M O R S H E A D F A M I L Y
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The Older PEERAGE Lines Fall One Way | |
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The details of the descent from William Morshead and Joan Lithebye through their son and
grandson, John Moorshead Sr. and John Moorshead Jr., seems to have a number of unconfirmable
but interesting circumstances. The source of www.motherbedford.com sets out that John
Moorshead Jr. married Johan Reinholds in 1686 at Lezant and that Johan was born at Lezant
circa 1665. There is the evidence of the marriage to be found on the OPC Cornwall web site
and as the transcriber has produced it does confirm the marriage. The points of interest are
1) John Morshead is a Resident of the parish of Lawhitton and 2) Johan Reinolds is a 'widow'.
This helps in one way but raises a question in another way. Some researchers bring it down to that this John Morshead Jr. actually supposedly married an 'Ann Blake', BUT that John Morshead seems to be the one who is of 'Maker' not Lawhitton and Lezant. I suppose that Joan, Johan, Joann, Joanna, etc could be but 'Ann', and the fact that she is a 'widow' would explain the married name of Reinolds/Reinholds/Reynolds etc. but so far I am not able to support just what Johan/Joan's maiden name was, that is if it was (nee Blake) or not. Also I am unable to find the 'Reynolds, Renolds, etc.' marriage though her being a widon does imply it. The other point which I find answering a bit of a challenge is that John 'Moorshead' at this point is reported on the marriage record as residing in the parihs of Lahitton. And when I place him there, there are some other Morshead families that could raise some issues that would be nice to clarify. John Moorshead and Joan/Johan have a family of children supported by the Lawhitton parish recorded baptism beginning with son John, 20 Sep? 1692; son Thomas, 26 Dec 1694; daughter Joan, 23 Feb 1696; daughter Margeret, 10 Sep 1699; and son James, 27 Feb 1702. But the odd parallels do not stop there. There is both a prior John Moorshead and wife Joan which other than 'pushing the dates into an early marriage, does a family that 'could appear' to be the John Moorshead of Lawhitton (Jr.)'s father and mother though her name is not Percilla but a Joan/Johan Colling, married 24 Sep 1658, with a family of Faith 1659, John 1661, Mary 1664, and Joan 1668. AND, there is even a post John & Joan Moorshead family of Lawhitton with a John 1710, Joan 1713, Mary 1717, and Susanna 1720. If that threesome of Johns and Joans are descendants, then it may just be a curious coincidence. But it does leave one to wonder after an explanation. Certainly John Moorshead and wife Honor Hooper is the Morshead I am looking for with their son Nicholas, but could there need to be more and better work than that which the Moorheads of Cornwall site provided? That's the concern I have at this point. |
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My MORSHEAD Family ~ By The NUMBERSJohn Moorshead (III) and Honor/Honner Hooper
John Moorshead (III) = Honor/Honner Hooper^
b 1690 | b 29 March 1684
Duloe, Corn. Eng. | Scilly Is. Corn.
m 11 May 1710 |
Duloe Corn. E. |
d 24 Dec 1725 | d 17 Jan 1748[7]
Menhenhiot | Menhenhiot
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| John Moorshead*^ Jane Moorshead Nicholas Moorshead^^ William Moorshead
| b 18 Oct 1711 cb 12 Apr 1713 cb 3 Apr 1714(15)* cb 8 Dec 1717
| Duloe, Corn. E. Duloe, Corn. E. Duloe, Corn. E. Duloe
| m 15 Feb 1742 m 11 Jul 1737**
| Duloe, Corn. E. Liskeard
| = Elizabeth Congdon*^ = Elizabeth Pyne
| d 13 Jul 1781 d 23 Mar 1714 db 29 Jun 1762 d 23 May 1720
| Menheniot Corn. Duloe, Cornwall
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William Moorshead Mary Moorshead
cb 25 Oct 1721 cb 8 Apr 1725
Duloe Duloe
m 2 Feb 1745
Duloe
= Melchizedek Rogers
d 1747
(See His Last Will & Testament appended at end below)
bur 29 Nov 1747
*^ William Congdon, father of Elizabeth, will name in his will Elizabeth & her son John
Moorshead. This will give a Vth John Morshead as her husband is John Morshead IV.
* One transcriber/extrator has his Parish baptism as 3 Apr 1714 and as Nicholas MOORSHED son of
Jo. and Honner. While others have the date listed as being born 3 Apr 1715 and then these
same persons have Nicholas dying at about age 7 in 1722 ('Kiwi Adams' per Ancestry.com),
While another had his death dated as being 29 Jun 1762, which is more appropriately fitted. AND
This of course is not possible, for the second son named William of John and Honor has a will and
William in his will of 1747 that matches his burial date, will make his still living brother
Nicholas the executor of his brother William's will and also an heir with a bequeath from
William in William's 1747 will (see at end below). So Nicholas is alive and the only one of record
who is available to marry Elizabeth Pyne. See parish records' transcriptions next. So go
figure why people have done these other things?
** Liskeard Parish marriage record lists him as Nicholas MORESHEAD - perhaps differing him from
the 'proper' name MOORSHEAD? Who knows what the Clergy will record and how it is transcribed?
^ Honor Hooper was the daughter of William Hooper and Ann Finch given by some.
^^ Some [Ancestry.com - GENI etc.] make this Nicholas' death earlier [1722] in their charts, YET
they further list William Moorshead buried 29 November 1747 whose will is appended below of this
William Moorshead whose brother Nicholas is named as living and the heir of William's will in
1747. Thus Nicholas IS NOT DEAD and has been mixed up with the death of another Nicholas
Moorshead on those charts. See that will as below appended.
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Each of the John Moorshead and Honor Hooper children's Christian baptism records have spelling variations in them, likely due to the various records' spellings or handwriting and/or possibly a transcriber's familiarity, or the lack thereof, and their ability to read such writing. The assortment of 'spellings' follows:
http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Moorshead-3 http://www.motherbedford.com/Muirhead/Muirhead602.htm Ancestry.com; geni.com etc. |
Nicholas Moorshead & Family Duloe Baptism: More information about Day Month 03-Apr
Year 1714
Parish Or Reg District Duloe
Forename Nicholas
Surname MOORSHED
Sex Son
Father Forename Jo.
Mother Forename Honner
Residence
Father Rank Profession
Notes
Transcriber Notes BTs.
Transcriber R Jelbert/K Halley
The summarized history is this: Nicholas Moorshead, third child and second son of John Moorshead and Honor Hooper, was Christian Baptized on 3 April 1714 near to his birth date. He later married Elizabeth Pyne in the Liskeard Parish,Elizabeth Pyne's home Parish on 11 July 1737. Elizabeth Pyne was the daughter of Denzill Pyne, who in her father's will is referred to as Elizabeth Morshead (see The Pyne Family Page). Nicholas Morshead and Elizabeth Pyne have a daughter Jane Morshead who is Christian Baptized on 10 August 1737 at Liskeard. Nicholas Moreshead dies before his wife Elizabeth Morshead give death of 29 May 1762. It may be deduced that Nicholas Morshead moved to the location of Elizabeth Pyne's inheritance and he may have even married Elizabeth Pyne with such arranged between them. That may have been a part of the entreatment for Nicholas Morshead to marry Elizabeth Pyne, who already had a natural born daughter named Mary Pyne/Pine. Elizabeth Morshead, by whom the Pyne family inheritances come and remain (see the Pyne family page, dies and is buried in Menheniot on 10 April 1785, which date matches Elizabeth Morshead's last will and Testament. In Elizabeth Morshead's last will and testament she gives all to her two daughters and their children her bequests of inheritances. Her first natural born daughter Mary Pine/Pyne is in the will referred to Mary Snell, the wife of Samuel Snell. Elizabeth names Mary's children, specifically naming Denzil Snell, who was named after Mary Snell's grandfather and Elizabeth Morshead father Denzill Pyne, and her granddaughter Mary Snell. The other children of her daughter Mary Snell are named as 'every other of the Children' of my said daughter Snell. Elizabeth Morshead then also includes in her will the two daughters of her son in law, Samuel Snell by his first wife Elizabeth, Elizabeth [Snell] Little wife of Thomas Little and Catherine Snell. Elizabeth Morshead also includes in her will her daughter Jenny [Jane] Moon nee Morshead, wife of Edward Moon (also named), and she specifically names their oldest son Nicholas Moon named after her husband Nicholas Morshead and 'every other of her [Jenny Moon's] Children' that shall be living at the time of the will being processed. Jenny Moon is given heir bequests exclusive of her husband Edward Moon and that such is to be given to the heirs of Jenny Moon's body equally between them after their mother's death, etc. This family history is deduced from the family wills of Elizabeth Morshead cited, Denzill Pyne on the Pyne page, William Morshead, Nicholas' brother, on the Morshead's page, and Jenny [Jane Morshead] Moon's will referenced from the Moon family history page and the Morshead family page. And it is further deduced and supported by the supplied parish register records here and elsewhere on the other pages as they all come in to play, including those family histories as further presented on those other family pages as well. In all it is a very solid case. What is not as solid of a case is just how the family of John Moorshead and Honour Hooper plays into the family of Moorshead. One approach has been to tie this family's Moorshead history into the pedigrees supplied by the Visitations of Cornwall, which as any traditional family pedigrees without ready ancietly supplied modern evidences does have its degrees of questions. Another appoach, which also has as many question of presumptions to answer, is those modern cases which tie the Duloe Morshead family into such modern contrived pedigrees which rely on what does exist of 'modern evidences' which are equally presumtively built and seemly as questionable as the more anciently built cases of the visitation pedigrees themselves. One day the truths will be known. Until then the study of the Morshead family history will continue and be argued between the variously supplied proposals. To this author, what does seem to have been here presented is a solid case of his own ancestry reaching back to the Morshead/Moorshead family of Duloe in Cornwall so presented here. No further gaurantee is supplied, but only presented as to the information that is come to been known to exist.
Elizabeth Pyne
The further story of Elizabeth Pyne'sThis history and ancestry is found on the Pyne Family page. And her Moon descendants through her daugher Jenny [Jane] Morshead are to be found on the Moon Family History page. Elizabeth Morshead nee Pyne's daugther, Jenny/Jane Morshead marries Edward Moon. The Moon History page is that of my Moon ancestors that do continue from the Morshead family through the son Nicholas Moon, first child and son of Edward Moon and Jenny Morshead. Nicholas Moon is my 4th great grandfather. Edward Moon and Jenny Morshead are my 5th great grandparents. Thus Nicholas Morshead and Elizabeth Pyne are my 6th great grandparents. A further historical link presently being developed is the family lands of Treween (Trewen/Trewenn) of or by East Looe, the river not just the parish as Higher and Lower Treween/Trewen is that which exists in Liskeard and not that Trewen near Altarnun. Maps and family history are being woven into that supporting consideration and are to be presented eventually as well. The Land Legacy of Morshead/Pyne and Moon. |
Elizabeth PyneSad but as true today as it was in the time of Jesus Christ, is the perception that it is the woman's fault and not the man's. Where was the man when the Jewish leaders brought in for stoning the woman? The burden to be carried by the unwed mother is that which is most unfair, yet people continue to persecute such. Denzill her father was not such a man nor was Nicholas Moreshead who married her. "My Dear Elizabeth Moorshead, my daughter." |
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| At this point it is only through the combination of various sources that the Morshead pedigree link to my ancestral family may continue. That combination includes a number of parish Christian baptism records, marriage records and two family wills which specifically is used to identify these people and solidly consolidate their identies. Those two wills are primarily of Elizabeth Morshead and then of her daughter Jenny (Jane Morshead) Moon. I will first present the small like pedigree of Nicholas Morshead, his wife Elizabeth Pyne and their children. I will follow that up with the sources of evidence including a transcription of both related wills. | |
The Family of Nicholas Morshead and Elizabeth Pyne6th Great Grandparents
= Elizabeth Pyne/Pine = Nicholas Morshead/Moorshed/Moorshead/Moreshead
| cb 4 Jul 1710^^ | cb 3 Apr 1714[15]*
| Liskeard Corn. E. | Duloe, Corn. E.
| | m 11 Jul 1737***
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| wd 1782 | d 29 Jun 1762
| d Oct 1783 |
| bur 23 Oct 1783 |
| Liskeard |
| WILL |
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Mary Pine/Pyne Jane [Jenny] Moreshead
cb 4 Dec 1732^ cb 10 Aug 1737**
Liskeard, Corn. E. Liskeard, Corn. E.
m 4 May 1761++ m 14 Dec 1762+
Morval Morval
= Samuell Snell = Edward Moon
ww 15 Nov 1810 wpd 27 Apr 1815
d Jan 1815
bur 30 Jan 1815
St. Keyne a79
(Res. Trewen, Liskeard)
Note: 'Jenny' is a well known common nickname for 'Jane'.
* source: Christian Baptism of Nicholas Moorshed son of Jo. and Honner of Duloe Parish.
** source: CB of Jane Moreshead dau of Nicholas and Elizabeth of Liskeard Parish.
*** source: Parish marriage record of Nicholas Moreshead and Elizabeth Pyne Liskeard.
^ source: Christian Baptism of Mary Pine dau of Elizabeth Liskeard Parish.
^^ source: Christian Baptism of Elizabeth Pyne dau of Denzill and Jane Liskeard Parish.
+ source: Morval Parish Marriage between Edward Moon Gent. and Jenny Morshead.
++ source: Morval Parish Marriage between Samuell Snell of Menhiniot and Mary Pyne.
Note: Each of the two wills of Elizabeth Morshead and of Jenny Moon which further prove
these family's relations—, refer to the two separate Will Pages of Elizabeth [Pyne] Morshead
and Jenny [Morshead] Moon, where will be found my transcriptions of each of those two wills.
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| Now to further asscertain the information of the Edward Moon and Jenny/Jane Morshead family I but refer you to the Moon Family History Page. I would suggest that you view the two will, the Moon family history page and this page using multiple windows open for easy cross-referencing this page, my Moon History page, and the two will pages for Elizabeth Morshead and Jenny Moon back and forth. And to help further solidify that information into solid proof, I have further included the family of Samuel Snell and Mary Pyne below that includes the proofs relative to that family of the two half sisters, Mary [Pyne] Snell and Jenny/Jane [Morshead] Moon, may also be easily considered and understood. | |
The Samuel Snell and Mary Pyne/Pine Family
NOTE: In Elizabeth [Pyne] Morshead's will, she will provide for her grandchildren of her daughter
Mary [Pyne/Pine] Snell and her husband Samuel Snell and she will also provide for Samuel Snell's
children by his first wife, who are but her step-grandchildren. Those named specifically in Elizabeth
Morshead's will will be in RED letters and those alluded to will be
listed in MAGENTA letters in the two simple Snell pedigrees below.
Samuel Snell = (2) Mary Pyne/Pine
cb 25 Oct 1732 | cb 4 Dec 1732
Menheniot | Liskeard
m 4 May 1761 |
Morval |
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Mary Snell Hugh Snell Susanna Snell Denzill Snell Jenny Ann Snell Maria Snell
cb 24 Feb 1763 cb 1 May 1764 cb 21 May 1767 cb 1 Dec 1768 cb 24 Jul 1770 cb 26 Jul 1773
Menheniot Menheniot Menheniot Menheniot Menheniot Menheniot
The Samuel Snell and Elizabeth Geach Family Samuel Snell = (1) Elizabeth Geach**
cb 25 Oct 1732* |
Menheniot | db 14 Jan 1759
m 8 Jun 1752 | (or)
Menheniot | db 28 May 1760
| Menheniot
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Elizabeth Snell Samuel Snell Catherine Snell
cb 18 Jan 1753 cb 27 Sep 1754 cb 28 Oct 1756
Menheniot Menheniot Menheniot
m 1 Nov 1779
Menheniot
= Thomas Little
(of St Keyne)
* Samuel or Samuell is the son of Samuell and Catherine Snell [Cathryn Coad].
** Elizabeth Geach may have been the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Geach of Menheniot cb 1728.
*** Elizabeth Snell (Little) & Catherine Snell were the Elizabeth Little and Catherine Snell in
the will of Elizabeth Morshead stated precisely as the daughters of my son in law Samuel Snell
wherein is the proof that Samuel Snell married twice, first to Elizabeth Geach and second to Mary
Pyne/Pine with Elizabeth [Geach] Snell dying in 1759 or 1760 as documented.
sources: The sources here are the Christian Baptism and Marriage of parish records as they
align to the names in the Snell names in the will of Elizabeth Morshead.
source: Because of how these names align with Elizabeth Morshead's will it appears that Samuel
had married twice, his wife Elizabeth [Geach] Snell dying either in 1759 or 1760.
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| Now with all the information set out it is time to apply the proofs. In the will of Elizabeth Morshead, she only mentions two daughters, Mary Snell whose husband she states is Samuel Snell and Jenny Moon whose husband she states is Edward Moon. Then Elizabeth Morshead goes on to name some of her grandchildren by name. She names both her grand daughter Mary Snell and her grand son Denzil Snell by name as well as alluding to her other Snell grandchildren but not by name. She also names a Hugh Snell as an executor of her will and though he is not likely her 18 year old grandson Hugh Snell but it does suggest that Hugh is a Snell family name. So there we might say are solid evidence for comparison that the family of Samuel Snell and Mary Pyne ought to have a child Mary Snell, a child Denzil Snell, a husband Samuel Snell and a further precences of a Snell family name as rare as Hugh is also an additional point of evidence supporting the family's match here. And as for the family of her other daughter Jenny Moon, there is named her husband Edward Moon, whom he is and the name of her first born son Nicholas which not only matchs the name of the Mood grandson that Elizabeth Morshead states in her will but it is also the name of deceased grandpa Nicholas Moon after whom he is likely named. So not only do all the chronological dates of baptisms, marriages, burials, wills and the like fit properly but also do the names that are in the family involved. All in all it amounts to a small mountain of absolute proof that these family connected have been correctly made. All of the pieces properly fit and outside of some odd spelling variations attributable to various recorded differences, there really is nothing herein found that is amiss. | |
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Here in the following pedigree, the peerage and the younger lines are somewhat 'mixed' in
the descent which will be first given in a 'first five generation' pedigree that will depict
just where the peerage lines went the one way of the elder 'heir' family lines and my ancestors
of the Morshead family began to trickle down from being of the 'younger non-peerage' bearing
Morshead lines of lesser means. The actual Morshead coat of arms shield which was/is to be
found 'quartered' with the other Gentry families of the Cornwall line is much like this
one at the left. But the exact meanings of what is represented is all but lost as the Morshead
peerage gentry is extinct. Not that those of Morshead ancestry are extinct, just the heir-ship
lines are gone.