The OLVER Family Cousins


     The Olver families identified and presented are those of whom are our cousin families. I've not yet been able to trace the 'inlaw' Olver family ancestry back like what has been done on the two TOMS families we are connected to. And so the first Olver Family begins with that family which is our 3rd great aunt's family, Amelia Hender, the sister of Thomas Rowe Hender and daughter of William Hender and Elizabeth Rowe. They were married in Callington and all ten of their children are found with Christian baptism dates with parents named in St Martin by Looe and Looe parish records. Charles Hender Olver was likely born in 1839 and then baptized in 1840. That still leaves a possibility of one or two children between 1835 and 1838 which no record has to date shown for this family. the Census records do not show any thus if there are they likely died an 'infant's' type death, never making any of the census records beginning in 1841.


  From: Callington Heritage Page, Parish Register Datebase as extracted there.
       ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
      |  Parish     |   Event   | Firstname | Surname | Date   | Year | Age |         Notes                |
      |  Callington |  Marriage |  Melia    | HENDER  | 03-Mar | 1835 |     |  "of Callington, "           |
      |  Callington |  Marriage |  Richard  | OLVER   | 03-Mar | 1835 |     |  "of St Martin in Cornwall," |

     *Note: Extraction appears to be off, as 'Amelia' Hender is also listed marrying on same date to another.




        Richard Olver**      Richard Olver**     =     Amelia (Melia) Hender
        Saddler              Saddler             |     (dau William Hender)
        b abt 1812           b abt 1815-16       |     b abt 1813
        Morval               Morval/E. Looe      |     Callington
        cb 23 July 1812  OR  cb 4 Feb 1816       |     cb 12 Sep 1813
        Morval               St Martin Looe      |     Calington Corn.
                             m 3 March 1835      |     d 1870
                             Callington Corn.    |     db 18 Jun 1870 a57
        db ? living 1871     db 26 Oct 1820 age5 |     St Martin Looe
           Census age 57,    St Martin by Looe   |
           1861 age 48 &                         | 
           1851 age 38.                          |
                                                 |
    _____________________________________________|_________________________________________________________
   |              |                        |                         |                   |                 |
   |   Charles Hender Olver     Arthur Morshead Olver    Elizabeth Ellen Olver    Amelia Olver     Eliza Maude Olver
   |   cb 9 Apr 1840            cb 5 May 1841            cb 26 Jan 1843           cb 9 Jan 1845    cb 5 May 1846
   |   St Martin Looe           St Martin Looe           St Martin Looe           St Martin Looe   Looe
   |   db 21 Mar 1912 a72       db 6 Apr 1845 a4
   |   St Martin Looe           St Martin Looe
   |   m
   |   = Elizabeth
   |
   |
   |____________________________________________________________________________________________
             |                   |                   |                        |                 |
     Edwin Arthur Olver     Louisa Olver        Albert Olver            Georgina Olver     Jessie Olver

     cb 10 Nov 1847         cb 17 Jan 1849      cb 26 Jun 1850          cb 15 Sep 1852     cb 8 Nov 1854
     Looe                   Looe                Looe                    Looe               Looe
                                                                        m 25 Nov 1873
     db 30 Apr 1848 a6m                         db 15 Aug 1850 a3m      St Martin Looe
     St Martin Looe                             St Martin Looe          = William ELLIOTT

  ** Which Richard Olver? Reasonable deductions: 1. The marriage record of Amelia/Melia Hender and Richard Olver lists 
     Amelia as being of Callington and that is where the marriage took place. That record lists Richard Olver as being
     of St Martins in Cornwall. So first impression is to look at baptism for a Richard Olver at St Martins by Looe of 
     which there is only one for the time frame, Richard Olver, baptized 4 February 1816 son of Walter Olver and Ann.
     2. Three Census records of the family of 1851, 1861 and 1871 lists Richard Olver, head of house, saddler of Morval
     and with age dates which support an 1812 birth and baptism of which there is one, 23 July 1812, son of John Olver 
     and Elizabeth (see IGI as of March 1981). So which Richard is the right Richard? 3. A death/burial of a Richard
     Olver, age 5, occurs as recorded at St Martin by Looe 26 October 1820 AND there is only one Richard Olver baptized 
     in the whole area of East Looe/St Martin/Morval etc. which fits that Richard Olver and that is Richard who was 
     baptized 4 February 1816. Certainly the likelihood that his birth was in 1815 is real and of record he is the only 
     one which fits the burial record of a 5 year old in late 1820 (1815-1820). Logical deduction would favor that 
     the living Richard Olver of Morval, is the husband of Amelia Hender and father of their 10 children and that the 
     'dead' Richard Olver of St Martins buried at age 5 is the son of Walter Olver and Ann, born 1815 and baptized in 
     early 1816, 4 February 1816. The 'fly' is that OPC Cornwall does not have the Morval baptism, which only appears 
     in the LDS IGI extration program so recent online researchers who pay little attention to the Census records and 
     don't look to reconcile burials with births/baptisms have and will continue to deduce Walter and Ann Olver as the 
     parents of this 'Richard Olver', but that does not get the children sealed to the more logically correct father.
     Some may point out that the 1841 Census lists Richard Olver at age 25 which matches the 1816 date, but also is 
     Amelia also listed as age 25 on that Census and we know her dates are different from other records including the 
     the next three census records of 1851, 1861, and her burial record of 1870. The fact here is that the 1841 census 
     did 'round' many adult ages to end with '0' or '5' rather than to record their actual ages.


Family of Charles Hender OLVER & Elizabeth


As well as can be found out, Charles Hender Olver represents the eldest child, or at least the first child which lived to an adult age of the children of Richard Olver and Amelia Hender. A marriage record has yet to surface for Charles Hender Olver and his wife Elizabeth. That would probably take some searching to the General Registry indexes and estimating a marriage date of 1860 or before. Whether their first two children are actually twins or just of the same baptism date, it usually is not a good indicator of twins as the census records would suggest the two are at least a year's age apart with Amelia being the older child.



                                      Charles Hender OLVER    =    Elizabeth      
                                      Saddler                 |    b abt 1839
                                      cb 9 Apr 1840           |
                                      St Martin Looe          |
                                      db 21 Mar 1912 a72      |
                                      St Martin Looe          |    db 3 Aug 1908 a69
                                      m                       |    St Martin Looe
                                      d 1912 age 72           |
                                      db 21 Mar 1912          |
                                      St Martin Looe          |
                                                              |
     _________________________________________________________|_____________________________________________
    |          |                 |                       |                        |                         |
    |     Amelia OLVER      Richard OLVER     Elizabeth Maude OLVER     Florence Lilian OLVER     Charles Arthur OLVER
    |
    |     cb 9 Oct 1861    cb 9 Oct 1861      cb 3 Nov 1864             cb 6 Nov 1870             cb 6 Jul 1873
    |     Looe             Looe               Looe                      Looe                      Looe
    |                                                                   m 4 Jul 1893
    |                                                                   St Martin Looe
    |                                                                   = Alfred COOK
    |
    |
    |_______________________________________________________________________________________
               |                           |                         |                      |
         Georgina OLVER       Henry Edgecumbe Davey OLVER     Georgina OLVER     Alfred Fernleigh OLVER  

         cb 31 Jan 1875       cb 30 Jan 1876                  cb 29 Jan 1880     cb 25 Jan 1881
         Looe                 Looe                            Looe               Looe
         db 3 Apr 1878 a3                                                        db 8 May 1882
         St Martin Looe                                                          St Martin Looe