Cornish in California - Family History & Genealogy Message Board

Re: John OLIVER & Ellen BENNEY - Santa Clara Co., Amador and Nevada Co.

Tuletess37 — 2011-04-25 18:25:11Z

I'll look, Yvonne. ---K

Re: John OLIVER & Ellen BENNEY - Santa Clara Co., Amador and Nevada Co.

YvonneinSonoma — 2011-04-25 18:03:56Z

Hi Kay,

The PEARCES came from St. Hillary and Crowan. They married into my BENNEY family. But my GGF John OLIVER b. 1 Mar. 1845 is a mystery. The only John I found with possible dates is a John OLIVER christened 8 Jun 1845 St. Just-in-Penwith: parents John OLIVER and Elizabeth ?

Do you have a John in your file?

Yvonne

Re: John OLIVER & Ellen BENNEY - Santa Clara Co., Amador and Nevada Co.

Tuletess37 — 2011-04-08 18:16:39Z

Yvonne,
I have both Oliver's and Pearce in my family tree. My people were centered around Launceston, Cornwall, and also were from Devon.

If you wd be interested in names, I will try to get them for you. My ancestors emigrated first to Quebec, and later to the US. Finally to CA. --Kay

Vera Jayne Palmer - Jayne Mansfield

jeg209 — 2010-12-19 14:35:30Z

(she was a Hollywood movie star)

I've improved upon an old tree on her using UK census records.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&d...

Most of her ancestry appears to be Cornish, I cannot find any English ancestry but she does have some German.

Looking for Cornish in San Dimas

bennyjuk2500 — 2010-04-01 15:06:47Z

From Gunwalloe, Cornwall, which is about 5 miles outside of Helston. Now living in San Dimas. Any Cornish close and missing a pasty? My mum taught my wife and she makes an ansum pasty now!

CORNISH from Boscastle 1871

jamesdowning155 — 2010-04-01 15:01:35Z

Eny Cornish,s from BOSCASTLE England i have a John, Edward ,Betsy, Thomes,Charles, all from 1871,

California Cornish Cousins 2007 Gathering

YvonneinSonoma — 2007-04-10 16:36:28Z

The Annual Gathering of the California Cornish Cousins will be held Jun. 1-3, 2007 in Grass Valley/Nevada City, CA. For more informantion, visit

http://www.califcornishcousins.org/gathering_2007.html

Yvonne Bowers
Listmom, Boardmom, Webmom

John OLIVER & Ellen BENNEY - Santa Clara Co., Amador and Nevada Co.

YvonneinSonoma — 2007-03-26 22:05:07Z

My ggf, John OLIVER, was b. Cornwall 1 Mar. 1845. He arrived San Francisco in 1865 and worked the New Almaden Mine. He may have been related to James PEARCE (Superintendent of the mine) because he named my grandfather, Adrian Pearce OLIVER. John m. my ggm Ellen BENNEY (b. CA. 19 Jul 1855) in Santa Clar 15 Feb. 1873. They ended up in Grass Valley (he worked the Empire Mine) and had six children. After he retired (abt 1900) they moved to San Francisco. They are bur. at Cypress Lawn Cemetery in Colma.

Looking to connect John to parents, sibs, in Cornwall. His father was John, his mother may have been Alice.

Yvonne Bowers
ybowers@comcast.net

If you visit the Message Board, I've attached a picture of John & Ellen.

Welcome to the CORNISH IN CALIFORNIA Message Board

YvonneinSonoma — 2007-03-22 15:41:26Z

Welcome to the Rootsweb "CORNISH IN CALIFORNIA" board.

It is a companion board to the CA-CORNISH mailing list and messages posted to the board are gatewayed to the mailing list. The purpose is for posting messages/queries regarding our Cornish ancestors who emigrated to California, USA - anytime. You may not know, but while attachments are not allowed on the lists, attachments (.jpgs, documents) are allowed on the Message Board.

Please feel free to post your Cornish ancestor information and/or queries.

Yvonne Bowers
Listmom, Webmom, Boardmom
mailto:ybowers@comcast.net