TREVITHICK OF ST
ENODER
The
will of William Trevethacke of St Enoder, Cornwall,
gentleman, dated 2 February 1657, leaves money to the poor of the parishes of
St Enoder and St Eval and names among others his wife
Frances, son William, daughter Thomasine, daughter Mary, daughter Grace,
Christopher Trevethicke of London, taylor, and the
testator’s “welbeloved Freinds
and Alyes” John Bawden, Samuel Gully and William Gully. A codicil of 7 July
1658 mentions William Trevethack of Padstow (Petrockstow)
in Devon, clerk. The will was proved on 10 December 1659.[1]
Administration
of the estate of Lewis Stribley of St Wenn was granted on 8 November 1689 to
William Trevithick of St Enoder, during the minority
of Lewis’s son William Stribley,[2]
confirming that the Mary Trevithick who married Lewis Stribley at St Wenn in
1671 was the Mary Trevithick baptised at St Enoder in
1651/52.
There
are earlier Trevithicks recorded in the St Enoder parish registers, including Gregory Trevithick and
Katherine Hockin who were married in 1611.[3]
A connection with the Trevithicks of Great Trevemeder in St
Eval seems likely.[4]
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TREVITHICK
WILLIAM
TREVITHICK of St Enoder, Cornwall, gentleman, was
buried on 11 August 1658 at St Enoder.[5]
He married first, GRACE,[6]
who was buried on 7 May 1648 at St Enoder.[7]
He married second, FRANCES,[8]
who was buried on 30 December 1700 at St Enoder.[9]
Children
of William and Frances Trevithick:
i GRACE TREVITHICK, bap 17 Mar
1649/50, St Enoder.[10]
ii MARY TREVITHICK, bap 21 Mar 1651/52, St Enoder,[11]
bur 9 Dec 1740, St Wenn;[12]
m 9 Nov 1671, St Enoder, LEWIS STRIBLEY[13]
(see here).
iii THOMASINE TREVITHICK, bap 13 Feb 1653/54, St Enoder.[14]
iv WILLIAM TREVITHICK of St Enoder,
gentleman, bap 27 May 1657, St Enoder,[15]
bur 13 Mar 1737/38, St Enoder;[16]
m 6 Aug 1709, St Cleer, MARY KELLY.[17]
[1] National Archives, PROB 11/296/372.
[3] St Enoder parish registers.
[4] A legal case of the 1650s gives some information on the connections of the Trevithicks of St Eval (National Archives, C 22/829/31).
[5] St Enoder parish registers; National Archives, PROB 11/296/372.
[6] Kresen Kernow, R/49.
[7] St Enoder parish registers.
[8] Frances is named in William’s will and in some of the baptism entries for his children in the St Enoder parish registers. Her parentage is unclear. The mention of Gullys in the will of William Trevithick raises the possibility that she was the Frances, daughter of Francis and Mary Gully, who was baptised at St Enoder on 5 Aug 1621. However, it is more likely that Frances Gully married William Woolridge of Creed. Mary, wife of Francis Gully, was a Trevithick, which seems to have been the reason for the association between the families. Thomas, son of Francis Gully, was one of the lives on a lease of 1635 along with Grace, wife of William Trevithick, and Thomas, son of Thomas Trevithick (Kresen Kernow, AD2145/2).
[9] St Enoder parish registers.
[10] St Enoder parish registers. Grace may have married Richard Spear at Padstow, Cornwall, on 1 Jan 1684/85. However, a Grace Trevithick was buried at St Enoder in Apr 1679.
[11] St Enoder parish registers.
[12] St Wenn parish registers.
[13] St Enoder parish registers.
[14] St Enoder parish registers. Thomasine may have married Arthur Hicks at Newlyn East in 1682 (www.cornwall-opc-database.org).
[15] St Enoder parish registers; Cornwall OPC Database (www.cornwall-opc-database.org).
[16] St Enoder parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/T/2401.
[17] St Cleer parish registers. The entry gives William’s residence as St Enoder. He was apparently more than fifty years old at his marriage to Mary in 1709 and his children were baptised in the period 1710 to 1720. Chronologically, the marriage could relate to a grandson of the William buried in 1658 rather than a son. However, I have not been able to find evidence of an intervening generation. A comparison can be made between the signature of William Trevithick (presumably the one baptised in 1657) in the 1689 probate record of Lewis Stribley and the signature of the William who married Mary and made his will in 1735. Despite the decades between them, they appear quite similar, especially in the way the forename "Will:" is written, which lends some support to the individuals being the same person.