Friends of Hastings Cemetery
Ada and her sister Fanny and brothers, Richard, William and Sidney, were looked after by Lydia and Martha at 117 High Street, following their Mother’s death from cholera.
Ada’s elder siblings were all born in Aix La Chapelle, Rhenish Prussia, [now Auchen, in Germany]
Their father, William Jethro, made several voyages to Calcutta, possibly in the merchant navy. His son Richard wrote in a letter to his brother Sidney “He has been many things in his day” Bank Manager in Liskeard – which failed [this was something to do with his brother Richard Eales Borrow, who was subsequently bankrupt in London, and Adelaide, South Australia, where he died in 1862 with an apparently restored reputation.]
He [William J] was resident in Antwerp as a Commission Agent – brought to an end by Belgian Revolution and a volunteer in Portuguese Civil War at the siege of Oporto, after which to Germany. He was always a rolling stone, always earning a living of some kind but very often not an easy one.”
Sidney Borrow went to India.
117 High St. (Drawn by Fanny Borrow
Lydia died in 1874, followed a few months later by Martha. In 1876 William Jethro died, they are all buried in Hastings Cemetery at AV F28.
In the 1861 census we find:
117 High Street -
Elizabeth Currie, Sister, 63, Schoolmistress, Liskeard
Martha Borrow, Sister, 67 Fundholder, Liskeard
William Borrow, Nephew, 20 Artist, Germany Overseas Brit.Subj.
Fanny Borrow, Niece, 19, Governess, Germany Overseas Brit.Subj.
Elizabeth is not to be found on the Cornish OPC site, but there is a note in family papers that Richard lost money left to her by "Captain Currie", which Richard promised to repay from Australia, but didn't.
Elizabeth is buried in the cemetery:
Currie Elizabeth 78 26/4/1876 AV F30
Borrow Family continued