Joseph 1832
Joseph SWEET
On 14 Aug 1861 he married Betsey Ann DONEY in Stoke Damerel, Devon, England
He died on 18 Feb 1898 in Dean Street, Liskeard, Cornwall, England
Joseph SWEET Ancestor Tree
JOSEPH’S LIFE STORY
CENSUS
1841 Lords Park Farm, aged 10.
1851 Lords Park Farm, aged 19. He’s a farm labourer, his brother Richard (21) is a tinner. His grandmother, Ann, aged 80, is a “lodger”. Grandmother Ann is mother of Ann Carpenter who married Joseph’s father, Joseph b1798. Ann Carpenter senior (nee Wilton) married William Carpenter. In the 1841 census William, the 75, and Ann, then 70, lived in Tremaddock, alongside the Rowe, Henwood and Cowling families. Even in his 70’s William was listed as a “farm labourer”. By the time Joseph’s grandmother is living with him, aged 80, she is a “pauper” in Lord Park Farm, dependent on her son in law Joseph (1796) and a widow. She died 1853. Tremaddock is connected to the core Sweet branch via William Sweet, brother of Richard Sweet, b1684, who leased part of the tenement.
1861 Lords Park Farm, aged 29. He lives with the Doneys who were not registered there earlier. He marries Betsy Ann Doney in 1861.
1871 Moorswater, Liskeard, aged 39. He’s a stonemason and grocer, with wife Betsy Ann, and children: William, Richard, Alfred, John, Joseph and Herbert “baby”. Little Pellegenna in Moorswater, which is where the Sweet family are listed, was sold in 1867, by Augustus Coryton, owner of West Dreynes manor.
1891 Dean Street, Liskeard.
When Joseph dies in 1898 he leaves everything in his will to Betsy Ann. She dies in 1913.
Joseph’s youngest brother, Henry, born in 1841, dies at birth or within a year.
JOSEPH’S SIBLINGS
| Elizabeth 1825-1904 Married Sampson Wilton in 1843. Buried in St Cleer (Elizabeth Wilton nee Sweet), with husband. |
Richard 1829-1897 Married Elizabeth Sweet (first cousin) in 1856. Buried in St Cleer’s Dissenters Cemetery. Elizabeth is daughter of Richard Sweet of Lower Langdon Farm |
William 1835-1905 Married Jane Keast in 1860. Before marriage, Jane Keast lived in Berry Down Cottage with father Stephen Keast. They emigrated and died in Iowa. |
John 1840-1922 Married Mary Jane (b1844). John is buried in St Cleer Cemetery. |
| CENSUS: 1841 Lords Park Farm, aged 14 1845 Diddylake with Sampson Wilton listed as “labourer” 1851 Diddylake 1861 Diddylake 1871 Diddylake Cottage now Elizabeth Wilton (nee Sweet), age 45, Sampson 41 is a tin miner with children: Martha (dressmaker? 22), Richard tin miner (15), Anna (10, Frederick (4). Diddylake Farm is in hands of Doney family in 1881. 1891 Diddylake – probably cottage, Elizabeth Wilton (nee Sweet) now 65, with Sampson aged 70 | Frederick 23 “farm labourer”, his wife Elizabeth, 20, from St Pinnock and granddaughter Cole, 20. They remained in Diddylake up until 1899 when Sampson died CHILDREN: Elizabeth 1845, John 1845, Martha 49, Thomas 52, Joseph 54, Richard 56, William 59, Anna 61, Frederick 66; Joseph born 1854 is resident in Lords Park Farm in 1881. |
CENSUS: 1841 Lords Park Farm, aged 12 1851 Lords Park Farm, “tinner”, aged 21 1861 Higher Langdon, aged 31, an agricultural labourer with wife Elizabeth (nee Sweet, cousin) aged 29. 1871 Browngilly, aged 41 with wife Eliz, Caleb, Margaret, Joseph, William age 3, Thomas 5 mths. Caleb & Margaret listed as born in Altarnum. 1881 Higher Langdon Farm. All men are agricultural labourers. They have a daughter, Elizabeth, aged 7. 1881 Caleb & wife Elizabeth have a son, Richard, the grandson in 1891 census at Langdale Cottage 1891 Langdale Cottage, St Neot, Richard is still an agricultural labourer, aged 61. His son, Joseph, aged 26, living with them and is an agricultural labourer CHILDREN Caleb b1857 at Levet Cottage but baptised in Bolventor; Margaret b 1860 Altarnum; Joseph b1865; William b1868; Thomas b1871 and Elizabeth b1874. Caleb died in 1882 when his son was just 1yo, and he was 25 and registered as living in Lamelgate at time of death. His son, Richard, was living at Langdale Cottage with his grandparents and aunt Elizabeth, aged 9 in the 1891 census. |
CENSUS 1841 Lords Park Farm, aged 6 1851 Lords Park Farm, aged 16 1861 William lived in Lords Park Farm at the time of his marriage but by 1861, aged 26, he was living in Little Treverbyn with his wife Jane, in the same hamlet or farmstead as her family relative, George Keast who was a copper miner 1871 Burrows Wood, aged 36, with children Stephen 9, John 6, William 3, Ann 10 months. He’s listed as a farmer. 1881 Woodland Burrow, St Neot (probably the same home as Burrows Wood) he’s a farmer now with Hannah, 8, Ellen 5, Mary 3 and Eva, a 1 month old. 1888 William emigrated to America, to Iowa, with Jane, Eva and Lucy. This nucleus family appear on a census together in 1900. It’s possible that this William Sweet sold “New Closes Farm”, aka Diddylake. He followed in the footsteps of a large group of Keasts in emigrating. Many records relate to the Liskeard Bible Christian Circuit including Lucy’s baptism in 1887. They lived in Woodbury, IOWA. Ellen joined them and married in 1899 |
CENSUS 1841 Lords Park Farm, John aged 1 1867 Parsons Park, John is a labourer living with his wife Mary Jane, and son William John 1871 Diddylake Cottage, John, 31 is a farm labourer, they now have Mary, aged 1 and Joseph Henry, born after the census, is listed at Diddylake in his baptism 1873 Diddylake, Selina is baptised, John is still a labourer 1881 Diddylake Farm may belong to John as he listed there but possibly goes to the Doneys later. Lords Park is in Joseph Wilton’s possession (he’s then aged 27). Possible that John occupies New Closes Farm (aka Diddylake) before his brother William sells it in 1888. 1891 John is the single occupant of 4 roomed premises at Hawton’s Draynes, listed as a “general labourer”. Mary Jane, his wife, may have died in 1890. |
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