First Generation
William? ANDREW.
Born ca 1750 in North Cornwall, England. Occupation: farmer.
- According to a previous family researcher: The paternal great-grandfather [of William Andrew born 1848], William Andrew, who was a native of North Cornwall, England, was engaged in farming and his son, William Andrew, the subject's paternal grandfather, also followed the same vocation at North Cornwall. (as per article on great grandson William Andrew, published in a book entitled "Past and Present of Prince Edward Island", published by B.F. Bowen & Co., page 315, published approx 1906)
RESEARCH NOTES:
- This name [William] and family came from family sources and may not be accurate. Children originally listed may have been confused with son William’s children (same names: John, Richard, Thomas, Elizabeth) so I have removed them.
So far we have been unable to trace this line back further. Here are some thoughts from another Andrew researcher:
- There was a William Andrew(s) baptised in 1748 in the Parish of St Kew, born to William and Letitia Andrews. St Kew is a stones' throw from Kilkhampton, roughly between Bodmin and the North coast....and looks to be a small farming community.
- Another thought, is that if William didn't arrive overland, he might have come by sea. I have been looking at the coastal trade around Cornwall in the 1700's and it was a thriving trade. Bude, about four miles from Kilkhampton was quite a busy port. I found a William born in St Michael's Mount which is on the south coast, near Penzance - I forget just when - in the registers, and his father's occupation was listed as Mariner!
- Richard Andrew, who I think, married an Ann Martyn in Kilkhampton, then took her back to Woolfardisworthy, which is given as his domain. Now Woolfardisworthy (pronounced Woolsery) is one of two places of the same name in Devon, located quite close together. But one is just across the Devon/Cornwall border from Kilkhampton and Morwenstow. So that might be another line of enquiry. If he lived and farmed there, the chances are that his family did too. It just seemed odd that he would cross the border to a different parish, let alone County, to marry, so there may be other family connections.
- 2012: From the same researcher: “I am still working on my theory that the Andrew(s) clan expanded expontentially along the existing roads from Holsworthy, Devon, and points north-east......in the eighteen century....there is evidence that as local marriages took place, the Andrews took up residence to the west and north of Holsworthy.”
- 2013: There was another woman I was corresponding with, years ago, whose details I lost in a computer break-down.... I am sure it was her that I got the information I mentioned, about the Andrews in Kilkhampton renting a farm and mill, though originally coming from the Holsworthy area. She is only very distantly related, if at all, I seem to remember, and had got the info from the Land Registry. I know I spent hours combing the the LDS site....which was not as user-friendly then as it is now....and could distinctly trace the spread of an Andrews family from villages to the East and North of Holsworthy along the road to the west and then north, as they married local people. There seemed to be Andros family members in the vicinity from the 1500s... I am still inclined to think that the name originated in Spain....though obviously not from the Armada days, but the Queen before Elizabeth the first was married to the Spanish King, Philip, so I assume there would have been trade and immigration between the two countries.