TASKIS/TASKES Family - St Just in Penwith/Sancreed

[maggym]

I am researching the following TASKIS/TASKES family and would be happy to hear from anyone who shares my ancestry:



David TASKES and Mary FRENCH

Thomas TASKES (1709 St Just in Penwith - ?) and Alice ?

Francis TASKIS (1738 St Just in Penwith - ?) and Elizabeth GUNN

Thomas TASKIS (1765 St Just in Penwith - ?) and Esther (or Hester) MATTHEW (1751 St Just in Penwith – 1822 St Just in Penwith)

Hester TASKIS (1789 St Just in Penwith – 1867 Sennen) and Matthew NICHOLAS (1789-1862 Sennen)

[Lesley Taskis]

My ancestor (great great grandfather) David Taskes arrived in Australia via Jersey in 1854 with his son Richard Ladner Taskis (aged 8). He was the son of David Taskes and Penelope Crocker (widow, nee Ladner).

David was baptised in 1815 in Paul, Cornwall and married Susan Williams on 28/6/1841 (we have a certificate) in Paul Church, near Mousehole in Cornwall. Susan was a widow but her father was given as Nathaniel Williams.

They had two children: Penelope Ladner Taskis (baptised 8/10/1843; believe died at 4 years old) and Richard (1846-1902). David died in 1881 in New South Wales.

Susan died, presumably in Cornwall sometime after 1846, as I believe she did not go to Jersey. David remarried in Jersey where David is said to have worked for a time as a stonemason on fortifications in Jersey.

I cannot find anything about Susan at all aside from the marriage certificate. Do you have any further information - birth/baptism and death would be very useful.

I have been told also that David's grandfather was Francis Taskes but know nothing at all about his grandmother or other earlier ancestors.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Lesley Taskis
Melbourne, Australia