Abraham BALCOMBE (1781

Abraham BALCOMBE (1781 - )

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Ann BALCOMBE (1810 - ) Sarah BALCOMBE (1812 - 1816) Mercy BALCOMBE (1814 - 1892) Mary BALCOMBE (1815 - ) Sophia Sarah BALCOMBE (1817 - ) Harriett BALCOMBE (1818 - 1832) Hannah BALCOMBE (1821 - ) Abraham BALCOMBE (1823 - ) George BALCOMBE (1825 - 1825) Eliza BALCOMBE (1826 - 1827)	Abraham BALCOMBE (1781 - ) + Mercy WEBB (1787 - 1832)	Thomas BALCOMBE (1749 - 1780)



		Susanna COLLINS (1749 - 1823)

b. bef 07 Jan 1781

m. 13 Oct 1809 Mercy WEBB (1787 - 1832) at New Romney, Kent, England

Near Relatives of Abraham BALCOMBE (1781 - )
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Father	Thomas BALCOMBE	abt 1749		abt May 1780		31
Mother	Susanna COLLINS	1749		1823	Brightling, England	74

Self	Abraham BALCOMBE	bef 07 Jan 1781

Wife	Mercy WEBB	abt 1787		abt 09 Jan 1832	Ticehurst, England	45

Daughter	Ann BALCOMBE	30 Apr 1810	New Romney, Kent, England
Daughter	Sarah BALCOMBE	14 Jun 1812	New Romney, Kent, England	abt 04 Apr 1816	New Romney, Kent, England	3
Daughter	Mercy BALCOMBE	22 May 1814	Rolvenden, Kent, England	08 Apr 1892	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	77
Daughter	Mary BALCOMBE	02 Oct 1815	New Romney, Kent, England
Daughter	Sophia Sarah BALCOMBE	05 May 1817	New Romney, Kent, England
Daughter	Harriett BALCOMBE	12 Sep 1818	New Romney, Kent, England	abt 26 Feb 1832	Ticehurst, England	13
Daughter	Hannah BALCOMBE	25 Mar 1821	New Romney, Kent, England
Son	Abraham BALCOMBE	03 Feb 1823	New Romney, Kent, England
Son	George BALCOMBE	10 May 1825	New Romney, Kent, England	abt 19 Sep 1825	New Romney, Kent, England	0
Daughter	Eliza BALCOMBE	18 Sep 1826	New Romney, Kent, England	abt 06 May 1827	New Romney, Kent, England	0

Son in Law	John Thomas PILGRIM
Son in Law	Robert BLANCH	19 Apr 1808	Rolvenden, Kent, England	1885	Maclean, New South Wales, Australia	77
Son in Law	Joseph BLUNDELL	1798	Kent, England	13 Dec 1874	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	76
Son in Law	James BLANCH	aft 1809

Granddaughter	Sophia PILGRIM
Grandson	Alfred BLANCH	abt 1832	Rolvenden, Kent, England	11 Dec 1898	Casino, New South Wales, Australia	66
Grandson	Robert BLANCH	1835	England	1844	New South Wales, Australia	9
Grandson	George BLANCH	1837	Rolvenden, Kent, England	1838	At sea	1
Granddaughter	Maria BLANCH	1839	Raymond Terrace, New South Wales, Australia	1938	Bulahdelah, New South Wales, Australia	99
Grandson	Abraham BLANCH	1841	Raymond Terrace, New South Wales, Australia	1920	Maclean, New South Wales, Australia	79
Grandson	John BLUNDELL	1843	Liverpool Plains, New South Wales, Australia	30 Oct 1927	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	84
Granddaughter	Susan BLUNDELL	1844	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	24 May 1875	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	31
Grandson	George BLUNDELL	1846	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	18 Dec 1933	Canberra, ACT, Australia	87
Grandson	Abraham BLUNDELL	1847	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	05 Jun 1884	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	37
Grandson	Richard BLUNDELL	1848	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	28 Nov 1917	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	69
Grandson	William BLUNDELL	1850	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson	Isaac BLUNDELL	1851	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	09 May 1910	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	59
Grandson	Jacob BLUNDELL	1853	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	27 Jul 1927	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	74
Granddaughter	Mary Jane BLUNDELL	1855	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	1873	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	18
Granddaughter	Rosanna BLUNDELL	1858	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	06 Apr 1939	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	81
Granddaughter	Catherine BLUNDELL	1860	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	1950	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	90

Events in Abraham BALCOMBE (1781 - )'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
abt May 1780		Death of father Thomas BALCOMBE (aged 31)			18
bef 07 Jan 1781		Abraham BALCOMBE was born
13 Oct 1809	28	Married Mercy WEBB (aged 22)	New Romney, Kent, England		18
30 Apr 1810	29	Birth of daughter Ann BALCOMBE	New Romney, Kent, England		18
14 Jun 1812	31	Birth of daughter Sarah BALCOMBE	New Romney, Kent, England		18
22 May 1814	33	Birth of daughter Mercy BALCOMBE	Rolvenden, Kent, England	New Romney
02 Oct 1815	34	Birth of daughter Mary BALCOMBE	New Romney, Kent, England		18
abt 04 Apr 1816	35	Death of daughter Sarah BALCOMBE (aged 3)	New Romney, Kent, England		18
05 May 1817	36	Birth of daughter Sophia Sarah BALCOMBE	New Romney, Kent, England		18
12 Sep 1818	37	Birth of daughter Harriett BALCOMBE	New Romney, Kent, England		18
25 Mar 1821	40	Birth of daughter Hannah BALCOMBE	New Romney, Kent, England		18
1823	42	Death of mother Susanna COLLINS (aged 74)	Brightling, England		18
03 Feb 1823	42	Birth of son Abraham BALCOMBE	New Romney, Kent, England		18
10 May 1825	44	Birth of son George BALCOMBE	New Romney, Kent, England		18
abt 19 Sep 1825	44	Death of son George BALCOMBE	New Romney, Kent, England		18
18 Sep 1826	45	Birth of daughter Eliza BALCOMBE	New Romney, Kent, England		18
abt 06 May 1827	46	Death of daughter Eliza BALCOMBE	New Romney, Kent, England		18
abt 09 Jan 1832	51	Death of wife Mercy WEBB (aged 45)	Ticehurst, England		18
abt 26 Feb 1832	51	Death of daughter Harriett BALCOMBE (aged 13)	Ticehurst, England		18
24 Sep 1832	51	Immigration	New York, New York, USA	per 'Soverign'	18
08 Apr 1892	111	Death of daughter Mercy BALCOMBE (aged 77)	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	11271/1892 Brundell	6

Personal Notes:

The Family of Abraham Balcomb
Abraham Balcomb was born at Burwash in Sussex and baptised there 7 Jan 1781. His father, Thomas Balcomb, had died eight months earlier at the age of 3 1 . In 1783 Abraham's mother, Susanna Collins, married William Kemp and moved to Brightling, Sussex, where she had another four children to add to the five she had had by her first husband. Susanna died at Brightling in 1823 aged 74.
On 13 Oct 1809 Abraham married Mercy Webb at New Romney, Kent. They had 10 children:
1. Ann Balcomb, born 30 Apr and baptized 9 Sep 1810 in New Romney, Kent.
2. Sarah Balcomb, born 14 Jun and baptized 2 Aug 1812 in New Romney, Kent. She was buried 4 Apr 1816 in New Romney, Kent.
3. Mercy Balcomb, born 22 Mar and baptized 8 May 1814 in New Romney, Kent.
4. Mary Balcomb, born 2 Oct 1815 and baptized 26 Nov 1815 in New Romney, Kent.
5. Sophia Sarah Balcomb, bom 5 May and baptized 22 Jun 1817 in New Romney, Kent.
6. Harriett Balcomb, bom 12 Sep and baptized 18 Oct 1818 in New Ronmey, Kent.
7. Hannah Balcomb, bom 25 Mar and baptized 5 Apr 182] in New Romney. Kent.
8. Abraham Balcomb, born 3 Feb and baptized 9 Feb 1823 in New Romney, Kent.
9. George Balcomb, born 10 May and baptized 19 Jun 1825 in New Romney, Kent He was buried 19 Sep 1825 in New Romney, Kent.
10. Eliza Balcomb, born 18 Sep and baptized 27 Sep 1826 in New Romney, Kent. She was buried 6 May 1827 in New Romney, Kent.
Abraham worked as a labourer and, during the period after the Napoleonic Wars ended in 1819, the area was relatively prosperous. However, the condition of the greater part of the country, particularly in the industrial areas, was steadily deteriorating, and a great agricultural depression began in 1822 and 1823. In the New Romney area the worst of this terrible depression was ﬁom 1822 to 1832
By 1830 the plight of the Balcomb family had become desperate. Abraham had abscouded, probably to London to avoid Debtors Prison, and his destitute wife and four underage children became the responsibility of the Parish. Under the existing Poor Laws a woman adopted her husband’s home parish as her own when she married. On 24 April 1830 Mercy, with children Sophia Sarah, Harriett, Hannah and Abraham, was removed from New Romney, which in this instance meant to the Ticehurst Union Workhouse. The Ticehurst Workhouse covered eight
parishes, one of which was Burwash.

Mercy’s health collapsed and she died in January 1832 at Ticehurst aged 45 (buried 9 Jan 1832), followed in February by her 14 year old daughter, Harriett (buried 26 Feb 1832).

At the time Mercy and her children were sent to the Workhouse, her eldest daughter, Ann, had already married John Thomas Pilgrim at Dover 7 Jan 1829. On 12 Oct I831, the second surviving daughter, Mercy, married Robert Blanch at Biddenden in Kent and on 12 Aug 1832. The next daughter, Mary married Robert Blanch‘s younger brother, James Blanch.

To escape their plight Abraham Balcomb migrated to America. Using his mother's maiden name of Collins, he arrived in New York on the “Sovereign" on 24 September 1832. With him were four children, his eldest daughter, Ann, with her husband John Thomas Pilgrim and daughter Sophia Pilgrim, Sophia Sarah, aged 15, Hannah, aged 11, and Abraham, aged 9.

Abraham’s fate in America is not known, not is that of his daughter Hannah. His daughter, Ann Balcom Pilgrim, settled at Cameron, Steuben County, New York, and appears to have still been alive at the time of the 1840 Census with her husband and five children. She died before 1850 when her husband was living at Barrington, Yates County, New York, married to Jane, aged 24.

In 1850 Abraham Jr was living at Cameron and his sister Sophia Sarah Hargrave was living at Senia, Ontario County, New York. In 1860 they were both living at Cameron.

The remaining daughters, Mercy Balcomb Blanch and Mary Balcomb Blanch, migrated to Australia with their families in 1838.

Life with Robert Blanch must have been difficult for Mercy because, in August 1842, she absconded with an ex-convict, Joseph Blundell, and adopted her grandmother’s name of Susan. The Blundells became pioneers in the area that later became Canberra, the Australian capital Susan Blundell (formerly Mercy Balcomb) died in April 1892. She had had ﬁve children by Robert Blanch and ten by Joseph Blundell.

Mary Balcomb Blanch died at Plattsburg, New South Wales, in 1904 at the age of 89, having had seventeen children, seven of whom survived her.

Source References:

6. Type: Book, Abbr: Queanbeyan Register, Title: Biographical register of Canberra and Queanbeyan: from the district to the Australian Capital Territory 1820-1930, Auth: Peter Proctor, Publ: The Heraldry & Genealogical Society of Canberra, Date: 2001

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- Reference = Rachel Heath 8 Oct 2012 (Name, Notes)

- Reference = Rachel Heath - 8 Oct 2012 (Marriage)

- Reference = Rachel Heath - 8 Oct 2012 (Immigration)

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