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MARY'S FAMILY - MOLLON / LOCKERY BRANCH
This page contains brief family summaries for one
of Mary's
ancestral branches, the Mollon's and Marshall's from County
Cornwall and Plymouth in England, and the Lockery's and
Gardner's from Counties Clare and Galway in Ireland.
The Family Summaries pages, such as this one, do not
contain
complete listings of ancestors or their siblings or descendants.
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Contents of this Page:
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Surname List: Ames, Blackman, Cheesworth, Ender,
Ernst, Feavel, Gehrmann, Gilbert, Hall, Hennings, Hillery,
Hoffman, Jeffery, Locke, Marshall, Marten, Mollon,
Gardner, Lockery, Saber, Sarber, Stanton, Wakeman.
Links to Other Pages on this Web Site:
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& two oldest kids, William and Dorothy
Mollon / Marshall / Lockery / Gardner:
Mollon and Marshall and Related Families:
Hugh MOLLON was born about 1705 in a village called Marhamchurch, Cornwall, England. Hugh married Susanna [GILBERT] on November 15, 1730. We found three sons of Hugh and Susanna: John, William, and Richard, [STANTON]. Richard’s children emigrated to Canada in about 1845. For more information about Richard and his siblings (and their descendants), please refer to the Detailed Genealogies pages of this web site.
William Mollon, second son of Hugh and Susanna was born 1736 in Marhamchurch. He married Mary CHEESWORTH at the village of Week St. Mary in 1769 and moved back and forth between Week St. Mary & the village of Poundstock (both in Cornwall) before finally settling in Poundstock. William and Mary had seven children. Their fourth child Hugh was born in 1776.
Marhamchurch, Poundstock, Week St. Mary and the other quaint villages of the north eastern coastal area of Cornwall present a varied land and sea-scape. These quiet villages are perched on cliffs that tower over four hundred feet high from which the spectator can look westward over the Atlantic Ocean with no land between this shore and the coast of Canada. This is a romantic country with hilly pastures and wide breezy farmlands that call us to return to this land of our forefathers.
The 1843 Tithe Book for Poundstock stated that an “Elizabeth Molland (owner)” of Treskinnick Cross lived at #1130. The lot was a 12 parcel area of land with a house and garden. We found a plat map of the area and it showed #1130 as an “L” shaped building at what now is the end of the road in Treskinnick Cross. It also showed the other buildings in the village and the roads, which helped us determine exactly where things were located.
The Northern Cornish Coast is where you’ll find Poundstock and Treskinnick Cross, remnants of villages of long ago. About all that is left of Poundstock is the picturesque church with its ancient Guildhouse, both hidden off the main road on a very narrow, hedge-lined road. Poundstock is considered an historic site of major significance in England.
Treskinnick Cross is a cross-roads village, now by-passed by the main highway. It consists of a few businesses, and new and remodeled homes. One of the former residents of #1130, Mrs. Marshall (now living in a new home in the village), told us the old Marshall house was rebuilt in the same L-shape, keeping one wall of the original house and was painted its current yellow color. The gray house immediately to the north of the yellow house was the carpenter's shop where we believe the Mollon men learned and practiced their carpenter trade. Mrs. Marshall told us the carpenter house was built of "cob" which is rock, mortar, hay, corn cobs etc. in the old Cornish fashion.
On one of the corners in Treskinnick Cross there is also a blacksmith shop, constructed of fieldstone, that they said was an original building. Records indicate some of the Mollon’s were blacksmiths so I would guess that is where they did their work. Various records indicated that the Mollon men tended to be carpenters and blacksmiths as well as owners of farms with livestock & gardens.
Hugh Mollon born in 1776 in #1130 Treskinnick Cross, married Mary HENNINGS in 1804, at Week St. Mary. Shortly thereafter, Mary gave birth to their only son John. Unfortunately, Mary died during childbirth leaving Hugh to raise John alone.
In 1807 Hugh married Elizabeth JEFFERY (the lady listed as owner in the 1843 Tithe Book) and they had 3 sons, Richard, William, and Jacob.
Hugh & Elizabeth Jeffery MOLLON’s son William, born in 1810 in Poundstock, married Mary MARSHALL born about 1819 in Trewen, Cornwall (active research is ongoing to clarify & obtain more information about Mary). William and Mary were married August 15, 1837 in the Parish of Laneast. Their children were: John Marshall, born 1839, Margaret M., Mary E, and William Henry Herbert Mollon. They moved to Plymouth, Devon, England where William was a joiner (master carpenter) in Her Majesty’s Royal Navy. They lived at #7 Milne Place, the area of Plymouth, just to the east of the shipyards, which was designated for the employees of the Navy.
Their youngest son, William Henry Herbert (Harry H) Mollon, born 1855 in Plymouth, England, came to the USA in 1881 and settled in Oshkosh Wisconsin. Harry married Mary E. LOCKERY (b. 1861) in Oshkosh in 1886. (see next section for information on the Lockery’s) The MOLLON family moved to Dale Wisconsin. They had three sons born 1888-1892. The oldest son born 1887 died in infancy. The second was my grandfather, William Cassius Mollon born 1888, who married Katherine GEHRMANN born 1890 (see separate pages on this web site for the Gehrmann's). The youngest son, John R. Mollon [ENDER & HALL] born 1892, lived in Neenah Wisconsin.
William and Katherine had four children, my father, William born 1913 [ZARNOTH] (see separate page on this website), Dorothy born 1914 [ERNST], Mary born 1920 [MARTEN], and Harold born 1923 [HOFFMAN].
The names listed above in square brackets [IN CAPS]
are the surnames of their spouses.
Ancestral Villages of Mollon, Marshall, and Related Families
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Lockery and Gardner Families from Ireland:
In western Ireland there are six miles of dark, rough-hewn cliffs that plunge into the Atlantic. These are the Cliffs of Moher, on the western coast of Ireland – one of Ireland’s most-visited attractions. The Cliffs are a spectacular sight. From heights of up to 668 ft. the cliffs fall to the sea for an amazing view of the Aran Islands, Galway Bay and Connemara. These limestone walls have been hammered by the ocean into one of Ireland’s most majestic natural features.
Just 4 miles inland from the cliffs is Lisdoonvarna,
the ancestral village of my
g-g-grandmother Jane Hillery (Hillery was her middle name)
GARDNER, the daughter of James GARDNER and Brigett HILLERY. Lisdoonvarna,
County Clare, is now a bustling little spa town made up of colorfully painted
homes and businesses. The weather was cool and damp while we were there
and the sweet smell of ‘turf’ fires hung in the air. We were touched by this
quaint and friendly village.
The nearby County Clare fishing village of Doolin is famed for being the “Home of traditional Irish music”. Its lively pubs serve plenty of ale and plenty of music. We partook of both at Doolin’s “Gus O’Connor’s Pub”, a world-known stop for tourists as well as a favorite of the local folks.
A few miles further inland, in the neighboring county of Galway, is Gort, an Eighteenth Century market town with a large wedge-shaped marketplace. The parish of St. Colman MacDaugh founded in 1825, could possibly be the parish of the Lockery clan as there were several tombstones with the Lockery name on them in that cemetery.
Gort is where Cornelius LOCKERY was born in 1832. He married Jane Hillery GARDNER in Maine in 1856. Jane and Cornelius moved to Oshkosh Wisconsin where Cornelius, "Conner", was engaged in the lumber business. Cornelius and Jane had ten children, two of whom, died in their infancy. The remaining eight children were born in Oshkosh between 1861 to 1871 and were raised in Shiocton, where the Lockery's moved in 1880 to begin farming. Their children, listed in birth order, are: Mary [MOLLON]; Sarah (Sadie) [BLACKMAN]; Kathryn [AMES]; Ceclia [AMES]; James A. or E.; Michael [LOCKE]; William [WAKEMAN] and Cornelius (Jr.) [FEAVEL]. William and Cornelius (Jr) were twins.
Jane had a sister Laura who also came to Oshkosh and married John EDWARDS. They had three daughters: Nettie, Tessie, & Sarah, who married D.O. SABER (may be SARBER).
The names listed above in square brackets [IN CAPS] are the surnames of the spouses.
Ancestral Villages of Lockery, Gardner, and Related Families
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