Joseph Gundry (b 1809) - Where and When Did He Die?

Research Note for the St Blazey Families Project by Wesley Johnston - begun 2 Jun 2015 - last updated 2 Jun 2015

Joseph Gundry, born 1809 at Tavistock, Devon, to John and Ann (Dart) Gundry married Grace Quintrell at St Blazey. After she died in 1835, he remarried with Charity Bullen at Tywardreath in 1838, where they appear together in the 1841 census. But he is reported as deceased in one newspaper account (the Royal Cornwall Gazette - but no mention of his wife being a widow is given by the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser account) of the 5 Jul 1849 hearing on jurisdiction of care of his pauper wife Charity. I can find no record of death nor burial

In an e-mail 6 Nov 2013, Sylvia Hodson, who has extensively researched this family, wrote:

"Our Tavistock-born Joseph may be the one who sailed from Liverpool to New York on the Gondar, arriving 12 June 1848, aged 38.  He states he is a miner, coming from Cornwall to settle in Pennsylvania.  He is not in Penn. in the American 1850 census, so may have died.  Or he may have deserted Charity and then she claimed to be a widow, but I would expect the court to go into this.   Of course, it's possible he died in Cornwall and was not registered - only eleven or twelve years after the introduction of Civil registration, many ordinary people didn't bother with it!"

At this point, this is as much as we now or conjecture.