A Presbyterian minister in Cornwall

[mackers]

There is a Rosewarne family connection in Belfast Francis Rosewarne a sailor and his daughter Susan first married to a William Fullerton and when he died then to a James McVeigh 55 Sussex St Belfast. There is also a C Rosewarne in the Irish Census a seaman from Belfast. Looks like he was on board a ship in the census. Might be of help.

[bobcollier]

Many thanks, mackers. I will take a closer look at that.

[mackers]

Many thanks, mackers. I will take a closer look at that.

Further to this Francis Rosewarne Married Annie Mooney 23rd September 1885 Belfast.
Francis father was called Charles a sailmaker.
Look up a free website Irish Genealogy Civil lookups. There are Rosewarne's in both the 1901 and 1911 Irish Census returns. Seen a Norah Rosewarne a daughter also married to Richard Grealy Belfast

Looks like the Rosewarne's changed religion from Presbyterian to R.C.

[mackers]

Many thanks, mackers. I will take a closer look at that.

Further to this Francis Rosewarne Married Annie Mooney 23rd September 1885 Belfast.
Francis father was called Charles a sailmaker.
Look up a free website Irish Genealogy Civil lookups. There are Rosewarne's in both the 1901 and 1911 Irish Census returns. Seen a Norah Rosewarne a daughter also married to Richard Grealy Belfast

Looks like the Rosewarne's changed religion from Presbyterian to R.C.

In actual fact Annie's real name was Douglas. As Mooney was her marriage name from her previous marriage. She was a widow when she married Francis.

[mackers]

Many thanks, mackers. I will take a closer look at that.

Further to this Francis Rosewarne Married Annie Mooney 23rd September 1885 Belfast.
Francis father was called Charles a sailmaker.
Look up a free website Irish Genealogy Civil lookups. There are Rosewarne's in both the 1901 and 1911 Irish Census returns. Seen a Norah Rosewarne a daughter also married to Richard Grealy Belfast

Looks like the Rosewarne's changed religion from Presbyterian to R.C.

In actual fact Annie's real name was Douglas. As Mooney was her marriage name from her previous marriage. She was a widow when she married Francis. By the way in the census Francis says he was born in Wales.

[mackers]

Many thanks, mackers. I will take a closer look at that.

Further to this Francis Rosewarne Married Annie Mooney 23rd September 1885 Belfast.
Francis father was called Charles a sailmaker.
Look up a free website Irish Genealogy Civil lookups. There are Rosewarne's in both the 1901 and 1911 Irish Census returns. Seen a Norah Rosewarne a daughter also married to Richard Grealy Belfast

Looks like the Rosewarne's changed religion from Presbyterian to R.C.

In actual fact Annie's real name was Douglas. As Mooney was her marriage name from her previous marriage. She was a widow when she married Francis. By the way in the census Francis says he was born in Wales.

In addition the name is also spelt Roswarne and Roswarn. I'd say mainly due to the amount of illiteracy at that time.

[pinefamily]

It might help your search for a Presbyterian minister to search the Surman Index. It has an alphabetical list of nonconformist ministere.

[majm]

I wonder if somebody could advise me on this before I start exploring further.

My wife's father, John Jeffrey, who was born in Belfast in 1918, had a grandfather, Jeremiah Jeffrey, who was from Hauxton in Cambridgeshire (dob 1851).

My wife's family is Catholic. A joke her father used to make when he was alive was that he had a relative in Cornwall who was a Presbyterian minister. No specific location was ever mentioned, or any dates, and I don't even know for sure that the man's surname was also Jeffrey.

I discovered a couple of days ago what appears to be a link between the Jeffrey family in Hauxton and a William George Jeffery (different spelling of surname), born in St. Just, Cornwall, in 1857, who married a Beatrice Mitchell in Redruth in 1895. Beatrice Mitchell's family was from a place called Rosewarne, south of Camborne. Wiliam George Jeffery was a Boot Maker, clearly not the Reverend I'm looking for, but he and my father-in-law's paternal grandfather Jeremiah Jeffrey do seem to be relatives of some kind. This at least establishes a tenuous "Cornwall connection".

I don't suppose there is such a thing as "A Complete Alphabetical List of Every Presbyterian Minister in Cornwall Ever", but, rather than exploring Cornwall resources generally, is there a particular resource I could start with in trying to discover who the mysterious minister was?

With thanks.

I notice our OP is in Canberra, Australia... and I wonder if his father in law's joke about the Presbyterian Minister in Cornwall was actually referring to Cornwall, Tasmania?  https://www.australias.guide/tas/location/cornwall/

JM