First Generation:
Known children of Alexander and Margaret Polglase
1/Alexander bapt. abt. 1585, married Eleanor Willyams
(Williams)
2/ Richard b. Breage abt. 1586
3/ William b. Breage abt. 1590
4/ Thomas b. Breage 25-10-1597
Second Generation:
Known children of Alexander and Eleanor Polglase
1/ Phillippus (Phillip) b. 20-6-1608, married Margaret Ponsow
2/ Eleanor b. 6-4-1610, Breage
3/ Ralph b.4-11-1611 Breage
Third Generation:
Known children of Phillip and Margaret Polglase
1/ Thomas b. 31-8-1634 Breage, married 31-10-1687 Prudence Trounce at Breage.
2/ Willimus (William) b. 7-2-1638, married abt. 1659 Mary
3/ John b. 29-10-1641
4/ Henri b. 14-10-1645, Breage married Mary Trounce, 30-4-1681, Breage
Fourth Generation:
Known children of William and Mary Polglase
1/ Henry b. abt. 1658, married 30-4-1681 Mary Truce
2/ John b. abt. 1660, married abt. 1680 Elizabeth Symons
3/ William b. abt. 1662, married 30-10-1682 Mary Symons, (School Teacher)
4/ Prudence b. abt 1668, married 19-11-1688 John Thomas, their daughter
Elizabeth Thomas married Thomas Polglase.
Fifth Generation:
Known children of William and Mary Polglase
1/ William b. 13-1-1684, married 4-8-1705 Ann Tyack
2/ Mary b. 1688, married 16-10-1708 Henry Polglase
3/John b. 23-3-1694, married 22-12-1718 Alice Thomas
Alexander b. 3-3-1688, married Elizabeth Stephens 11-8-1715 ?
Sixth Generation:
Known children of John and Alice Polglase
1/ John b. 26-12-1719
2/ Joseph b. 15-4-1723
3/ Sampson b. 14-1-1728, married 20-10-1764 Margaret Polglase, bapt.
28-12-1737, who was his cousin, daughter of Alexander Polglase b. 5-3-1688/9 and
Elizabeth Stephens. Sampson and Margaret both signed the marriage certificate
with their marks.
Seventh Generation:
Known children of Sampson and Margaret Polglase
1/ Prudence b. 26-12-1765
2/ Sampson b. 5-9-1771, married 29-10-1804 Catherine Richards (widow), nee
Cornish. Sampson and Catherine were married by C. Trevanion Kempe, they both
signed the certificate with their marks. Henry Carter and George Hebbard were
witnesses to the marriage, they both signed their names on the certificate.
3/ Alice b. 7-7-1776 d. infant
4/ Alice b. 25-7-1780
5/ Alva b. 25-7-1780
Eighth Generation:
Children of Sampson and Catherine Polglase
1/ Alice bapt. 28-1-1806 died same year
2/ Alice b. 1-1-1807
3/ John b. 24-41808
4/ William b. 5-5-1810, married 1833 Mary Sorrell (Searl/e) William and
Mary were married in a double wedding ceremony with Mary's sister Sarah Sorrell
and James Kitto. The service was conducted by Curate, Horatio Todd; both brides
and grooms signed the certificates with their marks. William and Mary's
witnesses were Henry Williams and ?Mid Ki..(photo copy ineligible) James and
Sarah's witnessed were Benjamin Polglase, (Probably son of Benjamin and
Elizabeth Polglase, relationship not yet found), and Henry Williams who both
signed their names to the certificates
5/ Maryanne b. 2-1-1814
6/ Samuel b. 30-7-1815
Ninth Generation:
Children of William and Mary Polglase as recorded on the 1851
Census:
1/ Frances bapt. 17-6-1833, age 18 Tin-Dresser, later married Mr. Jones and
moved to New Zealand.
2/ William b. 8-8-1835
3/ Sarah Ann b. 26-12-1836 at Travena, age 15 Tin-Dresser
4/ John b. 4-1-1838, d 10-9-1838
5/ Isabella b. 1839, age 12 Tin-Dresser
6/ John b. 6-7-1841, age 10 Tin-Dresser, married 13-2-1861 Mary Hosking
7/ Thomas b. 1842, age 8 Tin-Dresser, emigrated to Sth Australia, March
1864, died 24-9-1866, result of a mining accident, Sandhurst, Victoria.
8/ Catherine b. 1844, age 6
Samuel b. 1849, age 2
In 1841 William was a Tin-Dresser living in Travina/Treevina with Mary and their
four children and his sister Alice. In 1851 they are living in Tolmenor. William
is now a farmer on 3 acres of land. His son William is not living with the
family, now age 16 he is probably working and living away from home, or he may
have died before 1851.
As we see that by the age of 8 the children are all working as Tin-Dresser; this
occupation is at ground level of the mines. John's statement at the inquest on
the death of his brother Tom, states that he had worked in the mines since the
age of 11. John and Mary were married in the 14th. century Church of England
in Breage, which is noted for the restoration of paintings on the walls.
The ceremony was performed by Curate, Henry Stone; Carolyn Burges and Thomas
Taylor were witnesses who signed their names on the certificate, as did Mary;
John signed with his mark.
A point of interest in regard to their names,-- on his birth certificate
John's surname is spelt POLGLASE, on the marriage certificate it is spelt
POLGLAZE --so much for the sees not being related to the zees --it simply
depends on who is writing it.
JOHN AND MARY
John Henry (Harry) Polglase
1841 Breage, Cornwall, England
1916, Fryerstown, Victoria, Australia.
On the 24th. March 1861, one month after they were married, John and Mary
Polglase embarked on their future together in Australia aboard the sailing ship
'UTOPIA', sailing from Liverpool. The voyage would probably not have lived up to
its name, as it was a slower voyage than average, but perhaps the name Utopia
was a good omen for the newly weds.
The nominal passenger list records John & Mary had come from
Gloucester and were going to friends in Adelaide. It also recorded John could
read but not write and Mary could could both read and write, and that they were
of the Wesleyan religion.
The ship arrived in Melbourne on the 25th. June 1861 ending a
93 day voyage, when the average length of time for the voyage was 75-80 days.
The new route meant passengers experienced extreme weather
condition, they may swelter crossing the equator, sometimes waiting days for a
suitable wind to get them moving; before the winds known as 'The Roaring 40.'
blew them south to gales and storms of the Antarctic where many feared for their
lives.
After arriving in Melbourne, John and Mary spent a month
there, possibly with Mary's brother because they boarded the interstate
colonial ship 'Balcluthia' on the 20th. July 1861 for Adelaide; also on board
was 23 year old Mr. Hosking. Mary was by now pregnant, it is assumed they then
went straight to the copper mines at Burra-Burra.
The district of Burra-Burra (the name Hindustani for Great-Great) was a
thriving mining town since copper was discovered there in 1845; almost $10
million worth of copper was extracted before the mine closed in 1877. Along the
creek some of the dugouts remain where more than 2,000 people lived during the
boom period.
Burra nestled in Bald Hills Range 154 km north of Adelaide is now famous
for it's sheep and serves as a market town for the surrounding farmland.
(source: Explore Australia; BP)
By the time John and Mary arrived in Burra, the mining of copper
had been established for about 10 years.
Burra began it's life as the mining township of Kooring, at that
time the mining company provided cottages only for it's more skilled miners,
mechanics, and mine officials, most ordinary miners found their own accommodation
or lived rent free in the dug-outs in, not on, the bank of the creek. these
inhabitants were often called 'the Creek dwellers'. Bert Polglase records that
his grandparents lived in one of these dug-outs for a short time when they
first arrived.
Relics of Hampton Township. c.1995
By 1851 Burra had become a collection of English towns with a population
of 5,000. It was Australia's seventh largest inland centre prior to the
discovery of gold in eastern Australia.
When their first son John Henry, also known as Harry, was
born on 8th. Feb. 1862, John and Mary were living in one of the cottages in
Hampton Village.
LIFE IN VICTORIA:
1864 was an eventful year for John and Mary as on 28th. Feb. that year
their second chid, Thomasina Mary was born and died the same day at
Sandhurst, later known as Bendigo. It is situated 152 kilometres north west of
Melbourne.
On the 7th. April that same year John's younger brother Thomas arrived
aboard the ship, 'Ocean Chief' having left Plymouth 2nd. Jan. The ships
passenger list records Thomas to have been of good behaviour !! It must have
been an exciting time for all to catch up on the news of Cornwall and
Australia.
In 1865 another daughter named Thomasina Mary was born at Castlemaine,
situated 119 kilometres from Melbourne, along with Kyneton and Maldon
epitomises the gold-mining towns of north western Victoria.
By 1866 6he family are back in Sandhurst, on Monday 24th.
September 1866, tragedy again struck John and Mary. John was at work at the
Dafoley Company in Long Gully at Sandhurst and Thomas at the Albania Company
Claim on the Redaw Reef. About 6 weeks earlier Thomas, together with Richard
Chappel, Richard Stevens and Henry Martin had taken out a contract to sink a
shaft on the aforesaid claim to a depth of 200 feet, and also to timber it with
timberings to be provided by the company. Everything had been going fine until
about 4 PM that Monday afternoon. The shaft had been sunk and timbered40 feet
from the surface, at that depth they commenced and sank for 60 feet more,
having done this they timbered the shaft from the bottom upwards until they met
the previous timberings, they had nearly completed their work. the shaft was 11
feet long from east to west and 5 feet 6 inches wide from north to south where
it is not timbered, but where the accident happened it is timbered, there the
shaft would measure 9 feet in length and 3 feet wide. Thomas was working with
Henry Martin finishing the slabbing, they were in the usual way standing upon
loose closely fitting slabs laid upon a string frame which rested upon the
sets. Henry was putting in a slab on the western side with his back to Thomas
who was slabbing up the eastern end. Henry first heard the noise of a slab and
then a scream as Thomas fell down the shaft. Thomas suffered a fractured skull
and died two days later in hospital.
Immediately after the accident one of Thomas's mates went and told
John, who first went home and learned Thomas was in hospital so went there.
(source: taken from evidence given at the inquest held at Sandhurst on the
27th. April 1866.)
To be continued
7-11- 2009
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