Phillipa Nakivel TONKIN/DAVEY - died 1869 (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 23:23 (4437 days ago) @ m p griffiths

Hi Marilyn, welcome aboard this crazy storm-tossed ship (least it was in my head last night, I even dreamt about them all !). Hope you & yours are well wrt the gales, kept you off the golf greens I guess ?.
I'm very glad for Margaret that you've dipped your oar in astwere, this one's too much for me to work out, you'll find it a walk in the park (I do hope).

Yes I noticed on LDS the early and surely? related deaths of Sampson & Phillipa last night, very sad it seems. After looking up the Nankival name on FreeBMD and LDS I see it's perhaps not as unusual as I thought, very much centred around Cornwall and Devon to start with altho' I see an 1842 Birth in Aberystyth(coastal mid Wales) so they did get about, the first I see in Cardiff?Ponty area are:

Births Mar 1885
Nankivell Albert Edward W Cardiff 11a 326

Births Mar 1886
NANKIVELL Frederick William Cardiff 11a 3_5

Deaths Mar 1886
Nankivell Frederick William 0 Cardiff 11a 265
Nankivell Mary 24 Cardiff 11a 263 (Mother of Frederick ?)

By WW1 this seemingly rare name is getting upto London, the Midlands and beyond.

I've found this dedicated & very interesting FH site which may yield further good info Margaret ?
http://www.mumma.org/nankivell/
I see:
"A broad history of the family from the 1600s seems to be that the Nankivells were miners (tinners) of Cornwall.
The Nankivells, who in the late 17th century, settled at St Agnes, are thought to descend from the St Columb family. By about 1690, the third generation of the St Agnes family included four brothers: Richard, Benjamin, Samuel and Samson. Each of the brothers left many descendants."

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Hi Margaret, I'm VERY pleased you've seen the actual Census; sorry to ask but hopefully you can understand my reason for asking, sometimes people get attached to a particular PR because it conveniently "fits" in spite of perhaps contradictory evidence elsewhere. Especially in this case where our Thos Davey is unfortuantely rather casual wrt his age etc.

Yes you're right, now that MPG has joined in the three of YOU will sort this one I'm sure. Methinks this mere newbie bloke is struggling on this one, altho I'll try and help of course.

LOL Jeff