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The Opie Family

The following details of the OPIE family have been researched by Melville Opie, great great grandson of Francis OPIE (see below).

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OPIE Francis of Stithians
    born about 1810
    m. 29 March 1841
    d.  10 Dec. 1861,  Pontsmill, Luxulyan, Cornwall.
    occupation: Initially a miner, but farmer and innkeeper at time of
death.

Family:
    wife.  Peternell Truscott
    bapt. 12 April 1818 @ Latchley, Cornwall
    parents. Anthony and Mary Truscott of Latchley.
    d.  16 July 1876, buried Rangiora Anglican Cemetry, NZ

Children:
    OPIE, Francis Thomas
    b. 9 August 1844,  @ Luckett Downs, Stoke Climsland, Cornwall
    d. 8 Aug.1891, South Melbourne, Australia

    OPIE, Anthony William Truscott
    b. 1847, Cornwall
    d. drowned Lake Superior, US of A, before 1856
  
    OPIE, Charles Henry Adolphus Truscott
    b.  27 July 1853, Meadow Mine, Lake Superior, US of A
    d.  22 July 1925, New Brighton, Christchurch, NZ
    
    OPIE, Mary Anna Maria Truscott
    b.  13 March 1856, St Blazey, Cornwall
    d.  28 Jan 1927, Foxton, NZ

The family emigrated to US of A some time after Anthony William Truscott OPIE was born, and returned to Cornwall before Mary Anna Maria Truscott OPIE was born.

Peternell married John MANATON in September 1862 and the two families emigrated to NZ, arriving Lyttelton 26 December 1862.

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