Cousin from Thomas Rowe Hender and Mariana TroutCompiled and Anotated by Don R. HenderThe Thomas Rowe Hender family looks to have had a rough go at things. Despite being a trained and skilled professional 'Watchmaker', it was not the best of times for those who made watches by hand in private shops. The price for the 'necessary' pocket watch, which all men aspired to posses, have been driven down by the mass production line produced watches from America. The Americans were into mass production assembly lines factories and the quickly and cheaply made American pocket watch could not be competed with in price by the Enlish watch and clock makers in the mid-1800s. Thus we find Maryaina Hender at a Union Workhouse in 1847 in Liskeard where it was that their second child and daughter Ellen Hender was born. Just what Thomas Rowe Hender had to turn to for gainful employment is currently not know. On the 1851 census, and on his children's certificates he is still listed by his 'profession' of being a watchmaker, but that may have been more 'status' than the reality of the matter. Like his two surviving sons, he may have had to have turned to the sea, but as stated there is no information concerning that.
Selina Toms was the daughter of William Toms of Polperro, Lansollos/Talland (West Looe) Cornwall (appears to be the son of Francis and Mary Toms/ages 45 and 40 found in West Looe in 1841) and Maria his wife of East Looe. James Toms is the son of James Toms a Harbour Pilot of East Looe, Cornwall (he appears to be the son of Francis and Mary Toms/ages 55 and 50 of East Looe), and his wife Susanna also of East Looe. Thus there appears to be no immediate relationship between these two Toms families despite the odd coincidence that there are two Francis and Mary Toms families, one in West Looe and the other in East Looe whose ages are 10 years apart from each other. I doubt that both of those Francis Toms are children of the same parents, so that pushes any possible relationship even one more generation back.
Residence(s): West Looe, Polruan, St Austell
Occupation(s): Seaman, Sailor, Fisherman, HM Coast Guard, Postman
William Hender = Selina Toms
b 1 Sep 1850 | b 1858
East Looe |
m 5 Oct 1878 |
Plymouth Devon |
d 2nd qtr 1917 | d 24 Sep 1937
St Austell | St Austell a78
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| Adela Hender William Hender Maria Toms Hender Harry Hender
| b 15 Jul 1879 b 4 Jan 1881 b 16 Apr 1882 b 19 Jun 1883
| West Looe West Looe West Looe West Looe
| cb 9 Feb 1880 cb 8 Apr 1881 cb 28 Nov 1884 cb 28 Nov 1884
| Looe Looe Looe Looe
| m 29 Apr 1901 d Feb 1886 a6 d Jan 1886 a4 m
| St Austell db 8 Feb 1886 db 27 Jan 1886
| = Matthew Salt St Martin Looe St Martin Looe =Elizabeth Gwendoline
| Smith (d 1970)
| b 7 Nov 1888
|_____________________________ St Austell
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Charlie Hender William Toms Hender
b 4 Mar 1885 b 20 Jul 1890
West Looe Polruan
cb 22 Apr 1885 m 28 Aug 1909*
Looe Wilkes Barre PA
m = Charlotte S Bailey
= Clara Slogget
d 10 Feb 1920
Lincoln, Oregon
* As William Toms Hender was only age 19 on 28 August 1909, he 'falsified' his
age as to appear to be age 22 on the marriage license. His real birth date
is 20 July 1890, he listed it as 20 August 1887. It would have been quite
difficult to go through all the 'parental' approvals as I believe that his
parents William and Selina were still living back in Cornwall, England. View
the registered summary of their marriage show below.
Family of William Toms Hender & Charlotte S. Bailey
Residences: West Looe, Cornwall, England, Wilkes Barre PA, USA
Occupations: Laborer Cotton Mill, Fireman, Trucking
Charlote Hender Bailey daughter of George Bailey and Phoebe Pophan
William Toms Hender = Charlotte S. Bailey
b 20 Aug 1890* | b 11 Jan 1889 (death certificate)
W. Looe | Weston Supermare Somerset
m 28 Aug 1909 |
Wilkes Barre PA |
| d 5 May 1935
| Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne
| Corn. Ambolism (3mo PG)
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| Enid Hender Murial Hender William Hender Charles Hender
| b 1908** b 1911/1 b 1913 b 1916
| (12/1920c) (8/1920c) (7/1920c) (4/1820c)
| Oregon** Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania
| d 1972
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Harry Richard Hender Rita Olive Hender Raymond Hender
b 1918 (2/1820) b 1920 (2mo)c b 1924 (6/1930)
b 1918-1972
* Marriage certificate age was falsified as William was but 19 years old,
still a minor under 21, so he reported his age as being born 20 Aug 1887 to
appear to be of full-age 22.
** Enid Hender is somewhat of an enigma as her birth was before the marriage
and perhaps even before William Toms Hender comes to America in 1909. That
this listing has her birth as occuring in Oregon is of further unaswered
interest at this point in time. It was William's brother Charly who had
established himself on the west coast and possibly had lived in Oregon about
the time of Enid's birth but that does nothing but to increase the mystery
with adding additional muddled facts.
Sources: 1910 Census
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On the 1841 Census we find Thomas Hender, watchmaker listed as age 15 due to the 1841 census age rounding
rules. Beginning at age 15 and above, it was the common instruction to list the 'adult' ages to the next
lowest 5 year interval age. Thus age 15 on the 1841 census could be for any person from age 15 to 19 and
Thomas Rowe Hender would have been about age 18 or so at the time. At the time he was boarding at the house
of Richard Gaskin and his wife Mary Gaskin, both reported at age 65 (65-69), with a number of other bachelor
trained professonals, such as William Powell, a chandler; John Taylor, a painter; and Samuel Gaskin, a Tailor.
The house was on Pike Street, Lanlivery of the Bodmin District, Borough of Liskeard. At that age it is likely
that he was in the last stages of his 'apprentiship' and an actual beginning watchmaker.
