I’m looking for any information on William CURNOW after he arrived in Melbourne on the Constance Dec 1852.
He travelled with his wife Hannah, daughter Ann Lee and his grandsons John and Joseph. All the family used the surname CURNOW, even thought Ann’s married name was THOMAS.
On the passenger list William is aged 64.
I can’t find him after he arrived in Australia.
I know that William’s daughter Ann Lee THOMAS went straight to the goldfields in Bendigo with her husband John THOMAS. John died there in 1857.
Ann and her children then moved to Strathalbyn South Australia. (Members of her husband’s THOMAS family lived in the district.)
Ann’s mother Hannah CURNOW also moved to Strathalbyn and was buried in the cemetery there in 1870.
That’s all I have. I don’t know if William CURNOW accompanied the family to Bendigo or South Australia. I can’t find a death record or other documents for him in either state.
Before his arrival in 1852: William CURNOW married Hannah DAVY/DAVEY in Illogan Cornwall in 1813. In the 1851 England census he was living with his wife in Illogan.