James and Elizabeth nee Gynn	see Family Tree	(generation 19)
(Revised on 30 Dec. 2007)	see Photos

James was born during 1815 in Manaccan or possibly Tresco, Isles of Scilly where he was christened, son of William and Martha Uglow and grandson of John and Ann Smeeth. On the last day of 1840 he married Elizabeth Gynn in Warbstow, Cornwall where he was village blacksmith. Elizabeth was a daughter of Richard Gynn and his wife Grace nee Williams who had a total of twelve children, four sons and eight daughters. Richard Gynn farmed Treswine (now Treswen) a farm of 130 acres.

James and Elizabeth lived nearly all their lives in their house at Warbstow Cross adjacent to the Smithy. They had 5 sons and two daughters who survived to adulthood plus one daughter who died in infancy. Probably all their children were born there with the exception of the eldest, William, who was probably born at Treswen.

Elizabeth died there during 1855 when only 34 years old. James died age 65 during 1880 in St Gennys where he was probably living with his married daughter Dorothy. Both James and Elizabeth are buried in Warbstow Churchyard. Two sons and a daughter emigrated to Australia and one son emigrated to North America.

• son William was born during 1841. William appears to have trained as a Blacksmith, probably first with his father and then with Mr Doney at Valley Truckle, near Camelford, Cornwall. However in October 1860 he travelled to London and became a Police Constable in the Metropolitan Police Force. Whilst there until late May 1861 he kept a diary which still exists and has been transcribed.
  In October 1863 he left Warbstow to emigrate to New Zealand, with his sister Amelia, her husband Julius Bone and his cousin William Gynn. During February 1864 the sailing boat they were travelling on, ‘The Hurricane,’ reached Melbourne, Victoria, Australia where after a reconnaissance visit ashore they decided to settle. William kept a daily diary of the voyage which still exists and has also been transcribed.
  William appears to have settled in Ballarat, Victoria and during 1869 he married Letitia Osler who had been born in Horningsea, Cambridgeshire, England. William and Letitia had eleven children, seven daughters and four sons.
  William died age 51 during 1893 in Mardan, Victoria and Letitia died age 60 during 1909 in Mirboo North, Victoria.
  
  
• son Thomas (Gynn) was born during 1843. Thomas trained as a Blacksmith, first with his father and then at the Forge in Boscastle Harbour, Cornwall. In 1866 whilst living there Thomas married Mary Baker Mably in Forrabury church, Boscastle being in Forrabury Parish. Mary was the daughter of Henry Mably the publican of the ‘Ship Inn’ in Boscastle and she was the 19 years old.
  Shortly after their marriage Thomas and Mary left England from Liverpool for Melbourne, Australia on the ‘Star of India’. Thomas and Mary initially lived in Ballarat before they moved to St Arnaud, Victoria where they had five children, one son and four daughters, before Mary died aged only 28.
  During 1877 Thomas re-married a widow Mary McDermott nee Morrison. Whilst living in St Arnaud Thomas and Mary had five children, 4 sons and a daughter. They then moved to Dumbalk North, Gippsland, Victoria where they had a further six children, two sons and four daughters.
  After the second Mary’s death in 1914, age about 58, Thomas then moved to Melbourne where during 1917 he married for a third time at the age of 74, to Emma Wilson, aged about 41.
  Thomas died, age 79, in Northcote, Victoria in 1923 whilst Emma died in 1951 aged about 75 years.
  
  
• daughter Amelia Gynn was born during 1845. On her 18th birthday she married Julius Francis Bone of Jacobstow, then 21 years old, at Warbstow Church. Shortly afterwards they left Cornwall with her eldest brother William and cousin William Gynn for New Zealand but, like them, left the ship and settled in Australia. Amelia and Julius settled in Ballarat where they had two children, two sons, before Julius was killed during 1866, aged only 23, in a mining accident at Sebastopol, Victoria.
  During 1868 Amelia re-married in Ballarat, Thomas Woolcock, aged about 27, who had been born in Camborne, Cornwall, England. They had seven children, four sons and three daughters.
  Amelia died during 1903, age 57 in Ballarat and Thomas died there during 1908, aged about 67.
  
  
• son James was born during 1848. Unlike his elder brothers he appears to have trained as a carpenter and by 1871 he had moved away and was liming in Camborne in West Cornwall.
  During 1874 when he was 26 years old James married, in Redruth, Cornwall, Elizabeth A Hancock, ‘Hannah’, who was about 3 or 4 years younger. James and Elizabeth had nine children, five sons and four daughters, but the last four children, three daughters and one son died in infancy.
  James died in Camborne area during 1920 age 72 and Elizabeth died there during 1935 age 83.
  
  
• son John was born during 1851. Like his two eldest brothers he appears to have trained as a blacksmith with his father. In 1871 he was recorded as a ‘Journeyman Blacksmith, there but later that year he left Warbstow Cross for ‘America’.
  A decade later, during 1881, he is recorded as a bachelor living in Tilbury West, Essex, Ontario, Canada but no further information has been found about him. It is not known whether he married and, if so, whether there was any issue.
  
  
• daughter Dorothy Gynn was born 1852. During 1876 when she was about 24 years old she married William Sandercock of St Gennys, a tailor, born at Tresparet Posts in the parish, the son of a Benjamin and Mary Ann Sandercock. They were married at the Tower Street Chapel Launceston by a Minister of the Bible Christian Church and the family were prominent in the Bible Christian Chapel built at Tremayna, St Gennys. Dorothy and William subsequently lived in the Rosecare area of St Gennys, Cornwall where they had six children, three sons and three daughters all of whom survived to adulthood except one daughter who died in infancy.
  Dorothy died in 1924 aged 72, but at present it is not known when William died.
  
  
• daughter Grace was born during 1854 and died in infancy.
  
  
• son Richard (Gynn) was born during 1855. He too trained as a blacksmith. During 1876 when he was 21 years old Richard and Eliza Pearce of Canworthy Water, Jacobstow were married at the Tower Street Chapel Launceston by a Bible Christian Minister. Eliza always gave her age as the same as Richard and her place of birth ‘Middlesex, London’ but as yet her exact place and date of birth have not been identified.
  Richard took over the running of the Smithy at Warbstow Cross from his father sometime before 1880. Richard and Eliza had three daughters and two sons.
  Eliza died during 1915 in Warbstow aged 60 years’. By 1923 Richard had retired from being Blacksmith, being recorded as Farmer, and had handed over the Smithy to his youngest son. Sometime later he moved to Plymouth, Devon where he lived with his eldest daughter until his death, age 77, during 1933. Both he and Eliza are buried in Warbstow Churchyard.