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- Where Did the Trevan's Originate?
- Maps of the Areas where they Lived
- Descendents of John Trevan (c1698-1769) - in other files grouped by where they lived
- Summary of all the families in my extended family who lived in selected parishes
At the time I started to research my family history I asked my grand-father
if he knew whereabouts in Cornwall the family had originated.
His first response was "across the water", which my subsequent research
has shown to be from the parishes in the
Rame peninsula,
including Torpoint and Antony, which are literally "just across the water"
on the opposite bank of the River Tamar to William Street, Morice Town,
where his grandparents lived at the time of the 1851 census.
However, he also told me that before that the family had come from
somewhere on the north coast of Cornwall (he could not remember the name of the place, but he did remember that he had been told it when he was a boy), and that "when the family moved to England the stupid English could not pronounce it and so they shortened it".
The earliest occasion on which the name Trevan was spelt in the shortened form on my direct family tree was in 1732 at the christening of Matthew Trevaine, the second child of John and Francis in the parish of St. Germans, Cornwall. In 1734, also in St. Germans, the longer Trevighan form was used when their third child Jane was born, but 12 years later she was buried under the name Jane Trevane.
Treveighen is also the name of a parish in the north east of Cornwall
near the parish of St.Teath.
There were Treveighen's in the parish of St. Teath and a few of the
surrounding parishes from the 16th century onwards. There were also some
who moved to Plymouth, Devon, in the late 1580's, but the name died out in
the parish registers after 20 to 30 years.
In 1684 a Samson (christened as Samuel), son of Reginald Treveighen,
of the parish of St.Teath
moved to south east Cornwall to the parish of Landrake where his name
was recorded as Trevehen. This was after the illegitimate birth of Alice
Trevean, reputed daughter of Samuel Trevean and Joanne Web, in 1682.
Alice died only 1 day after she was baptised, so presumably this
contributed to Samuel leaving the parish and calling himself Samson.
Landrake is only a few miles upstream along the River Lynher from Antony,
but to the north of the river, which was the main means of transport before
the introduction of the Great Western Railway in the late 19th century.
I have also written to someone who is researching the Trevean family
from St. Erth in the far south west of Cornwall. She has had passed down
to her as oral tradition that the Trevean's were formerly called Trevygham.
So it seems very probable that when the members of the family moved the
name was shortened in different ways in different parts of the county.
Maps of the Areas where they Lived
Images reproduced with kind permission of
Ordnance Survey.
The towns and villages shown on these maps where my ancestors used to live include
Treliving branch
Antony
Botus Fleming
Landulph
St Germans
St John
St Stephens by Saltash
Torpoint
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Trevan family
Antony
Crafthole
Landrake
Millbrook
Polbathic
Sheviock
St Germans
St Stephens by Saltash
Torpoint
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Old sketched map centered on Sheviock
Descendents of John Trevan (c1698-1769)
To exchange information please email to
mary.trevan@wxs.nl
Page created in 1998, last modified 10 Sep 2002 and published
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