names: COURAGE & PETERS.

[ninelives]

My father was descended from a Pierre Courage, a french prisoner of war who did the right thing by the local girl & has many descendents in Cornwall (& elsewhere) The family lived/lives in the Constantine/Falmouth/Mabe/Penryn/Truro areas. There are headstones & parish records especially in Constnstine. My grandfather John Courage married Lillian Peters (born Budock 1891), Peters being another important Cornish surname, with extensive connections. So : anyone out there with the same connections, or maybe collateral links ? Would be nice to hear from you.

[Cornish girl]

Lilian Mary Peters was a daughter of Alfred Peters and Elizabeth Thomas. Alfred was a brother to my ancestor.

[cornishnett]

hi my family also have links to the courage family pierre's son simon 1776 married mary eva pryor they had daughter  called mary ann courage who married john moyle my great great great grand father
Pierre french prisoner of war married at budock falmouth16th Jan 1762
 It is claimed that MEUDON in mawnan smith had a moulded plaster ceiling done by foreign prisoners of war  and in 1914 the farmers there traced their courage descented from a french lieutenant of that name.
can contact me if you wish .

[Govo]

I can also trace my descendants back to a Mary Courage who married William Trevithick 3/8/1763 in Sithney, Cornwall. But recently I noticed there were two Mary Courages married that year. The other married John Hodge (from Wendron) on the 10/3/1783 in Constantine. Pierre (then going by the name Peter) is shown as a witness as the Constantine wedding. And as a point of interest John Hodge was a witness at the Trevithick wedding.

From what I can see Pierre married Mary Rowling in Budock on 16/1/1762 and had three possibly six children Mary (b.1763), William Rowling (b.1766, m Elizabeth Powell 1786), Peter (d.1789 aged 19),John(m. Anne Eddy 1798), Joan (m. Thomas Hodge 1798) and Johanna (m. Samuel Pollard 1788) all in or around Constantine and spelling Courage with a double 'rr' and other variations.

However the marriage of Mary in Sithney in 1783 and Simon in Helston in 1797 may be from another family. Witnesses at Simon's wedding to Mary Eva were John and Arundell Pryor and William Trevithick's mother was a Charity Prior which I thought tied these two together.

So I wondered if there was any other evidence of more than one family. Did Pierre have a POW brother?

[cornishnett]

i don't know if pierre or peter had a brother or not and i dint know that here were two Mary's married in the same year your Mary is a sister to my Simon .
I had 8 children to Pierre and Mary rowling  they were married by licence .
Mary Jan 6Th 1763
Elizabeth 1764
William rowling 1766
john 1767
Joanna 1768
peter 1770
Simon 1776 died Feb 1812 married Mary Eva  Pryor
Joan 1777

[Taecarol]

Pierre Courage married to Mary Rowling  is my 5th great grandfather .I am wondering if anyone knows his father or mothers name? Or maybe siblings.My Mum heard they were from Normandy??Not sure.My connection is Pierre Courage >William Rowling Courage>Peter Courage 1792-1851>Peter Courage1822-1922>Peter Courage 1851-1915 >Lily Courage(Hearle)My grandmother>Nora Hearle(Turner)my Mum> to Me..
 Loved seeing all the connections to him.Would love to hear anything about Pierre or Mary .Thanks