Earliest Known Ancestors - 1730's

My earliest known ancestors to live here were John and Francis Trev(eigh)an who moved here at the start of the 1730's. At the same time Jane Oliver, who married into my Treliving ancestors, would have also been living there. She married John Treliving (1711-1780) at St Mellion.

The background information about the significance of St Germans and the events surrounding John and Francis, their children and those grandchildren who were born in the parish can be found here. 5 of their children married at St Germans.

In 1754 Francis married Richard Pawley who had been baptised at St Germans in 1728. Their son Richard married Rebeccah Jeffery in 1785 and they had 3 children, Jane, Susannah and Richard who were baptised at St Germans between 1785 and 1792. Susannah had an illegitimate son, another Richard, who was baptised in 1810.

Matthew married Elizabeth Stephens of St Germans in the 1750's, although where they married is not yet known. Given that their eldest known son was baptised in 1757, they probably married between 1755 and 1757. There have been families of Stephens living in the parish of St Germans since the start of the parish registers at the end of the 16th century. There were 3 Elizabeths who are candidates to be his wife, but since for one of the properties he rented in St Aubyn Street, Devonport, he named Susanna Stephens as one of the 3 named lives, this would be his sister-in-law and has been used to determine which of the Elizabeth's was his wife. Elizabeth had also been baptised in 1728.

In 1757 John married Honour Spillar. The Spillar family had lived in the parish since the start of the 18th century. Some of the Spillars and also some of this branch of the Trevan familiy migrated to Stoke Damerel in Devon before the end of the 18th century.

In 1765 Elizabeth married Samuel Goyne (-1790), a blacksmith. Of their 6 known children 5 were baptised at St Germans between 1766 and 1777, with their 3rd son William being baptised at Menheniot in 1770. Samuel (-1790) was the son of Samuel (1712-) and Mary Goyne nee Strout who married at Jacobstow in 1736. Samuel (1712-) was son of Simon and Elizabeth Goyne who had some of their children baptised at St Cleer. Samuel (-1790) and Elizabeth's son Samuel (1768-1845) moved to Morval where he was a blacksmith. Some of their descendents moved to the parishes of Duloe and Callington. This research was done by Edna Reynolds, one of the descendents of their son Samuel Goyne (1768-1845)

In 1775 Sampson Trevan married Frances Lord at St Germans. The following year he took Stephen Varish to be his apprentice. Between 1776 and 1780 they had 3 children baptised at St Germans. By 1781 they had moved to the parish of Sheviock.

In 1777 Frances Pawley nee Trevan remarried after being a widow for a year or so. Her husband was George Hancock, and they had one known daughter, Ann, born in 1778 in the parish. Possibly it was her who married Samuel Vague on 8 Aug 1797, but there were other Ann Hancock's also born in the parish.

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.

Some time between 1841 and 1851 John and Francis's great-grandson William Henry Trevan returned to live at the village of Polbathic in the parish of St Germans where he was a vetinary surgeon. By the time of the 1881 census some members of his family were still living in Polbathic, was included in the parish of Sheviock.

Williams sister Margaretta Bennett also lived at Polbathic since she too had a child Christiana buried at Sheviock, aged 2 weeks, in 1844 when she was described as 'of Polbathick'. 3 years earlier at the time of the census both William and Margaretta had been living at home with their father John (1776-1850) in the village of Crafthole in the neighbouring parish of St Germans.