CAWSEY OF WEEK ST
MARY
Along
with John Cawsey who married Joan Lang in 1629/30,
there was also a George Cawsey of Week St Mary,
blacksmith, who married
Dorothy Oke in 1623 at Jacobstow
and who died in 1659.[1] In
view of the recurrence of names, it is likely that the Cawseys
of Week St Mary were of the same family as those of Atherington
in Devon, with John and George perhaps being the ones baptised at Atherington on 15 February 1595/96 and 18 October 1601
respectively, sons of George Cawsey.
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CAWSEY
1 JOHN CAWSEY of Week St Mary, Cornwall,
blacksmith,[2]
was buried on 31 August 1671 at Week St Mary.[3] He
married on 18 January 1629/30 at Week St Mary, JOAN LANG,[4]
daughter of James and Mary Lang (see here). Joan was
buried on 26 June 1671 at Week St Mary.
Child of John and Joan (Lang) Cawsey:
2 i JOHN
CAWSEY (1631/32-1702); m(1) JANE; m(2) PRUDENCE
(MILTON) PETHICK.
2 JOHN CAWSEY of Week St Mary, yeoman,
was baptised on 11 March 1631/32 at Week St Mary[5]
and buried on 9 October 1702 at Week St Mary.[6] He
married first, JANE.[7]
She was buried on 22 January 1663/64 at Week St Mary.[8]
John married second, on 13 July 1671 at Week St Mary, PRUDENCE (MILTON)
PETHICK,[9]
widow of Humphrey Pethick and daughter of Alexander Milton.[10]
She was buried on 1 January 1713/14 at Week St Mary.[11]
Children of John and Jane Cawsey:
i JOHN CAWSEY of Week St Mary,
yeoman, bur 27 Dec 1713, Week St Mary;[12] m
4 Nov 1689, Week St Mary, MARY AUGER.[13]
ii JOAN CAWSEY, bap 27 Oct 1657, Week
St Mary,[14]
bur 4 Jan 1739/40, Week St Mary;[15] m
4 Nov 1684, Week St Mary, WALTER BLAKE.[16]
iii HONOR CAWSEY, bap 4 Oct 1659, Week
St Mary,[17]
bur 6 Oct 1659, Week St Mary.[18]
iv WILLIAM CAWSEY of Week St Mary,
yeoman, bap 12 Dec 1661, Week St Mary.[19]
v JANE CAWSEY, bap 22 Jan 1663/64,
Week St Mary,[20]
bur 9 Sep 1730, Week St Mary;[21] m
27 Jul 1692, St Mary Magdalene, Launceston, HENRY RUNDLE[22]
(see here).
[1] National Archives, PROB 11/296/224.
[2] His occupation is given by Stuart A. Raymond, Seventeenth-Century Week St. Mary, Cornwall, including an Edition of the Probate Records, 1598 to 1699, 2 vols, University of Adelaide thesis (1988), 1:190-91, citing National Archives, SP16/191/46, SP16/265/51, SP16/284/27.
[3] Week St Mary parish registers.
[4] Week St Mary parish registers.
[5] Week St Mary parish registers.
[6] Week St Mary parish registers.
[7] Jane is named as the mother in the baptism entry for her daughter Honor. There is a possibility that her surname was Burnbery as the 1706 will of Frances Treween of Week St Mary, widow, mentions her “Coussen John Cawsey” and the inventory of her estate was taken by John Cawsey and William Cawsey. “John Treweene and Frauncis Burnebery” were married at Week St Mary in 1671.
[8] Week St Mary parish registers.
[9] Week St Mary parish registers.
[10] Week St Mary parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/M/1153; Kresen Kernow, AP/P/2141.
[11] Week St Mary parish registers.
[12] Week St Mary bishop’s transcripts; Kresen Kernow, AP/C/2716. John’s will mentions his sisters Jone Blake and Jane Rundell and his brother William Cawsey.
[13] Week St Mary parish registers.
[14] Week St Mary parish registers.
[15] Week St Mary parish registers.
[16] Week St Mary parish registers.
[17] Week St Mary parish registers.
[18] Week St Mary parish registers.
[19] Week St Mary parish registers.
[20] Week St Mary parish registers.
[21] Week St Mary parish registers.