Talland Church Headstones

Headstone 426

~ Sandstone ~ Tombchest with brick sides

Ancestry Records – shows John Quiller, as a bachelor and gentleman, and is Sophia’s uncle. In 1861 census John is living with Sophia’s family – her father, Thomas Rowett (1783-1864), brother, husband, and baby son, on Talland Hill, Polperro.

John Quiller was born in Liverpool and was a Master Mariner and Captain of the ‘Statesman’, barque, 345 tons. Documents show he would regularly carry merchandise & passengers to Port Phillip (Melbourne) & Sydney: typically

150 barrels bottled beer, 10 quarter-casks sherry wine, 200 cases sherry, 5 pipes & 10 half-pipes gin, 100 boxes cheese, 20 bhds cognac, 10 bhds Jamaica rum, boxes of muscatel raisins, 25 hampers double Glo’s cheese, 5 tons zine plates, 6 domestic flour mills, cases clay pipes, 50 barrels mess pork, 100 firkins butter, 30 barrels prime mess pork, 30 barrels biscuits, 96 casks oatmeal, 51 casks strong ale, 6 casks oil paints, 240 firkins butter, 50 barrels Hamburgh pork, 100 barrels pearl barley, 100 barrels split peas, 43 barrels cheese, 35 crates earthenware, 16 kegs tobacco, 84 seals & weights, 6 iron wheels, 10 tons fine sand, 90 tons of coarse salt, 20 lamps rock salt, 1 cask chain, 13 chains, 11 anchors, 15 bars, 34 kegs nails, 2 bales canvas, 1 bale twine….

Agents: Dunlop, McNab & Co.