Francis Hocking and Mary Uren (nee Watts) of Ventonleague, Hayle, Cornwall

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FRANCIS HOCKING UREN, bapt January 3rd, 1790 in Gwinear, Cornwall. He was the son of GEORGE UREN and ELIZABETH UREN (nee HOCKING). He married MARY WATTS June 22nd 1811 in Phillack, Cornwall. He was living in 1846 but dead by 1851 as his wife gives her status as a widow. He seems a very elusive character and I cannot find him in 1841 or any record of his death or burial.

MARY WATTS, baptised March 13th 1790 in Phillack, Cornwall; Living 1851 as a visitor with her sister Jane Watts at Phillack. Although it looks like she actually lived in the same household as her sister full time.She was the daughter of MARK WATTS and MARY WATTS (nee HOSKING) of Phillack, Cornwall. She died after 5th December 1851.

1 FRANCIS HOCKING UREN b: 03 Jan 1790 Gwinear, Cornwall
.. +MARY WATTS b: 13 Mar 1790 Phillack, Cornwall
...... 2 ELIZABETH UREN b: Abt. 1826 Perranuthnoe, Cornwall
........... +JACOB LUKE b: 24 Apr 1825 Phillack, Cornwall
........... 3 MATILDA LUKE b: 1862 Clifton, Bristol
................ +ROBERT GEORGE TAYLOR b: 17 Mar 1863 Cliftonwood, Bristol.
...............4 SIDNEY GEORGE TAYLOR b: 14 Feb 1895 4 Southernhay Crescent, Cliftonwood, Bristol
.................... +LILIAN GIBBONS b: 07 Mar 1897 15 Waterloo Terrace, Old Market, Bristol
.................... 5 NORMAN SIDNEY TAYLOR b: 30 Dec 1926 Bristol
......................... +JOAN MARGARET CREESE b: 18 Jan 1931 Bristol
........................6 PAUL b: 01 Aug 1963 Bristol

Elizabeth is living at Ventonleague, Hayle with her mother Mary Uren (nee Watts) and aunt Jane Watts, a few houses from her future husband Jacob Luke (who she married in 1846) and his family. No idea where Francis Uren her father is in 1841 as he is alive in until at least 1846
and dead by 1851.

Children of FRANCIS UREN and MARY UREN (nee WATTS) are:

I'm not convinced by some of this information about the issue of Francis and Mary Uren (nee Watts) why are some of them living at Kenwyn?

(1) Mary Uren bapt August 30th 1812 in Phillack, Cornwall. died?

(2) Francis Hocking Uren bapt March 27th 1815 in Phillack, Cornwall; died November 27th 1856 in Kenwyn, Cornwall; married Alice Goldsworthy 1835 in Kenwyn, Cornwall. In the 1851 census he was a Copper Miner.

He had 6 children - all first cousins of my great grandmother Matilda Taylor (nee Luke) of Bristol

.1 : Susan Jane Uren, born in Kenwyn in 1837, died in South Australia the 13 October 1891, married Charles BATTEN,
the 10 January 1862 in Truro, Cornwall.
: During the 1851 census Susan was recorded as working as a mine girl aged 14)
She had 1 child :------------: Fred BATTEN, born in Victoria, Australia.

Charles Batten, youngest son of Thomas and Elizabeth Batten of Kea, Cornwell, was born on August 6th 1838. On February 8th, 1862, he married Susan Jane Uren at the Truro Registry Office, in Cornwell. Susan was the eldest child of Francis Hocking Uren and Alice Goldsworthy, and was born at Kenwyn in Cornwell on February 27th 1837. Charles Batten was a miner, and he and Susan lived at Kea for several years. By 1869 they had moved to Gwennap, eight kilometres to the southwest, where Charles worked as a tin miner, but after about three years they moved again, to Illogan, a similar distance to the west. These moves were a result of Charles’ attempts to find work. There was a decline in tin mining in Cornwell from the early 1870’s, followed falling world copper prices later in the decade. It was during this period that Charles’s brother George moved to Lancashire, another brother John gave up mining for farming, and Charles decided to emigrate to Australia.

Charles and Susan had a family of nine, including two sets of twins, but three of their boys died in infancy. In 1876, at the age of 38, Charles Batten, with his wife and their six surviving children, sailed for South Australia aboard the Forfarshire. The ship left London on June2nd 1876, and arrived at Port Adelaide twelve weeks later, on September 1st. The Battens sailed on a free passage as Charles was a miner, and the three daughters were all recorded as servants.

At the time of their arrival the copper mines of Wallaroo and Moonta were at their peak production, and there would have been work available for Cornish miners, but it is unknown where Charles first settled. By September 1881 the family had settled at Stirling North, near Port Augusta, and in 1885 Charles was employed there as a Railway Station man. Susan Jane Batten died at Port Augusta on October 13th, 1891, and was buried at the Port Augusta Cemetery the following day. Only six months later Charles remarried, to Johanna Glanville, (formerly Reynolds, nee Hodge). They were married at the Port Augusta Registry Office on April 23rd 1892. At the time Charles was a labourer, of Port Augusta, while Johanna was twice widowed, and had at least three small children. Charles was fifty-four years of age, and Johanna was only thirty-five. Charles was reputedly a ‘drinker’ and it seems that he soon deserted his new family. Johanna remarried again in December 1894, as Johanna Glanville, widow. If Charles had died she would have been the widow Johanna Batten, and if they had divorced she would have been recorded as such when she married. Perhaps Charles agreed to leave the district, as I have not been able to find another record of him in South Australia.
Charles Batten’s movements for the next twenty years are as yet unknown to me, but he died at Minindie, in New South Wales, on December 31st, 1912. He is recorded as a labourer and old age pensioner, and his cause of death is given as senile decay. His death certificate states that he was buried on the same day in the Menindie Church of England Cemetery, but there is no record there of his burial. Source

.2 : Sarah Uren, born in Kenwyn in 1838, died in Kenwyn in 1857.
(Notes : Never married. During the 1851 census Sarah was recorded as working as a mine girl - aged 12)

.3 : Francis Hocking Uren, born in Kenwyn in 1840.
: During the 1851 census Francis was recorded as working as an apprentice Shoemaker - aged 15, married 1867 in South Australia)

.4 : Stephen Goldsworthy Uren, born in Kenwyn in 1845, died in Kenwyn in 1854. (Notes : Unmarried. In the 1851 census Stephen was recorded as working as a Mine Boy - aged 5)

.5 : Mary Anne Uren, born in Kenwyn in 1847.

.6 : Emma Uren, born in Kenwyn in 1849.

(3) Bartholomew Hocking Uren baptised February 22nd 1818 in Phillack, Cornwall ;died in 1837 unmarried aged about 17 years. If he died in 1837 then who is this below ?

(4) Thomas Hocking Uren baptised September 9th 1821 Phillack, Cornwall ; Died in 1837 unmarried aged about 16 years

(5) ELIZABETH UREN born abt 1826 in Perranuthnoe, Cornwall; she was baptised in 1846 as an adult just prior to her marriage, died in Bristol; married JACOB LUKE December 1846 in Hayle, Phillack, Cornwall. gt gt grandparents. No idea why the Uren family were in Perranuthnoe, Cornwall for Elizabeth's birth.