TRETHOUAN OF MYLOR
AND OTTERHAM
The
will of Thomazin Moyse of Otterham, dated 19 October 1734, mentions her husband
John Moyse, her sisters Elener Trethouan and Rebeckah Trethouan and her father
William Trethouan. The witnesses were Edmund Turner and Thomazin Trethouan.[1]
Jane
Trethouan married John “Rowse” at Treneglos in 1699/1700[2]
and the will of John “Roose” of Warbstow was witnessed by William Trethouan in
1721.[3]
A John Trethouan and Eleanor Isack married at Mylor in 1665 and had children
including a daughter Jane, baptised in 1667, and a son William, baptised in
1678. The identity of these individuals is confirmed by the 1729 will of Hugh
Isack of Stratton. The testator left an estate called Roose or Ruse in Otterham
to his wife and after her death to “my Nephew William Trethowan” and the will
also mentions “my Neice Jane Roose of Warbstowe in Cornwall widowe”.[4]
The
parentage of Eleanor and Hugh Isack is not clear but the information in the
will of Hugh allows them to be placed in a group of siblings as follows:
ELEANOR ISACK, bur 15
Apr 1714, Mylor; m 18 Apr 1665, Mylor, JOHN TRETHOUAN
JOHN ISACK of Mylor; m
FRANCES
HUGH ISACK of Stratton,
yeoman, bur 11 Feb 1729/30, Otterham;[5] m
11 Feb 1672/73, Feock, THOMASINE THOMAS[6]
DOROTHY ISACK, bur 13
Dec 1713, St Gluvias;[7] m
14 Feb 1680/81, Feock, FRANCIS ROGERS[8]
RICHARD ISACK of
Rotherhithe, mariner, d 1710;[9] m
28 Oct 1690, St James, Duke’s Place, London, KATHERINE ( ) WILLIAMS[10]
One
possible baptism
for Thomasine (Turner) Trethouan was at Poundstock in 1679/80 as a daughter of
Richard and Mary. There was also a Thomasine Turner baptised at St Gennys in
1687, daughter of Thomas, but that would be rather late for an individual
married in 1702/03. The 1680 will of
Sidwell Popham mentions “Elizabeth and Thomasin the daughters of Mr
John Turner of St Gennys”. This was apparently John Turner of St Gennys, clerk,
whose daughter Elizabeth married Peirce Manaton in 1693.[11]
The other daughter, Thomasine, might therefore have been of a plausible age to
marry William Trethouan in 1702/03. It may be noted that two of the daughters
of William and Thomasine were baptised at St Gennys, including Rebecca, and
that the wife of John Turner, clerk, was named Rebecca.
An
Edmund Turner who witnessed the will of Thomasine (Trethouan) Moyse was
apparently a brother of Samuel Turner
of Treneglos and John Turner
of North Petherwin. The 1691 will of their father Edmund Turner
of Treneglos does not mention a Thomasine but it seems probable that Thomasine
(Turner) Trethouan was a member of the same family. John Turner, the vicar of
St Gennys, is said to have been a son of John Turner, vicar of Treneglos and
Warbstow.[12]
Another
Turner family with connections in the area is that of Richard and Mary (Morth)
Turner who were married at Littleham in Devon in 1639. Richard was rector of
Marhamchurch in Cornwall.[13]
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TRETHOUAN
1 JOHN TRETHOUAN of Mylor, Cornwall,
yeoman, married on 18 April 1665 at Mylor, Cornwall, ELEANOR ISACK.[14]
She was buried on 15 April 1714 at Mylor.[15]
Children of John and Eleanor (Isack)
Trethouan:
i JANE TRETHOUAN, bap 3 Sep 1667,
Mylor,[16]
bur 30 Mar 1746, Warbstow;[17]
m 21 Jan 1699/1700, Treneglos, JOHN ROOSE.[18]
ii PHILIPPA TRETHOUAN, bap 13 Jan
1673/74, Mylor,[19]
bur 14 Oct 1732, Mylor;[20]
m 1 Feb 1706/07, Mylor, JOHN TRELEGGAN.[21]
iii GRACE TRETHOUAN, bap 25 Oct 1675,
Mylor.[22]
2 iv WILLIAM TRETHOUAN (bap 1678); m
THOMASINE TURNER.
2 WILLIAM TRETHOUAN of Otterham, yeoman,
was baptised on 10 November 1678 at Mylor.[23]
He married on 8 February 1702/03 at North Petherwin, THOMASINE TURNER.[24]
Thomasine was buried on 21 March 1741/42 at Otterham.[25]
Children of William and Thomasine (Turner)
Trethouan:
i ELEANOR TRETHOUAN, bap 16 Nov
1703, Otterham,[26]
bur 18 Dec 1768, Otterham.[27]
ii REBECCA TRETHOUAN, bap 25 Oct
1704, St Gennys,[28]
bur 26 Nov 1771, Warbstow;[29]
m 3 Jan 1743/44, Otterham, JOHN HOLMAN[30]
(see here).
iii THOMASINE TRETHOUAN, bap 19 Feb
1705/06, St Gennys,[31]
bur 14 Nov 1734, Otterham;[32]
m 5 Jan 1733, Lesnewth, JOHN MOYSE.[33]
[2] Treneglos parish registers.
[5] Otterham parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/I/84.
[6] Feock parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/T/1108; Kresen Kernow, AP/T/1109.
[7] St Gluvias parish registers.
[8] Feock parish registers.
[9] National Archives, PROB 11/518/433.
[10] St James, Duke’s Place, London, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). The bride, a widow, was given away by Nicholas Westcomb, so there is a possibility that she was the Katherine Westcomb baptised on 27 Aug 1663 at St Helen, Bishopsgate, London.
[12] George Clement Boase, Collectanea Cornubiensia (Truro, 1890), cols 1114-1115; Memoir of Thomas Turner (London, 1875), 1-2. For John Turner of Treneglos, see John Walker, An Attempt Towards Recovering an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy (London, 1714), part 2, 375, and A.G. Matthews, Walker Revised (Oxford, 1948), 101. There is some confusion, noted in the Memoir, about the identity of the son of John Turner of Treneglos who provided John Walker with information. However, see G.B. Tatham, Dr John Walker and The Sufferings of the Clergy (Cambridge, 1911), 241, citing Bodleian Library, MS. J. Walker c. 4, fol. 74.
[13] A.G. Matthews, Walker Revised (Oxford, 1948), 101; Littleham parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).
[14] Mylor bishop’s transcripts.
[15] Mylor parish registers.
[16] Mylor bishop’s transcripts.
[17] Warbstow parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/R/2472.
[18] Treneglos parish registers.
[19] Mylor parish registers.
[20] Mylor bishop’s transcripts.
[21] Mylor parish registers.
[22] Mylor parish registers.
[23] Mylor parish registers.
[24] Cornwall Marriages (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).
[25] Otterham parish registers.
[26] Otterham parish registers.
[27] Otterham parish registers.
[28] St Gennys parish registers.
[29] Will dated 16 Aug 1771, proved 13 Dec 1771 (Kresen Kernow, AP/H/6437); Warbstow parish registers. The burial entry gives the name as “Thomasin Holman”, but no Thomasine Holman to whom the entry would be likely to relate has been found. As Rebecca (Trethouan) Holman, who lived at Warbstow, is known from her probate documents to have died between Aug and Dec 1771, and no burial record has been located for her elsewhere, it appears that the name Thomasin in the register is an error for Rebecca.
[30] Otterham parish registers; W.P.W. Phillimore and Thomas Taylor, eds, Cornwall Parish Registers: Marriages, vol. 1 (London, 1900), 103.
[31] St Gennys parish registers.
[32] Otterham parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/M/2193.
[33] Lesnewth parish registers.