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Brief Description

Ellen, sometimes known as Helen, was the daughter of Commander Parkyns Prynne and Lucy Collins. He was a Commander in the Royal Navy who was wounded at Trafalgar, and she was the daughter of Rev. John Basset Collins, BCL, rector of Camborne. Parkyns had two brothers Samuel and Nathaniel who were Customs Officers. Parkyns Prynne was referred to by a courtesy title of Captain in his daughters will. Some time after the Battle of Trafalgar he built Darloe Cottage. At the time of the 1861 census Ellen was listed as living there with her 75 year old widowed mother and unmarried sister Rosetta. (Source: James Parkyns Derriman, his great-grandson)

Ellen and Isaac married relatively late in life and the couple did not have any children. The 1871 census shows them living at Darloe Cottage.

The church is built on the inland side of the cliff and the graveyard extends up the hill to the cliff edge. There are wonderful views over a small bay. Both he and his wife are buried in a vault at Talland, but unfortunately I could not locate their headstone when I visited the church in 1999.

It appears that the extended family remained in contact with relatives in North East Cornwall, since Ellen's sister Lucy married her first cousin Reverend Charles Matthew Edward Collins, rector of Blisland, which is quite close to his family in St Endellion and the surrounding area. (Source: James Parkyns Derriman, her great-nephew)

In a couple of books (Boase and Hambly) his date of death is incorrectly given as 1838 instead of the actual date of 1883!

Links to Sources of Information

Parish Register and Other Church Information

1. Port Isaac, Endellion - his parish before moving to Looe
2. Talland - her parish, were they married and both are buried

Wills

1. Ellen died first in 1872, leaving the interest from her independent income to her husband Isaac, for his lifetime, and then leaving the income to her sister Rosetta Ann Prynne, spinster, for her lifetime, and after her death the stocks were to be sold and the monies divided equally between her sisters and brother
   • Louisa Hawkes, widow of the late Philip Cory Hawkes
   • Elizabeth Robins Hearle, wife of Joseph Hearle (who was one of the witnesses at Isaac and Ellen's marriage)
   • Lucy Collins, wife of Reverend Charles Matthew Edward Collins
   • Cecilia Scales, wife of Edward Scales
   • John Basset Prynne, Major, Royal Marines
   More details of the will

2. Isaac died in 1883, a few weeks after his sister Susan, who had lived with him before he married (1851 census). The first clause in his will is his wish to be interred by the side of his late dear wife in the vault at Talland Churchyard. {Note: The majority of his siblings are buried in the Trevan burial plot in the St. Endellion Churchyard.} After a few legacies to his servants the remainder of his estate is left to his brother Adolphus and his nephew Cornelius Moon Olver. William Blank, who was foreman at Adolphus's Currier workshops also received together with Adolphus "all my Furniture Plate Linen China Glass Books Pictures Prints Jewellery Wearing Apparel and household effects"
   More details of the will

Books

1. Collectanea Cornubiensia by G.C.Boase in 1890 incorrectly gives the date of Isaacs death as 1838, instead of 1883 (presumably a straight-forward transposition error). It also states "no issue" and gives his date of birth as 19 Mar 1816 and his profession as "of H.M. Customs".
2. Hambley and Hambly Family by Edmund Hambly also gives his date of death incorrectly as 1838, but provides no further information.

Other Family Groups with Which They Had Contact

1. Adolphus Trevan - brother to Isaac, executor and beneficiary in Isaac's will
2. Henry Trevan - brother to Isaac, named trustee in Indenture of {Marriage} Settlement for Ellen Prynne's stocks and in her will
3. Susan Trevan - Isaac's sister was living in East Looe with him in 1851
4. Richard Watts - uncle to Isaac Trevan, who left him property in his will