Family Group Sheet for Hugh Long
Husband:

Hugh Long
Birth:

Abt. 1729
Baptism:

27 Apr 1729 in Gwennap, Cornwall, England
Marriage:

27 May 1751 in Gwennap, Cornwall, England
Father: Hugh Long
Mother: Mary
Wife:

Martha Youren
Birth:

Abt. 1730
Father:
Mother:
Children:
1
Name:

John Long
M
Birth:

Abt. 1752
Baptism:

25 Apr 1752 in Gwennap, Cornwall, England
2
Name:

Mary Long
F
Birth:

Abt. 1754
Baptism:

7 Sep 1754 in Gwennap, Cornwall, England
Death:

9 Jul 1755 in Gwennap, Cornwall, England
3
Name:

William Long
M
Birth:

Abt. 1756
Baptism:

2 Oct 1756 in Gwennap, Cornwall, England
Marriage:

10 Aug 1783 in Gwennap, Cornwall, England
Spouse: Ann Blamey
4
Name:

Mary Long
F
Birth:

Abt. 1759
Baptism:

15 Oct 1759 in Gwennap, Cornwall, England
Marriage:

3 Dec 1781 in Gwennap, Cornwall, England
Spouse: Henry Tregilgas
5
Name:

Martha Long
F
Birth:

Abt. 1762
Baptism:

2 May 1762 in Gwennap, Cornwall, England
Death:

9 May 1764 in Gwennap, Cornwall, England
6
Name:

Martha Long
F
Birth:

Abt. 1765
Baptism:

3 Aug 1765 in Gwennap, Cornwall, England
Death:

1766
7
Name:

Martha Long
F
Birth:

Abt. 1767
Baptism:

15 Aug 1767 in Gwennap, Cornwall, England
Marriage:

9 Jan 1803 in Gwennap, Cornwall, England
Spouse: Peter Jose
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Family Group Sheet for Hugh Long
8
Name:

Catherine Long
F
Birth:

Abt. 1770
Baptism:

29 Apr 1770 in Gwennap, Cornwall, England
Death:

1786
Notes
Hugh Long

Notes from Jillian Trethewey:

 

 

 

 

 

Hugh and Martha were very traditional in naming their children: eldest son after the father's father, daughters named after their mother and grandmother. Infant mortality was high and Hugh and Martha were not unusual in losing three of their seven babies in infancy. It was also not uncommon to give the next baby of the same sex the same name as a previous baby that had died.

 

Four of the children survived infancy but so far no descendants of Hugh (1752), or Mary (1759) have been traced.

 

 

 
Fact Notes for Hugh Long

Hugh Long (~1729) and Martha Youren and their children were all born in Gwennap, but it is not possible from the sketchy information in the parish register to say whether or not the family was living at St Day, part of Gwennap, at that time.

 
William Long

Notes from Jilliam Trethewey:

 

William Long and Ann Blamey were married at Gwennap on the 10th August 1783. Neither could read or write as both signed the marriage register with a cross. The witnesses were Daniel Blamey, brother of the bride, and John Barnett.

 

The Blamey family also lived in Gwennap. Ann was most likely the daughter of John and Catherine Blamey. John Blamey married Catherine Quick in 1747 at Gwennap. They had 15 children: John 1748, James 1749, Catherine 1750, Elizabeth 1753, Ann 1754, Daniel 1756, Mary 1758, Joel 1759, Mary 1761, Leah 1762, Francis 1764, Jane 1766, Catherine 1765, Ambrose 1768 and William 1770. Probably more than one of these children died in childhood.

 

Altogether there were at least eight Blamey families in Gwennap around the time Ann was born, probably all related. Of the three Ann Blameys born in Gwennap between 1751 and 1759, only John's daughter (see above) had a brother Daniel (later to be a witness at her wedding).

 

The most famous member of the Blamey family in Australia was Field Marshall Sir Thomas Blamey (1884-1951), who was Chief of Staff in World War I and who commanded the Allied Land Forces in New Guinea and the south western Pacific in World War II. His father was Richard Blamey, born c1846, who lived in Newquay, Cornwall, before emigrating to Qeensland in 1862. Whether there is a link between the Field Marshall's family in Newquay and the Gwennap Blameys is yet to be established.

 
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