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Ref #: 47
Name: Joseph PRISK
Age: 24
Abode: Gwennap
Date: 1st July 1835
Cause: Killed in Penstruthal MineTaken from the Gwennap Parish Register #1471787, in the years 1813 - 1845
Peter PRISKE in Mullion; issued tokens at Helston in 1668.Taken from Will Boyne's Tokens of 17th c (1858) p 337; Tokens of Cornwall by R.N.Worth. Journ. RIC Oct 1874, p35.
Note: I asked Jim Thompason (another genealogist) about Tokens. He explains: I believe they were issued by employers as a form of currency that was accepted in local businesses. I think they were usually halfpennies, as the Crown had stopped minting them, but they were still a needed denomination.Bob Brooks further explains: I think that the tokens referred to are correctly called 'trade tokens' rather than 'commemorative tokens'; i.e., a coin-like medal with monetary value when redeemed at the point of issuance. I say this because in 1668, it would seem frivolus to be issuing commemortive items, although John Trevethen who became Mayor of Penzance issued a token during the reign of Charles II, say within a decade of your Peter Priske token. A correspondent was able to purchase photgraphs of both the obverse and the reverse of that token from the British Museum. If Peter Priske is in your direct line, you might be interested in attempting to get an image of that token. As the JRIC is still being published, you should be able to get a copy of the Oct 1874 article from them.
Charter of King Charles II...Anthony Kemp, George Collins, Francis Blakey, Henry Rowe, John Williams, William Cock, Peter Prisk, Richard Bullock, Thomas More the younger, Alexander Tregion, Francis Tremenheere and John Alexander were appointed alderman.
Dated 10th December 1684.
Taken from The History of Helston, by Spencer Toy, published 1836.
Richard Bolitho explains, an alderman was elected for a nominal term of four years by the existing "Mayor and Commonality". There was a fine payable if election was refused. An Aldermen became Mayor in succession for a year and in the year following was the senior Justice of the Peace. An Alderman was usually re-elected when his term expired. Before 1684 there were four aldermen and afterwards twelve.
Thomas Prisk, 19 Jan 1878, 47, Miner assisting shafts man, West Wheal Seton, West Wheal Seton Mining Co. Cambourne, Cornwall, Blown from winch handle which knocked him down the shaft.Taken from Mines Inspectors Report, 1878
Paid John PRISK's family with a fever & out of Parish £2-2-0Taken from: Extracts from the Parish Poor Rate Book 1797 - 1803
Cited in Michell, Frank (1985), Annals of an Ancient Cornish Town, Redruth, Redruth, Cornwall, p 63
Note (1): A little confused, I ask Beth (another genealogist) what the entry may mean. She explains: As to fever and 'Out of Parish'. This may mean that the family of JOHN PRISK originated from the Parish and even if no longer there they would remain the resposibility of the Parish - this relates to the old Poor Laws and Acts of Resettlement. As the dates in question are late 17thC and early 18thC, the Parish may not have had a Workhouse as such [I don't know], but if it did - many were set up around the 1840's - then 'Outside Relief' may be another possibility. Rather than taking people in to the Workhouse, and for this apparently 'temporary' lack of means, the Parish may have subsidised them in their own home. Hope this may shed some light.Note (2): The entry was most likely written in 1803.
The following info was kindly submitted from Sandy of the USAThis is very "Illogan specific" information, so it may not be of use to you if your ancestors are not in Illogan.
Anyway, I have the film of the Illogan's churchwardens account books. In those books are records of "rates" being paid. I wish I could tell you more about these rates - you may very well know more than I do about them, because I don't know much! ;-)
They seem to be almost a form of taxes paid, and they seem to be paid annually. Not all the years are here, but a good many are.
In a way, these serve almost like a kind of "mini census" of sorts - except that a whole household, of course, is not listed...only the person(s) paying rates. Again, I'm not sure if EVERY household paid rates or not...but the lists are fairly long, so certainly a large share, if not all, would seem to have done so.
Now then...the lists also are very "location specific" within Illogan. For example, Pool, Church Town, Highway, Carnbrea, etc. are each given specific headings. Sometimes, another location might be listed specifying the location of the property for which the rates are being paid....so it would seem the person may be paying rates for the property in which he/she resides, as well as property "held" (leased or owned??) elswhere in the parish. I do not think it was "usual" for ordinary people to "own" ANY property whatsoever, rather I think *IF* these rates have to do with any form of ownership, it would likely be ownership of a "lease" regarding the property. Again, I do not pretend to have a "full" grasp of the land-laws of the 1800s in Britain, but it is my understanding that for the most part, people simply did not "own" their property.
At any rate, I am searching this area in the southern part of Illogan parish where my Jenkin family lived (well, I'm pretty sure this is MY Jenkin family!) it is known as Piece and Treskillard. (you will have to have a pretty good map to show you where this is.) Also in this same area is a place known as Filtrick Farm (ditto the need for an exceptional map to find this!!)
Naturally, in searching out my Jenkin family, I find others. Hence my note to the list.
In the case of Vincent, I am especially interested because my William Jenkin (the elder; bapt 1796) married (1818) one Mary Ann Vincent (Mary Ann died in 1825 at age 29), and I have NEVER been able to find Mary Ann's baptism, so don't know who her parents were. Needless to say, finding William on the same farm as a Vincent surely makes me curious! IN ADDITION, William Jenkin's son, William, married an Elizabeth Richards! So seeing a James Vincent and Elizabeth Richards listed together as paying rates at the same farm where I know William was living as a child, REALLY makes me wonder! SO by ALL means, if any of you figures out the relationship of the James Vincent and Elizabeth Richards listed together here, PLEASE let me know!
I'm not sure if there could be any connection with the PRISK family or not, though. I'm leaving room for one of William's daughers to possibly have married a Prisk, however. So if you run across an Illogan Jenkin marrying an Illogan Prisk, please let me know.
Now, after SUCH a long-winded prelude (my aplogies!) here are the listings I've found in the rates in these specific areas....
at Filtrick (1829)...
Henry Prisk & Joseph Prisk -- house and land
Henry Prisk (this is another listing, directly under the first) -- DO (means "ditto")James VINCENT & Elizabeth Richards - [looks like Ho &land (home)]
then ditto just beneath this (which MAY be only for Elizabeth, it's hard
to tell) looks like a "DO" (rank lease) ---that's in parenthesis
next is my William Jenkin, who paid rates on a house
then, it looks like Jane Prisk -- house &land
then Henry Bennetts - house & landThat's all at Filtrick, then there's a smaller header for Lanyon at
which we find:
Thomas Prisk - house & land
David [looks like "Rogers"? or maybe "Ropers"?] - ?land Filtrick
then, no first name, but possibly meant to also be a "David" Waters(?) - house & landwe then move on to other areas where I don't see any Vincents or Prisks.
However, at the top of this same page (in 1829), we have the area of "Forest" continued from a previous page (which I did not copy)... but on this page of Forest we find:
Charles Vincent - house & land
Henry Vincent - house * landAll of the above was in 1829...
Now we move to 1862 (I know...big gap but I didn't have as much time as I would've liked. I'll try to hunt through for more years and more carefully later on...By 1862, I think they must be lumping Filtrick in with Treskillard, since I do not find a separate listing for Filtrick. This leads me to believe the people didn't move, rather the reference of the area just included more land.
There are quite a larger number of people listed, as well...which may be due as much to increasing the area listed under this heading as anything else. I'm not at all sure this really means more families at Filtrick farm. I did not copy the whole list from Treskillard, but here is what I have got:
Treskillard (1862) - the type of property isn't specified this year:
Joseph Prisk
DO (he paid rates on 2 properties it would seem)
Sam Gilbart
Henry Paull
DO
Edward Bawden
DO
Jno(?) Mill
Sarah Martin
Thomas Martin, exc¨rs [this looks to be an abbrev. for excutors)
Henry Willoughby
DO
Josiah(?) Willoughby
Philip Daw(?)
DO
Solomon Hocking
Thomas Hodge
Wm Hodge
Edward Bennett
Jno(? Carny (poss Eurny)
Margaret Jenkin [note; this is the 2nd wife, now widow, of my elder William Jenkin]
Henry Prisk
Mary Williams
Joseph (?)Ivey?
Sally Mills
Peter Collins
John Willie
James Richards
__? Paullthat's it for what I've got of 1862
1864 Treskillard:
Joseph Prisk - Filtrick[I think] house
DO land & house [but "& house" seems to be marked through]
Samuel Gilbert - land & house
Henry Paull - land [marked out?] house
DO - land Grylls (?if I'm reading that correctly, then it would mean Grillis/Grilles farm, which is a very close-by farm)
Edward Bawden - Treskillards house
John Mill - land & house
Sarah Martin - land & house
Thomas Martin [poss Sen?? can't read this little bit after very well] - land & house
Henry Willoughby - land & house
DO - land
Josiah Willioughby - land & house
Philip [?Dave?] - land & house
DO - land [looks crossed out] & land
Josiah Angove - house & shop
Thomas Hodge - house
Edweard Bawden - land
William Hodge - land
Edward Bennett - house
Stephen Martin - house & shop
Margaret Jenkin - house
West Basset [*possibly Bennets, but I think Basset!] adven - land
(most likely the above is West Basset adventurers...i.e. that's land for a mine!)
DO - house
William Richards - house
Joseph Evey (prob. Ivey) - house
Jane(?) Harrye? - house
Mary(?) Richards - house
Nancey? Richards - house
Jane [?or James...hard to read] Richards - house
John Paull - house
John Gary (or Jory?) - land & houseand thereafter, I simply can't read this copy cause it goes all black.
If you wish to view these churchwardens account books yourselves, the LDS film numbers are:
#1597139 (has 1787-1837, 1858-1884 ...although those years are somewhat misleading since not all years are in there) #1597292 has 1702-1782
Lanner, or Lannarth, Gwennap...... Here are chapels...and a good commercial hotel, kept by Mr Priske who supplies unadulterated liquors.1884 Cornish Gazetter
Kindly submitted by Peter of the USA
Annie PRISK, 24 year old Spinster, married Joseph UREN, Blacksmith, 24 year old Bachelor and son of Joseph UREN, in Wendron Parish 24 December 1889.Kindly submitted by Kathy
William Prisk, was found guilty of "stealing iron" and was sentenced to death in 1806. Case was heard in the Summer Assizes [Cornwall] so presumably the court and sentence would have been in Truro? Or possibly at Launceston? Further details of this case are to be found at Public Record office, Kew in class number HO27/2. Click here to order a copy of the relevent papers.Kindly submitted by Richard Polkinghorne of the UK.
Here are some Prisk Burials
Helston
Mary 20 Jun 1823 age 73
Mary 25 Jul 1831 age 55
Peter 25 Dec 1836 age 80
Susannah 2 feb 1829 age 1Cambourne
Elizabeth 21 Jan 1824 age 2 y 8 mth
Marjory 1 Nov 1834 age 77 ( I think Marjory Sems)Crowan
Joseph 17 Apr 1816 age 56
Joseph 2 May 1816 age 20Wendron
Bennett 22 Oct 1816 18
Betsy 24 Jun 1814 4
Elizabeth 22 Jan 1813 80
James 30 Nov 1815 26
Joseph 1 Jul 1835 24
Mary 6 Sep 1814 86
Paul 16 May 1820 19
William 11 Oct 1815 22All above Prisk
All below PriskeAnn 27 aug 1824 65
Ann 25 Apr 1833 6
Ann 21 Jul 1835 73
Catherine 11 Jun 1837 77
Elizabeth 14 Oct 1833 14
Hercules 29 Sep 1830 19
Paul 26 Jul 1835 47
Samuel 26 Dec 1824 62
Sarah 29 Aug 1814 1Kindly submitted by Mr C. Bartlett of New Zealand.
First post for the 25th of April 1887, Monday issue of The West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser.East Penwith Petty Sessions - Samuel John Prisk, a boy of 14, was charged with stealing a pair of boots, the property of Walter Laurance, a miner, residing at Carn Brea. The evidence showed that the boy had taken them from the locker at the mine, and had pawned them at Mr. Trevenen Peter's shop at Redruth for 4s. 6d., saying they were his brother's, and he wanted 5s. on them. On the defendant's brother-in-law promising to give the boy a good thrashing and to look after him, they released him.
Cornwall newspaper transcriptions
Newspaper report appearing in the West Briton 11 January 1839
CORNWALL QUARTER SESSIONS
Wednesday, January 2
Before K. Lethbridge, Esq., and other MagistratesJane PETTER, 26, charged with having on the 14th of May, stolen from Joseph PRISK, at Penryn, a purse containing GBP 32.8s.5d.
Mr. John stated the serious matters of this charge; and added that the Court had a discretionary power to sentence a person, found guilty of it, to transportation either for ten or fifteen years.
Joseph PRISK is a farmer at Illogan, and was at Penryn fair on the 14th of May. He saw prisoner talking with Benjamin WILLIAMS, to whom he said in her hearing that he was going to the Cross Keys. On going down the hill the woman followed him, and wanted him to give her a drop of gin. Witness refused, and at that moment a man turned round, seized him by the collar, and accused him of knocking his hat off. Prisoner then whipped around and put her right hand in his breeches pocket, where there was a purse with three five pound notes, sixteen sovereigns, and some silver. As soon as the man let go his hold, witness said "I am robbed." But the man and the woman ran off. The man would not let his face be seen. Witness, after some vain search for the prisoner, saw her again on the 26th of December in Redruth-street, where he had her taken into custody. She said she was in Bristol on the 14th of May; but witness was certain she was the same person, and charged her with robbery; upon which she said "Mr. Prisk, I did not rob you, but I know who did."
Benjamin WILLIAMS corroborated the evidence of the last witness.
Maria DOWNING, of Penryn, saw prisoner there on the 14th of May. On the 18th, she came to witness's house, to ask for a bed. Witness refused; then she said she had plenty of money to pay for the bed, and ought to have one.
The prisoner, who had several times threatened the witnesses that they should have it "pretty tidy" when it came to her turn, was now heard in her defense. She first begged to be excused for the vulgar language she should be obliged to make use of, and entered on a series of inconsistent statements respecting herself, interlarded with the most coarse abuse, not only of the witnesses, but of persons wholly unconnected with the trial. Her language and manner of themselves [were] almost enough to convict her, while her appearance bore some marks of former respectability.
The jury found a verdict of guilty; on which the prisoner turned round and exclaimed with vehemence, "Bad luck to you," and continued her violent and vindictive expressions to the door. The Chairman, in passing sentence for transportation for ten years, addressed the prisoner in a very affecting manner, tracing her progress in crime to a love of finery, which was the great bane of so many of her class. The prisoner was sadly crest-fallen, but she gave signs of much greater anguish when her [hat] and other parts of her dress were removed, in order that she might be decorated with the prison garments..
Source: West Briton and Conrwall Advertiser Newspaper Abstracts and Extracts
Camborne Baptisms 1558 - 1664 The Parish Register for Camborne 1538 - 1837 LDS Film No. 236535
noneCamborne Marriages 1817 - 1837 The Parish Register for Camborne 1538 - 1837 LDS Film No. 236535
PRISK, James, sojourner - Phillippa RICHARDS - 10 Jan 1818
VIVIAN, Henry Andrew, widower - Margery PRISK - 21 Nov 1831Camborne Burials 1813 - 1837 The Parish Register for Camborne 1538 - 1837 LDS Film No. 236535
PRISK, Elizabeth of Beacon, 2yrs 8m, 21 Jan 1824, page 905
PRISK, Margery of Brea, 77, 1 Nov 1834, page 942Source: Camborne OPC
Copy will and inventory of William Peires alias Prisk of Mullion 1606 (includes bequest of £10 to poor), extracted from Bodmin probate, registry dated 1606 - ref. P160/25/1 Cornwall Record Office.
Peter Priske, of Helston, Cornwall, late 1700's. Occupation: Sadler, iron monger saddlery/harness, metal work(s)
Listed in Bailey's British Directory [for 1784]; or, Merchant's and Trader's Useful Companion for the year 1784 ... in 4 Volumes ... Volume 1. London; Volume 2 The Western Directory; Volume 3 The Northern Directory; Volume 4 The Eastern Directory. The First Edition, 1784, BAILEY. London Printed by J. Andrews, Little Eastcheap.
Jenny Prisk is mentioned throughout a book by Charlotte Pascoe, printed in 1879. It appears to be a collection of diary entries from 1836 onwards. The entries detail events on the writer's walk around the St Hilary, Cornwall area. I am still trying to find out if the book is based on fact or fiction. Click here to read the book online. Note that to the right is a search function. Searching will result in yellow post-it notes being placed in the book for you to quickly flick to.
Thanks to D. Weddle for this information. You can contact him via the Prisk mailing list.
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/walksaboutsthila00pasciala
Last updated 26 July 2008