Navarro and Frude family Plymouth UK

As with all family history research, please treat this as a work-in-progress. The information here has only been gleaned from online sources, and has not been cross-checked with birth/marriage/death certificates or other paper verification. Please remember this when reading the following !

The information on the Navarro family has been fully researched by another curious descendant, William Carkett, and is available to view online. Here is the link to Samuel Frude's record.

John Pitts was born in 1743 in Plymouth, and married Grace Adams (1771-1850) on 8th July 1797. Their daughter Mary was bron in 1795 and went on to marry Mr Drake. Mr Drake seems to have died suddenly, leaving Mary free to marry fisherman James Frude (1794-1842) on 18th June 1815. One of their children was Samuel Frude (1826) (see below). Mary lived to the ripe old age of 85, dying on 24th November 1880.

Joseph Navarro (1796-1859) was a waterman in Plymouth. He married Sarah Ellacot (1807-1886) on 18th October 1825. Their daughter Elizabeth was born in the April of 1826.

Elizabeth Navarro went on to marry Samuel Frude who had been born Roborough,  near Plymouth in 1826. One of  Elizabeth and Samuel's sons was Samuel John Navarro Frude who was born on 4th March 1847, later becoming a fisherman.

 

Samuel married Emma Jane Carkett in 1869, dauther of Joseph Carkett (1801) and Mary Carkett (1804) nee Friend, both from Plympton, Devon. Sadly Emma died in 1903. He went on to marry again, finding happiness with Mary Margaret Wilton Kent five years later. She had been born in 1875, so she was 33 at the time of the marriage, while he was considerably older at 61.

One of Samuel's children from his first marriage was Joseph Samuel King Frude, born 14th April 1869 in Barbican, Plymouth. His occupation is listed as 'fish porter'. He married Florence Blanch Hill who had been born in 1876, a daughter to Henry Hill and ELizabeth L. W. Hill who had been married in 1881.  One of Joseph and Florence's five daughters was Beatrice Alexandra V.M. Frude (1901). They also had one son, named Joseph after his father.

  

 Market porters hat and a fish porter in Billingsgate, a similar market.

Beatrice Alexandra  Frude married James Joseph Rosevear McGowan , who lived in Newport Street Cottages and worked for the Plymouth Brewery. Their wedding was on 1st  June 1921.

Joseph John McGowan was born to the couple in 1926 in East Stonehouse and worked as a drayman and in the Cattedown B power station in Plymouth. His siblings were James Joseph J.H., Gordon Albert, Alfred J, Thomas Albert, Beatrice M B, Dorothy J., Patrick Alfred, Shirley I.M., Iris J., Michael Albert, Jean V., and Victor.

Joseph John, left, with his sister Shirley and her husband Edward.

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