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Home Ø Migrants Ø Lewannick family of John Coombe and Jane Sargent
Migrants - Lewannick family of John Coombe and Jane Sargent
Lewannick Origins
From Lewannick Cornwall, John Coombe, a farmer and Jane Sargent, his wife, saw four of their children migrate to Australia: Richard, Samuel, Thomas and Benedictus Coombe. At the 1841 census, the family was at Hodges in Lewannick: John Coombe (48), Jane Coombe (47), William Coombe (25), Susan Coombe (15), Samuel Coombe (13), Thomas Coombe (11), Benedictus Coombe (9), Jane Coombe (6), Sally Sargent (80).
The family is listed below (all locations are Lewannick CON unless otherwise stated and mostly the baptisms indicate the family is resident at Coombeshead). The following abbreviations are used: ? = uncertain, NI = no issue, ... indicates known descendants, CON = Cornwall, SA = South Australia, VIC = Victoria.
John
Coombe, b. 11 Jul 1790, d. 10 Jun 1863, farmer
John and Jane’s headstone in Lewannick church cemetery was erected by their two sons in Australia: Richard and Samuel. John (1816-??) is also buried there.
This family is the subject of a book by Joan Coombe: “Cornish connections : the Coombe family history”; published Black Forest, S. Aust. : J. Coombe, 1993; ISBN 0 646 13021 8. This book includes the Lewannick-born family, brothers Samuel and Richard, and the majority of detail is about descendants of William’s son Joseph. The book contains many photos and copies of certificates. Subsequent researchers are indebted to this prior work. The Migrants The
migrating children were: On Saturday,
17 November 1849, the barque Himalaya arrived in Port Adelaide, and
included passengers: In the 1851 census, Thomas and Benedictus are miners in St Ive Cornwall residing with brother William, but only Benedictus is found in the 1861 census. On 19 May 1863, Benedictus departed New York and arrived Melbourne 26 Aug. Richard Coombe Richard Coombe’s wife Elizabeth Knight (m. 1846) died from cholera during the voyage. He subsequently remarried and did well at the diggings. He consigned an impressive 11lbs 1oz of gold in the first gold escort direct from Mount Alexander in March 1852. Richard
Coombe, b. 17 Jan 1820, d. 19 Nov 1884 Bowden SA Samuel Coombe “was born at Lewanick, Cornwall, on March 11, 1828, and worked on his father’s farm. Being discontented with the condition of affairs in England he decided to emigrate to South Australia, with the intention of entering into farming pursuits, and with his wife and one child and his brother, the late Mr. Richard Coombe, he embarked on the Himalaya at Plymouth, and arrived at Port Adelaide on November 19, 1849, after an eventful voyage of 111 days...” – Death of Samuel Coombe as noted in the Advertiser, 4 January 1899. Samuel Coombe’s estate was subdivided for “Allenby Gardens”. Samuel donated Ethelbert Square, named after his son, to Brompton Council (Advertiser, 2 Aug 1933). Obituary. In the following, places names are South Australia unless otherwise specified. Samuel
Coombe b. 18 Apr 1828 Lewannick CON, d. 3 Jan 1899 Brompton Thomas Coombe Thomas probably migrated after his father’s death in 1863. He married widow Josephine Ingham on 14 Mar 1866 at the Wesleyan Chapel, Pirie St, Adelaide. They had no children together. Josephine had taken over the licence of the Gasworks Hotel, Brompton on the death of her husband, and after marrying Thomas she transferred the licence to him. Thomas transferred the licence on 15 Jun 1869, presumably due to his illness. COOMBE.-On the 12th December, after a long and painful illness, at Brompton, Thomas, the seventh son of the late Mr. John Coombe, Lewannick, Cornwall, England, aged 40 year s. South Australian Register (Adelaide), Wednesday 14 December 1870. Benedictus Coombe Benedictus Coombe was a copper miner in St Ives Cornwall in the 1861 census, together with wife Grace and their four children: Emma Jane, Matthew John, Elizabeth and George. Benedictus arrived in Melbourne on 26 August 1863 on the “Aleeta” from New York. He was followed, in February 1865 by Grace and the children on the “Rockhampton”. Their family is listed below; placenames are in Victoria unless otherwise specified. Benedictus
Coombe b. 1 Jan 1828, copper miner, d. 1898 Clunes Joseph Coombe Joseph and Harriet Coombe, with their daughter Annie, arrived in Sydney NSW on 24 Mar 1885 on the “Gulf of Mexico” and went on to have a sizeable family. They initially lived in Lithgow NSW then moved to SA in 1906 and settled at Moonta SA. Joseph had married Harriet Clemo in 1882 at Liskeard CON, after returning from his second trip to the mines of Montana USA. This family is comprehensively covered in Joan Coombe’s book mentioned above. John’s Paternal Ancestry John Coombe
married Jane Sargent 30 Aug 1812, Lewannick, CON. Acknowledgements Special thank you also to the following for their research: Joan Coombe’s “Cornish connections : the Coombe family history” mentioned above, Stephen Coombe and Rob Holman. Updated: 21 May 2012 |
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