Roger Donne’s Miscellany: Descendants of Benjamin Snell

SNELL

Parents

Benjamin SNELL = Elizabeth PARKER

Benjamin

Born 13 Nov 1844, Cotehele Quay, Calstock, Cornwall
Died 1913

Elizabeth

Alias Elizabeth SNELL
Born 1852, St Dominick, Cornwall

Children

Benjamin

Born 1880, St Dominick, Cornwall

Joseph

Born ABT 1883, St Dominick, Cornwall
Died 26 Oct 1938, St Mellion. Cornwall
Buried 1938, St Dominick
Believed to have bred a dessert apple named after him thus:
"Glass Apple / Snell's White raised before 1934 by Mr Snell, a market gardener in Radland Mill, St Dominick in the Tamar Valley."
See http://www.england-in-particular.info/orchards/o-cornw-f.html

Mary E = Ernest DUKE > Family

Mary E

Alias Mary E DUKE
Born ABT 1886, St Dominick, Cornwall

Alice Maud

Born ABT 1889, St Dominick, Cornwall
Died 30 Aug 1965, St Dominick, Cornwall

William

Family

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1881 Census records the following:
Dwelling Radland Mill Census Place St Dominick, Cornwall, England
Public Records Office Reference RG11 Piece / Folio 2283 / 68 Page Number 13
The household consists of the following:
Benjamin Snell (Head), Elizabeth J Snell (Wife), Benjamin Snell (Son), and Amelia Lock (Servant)
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The family and household is recorded in the 1891 Census as follows:
Piece: RG12/1809 Place: Liskeard -Cornwall Enumeration District: 4
Civil Parish: St. Dominick Ecclesiastical Parish: St. Dominick
Folio: 57 Page: 11 Schedule: 76
Address: Radland Mill

SNELL Benjamin Head M M 47 Fruit Gardener(Em'er) Cornwall - St Dominic
SNELL Elizabeth J Wife M F 38 Cornwall - St Dominic
SNELL Benjamin Son - M 11 Scholar Cornwall - St Dominic
SNELL Joseph Son - M 9 Scholar Cornwall - St Dominic
SNELL Mary E Dau - F 5 Cornwall - St Dominic
SNELL Alice M Dau - F 3 Cornwall - St Dominic
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FITZE Jessie Servnt S F 22 (Em'ee) Cornwall - Calstock