Father: John Treveighen / Trevaine / Trevane / Trevan (c1698-1769)
Mother: Francis Moar (1704-1774)
Married: 6 Apr 1729, Antony in the East, Cornwall
- John Treveighen / Trevan (1730-1809) - Trevan name believed to have died out mid 19th century
- Matthew Trevaine / Trevan (1732-1786) - Trevan name believed to have died out in 1916
- Jane Trevighan / Trevane (1734-1746)
- Frances Trevane / Trevan
-> Pawley -> Hancock (1736-1778 or later)
- Elizabeth Trevane / Trevigan -> Goyne (1738-)
- Sampson Trevan(e) (1741-1795) - Trevan name still alive in 2001 with a couple of hundred known descendents
- William Trevan(e) (1743-1782) - Trevan name believed to have died out in 1782
- Anne Trevane -> Stephens (1746-)
Paternal grandfather: unknown
Maternal grandfather: unknown
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Brief Description
This John is the earliest direct Trevan ancestor I have been able to find.
He was born c1698, and so far I have been unable to find his baptism.
In 1698 at Landrake, the parish where he was buried, there was a burial of a John Treveighen in 1698.
In 1701 at St Teath, the parish where the father to the above mentioned John Treveighen bur 1698 was baptised, a John Treveighan was baptised.
However, he stayed in St Teath where he married and raised a family.
No other baptisms for a John Trev(eigha/ehe/ea)n have been found at this generation.
Perhaps he was another son of Sam Treve(ig)hen who was named after his brother who died just before his birth.
Or maybe he was baptised elsewhere. So far this baptism has been the illusive sticking point since the late 1980's in my research.
John married Francis Moar in the parish of Antony in on 6 Apr 1729, where their eldest son John was baptised on 23 Nov 1730. This unusual spelling of Moar was also used for the marriage of Richard Moar to Mary Kitt on Christmas day 1734. Perhaps he was Francis's brother. There are no baptisms of children for Richard and Mary at Antony, suggesting that he came from another parish.
John and Francis then moved to the parish of St Germans where the rest of their children were baptised.
7 of their 8 children survived into adulthood and they all married. Jane was their only child to die as child.
They then moved to the parish of Sheviock and when they died they were both buried in the same grave at Landrake.
The monumental inscription is further down this page.
The family lived in at least 4 parishes where information has been found.
- Antony (1728-1730)
- St. Germans (1732-1745)
- Sheviock (c1760's-1770's )
- Landrake (1769-1774)
John and Francis are buried at Landrake in the same grave, next to their son Sampson. Their headstone reads as follows
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Here lyeth the body of
John Trevan Senr who
departed this life the 10th
day of March 1769
Aged 71 years
Here also lyeth the body
of Frances his wife who departed
this life the 24th day of
January 1774 Aged 70 years
Afflications sore, long time we bore
Physicians were in vain
To ease us of our pain
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Although the headstone shows John's date of death as 10th of March, the transcript of the burial register (Devon and Cornwall Record Society) gives the entry as
Trevane, John, of St. Germans - 12 May 1769
For Frances, again the headstone and the transcript do not agree
Trevan, Frances, wid - 20 Jan 1774
John left a will which no longer survives, but which is listed in "The Devonshire Association Transaction Calenders of Cornwall and Devonshire Wills". It was shown as a Devonshire Will as "1767 Trevan, John of St. Germans". Presumably the date 1767 refers to the year when the will was written and not when it was proved. Taken together with the text on his headstone this suggests that John was probably ill for a couple of years before he died.
Francis left a will which was proven in Devonshire and which no longer survives. It too was shown as a Devonshire Will as "1774 Trevan, Francis widow of St. Germans"
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