My Extended Family in Antony, Cornwall

All links on names are to family groups sheets unless otherwise stated

Collings, Evans, Henwood, James, Kearing, Lyne, Moar, Raine, Rice, Sibley, Skinner, Treliving, Trevan, Treveighen, Vanderband

Also on the Treliving page - Blight, Brown, Freathey, Hilbourn, Tucker, Whitman

Earliest Known Ancestors - 1670s

My earliest known ancestors to live here were Richard Collings and Elizabeth Sibley who married in 1678. It was one of their granddaughters, Elizabeth Evans, who married into my Vanderband family. By the 1720's my Trevan and Vanderband ancestors were also living in the parish of Antony in the East. The Trevan family stayed only for a few years, to return some 70 years later, but the Vanderbands remained for a few generations.

Trevan Ancestors and Distant Cousins

My earliest known Trevan ancestors, John and Francis Treveighen nee Moar, used the church at Antony in 1729 and 1730. Other than the parish register entry for their marriage and the baptism of their first son, nothing more is known about their time when they lived in this parish. They then moved to live at the nearby parish of St. Germans.

It was probably their grandson William (1777-1846) who was born in the neighbouring parish of St Germans who fathered an illegitimate child named William here in 1799. William (1799-) was the base child of Sarah Kearing.

William's (1777-1846) son Sam(p)son (1805-84) was born in St Breward in 1803 but lived in Antony from 1829 onwards, and parts of his family were living there at the time of the censuses from 1841 through 1881. In 1841 he had a son John who was living at home, but nothing is known of him after this date. His daughters Caroline Elizabeth (c1832/3-) and Mary Jane (c1834/5-95) were there for the 1841, 1851 and 1861 censuses but who had presumably left for the south east of England before the 1871 census. Caroline was a laundress who was working at Antony House, the seat of the Pole-Carew family, at the time of the 1861 census. She is known to have lived in Deal in Kent at the time of the 1881 census, and then by 1895 they were both living together in Bloomsbury, Middlesex. Jane was working as a servant at Trevor House. Sampson remained in the parish until his death, and his widowed mother Jane (c1779-1867) and sister Mary Ann Skinner (1813-) lived with him.

Also some of descendents of Sampson's (1805-84) cousin Sampson (1803-79) had returned to the parish by 1861. They were great-grandchildren of John and Francis. Elizabeth (1846-) and Mary Jane (1849-) were both recorded in Antony at the time of the 1861 census. Elizabeth was an assistant butcher living with her uncle Thomas James in Torpoint. Although no marriage has been found between Thomas James and any of the Trevan women, he presumably married Mary Henwood Trevan (1813-), since the husbands of all Elizabeths other Trevan aunts are known, although it is possible that one of the others was widowed and remarried. Mary Jane was a servant at a house called Loch Lomond Cottage. By 1881 Elizabeth had married John Adams and was living in Chelsea, London, and her sister Mary Ann was living with them, a 31 year old unmarried domestic servant.

John and Francis's great-grandson, who was William's (1777-1846) nephew and Sampson's (1803-79) brother, John Trevan (1805-1862) married Honour Treliving whose family came from Willcove in Antony, and his father John (1776-1850) was living in Torpoint, which was created from part of Antony, at the time of his death. John (1776-1850) appears to have moved there after becoming a widower following the death of his wife Christiana nee Henwood, originally from the parish of St Teath. Possibly he moved to be near his sister, Mary James (1813-). Christiana's brother Thomas Henwood (c1785-1837) married Elizabeth Lyne in Antony before they returned to St Teath where the members of their family were born and baptised. Both these John's and also Christiana are my ancestors.

Trevehen Connection

In 1753 Richard Holman of the parish of Antony married Christian Martyn Trevehen at Landrake. She was the daughter of William Trevehen and Christian of Landrake and St Erney. William's parents are unknown and he is the right age to potentially be a brother to my earliest known ancestor John Trev(eigh)an. William and Christian named a son John, and John and Francis named one of their sons William and another Sampson, which is one of the most common Trevehen christian names in the parish of Landrake. Whilst this is far from proof, it strenghtens the probability that the Treveighen family of St Teath migrated to the parishes in south east Cornwall through Landrake, and from Landrake to Antony. It is possible that William was the base son of Grace Treveighan (c1658-) baptised on 8 Apr 1698 at St Teath a month before she married the father William Saverry, but it's also possible (even more probable) that he was known as William Saverry.

Vanderband Ancestors

On the Vanderband side John Vanderband (-1776/7) was also my earliest known ancestor, although I have been told that there was a Cornelius Vanderband who was living in the neighbouring parish of St John in the 1690s, and that there is or was a Vanderband Farm in the parish. In the 1720's he and his first wife Michal nee Popelstone lived in the parish. I am descended from his second marriage to Elizabeth Raine (1703-81) in 1744. It was her second marriage as well, and her maiden name was Evans. She and her siblings were all baptised in the parish as children of William and Honor Evans nee Colling, who was a daughter of my earliest known ancestors in the parish of Antony, Richard Collings and Elizabeth Sibley.

Treliving Ancestors

The Treliving family moved to the parish of Antony when Honor's parents John Treliving and Honor Vanderband married there in 1771. John was a bargeman.

Created 14 Apr 2001, last modified 5 May 2001 and published