William Vincent (abt. 1825 - 1888)

Born about 1825 in Helston, Cornwall, England

Descendants

Died Jan 1888 at about age 63 in Sunderland, Durham, United Kingdom

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Biography

William Vincent was born about 1825-1828 in Cornwall, at either St Hilary, Helston or Germoe according to census records from 1851 to 1881.

St Hilary and Helston are adjacent parish centres in the west of Cornwall, near Penzance, and Germoe is a town within Helston parish. St Hilary has a colliery.

The only matching record is for William Vincent baptised on 2 October 1825 at St Hilary, Cornwall. His father Charles Vincent was a miner and his mother was Betsy (and we know from marriage records that she is Elizabeth, nee Beckerleg). They lived at Lower Downs. This is consistent with the baptism of an older brother Charles, when they were living at Upper Downs.

There is no matching marriage record for William Vincent and Ann, surname unknown. They appear together only on census records, and from Ann's age on these she must have been born about 1829-1830 somewhere in Cornwall. The census records give her birthplace as: St Enoder in the mid-north, St Stephens in the mid-south and, if the 1901 record is her, Crantock, near Newquay on the mid-north coast.

Some family trees cite her as being Ann Sampson, but William Vincent and Ann Sampson were married in 1840 at Helston, Cornwall – when “our” William was 15 years old and “our” Ann only 10 or 11.

With no matching records found, we do not know if, when or where William and Ann were married, only that they began a relationship in Cornwall, before William was baptised in 1849.

They were to have 9, or possibly 10, children:

1. William Henry Vincent born 1849 St Newlyn East, Cornwall
2. Charles Vincent born 1851 St Enoder, Cornwall
3. Elizabeth Vincent born 1853 Cornwall
4. John William Vincent born 1855 St Stephens, Cornwall
5. Phillipa (Phillis) Vincent born about 1857 St Stephen, Cornwall
6. Catherine Vincent born 1859 St Stephens, Cornwall
7. James Vincent born 1860 St Stephens, Cornwall
8. Ann Vincent born about 1870 Haswell, Durham
9. Sarah Jane Vincent born 1872 Seaham, Durham

Sarah Jane was born the same year as Sarah, the first daughter of Phillipa Vincent who was 15 or 16 and still living at home. The father of Sarah is unknown.

The 1881 census records state that William and Ann had a tenth child, son James, born 1879 at Hetton-le-Hole, Durham. As Ann would have been around 50 when he was born, it is more likely that he was an adopted child or a grandchild, possibly the son of Elizabeth – since we do not know when she died, James may have been her orphan – or a second child of Phillipa, who had just begun a relationship with Jonathan Broad and may not have wanted to acknowledge the existence of a recently-born child from a different father.

The children’s birth records, together with the census records, tell us that William Vincent was a Miner, firstly for copper / tin / lead around the mid-north of Cornwall at St Newlyn East and St Enoder, and then an iron miner at St Stephens a little distance south. The family then moved to the Durham coal fields and William, and his sons, became coal miners.

They first went to Haswell, near South Hetton, and then to Seaham, about 10 kms east on the seaside. By 1881, after the older boys had also become miners, the family had moved a little further north to Hetton-le-Hole and then Tunstall, both near Sunderland. And just as well too: on 8 September 1880 there was an explosion at the Seaham Colliery. Of the 230 miners and boys working underground on the “back-shift”, only 66 were rescued.

Their address on the 1881 census is 23 Vane St, Tunstall, which is just 1.5 miles from the centre of Sunderland.

William Broad died at the age of 62 in early 1888 at Sunderland, Durham.

In the 1891 Census, Ann Vincent is recorded as a 61 year old widow living with son James Vncent and his wife and three daughters at the same address of 23 Vane St, Tunstall, Durham.

Ann is no longer living with them in the 1901 census (and curiously, their address in 1901 is a short distance away at 8 Mary St, while by 1911 they had moved back to 23 Vane St).

There is no matching death record for Ann Vincent in Durham, after 1891. There is one matching record in Cornwall, for Ann Vincent, age 67, buried on 10 July 1897 at St Just-in-Roseland, across the harbour from Falmouth on the south coast of Cornwall. Or……….

In the 1901 census, a record that may be for her is the widowed Aunt, 72 years old (so born about 1829), living with blacksmith George Vincent and his family at Beacon Cottages, Falmouth. If this is “our” Ann, George must be the son of a brother of William, possibly Charles. Since the record is for Ann Johns Vincent, perhaps Johns is her maiden name?

This Ann Johns Vincent died in 1910, aged 83 (having aged 11 years in the 9 years since the census?) and she was buried on 16 April 1910. Her residence had been 2 Polwhavarel Terrace, Falmouth, just up the road from the Beacon Street address of the 1901 census.

Research Notes

William Vincent birth

No matching record, birthplace given in later (conflicting) records, birth year calculated from later (conflicting) records:

Ancestry.com 1851 England Census – Class: HO107; Piece: 1905; Folio: 605; Page: 20; GSU roll: 221057

Ancestry.com 1861 England Census – Class: RG 9; Piece: 1551; Folio: 30; Page: 4; GSU roll: 542830

Ancestry.com 1871 England Census – Class: RG10; Piece: 4978; Folio: 61; Page: 46; GSU roll: 847434

England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915 – Deaths, Jan-Mar 1888, Vol 10a page 318

Marriage

No direct evidence of a marriage, first child born 1849

William Vincent death

England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915 – Deaths, Jan-Mar 1888, Vol 10a page 318

William Vincent. ^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Born ABT 1825. Helston, Cornwall, England. ^{[7][8][9][10][11]}

Died Age at Death: 62. JAN 1888. Sunderland, Durham, United Kingdom. ^[12]

Residence Age: 46Relation: Head. 1871 Colliery Row, Durham, England. ^[13] Age: 54Relation: Head; Condition as to marriage: Married. 1881 Tunstall, Durham, England. ^[14] Age: 23Relation: Head. 1851 St Enoder, Cornwall, England. ^[15] Age: 36Relation: Head. 1861 St Stephen, Cornwall, England. ^[16]

Sources

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6. ↑ Source: #S103 Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=34193407&pid=1103
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8. ↑ Source: #S125 Class: HO107; Piece: 1905; Folio: 605; Page: 20; GSU roll: 221057
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14. ↑ Source: #S128 Class: RG11; Piece: 4999; Folio: 60; Page: 38; GSU roll: 1342203
15. ↑ Source: #S125 Class: HO107; Piece: 1905; Folio: 605; Page: 20; GSU roll: 221057
16. ↑ Source: #S148 Class: RG 9; Piece: 1551; Folio: 30; Page: 4; GSU roll: 542830

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