Elizabeth Coad ³⁵²

   Cause of her death was Hypostases, Senility.

  General Notes:

Brothers were Thomas & John Rogers Coad; sisters Sophia Rogers and an elder Elizabeth - both died young in Cornwall
Baptised with her younger brother John in 1851 at St Day
Simon Kinsman and Elizabeth were married at the home of Mr Youlter in 1864 (in Cornwall according to death certificate incorrect). Marriage reg no 393, 1864 in Victoria. John Youlten rate-payer living in Clunes from 1864-1872 (blacksmith or miner in 1872, shop in Leslie St); William Youlten, rate-payer from 1872-1873, teacher, Smeaton St. John Youlten (29), Elizabeth (20) & Samuel (1) arrived Melbourne on the "Red Jacket" October 1858.
Elizabeth and John Charles Truscott returned to Cornwall after marriage (Death certificate says they married in Creswick (as in above Vic. record), she being 22 years old) John Charles Truscott was a cousin of first husband Simon Kinsman whom she married in Clunes , she being 16 years old.
From 1851 UK Census, - Cornwall volume 34 Redruth Union Registration District Folio 192 lists under COAD - Elizabeth age 2; John Rogers 8months; and Jane 27. No listing for John Coad (father) there.
Arrived aged 9 in Melbourne, November 1858 on "Champion of the Seas"- see birth at sea for mother & father in Vic. Pioneers; shipping records on Internet.
Jim Truscott notes:
There were two Elizabeth Coads born to John Coad and Jane Rogers with the first one dying very early. In the 1851 census, Jane Coad was 27, Elizabeth Coad was 2 and John Rogers Coad was 8 months old. John and Jane's son Thomas (then 4 years old) was staying with his aunt Mary Ellis in Kenwyn on the day of the 1851 Census.

When the Coad family came to Melbourne in November 1858, Jane Coad was 34, Thomas Coad was 11, Elizabeth Coad was 9 and John Coad was 7. The Coads arrived in Melbourne on The Champion of the Seas in 1858. Jane was with an infant, as well as with Thomas, Elizabeth and John Rogers. The others in her family had died in Cornwall before 1858.
The family had consisted of:

? The father, John Coad was born on 19 September 1824. He married Jane Rogers on 12 March 1845 in Gwennap. He died in 1854. His widow, Jane Coad (nee Rogers) later married William Cannons in August, 1864 in Creswick, Victoria.

? The mother, Jane Rogers was baptised in 1823 in Gwennap and died in 1872 in Victoria as 'Jane Cannons.' The On-line death listing for Jane Cannons in Victoria in 1872 is, father 'Rogers John' and mother 'Ann (Reed)'. Cornish records are consistent for these two people (John Rogers and Ann Reed) being Jane Rogers' parents.

? The 1st Elizabeth Coad was born on 28 September 1845 in St Day, Cornwall. On-line Cornish parish records indicate that the 1st Elizabeth was baptized 28 February 1845 in St Day and possibly born in February, 1845, as she was buried in St Day on 10 November, 1845, being '9 months'.

? Thomas Coad was born on 27 December 1846 in St Day. He married in Victoria in 1876 to a Cornish-born widow Ellen Jane Gerrans (nee Grose) already with eight children born to first husband Cornishman John Gerrans, and he had three children with her before he died in Melbourne in 1900. Ellen Jane died in Fremantle in 1932.

? The 2nd (our) Elizabeth Coad was born on 25 August 1848 in Gwennap, Cornwall. On-line Cornish parish records indicate that the 2nd Elizabeth Coad was baptized 25 December 1851 at St Day, together with her younger brother John Rogers Coad.

? John Rogers Coad who was born on September 1850 in Gwennap, and baptised with his sister on 25 December 1851 in St Day. He married in Victoria in 1885 to Kate Jensen (nee Clare '96 he was her second of three husbands) but did not have family as far as is known, and died in 1899 also in Victoria (reg. 9077). Note that it seems that there was a marriage between a John Coad from Tasmania and a Sarah Ann Swinton (not Short) in 1872, after looking at the death details for their child born and died in 1876.

? Sophia Rogers Coad was baptized on 28 April 1854 in St Day and she was buried on 23 June 1854 in St Day.

? William Henry Coad was born at sea between London and Melbourne in 1858. His father John Coad had died in 1854 and so this child born during the 1858 voyage to Australia was not John Coad's. Perhaps being a pregnant widow was an incentive for Jane to leave Cornwall and head for Australia with her family as unassisted immigrants. He was the William Henry Coad (died Yarraville, 1935 with parents given on-line as 'Coad Jno.' and 'Jane (Rogers') who married Rosa Anna Whitely (b. 1862) in Melbourne in 1882 and had a son William Henry Mitchell Coad born 1883 in Victoria. In 1908 this son married Jessie Walker (b. 1888) in Maryborough, Vic., and had four children all born in Victoria between 1909 and 1918.
Elizabeth Truscott must have been a very tough lady. She worked as a laundress in Clunes. She was first married at the age of 15 years and seven months. She had 13 births and 7 of her children died as infants over the space of 30 years.
Remarkably she lived to 87, some 24 years after her second husband, John Charles Truscott, died.

  Research Notes:

baptism 25/12/1851 in St Day - two siblings baptised at that time, John Rogers Coade and Elizabeth Coade
St Catherines Index for Elizabeth Coad: 1848 September quarter, Redruth, IX, 234 Arrived on 'Champion of the Seas', Melbourne in November 1859, with mother & 3 siblings: her age given as 9 years.
Borough of Clunes, Rates 1870, #383, Elizabeth Kinsman laundress, Leslie St. Only entry for her. Two for Simon Kinsman in 1868 & 1869. Other rates-paying Kinsmans were: George 1864-1889, John 1865, Martin 1876, Mary Jane 1882-3, Richard 1860, Thomas 1866-1891, & William 1869-1894. Kinsman (adult) deaths were: Susan Knsman died 1886 aged 79, Thomas Kinsman died 1891 aged 82, William Kinsman died 1881 aged 38. 8 chldren also.
Jim Truscott notes:
He married Elizabeth Truscott formerly Kinsman nee Coad who was born on 25 August 1848. Elizabeth Coad arrived in Melbourne on the Champion of the Seas in November 1858 with her mother. Her father John Coad had died in 1854 in St Day and he was buried on 28 1854 in St Day. So Elizabeth came with her mother Jane and younger brother John Rogers Coad and older brother Thomas, another brother/probably half-brother possibly born on the voyage.
Elizabeth Coad first married at 16 years old to Simon Kinsman on 23 March 1864 at Clunes in Victoria. Simon was born in 1832 in Cornwall. He was a lot older than Elizabeth and almost old enough to be her father. He arrived in Melbourne in December 1854 on the Delgany, the year of the rebellion at Eureka Stockade and he died in a rock fall mining accident on 8 September 1869 in Clunes, Victoria. His grave (Clunes Methodist, Row B1, Plot 5) is a single plot, with a fence, only half the gravestone remaining, the top half is missing. Note that he was a cousin of John Charles Truscott and so presumably the common grandfather was Melchesidek Kinsman born about 1770. They had a daughter Elizabeth Jane (Bessie) born on 1 July 1865 at Hard Hill in Victoria and a second child also called Simon Kinsman who died at birth just before his father was killed in a rock fall. Simon Kinsman was Jane May Kinsman's nephew. There was clearly a strong connection between the Truscott and Kinsman families as John Truscott, the father of John Charles Truscott, was married to Jane May Kinsman who was apparently the daughter of Melchesidec Kinsman, a miner who died in 1813.

John Charles Truscott married Elizabeth Kinsman (nee Coad) on 8 April 1870 at Creswick, Clunes, near Ballarat in Australia some seven months after Simon Kinsman's death. He returned with Elizabeth Truscott and her daughter Bessie to Cornwall in April 1870 on the ship Swiftsure.2

  Noted events in her life were:

• Occupation: Laundress In Clunes.

• 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)

Elizabeth married Simon Kinsman, son of Melchesidec Kinsman and Elizabeth Youlton, on 11 Mar 1864 in Creswick, Victoria Australia.³⁷¹ (Simon Kinsman was born in 1829 in Cornwall England, christened on 18 Jan 1830 in St Day, Cornwall England, died on 8 Sep 1869 in Clunes, Victoria Australia and was buried in Sep 1869 in Clunes Cemetery, Victoria Australia Methodist, Row B1, Plot 5 ³⁷¹.). The cause of his death was Mining Accident (Rock Fall).

Elizabeth next married John Charles Truscott, son of John Truscott and Jane May Kinsman, on 8 Apr 1870 in Creswick, Clunes, near Ballarat, Victoria Australia.³⁷¹ (John Charles Truscott was born on 31 Mar 1842 in The Quay, St Marys Parish, Truro, Cornwall England, christened on 24 Apr 1842 in Bible Christian Circuit, Truro, Cornwall England, died on 21 Apr 1911 in Moore St, Emmaville, NSW Australia and was buried on 22 Apr 1911 in Emmaville Cemetery, Emmaville, NSW Australia.). The cause of his death was Apoplexy.