Comments on: Tasman Jarvis – An Original ANZAC

By: Shauna Hicks

Shauna Hicks — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 07:32:35 +0000

Hi Ariel if you send me an email I can send you more details on the family. Good to find another relative! Thanks Shauna

By: Ariel

Ariel — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:04:44 +0000

Hi Shauna,

I stumbled across this blog by accident, Tasmin Jarvis and Violent Thorne where my great grand parents. I am the grand daughter of Sylvia Faye Jarvis. Unfortunately I don’t know much about Tasmin and Violet’s forbearer’s

By: Shauna Hicks

Shauna Hicks — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 02:31:25 +0000

Hi Caleb
Our Jarvis family arrived in Tasmania, Australia from England in 1825 – haven’t established where in England they were from. Do you have any more details?

By: Caleb.g.c.Jarvis

Caleb.g.c.Jarvis — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:48:09 +0000

Hi. I have an american forbear dating back to the 1850’s
Harvey Richard Jarvis, son of James William Jarvis if you can help me out please.

By: Krystal Grundy

Krystal Grundy — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:33:39 +0000

Hi Shauna,
thanks for the reply.
Mary Ann and Eliza are actually closer to 21 years apart I believe, and the reason for that is that Sophia and James Gunyon had five children born between 1816 and 1826. Then they were both sent as convicts to VDL (their five children came also) and then they had a further three children (I believe two girls and a boy) between 1832 and 1837.
I hope you don’t mind me posting this on here in case someone who knows of the family history reads it and can answer some of our questions.
Cheers

By: Diana Terry

Diana Terry — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:50:08 +0000

Thanks Shauna

By: Shauna Hicks

Shauna Hicks — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:34:52 +0000

Hi Diana
As I said in the earlier response, my family are descended from Alfred Jarvis’ brother George, not Alfred, so we have no direct connection to the Gunyon family which is why I have never looked into it.
However, descendants of Alfred Jarvis will be interested in your detailed account and I hope they contact you.
Thanks
Shauna

By: Diana Terry

Diana Terry — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:32:35 +0000

Hi there Shauna
Firstly, thank you for your answer. Perhaps I can put you a little more clearly into the picture. Sophia Robinson Gunyon was married to James Charles Gunyon. They married in 1815 in London. They were transported to Hobart in 1828 as convicts from London. Sophia came aboard the Mermaid along with her five children. They were Mary Ann b. 1816. George 1819, Charlotte 1820,Emma 1825, James b.1823. Harriet b. 1832, Elizabeth b.1837 and William 1830. Harriet, Elizabeth and William were born in Hobart. As you know Krystal is descended from Mary Ann. You are obviously descended from Elizabeth who married Alfred Jarvis. Or was Eliza b. 1859, Hurd your ancestor? However you are all the same family. You are all descended from Sophia and James Gunyon who were born in London along with the oldest five children.
I have the entire family tree worked out without any help from the Gunyon descendants, so trust it is acurate. Its hard to consider that anyone is only descended from one line.
My dilemma is to find out whether your ancestor Sophia Gunyon was indeed who she said she was. The Sophia Robinson born into my Robinson family in 1793 in fact died, I have discovered, at 6 months. Despite the fact that many internet genealogy websites including Ancestry.co.uk list her as being born in 1793 and dying in Brighton in 1866, married a second time, to Joseph Walker. We have visited her grave and I placed a stone on the tombstone. A symbol that a family member has visited. Her parents would have been my gggggrandparents living in Cheshunt. It seems that this might not be the case and Sophia could have stolen a dead childs identity. Someone has suggested that Sophia might in fact be a Sarah Robinson whose parents were George and Hannah Robinson of St. Albans and North Mimms, Hertfordshire. If anyone reads this and knows of the English history surrounding the above mentioned Sophia Robinson Gunyon, I would love to hear from you.
Thank you for reading this, Shauna and best wishes to you also.
Diana T

By: Shauna Hicks

Shauna Hicks — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:28:19 +0000

Hi Diana
As you will have seen from my response to Krystal above, I have not researched the Gunyons at all – they married into the Jarvis family and I am only interested in the direct Jarvis line. Until reading Krystal’s message,I was not aware of the connection between the two Gunyon families. As I said it seems strange that there was at least 15 years difference between Eliza and Mary Ann if they were sisters as Krystal says. It almost seems that they were different generations and in fact they did marry into different generations but not having done any Gunyon research I can’t clarify but it looks odd to me. I would advise that you contact some of the people doing the Gunyon line and ask them what their sources are etc.
Best wishes and thanks for making contact
Shauna

By: Shauna Hicks

Shauna Hicks — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:21:01 +0000

Hi Krystal
I have not researched the Gunyons at all – Alfred Jarvis and Eliza Gunyon is not our direct line of descent so I only know what was given to me by other members of the family.Similarly we are not descended from William Jarvis and Sophia Louisa Kent (whose mother was Mary Ann Gunyon)- I was not aware of the connection between the two Gunyon families. You said that Eliza and Mary Ann were sisters – but there would have to be at least 15 years between their dates of birth, not impossible but perhaps unusual for those times. However I haven’t looked into the Gunyons at all.
We are descended from George Jarvis and Jane Maria Barwick and as I said above, I have only been interested in the Jarvis line, not those marrying into it.
Thanks for making contact
Shauna