Wordle Chart: Size of Surname indicates relative frequency

I am gradually working my way through the 1813-1835 (plus or minus a few years) parish registers of St. Blazey, Cornwall. This is very much a work in progress, which will move forward in fits and spurts as I have the time and energy to do anything. There is no timeline for when it will be done nor even when the next version of the downloaded web page will be.

No claim is made that connections are proven; uncertain connections are noted as such. So use as a guide not as gospel.

Master Version on Ancestry.com
The master version of this work resides in an Ancestry.com tree. If you have an Ancestry account, you can see that tree by clicking here to see the Home Person, my ancestor Henry Butson. The Ancestry tree contains images of all the parish registers from which I am entering the information.

Downloadable Version on this Web Site
For those without Ancestry accounts, I have created a GEDCOM file that you can download. It does not contain the record images but is otherwise complete, as of the date that I have downloaded it, which happens sporadically as I complete another year of the parish registers. I have also created two PDF files, one of which provides a report that cannot be seen on Ancestry.

Status of the Database
Right now, the database contains 3,801 people in 914 families and includes:

• all baptisms in the register (baptism register covers 3 Jan 1813 - 1 Dec 1829, plus three from 14 Feb 1836)
• all marriages in the register (marriage register covers 12 Apr 1813 - 25 Oct 1834, plus one from 1836 and one from 1837)
  The marriages revealed several same-name couples, for whom I did a lot of extra work to make sure that they are as correct as I can make them:
  • Borlase, Sampson and Elizabeth - both with daughters Elizabeth born 1835
  • Cornelius, John and Mary
  • Robins, Thomas with daughter Jane
  • Stephens, William and Elizabeth
• burials for 1813-1830 (burial register covers 14 Jul 1813 - 23 Nov 1839) - STILL IN PROGRESS

Donwload the Database and Reports

• Right-Click here to download a GEDCOM of the complete (as much as I have done so far - see "Status of the Database" above) database.
  • Be sure to read the notes for individuals. The notes contain information such as best candidate baptisms, where I have not been able to say for certain which baptism was for the person. So the notes in the GEDCOM file for an individual contain important additonal information.
  • Be sure to download the latest GEDCOM version. Each version usually has changes, some very significant, to the prior version, as I have recognized new connections - or occasionally recognized and repaired erroneous connections that I had made. So your family may appear quite differently in a later version than they did in an earlier one.

• Click here to see the alphabetical list of names (with no-surname names listed first), so far.
  This is much more than just a name list. Each person's birth, baptism, death and burial dates, plus names of parents and first spouse are all shown for an individual.

• Click here to see the list of locations and the people associated with each location, so far.
  This is something you cannot see on the Ancestry tree. They are sorted with country first and city last, so that "Bedelva, St. Blazey, Cornwall, UK" sorts as "UK, Cornwall, St. Blazey, Bedelva". Note that 3-name locations (e.g. St. Blazey, Cornwall, UK) wind up with a comma in front of them (, UK, Cornwall, St. Blazey), and the same happens for 2-name locations ("Cornwall, UK" becomes ", , UK, Cornwall"). So be sure to look at all of the 2-name, 3-name and 4-name levels of locations.

• FAMILY TREE MAKER VERSION: Right-Click here to download a 200MB Zip file of the Family Tree Maker database that includes the images of the parish registers for each reference in the database. - This is an experiment, but I think that if you extract the files to your Family Tree Maker data folder, then you may be able to view the tree in Family Tree Maker so that it appears as close to the tree on Ancestry.com as I can make it. NOTE: This is a large zip file (>200 MB) and is even larger when it is unzipped, since it contains all the image files of the original records.

Spellings
If you think I have a mis-spelling, please let me know. Some of the handwritten entries are extremely hard to read.
People
The name spellings are mostly as in the records. However, when the records have conflicting spellings (e.g. Prior and Pryor), I have chosen one that seems like the most likely one to have persisted over time and made notations on the events in the Ancestry tree (which unfortunately do not show up in the web page). I have NOT equated women named Jane with apparent matches to women named Jenifer/Jenepher (e.g. husband with same name, born about the same time) unless I have sufficient evidence to do so, which so far is lacking in most cases -- similarly for Betsy and Eliza and Elizabeth, although these cases have tended to be more resolvable.
Places
I have standardized the locations within St. Blazey. For example, "Church Town" and "Town" and simply "St. Blazey" are all in the database as "Town, St. Blazey, Cornwall, UK". However, since the hamlet of Charles Town was close by, I am leaving all references to "Ch. Town" that way, since I cannot tell whether that meant "Church Town" or "Charles Town". [Entries prior to 1821 were all converted to "Town", so that once I complete all the baptisms, I am going to go back through the entries up to 1821 to make sure that all "Ch. Town" entries are thus recorded in the database.]
Biscovey, Bedelva and Turnevisick are the standard spelling that I use for the various spellings of those places. The maps of the time used Boscovey, Bodelva Trenovisick, but the map makers' names do not seem to have been what the local people called the places and are not what was used in the records of that time.
Tregrehan is a problem. Tregrehan Lodge seems to have been definitely within St. Blazey parish. I am not sure about Tregrehan Coombe, which I have placed in St. Blazey. But Tregrehan Mills appears in the 1841 census in St. Blazey parish and in 1851 in St. Austell parish. So in those census references, I have used the parish of the census.

Descendants, Ancestors, Other Records
While it is very tempting to show the descendants of these families, I have limited that aspect to those cases where the families later inter-married. I have included some prior records from other parishes, other Ancestry family trees that seemed to be reliable, and records (e.g. English censuses) found on Ancestry. But for the most part, what is there is simply a reflection of the St. Blazey parish registers of the period 1813 to about 1835.

Earliest Overseas Emigrants

Here are the earliest overseas emigrants for each destination (who I have found thus far - if you know of any earlier, please let me know), arranged chronologically.