William Toms (-)

Elizabeth Evans (-)

Mary Ann Toms (1798-1863)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: John Vivian of Townshend, M.R.C.S. Banfield Teague Vivian of Townshend, M.D. Lavinia Ann Vivian Julia Vivian Vivian John Vivian of Townshend, M.D. Mary Ann Toms 1 Born: 1798, Devonport, Devonshire, England Christened: 2 Dec 1798, Stoke Damerel, Devon, England 2 Married: 17 Feb 1822, Falmouth, Cornwall 3 Buried: 13 Jan 1863, Crowan, Cornwall 3   Research Notes: In 1861 Mary Ann Vivian, aged 61, born in Devonport Devon, and husband John Vivian, aged 63, born in Camborne Cornwall, Licenciate of the Apothecaries, Corn., Regst'd General Practitioner, were living in Townsend, Crowan, Cornwall. With them were sons Banfield P. [sic] (37) of Marazion, Licenciate of the Apothecaries, Corn., Regst'd General Practitioner, and John (21) of Crowan, student in medicine. ---------------------------- Mary Ann Vivian of Crowan died aged 64 years (burial record).   Marriage Information: Mary married John Vivian, son of Cpt. Andrew Vivian of Camborne Town and Frances Knight, on 17 Feb 1822 in Falmouth, Cornwall. (John Vivian was christened 21 May 1797 in Camborne, Cornwall and died on 6 Sep 1876 in Townshend, Crowan, Cornwall, aged 79 years.)   Marriage Notes: John Vivian of the parish of Marazion, bachelor, and Mary Ann Toms of this parish, spinster Married by Licence Witnesses: Joseph Banfield, And. Vivian

1 In The Visitations of the County of Cornwall, p. 546, the wife of John Vivian is called "Mary Ann, da. of . . . . . . Banfield." This is incorrect inasmuch as there is neither a marriage record for John Vivian and Mary Ann Banfield nor a birth/baptism record for Mary Ann Banfield in Devonport about 1798. John actually married to Mary Ann Toms in Falmouth in 1822, and it is worth noting that one of the witnesses was a Joseph Banfield, and of course Mary Ann's eldest son's first given name was Banfield. Furthermore, Mary Ann was christened in Stoke Damarel Devonshire (which adjoins Devonport); her parents were married in 1786 in Falmouth, had children there until 1793, whereafter they were in Devonport having children from 1796 to 1808 (all christened in Stoke Damarel), the second-youngest of whom was named Thomas Banfield Toms.

2 Stoke Damerel Devon Parish Registers, Baptisms.

3 Cornwall OPC.