RUNDLE OF WEEK ST MARY

The wife of Richard Pearce of Warbstow was given as “Mary Rindel” at their marriage in 1736/37. A clue to Mary’s parentage is in the will of Jane Northy of Jacobstow, widow, written in 1752. The testator’s legacies included fifteen shillings to each of “Richard Pearces four Children of Warbstow Called by the Names of John, Henry, Richard, and Thomas” and her best apparel to “Joanna wife of Jeffery Wakley Honer Baker wife of Thomas Baker & to Mary wife of Richard Pearce”.[1] Honor Baker and Mary Pearce appear to have been sisters. Thomas Baker and “Honner Rendell” were married at Jacobstow in 1729. The baptisms of Honor in 1701 and Mary in 1706 took place at Week St Mary. The spelling of the surname of their father Henry is variously given, with Rundle or Rundel at his marriage and children’s baptisms, but Rendle in his probate record.

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RUNDLE

HENRY RUNDLE of Week St Mary, Cornwall, was buried on 23 June 1720 at Week St Mary.[2] He married on 27 July 1692 at St Mary Magdalene, Launceston, JANE CAWSEY,[3] daughter of John and Jane Cawsey (see here). She was baptised on 22 January 1663/64 at Week St Mary and buried on 9 September 1730 at Week St Mary.

Children of Henry and Jane (Cawsey) Rundle:

i WILLIAM RUNDLE, bap 14 May 1699, Whitstone;[4] m 17 May 1732, Week St Mark, MARY TREWIN.[5]

ii HONOR RUNDLE, bap 6 Nov 1701, Week St Mary,[6] d 19 Dec 1781, bur 22 Dec 1781, Week St Mary;[7] m 22 Apr 1729, Jacobstow, THOMAS BAKER.[8]

iii MARY RUNDLE, bap 18 Apr 1706, Week St Mary,[9] bur 7 May 1782, Warbstow;[10] m 21 Feb 1736/37, Whitstone, RICHARD PEARCE.[11]

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[1] Kresen Kernow, AP/N/749; Ronald Ames Hill, The Pearse Families of Davidstow and Warbstow in Cornwall (Star, Idaho, 2013), 89.

[2] Week St Mary parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/R/1839.

[3] Thomas Taylor, ed., Cornwall Parish Registers: Marriages, vol. 24 (London, 1915), 36. One of the parties in the administration record for Henry Rundle was William Cawsey of Week St Mary (Kresen Kernow, AP/R/1839).

[4] Whitstone parish registers. He may have been buried at Week St Mary in 1742/43 or 1772.

[5] Week St Mary parish registers.

[6] Week St Mary parish registers.

[7] Week St Mary parish registers; Joseph Polsue, A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, 4 vols (Truro and London, 1867-72), 4:306.

[8] Jacobstow parish registers.

[9] Week St Mary parish registers; Week St Mary bishop’s transcripts.

[10] Warbstow parish registers.

[11] Whitstone parish registers.