I am wondering if anyone has any info on a Josiah Apps. He was married in 1749 in St Endillion Cornwall. That is all the info I can find on him. Dont know where he was born or when..

thanks

I have a Josiah Apps born around 1729 (sometimes spelt Apse. Married Loveday Thomas 20/4/1749. Had several childred , Mary 1750, Joanne 1753, Loveday 1754, Josiah 1756, William 1759, Thomas 1763

Hi -

I haven't checked this board for a while, and was very interested to see an estimated year of birth (1729) provided for Josiah Sr.

I'm curious to know how you arrived at this date; was it just an assumption that Josiah married at age 20? Or do you have a burial record or MI which gives his year of death and age? Or, better still, have you found a possible christening record somewhere?

Josiah's marriage to Loveday Thomas is the earliest record I've found of the Apps name in Cornwall, although my searches have been limited to online sources (as I live in Canada, a visit to the records office is impractical). I picture Josiah as having been born in SE England (where most of the Apps families were living at that time) and coming to Cornwall as a young man, possibly a sailor. Unfortunately I haven't seen any references for a Josiah Apps baptism anywhere in the country in a suitable time frame (e.g., 1700-1730), so it'll all just supposition for now.

Josiah was my 5xg-grandfather and I'd love to be able to pursue this line back further; if you can shed any light regarding his year of birth, that would be most appreciated.

Thanks -

Tim
Corner Brook, NL
Canada

I have been resarching the Apps surname for a few years, having traced my own branch back to 1619 in the Hastings area. I have tried to find out where the cornwall branch started, but as you say Josiah is only a guess. It could be they came from the Ewhurst area of sussex only because there were a number of APSE mentioned in the 1600's.

There is a record of a marriage of Josiah EPPS to Ann Dowrick 13 Jan 1717 at Fowey, Cornwall. The record gives his residence as Shoreham, Co Sussex. They could be the parents of Josiah Apps mar 1749. However there are also earlier records of the name EPPS in Cornwall. The surnames EPPS and Apps originate from Kent and Sussex and surname studies state that each is a variant of the other as they can sound alike. It seems that Josiah Epps/Apps senior was not the first EPPS or Apps to sail from Kent or Sussex to Cornwall to start the Cornwall branch.