Philip Calf (bef. 1788 - bef. 1850)

Born before 3 Apr 1788 in St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Foot) Calf — married 7 Apr 1812 (to before 13 May 1850) in Fowey, Cornwall, England

Descendants

Died before 13 May 1850 at about age 62 in Coverack, Cornwall, England

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Biography

This profile is part of the St Michael's Mount, Cornwall One Place Study.

Philip was the only son of mariner Philip Calf and his wife, Rebecca Ford. He was born on St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, and baptised at Marazion on 3rd April 1788.^[1] Philip was three years old when his father died, and five when his mother married John Trannack. In addition to his three sisters, he grew up with six half-siblings.

Philip Calf was a mariner.

With a father, stepfather and extended family members as mariners, it was inevitable that Philip would also spend his life on the seas. He was a mariner when he married Mary Foot at Fowey in 1812, and it appears the couple remained there for a time, as their first child, Philip, was born there the following year.^[2]

By July 1815 Philip had returned home with his family, and the next three children were born on St Michael's Mount.

Philip served in HM Coastguard (Britain) from 1822 to 1843.

Around 1822 or 1823, Philip took his family to Ireland for at least nine years and his last five children were born at Greystones in County Wicklow. Greystones is a suburb of Waterford, and may have been the Registration District title as there was no CG Station at Waterford. There was a Station at Woodstowne, 8 miles to seaward of Waterford on the west bank of the River Suir.The earliest record of Philip working as a coastguard is with the baptism of his son Charles in 1830, but it possibly is the reason why he went to Ireland, as the Coastguard was first formed in 1822.^[3][4]

Philip and Mary had a total of nine children:

• Philip (1813 Fowey)
• Mary Ann (1815 St Michael's Mount)
• Rebecca (1817 St Michael's Mount)
• Amy Trannack (1822 St Michael's Mount)
• John (1823 Greystones)
• Sophia Trannack (1826 Greystones)
• Elizabeth Radford (1827 Greystones)
• Charles (1830 Greystones)
• Francis Trannack (1832 Greystones)
• Un named infant son (St Keverne 1841)

Some time between 1832 and 1841, Philip and family relocated to Porthallow Cornwall, where he was to live untill he retired as a coastguard, possiblky at age 55, as recorded in the CG Service General Memoranda of 1875. There was no coastguard station at Porthallow, but a small coastguard station was 1.5 miles to the south at Porthoustock.
Name: Philip Calf
Age: 50 (53)
Birth Year (Estimated): 1791(1988)
Birthplace: Cornwall
Residence Place: Porthallow
Event Type: Census Event Date: 1841
Event Place: St Keverne, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom

Household Sex Age Birthplace
Mary Calf F 50 Cornwall
Mary Calf F 25 Cornwall
Eliza Calf F 13 Ireland
Charles Calf M 10 Ireland
Francis Calf M 8 Ireland
UNKNOWN M 2 weeks Cornwall^[5]

Philip died at 63 years of age at Coverack, 4.2 miles south of Porthallow and was interred at St Keverne in 1850.^[6][7]

Sources

1. ↑ "England, Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGLK-BF5K : 2 February 2018), Philip Calf, 03 Apr 1788; citing Baptism, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, Cornwall Records Office, Truro. Accessed 18 Mar 2020.
2. ↑ Marriages Database (Cornwall OPC Database, http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org : accessed 17 February 2022) transcript for Philip CALF (Occupation: mariner) and Mary FOOT married on 07-Apr 1812 at Fowey by banns.
3. ↑ British Coastguards and Their Families - An Index. (GENUKI, https://www.genuki.org.uk/ : accessed 17 Mar 2022)
4. ↑ https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.7&lat=52.20092&lon=-6.98250&layers=257&b=1
5. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1841", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQYT-97Y : Fri Dec 08 10:10:11 UTC 2023), Entry for Philip Calf and Mary Calf, 1841.
6. ↑ England & Wales General Register Office, GRO Online Index - Death (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content : accessed 17 February 2022) database entry for Calf, Philip. Age: 63, GRO Reference: Q2 1850 in Helston, Volume 09, Page 78.
7. ↑ "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J8XJ-T61 : 15 March 2020), Philip Calf, Burial Date: 13 May 1850, Age: 63, Residence: Coverack, Burial Place: St Keverne, Cornwall.