John BENNET?, -- COTTON

m 29May1814 Michael BLUETT fisherman otp & Ann x PENTREATH otp bb; w: Richard PENTREATH, William NEWTON

CENSUS

No John Carn BLEWETT found in 41 or 51 census at Paul; the following John’s (c75) and Mary’s (c70) BLEWETT were found in the 1841 Cornwall census index, but none of them are likely to be John-5 or Mary-5:

John BLEWETT 64 M Fisherman CON Paul 20 -105

John BLEWETT 65 M Collector of Rates CON St Clement 10 -97

John BLUET 65 M Navy CON Falmouth 11 -175

John BLEWETT 80 M Labourer CON Phillack 2 –138

the first can be identified with the John who married Jane MATTHEWS in 1805

Mary BLEWETT 75 F Charwoman CON St Wenn 12 -23

Mary BLEWETT 80 F Female Servant CON Gwithian 9 –2

St Wenn is in central Cornwall

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