Talland Church Headstones

Records of Headstones, Tombs, and Slates at Talland Church

Samuel Slade 1789-1866

Headstone 336

~ Slate ~ Semi-circled top with concave shoulders

  • Samuel Slade 1789 – 12 December 1866
    • Aged 77 years
    • of Polperro
    • Husband of Jane Slade
    • Father of Elizabeth & Selina Slade
    • “Therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as ye think not the son of man cometh”
      • Parish Records show
      • Buried 16 December 1866
  • Talland Church Marriage
    • Samuel Slade to Jane Hambly
    • 18 July 1815
  • Jane Slade 1791 – 29 May 1855
    • Aged 64 years
  • Elizabeth Slade 1822 – January 1853
    • Aged 32 years
  • Selina Slade 1833 – 9 June 1855
    • Aged 22 years

Will of Samuel Slade, Joiner of Talland, dated 24 December 1866. DRB/WR/10/197 Kresen Kernow

Ancestry records – show on the 1851 census: Samuel Slade, Master Carpenter, employing 1 man. Wife, Jane, and three daughters, dressmakers, include Elizabeth & Selina, and one son. Living at 12 Bevil’s Rowe, Coombs, Polperro. On the 1861 census: Samuel Slade, Carpenter, and Widow. Living alone on the Coombs.

Samuel Slade (1789-1866) was the eldest son of Samuel (1762-1809) and Elizabeth Libby (1768-) who married at Talland in 1788. Elizabeth was the eldest daughter of John Libby and Agnes Minards.

Samuel Slade (1789-1866) married Jane Hambly of Fowey in 1815 and became a master carpenter. They had 11 children:

  1. Samuel (1816-1900) married Elizabeth Snell (daughter of Joseph Snell and Elizabeth) – this family moved to Poplar, Middlesex where Samuel was a master carpenter and model maker.
  2. Thomas (b1817), also a carpenter.
  3. John Jones (b1819) married Ann H. John, and later his sons, Samuel, John and Peter were shoe/boot makers.
  4. Jane Ann (1821-1895) married fisherman John Oliver (son of Jane Simons and John Oliver).
  5. Elizabeth (1822-1853), dressmaker. She and her sister Mary never married.
  6. Mary (1824-1846); ‘the faithful servant of Duloe Rectory’ see Headstone 335
  7. Susan Dunford (b1826) married postman James Edgecombe in 1852.
  8. William (b 1829), cabinet maker, married Ann Fiddick.
  9. Agnes (1829-1830), twin sister of William.
  10. Agnes (b1830) married agricultural labourer Charles Leach in 1850.
  11. Selina (1833-1855) married master mariner William Toms (son of Francis Toms and Mary Keast) in 1855 and died five months later.
‘The Slade Family and a Mysterious Death’ – Polperro Family History Society J5
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