CONSTABLE TO BILLING OUTLINE
(including several Quaker families)
Major revision February 2014.
We have used IGI, Quaker, Cornwall OPC and CFHS records,
plus information from over a dozen wills provided by Cornwall
Archives. There are still question marks and unplaced entries.
Corrections and additional information gratefully received!
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A John CONSTABLE is mentioned in documents for the period 1529-32 in connection with a tenement and land called ‘Bake’ in Pelynt,
Cornwall, about 10 miles east of Golant. (C 1 /607/16)
There is another reference re a messuage and land in Eddyns Down; but so far I have not been able to identify this place. (C 1 /650/23)
Is the John CONSTABLE buried at Golant on July 30th 1600 a son of this Pelynt family?
And is this John CONSTABLE, buried in 1600, the father of the Henry and John who both married at Golant around 1567-8?
In the 1569 Cornwall Muster Roll the only two CONSTABLE entries are in Golant: Harry and John, presumably born c. 1540s - both good archers.
Notice that Henry and John both in their turn named their first child John.
And who’s is ‘Amey’ CONSTABLE buried there on April 30th 1596? (Cornwall opc)
Note on the HOCKEN family:
Dorothy and Ann HOCKEN were
daughters of Thomas HOCKEN of
St Breward. Dorothy was chr. there
on Nov. 22nd 1570.
Sister Ann married Reginald BILLING
at St Tudy on Oct. 16th 1592.
In his will of 1643 Reginald BILLING
left 40 shillings to his sister-in-law
Dorithy CONSTABLE.
Loveday HAMBLY the Quaker was
Reginald BILLING’s neice.
(The first marriage entry in the register)
(Henry) CONSTABLE = Joane GOODING / GOU(L)DINGE
(bur. March 24th
1587/58)
birth not located
Curtis CONSTABLE
chr. July 18th 1569
John
John buried: possibly Oct. 3rd 1644
Dorothy buried: April 9th 1648
= Dorathy HOCKEN
of St Breward
(Note: Phillimore has
December 10th 1587
the bride’s name as HOSKIN)
Golant, St Sampson
(Note: only Martha’s father
is given so she may possibly be
John and Phillipe’s child though not mentioned in his will)
UNPLACED
Edmond CONSTABLE
= Margaret ADAM
October 26th 1618
chr. Feb. 24th 1588/89
Martha
Lostwithiel
chr. Dec. 1st 1625 Lostwithiel
Mary
?
(1683 in Bridewell
1705 wrote about the
Quakers’ early struggles
1712 bur. Halbathick)
(4th child)
Golant, St Sampson
chr. Feb. 2nd 1653/4
Margery CONSTABLE
=
5th day 8th mth 1673 bur. 1714 St Breward
St Keyne (SF)
There was another son William: no birth noted; but a
Quaker burial in 1670, his parents recorded as William and Mary.
Golant
chr. Aug. 23rd 1647
Ann
Golant
chr. Nov. 21st 1649
Thomasyne
= John JEWELL
3rd month 1673
buried 1687 at
Liskeard
(SoF registers)
(SoF registers)
(birth still to locate)
of Sampford Courtney
b. 26-1-1675 (SoF)
b. 10-3-1680 (SoF)
b. 6-9-1677 (SoF)
Mary HAWKIN
William
Samuel BILLING = Charity ROBERTS
Thomas
Gabriel RUNDELL =
(clothier of Liskeard)
May 9th 1700
(of Liskeard)
(no further information)
bur.
1719
Halbathick
16th day 5th month 1701
St Endellion
(Ann buried 1721
Halbathick)
Richard HENWOOD
= Christian -----
St Teath
chr. July 30th 1734
Elizabeth HENWOOD =
Port Isaac
b. 11-3-1732 (SF)
Richard BILLING
March 8th 1754
Michaelstowe
b. 7-8-1704 (SF)
Elizabeth
bur. 1738
Halbathick
b. 3-6-1707 (SF)
Thomas
bur. 1710
Halbathick
b. 12-4-1710 (SF)
Nehemiah
bur. 1714
Halbathick
b. 22-7-1712 (SF)
William
(no further
information)
b. 11-?2-1716 (SF)
Samuel RUNDELL
= Mary ALLEN widow of Liskeard
17 day 12th mth 1760
Halbathick, Liskeard
(all Port Isaac, SF register, p.58)
b. 1736
b. 1734
Sarah
Charity
b. 1738
Mary
= William JAMES
22nd day 2nd month 1763
Port Isaac (SF)
(all at Halbathick)
Liskeard
Mary b. 25 - 10 - 1761 buried 1762
b. 26-7-1763
Thomas b. 25 - 12 - 1764 buried 1768
Samuel RUNDELL
William b. 11 - 9 - 1767 buried 1768
Sarah b. 4 - 2 - 1771 buried 1785
? = 1. Martha ----- (bur. 1792)
Mary b. 26 - 10 - 1773 buried 1789
= 2. Sarah JAMES
21st day 1st month 1803 (d. of Wm & Charity)
Perren Wharf
Endellion
chr. Sep. 18th 1756
Charity BILLING
(Charity died
a week later)
(+ 5 others)
= John MITCHELL
Sep. 26th 1782
Endellion
Charity BILLING continued in her grandfather Quaker BILLING’s
steps, establishing a Quaker meeting house in Port Isaac in 1806.
It was of course an earlier BILLING, Loveday HAMBLY, who had
been so passionate in the Quaker cause at Tregongeeves from the 1650s.
Indeed, she became known as the Quaker Saint.
Redruth
b. 14-4-1764
Sarah JAMES = Samuel RUNDELL of Liskeard
21st day 1st month 1803
Perren Wharf
(SoF registers)
Martha 1688
bur. 1690 SoF
1631 Golant
Thamozin
(not traced after 1644)
= Mary POUND
October 8th 1646
(these 3 no births traced, but mentioned in father’s will)
= Walter ROBINS
married 1733
Kea (SoF)
(John ALLEN:
ironmonger of Liskeard)
Thomas 1690
= Joan —
Sarah 1692
bur. 1692 SoF
Martha 1694
bur. 1697 SoF
Courtney 1695/6
bur. 1718 (SoF)
born Sept. 1st 1728 Kea
Mary
= John SCANTLEBURY Junr
of Port Isaac (Endellion)
married 1746
Kea (SoF)
born July 11th 1747
Thomas
The 1641 Protestation Oath lists just one:
Thomas CONSTABLE junior.
b. July 23rd 1749
Richard
SCANTLEBURY
Joanna SCANTLEBURY
m.s. CONSTABLE
died December 30th 1752
aged 27
(last traced SoF entry for
CONSTABLE in Cornwall)
chr. Nov. 19th 1593
John
chr. Nov. 1634
Golant
Edmond (bur. Oct. 21st 1680)
chr. Jan. 8th 1636/7
Thomas
= Jo(h)an HONY (Joan remarried 1687 to
Nov. 24th 1664 John MICHELL. d. 1694)
Menheniot
bur. 1734 SoF
b. June 1st 1751
John
died July 5th 1758
buried at Minver
(d. bachelor: inventory Oct. 1660)
St Sampson
chr. June 28th
chr. Sep. 7th
1669
1672
Thomas
John
= Sarah TINGCOMB
Nov. 19th 1713
Lanlivery
nothing more
known
Mrs Sarah C. wife bur. Sep. 21 (24) 1717 Fowey
Mr Thomas C. bur. April 25th 1719 St Sampson
Edmund
Jone
buried Jan. 19th 1716
chr. Aug. 11th 1639
Henry
chr. June 25th 1643
John
= Mary ---? bur. Jan. 27th 1720
Lostwithiel
(See John CONSTABLE
of Lantian’s will, 1620/21)
referring to his grandchildren)
= Christopher LEANE
Feb. 11th 1650
no birth located
possibly Elenor
Lanlivery
birthday
not known
Elizabeth
= Jonathan PETARS of Swansea
17th day of 6th month 1703
Tregongeeves, St Austell
chr. Dec. 24th 1694 Lostwithiel to Thomas and Mary
Henry CONSTABLE
= Mary —
buried Nov. 11th 1717
"Short blaze of life meteor of human pride
Essay'd to live but liked it not and died
Here lies its dross, the spritely part is gone
To bless abodes where Sin and Death are none.
Quem dij deliqunt juvenis moritur.”
= Ralph HARVEY
December 3rd 1700
Tywardreath
Henry bur.: Dec. 20th 1769 aged 76, parish church of Budock.
Lostwithiel
chr. March 20th 1721
Henry
No further
information
Loswithiel
chr. March 1st 1723
Thomas
Lostwithiel
chr. April 19th 1725
Martha
perhaps = Ann DOUBT
Oct. 11th 1758 (connection to
Falmouth (IGI) be confirmed)
chr. Oct. 5th 1759
Thomas
bur. Nov. 25th 1759
Falmouth
chr. July 24th 1763
Ann
No further
information
Phillip CONSTABLE
buried Dec. 4th 1613
St Winnow (just across the river
from Lantyan)
Lanlivery (IGI)
chr. Nov. 24th 1620
Honour
(An Honor CONSTABLE was
buried April 23rd 1668, Golant)
= Martha SAMUELL (bur. 1692 SoF)
May 23rd 1666 - reported as Dissenters in
the 1683 BTs for Lostwithiel.
St Winnow
Who in 1706 is Henry’s daugther-in-law Mary ELLIOTT?
Lanlivery
chr. January 12th
chr. Feb. 12th
b. 3rd day of 12th
1669
1666/67
month of 1670 SoF
Ellenor
Ann
Thomas (d.by 1706)
(Not mentioned in 1706.
But a son-in-law is:
William SAMUEL?)
UNPLACED:
John CONSTABLE
buried Jan. 30th 1599/1600
- base son of Phillip (female name)
Thomas CONSTABLE UNPLACED:
= Johan BURT
April 28th 1634
= Jane ----June 20th 1616
Lanlivery (IGI)
(Henry bur. Feb. 7th 1706/07
resident Lostwithiel - Quaker)
Impressive monument at St Sampson to Edmund
born Aug. 23rd 1725 Kea
Joanna
chr. Aug. 15th 1568 chr. Nov. 28th 1570
Thomas (buried ? *)
John
= Phillipe ----* There are three Thomas CONSTABLEs
A Phillip CONSTABLE married
listed in these two generations; but only
Henry LAURANCE at Liskeard
one possible burial is listed at
on January 31st 1621/22 (opc)
St Sampson: Jan. 11th 1645/46.
John bur. Jan 23rd 1620/21
Phillipe the executor of his will
Thamosin chr. Oct. 28th 1598 ) (?bur. Oct. 4th 1644 Golant)
Matthew b. 1601, bur. Feb. 18th 1603/4
Nicholas chr. May 13th 1604
Hen(e)ry chr. July 6th 1606 (? bur. June 29th 1679 Golant)
St Sampson
chr. Nov. 21st
chr. Feb.19th
1665
1667
Mary
Elizabeth
= Arthur
= Nicholas
HARRIS
TREVORIAN
Feb. 16th 1685/86 Oct. 8th 1689
Tywardreath
Lanlivery
(Thomas - his will proved 1736 (SoF has 1737)
Parthesia bur. June 28th 1725 Kea Quaker) (SoF has 1724)
(Joan bur. 1729
? Thomas bur. 1736)
born Oct. 22nd 1720
Thomas
? buried Jan. 13th 1737/38 at Kea
Thomas CONSTABLE jnr. (Budock
and Falmouth Quakers)
Mary
Eleanor / Ellinor
in 1694
= Perthesia BROWN(E) = John ALLEN
2nd month 1686 (SF) 10th mth 1692 (SF) Mary DYER
(?= George)
Renies Quethiock
St Keyne
(Thomas sailed to Pennsylvania in 1682
with Blanche; but clearly did not stay!)
Parthesia 1689
bur. Feb. 23rd 1585
‘son of Henrie’
(Still alive in 1652)
Golant, St Sampson
chr. Dec. 20th 1624
William CONSTABLE
Thomas
= Walter BRIDGMAN
June 26th 1686
Middleton Pennsylvania
Curtis’s will (Jan. 1615/16)
and John’s will (Jan. 1620/21)
both give their abode as Lantyan,
an historic site even in the 1600s.
1. = Marie NORTHERNE (bur. Jan.10th 1630/31)
March 8th 1621/2
2 = Elinor ----- (no marriage, no burial located)
Golant, St Sampson
Golant, St Sampson
Middleton Friends meetings
were first established in 1683
(note: RG6 1578 has Perthesia
as Priscilla, throughout)
Mary 1686
bur. 1722 SoF
Liskeard (SF)
Liskeard
b. 7-8-1701 (SF )
b. 8-4-1702 (SF)
chr. Oct 29th 1701 St Endellion
John BILLING
=
Sarah RUNDELL
(Quaker BILLING
26th day 3rd month 1731
of Port Isaac)
Liskeard
= John BANT of Quethiock
6th month 1673
(left 10s in brother Curtis’s will)
chr. Feb. 11th 1595/96
Thomas CONSTABLE (buried Sept. 30th 1644))
chr. Ap. 25th 1593
Grace
bur. Jan. 6th1615/16
(Gratia)
Tywardreath
chr. Feb. 13th 1655
Blanche
Golant
chr. Feb. 18th 1651/2
Jane
birth not located
Jo. (seph?)
birth not located
Thomasine
(all christenings at Golant, St Sampson)
(William’s will dated 1694 refers
to him as a Yeoman of St Keyne)
(Mary buried 1688 (SoF)
or Samuel HAWKYN
(birth still to locate)
of Stoke Climsland
Robert HAWKIN
(left ‘a black horse’ in
brother Curtis’s will)
LAKES, b. 1570 and 1573)
possibly = Richard GATH
January 22nd 1640/41
Golant, St Sampson
(Phillimore’s has Johan; but of
course it could be another Joane)
Robert MAYE was on of the overseers and
witnesses to Curtis CONSTABLE’s will in 1615/16.
George HAWKYN
= Margerie ------(possibly LAKES)
Curtis bur. May 19th 1616
March 10th 1591 /92
Margery bur. March 1st 1643
Golant, St Sampson
(There were two Margerie
chr. June 29th 1597
Joane
= Robert MAY of Blysland
January 9th 1609/10
Golant, St Sampson
chr. Jan. 25th 1574 (/75)
Thomas
John buried: possibly Sep. 26th 1621 ‘John CONSTABLE Senior’
Christian buried: Aug. 10th 1605 ‘wife of John’ Cornwall (opc)
John CONSTABLE
= Christine -------
Nicholl CONSTABLE
= Thomas CONGDON (possibly christened 1548 at St Keyne - IGI)
Nov. 6th 1576
Golant, St Sampson (Phillimore)
Jane, wife of Henrie, buried Nov. 9th 1570.
A second marriage not located; but another
Jane ‘wife of Henrie’ buried April 1st 1588
a week after Henry
September 1568
Golant, St Sampson
No further
information
chr. Dec. 1st 1765
Jane
bur. March 18th 1766
Falmouth
UNPLACED:
Mary CUNSTABLE
= William ALLIN
December 22nd 1687
Tywardreath
(both of St Austell)

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