John Charles Truscott ³⁵²

   Cause of his death was Apoplexy.

  General Notes:

Death certificate says lived two years in Victoria.
Arrived by himself in Melbourne, June 1869 on the 'Gresham' from Plymouth, age given as 26.
Marriage 1870 in Clunes, Victoria to Elizabeth Kinsman, reg no 1531, saying he was born in Truro.
Birth registered by father on 19th April 1842 in Cornwall.
Baptism: Non-conformist, 24/4/1842, St Clement chapel, Truro, Truro Bible Christian Circuit
1871 UK Census: Address: 9 Blackwater: John C Truscott, age 28, farmer of 8 acres, born Truro. Elizabeth, wife, aged 22, innkeeper, born St Day. Bessie, daughter aged 5, born Australia. John H son, 2 months, born St Agnes.
John Charles & Elizabeth Truscott returned to Australia in 1878. They arrived on the "Stirlingshire" at Moreton Bay on 4 Feb 1878. On board were John (35 years), Elizabeth (30), Bessie (12), John (6), Charles (5), Sidney (2), Orton (infant). They were free passengers. The "Stirlingshire" was 1178 tons. Left London on 8 Nov.1877. The Captain was I. Thynne and the Ship's Surgeon was McLean. There were 389 landed; 136 English, 56 Scotch, 176 Irish, 21 other countries.
Reported to have established a General store in Texas, Queensland, then moved to Deepwater, NSW, then onto Emmaville, NSW.
1894-5 NSW electoral roll Glen Innes (Emmaville) John C & John H Truscott storekeepers
Truscott shop was in Moore St, Emmaville.

  Research Notes:

Details from Clunes Museum (1998) research officer: 1868 Borough of Clunes Rates Index #849 Truscott John 1869 Borough of Clunes Rates Index #372 Truscott John 1870 Borough of Clunes Rates Index #604 Truscott John Occupation Miner, House & land, North Clunes Flat, North
Jim Truscott notes:
He arrived in Melbourne in June 1869 on the Gresham, age given as 26 and profession as a miner

Jim Truscott notes:


John Charles TRUSCOTT - Wanted Dead or Alive! or at least his image for his extended family in Australia! by his 60-year-old, great-grandson James TRUSCOTT in Perth and the third generation of the TRUSCOTT family to be born in Australia

My great-grandfather John Charles TRUSCOTT was born on 31 March 1842 at The Quay in the Truro parish of St Mary. He had one older and three younger sisters. When he was born, his father John TRUSCOTT was recorded as a servant in Tywardreath. In the 1851 census, John Charles was 9 years old and he lived in Truro where his father was a retail brewer and retailer of beer in Pydar Street. We do not know what he did as a young man. Maybe he drank a lot of beer? In June 1869 when he was 26 years old, John Charles arrived in Melbourne on the Gresham where he was stated to be a miner. Less than a year later on 8 April 1870, John Charles married Elizabeth KINSMAN (nee COAD) who was a laundress at Creswick, Clunes, near Ballarat in Australia and he became a stepfather to her daughter Bessie KINSMAN. There was clearly a strong connection between the TRUSCOTT and KINSMAN families in Cornwall as he was a cousin to Elizabeth's first husband. Elizabeth had come to Melbourne in 1858 when she was 10 years old and she had first married at 16 years of age to Simon KINSMAN.

Almost straight away, John Charles and his wife Elizabeth returned with Bessie to Cornwall in April 1870 on the ship Swiftsure. We do not know why they returned, but both of his parents were still alive. In the 1871 census for the parish of St Agnes Cornwall, he was recorded as farmer of 8 acres and 28 years old. We have no idea how John Charles could have acquired a farm? Elizabeth was recorded as an innkeeper and 22 years old. His stepdaughter Bessie was recorded as a scholar at 5 years old and their first birth son, John Henry, was 2 month's old. Family records also suggest that they may have run a boarding house in Truro, but was this the same as an inn? The second son, Charles Thomas was born in 1872 and the third son Sidney Austin (my grandfather) was born in 1875, both at Blackwater just outside Truro.

After John Charles' father died in 1874 and his mother died in 1875, we surmise that they may have inherited the Pydar Street business and sold it giving them the finances to return to Australia. On 8 November 1877, when John Charles was 35 years old and Elizabeth was 30 years old, they left London on the Stirlingshire and arrived in Brisbane on 4 February 1878. Their daughter Bessie was 12 years old, John Henry was 6 years old, Charles Thomas 4 years old, Sidney Austin was 2 years old and Orton Ernest TRUSCOTT was an infant. Sadly, Orton died on 15 April 1878 at the Toowoomba Immigration Depot in Queensland when he was only 6½ months old.

According to family records, John Charles and Elizabeth came out to Australia for John Charles to work on the railways but they soon established a general store in Texas in Queensland, then moved to Deepwater in New South Wales and then onto Emmaville. The 1894-5 electoral roll listed John Charles and his son John Henry as storekeepers in Moore Street, Emmaville. John Charles and Elizabeth had another seven children in Emmaville; William died as baby in 1881, Beatrice died as baby in 1883, Fred died as baby in 1884, Myrtle died as baby in 1887, Percy was born in 1888, Ola May was born in 1890 and Ela died as baby in 1894. John Charles was appointed a Justice of the Peace only one week before he died of a stroke on 24 April 1911 in Emmaville at 69 years old. Elizabeth was a hardy soul. She lived to 87, some 24 years after John Charles died and after having 14 children.

We have a photo of the 5 birth children of John Charles taken in Emmaville in 1896 and separate photos of his wife Elizabeth and step daughter Bessie, but we do not have any photograph of John Charles from any stage of his life in Truro, Ballarat or Emmaville. The purpose of this article is to ask you to check your records to see if you have his photograph. Please contact me on jtruscott@crisisleaders.com <mailto:jtruscott@crisisleaders.com> if you can help find an image of John Charles TRUSCOTT? Life is tenuous. While we can trace the lineage of John Charles Truscott back 102 years to his great-great grandfather Charles TRUSCOTT who was born about 1720 in Rame, after 147 years of the Truscott family being in Australia, there are now only 20 people carrying the TRUSCOTT name, and only my 2 year old grandson Jack TRUSCOTT is capable of continuing the male blood line. It would be good to show Jack a photo of his great-great grandfather as my wife and I plan to dance at his wedding.

Charles TRUSCOTT, born about 1720, probably in Rame
John TRUSCOTT born about 6 October 1747 in Rame
Charles TRUSCOTT, born 29 September 1782 in Liskeard
John TRUSCOTT, born about 24 January 1808 in Liskeard
John Charles Truscott, born 31 March 1842 in The Quay
Sidney Austin TRUSCOTT, born 27 January 1875 in Blackwater
Allan TRUSCOTT, born 18 June 1903 in Billy Goat Flat in Emmaville, New South Wales
James Francis TRUSCOTT (the author), born 26 May 1956 in Brisbane, Queensland
David Allan TRUSCOTT born 8 July 1986 in Perth, Western Australia
Jack Alan TRUSCOTT born 13 April 2015 in Perth, Western Australia
Future son of Jack TRUSCOTT, not yet thought of, conceived or born

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Miner, Farmer, Innkeeper.

• connection. ³⁷¹ Jim Truscott's connections to me are as follows:
Jim Truscott (C1940)
His father was Allan Truscott (1903)
His father was Sidney Truscott (1875)
His father was John Truscott (1842) who married Elizabeth Coad (1848)
Her father was John Coad (1824) who married Jane Rogers (1824)
Her father was John Rogers (1796) who married Ann Reed (1795)
Her father was Nicholas Reed (1768)
His father was William Reed (1743)
His father was John Reed (1704)
His father was William Reed (1666)
His father was John Reed the Younger (1632) & he also had Nicholas Reed (1679)
He had William Reed (1729)
He had Nicholas Reed (1755)
He had Nicholas Reed (1788)
He had Nicholas Reed (1818)
He had James Reed (1850) who married Elizabeth Boskano (1852)
Her father was Thomas Boskano who married Susannah Polkinghorne (1817)
Her father was William Polkinghorne (1785)
His father was William Polkinghorne (1759)
His father was Stephen Polkinghorne (1723)
His father was Stephen Polkinghorne (1689)
His father was Alexander Polkinghorne (1664) & he also had William Polkinghorne (1687)
He had Jane Polkinghorne (1716) who married William Jory (1710)
They had William Jory (1734)
He had Edward Jory (1763) who married Jane Landeryou (1763)
Her father was Peter Landeryou (1738)
His father was John Landeryou (1706) & he also had Blanch Landeryou (1741)
She had Robert Landeryou (1768)
He had John Landeryou (1803)
He had Sarah Landeryou (1826) who married Thomas Bray (1821)
They had Arthur Augustus Bray (1869)
He had Albert Alan Bray (1896)
He had Robert Alfred Bray (1920)
He had Robert Arthur (1947) who married me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) 1950)

John married Elizabeth Coad, daughter of John Coad and Jane Rogers, on 8 Apr 1870 in Creswick, Clunes, near Ballarat, Victoria Australia.³⁷¹ (Elizabeth Coad was born on 25 Aug 1848 in St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall England, christened on 25 Dec 1851 in St Day, Cornwall England, died on 15 Oct 1935 in Emmaville, NSW Australia and was buried on 16 Oct 1935 in Emmaville Cemetery, Emmaville, NSW Australia.). The cause of her death was Hypostases, Senility.