Great care must be exercised when dealing with the Hore families who were having children baptized in St. Blazey (and St. Austell) in the period 1812-1818.

There were three families:

  1. 25 Apr 1812 - Joseph HORE married Joanna ROBINS at St. Blazey
  2. 8 Jan 1815 - Jacob HORE and Gertrude MARTYN - This family stayed in Cornwall, but sons John, Henry and Richard Martin HOAR emigrated (John and Henry to Blyth, Pennsylvania by 1849 and then to Houghton, Michigan; Richard to Canada in 1854 and then to Houghton, Michigan in 1859)
  3. 5 Aug 1815 - Jacob HORE married Elizabeth LUKE at St. Blazey - this family emigrated to Canada in 1841, where her brother had already settled (It is this Jacob HORE - spelled HOAR - family that is mentioned in the "From Cornwall to Canada in 1841" story.)

 At St. Blazey, these families had the following children baptized:

Joseph & Joanna

Jacob & Gertrude

Jacob & Elizabeth

There are only four St. Blazey burials of children, the three shown above, plus one that is a problem, since there is no corresponding baptism:

24 Feb 1816 - Hannah - age 2, abode Town

Thus Hannah was born about 1814, and the only one of the three couples married before then is Joseph-Joanna.  They had a daughter baptized in 1814, but her name was Mary Ann. So had Mary Ann, daughter of Joanna, come to be called Hannah? That seems the only scenario that fits. And this is further bolstered by the fact that this couple named their 1822 daughter Mary Ann, indicating that the first Mary Ann (1814) had died.