Above: The marriage certificate of my great-great grandparents, John David Everard and Sarah Mary Joyce, Warrnambool, 1873.
Above: The death certificate of John David Everard.
I have already discussed what little I know about my great-grandfather, John David Everard, in a previous blog, so the next few entries will mainly concern a little about his wife, Sarah Mary Joyce and her family, followed by their children.
THE JOYCE FAMILY.
Sarah Mary Joyce had arrived in the Colony of Victoria in 1855, the daughter of stone mason John Joyce who emigrated from northern England with his wife and three children-including Sarah-on board the ship ‘Athletae’.
The Athletae was a 1053 ton ship which sailed from Liverpool on the 23rd November 1854 under the command of Captain Henry Bradley. She carried 409 Immigrants consisting of 96 families, 66 single women and 66 single men on a voyage to Australia which took 87 days. The Surgeon William Johnson Rowland reported that there were five deaths and six births on board during the voyage. From official records: "116 male and 163 female adults, 56 male and 76 female children under 14, total souls 411, died on the voyage - 1 female adult, 5 male children a total of 6 souls."
On the arrival of the Athletae at Portland Bay on February 19, 1855, there were three cases of fever on board. Shortly after arrival fifteen crew members were sentenced to two months imprisonment with hard labour for refusing to do duty on board while anchored in the harbour. Complaints were made to the Immigration Board of "irregular conduct" on board during the voyage. One complaint was that the single females were being compelled to remain on deck at night to a late hour. They were also put in confinement for some weeks as punishment. It was apparently discovered that two secret passages, one from the Captain’s Cabin and one from the Doctor’s cabin led into the single women’s quarters. The Captain and Doctor denied all charges. The Athlete sailed from Portland on 31st March 1855 bound for Callao in ballast.
When consulting the passenger list for the ‘Athletae’, it was discovered that the eldest of the Joyce siblings also emigrated with his wife and young family on the same ship, as did their younger sister Mary Joyce.....
JOYCE: William aged 37 ; Ann aged 41; ; Mary aged 11 ; John aged 9; ; Anne aged 5 Matthew aged 1
John aged 32 ; Elizabeth aged 32 ; Robert aged 7 ; Elizabeth aged 5 ; Sarah Mary aged 1
Mary Joyce aged 20.
William Joyce had married Ann Reay in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in February of 1848. It was in fact his second marriage, the first having been to Mary Lonsdale in South Shields, Durham, in 1843. Four children were born of this marriage- the Mary and John Joyce who were on the Athletae's passenger list aged 11 and 9 respectively, and twin daughters who lived for only seven weeks in 1846. The fabulous website 'Durham Records Online' provided the following details about the children of William Joyce's first marriage:
St. Mary, Heworth Baptisms:
Mary Joyce baptised November 12, 1843. Daughter of William (mason) and Mary Joyce of Felling.
Jane Joyce baptised June 16, 1846. Daughter of William (mason) and Mary Joyce of Quarry Row, Felling. Buried August 5, 1846, aged 7 weeks.
Eleanor Joyce baptised June 16, 1846, daughter of William (mason) and Mary Joyce of Quarry Row, Felling. Buried August 3, 1846.
Note: For some unknown reason, the baptism of John Joyce does not appear in these records. His birth does appear, however, in the birth registration index as having been registered in the March quarter of 1845 in the Gateshead district of Durham.
After the death of her little twin daughters, Mary Joyce lived for only two more months herself. She was buried in the church yard of St. Marys, Heworth with her daughters Eleanor and Jane. The entry in the parish register read:
"Buried 30 September, 1846, Mary Joyce of Quarry Row, Felling, buried. Aged 27."
William Joyce was left with a daughter not yet two, and a baby son. He did not remarry for over a year, and after he did William and his new wife Ann Reay had two more children, Ann and Matthew. A child named James Joyce was born and died in the Gateshead district in 1854. He may have been a son of William and Ann as a birth certificate of a later daughter born in Victoria stated that her parents had lost 2 sons and a daughter.
The 1851 census has the following details about William Joyce and his family who were residing at Number 7, Victoria Place, Newcastle On Tyne, Northumberland.
William Joyce / head/ 33/ stone mason/ b Chester Le Street, Durham
Ann Joyce/ wife/ 33/ b Corbridge Northumberland
Mary Joyce/daughter/ 7/ scholar/ b Durham, Durham
John Joyce/ son/ 6/ scholar/ b Durham, Durham
Ann Joyce/ daughter/ 1/ b Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland.
After their arrival in Victoria, the family of William and Ann Joyce settled in Eaglehawk near Bendigo. Son Matthew had been born in the U.K in 1853 before they left, and daughter Jane was born in Portland, Victoria, after their arrival. In what would have been a terrible welcome to their new country, William's son John Joyce (from his first marriage) died in Victoria in 1855, aged only ten.
John Joyce's death certificate shows that he died just over a month after his family arrived in Victoria. He fell ill with dysentry and was placed in the Immigration Depot Hospital at Portland, where the ship Athletae had docked on February 19, 1855. His parents were noted as being William Joyce, Mason, and Mary Joyce, housekeeper, and his place of birth Heworth, Durham. John, who was ten years old and had been in Portland , Victoria, for one month, was buried in the Portland Cemetery on March 29, 1855.
Also on the same page were the death certificates of 21 year old Janet Smith and 25 year old Angus McDonald, both of whom had been passengers on the Athletae and later died of fever in the Immigration Depot Hospital.
On the birth certificate of Jane Joyce, the youngest child of William and Ann, previous children were not individually listed, just lumped together under the notation:
" One boy and four girls living; two boys and one girl deceased."
Son Matthew would have been the one boy living, as he did not die until 1881. The daughters living would have been Mary, Ann and Jane herself...I can't find mention of another daughter being born after the family's arrival in 1855. The two deceased boys were John and most likely James who died in infancy in England in 1854. There were in fact two daughters who had died-the little twins Jane and Eleanor Joyce in 1846.
William Joyce's occupation varied over the years from mason to miner, and engineer to engine driver. He seems to have been heavily involved in the mining ventures around the Eaglehawk district, where he and his wife Ann spent the rest of their lives.
The following Joyce deaths were recorded for the Eaglehawk Cemetery in the 1800s:
JOYCE, JOHN : Date of Burial: 28/12/1866. This entry was for a child, aged three months, who had died from diarrhoea. His parents were given as William Joyce, engineer, and his mother as Ann Joyce, engineer's wife. Witnesses to the baby's burial were a __ Bruce and John Porter ( John Porter married Mary Joyce in Eaglehawk in 1864). When looking for this child's birth, the only entry is for "John Joyce, son of Ann Joyce, born Eaglehawk 1866.". The lack of a father's name indicates that the child was illegitimate...Ann, the daughter of William and Ann Joyce, was aged about 17 at this time. She most likely was the mother of baby John Joyce, but her parents may have taken responsibility for his parentage when he died and had to have his death registered.
JOYCE, WILLIAM : Date of Burial: 29/12/1875. This William Joyce was a 56 year old man whom committed suicide. He was the son of Joseph Joyce and Catherine Lambert, and no apparent relation to our Joyce family. Consulting the IGI, we find that Joseph Joyce and Catherine Lambert were married at Much Hadham, Hertford, in 1814. Their son William Joyce was born in 1819 at Much Hadham. Since this family was from Hertfordshire rather than Durham or Northumberland, it is most likely sheer coincidence that found William Joyce being buried in the same small Victorian cemetery as our branch of Northern Joyces.
CORRECTION: When going back over my research I
discovered a BIG mistake in my research re. the above William Joyce who was
buried in the Eaglehawk Cemetery, and whom I had originally thought was not one
of our crew. Well...he almost definitely WAS. I would probably have never gone
over my blog entry on William Joyce's family ever again, but after receiving an email from fellow Joyce researcher Liz Wallace, I read it to reacquaint myself with all the "characters" in the
family story of her ancestor William Joyce (the brother of my fellow John). I quickly checked it all to make sure that my research was
sound, and to my horror came across the "other William Joyce " blunder.
Thankfully, it was easy to see just exactly where I had made my mistake. The
other William Joyce was buried on December 29, 1875, so when I checked the
Victorian death indexes for details, I just grabbed the only William Joyce for
1875 and rashly assumed that it was him. This William Joyce had parents Joseph
Joyce and Catherine Lambert, and was from Hertford, not Durham or
Northumberland.
What I had failed to do was take into account that the
other William Joyce had died late in the year, which meant that I should have
checked that his death wasn't registered in January of the next year. This time
I did check, and to my shame discovered that it WAS registered in early January,
and that he was indeed from county Durham. Purchasing his death certificate has
proved nothing re. his relationship with our family, as the parents column was
'unknown', but other information suggested that he had been born in Durham in c.
1830 and had arrived in Victoria in c. 1858. Surely him being in Eaglehawk at
the same time as a family of other Joyces from Durham would not be coincidental?
More research is required here to see where he fits in.
JOYCE, MATTHEW : Date of Burial: 27/03/1881 (From The Argus newspaper, March 28, 1881:
" A miner named Matthew Joyce dropped dead at Eaglehawk on Saturday night from heart disease. He was 27 years of age, and married."
JOYCE, WILLIAM : Date of Burial: 05/04/1881. Son of Matthew Joyce and Mary Ann Williams.
JOYCE, ANN : Date of Burial: 22/09/1890. Daughter of Matthew Ray, aged 76.
JOYCE, WILLIAM :Date of burial: 03/01/1898. Son of John and Mary Joyce.
JOYCE, JAMES : Date of Burial: 17/10/1898. Son of Robert Joyce and Louisa Martin. Aged 27. Robert Joyce was a nephew of William Joyce of Eaglehawk.
William Joyce’s death certificate states the following:
2nd January, 1898, Upper Road, California Gully, Eaglehawk. William Joyce/ miner / male 80 years/ died of diarrhoea and old age, one week duration. Last seen by Dr. J.J. Thom, Jan 1, 1898.
Father: John Joyce, mason. Mother: Mary Joyce, formerly not known.
Informant: Edward Charles Brown, authorized agent, Eaglehawk.
Buried: January 3, 1898, Eaglehawk Cemetery.
Born: Gateshead, England. 43 years in Victoria.
Married: Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, year unknown, to Ann Reay.
Issue: Mary 54; Ann 47; Matthew died; Jane 39.
William & Ann’s son Matthew died at the age of 27 years on March 25, 1881. His death certificate revealed the following:
Upper California Gully Road, Eaglehawk.
Matthew Joyce, gold miner, aged 27. Cause of death syncope from heart disease. Verdict at inquiry held before Robert Strickland, coroner, 26 March, 1881.
Parents: William Joyce, miner, and Ann Joyce formerly Reay.
Informant: Thomas Brien, constable, Eaglehawk, present at Magisterial Enquiry.
Buried: Eaglehawk Cemetery, March 27, 1881. Minister: Joseph Carlisle, Church of England minister.
Born Gateshead, Newcastle, Northumberland, England. 26 years in Victoria.
Married: Sandhurst, Victoria, aged 22 years, to Mary Ann Williams.
Issue: Alice 3 years; William 1 year 3 months.
Unfortunately, Matthew’s son William died just days after his father, and was buried in the same grave on April 5, 1881. His daughter Alice Maud was not long-lived either....she died in Eaglehawk in 1899, aged only 20 years.
THE SURVIVING CHILDREN OF WILLIAM JOYCE.
Whilst William Joyce lost his sons John and Matthew aged 10 and 27 respectively, his three surviving daughters all married (in one case, three times!), and provided him with a tribe of grandchildren.
1. MARY JOYCE: baptised November 12, 1843. Married John Porter in 1864. Children were:
William John born 1865, Eaglehawk; Richard born 1866, Eaglehawk; died 1917, aged 50; Thomas born 1868, Eaglehawk; Bartholomew 'Bart' born 1869, Eaglehawk, died 1920 aged 51 years; Matthew born 1871, died 1918, Eaglehawk; Mary Ann born 1873, Nerring; Robert Ernest born 1877; Florence Isabel born 1883, Eaglehawk; Herbert James born 1888, Eaglehawk.
Mary Joyce porter's husband John died at California Gully, Eaglehawk, on October 6, 1896. His will read as follows:
" This is the last and only will and testament of me, JOHN PORTER, of California Gully, Eaglehawk, in the district of Sandhurst, in the Colony of Victoria, Miner. I direct payment of all just debts, funeral and testamentary expenses. I give devise and bequeath all my real and personal estate of whatsoever nature or kind and wheresoever situate unto my wife, MARY PORTER, formerly Mary JOYCE, to whom I was married in the Colony of Victoria aforesaid, and who is the daughter of William Joyce, of California Gully aforesaid, Engine Driver, for her life if she shall so long remain my widow and unmarried. And upon her decease or second marriage I give, devise and bequeath the same unto and equally among such of my children born of the body of the said Mary porter, formerly Mary Joyce, as shall be living at the time of my death, share and share alike. And I appoint my friend WILLIAM JOYCE of California Gully aforesaid, Engine Driver, executor, and my wife Mary Porter, formerly Joyce, executrix of this my will.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of August, 1881. JOHN PORTER."
At the time of his death, John Porter's property consisted of their home, described as " Upper Road, California Gully, comprising about one quarter acre upon which is erected a six roomed house containing the ordinary necessary furniture. Estimated value of house and land: 160 pounds. Furniture and effects 28 pounds. Total 188 pounds. House consisting of three bedrooms, a parlour, dining room and kitchen." The Porter house was located at Allotment 227, Section M, Eaglehawk.
Mary Joyce Porter lived for several decades after her husband. She died in 1929, aged 87 years.
2. ANN JOYCE: born Newcastle Upon Tyne, c. 1850. Ann lived for only 55 years, but in that time she fitted in three marriages. When she was aged about 17 and living with her family in Eaglehawk, Ann gave birth to a son named John Joyce. This occurred in 1866, and there was no further mention of this child. There was, however, a death recorded in the same year for a baby son named John Joyce born to William and Ann Joyce, whilst at the same time having no record for the birth of a child to this couple. I think it was the common scenario of grandparents taking responsibility for the parentage of a daughter's "indiscretion".
Ann Joyce's first marriage was to John Oates in 1868. Their son, William Frederick Oates, was born in Eaglehawk the following year, in 1869. ( He died in Long Gully, Victoria, in 1894, aged 25 years).
John Oates died prior to 1874, because in that year Ann Joyce Oates married Peter Baptist/ Baptista, a Swiss emigrant who had settled in the California Gully/Eaglehawk area. I can find no children born to Ann and Peter before he died, aged 43, in 1887.
Ann's third and final husband was another Swiss emigrant. She was married to Albert Victor Rosselet in 1891. Again, there were no children born of this marriage. There is a note in the Victorian Criminal Index for Albert Rosselet: " Born in Switzerland. Arrived per 'Hohenzollen' in 1887. Wife and family near Bendigo." The mention of a family insinuates that Albert and Ann had children, but I can find no trace of them under any spelling variation, and Ann's death certificate states that she had no issue from her second or third marriages.
The shipping record for the Hohenzollern states that the ship arrived in Melbourne in July of 1887, and that passenger Albert Rosselet was aged 29 years.
Ann Joyce Oates Baptista Rosselet died in Eaglehawk in 1905, aged 55. Her third husband outlived her by five years before passing away in the Bendigo Hospital in 1910.
Ann's death certificate provides the following information:
Name: Ann Rosselet, wife, aged 55 years.
Died: 20th October, 1905, Upper Road, California Gully.
Cause: Rupture of the heart, result of inquest held on 20 October 1905 before E. Moore.
Parents: William Joyce, engineer, and Ann Joyce, formerly Ray.
Informant: Constable Galvin, present at Inquest.
Buried: Eaglehawk Cemetery, 22 October, 1905.
Born: Newcastle, England; 46 years in Victoria.
Marriages: Bendigo, aged 41, to Albert Rosselet: no issue
Bendigo age not known to Peter Baptist: no issue.
Bendigo: age not known to William Frederick Oates: Issue William Frederick Oates, dead.
3. MATTHEW JOYCE: was born in Newcastle On Tyne, England, in 1853. Matthew married Mary Ann Williams in 1877, when he was aged 23 or 24. I can find the births of three children to this couple- Alice Maude in 1878; William Joyce in 1880 and Matthew in 1881.
This branch of the Joyce family was not destined to be passers-on of the family name...Matthew himself died aged only 27; his baby son William died soon after, and daughter Alice Maud died aged only 20. Of son Matthew Joyce I can find no record. He was not named on the death certificate of his father in March 1881, which suggests that he was born after his father's death.
In the will of Matthew's grandfather, William Joyce, which he wrote in 1893, bequests were made to "my grandsons Matthew Joyce and William Frederick Oates", but were then heavily scored through and made illegible.
Matthew Joyce's widow, Mary Ann Williams Joyce, remarried in 1883. She married local Eaglehawk man George Paynting (also referred to as 'Painting'), the son of Berkshire man George Paynting and his wife Ann Hopgood. George and Ann had married in South Australia in 1849, then joined the gold rush to Victoria where they settled at California Gully, Eaglehawk, and raised a large family.
Mary Ann had only one child that I can locate to her second husband- son George Henry Paynting was born in Eaglehawk in 1884. Mary Ann Williams Joyce Paynting died in the Claremont district of Western Australia in 1910. The following notice was placed in the Kalgoorlie Argus in JUne 1909:
" DEATH- PAYNTING: Passed peacefully away on the 10th of June, 1909, MARY ANN, beloved wife of George Paynting of Eaglehawk, Victoria, and only sister of Rosena Oates of Boulder City, after a long illness. At rest. -Inserted by Mrs. Rosena Oates and family, 89 Richardson Street, Boulder City."
(Rosean Williams married William Oates in 1873).
Mary Ann's widower, George Paynting, died dramatically the following year back in the Eaglehawk district. Various newspapers around Australia carried the report of the accident, and the following was published in the Adelaide Advertiser on August 9, 1910:
"CRUSHED TO DEATH: George Paynting, a widower, 46 years of age, met with a shocking death at the Little Eighty Mine, Ironbark, today. The deceased and Edward Allen were sent to release a cage which had got jammed in the shaft. A couple of hours later an accident signal was received and a party immediately proceeding underground found the deceased jammed between the acge and the side of the shaft. He had a severe gash on the side of the head, having apparently been struck by some heavy object. The body was in such an awkward position that four men were engaged cutting away the timbering for two hours before the body could be released. It is believed, however, that death was instantaneous."
4. JANE JOYCE: born Portland, Victoria, on October 8, 1858. Information given on her birth certificate: "Father: William Joyce, Mason, 40 years of age, born Durham, England. Mother: Ann Joyce formerly Reay. 42 years of age, born Northumberland, England. Married: In February 1847, Newcastle On Tyne. Issue living and deceased: one boy and four girls living; two boys and one girl deceased. Informant: Ann Joyce, mother of the child, Portland. Witnesses: No accoucheur; Mrs Bowman nurse by who certified."
Jane Joyce married Johan (or John) Mani in 1877. They had a very large family, all of whom were born in the Eaglehawk district:
Robert Mani: born 1880. Died 1880.
Matthew James Joyce Mani: born 1881.
Alberia Mary Mani: born 1882. Died 1883.
Rose Ann Mani; born 1884. Died 1884.
Peter Mani: born 1886.
Frederick Albert Mani: born 1888.
Gertrude Elizabeth Mani: born 1890. Died 1977, Bendigo, aged 87.
Catherine Mani: born 1892. Died Malvern, 1975, aged 83.
Daisy Mani: born 1895. Died Bendigo 1985, aged 89. Married Albert Trahair in 1914.
Jessie Mani: born 1897. Died 1901, aged 3 years.
Annie Commonwealth Mani: born 1901. Married Ernest Frederick White in 1919.
Jane Joyce's husband, John Mani, died in 1907 at the age of 55 years. The death index states that his father's name was Hans Peter Mani and his mother was Margaret Mani.
Jane Joyce Mani married again in 1909, to Henry Joseph George Davis. She died in 1946 in the Bendigo district, aged 87 years.
BACK TO WILLIAM JOYCE"S BROTHER- JOHN JOYCE, MY GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER.
Prior to the emigration of John Joyce and his family on the Athletae in 1855, we can locate them in the U.K Census return for 1851, when they were living in the village of Felling in the parish of Heworth in Durham:
John Joyce/ head/ married/ 30/ journeyman mason/ born Wreckenton, Durham.
Elizabeth Joyce/ wife/ 29/ born Gateshead, Durham.
Robert George Joyce/ son/ 3/ born Felling
Mary Elizabeth Joyce/ daughter/ 1/ born Felling
George Joyce/ brother/ 24/ mason/ born Petton, Durham.
From the records of St. Mary, Heworth, Durham, we find:
19 Sep 1847 Robert George Joyce, of Felling, child of John (mason) & Elizabeth Joyce.
His two sisters, Mary Elizabeth and Sarah Mary, were not to be found at the Durham Records Online site as yet, but were located in the Free BMD index:
Margery Elizabeth Joyce born June quarter 1849, Gateshead district (although she was registered with 'Margery' as her first name, when in Australia she was known by 'Elizabeth Margery')
Sarah Mary Joyce b December quarter, 1854, Gateshead district.
After his arrival in Victoria in 1855, John Joyce and his family settled in the Warrnambool area, and it was here that John Joyce worked his life as a stone mason. I will come back to John's family after I cover our Joyce family in England.
Research was initially very difficult when searching for this family back in the U.K., as certificates pertaining to their children or their own deaths in Victoria stated that the Joyce family were all from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, in Northumberland. There was no sign of them whatsoever until I broadened my search to the neighbouring county of Durham, and there they all were...a large family of stone masons.
The grandparents of Sarah Mary Joyce ( the daughter of John Joyce and therefore my g-g-grandmother) were John Joyce and Mary Mills of Durham (my great-great-great-great grandparents). John Joyce married Mary Mills on July 29, 1816, at Chester Le Street, Durham. John was 22 years old, and Mary 18.
John Joyce Senior's baptismal details are as follows:
Chester-le-Street District . Church: St. Mary and St. Cuthbert: Religion: Anglican: Date: 29 Jun 1794 ; John Joyce, of Chester-le-Street, son of William Joyce (gardener) by his wife Mary Dent.
His parents were married on October 7, 1793, at Chester Le Street: details on their marriage record were as follows: Location: Chester-le-Street. Church: St. Mary and St. Cuthbert Religion: Anglican. On 7 Oct 1793: William Joyce, of Chester-le-Street married Mary Dent, of Chester-le Street. Witnesses: Isabella Lanchester, Charles Dent.
The children of William Joyce and Mary Dent were:
24 Jan 1796 Mary Joyce, of Chester-le-Street, daughter of William Joyce (gardener) by his wife Mary
22 Apr 1798 Thomasin Joyce, of Low Flatts, born 23-Jan 1798, 2nd daughter of William Joyce (gardener, native of this parish) by his wife Mary nee Dent (native of this parish)
21 Jun 1801 Robert Joyce, of Chester-le-Street, born 15-Feb 1801, 2nd son of William Joyce (gardener, native of Harraton) by his wife Mary nee Dent (native of Chester-le-Street)
13 Jun 1804 Jane Joyce, of Chester-le-Street, born 22-Aug 1803, 2nd daughter of William Joyce (gardener, native of Low Flatts) by his wife Mary nee Dent (native of this parish)
28 Sep 1806 William Joyce, of Chester-le-Street, born 27-Sep 1806, 3rd son of William Joyce (gardener, native of Harraton) by his wife Mary nee Dent (native of Chester-le-Street).
William Joyce, husband of Mary Dent, died on September 28, 1806, aged in his mid-thirties. From the parish records of St. Mary & St. Cuthbert, Chester-Lee-Street, comes the entry for William's burial:
"28 Sep 1806 , William Joyce, of Chester-le-Street, age: 34, died 26 Sep of decline, gardener"
Is this the remarriage of widow Mary Joyce????.... Marriages, Chester-le-Street District: Chester-le-Street : St. Mary and St. Cuthbert. Religion: Anglican Date: 14 Oct 1810 William Young married Mary Joyce. Witnesses: Cuthbert Dent, Eleanor Dent, William Pybus
The fact that Dents witnessed the marriage supports the case for this Mary Joyce being Mary Dent, widow of four years of William Joyce. Eleanor Dent was our Mary’s mother, and an Eleanor Dent also witnessed the marriage of William Young to Mary Joyce.
Going back one further generation, William Joyce was the son of Jacob Joyce and Jane Cowlson/Coulston. Jacob and Jane were married at St. Margaret’s, Durham, on December 15, 1771. Their children were as follows:
11 Jul 1773 William Joice, of Newcastle Lane, son of Jacob Joice (husbandman) by his wife Jane.
12 Nov 1775 Robert Joyce, of Pelaw, son of Jacob Joyce (husbandman) by his wife Jane
7 Mar 1779 George Joyce, of Pelaw, son of Jacob Joyce (husbandman) by his wife Jane.
30 Jun 1782 Jane Joyce, of Pelaw, daughter of Jacob Joyce (labourer) by his wife Jane
16 Apr 1785 Thomas Joyce, of Newcastle Lane, son of Jacob Joyce (hind) by his wife Jane.
8 Oct 1787 Jacob Joyce, of Pelaw, son of Jacob Joyce (labourer) by his wife Jane. Burial on 23 February, 1790: Jacob Joyce, of Pelaw, son of Jacob Joyce.
20 Apr 1794 Isaac Joyce, of Birtley Lane, son of Jacob Joyce (publican) by his wife Jane
Jacob Joyce Senior died in 1815, three years after his wife Jane who passed away in 1812. From the burial records of St Mary & St. Cuthburt, Chester-Le -Street:
6 Dec 1812: Jane Joyce, of Low Flatts, age: 61, died 4 Dec, wife of Jacob Joyce (husbandman).
7 Jun 1815: Jacob Joyce, of Low Flatts, age: 67
Issue of John Joyce and Mary Mills:
William b June 7, 1817, Sunderland, Durham
Richard b April 15, 1819, Sunderland, Durham. Buried 22 Jun 1837, of Wreckenton, age: 18.
John b April 21, 1821, Gateshead, Durham. Baptised April 2, 1822, St. Marys, Gateshead, John Joyce, of Gateshead, child of John Joyce (mason) & Mary .(My g-g-g grandfather).
Robert b August 19, 1824. Baptised St. Mary, Gateshead, on the 26 September, 1824 Robert Joyce, of Gateshead Fell, child of John Joyce (mason) & Mary.
George baptised July 23, 1826, Houghton Le Spring, of Hetton, son of John Joyce & Mary.
Jane baptised September 14, 1828, Houghton le Spring, "Jane Joice", of Hetton, daughter of John Joice & Mary.
Joseph Joyce: 21 Sep 1833 Joseph Joyce, of Pittington, child of John Joyce (mason) & Mary.
Mary Joyce baptised 22 Sep 1833, of Pittington, child of John Joyce (mason) & Mary.
Featonby Joyce baptised 26 Sep 1833 , of Pittington, child of John Joyce (mason) & Mary.
Cuthbert b c. 1835
Samuel Joyce, baptised 28 May 1837, of Wreckenton, child of John Joyce (mason) & Mary.
Jacob b c. 1840
1841 Census. for Heworth Chapelry, Durham.
John Joyce/ 45/ mason/ b Durham
Mary Joyce/ 40/ b Durham
William/ 24/ mason/ b Durham
John/ 19/ mason/ b Durham
George/ 14/mason/ b Durham
Jane/ 13/ b Durham
Joseph/ 11/ b Durham
Mary/ 8/ b Durham
Cuthbert/ 6/ b Durham
Samuel/4/ b Durham
Jacob/ 1/ b Durham.
NOTE: Son Robert Joyce was missing from the household for the 1841 census. He can be found at Wreckenton, Gateshead, living with the family of shoemaker, George Sharp, aged 70, who was a shoemaker. Robert Joyce, 15, and another man, John Wallace, 20, were both apprentice shoemakers under George Sharp. Robert’s family had been living at Wreckenton in the late 1830s as their son Samuel was baptised there in May of 1837, and their son Richard died there in June of the same year.
1851 census: Bantling Castle, Durham.
John Joice/ head/ marr/ 60/ stone mason/ b Chester le Street, Durham
Mary Joice/ wife/ 58/ b Newcastle, Northumberland
Joseph/ son/ unmarr/ 20/ stone mason/ b Houghton le Springs
Mary/daughter/ unmar/ 18/ b Hallgarth, Durham
Cuthbert /son/16/ coal miner/ b Gateshead, Durham
Jacob/son/ 10/ scholar/ b Gateshead, Durham
Bantling Castle was the site of lime kilns and a coal colliery, 16 km north-west of the town of Durham.
1861 Census: Cromwell Street, Gateshead, Durham.
John Joyce/ head/married/70/mason/born Chester le Street, Durham.
Mary Joyce/wife/married/ 56/ born Newcastle, Northumberland
Jacob Joyce/son/unmarried/22/mason/ born Gateshead, Durham.
1871 Census: Heworth, Felling, Durham. 12 Carlisle Street.
Joseph Joyce/head/married/39/stone mason/ born Elmore Vale(???), Durham.
Eleanor Joyce/ wife/married/33/ house wife/born Felling
John Joyce/son/unmarried/16/labourer/born Felling
Mary Ann Joyce/daughter/11/scholar/born Gateshead
Richard Joyce/son/10/scholar/born Felling
William Joyce/son/6/scholar/born Felling
Joseph Joyce/son/2/born Felling
Isabella Joyce/daughter/1/born Felling
John Joyce/father/widower/79/ annuitant/ born Chester Le Street, Durham.
Mary Mills Joyce was buried at St. John's, Gateshead Fell, on February 10, 1865. She was 66 years of age, and it was noted in the burial register that she was from Cromwell Street, Mt. Pleasant.
Mary's husband, John Joyce was buried on October 4, 1871, in the churchyard of St. Johns, Gateshead Fell: "4 October 1871 John Joyce, of Felling, age: 80"
Census abodes of John Joyce & Mary Mills:
1841: Heworth
1851: Bantling Castle, Durham
1861: Gateshead
1871: (Mary deceased, John living with son Joseph) Heworth
Occupations of children of John & Mary Joyce:
William: stone mason
John: stone mason
Joseph: stone mason
Jacob: stone mason
George: stone mason
Cuthbert: stone mason
Above: Baptism of Margory Graham, daughter of George Graham and Margory McClewer.
