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Many researchers’ trees include the marriage at Launcells on 8 August 1722 of Thomas Banbury and Grace Yeo.
This appears to be based on a transcription error that first appeared on page 113 of Phillimore’s Cornwall Marriage Registers, Volume XXIII, published by Phillimore & Co in 1914. The transcription ‘Thomas Banbury & Grace Yeo [8] 4 Aug. 1722’ was made by researcher C.B. Kingdon from the original register, held at the time in the parish church.
Phillimore transcriptions are no less prone to errors than any other transcribed source, but have often been regarded as authoritative – perhaps because they were typeset and printed. Sheila included this marriage in several trees and identified Grace Yeo as a daughter of Robert Yeo and Rose Cory, who married in the neighbouring parish of Stratton in 1697. Many online trees include it too.
Close examination of the parish register reveals that the bride’s surname clearly differs from a Yeo entry nearby on the same page, and is written as Jen, not Yeo. Grace Jenn had been baptised in the neighbouring parish of Whitstone in 1700; she was buried at Launcells in 1752. She and Thomas had seven children, baptised at Launcells between 1723 and 1736. These children included Grace Banbury, who went on to marry John Yeo at Launcells in 1759.
Rosie Watts has kindly helped to unravel this error. Humphrey Toms recorded the marriage correctly in his 1966 book of Launcells parish register transcriptions.
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