George Gyles

Bef 1815 - 1854  (> 38 years)

• Name	George Gyles
  Birth	Bef 24 Nov 1815	St. Ives, Cornwall, England   [1]
  Baptism	24 Nov 1815	St. Ives, Cornwall, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between Jul 1854 and Sep 1854	Cornwall, England   [2]
  Person ID	I4786	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of PNH
  Last Modified	14 May 2021

  
  

  Father	John Gyles,   b. 20 May 1791, St. Ives, Cornwall, England
  Mother	Mary Thomas,   b. Bef 6 Jun 1791, St. Ives, Cornwall, England d. Between 1 Jul 1874 and 30 Sep 1874 (Age > 83 years)
  Marriage	6 Feb 1810	St. Ives, Cornwall, England   [1]
  Notes	Witnesses: Edward Richards, John Shugg Trevorrow.
  Family ID	F7759	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ann Curnow Hodge,   b. Bef 31 May 1816   d. Between Jul 1895 and Sep 1895, Penzance, Cornwall, England (Age > 79 years)
  Marriage	29 Jul 1841	St. Ives, Cornwall, England   [1, 2, 3]
  Notes	Witnesses: Lewis Hodge, Thomas Williams.
  Children	+ 1. Thomas Gyles,   b. 5 Jul 1850, Penzance, Cornwall, England d. 4 Dec 1926, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F7018	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 May 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Described on his marriage record as "bachelor" and "mariner." Could sign his own name. Described on his son Thomas's 1873 marriage record as "master mariner." On 19 Aug 1846 he was a witness to the marriage of Matthew Veal, son of Matthew Veal, fisherman, to Catherine Gyles, daughter of John Gyles, mariner. Notable since after his death, his widow also married a Veal. It's notable that he was baptized in the C of E, but his son Thomas (and Thomas's wife Mary Edwards) were both baptized as Primitive Methodists. ***** He is shown on some sites as a son of John Gyles and Johanna Harry, presumably the Joanna Harry recorded as baptised 14 Aug 1786 in St. Ives, daughter of John and Joanna. And it's true that the John Gyles who married Johanna Harry in St. Ives on 23 Jul 1810 is identified as a "mariner," just as George Gyles is on his own marriage record, which makes it reasonable to suppose that this John and Johanna were the parents of George. But our George Gyles was recorded as "of full age" when he married Ann Curnow Hodge in 1841. Therefore he has to have been born no later than 1820. The only two George Gyleses recorded baptised in St. Ives between 1800 and 1820, one on 20 Jan 1811 and one on 24 Nov 1815, are both given on their baptismal records as sons of a John and a Mary. (On the baptismal record of the latter George Gyles, the father John is identified as a cooper.) And a search for marriages in St. Ives between 1790 and 1814 involving a groom named John Gyles or Giles yields two marriages, both in 1810. One is the marriage of a John Gyles to Johanna Harry mentioned above. The other, 6 Feb 1810, is John Gyles, "bachelor", married by banns to Mary Thomas, "spinster". Witnesses John Shugg Trevorrow, Edward Richards. Moreover, the only John Gyles or Giles recorded as baptised in St. Ives between 1780 and 1795 is John Gyles, son of Richard and Elisabeth, baptised 19 Oct 1791. Aged 18 on 6 Feb 1810, he would have been eligible to marry by banns provided that neither his nor the bride's parents objected. The only way the George Gyles who married Ann Curnow Hodge could have been a son of Johanna or Joanna Harry is if he was neither the George Gyles baptised in St. Ives on 24 Nov 1815, nor the individual of the same name baptised there on 20 Jan 1811. And while absence is not proof, there are, again, no other Georges Gyles recorded baptised in St. Ives between 1800 and 1820.

  
  

• Sources

  [S298] Cornwall Online Parish Clerks Database. [S297] England & Wales, FreeBMD birth, marriage, and death indexes, 1837-1915, on ancestry.com. [S3406] England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973, on ancestry.com.