What Happened to Grace Quintrell's Gundry Children After Her Death?

Research Note for the St Blazey Families Project by Wesley Johnston - begun 1 Jun 2015 last update 1 Jun 2015

Thanks to Sylvia Hodson for the backbone of this information

Background

Joseph Gundrey (spelled Gundry in his children's records) married Grace Quintrell at St Blazey 21 Aug 1830. They had two children, both born at the Church Town of the parish:

Mary Anne Gundry - born 27 Jan 1832 - baptized 25 Dec 1832

Joseph Gundry - baptized 23 Mar 1834

And Grace died, also in Church Town, and was buried 23 Sep 1835, when Mary was 3 and Joseph Jr. was 1.

Joseph remarried at Tywardreath 17 Jul 1838 with Charity Bullen. Since he was a miner, someone had been caring for his two young children for the three years before he remarried. He and his Charity and their first two children lived together in Church Town of Tywardreath parish in the 1841 census, when Mary would have been 9 and Joseph Jr. 7. But they are not in the home. So where were they?

Living with Their Father's Family

The answer is that they were living with their father's family members, in two different nearby households in Tywrdreath Highway. Joseph and Mary actually appear on the same page of the census as each other (http://interactive.ancestry.com/8978/CONHO107_146_146-0555/520605). Joseph is at the top left, in the continuation of the household of their grandmother Ann (Dart) Gundry. And Mary is on the top the right page, in the continuation of the family of their father's sister Jane (Gundry) Bunt.

In the 1851 census, it was Joseph Jr who was living with his Aunt Elizabeth (Gundry) Bunt (http://interactive.ancestry.com/8860/CONHO107_1902_1903-0012/7040350) at Albathaock in Liskeard. (Jane (Gundry) Bunt had died and her husband William then married her sister Elizabeth.)

In 1851, Mary Ann is a lead ore sorter, lodging in the home of Henry and Frances Rundle (no known relation at this writing) in Menheniot.

By 1861, both were adults. But it seems that once their mother died and their father remarried, they never lived together again.