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At about the same time William and Joan Lord nee Bate moved to Sheviock from St Neot. This was some time between 1752 when daughter Jane was baptised at St Neot and 1754 when William is recorded as contributing to the Church Rate for that year. In 1772 their eldest known daughter Frances Lord had her daughter baptised as Jane Lord while she was still a single woman. Frances married Sampson Trevan at St Germans in 1775. Although Jane's father was not named, when Jane married John Parsons also at Sheviock on 18 Sep 1792, she was described as the daughter of Sampson Trevan.
My earliest known Trevan relative to use the church at Sheviock was Sampson's youngest sister Anne Trevane who married Peter Stephens here. She was the daughter of John and Francis who are presumed to have moved here in approximately 1765/6, after Anne's sister daughter Elizabeth married in St Germans in 1765 and before Anne's marriage in 1766. She had her first child John baptised 4 months later in the parish of St. Budeaux, Devon. It seems that after her marriage she left Sheviock.
Anne's brother Sampson, my ancestor, was the only sibling to remain in the parish where 3 of his 6 children were baptised. He and his wife Frances nee Lord started their married life in St Germans but had moved to Sheviock by 1781 when daughter Elizabeth was married. In 1780 and 1781 he was a witness to the disbursements in the overseer of the poor and churchwarden's accounts, suggesting that he was readily accepted into the church. While at St Germans he had been a churchwarden. He was a churchwarden at Sheviock from 1783-7 and overseer of the poor in 1790. He witnessed the overseer's accounts in 1780, 1784, 1786, 1787 and 1788, and was one of the signatories to the vestry minutes on 17 Apr 1786 and 24 Mar 1788. In 1797 his widow Frances was also an overseer of the poor.
Sampson was a yeoman and following his death in 1795 his brother-in-law Peter Stephens was one of the men who drew up the inventory that survives with the letters of adminsitration for his estate. Sampson and Frances were both buried at Landrake, where he was described as 'of Sheviock' on his headstone. His parents were also buried at Landrake and his father was described as 'of St Germans'.
John Parson(s) was a yeoman who married Sampson and Frances's eldest daughter Jane on 18 Sep 1792. It was Jane who had been baptised as Jane Lord before her parents married. They lived in the parish and had 10 children baptised there between 1795 and 1817. Their 5th child was baptised as Frances Trevan Parsons, which could have been after either her grandmother Frances nee Lord or her great grandmother, Francis nee Moar.
In 1839 Lewis Parsons Pawley was buried at Sheviock churchyard aged 4 months, but he was described as of Hessenford in the parish of St Germans. Although his parents are not known, with the combination of 'Parson Pawley' he was undoubtedly one of John and Francis's descendents.