Family Tree Family Group Sheet
Born 1823, June 10 in St Day, Cornwall.
Son of Hugh and Elizabeth
Long
Baptised 1823, July 28 in Gwennap, Cornwall
Married to Jane Ann Wearing 1852, Apr 8 in Stoke Climsland, Cornwall
Died 1882, Apr 16 in Burnley, Lancashire.
Jane Ann Wearing was born 1834, Nov 17 in Stoke Climsland. She was baptised 1834, Nov 30 at the Parish Church, Stoke Climsland, Cornwall and died 1893, Jan 6 in Burnley, Lancs.
They had issue:
| Name | Date of Birth | Birthplace | Death |
| William | 1853, Jun 13 | Stoke Climsland, Cornwall | 1923, Feb 24 in Burnley |
| John | 1855, Mar 9 | Stoke Climsland | 1859, Jul 29 |
| Martha | 1856, Nov 17 | Stoke Climsland | 1900, Jan 5 in Burnley |
| Mary Jane | 1858, Oct 21 | Stoke Climsland | 1921, Oct 29 in Burnley |
| John William | 1860, Aug 13 | Pensilva, Callington, Cornwall | 1862, Mar 1 in Pensilva |
| Elizabeth Ann | 1862, Apr 17 | Pensilva | 1864, May 12 in Pensilva |
| Elizabeth Ann | 1864, May 22 | Pensilva | 1947, in Hapton, Lancs |
| John | 1866, May 16 | Pensilva | 1943, in Hapton, Lancs |
| George | 1867, Aug 11 | Pensilva | 1955, in Burnley |
| Francis | 1869, Apr 11 | Pensilva | 1956, in Hapton, Lancs |
| Lavinia | 1870, Oct 27 | Pensilva | 1872, Feb 17 in Pensilva |
| Fred | 1876, Jul 16 | 3 Bank Street, Habergham Eaves, Burnley, Lancs. | 1959, Jan 13 in Blackpool |
| Lavinia | 1877, Sep 9 | Burnley, Lancs. | 1878, Aug 4 |
John, the fifth child of Hugh and Elizabeth Long, was baptised in Gwennap in 1823. When the mines at Gwennap began to close, John found work in the mines at Stoke Climsland, in the north of Cornwall on the border with Devon. In the 1851 Census he is listed as lodging with a family named Donnals at Stoke Climsland. (Mrs Donnals is believed to be his sister, Mary Jane.) On April 8th, 1852 he married Jane Ann Wearing (often written as Werren, which is how the name is pronounced) at Stoke Climsland. Both signed with a cross. The witnesses were Martha Long, his younger sister who married William Trethewey, and William Fisher.
The 1871 census records the family as living in the parish of St Ive, Cornwall, working as a copper miner. By 1876 when Fred was born, they have moved to Habergham Eaves, Burnley, Lancs. However, life was still hard as the 1881 census records John as being an unemployed coal miner. He died a year later aged 58.
Of their 13 children, 5 died in infancy but the rest grew to adulthood and, with the exception of Martha who died when she was 43, lived to a ripe old age!