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Margaret (Rowe) Humphries (1801 - 1875)

Margaret (Margery) Humphries formerly Rowe aka Tonkin
Born in St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of and
Sister of , , and
Wife of — married 24 Jun 1828 (to before 1837) in St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, England, United Kingdommap
Wife of — married 26 Dec 1837 in St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, England, United Kingdommap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , and
Died at age 73 in Moonta, South Australia, Australiamap
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Biography

Flag of Cornwall (St Piran's Cross, pre-1838)
Margery (Rowe) Humphries was born in St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, England.
Margery (Rowe) Humphries came free to the Colony of South Australia (1836-1900)

Birth

Margery Rowe was born c.1801 to Thomas Rowe and Jane Trembath. She was baptized in St Just in Penwith, Cornwall on 31 May 1801.[1]

First Marriage & Issue

She married firstly William Tonkin in Sancreed, Cornwall, on 28 Jun 1828. Both were listed as single on the marriage record, with no previous marriages (confirming LNAB as Rowe).[2] Banns were posted on 01, 08 and 15 Jun, 1828.

  1. William Henry Tonkin, christened on 8 Mar 1829 in Sancreed, Cornwall.[3]
  2. Thomas Rowe Tonkin, baptized on 28 Mar 1831, in Cambourne, Cornwall.[4]
  3. John Rowe Tonkin, christened on 10 Mar 1833, in Cornwall, England. [5]

Second Marriage & Issue

She married secondly William Humphries on 26 Dec 1837 in St. Just in Penwith, Cornwall. He was listed as 21, and single on the record, son of one William Humphries, and she was listed as 37 and widowed in the record, daughter of one Thomas Rowe.[6]

  1. Mary Humphries, born abt. 1837.[7]

Immigration

Mary and her husband William Humphreys emigrated to South Australia on the Nile arriving at Port Adelaide on 19 Feb 1855. Also on board is their daughter Mary, and her sons William, Thomas and John Tonkin with their families [8]

Death

Margaret Humphries died age 73 on 9 May 1875 [9] and was buried in the Moonta Cemetery [10]

Notes

1841 Living at Lapouda, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, England

A Weslyan Hymn Book in the possession of Pamela Joy Hooper (nee Webb) is inscribed 'To John Rowe Tonkin from your mother Margaret Humphreys'.

Sources

  1. ↑ "England, Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGL2-3PLP : 25 March 2020), Thos Rowe in entry for Margery Rowe, 31 May 1801; citing Baptism, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, Cornwall Records Office, Truro.
  2. ↑ "England, Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGLK-4QV3 : 11 March 2018), William Tonkin and Margery Rowe, 24 Jun 1828; citing Marriage, , Cornwall Records Office, Truro
  3. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NYVX-G5Z : 21 March 2020), Margery in entry for William Tonkin, 1829.
  4. ↑ "England, Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGLV-YBYV : 25 March 2020), Margery Tonkin in entry for Thomas Tonkin, 28 Mar 1831; citing Baptism, Camborne, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, Cornwall Records Office, Truro.
  5. ↑ "England, Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGLK-8WNT : 25 March 2020), Margaret Tonkin in entry for John Rowe Tonkin, 10 Mar 1833; citing Baptism, , Cornwall Records Office, Truro.
  6. ↑ "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NVRL-HWY : 13 March 2020), Margery Tonkin in entry for William Humphries, 1837.
  7. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1841," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQBM-Z3R : 23 May 2019), William Humphries, Saint Just, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom; from "1841 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
  8. ↑ The Ships List passenger list Nile 1855
  9. ↑ Genealogy SA Death registrations database: district Daly; book/page 66/490
  10. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/198610023/margaret-humphries_(formerly_tonkin) : accessed 18 August 2021), memorial page for Margaret Rowe Humphries (formerly Tonkin) (28 Aug 1801–9 May 1875), Find A Grave: Memorial #198610023, citing Moonta Cemetery, Moonta, District Council of Copper Coast, South Australia, Australia ; Maintained by Doug Hooper (contributor 47401292) .




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Gollan-99 Sue (Gollan) Crerar
Hi Carol this seems reasonable to me - I think you are saying the correct lnab is Rowe?
posted by Sue (Gollan) Crerar
Collins-11011 Carol Collins
Humphries-105 and Rowe-292 appear to represent the same person because: Humphries-105 is unsourced and has very little information with the profile. She's listed as a wife of Tonkin-16. However, when Tonkin-16 married Rowe-292 in 1828, he was listed as a Batchelor and she was listed as a Spinster. Rowe-292 remarried in 1837 to Humphreys-103. Tonkin-16 and Humphries-105 were the results of an Ancestry import and I think there was a glitch with import, resulting in a duplicate profile.
posted by Carol Collins

Rejected matches › Margaret M. (Buchanan) Thompson (1804-1889) › Margaret (Unknown) Tonkin (bef.1805-)

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