My re-search into my "family tree"started, after the death of my mother, when I  found a burial card for my Grandmother Eleanor Vivian Bourne nee Pearce  who died in 1945. I then paid a visit to the cemetery, where I was told there  were three other "occupants" in the grave, my father's sister who died in 1930  aged 21,  my Grandfather who died in 1967 & some one named Emma Johnson who  died in 1927. I had no idea who this could be & this is how I got into the  the fascinating & intriguing hobby of family re-search, I eventually found Emma  was my Great Grandmother, who had married a George Johnson, after the death of her  first husband Alfred Pearce, my Great Grandfather. So the little burial card  my parents had kept in a cardboard box along with other long forgotten "bits &  pieces" was the start of my journey into discovering my ancestry & all the  people who have had a part in making me who & what I am. Bourne/Pearce/Bigland  & Parker are the names of my four Grandparents however many more names have  been added along the way.
  
 Also included on this site are the Cother & Shephard family (my 1st husbands family)  & the Horton & Heslop family (my 2nd husbands family)
 I have also included the Taylor & Bryan family at the request of my Grand Daughter & her husband

SURNAME SPELLINGS
 Surnames were often mispelt ie Dyas, Shephard, Carbines,Heeley, Cother, Sykes, Bourne,Bachelor,  Pryor & 
 many others were spelt in many different ways, for ease of searching I have kept to one spelling

AGES & PLACE OF BIRTH
 Many people didn't know where they were born, so often the birthplace they gave on the census  forms would have been the place or one of the places where they grew up.  Ages were often incorrect as some people didn't know how old they were, they may have known when  they were born but that wasn't the question on the census - it asked for their age and not every  one was capable of subtracting one year from another, particularly if the years were in different  centuries

RE ARUNDELL FAMILY
 SOURCE The Visitations of Cornwall 1530.1573 & 1620
 The early generations of the Arundell pedigree are confused & may in parts be  incorrect. The descendants,however, from Sir Renfrey & his wife Alice de Lanherne are  considered to be accurate.

RE VIVIAN FAMILY
 SOURCE The visitations of Cornwall. The Vivian Family all having descended from one stem and  claiming descendency from Henry 111

NAMING PATTERNS

This was not a hard and fast rule but can be of some help when trying to find an  elusive relative

1st son named after Father's Father
 2nd son named after Mother's Father
 3rd son named after Father
 4th son named after Father's eldest brother
 5th son named after Father's 2nd eldest brother or Mother's eldest brother

1st daughter named after Mother's Mother
 2nd daughter named after Father's Mother
 3rd daughter named after Mother
 4th daughter named after Mother's eldest sister
 5th daughter named after Mother's 2nd eldest sister or Father's eldest sister

RE CARBINES

The name Carbines is quite unusual, it may have originated from the Cornish word Car-pons which is  thought to have meant a Cart-bridge. 
 VARIENTS
 CARBONS, CARBOMS, CARBOUS & CARBOUSE found in military survey of 1522 & the tinners roll of 1523 CARBES, CARBOUSE & KARBUS found in Cornwall Muster 1569
 CARBENS, CARBOES, CARBUS, CARBUSH, CARBYNE, CARBYNS found in Protestation Returns 1641 CARBENS, CARBES, CARBINES, CARBOUSE, CARBYNS found in Hearth Tax 1662 It is thought that the base name may have been CARBIS

IT is my intention to find as much information on this name as I can.

DATES WHEN CENSUS WAS TAKEN
 1841 6th June
 1851 30th March
 1861 7th April
 1871 2nd April
 1881 3rd April
 1891 5th April
 1901 31st March
 1911 2nd April