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The Teague family

The complete Teagues in 1946 in the garden of the Garland Ox, Bodmin
L/R back Dudley, Jean, Nan, Les,
Ellen (Gran), Anthony (me), Fred ('Pop')

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How far back can we go in tracing the Teagues from whom I am descended (among the many other Teagues living in Grampound and Probus)?

This page traces my direct family line. Another page traces the descent of every Teague who lived in Grampound in the 19th century

There is a valuable online resource The Teague Family Resource Center and from that most of the following information comes, until we start to have Census records from 1841.

Ralph Teague & Dinah Harris

Ralph Teague of Probus married Dinah Harris at Probus on 12 May, 1706.

Children (baptised at Probus)
Richard bap 1706
Frances bap 1708
Elizabeth bap 1709, died 1710
William bap 1711
Benjeman bap 1713, died 1715
Benjamen bap 1716

William Teague & Joan Harris
William was baptised in Probus in 1711, the son of Ralph Teague & Dinah (Harris).  He married Jone Harris at Creed 15 April 1734.  Jone/Joan died in 1785 and was buried in Probus.

Children
Isabel bap 1735 in Ladock
Ralph bap 1737 in Probus
William bap 1739 in Ladock
John bap 1741 in Probus
Mary bap 1746 in Probus
Ann bap 1746 in Probus, married Jonathan Pappin 12 April 1769
John bap 1753 in Probus

William Teague and Elizabeth Lorey
William married: Elizabeth Lorey at Creed on 27 May 1760.  William was buried at Creed February 5 1799. Elizabeth was buried at Creed June 10 1810.
Children:
Elizabeth Teague b 1761. Married Walter Bilkey 1786
John Teague baptised at Creed June 20 1762  died in Grampound 25 February 1853
Grace Teague b 1763. Married Luke Williams
Ann Teague b 1765
Jane Teague 1769-1837
Catherine Teague b 1771. Married Matthew Rickard 1802
William Teague b 1775

John Teague & Ann Pardew/Pardoe

[The linked Teague Resources page is incorrect in many respects, what follows is mostly based on the Creed parish records etc] 

My great-great-great-great grandfather John Teague (born 1762) married Ann Pardew (born 1773, died 18 March 1848) at Creed church on November 27 1792. The use of "Pardew" as a given name in generations after this confirms that this is the line of descent of my family. Ann Pardew was baptised in Creed church on 7 April 1773, the daughter of James and Ann Pardew.

A complication is caused because another John Teague married  Ann Bray on 2 Jan 1796 at Creed. There were therefore 2 couples with the same name "John and Ann Teague" and they both gave the name 'John" to sons born in 1802 and 1803 respectively. How to distinguish the two sons? The Creed baptismal records show that twins John and William were born to "John and Ann Teague" on 14 February 1802 "and privately baptised the same day" (the burial of infant William the same year is in the Creed records). The other John Teague was born June 28 1803 and baptised at Creed July 24 1803. In the Census records of 1851 (where ages seem to be more accurate than in 1841) the John Teague who married Jane and whose first son was Henry Purdue Teague is given the age of 47. The other John, who married Emma and had a daughter Ann (who later married Henry Purdue) is listed as being 49. These ages remain constant in the following census records. It seems safe to say that the twins were born in 1802 to the John Teague who married Ann Bray, while the last son of John Teague and Ann Pardew was the John born in 1803. The John Teague who married Ann Bray was baptised in Probus on 18 October 1772, son of Robert and Mary (Beel) Teague, from another branch of the family.

Ann Teague was buried at Creed on 22 March 1848 aged 75, John Teague, "aged 83" (so born 1770), was buried at Creed on  February 26, 1853. This should be the John Teague aged 79 who was lodging with the Richards family at the 1851 Census, listed as "Pauper, once farm labourer." 

The children of John Teague & Ann Pardew/Pardoe:
Mary Ann Teague Baptised at Creed September 4 1794 - buried in 1820 (Married Robert Teague 1817)
James Teague Baptised February 5 1797
Thomas Pentecost Teague born February 2nd, baptised March 3rd 1799, buried January 3, 1866 at Creed.

John Teague was born June 28 and baptised at Creed July 24 1803. John Teague aged 64 (= born 1803) was buried at Creed March 10 1867.

John Teague & Jane/Jenny Green 
My great-great-great grandfather John Teague married Jane (Jenny) Green in Probus on December 25, 1827.

This is the point at which the 1841 Census records start to give more detailed, reliable information.

John Teague,35,,Agricultural Labourer,,
Jane Teague,,35,
Henry Purdue Teague,12, (baptised at Creed 1829)
Mary Teague,,10,
Ambrose Teague,8, (baptised at Creed Sept 14 1832, a daughter Ellen was baptised the same day but seems not to have survived)
Charles Teague,5, (baptised 1837)
Edmund Teague,3,
James Teague,1,

The 1851 Census gives a fuller picture of their family:

(list with added imports):

John Teague, (47, born in 1803), Land Drainer, born in Grampound Cornwall,

Jane Teague, Wife, (48, so born in c1803), born in Probus Cornwall,

Henry Purdue Teague, (21), Land Drainer, born in Grampound Cornwall, baptised 1829

Mary Ann Teague, (20), born in Grampound Cornwall, baptised 1834

Ambrose Teague, (18), Farm Labourer, born in Grampound Cornwall, baptised 1832

Edmund Teague, (13), Miller's Boy, born in Grampound Cornwall, baptised 1837

James Teague, (11), Miller's Boy, Grampound Cornwall, baptised 1839

Josiah Teague, (9), Scholar, born in Grampound Cornwall, baptised 1842

Heywood Teague, (4), born in Grampound Cornwall,

By the 1861 Census, only Josiah and Heywood were still living with their parents.

Ambrose Green Teague was baptised at Creed on Sept 14, 1834, Married Mary Jane Mellett in Mevagissy August 13, 1853,  and was buried at Creed on February 15 1871. His widow remarried (with George Goodman) in 1877 and was buried at Creed on December 21, 1914. They had 8 children (see the page about Grampound Teagues)

Ambrose Green Teague's  son Ambrose George Teague's birth was registered in the St Austell registry in March 1858 but there is no baptism registered until he was belatedly baptized in Kenwyn on February 18, 1883 on the same day as his brother James Henry. Ancestry.com says that Ambrose George was born in Grampound on 27 Oct 1857. Mary Elizabeth Lean Rowe was born in St Ewe, Cornwall, England on 5 Feb 1860 to John Rowe and Elizabeth (Coad). Mary Elizabeth Lean Rowe married Ambrose George Teague in 1877 (not in Creed or other church registers, but recorded in the BMDIndex for December 1877 at "St Austell" so perhaps in a chapel, not a parish church?) and they had at least 15 children. Mary Elizabeth passed away on 24 Jan 1939 in Trewoon, Cornwall, England. Ambrose George passed away on 30 Jan 1944 in Trewoon, Cornwall.
They moved around and several of their children were never baptized. Ancestry.com gives a birthplace for most.
William John R Teague 1878 – 1967 (born St. Stephens)
James Henry Teague 1879 – 1958 (born Cuby)
Ambrose George Teague 1881 – 1924
Beatrice Annie Teague 1883 – 1888 baptized Kenwyn July 18, 1883
Norman Eldred Teague 1884 – 1960 Baptized Mylor June 20 1886
Edward Frederick Charles Teague 1886 – 1920 baptized Mylor June 13 1886
Flossie Nora Teague 1888 – 1929 Baptized Bodmin Sept 22 1891
Florence Annie Teague 1889 – 1954 Baptized Bodmin Sept 22 1891
Percy Ernest Teague 1891 – 1980 Baptized Bodmin Sept 22, 1891
Stanley Teague 1893 – 1969 (born St. Ewe)
Haywood Teague 1895 – 1915 (born Cuby)
Gertrude Lilly Teague 1897 – 1978 (born Truro)
Mary Elizabeth Teague 1898 – 1993 (born Cuby)
Gladys Irene Teague 1900 – 1999 (born Cuby)
Richard Claude Teague 1902 – 1902 (did not survive long)

The last child of John Teague, Haywood Teague (born 1846, registered as Haywood, baptized as Heywood at Creed Sept 13, 1846) moved to Paignton in Devon, as Edward Haywood he married  Elizabeth Ann Drew Nov 22 1868, she died in 1900 and he (as Haywood) married Ellen Greenslade in 1901. He died (as Heywood) in March 1942 in Totnes.

John Teague was buried in Creed on  March 10 1867, aged 64, Jane Teague having been buried at Creed on November 12 1865.

Henry Purdue Teague & Ann Teague

On October 11, 1851, my great-great grandfather Henry (Rowe ? this name only in the marriage record) Perdew Teague" married Ann Teague at Creed. Ann Teague's maiden name was also Teague. In the 1851 Census we find her still at home with her parents. Her father, another John Teague, had married Emma Barnicote at Creed on 17 Mar 1827 :
John Teague, Head, M,49, Shoe Maker Etc., born in Grampound Cornwall  (1802?) (but his baptism is not record at Creed?),
Emma Teague,Wife, M, 48, born in Tregony Cornwall,
Ann Teague,Daughter, Unmarried, 23, Farm Labourer, born in Grampound Cornwall,
[the 1841 Census also lists their son John Teague, 5, baptised 1836, who was buried April 25, 1843]

and at the 1861 Census, in the house next to Henry, Ann and their 4 children we find her parents:
John Teague,Head, 59, Ag Lab, born in Grampound Cornwall,
Emma Teague,Wife,M, 58, born in Tregoney Cornwall,

At the same 1861 Census, we find my great-grandfather John Henry Teague as a child living with his parents:

Born in 1852, my great-grandfather John Henry Teague married young, at 20, on July 20 1872, when the marriage of John Teague to Elizabeth Stephens was celebrated at the Wesleyan Chapel, St. Austell. The bride's father was then residing at St. Stephen.

John H(enry) Teague, 38 (born, then, c1853), Blacksmith, Employer, born in Grampound Cornwall,

Elizabeth Teague, Wife, 37 (born c1854), born in St Stephen in Brannel Cornwall,

Thomas Teague, Son, 17, Blacksmith, Employed, born in Grampound Cornwall,

Helena E(vangeline / Eva) Teague, Daughter, 16, born in Grampound Cornwall
Ethel A(nnie) Teague, Daughter, 10, Scholar, born in Grampound Cornwall,

Fred Teague, Son, 5, Scholar, born in Grampound Cornwall, in 1886,  my grandfather

Joseph S(tephens) Teague, Son, 3, born in Grampound Cornwall,

[three children were born who did not survive:
James Henry Teague (born 1877)
Frederick George Teague (born 1879)
Emmeline Teague (born 1884)

To these must be added (from the 1901 Census, where the full name of the father, John Henry Teague is given) Harold John Perdeux Teague (7, his birth registered in June 1893), the traditional name being apparently spelled Perdeaux in the 1911 Census, by which time only he and Ethel were living with their parents, and John Henry was listed as “Dairy Man."

Elizabeth Teague died on February 12, 1919, and was buried in Creed churchyard on February 15.
John Henry Teague died on November 18, 1928 and was buried at Creed on November 21.

(Above) The Teague family sometime in the 1920s Standing - left to right: Auntie Ethel, Uncle Steve, Uncle Harold, Fred (my grandfather), Auntie Eva Sitting - Uncle Tom, John Henry Teague (my great-grandfather) (Right) The Teague family in 1892-3 (before the birth of Harold)  John Henry Teague      Thomas   Ethel Annie      Helena Evangelina (Eva)               Elizabeth          Joseph Stephens (Steve)    Fred

Thomas, the oldest child, known to me as “Uncle Tom,” lived a few miles away in the village called Grampound Road and for some reason I was never once taken to see him, neither by my father nor by Ruby Dunn with whom I stayed at Grampound several times. In 2020 I was contacted by his grand-daughter Susan Dyer whose father Bernard John Teague was only born in 1935 and is still alive in 2020. Thomas Teague was born in Grampound on 30 April 1873 (but was only baptized at Creed on 26 April, 1874) and died on 14 January 1958 in St Stephen in Brannel. On 3 Novermber 1898 he married Teresa Ann Parsons (1865-1933) and they had 3 children, Annie Kate Teague (1900-1964), Kenneth Harold Teague (1902-1974), and Cyril Herbert Teague (1906-1922). Thomas Teague also worked in the post office, like Steve and Fred. He was an ardent Methodist, a local preacher. He also served for a time as a magistrate. After a stroke he was confined to a wheelchair for the last 14 years of his life. After his wife died in January 1933, (buried at St. Stephen) Thomas married a widow, Gwendoline Basset (1895-1972, nee Wallis) in 1934 when she was 38 and in May 1935 they had a son, Bernard John Teague.

Steve (Joseph Stephen), Eva (Helena Evangeline)  and Ethel (Ethel Annie) never left Grampound.

Eva (Helena Evangelina) was born in 1875, but there is no record of her baptism. At the 1901 census she was working as a "domestic housekeeper" in Torquay, and by the 1911 Census she was domestic to a surgeon living at 70 Harley Street, London. She remained unmarried, living by 1939 in the old family home, Treglines, where I remember her in the 1950s as a rather intimidating old lady with a bristly chin, somewhat Methodist, stern though kind. She died in 1963.

Ethel ( Ethel Annie) was baptized at Creed on 19 June 1881. She belatedly married Tom Kemp in March 1931, they had no children and lived in one of the last houses at the top of the village. She died in 1957.

Joseph Stephens Teague (Steve) was born on 29 November 1887 but only baptized at Creed on 1 April, 1888. He became the postmaster of Grampound, the post office in my childhood being in the projecting porch of the house next to the Dolphin Inn, on the other side of the street to the house named Mirfield, which John Henry also owned and where he lived latterly. Steve married Nora Annie Hutchens (born c1900 in Penzance) in 1923, and their first child, Nora Elizabeth, was born 7 September, 1924. Her married name was Gummow. She died 31 May, 2019. To avoid confusion with her mother she was usually called "Rona" Their son Richard H. S. Teague (born 7 August. 1926, died 23 August, 2011) was considerably younger than Fred's sons Dudley  and Leslie (my father), having being born in 1926. He worked in the Post Office, lived in Grampound for much of his life but moved to Bristol latterly,  when contact with him on my side of the family was unfortunately lost. Steve served a Clerk to the Grampound Parish Council from 1925 until 1955. He died on July 22, 1971.  A short text by Richard Teague about Mirfield and Treglines Cottage etc. was published in "The Book of Grampound with Creed" (1998)

Of my grandfather's generation, only he, Fred, and his younger brother Harold John Perdew left Grampound and became part of modern urban society.

Fred Teague was my grandfather and the record of his baptism shows that he was officially named Fred (as opposed to Frederick). He was born 12 November, 1885, then baptized at Creed on 14 March, 1886. Why he was simply baptized “Fred” while his younger brother was “Harold John Perdew” is a mystery. Another Teague family in Grampound used the name Purdue, there might be a relationship. By 1911 he had left Grampound and risen in social standing by becoming a “Sorting Clerk And Telpt (telephonist?)” in the GPO in Cirencester. He was lodging as a border at 2 Victoria Villas Victoria Road Cirencester on the 1911 Census day. He must already have been engaged, and his marriage with Frances Ellen Dunn, the school-mistress from up the road in Grampound, was celebrated in September that year in Grampound (almost surely at Creed Church but the records seem to be lost).

Returning to my grandparents, Fred and Frances Ellen, their first son, Frederick Dudley, was born at Cirencester on June 20, 1912. Their second son, Thomas Leslie, was born on February 2, 1914, also in Cirencester. He was my father. Both were always known by their second name, a common thing in their mother’s family.

             Not long after this they moved to Plymouth, living in the area of Devonport known as Peverell, which was the name my parents gave th house where they lived in Upland Crescent in Truro, a name it still retained in 2020. Just as the Second World War began to bring destruction to Plymouth with the Blitz, my paternal grandparents left Plymouth and took charge of the Garland Ox Inn in the centre of Bodmin. There they lived until 1947, when they retired to Winton / Moordown on the outskirts of Bournemouth, at 2 Grenfell Road. There Fred (“Pop”) became owener/manager of the Bournemouth Paper Bag Company for a number of years. He died of bone cancer on 6 August, 1958, and some time later Gran went to live in a flat in Dudley’s house at Ryde, Isle of Wight. She died there on 21 January, 1974. I do not know if Gran ever knew that her grandfather John Dunn had lived and been married on the Isle of Wight or that her uncle John had been born there. Probably not.

Leslie (my father) married Nan Albina Green at Kea Church on October 1, 1938, and I (Anthony Graham) was born January 3, 1942, their only son. Leslie died on March 26, 1985.

Dudley married Jean Stewart from Calne in Wiltshire (born January 13, 1913) in 1940. Dudley died on April 26, 1991. Jean died on 24 April, 2008.

         Andrew Jeremy, their only son, was born 25 September 1951. He married Celia Marshal (born 1/11/49) in Brighton on 24 August 1982, and their children are Timothy (7/6/84) Amelia (1/11/85) Madeleine (3/8/88) and Cordelia (9/2/92) Of these so far only Amelia (Foster) has children, 2 boys, Freddie (24/7/13) and Luca (4/1/16).