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I've emailed Cornwall Records Office in Truro about stuff which I found when looking through my fathers papers. Amongst those papers, there's documentation relating to several pubs and inns in Cornwall which my family have run and owned over the past 60 years, which may be of general public interest.

Apparently Records Offices are very happy to hold documents and such like for people so long as is wanted and the documents can be reclaimed at any time.  The advantage of this system is that firstly, the documents are properly looked after and unlikely to get lost and secondly may be accessed by others.


Also I contacted the West Devon Records Office as I have copies of two wills, again relating to our family, but this time they date back to the 19th Century and are to do with members of the family who were living in Plymouth at that time.

 The will of William Darton Waddon, died 1848 Plymouth, 

my GGG Grandfather

31.8.11

I've just heard back from the Records Office and they are not interested in the wills, surprising as I thought these documents would be useful for other family history researchers.

Perhaps the policy about which I gave details (above) has changed - and if so many interesting documents are likely to be destroyed and we'll be culturally poorer for this development.

Charles Darton Waddon (1749 - 1818?) - GGGG Grandparents

Charles Darton Waddon

Christened: 16.12.1749 St Stephens by Saltash Church, St Andrews Church, Plymouth.

Parents: Hugh Waddon, mother Honor Darton

Married: Ann Hamling, 13.1.1771 St Andrews, Plymouth.

Children (all b St Andrews):

Mary Ann, b 1772; 

Charles, b 1773;  d after 1851 
John Hambling, b 1775; d before 1852?

Elizabeth, b 1777;

George, b 1778; d 20/9/1840

William Darton, 1780; d 3/11/1848 (my ancestor)

John, b 1781; d 

Richard, b 1783;  after 1840

James, b 1784;

Samuel, b 1786;

Betsy, b 1789;

Nancy, b 1791; d before 1871 (M Homer)

Henry Bunker, b 1793.

Died: After 1800?

Ann Hamling

Born: before 1753

Died: after 1793

Charles' father: 
Hugh Waddon married Honor Darton

Honor Darton bapt 1725, parents Charles Darton* and Elizabeth Freeman

*Charles Darton, born 1692
Parents John Darton
Children: (all Chr St Stephens by Saltash, Cornwall)
Honor (1725)
Joan Darton (1725)
John (1728) (must have died)
John (1729)
Sarah (1731)
Charles (1734)

SMALE - Family Tree

My family tree

Since this was uploaded, we've found some more on the Gasper side.  The person who we've called Florence Violet Gasper was born Florence Gasper Greenslade.  I sent off for her birth certificate and her mother was given Annie.

When Florence died in 1962 she stated that her parents were Thomas Greenslade and Mary Gasper - but was this for respectability and difficult to prove wrong from over 10,000 miles away in England?  (For more information about the Greenslade side, see link on right hand side here)

John Smale (c1755 - c1810) Probably My GGGG Grandfather!

Born:  

Parents:  William and Mary Smale – look into this

Married: 17.11.1781 Stoke Damerel to Phillipa Lobb

Children:

Elizabeth Bale, chr 29.6.1783 Stoke Damerel;

Betsey, chr 20.2.1785 Stoke Damerel; (m Matthew Henley 16.4.1807 Plymouth?)

Honor, chr 22.4.1787 Stoke Damerel/ or 1789 St D;

William, b 1791, chr 1795 (my GGG Grandfather)

John, chr 26.7.1795

Died: 1842/43/55? suspect...

Phillipa Betsey Lobb

Born 1758 St Antony, Cornwall

Parents: William Lobb and Phillipa Clement (m 2.11.1746 St Martins in Looe Bay)

Died: jas 1840 Stoke Damerel