Guest Book
As my former free guestbook provider now asks for money, I'm simply asking visitors who want to leave a message, to e-mail it to me and I will post it on this page. Please make sure that your email is headed Mylor Guestbook and give me your name and country
I have just found your Guestbook with an entry
from Peter Harrison 22 Oct 2008.
I am also interested in O'Briens in Mylor from
1770's to 1860's but don't know whether "Dennis O'Brian Mariner m.
Honor Huddy 1779 Mylor"
was related to "Matthew O'Brien Mariner, who
married Thomasin Palmer by licence 6.1.1758." Their children were
Mary O'Brien, b. St. Ives, Matthew O'Brien b. St. Ives m Susan
Lidgey 2 March 1802 St Marys, Truro, Nicholas O'Brien b. Falmouth m.
Thomasin Philp, 3rd June 1783, *Samuel O'Brien b. Falmouth
m. Betsey Paddy 28 December 1797, Thomasin
O'Brien m. Robert Kemp Philp 27 April 1791 & Mary Ann O'Brien who
married William Nicholls 5th May, 1801 all married in Mylor. (*My
ancestor, Samuel O'Brien).
THE ABOVE MESSAGE HAS BEEN FORWARDED TO PETER HARRISON FOR HIS REPLY
THE ABOVE MESSAGE HAS BEEN FORWARDED TO PETER HARRISON FOR HIS REPLY
(sometimes spelled O'Brien or O'Bryen), married Honour Huddy (of
Ladock Parish) in Mylor Parish on 30 June 1779.
They had two children, Elizabeth O'Brian baptised in Mylor on the 8th
February 1789 and Mary Ann O'Brian 4th November 1780. I found
Elizabeth (my great-great-grandmother) aged 82 born Mylor on the 1871
census visiting a Mary Ann & Catherine Nicholls, so presumably Mary
Ann married a Nicholls.
The Huddys are a local family, but I can't find a date of birth or
death for Dennis O'Brian, who would have been born somewhere around
1740-1760 - he was described at his wedding as 'mariner' . If anyone
has any information about the O'Brians in Mylor could they please mail
me (click on my name). Many thanks - and thanks to you Richard for
this site.
My great, great grand-father, Thomas
Burley, was born living in Mylor in 1841, aged 8 years. At that
time he had seven siblings. He shows on your web page as a stray
in the 1871 census when he would have been 38 years old. In 1891
when he was 58 years old he was living at Chislehurst , Kent , with
his wife, daughter and grandson. I am researching the Burley family
who were living at Mylor in 1841. Thank you for another piece in the
jigsaw and for your most interesting site. Isn’t the web amazing in
that all this information is available for access? Regards
I am researching the Gourd / Goard family which have connections with Mylor (Bridge) and St Gluvias, we visited area last year and its a wonderful area.
If you or any visitors have any leads to the Goards I would love to hear from them.
Keep up the good work.
Would appreciate any help! Thanks in advance,Wilma
I was Born in Bristol, but my late father always told us that we came from France, an eventually came across to England and set up tin mines in Cornwall.
I have searched hi and low for any connection, and the earliest I can find is John Gilson, born in Holcombe, Somerset in 1774.
If anyone can throw any light on earlier relatives, I would be eternally grateful
David Gilson
Hello from Canada. My great grandparents were married in Mylor Church in September 1903 and came to Canada in 1907. I visited the church in1996 and found the grave for my great great grandparents . One of your photos just barely shows the tree under which their headstone is located. Their names were Edward and Susan Jago. I have learned that one of their infant daughters, Annie Jago, is also buried somewhere in the churchyard. I am new to genealogy and thoroughly enjoyed your website this evening. Karen Munro
Hi, I was just clicking around the entries for Coombe, Kea.
I grew up at Coombe until I was married in 1978 and now only live a few minutes away with my family. The little old lady at Coombe is my mother and she still lives there. The Coombe Villa in the picture is not the one at Coombe, Kea as that is the name of my mother's home. Mind you the door style is very similar with the window above. But there are granite blocks making up the sides of the door at my old home.
There are many places in Cornwall named Coombe, indeed there is another Coombe Villa at Bissoe only a few miles from Kea where my families post would often end up in the days before post codes!
The plums mentioned are quite unique and make marvelous jam and is the easiest jam one could ever make and the test for it - when cool, turn the unlidded pot upside down over your loved ones head. It should never, ever come out in these circumstances, and furthermore it will keep for years and years - who needs modern preservatives. Good to read all the bits on the site.
I was doing some genealogical research on my g grandfather/mother Branston Lloyd Evans (1868-1956) and Marion Louise Evans (nee Challenor) (1874-1966) (see http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/barryevans/index.htm for details) and came across the attached picture of them both evidently quite old (possibly, therefore, in the 1940s or 50s) standing in the doorway of a house called 'Coombe Villa' (it may not be quite visible in the scan, but under the magnifying glass it can just be read). A quick Google brought up your website. As brummies it's entirely possible that they visited Cornwall for holiday. Anyone recognise this? What is the current postal address of Coombe Villa? Is/was it a guesthouse?
I have returned there several times since and have much to thank Mrs Whitburn, Stan and Ann for.
Plum Gardens Creek - I have read with fascination your details about this. I lived in Church Road Mylor 1950-53 and 1957-68 and know the area intimately. I sailed rowed and canoed all over the inlets of the Fal with my friend Gordon Fraser. His parents owned Trevissome House on the Penryn River opposite Ponsharden and ran it as a "boatel" and we were at Falmouth Grammar School 1961-68. Pete Gilson taught us Geography.
I had never heard of Plum Gardens Creek but visited the area yesterday. I went to Coombe Creek by road past Playing Place Garage and met the postman who likewise had not heard the name. We were standing at the head of Coombe Creek. He suggested I ask the elderly lady living at Coombe Villa. She was very helpful confirming this was PGC. She said there are still many plum pear and apple trees there. Apparently the properties there are part of Lord Falmouth's estate and are occupied by tenants. This means that they will not be bought up and "improved".
I walked along the beach and found a timewarp. There are several old wooden working boats across the other side of the creek. They are covered in green slime where the tide covers them. They seem to be complete but have been there obviously for decades. They are owned by a Peter May who seems to live in a shack there. I did not cross the Creek to visit him but his whistling was audible. Clearly access by boat is the best method of exploration.
I now live in London but as a result or your picture will definitely explore PGC and environs more thoroughly and speak to the locals. I still have two small wooden boats in Cornwall and will use them. I have an 8 foot pram dinghy which draws only inches and can go virtually anywhere. I have not forgotten to treat the tidal mud flats with due respect.
In the 1950's my Uncle Frank Harris owned and lived on a converted yacht M.Y. Aerolite (ex-Garland) moored alongside Mylor Dockyard Quay and we used to stay aboard her on holiday from London. Do you have any photos of her? She was about 80 feet long and had a large single funnel. My recollection is that she drew 7 foot 6 inches and had a very narrow entry at the bow. She boasted a very impressive cruiser stern with a long counter. She was scrapped in the Penryn River in the mid sixties after my Father had run her as a hotel at Ponsharden in the dry dock (subsequently filled in) and at Gweek alongside the quay nearest the Seal Sanctuary.
Thanks - look forward to more.