James Saunders was the second son on Charles and Elizabeth Saunders (nee Brabyn). He was baptized in St. Breock on the 1st August 1769.

He married Mary Williams on the 21st January 1804 and had a total of eight children between 1804 and 1829.

1. James - Baptized in St. Breock - 1st January 1805
2. John - Baptized in St. Breock - 22nd June 1806
3. Elizabeth - Baptized in St. Breock - 24th January 1808
4. Mary - Baptized in St. Breock - 13th October 1811
5. Charles - Baptized in St. Breock - 18th May 1815
6. Grace - Baptized in St.Breock - 30th April 1820
7. Richard - Baptized in St. Breock - 10th February 1822
8. Richard - Baptized in St. Breock - 23th July 1829

James and family seem to suffered from hard time and his name first appears in the Overseers of the Poor records for St Breock in 1815.

June 1815 - Paid James Saunders for 18 sparrows............. 1/0 1/2d
May 1818 - Paid James Saunders son for one crow...... ???
July 1818 - Paid James Saunders son for sparrows...... ???
January 1819 - Paid James Saunders for Magpie & Sparrows......... 5d
April 1819 - Paid Jas. Saunders boy 4 kites 1. 0d
June 1819 - Paid Jas. Saunders - 25 sparrows 6d.
December 1822 - Relieved James Saunders with peck Wheat 4/- 3 pecks Barley 6/- 10/0d
January 1823 - Relieved James Saunders peck Wheat 4/0d
March 1825 - 4 weeks pay to Jas. Saunders at 5/- 1. 0. 0d
April; May and June 1825 - 4 weeks pay to Jas. Saunders at 3/- 12. 0d
July 1825 - Relieved Jas. Saunders in need 16. 0d
August and September 1825 - 4 weeks pay to Jas. Saunders @ 5/- 1. 0. 0d
February 1826 - Paid 2 weeks at 3/- and 2 weeks at 5/- to Jas. Saunders 16. 0d
March 1826 - 4 weeks pay to Jas. Saunders at 3/- 12. 0d
August 1827 - Relieved James Saunders with a peck of wheat 7. 0d.
January 1828 - Relieved James Saunders with 3 and a halfe bushell of barley 8. 0d.
February 1828 - Relieved James Saunders with a peck of barley at 2/6d in cash three shilling 5. 6d.
March 1828 - Relieved James Saunders with a peck of wheat 5. 6d. and half a bushel of barley 5. 0d.
(Same to January 1829)
April 1830 - Paid James Saunders 4 weeks at 1/6d 6. 0d
September 1831 - Paid James Saunders 4 weeks at 2/6d 10. 0d
November 1834 - Paid James Saunders 4 weeks at 1/- 4. 0d
December 1834 -Paid for Jas. Saunders household goods 26/3d Relieved Jas. Saunders 2/- 1. 8. 3d
March 1836 - Relieved James Saunders towards rent 1. 0. 0d
April 1836 - Paid Mr. Warne James Saunders rent 10. 0d
March 1837 - Paid Mr. Jno. Warne James Saunders rent 1. 10. 0d

In 1841 census, James and his wife Mary were living in Brabyn Park where James was shown as a 70 year old agricultural labourer.

Mary died in Penard in early March 1843 and was buried at St. Breock on the 6th of March.

Sometime after this James was living in the neighbouring parish of St. Issey. On the 1st December 1847 the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Issey obtained a Removal Order against James transferring him back to St. Breock "as the place of his Legal Settlement"
To see full details of the Removal Order and examination click here .

By 1851 he was living with his son-in-law and daughter, Harry and Mary Pinch, at Tredruston, near St. Breock.

James died at Tregaswith, St. Columb Major, on the 29th January 1856, aged 81, and was buried at St. Breock two days later.

Additional Information

1. James married Mary Tyack in St. Agnes on the 16th September 1828.
They had five children;- Richard (C1830); Thomas Tyack (C1831); Charles (C1834); Mary Jane (C1836) and James (C1843).
James, a carpenter, died in Redruth in about May 1886 aged 82 and Mary, also in Redruth, about May 1891 aged 88.

2. John married Ann Mabeley in St. Minver on 18th October 1830.
They had four children:- William Mabeley (C1832); John (C1833); Francis Mabeley (C1835) and Mary (C1837).
The family were living in St. Breock in 1841 where John was an Agricultural Labourer.

3. Elizabeth married Thomas Gregor in St. Breock on the 10th February 1831.
They had five children:- William (1832 - died 1850 in St. Issey); John (1834); Elizabeth Ann (1835); John (1837) and Thomas Edwin (1844).
Thomas, a shoemaker, and family were living in St. Issey in 1841. He died in St. Issey in 1863 aged 55.
Elizabeth died in Cannalidgey, St. Issey in September 1850, aged 43.

4. Mary married Henry Evans Pinch in St. Breock on the 12th October 1833.
They had no children.
Henry, latterly a Clay Labourer, died in St. Dennis in 1883 aged 75 and Mary died a Pauper in the St. Dennis Union Warehouse in 1891 aged 82.

5. Charles, who was unmarried, died at Hay, near St. Breock in 1834 aged 19.

6. Grace married John Cole in about 1839.
They had two children;- William (C1840) ; Charles (C1845) and Mary (C1851).
John, an Agricultural Labourer, and family were living in Normansland, St. Issey in 1851.
John died in 1851 and Grace married Abraham Pill, a Lead Miner, in late 1854.
They had three children;- Philemon (C1855); Louisa (C1857) and Robert (C1859).
Abraham died in about March 1871 aged 47 and Grace in 1892 aged 72.

7. Richard - no further information but most probably died in infancy.

8. Richard - no further information.

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