Mary Louise PAYNTER

Mary married Joseph William KELLY on 24 Jul 1900 in Terang, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Myra Grace KELLY was born about 1901 in Pomborneit, Victoria, Australia; died on 10 Mar 1954 in 34 Twyford St, Williamstown, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 11 Mar 1954 in Williamstown Cemetery, Victoria, Australia.
2. Daisy May KELLY was born in 1903 in Cobden, Victoria, Australia; died on 2 May 1909 in Pomborneit, Victoria, Australia.
3. Francis James Joseph KELLY was born in 1904 in Cobden, Victoria, Australia.
4. Phyllis Jane Elizabeth KELLY was born in 1907 in Camperdown, Victoria, Australia.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Jan 1827, St Ishmael, Carmarthenshire, Wales
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Mylor Downs, Mylor, Cornwall, England
• Immigration: 13 Jan 1842, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1856, Creswick, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 27 Nov 1857, Mount Duneed, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 17 Nov 1862, Lake Burrumbeet, Burrumbeet, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 4 Mar 1863, Burrumbeet, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 22 Jun 1865, Mount Misery, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 25 Dec 1869, Preston Hill, Burrumbeet, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 3 Feb 1883, Mortlake, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

Star (Ballarat, Vic. : 1855 - 1864), Wednesday 19 November 1862, page 2
THE FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT ON LAKE BURRUMBEET.
The following particulars of the accident on Lake Burrumbeet on Monday last, which caused the death of Mr J. W. R. Pringle, were obtained by our reporter, principally from Mr A. M'Laren, the other occupant of the boat when it capsized:-
On Monday morning, at about eight o'clock, Mr James Pringle and Mr Alfred M'Laren, (who had gone out to Burrumbeet on the previous day from Ballarat), embarked in a pair oar wager boat built of cedar, and purchased last season by the Regatta Club from Mr Prescott of Richmond, with the intention of proceeding across the lake and going up the Burrumbeet Creek. They first pulled in a southerly direction, until they got under cover of one of the high headlands, on the west side of the lake, and then altered their course and stood across the lake, direct for the mouth of the creek.The moment the boat got from under cover of the high land, a sudden squall took her, and she shipped three heavy waves, filled, and heeled over,Messrs Pringle and M'Laren being shot out on one side while the boat was filling. The boat then turned keel up, both gentlemen clinging to her. The water at the time was very rough, and the boat turned over repeatedly when strode by heavy seas. Mr Pringle was not able to swim, but Mr M'Laren, who is a good swimmer, got off his trousers and one of his boots, with the intention of swimming to the shore, which was nearly a mile distant, but at the earnest request of Mr Pringle, that he would not leave him, he abandoned his intention. Both then shouted loudly for some time in the hope of attracting attention, and M'Laren raised himself on the boat and waved his cap, but was unable to see the shore of the lake, which is very low opposite the spot where the accident occurred, the only object he could discover being Mr Dobson's hotel some three miles to the north. About two hours after her capsize, M'Laren again proposed to swim to the shore, and on this occasion Pringle did not oppose the proposition. M'Laren, however, had only got some twenty yards from the boat when he found that his limbs had become so much benumbed by exposure to the wet that he was quite unable to swim, and he therefore returned to the capsized boat, but had the greatest difficulty in reaching it He subsequently endeavored to propel the boat (which he had hold of by the stern), by striking out with his legs in the water behind, but without making any progress. Pringle in the meantime, who had at first exerted himself very strenuously in shouting for assistance, became very weak, and had to be repeatedly encouraged to hold on, the water all the time being very rough, and the boat frequently turning over. After they had continued some seven hours in the water,M'Laren noticed that Pringle was talking to himself, and that he was also endeavoring to get a ring off his finger; and about half past three o'clock M'Laren, on looking round to the part of the boat to which he had last seen Pringle clinging, suddenly missed him and never saw him again.He states that Pringle must have quietly slipped off the boat without a struggle, completely exhausted. The water about this time became rather smoother, and about five o'clock M'Laren was rescued by a boat under the command of Mr Benjamin Oxlade, and manned by Messrs James and Frank Paynter, two residents on the west shore of the lake, who had heard the shouting and noticed the wreck at about a quarter past four o'clock, and had immediately mounted their horses and galloped round to Mr Dobson's hotel for boats. On the arrival of Messrs Paynter at the Picnic Hotel at half-past four o'clock not a moment was lost by Mr Oxlade, who is in charge of the Regatta Club's boats, in pushing off to the rescue. He had however considerable difficulty in discovering the wreck which was only discernable a very short distance, and notwithstanding the presence in the boat of the two Messrs Paynter, who had seen the wreck from their residence, it was past five o'clock before Mr M'Laren was found and rescued. No trace whatever could be found of Mr Pringle, though the boat was turned over in the vain hope that he might be found clinging to the bottom. The place where M'Laren was found is about three quarters of a mile north-east of Mr Paynter's house, and about three miles south of the Picnic Hotel.He was very much exhausted and severely bruised about the body and legs by the rolling of the boat. M'Laren was at once conveyed to the landing place at the Regatta Club's boat house, and thence to the Picnic Hotel, where he was put to bed and carefully attended to by Mr Dobson, and Mr Oxlade was also unremitting in his attentions. Mr M'Laren, though very weak and fearfully shaken was on Tuesday morning so much better as to be able to give to our representative the particulars of this melancholy accident. During Monday night several of Mr Pringle's friends arrived at Burrumbeet, Messrs R, M'Laren and R. Davidson being among the first. At 4 a.m. a boat manned by Messrs R. M'Laren, Ahrens, Davidson, J. D. Morgan, and Oxlade, provided with drags, went off to the scene of thc accident. Senior Constable M'Hugh of Learmonth, and Mr Mather having meanwhile proceeded along the west side of the lake to Messrs Paynter's residence, for the purpose of ascertaining the exact position in which the capsized boat had first been observed on Monday afternoon. This having been accomplished, the spot pointed out was marked with a buoy, and the business of dragging commenced, three additional boats being also on the spot, all well manned, and provided with tackle. Among those present at an early hour, in addition to those already named, were Messrs M. M. Pope, M L. A., Thomas Cowan, Babbington, J. H Harris, Nettle, Dr Leman, Kelly, Carver, Forster, Whitcombe, Lewis, and others. Mr Thompson, of the Burrumbeet Hotel, sent his boat and crew at early hour on Tuesday morning to assist in the search, and every possible assistance was rendered by all residents in the vicinity. At the time of the accident Mr Pringle is said to have been dressed in a white flannel guernsey shirt and drab trousers. He also wore a straw hat, which Mr M'Laren states was blown away shortly after the boat upset.
Up to a late hour yesterday afternoon the body of the deceased had not been found, notwithstanding the exertions that had been made for its recovery. A large number of persons who had been out to assist in the search returned to Ballarat last night, many of whom will again proceed to the lake this morning, to continue their melancholy work. It is proposed to employ gunpowder today for the purpose of causing the body to float, and several fresh sets of grappling-irons have been prepared and sent out. When we consider the large extent of the lake, and the chances of the body having been moved by the agitated water, it is evident that a diligent and careful search will be required to find it.
The deceased was about thirty-four years of age and a native of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and was the son of the Rev. Jas. Pringle who had charge of the Clavering Place Congregation of Presbyterians at that place some years ago. The late Mr Pringle came to the colony in the steam ship Great Britain about eight years since, and received the appointment of District Mining Surveyor for the Buninyong division from the old Local Court of Ballarat, which office he held up to the time of the melancholy accident which terminated his life. He was a member of the Cavalry Corps, Turf Club, Hunt Club, and a Vice President of the Regatta Club, and was ever ready to lend his support and patronage to all tangible amusements of a legitimate nature.
Mr. A. M'Laren was brought into Ballarat on Tuesday night. He appeared very weak and was almost speechless. His body was quite blue and he had to be attended by a medical man who deemed it advisable to order leeches to be applied. A few days' quiet will no doubt restore him to his usual good health and spirits.
James testified at the Inquest held at Burrumbeet on 23 November 1862:
James Paynter was a witness and testified that “I am a farmer residing in the Parish of Brewster. On Monday last about 4 o’clock afternoon, I was in my own house when I heard a cry proceeding from the direction of Burrumbeet lake. After hearing the same cries about four times, I went to the bank of the lake to ascertain where these cries came from. After looking out for a few minutes I observed something floating in the water which I discovered to be a mast head and the part of a boat. I immediately road [sic] to Dobson’s Hotel about four miles, and myself, brother and Benjamin Oxlade went out in a boat about 2 1/2 miles on the lake, where we discovered a boat bottom upwards and saw a man sitting on the end of the boat. Alfred McLaren (identified) is the person I saw. We took him into the boat and taking the other boat astern rowed ashore.
James Paynter.
Conclusion of the inquest:
His death was caused by being accidentally drowned while rowing on Lake Burrumbeet on the 17th day of November 1862 (Juryman Brock protesting against such boats crossing the Lake).
This accident is even more tragic considering James and Francis’ brother Henry was himself drowned in Lake Burrumbeet on 26 February 1863, only three months later.

Inquest into drawing of Henry Mounsteven Paynter, 4 March 1863
The Inquest was held by Dr John Creelman, Coroner, and a jury of twelve men on day that Henry’s body was found, which was six days after he disappeared. The only two deponents or witnesses were Henry’s brother, James Camborne Paynter, and his cousin, James Edward Paynter.
Examination of James Paynter of Burrumbeet:
I am a farmer residing at Lake Burrumbeet and brother of deceased. I remember the 26th day of February last. I went to the residence of deceased and learned that he had gone over in a boat to my place across Lake Burrumbeet.
On looking over the Lake Burrumbeet I saw the boat deceased went out in about ¼ of a mile from land.
I then went to help a neighbour named Usher to get out his boat as he was going to the boat race that day. I was occupied with Usher for about 2 hours and kept looking out towards the boat the deceased was in to see how it was going on. I could observe there was a reef in the mainsail and she seemed to be going on all right. The last time I saw the aforesaid boat she appeared to me to be nearly across the lake and on looking again I could not see her. I thought at first that she had ran in towards the land at my residence.
I then went across the Lake Burrumbeet towards my residence with Usher in his boat, and as we could not see any thing of the aforesaid boat I felt uneasy and went to my place, where I ascertained that deceased had not been there that day. When I found deceased was not there, I sailed across to the Pic Nic Hotel across the Lake but found he was not there.
Myself, Usher and my brother Francis, then sailed towards Pic Nic Point, when about ¼ of a mile from that point, we saw a boat bottom upwards. Having no oars we put back to get them. Myself and James Edward Paynter the persons aforesaid went to Mr Miller of the Burrumbeet Hotel, got a boat from him and went onto the Lake Burrumbeet and fetched the boat in to land, bottom upwards. We found on examining the boat both gunwales were broken. The masts, sails and rudder were gone. The two oars were in the boat.
I have seen the body of deceased and recognise that to be the body of my brother.


INQUEST into Death of Francis Paynter, 22 June 1865
Inquiry into the Death of Francis Paynter, held near Mount Misery on 22nd day of June 1865 before Frederick Roper Portman, one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said Colony:
James Paynter on his oath saith:
"The body shown is that of my brother Francis Paynter aged 28 years. Yesterday the 21st June just before sundown I was with deceased having come up to see our sister-in-law. We brought two rifles. Deceased and myself had been down to the lagoon and shot two ducks. We then brought up the waggon, laying the two rifles in the middle - both rifles were loaded with a single ball each. We came into the hut to have a drink of tea and to put the women and children in to go home.
Deceased had gone to the waggon and put his wife and child on the waggon. He had taken off his rifle and laid it on the grass. I went to the waggon to take off my rifle. Deceased was standing at the back of the waggon. I reached over to take my rifle off and it went off shooting deceased. I saw deceased turn round. He said ok Jim? "I am shot” or “you have shot me". I looked at deceased. I helped deceased in and laid him down and sent for the doctor.
I was with deceased till he died, which took place at about 2 o'clock this morning. Deceased said the accident was nobody's fault."
Lachlan Robertson on his oath saith:
"I was present yesterday the 21st June when deceased was shot. I saw deceased go out and put his wife in the waggon. The last witness went out also. I heard the report of a gun and turning round saw deceased down. We took a horse out of the waggon and I went for the Doctor. I was with deceased when he died, which took place about half past 2 o'clock in the morning in the presence of Dr Johnston."
James Johnston on his oath saith:
"I am a legally qualified medical practitioner. yesterday the 21st I was fetched to see the deceased and arrived at half past 6 o'clock. I found deceased bleeding severely from a wound in the front of the right side of the abdomen. The wound was large and jagged with a portion of the abdomen protruding.
Dark blood flowed very freely. There was also a small wound in the back - triangular - as from a ball. It appeared as if the ball had entered before and come out behind. I applied the usual remedies. Deceased was very weak from loss of blood and died about 2 and a half o'clock this morning. Deceased was friendly with all about him and attributed the wound to accident.
I attribute deceased's death to internal haemorrhage."
The Ballarat Star, Monday June 26, 1865:
A magisterial inquiry was held before Mr F R Pohlman on Thursday, 22nd June, near Mount Misery, touching the death of Francis Paynter, who died from internal haemorrhage, the effects of a bullet, accidentally shot by his brother James Paynter, going through his body.
James Paynter deposed that the body shown him was that of his brother Francis Paynter, aged twenty-eight years.
On the previous day they had been shooting on the lagoon and shot some ducks. They had a waggon with them which they brought up to the hut where we left their wives and children. The brothers laid their loaded rifles in the waggon, each rifle having a single ball.
Deceased went to the waggon, put his wife and child in, and took out his rifle, which he laid on the grass. Witness then went to the waggon.Deceased was standing at the back of the waggon, and reached over to take witness's wife off, whereupon the rifle went off, shooting deceased, who exclaimed"I am shot" or "You have shot me".
Witness assisted deceased into the hut and sent for a doctor. Witness was present with deceased till his death, which took place about two o'clock next morning.
Deceased said the accident was nobody's fault.
Lachlan Robertson deposed that he was present when deceased was shot and saw him go out and put his wife on the waggon. The last witness went out also. Witness heard the report of the gun, and running round saw deceased on the ground.
Witness and deceased's brother took a horse out of the waggon and sent for the doctor.
Witness was with deceased when he died. Dr Johnstone tendered the medical evidence. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the facts of the case.

James married Jane CRAWLEY on 27 Nov 1857 in Christ Church, Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Jane was born about 1838 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England; died on 30 Sep 1899 in Framlingham, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 2 Oct 1899 in Ellerslie Cemetery, Ellerslie, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 25 Aug 1857, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 27 Nov 1857, Mount Duneed, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 7 Oct 1858, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 31 Jan 1859, Burrumbeet, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 25 Dec 1869, Preston Hill, Burrumbeet, Victoria, Australia

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 20 Jun 1796, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 9 Sep 1823, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 28 Feb 1825, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 16 Jan 1827, Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, Wales
• Residence: 30 Mar 1829, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 13 Apr 1831, Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, Wales
• Residence: 12 Apr 1833, Feock, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 16 May 1833, Harcot (Harcourt), Feock, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 16 Sep 1835, Harcot (Harcourt), Feock, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 18 Nov 1837, Harcot (Harcourt), Feock, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 5 Jan 1838, Harcot (Harcourt), Feock, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Mylor Downs, Mylor, Cornwall, England
• Immigration: 13 Jan 1842, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1851, Yuroke, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 30 Aug 1852, Kerr St, Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 12 Apr 1853, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 27 Nov 1857, Christ Church, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

Will of father Francis Paynter, 9 July 1819.
Francis’ will requests that he be buried “as near as conveniently may be to the remains of my late beloved wife.” Margaret had died only the year before. He asked that his funeral “be private and conducted with as little expense as common decency will admit of.”
Francis states that he has already made liberal provision for his son Francis Camborne Paynter, with which “he has declared himself fully satisfied.” He was to be given a further sum of twenty guineas as a mark of his father’s “affection and regard.” Also to his wife Elizabeth, five guineas, and two guineas for his grandson Edward* “to be laid out in some article of remembrance.”
Francis states that he has spent two thousand pounds on his son Charles Henry Paynter, plus an annual sum of two hundred and fifty pounds for his personal expenses. Francis says that “I cannot consistently with the justice and duty which I owe to my other children, increase his fortune to a further extent.” However, Charles is to be given two hundred pounds by his executor within six months of his decease, but without interest. His wife Fanny is to be given “five guineas as a mark of my regard and affection.”
To his sons John Pender Paynter and Thomas Francis Paynter, he leaves all his shares in Whele Vor [normally spelt Wheal, meaning Mine] in the parish of Breage and near Helston, and also one near Redruth, and another at Polgooth near St Austle [(normally spelt AUSTELL]. After his death they would become tenants in common, not joint tenants of these shares.
John Pender Paynter was bequeathed the house where Francis lived, called Trekenning in the parish of St Columb Major. This also included all the fields and inclosures and crofts. John is also left enclosures called Castalot or Creggoes, and the meadow that faces the front of the house Trekenning called the Mill Meadow. Also the remainder of his farm in the Garden Meadow.
Thomas Francis Paynter was left Dunkans Meadow, now divided into two fields and the inclosure called Bolithos Field, now divided into three fields in the parish of Saint Columb. Thomas was also left the dwelling house and garden in Higher Trekenning which was rented out for three pounds thirteen shillings and six pence annually. Thomas was also given an annuity of 50 pounds which was rent paid annually by the Reverend Pomeroy Gilbert on the tithes of the Parish of St Wennin. Thomas was also given the benefits of an insurance policy from the Westminster Office for Insurance of Lives and Survivorship. Lastly he was to be paid by the executor two hundred pounds within one year of he father’s death.
All the goods, chattels etc. were bequeathed to John Pender Paynter.
*Edward died in June 1821 at age 4.

Immigration 1841.
Thomas and Mary (who was pregnant at the time) sailed on the "Samuel Boddington", which left London on September 1, 1841 for Cork, then sailed from Cork on September 21st. (Perilous Voyages to the New Land - Michael Cannon) The 670 ton ship arrived in Melbourne on January 13, 1842. There were 274 immigrants on board (115 of these from Cork). The ship sailed from the Cape to Melbourne in 38 days. (Biddle Books).

Joseph Wilson's "Voyage to Australia Log Book" in Latrobe Library:
"Wednesday September 1, 1841 - drove to London Bridge Wharf and went on board a steamer for Gravesend, then on the ship's boat which in a few minutes conveyed us to the "Samuel Boddington" and almost immediately we got under weigh."
[All passengers were seasick as they sailed from London to Lands End - approx. 5 days. They arrived in Cork on the 12th September and sailed fromCork on 21st. Irish emigrants had boarded and then the weather was too windy to sail earlier. A school was formed on the ship on 28th October. There were disputes about the rations, quality of beef and soup, and bad fish. One of the sailors was found in bed with one of the young women written about in Perilous Voyages to a New Land].
Thursday 23rd December - much talk about Christmas and Port Phillip.
Friday 24th December - 1/2 lb flour (extra) and 2oz plums for each adult served out for Christmas. A few bottles of wine and spirits being sold (by permission of the Captain). This evening some of the passengers got intoxicated, and quarrelling and fighting followed and the issue of any more was prohibited either for today or tomorrow.
Saturday 25th December, Christmas Day - had plum pudding according to custom but the scarcity of plums called forth many jokes on the occasion. Fine evening. Very cold.
Wednesday 29th December - Mrs Paynter, steerage passenger, confined about 4am with a son.
Saturday 1st January, 1842 - our young men welcomed the New Year at striking 8 bells by rough music, tin pots and singing songs.
Monday 10th January - instead of being ashore 2 or 3 days ago (as expected) we are tacking and turning to no purpose.
Friday 14th January - Cape Otway in sight at 2am. A fine view of the coast at 7am. At length at about 2pm we entered the Harbour of Port Phillip.Soon after a pilot came on board to conduct us up to the Bay where a Surgeon boarded us and on being informed we were all well, gave us permission to enter and anchor in the Bay where we brought up and finished our voyage."

The Samuel Boddington was sponsored by J. B, Were who important immigrants to Melbourne. The Were brothers brought out nearly 2,000 people by free passage in 10 ships from Britain and Ireland. During the summer months of 1841 and 1842, an epidemic of typhoid fever and dysentery broke out in Melbourne. With no sewers an sanitation the town quickly became polluted. (A Portrait of J B Were and his family - Clive Were). The Paynters were on board with the sponsored immigrants but they paid their own way.

Thomas and family were the first of my ancestors to come to Australia. At the time of their arrival in 1842, Melbourne was a settlement of about four and a half thousand people.
"Most of the town's buildings were still of wood, and wattle and daub but amongst them were a number of brick or stone houses, government buildings and commercial structures; a few had two or three storeys. Some of the buildings were in clusters, others were scattered about in ones or twos. The streets were marked out, although many were so rough as to be dangerous in the dry season and impassable in the wet. The people of Melbourne could choose to attend a church service of one of five denominations represented, and carry on their lives in the factories, stores, shops, insurance companies and banks. As well as entertaining at home, Melburnians attended picnics, race meetings, cricket matches, taverns and the theatre, or met at temperance, benefit society and lodge meetings. They could boat on the Yarra, listen to the military band on Flagstaff Hill or read a selection of local and overseas newspapers."
(A Place To Lay My Head - Keith Pescod).

Thomas married Mary Strange MOUNSTEVEN on 9 Sep 1823 in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England. Mary (daughter of William MOUNSTEVEN and Fanny Hicks SMITH) was born on 11 Oct 1804 in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England; died on 11 Oct 1885 in Rosevale, Allansford, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 13 Oct 1885 in Warrnambool Cemetery, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 17 Jun 1805, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 9 Sep 1823, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Mylor Downs, Mylor, Cornwall, England
• Immigration: 14 Jan 1842, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

Immigration.
They came to Australia in 1842 on board the "Samuel Boddington". Mary must have been pregnant, as her baby, Charles Boddington was born on the 5th January, 7 days before their landing in Melbourne. The baby's middle name was taken from the name of the ship - Charles Boddington Paynter. He was christened 3 days later, but there is no record of him after that.

Edward Bristow was also on board the same boat, so Mary would have met him then. He was 15 years younger than her. They claimed to have married in1843 or 1847 and Mary's 2 children - William and Eliza- were born in 1843 and 1847 in Collingwood (where Edward was also living). They were baptised as Paynters with Thomas named as their father, but were later known as Bristow, so perhaps they were Edward's children after all.

They moved to Warrnambool in 1848/49 and had another child, John, in 1850, born there. Mary took William and Eliza to Warrnambool with her and Edward, but all her other children, (James, Henry, John and Francis) who were the only ones still alive, went with Thomas to Carngham. Another daughter Mary must have stayed in Melbourne as she married Francis Ford there in 1853, but then they also moved to Warrnambool.
Thomas claimed in his will that he had not seen his wife for 20 years, so they must have still been legally married.

On Mary's death certificate her children are listed as:
1st marriage
Thomas William (dec.)
James Camborne 59
Mary (dec.)
Henry Mounsteven (dec.)
John Edward 62
George (dec.)
Francis (dec.)
2nd marriage
William (dec.)
Eliza (dec.)
John 35

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1746, Trekenning, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Baptism: Abt 1 Dec 1748, St Buryan, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 1792, Trekenning, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 1795, Trekenning, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 1798, Trekenning, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 1800, Trekenning, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England

Notes:

Francis was a lawyer at St Columb and distinguished for his wit and humour. He wrote a poem ridiculing the Dean of St Buryan which prevented him from obtaining a valuable stewardship.

"Bennets of Tresillian" by R. G. Kerswell:
There was a long-running dispute in the 1810's & 1820's between the two brothers of the Bennet family and their Receiver's Accounts ie of FrancisPaynter, and following his death, of his son Francis Camborne Paynter, made more complicated by the fact that F.C married one of their sister's Elizabeth Bennet. Neither of the Paynters and their firm are thought of in a very good light.

"Parochial History of the County of Cornwall", 1876.
Boskenna is the property, and was for some time, the residence of the Paynter family. There is a tradition of its having been purchased of one whose family had long possessed it, but who had ultimately become the huntsman of a pack of hounds kept originally as his own.
Mr Francis Paynter of Boskenna, was distinguished for his wit and humour. He was either the sole or joint author of a poem ridiculing the then dean of Buryan, called "The Consultation". He practised as a lawyer at St Columb, and married Miss Pender of Penzance, by whom he had several sons.The exercise of wit is seldom associated with pecuniary gain; and Mr Paynter has been heard to declare that "The Consultation" prevented his obtaining available stewardship from the family of which the dean was a member.
Boskenna is now held of the Paynters by Charles Dacres Bevan, the judge of the district county court, who has considerably improved and beautified it.

ROYAL CORNWALL GAZETTE, 2 August 1817
TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS The Prince of Wales, REGENT Of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain & Ireland. We, the undersigned NOBLEMEN, GENTLEMEN. CLERGY, FREEHOLDERS, and other INHABITANTS of the COUNTY of CORNWALL, feel it to be our Duty to repeat to your ROYAL HIGHNESS the assurances of our loyal and unalterable Attachment; and to express our Indignation at, and Abhorrence of, the late treasonable Attack upon the Sacred Person of your Royal Highness. As faithful Subjects, strongly attached to our PRINCE ; as Englishmen, proud in the possession of a glorious CONSTITUTION: we are as eager to shield the one from Insult and Violence, as we are to protect the other from Innovation or Subversion. At the present momentous Crisis of Public Affairs, we feel ourselves imperiously railed upon by what we owe to our Country, and our Prince, to enter a solemn Protest against the whole Tenor and Substance of an address purporting to be an Address of the “Gentry, Clergy, Freeholders, and other Inhabitants of the County of Cornwall," which appears by the Public Prints to have been resolved upon at a Meeting held at Bodmin, on the eleventh day of March last, by the Individuals then and there assembled. We are anxious to repel from ourselves the charge of Discontent and Insubordination, to which the spirit of its language must necessarily expose us; and to condemn as groundless and absurd, and to disavow with warmth, that wild and feverish sentiment which declares the temporary and short Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, to be "a part of a Systematic Conspiracy to overthrow the existing Laws and Constitution, and to establish in their stead, and on their ruins, a despotic and military Government." We have witnessed with sorrow, and contemplated with alarm, a spirit of Disaffection and Treason, pervading many parts of the British Empire, owing its birth to the temporary difficulties and distresses which have oppressed the Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce of the Kingdom, and its growth and dissemination, to the artful efforts of designing Traitors, deluded Patriots, and mistaken Reformers. We regard the unanimous Testimony of the Committees of the Lords and Commons as to the existence of these traitorous Conspiracies, as affording to us more than an adequate Proof of their reality, which has been but too well con- firmed by the rash attempts of the Conspirators themselves. Relying, as we do, on the Wisdom and Integrity of the Parliament of this happily united Kingdom, we can neither question the policy, or doubt the necessity, of those measures, which in full and solemn Council, it has thought expedient to adopt ; and which, by a temporary suspension of a part, is intended to ensure the permanent Security of the whole of that fundamental System of Laws, which has so long blessed this happy Land with prosperity, its Government with stability, and its Individuals with a full measure of rational liberty.
Names and Residence.
Francis Paynter, St Columb Major
John P. Paynter, R.N., St Columb Major
Charles H. Paynter, St Columb Major
William Mounsteven, Surgeon, St Columb Major

Will, 9 July 1819.
Francis’ will requests that he be buried “as near as conveniently may be to the remains of my late beloved wife.” Margaret had died only the year before. He asked that his funeral “be private and conducted with as little expense as common decency will admit of.”
Francis states that he has already made liberal provision for his son Francis Camborne Paynter, with which “he has declared himself fully satisfied.” He was to be given a further sum of twenty guineas as a mark of his father’s “affection and regard.” Also to his wife Elizabeth, five guineas, and two guineas for his grandson Edward* “to be laid out in some article of remembrance.”
Francis states that he has spent two thousand pounds on his son Charles Henry Paynter, plus an annual sum of two hundred and fifty pounds for his personal expenses. Francis says that “I cannot consistently with the justice and duty which I owe to my other children, increase his fortune to a further extent.” However, Charles is to be given two hundred pounds by his executor within six months of his decease, but without interest. His wife Fanny is to be given “five guineas as a mark of my regard and affection.”

To his sons John Pender Paynter and Thomas Francis Paynter, he leaves all his shares in Whele Vor [normally spelt Wheal, meaning Mine] in the parish of Breage and near Helston, and also one near Redruth, and another at Polgooth near St Austle [(normally spelt Austell]. After his death they would become tenants in common, not joint tenants of these shares.

John Pender Paynter was bequeathed the house where Francis lived, called Trekenning in the parish of St Columb Major. This also included all the fields and enclosures and crofts. John is also left enclosures called Castalot or Creggoes, and the meadow that faces the front of the house Trekenning called the Mill Meadow. Also the remainder of his farm in the Garden Meadow.

Thomas Francis Paynter was left Dunkans Meadow, now divided into two fields and the inclosure called Bolithos Field, now divided into three fields in the parish of Saint Columb. Thomas was also left the dwelling house and garden in Higher Trekenning which was rented out for three pounds thirteen shillings and six pence annually. Thomas was also given an annuity of 50 pounds which was rent paid annually by the Reverend Pomeroy Gilbert on the tithes of the Parish of St Wennin. Thomas was also given the benefits of an insurance policy from the Westminster Office for Insurance of Lives and Survivorship. Lastly he was to be paid by the executor two hundred pounds within one year of he father’s death.

All the goods, chattels etc. were bequeathed to John Pender Paynter.

*Edward died in June 1821 at age 4.

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*New [WILL]
Extracts from his will:
Last will and testament of Francis Paynter of Trekenning.
"See that my body be interred in the Churchyard of St Columb Major as near as conveniently to the remains of my late beloved wife and that myfuneralmay be private and conducted with as little expense as possible.
Also whereas I have already made a liberal provision for my son Francis Camborne Paynter with which he has declared himself fully satisfied, Ionlygive him now in addition thereto the further sum of Twenty Guineas as an unequal mark of my affection and regard, also to his wife Elizabeth,FiveGuineas, and Two Guineas to be laid out in some little article of remembrance for their child Edward, my grandson.
And whereas I have laid out and expended to the use of my son Charles Henry Paynter the full sum of Two Thousand Pounds over and above the annualsumof Two Hundred and Fifty Pounds allowed yearly for his own personal expenses, I cannot consistently with the justice and duty which I owe to myother children, increase his fortune to a further extent. I therefore bequeath to him the sum of Two Hundred Pounds to be paid to him by my Executorwithin six months after my decease but without interest, and I give to Fanny his wife Five Guineas as a mark of my regard and affection.
Also to my sons John Pender Paynter and Thomas Francis Paynter, I give, devise and bequeath all my Tin Bounds and parts and shares of Tin Bounds inWheal Vor in the Parish of Breage and near Helston. Also all those Tin Bounds and parts and shares of Tin Bounds in or near Redruth. And alsoallthose Tin Bounds and parts and shares of Tin Boundsin the description of Polgooth Bounds in or near St Austell or wheresoever the same or anyother Tin Bounds to which I am entitled are situate in the County of Cornwall.
It is my intention that the same shall on my decease ascend to and become the property of my said sons John Pender Paynter and Thomas FrancisPaynterto hold to them their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns according to the custom of the Stannaries of Cornwall as tenants incommon and notas joint tenants.
Also I give and bequeath to my son John Pender Paynter all that my messuage or dwelling house wherein I reside at Trekenning in the Parish of StColumb Major which I purchased of John Oliver Wellyams, Esq. deceased. To hold to him the said John Pender Paynter to his heirs and assigns for evertogether with all and singular the Fields and Inclosures which I now occupy. Also all those Crofts and Inclosures part of the said Tenement ofTrekenning which is now in the occupation of George Lovering of the Town of Saint Columb Majjor, victualler..
Also I give, devise and bequeath to my son John Pender Paynter the moiety of all those Inclosures called Castalot, otherwise the Creggoes and thewayDown which I purchased from Sir John St Aubyn, Baronet, for the remainder of a certain term of Five Hundred Years together also with alltheleasehold Interest for lives which I now have of and in the moiety of the same and I give and bequeath to John Pender Paynter all that Meadowfacingthe front of my house at Trekenning and commonly called the Mill Meadow, together with the remainder of my farm in the Garden Meadow both ofwhich Ihold of Richard Rouse, Esq., by virtue of two leases, the first for the remainder of a term of Ninety Nine Years determinable on lives andthe cashfor a Rack lease.
Also I give to my son Thomas Francis Paynter his executors, administrators and assigns all that moiety of the same. Also I give and bequeathtoThomas Francis Paynter all the remainder of my interest of and in the Dwelling House and Garden in Higher Trekenning now occupied by WilliamClemew at the yearly rent of Three Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Sixpence.
Also I give to my said son Thomas Francis Paynter one annuity or yearly Rentcharge of Fifty Pounds charged by the Rev John Pomeroy Gilbert ontheTithes of the Parish of St Wennin and issuing out of the same Tithes during the life time of him the said John Pomeroy Gilbert.
Also I give to my son Thomas Francis Paynter a certain Policy of Insurance under the Hands and Seals of three of the directors of the society ofWestminster Office for Insurance of Lives and Survivorship together with all benefit and advantage whatsoever arising out of the same and inadditionI give him the sum of Two Hundred Pounds to be paid out of my effects by my within one year after my decease.
Lastly all my other goods, chattels, rights, credits and effects not herein before given, devised or bequeathed, I give, devise and bequeath to myson John Pender Paynter whom I nominate as my sole Executor.", Will

Francis married Margaret PENDER on 7 Jun 1784 in Madron, Cornwall, England. Margaret (daughter of John PENDER and Jenny HARVEY) was born about 1761 in Penzance, Cornwall, England; died on 15 Apr 1818 in Trekenning, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England; was buried on 22 Apr 1818 in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 29 Jun 1761, Penzance, Cornwall, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 Dec 1773, Little Petherick, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 3 Apr 1824, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England

Notes:

On 10th November 1810, their three children - Eliza, John and Hender - were baptised at the same time at St Just in Roseland. The parish register entry gives their dates of birth also - Eliza was nearly 5, John was 3 and Hender almost 6 months of age. They may have still been living in St Columb Major as the parish register entry reads "William Mounsteven of St Columb, Surgeon and Frances his wife."

Will, 30 October 1800:
I Hender Mounsteven of the Parish of Little Petherick, in the County of Cornwall, Clerk, being weak in body but sound of mind and memory and understanding do make and ordain this my Will and Testament in form and manner following. Viz. I resign my Soul to that Almighty Being who gave it me hoping to be saved thro’ the merits of Our Saviour Jesus Christ and I desire that my Body may be Buried in a decent but private manner. As to my worldly goods I dispose of them in the following manner.
Imprimis. I give and bequeath to my eldest son William the sum of five pounds.
Item. I give to my second son John the sum of fifty pounds.
Item. I give to my youngest son Hender the sum of fifty pounds to be paid him annually in such parts as my Executrix hereafter mentioned shall think proper.
Item. I give and bequeath to my eldest daughter Elizabeth the sum of five pounds.
Item. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Mary Mounsteven the interest arising from the sum and sums of money which I die possessed of now laid out in mortgages, bonds and other securities, during the term of her natural life for the maintenance of herself and my four younger children hereinafter mentioned, and I do will and ordain that the said sum and sums of money which I die possessed of (shall after the death of my said wife) be equally divided share and share alike between my four younger children Viz. Hender my youngest son and Mary, Catherine and Ann my youngest daughters. Nevertheless if any or either of my younger children should marry during the life time of my wife, I do ordain that he or she shall receive one hundred pounds at the time of his or her marriage in part of their portion which they are entitles to after the decease of their mother.
I do likewise give and bequeath to my said younger daughters Viz. Mary, Catherine and Ann the plate which i had given me by my sister Saumarez, Viz. two silver candle sticks, two silver salvers and one dozen of silver table spoons to be equally divided between them share and share alike.
And I do constitute and appoint my aforesaid wife Mary Mounsteven the sole Executrix of this my Will and Testament hereby charging her with the payment of all my just debts and dues and the legacy heretofore mentioned.
And I do likewise appoint the Revd. Charles Prideaux Brune, the Revd. William Sanders and Thomas Rawlings Esq. as Trustees over my said younger children.
I declare this to be my last Will and Testament whereunto I now set my hand and seal the 30th day of October 1800.
Signed Hender Mounsteven L. L.

ROYAL CORNWALL GAZETTE, 2 August 1817
TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS The Prince of Wales, REGENT Of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain & Ireland. We, the undersigned NOBLEMEN, GENTLEMEN. CLERGY, FREEHOLDERS, and other INHABITANTS of the COUNTY of CORNWALL, feel it to be our Duty to repeat to your ROYAL HIGHNESS the assurances of our loyal and unalterable Attachment; and to express our Indignation at, and Abhorrence of, the late treasonable Attack upon the Sacred Person of your Royal Highness. As faithful Subjects, strongly attached to our PRINCE ; as Englishmen, proud in the possession of a glorious CONSTITUTION: we are as eager to shield the one from Insult and Violence, as we are to protect the other from Innovation or Subversion. At the present momentous Crisis of Public Affairs, we feel ourselves imperiously railed upon by what we owe to our Country, and our Prince, to enter a solemn Protest against the whole Tenor and Substance of an address purporting to be an Address of the “Gentry, Clergy, Freeholders, and other Inhabitants of the County of Cornwall," which appears by the Public Prints to have been resolved upon at a Meeting held at Bodmin, on the eleventh day of March last, by the Individuals then and there assembled. We are anxious to repel from ourselves the charge of Discontent and Insubordination, to which the spirit of its language must necessarily expose us; and to condemn as groundless and absurd, and to disavow with warmth, that wild and feverish sentiment which declares the temporary and short Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, to be "a part of a Systematic Conspiracy to overthrow the existing Laws and Constitution, and to establish in their stead, and on their ruins, a despotic and military Government." We have witnessed with sorrow, and contemplated with alarm, a spirit of Disaffection and Treason, pervading many parts of the British Empire, owing its birth to the temporary difficulties and distresses which have oppressed the Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce of the Kingdom, and its growth and dissemination, to the artful efforts of designing Traitors, deluded Patriots, and mistaken Reformers. We regard the unanimous Testimony of the Committees of the Lords and Commons as to the existence of these traitorous Conspiracies, as affording to us more than an adequate Proof of their reality, which has been but too well con- firmed by the rash attempts of the Conspirators themselves. Relying, as we do, on the Wisdom and Integrity of the Parliament of this happily united Kingdom, we can neither question the policy, or doubt the necessity, of those measures, which in full and solemn Council, it has thought expedient to adopt ; and which, by a temporary suspension of a part, is intended to ensure the permanent Security of the whole of that fundamental System of Laws, which has so long blessed this happy Land with prosperity, its Government with stability, and its Individuals with a full measure of rational liberty.
Names and Residence.
Francis Paynter, St Columb Major
John P. Paynter, R.N., St Columb Major
Charles H. Paynter, St Columb Major
William Mounsteven, Surgeon, St Columb Major

"Bennets of Tresillian"
Mr Mounsteven is mentioned several times in 1819 in St Columb connected with Francis Paynter, solicitor.
Also in 1822 as a doctor attending a sick newly-born baby belonging to Elizabeth Paynter (Bennet) and Francis Camborne Paynter.

William married Fanny Hicks SMITH on 10 Oct 1799 in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England. Fanny (daughter of William SMITH and Frances UNKNOWN) was born about 1769 in Flushing, Cornwall, England; died on 23 Mar 1852 in Mawgan in Pydar, Cornwall, England; was buried on 27 Mar 1852 in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 Jul 1769, Mylor, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Newquay, Cornwall, England
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Village, Mawgan in Pydar, Cornwall, England