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Thank you all once again. It would appear that the questions have been answered. What a great response for what was just a long shot. Youv'e possibly found further children for Chris and Jane which will give food for thought. There is one further query which may require assistance but that is for later.

Thanks once again and more power to your fingers.


V V V

you're welcome V V V :-)

just from my own experience, having a family that wandered back and forth from Cornwall to the Plymouth area ...

yes, those locations in Cornwall are some ways from Devonport

however, two things

first, Christopher was a seaman and could be expected to be found in various locations

second, it was very very common for people from Cornwall to eventually settle in the Plymouth / Devonport / Stoke Damerel / East Stonehouse area

there was a great deal of 'border' crossing in that era, mainly from Cornwall to Devon

the wife in a branch of that family of mine was in fact born right near Kea in the late 1700s, and when she married someone from Devon in St Columb in about 1820, they immediately settled in the Devonport area, where their son was born. The son then had children there in the 1840s, and then he settled back in Cornwall about 1850, and then in Plymouth again about 1860

I don't mean to be confusing although I'm sure I have been :-)

just to say that when it comes to Cornwall and Devon it is not at all surprising to see people born and married in various parts of Cornwall later settling in the Devonport area ... especially someone who was a seaman and possibly from that area originally


if you do have another query about this family just add it here and anyone who has helped so far will see that there is another request

also just to summarize what has been found in case it helps, the info that seems to go together is


Christopher Bunster son of Thomas and Ann was baptised in Nov 1774 in Helland, Cornwall
http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/search-database/more-info/?t=baptisms&id=3737124
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NPDG-P26

also: Thomas Bunster married Ann Wadling in Jan 1774 in Bodmin, Cornwall
http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/search-database/more-info/?t=marriages&id=919567

Christopher Bunster married Jane Dunstone in 1803 in Feock, Cornwall
http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/search-database/more-info/?t=marriages&id=699386
(Feock borders Kea parish on the north)

(unfortunately, Jane Dunstone is a very common name in baptisms in Cornwall, and also with spelling variants, could have been Dunstan ... and not all baptism records are available on line ... a Jane Dunstan daughter of Edith was baptised in 1787 in Kenwyn which is also in the same area as Kea ... in the censuses there are numerous Dunstan Dunston Dunstone-s born and/or living in Kea, Kenwyn and Feock)

Peter Bunster son of Christopher and Jane was baptised in 1807 in Kea, Cornwall
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NFTB-PB1
he very probably died in infancy ... burial in 1808 in Devon:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KC9W-3PX

Elizabeth Bunster daughter of Christopher and Jane was baptised in 1820 in Devonport (Morrice St Wesleyan baptism)
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JMJN-T52

Christopher Bunster born about 1773 died in 1832 in Stoke Damerel, Devon


a note on daughter Elizabeth born in 1820
she is in the 1841 census with mother Jane and brother John (called Bruster by Ancestry and corrected by a user) ... one of the other members of the household is Abram Vosper (called Prosper by Ancestry and corrected by the same user)
... so I suspect this is her marriage:

Marriages Dec 1841
BOUNDEY Elizabeth E Stonehouse 9 390
>> BUNSTER Elizabeth E Stonehouse 9 390
JEFFERY Eliza Et Stonehouse 9 390
LOBB Charles E Stonehouse 9 390
PARSONS John Et Stonehouse 9 390
RAWLINGS Eliza E Stonehouse 9 390
>> VOSPER Abraham Thomas Hemson Et Stonehouse 9 390
VOSPER William Et Stonehouse 9 390

Hey JoonieCloonie,

You are absolutely brilliant.. I closed this thread thinking that I had got what I was seeking and you come up with even more info (on your last post). It saves me possibly starting a new thread in due course.
Thank you once again.

V V V ( stolen from my leader Julius Ceasar).

I came

I saw

I conquered

veni vidi vici :-)

you're welcome, ask away in the thread here if more comes up !

(the info is all here for background for any related query)