Mary Trewavas, 1791

Name
Mary /Trewavas/
Given names
Mary
Surname
Trewavas
Source: OPC Database
Citation details: Marriages database http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/search-database/more-info/?t=marriages&id=1172490 : accessed 18 Sep 2015
Name
Mary /Badinar/
Type of name
married name
Birth
War
French Revolution
from 1789 to 1799 (aged 8 years)
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Historical Event
Dutch East India Company goes bankrupt
1795 (aged 4 years)
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Note: The Dutch East India Company is in financial ruins. 29 January – Farmers expelled the officials of the Dutch East India Company and established an independent government at Graaff Reinet. 18 June - Swellendam follows Graaff Reinet and declares a republic under Hermanus Steyn. The Netherlands is invaded by the French under the leadership of Napoléon Bonaparte. A republic is declared by Dutch revolutionaires and the Prince of Orange flees to England. 16 September – British forces under General Sir James Henry Craig seizes the Cape Colony for the Stadtholder Prince William V of Orange. The republics of Graaff Reinet and Swellendam reject the British and the British army is sent in. The start of free trade was announced.
Historical Event
The Cape becomes a British Colony
March 5, 1797 (aged 6 years)
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Natural disaster
Drought
1809 (aged 18 years)
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Note: A severe drought occurs in the eastern frontier region.
Marriage
Quality of data: secondary evidence
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Citation details: Marriages database http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/search-database/more-info/?t=marriages&id=1172490 : accessed 18 Sep 2015
Quality of data: primary evidence
War
Napoleonic Wars
from May 18, 1803 to November 20, 1815 (aged 24 years)
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Town founded
The settlement of Grahamstown is founded
1812 (aged 21 years)
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Town founded
Cradock is founded
August 27, 1818 (aged 27 years)
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Historical Event
British settlers
1820 (aged 29 years)
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Note: 17 March - The first British settlers arrived in Table Bay, Cape Town on the Nautilus and the Chapman. 1 May - The Albury reaches Cape Town bringing settlers to Albany, South Africa. They arrive in Algoa Bay on 15 May. 2 May - La Belle Alliance reached Cape Town. She brought British settlers to Algoa Bay. 4000 British settlers started arriving in Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth), they settled in Grahamstown and along the frontier.
Economic Event
British sterling adopted
1825 (aged 34 years)
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Note: Rix dollar (Dutch: Rijsksdaalder) is converted into the British sterling.
Historical Event
Great trek
1835 (aged 44 years)
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Note: Voortrekkers start leaving the Cape Colony.
Census

1841 England - Census transcript - John Bodinnar - Household
http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbc%2f1841%2f0004288212 : accessed 31 May 2016
Mousehole, Paul, Penzance Union, Cornwall, England

NameAgeMAgeFOccupationBiCSIF
John Bodinnar65Fish. M.y
Mary Badinar50y
John Bodinnar25Fish. M.y
James Bodinar20Fish. M.y
Richard Bodinnar15y
William Bodinnar12y
Phillis Bodinnar20y
Elizabeth Bodinnar14y
Phillis Keigwin60y
Family residence
Town founded
Settlement of Victoria West is established
1844 (aged 53 years)
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Marriage of a son
Note: Wife (Elizabeth Penthreath) is a widow at the time of the 1871 census.
Birth of a granddaughter
Birth of a grandson
Birth of a granddaughter
about 1853 (aged 62 years)
Birth of a granddaughter
Birth of a grandson
about 1857 (aged 66 years)
Epidemic
Influenza
from 1857 to 1859 (aged 68 years)
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Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza.
Death of a son
Note: Wife is widow at time of 1871 census
War
American Civil War
from April 1861 to May 1865 (aged 74 years)
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Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War.
Economic Event
Economic depression
1865 (aged 74 years)
South Africa
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Economic Event
Diamonds discovered
1867 (aged 76 years)
Hopetown, Northern Cape, South Africa
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Note: The Eureka Diamond was the first diamond discovered in South Africa. It weighed 21.25 carats (4.250 g), and was found by Erasmus Jacobs near Hopetown on the Orange River in 1867. The diamond, cut to a 10.73-carat (2.146 g) cushion-shaped brilliant, is currently on display at the Mine Museum in Kimberley. The discovery of diamonds in South Africa led to the Kimberley Diamond Rush, and marked the beginning of the Mineral Revolution.
Marriage of a granddaughter
Citation details: "England and Wales, Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/2D21-K7F : accessed 26 December 2014), John Thomas Blewett, 1871; from “England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005,” index, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Marriage, Penzance, Cornwall, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.
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Economic Event
Gold discovered
September 1873 (aged 82 years)
Pilgrim's Rest, Mpumulanga, South Africa
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Note: Pilgrim's rest declared a gold field.
War
First Boer War
from December 20, 1880 to March 23, 1881 (aged 90 years)
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War
Second Boer War
from October 11, 1899 to May 31, 1902 (aged 111 years)
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Historical Event
South African Republic
from 1852 to 1902 (aged 111 years)
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Note: The South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, ZAR), often referred to as the Transvaal and sometimes as the Republic of Transvaal, was an independent and internationally recognised country in Southern Africa from 1852 to 1902.
Historical Event
Orange Free State
from 1854 to 1902 (aged 111 years)
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Note: The Orange Free State (Dutch: Oranje-Vrijstaat, Afrikaans: Oranje-Vrystaat) was an independent Boer sovereign republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, and later a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa. It is the historical precursor to the present-day Free State province.
Economic Event
Gold discovered
1881 (aged 90 years)
Barberton, Mpumulanga, South Africa
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Note: In 1881 gold in the Barberton area was discovered by Tom McLachlan who found alluvial gold at Jamestown. However due to the location (the hot lowveld region was rife with malaria) no-one wanted to go there until Auguste Roberts (French Bob) discovered gold in Concession Creek in 20 June 1883. This discovery resulted in a gold rush to the area.
Economic Event
Gold discovered
1886 (aged 95 years)
Langlaagte, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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Note: Discovery of the Main Reef in Witwatersrand. Gold rushes to Pilgrim's Rest and Barberton were precursors to the biggest discovery of all, the Main Reef/Main Reef Leader on Gerhardus Oosthuizen's farm Langlaagte, Portion C, in 1886, the Witwatersrand Gold Rush and the subsequent rapid development of the gold field there, the biggest of them all.
Epidemic
Bubonic plague
February 1, 1901 (aged 110 years)
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Note: Bubonic plague breaks out in Cape Town.
Epidemic
Pneumonic plague
February 1904 (aged 113 years)
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Note: Pneumonic plague breaks out in Johannesburg.
Epidemic
Tuberculosis
1906 (aged 115 years)
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Note: Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa.
Historical Event
Union of South Africa
May 31, 1910 (aged 119 years)
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Note: Union of South Africa established.
Prime minister
Louis Botha
from May 31, 1910 to August 27, 1919 (aged 128 years)
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Death
yes
Family with John Bodinnar
husband
1776
Birth: about 1776Cornwall, England
Death:
herself
1791
Birth: about 1791Cornwall, England
Death:
Marriage MarriageOctober 4, 1810Paul, Penzance, Cornwall, England
6 years
son
1816
Birth: about 1816 40 25 Cornwall, England
Death:
5 years
son
18211863
Baptism: January 21, 1821 45 30 Penzance, Cornwall, England
Death: between October 1863 and December 1863Penzance, Cornwall, England
11 months
daughter
1821
Birth: about 1821 45 30 Cornwall, England
Death:
6 years
son
1826
Birth: about 1826 50 35 Cornwall, England
Death:
2 years
daughter
1827
Birth: about 1827 51 36 Cornwall, England
Death:
3 years
son
1829
Birth: about 1829 53 38 Cornwall, England
Death:

Descendants of Mary Trewavas

  1. Generation 1
    1. Mary Trewavas was born about 1791 in Cornwall, England.

      She married John Bodinnar on October 4, 1810 in Paul, Penzance, Cornwall, England. He was born about 1776 in Cornwall, England.

      Children of Mary Trewavas and John Bodinnar:

      1. John Bodinnar (1816)
      2. James Trewavas Bodinar (18211863)
      3. Phillis Bodinnar (1821)
      4. Richard Bodinnar (1826)
      5. Elizabeth Bodinnar (1827)
      6. William Bodinnar (1829)
  2. Generation 2 back to top
    1. James Trewavas Bodinar, fisherman (in 1841), son of John Bodinnar and Mary Trewavas, was baptized on January 21, 1821 in Paul, Penzance, Cornwall, England and died between October 1863 and December 1863 in Penzance, Cornwall, England.

      He married Elizabeth Harvey Pentreath, daughter of Richard Pentreath and Phillis James, on January 15, 1848 in Penzance, Cornwall, England. She was born between 1824 and 1826 in Mousehole, Cornwall, England.

      Children of James Trewavas Bodinar and Elizabeth Harvey Pentreath:

      1. Elizabeth Bessie Bodinnar (18501918)
      2. William Bodinar (1852)
      3. Agnes Bodinar (1853)
      4. Mary P Bodinar (1856)
      5. John Bodinar (1857)
  3. Generation 3 back to top
    1. Elizabeth Bessie Bodinnar, shop assistant (in 1871), daughter of James Trewavas Bodinar and Elizabeth Harvey Pentreath, was born about 1850 in Mousehole, Cornwall, England and died on May 1, 1918 in Paul, Penzance, Cornwall, England.

      She married John Thomas Blewett, son of Thomas Blewett and Ann Harvey Madron, on November 7, 1871 in Penzance, Cornwall, England. He was born before April 4, 1847 in Mousehole, Cornwall, England and died on June 5, 1936.

      Children of Elizabeth Bessie Bodinnar and John Thomas Blewett:

      1. Lizzy Pentreath Bet Blewett (18721954)
      2. James Bodinar Blewett (18731955)
      3. Olivia Agnes Liv Blewett (18751962)
      4. Ida Blewett (18771967)
      5. Thomas Blewett (18781879)
      6. Thomas Tom Blewett (18811956)

Ancestors of Mary Trewavas

  1. Generation 1
    1. Mary Trewavas was born about 1791 in Cornwall, England.

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