Was William TABB bc1812 Merther married twice?

[BonnieDownUnder]

Hi J, I am in the process of tracking down all the leads and info you gave me to add to the family tree.  Found that C1851 Juliane with her grandparents Richard and Sarah and made the appropriate updates incase anyone else looking for the family on A****y       
Will let you know when I receive William Tabb junior's birth certificate though I am pretty certain you have 'nailed it'!!
Thanks once again
Bonnie
PS  Once I have this sorted, the next to follow up is William's wife, Isabella Rowe b1832 Truro d1897
Sydney, married 1858 Truro

[osprey]

I think Isabella may have mislaid a couple of years when she married William Tabb who was younger than her.

1841 Carclew St, Kenwyn, Truro HO107/147/14 folio 46 pg 18
William Rowe 43 (?) painter (?)
Sarah 46
William 13
Isabella 11
Emily 9
all born in county except Sarah

1851 she's 21, a staymaker and visiting HO107/1910 folio 295 pg 28   

her family
Lemon Row, Kenwyn HO107/1910 folio 317 pg 32
William Rowe head mar 53 coal porter b. Truro
Sarah wife 56 b. Devon, Exeter
Isabella Coe visitor 2 b. Cornwall, St Margaret
Emily Rowe dau 18 dressmaker b. Truro
/
William Rowe head mar 24 coach maker b. Truro
Susan wife 24 b. St Columb
William son 1 b. Truro

[JaneyCanuck]

You'll find William and Sarah's marriage if you search here:

http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/search-database/marriages/

The Cornwall OPC site is great fun, and we owe a lot to the OPCs and transcribers. (And I don't just say that because I have belatedly become a transcriber. )

[BonnieDownUnder]

What a nice surprise to receive info already on Isabella Rowe and family ...

Hi Osprey:  Many thanks for census leads.  Strange that William Rowe went from being a 'Painter' (presume this to be a 'house painter' not a 'Painter of Pictures'!) to a 'Coal Porter'    His wife Sarah is shown as a 'widow' when the C1861 taken and found her living with a daughter and son in law, same for C1871 then her death 1878 with burial 29 Dec.

Hi J:  Thanks once again, you are certainly keeping me busy building the family tree   Your right, the Cornwall OPC is an interesting site and very easy to navigate.  Thanks to you and all the other volunteers giving time to do translates ... great work.
Sarah Honey (nice name) marrying William Rowe 24 Dec 1826.  Think I may have found William's baptismal, 24 Sep 1797 at Truro with father George and mother Jenefer and if I have the right connection, their marriage too; George Rowe ,20 Oct 1789 St. Columb Major, to Jennipher/Jenifer Nicholls
As mentioned above, Sarah became a widow in between C1851-61 censuses but trolling the OPC Burial records, I can't seem to find a match when William passed away, he would have been around 54-64 yrs of age.
I haven't been able to locate a baptismal record for Isabella (nor her siblings) too or a church record of the marriage between her and William Tabb so presume that these have yet to be translated.
Thanks, Bonnie

[JaneyCanuck]

There's a "coverage" section at the OPC site that might help.

I've just recently transcribed some post-1850 burials for a particular parish and am plugging away at more of them, moving on past 1860 ...

But generally you'll find that post-1837 records are not as fleshed out there yet, I think.

Don't forget you can check with the specific online parish clerk for a parish, to see whether records are available that haven't been transcribed. (They aren't all; records for my parish of interest c1820 apparently weren't microfilmed for example, and have to be got from the records office, or something. I'm in Canada so bits of it are still mysterious to me.)

[BonnieDownUnder]

Hi J ... Yes, checked the coverage and dates I am looking for, fall outside of what's been transcribed.
I am rather amazed that your in Canada (should of figured that with Canuck  ) and your undertaking Cornwall transcriptions; presume you have ancestry from that area ?
Thanks once again, your invaluable assistance has my family tree rapidly sprouting lots more branches, twigs and leaves.  Bonnie 

[JaneyCanuck]

Indeed I do -- although we never knew it. Much toiling and travailing on my part over about a year, five or six years ago, revealed my mum's father's father to be a Cornwall boy (and found me his real name), and his mother's side, at least, to be rooted there back to the beginning of known records and beyond - with a parish clerk along the way! (And the OPC people are one reason I've been able to find so much, especially a wonderful man in the western US, recently deceased, who adopted the little parish of St Cleer.) My grx2 grfather's father ... well, born in Devon to a woman I can pretty certainly identify as being from Cornwall ... and a James Hill. If you happen to run into a James Hill born sometime in the late-ish 1700s in either Cornwall or Devon ... haha, well, try not to trip on them, as the landscape is literally littered with 'em and I pretty much despair of ever identifying mine.

[BonnieDownUnder]

Hi J ... well, you give me hope, on many branches of my family tree, with researching back ... way way back. 
Can I call on your expertise one more time  , would appreciate your thoughts on William Tabb (father of William John junior) who gave his birth place as Merther, as being his baptismal record OPC #1289952, 24 Jul 1814 that 'Welsh Lady' found, with father William, mother Mary.  This doesn't align with the age of death in 1890, being 79 years, however we know that this info can be way out.  The census records C1851-1881 virtually all line up if he was born 1812 except C1861 = b1814

Found that a William Tabb (widow) married a Mary Teague 26 Sep 1813 in the district of Merther.

Interestingly, I also found a John Keast Tabb (Keast was, if she hadn't been previously married, maiden name of William's second wife, Anna Maria) who died aged 70 years, 1889 in the district of Merther with baptism 30 May 1819, father James mother Mary same district.  A James Tabb married Mary Keast 27 Dec 1810. 
Regards Bonnie

[osprey]

do you have a copy of the 1851 marriage cert to confirm father's name and occupation?
 I've checked the register for Merther and there are 2 Tabb couples baptising children there at the time, David & Elizabeth and James & Mary, but the only William was baptised 22/6/1817 to David & Elizabeth. The baptism in Probus is a possible as it's the neighbouring parish  - abode is noted as High Lane, Probus.