Jane (Pollard) Barnes (bef. 1826 - 1882)

Born before 7 May 1826 in Gwinear, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Barnes — married 22 Jun 1854 in Bowden, South Australia, Australia

Descendants

Died 27 Mar 1882 after age 55 in Bowden, South Australia, Australia

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Kim Turner [send private message]

Biography

Jane Pollard was born in 1826 in Gwinear, Cornwall, England to parents Christopher and Mary Pollard (nee Floyd). She was their second child and eldest daughter.

Jane was baptised on 7.5.1826 at Gwinear in Cornwall.

Mining

Jane's family were involved in the Cornish mining trade and family legend states that Jane herself began working in mines at a very young age (approximately 6 years old).

Jane is located in the 1841 census for Cornwall at Goosehaven in Perranzabuloe, with her parents and siblings. She and her elder siblings are employed in the mining trade in different capacities.

Death of Brother

Jane's eldest brother James died of drowning during in thunderstorm that flooded the East Wheal Rose Mine in July 1846. Jane became a very religious person and it is believed that this event may have been the impetus for this occuring.

Religion

Jane was known as ‘Jenny’ and had followed ‘Bryanites’ or Bible Christians since childhood. In the mine, “where on account of her honesty and integrity, she was placed in charge of about 100 young women who were engaged in sorting copper”. “She used to go into the assorting rooms and hold prayer meetings at noonday.

South Australia

Jane travelled with her parents and siblings to South Australia onboard the ship "Sultana', arriving on the 10.8.1851.

The family first settled in the Bowden area of South Australia. Jane remained in the area when her parents and siblings branched out to other areas of the country.

Marriage

On the 22.6.1854 Jane Pollard married Joseph Barnes in the Bible Christian Chapel at Bowden. Jane Pollard was reported as the ‘daughter of Christopher Pollard of Bowden’ in the Northern Argus on 24.6.1854.

Children

Jane and Joseph had 2 known children born in Bowden before 1859 - sons Sydney Joseph and Albert James.

Deaths of mother and siblings

Between 1858 and 1860, 4 of Jane's siblings and her mother died, some of them within several days of each other. Their deaths were the result of poor conditions on the goldfields and mining locations.

Possibly because of these deaths, Jane and her husband Joseph decided to move to the Castlemaine area of Victoria, Australia in 1860, on the goldfields where her father and some of her siblings were located.

In 1861 they established a Sunday School in Specimen Gully in the Castlemaine Circuit.

Return to South Australia

In 1863, Jane and Joseph returned overland from Victoria to Bowden, SA, where they settled for the remainder of their lives.

Their third and final child, Mary Jane Pollard, was born there in 1865.

Death

Jane died on 27.3.1882 at Bowden. She is buried at Hindmarsh Cemetery.

Sources

• Cornwall OPC Baptism Record 1446716
• "England and Wales Census, 1841," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQBQ-31C : 5 March 2021), Jane Pollord in household of Christopher Pollord, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom; from "1841 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
• https://archives.sa.gov.au/sites/default/files/documentstore/passengerlists/1851/GRG35_48_1_51-8_Sultana.pdf
• South Australian Marriage Certificate, 1854, District Adelaide, Book 19, Page 133
• South Australian Death Certificate, 1882, District Hindmarsh, Book 118, Page 253
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/215275577/jane-barnes: accessed 11 September 2022), memorial page for Jane Barnes (1826–28 Mar 1882), Find a Grave Memorial ID 215275577, citing Hindmarsh Cemetery, Hindmarsh, Charles Sturt City, South Australia, Australia; Maintained by woowoo (contributor 49949980) .
• Information from Peter Underdown