In 1861 Henry W. Vivian, aged 19, born in St. Erth Cornwall, engine smith, was with his parents at West Villa, Phillack.
In 1871 Henry W. Vivian, aged 29, born in Phillack, iron chipperm and wife Eliza A. Vivian, aged 28, born in Phillack, were living in Church Town, Phillack.
In 1881 Henry W. Vivian, aged 39, born in St. Erth, labourer, and wife Eliza Ann Vivian, aged 38, born in Hayle, were in Church Town, Phillack. Present were children (born in Hayle) James F. (6), scholar, Eliza I. (3), scholar, Ellen W. (1). His brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Thomas & Caroline Gilbert, were with the family.
In 1891 Henry Vivian, aged 49, born in St. Erth, general labourer, wife Eliza A. Vivian, aged 49, born in Phillack, and children James F. (16), scholar, and Eley I. (12), scholar, were with Henry's sister-in-law Caroline Gilbert in Church Town, Phillack.
In 1901 Henry W. Vivian, aged 60, born in St. Erth, labourer on coal quarry?, and wife Eliza A. Vivian, aged 58, born in Phillack, were living in Phillack. With them were son James F. (26) of Phillack, labourer on coal quarry?, daughter Eliza J. (22) of Phillack. Eliza's siblings Caroline Gilbert (63), laundress, and Thomas H. Gilbert (62), general labourer, were staying.
In 1911 Henry Vivian, aged 69, born in St. Earth, general labourer, and wife of 40 years Eliza Vivian, aged 68, born in Phillack, were in Phillack Church Town, Hayle. With them were daughter Eliza Ingram Vivian (32) of Phillack, single, sister-in-law Caroline Gilbert (72), single, and brother-in-law T. H. Gilbert (61), single.
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PHILLACK MAN AND HIS INCOME.
Henry William Vivian, of Churchtown, Phillack, was summoned for making a false statement to a pension officer, for the purpose of continuing his pension, at Phillack on the 9th Jan. at Hayle.
Mr. E. R. Booth, solicitor's department of the Custom House, London, prosecuted, and defendant pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Booth explained that the proceedings were taken under section 9 sub-section 1 of the Old Age Pensions Act, 1908. At the time defendant originally received his pension in 1914, his wife was alive. He became a widower in December last, and when the pensions officer called for the purpose of re-investigating the man's means, he said he received a pension of 5s. per week from Messrs. Harvey and Co., as an old employee. As a matter of fact, the man received from his late employers 6s. 9d. per week, and had an income derived from £500 invested in the company, money left by his mother, and he had been receiving the dividends from this since 1876. It was estimated that the man's total resources amounted to £61 6s. 0d. per annum. He lived in his own house. When defendant applied for his pension he did not say anything about the £500 he had invested. The man had obtained £20 16s. 0d. by fraud extended over a number of years.
Mr. H. G. Green (Pensions Officer) said when he saw defendant he told witness that he only had 5s. a week pension from Messrs. Harvey and Co. He found out later that defendant received 6s. 9d. per week pension from the company.
Mr. C. V. Wills, secretary of Messrs. Harvey and Co., proved that defendant was in receipt of a weekly pension from the firm of 6s. 9d. per week.
The Bench imposed a fine of £5, and said defendant secured over £20 by false pretences.
The Cornishman and Cornish Telegraph, Thursday, 23 Aug 1917, p. 5
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Henry William Vivian of 3 Parc-an-dyce Row Phillack died aged 88 years (burial record).
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Henry William Vivian of Churchtown Phillack Cornwall died 8 April 1930. Probate Bodmin 26 July to Eliza Ingram Vivian, spinster. Effects £44 2s. 6d. 3
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