Richard who may be the husband of Elizabeth of Crowan

The 1641 Protestation Returns mention Richard and William Yestes. Wiliam may be have married Jane Brothes of Breage in 1639 (Scillies List have this as Baptist).

1664 hearth tax has Richard for two hearths

1695-6 Oath Rolls have miners named Usticke, including a Richard.

A Richard witnessed the communion certificate of John Rogers of Ludgvan 1698. Ludgvan is nearby but the parish records are almost entirely illegible. In the early I8thC John Rogers and Richard were neighbours, paying rates on Carsize. In 1685 John Rogers the elder assigns to his son a tenement in Carsize. The elder was described as gent. of Truthwall. DDGO records refer to a Ustick of -Nance..illegible in relation (l77l) to copper at Truthwall, Ludgvan Dole. William Ustick m. Eliz Rogers Ludgvan 1705.

We need to separate Eustice/Ustess/Yestess famlies who were miners from Usticks who owned mines, but we also know there was sometimes confusion by clerks. It looks as if the husband of Elizabeth was a miner called Richard who came from Lugvan, but I can't prove it or get any further. The trail goes cold at the time of the civil war. We don't know if the family as a whole was moving up or down the social scale at that time, although Elizabeth did require a letter of administration. It seems likely they were non-conformist in religion and thus Cromwellian in politics, but that is a guess informed partly by prejudice.

See Usticks