The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 1 (of 4)
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The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 1 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
I take the word Cornelly to be a corruption of the Cornish Caren Gli,
that is love of God.
In this parish is Trewithenike, compounded of Tre-with en-ike. The
dwelling-tree, or a rivulet, (query, tree?――ED.) which was in Queen
Mary’s days the lands of William Weyte, Gent. as appears from an old
deed in my custody, who was also lord of divers other tenements in
those parts, as also of Fentongimps in St. Pyran Sabolo. He had a
brother that lived at Lestwithiel, and was mayor of the town in the
time of Henry VIII. whose daughter and heir was married to Kendall of
Treworgye or Pelris, whose inheritance was no small augmentation to
the paternal estate of that family. The arms of Wayte, Argent, a
chevron between three salmons erect Azure. This barton is now the
property of John Gregor, Esq. who has lately built a fine new house
here. He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Walter Moyle of Boke.
His father, Francis Gregor, was sheriff of Cornwall 19 Charles II. (21
Charles II. A.D. 1669.―― ED.) He married one of the heiresses of
Prideaux, of Gurlyn in St. Erth.
It is said by some that St. Cornelius the Centurian is patron of this
parish; if so, the name Cornelly is probably from him. Nearly the
whole of this parish is included within the manor of Grogith or
Crogith.
THE EDITOR.
Francis Gregor, son and heir of John Gregor and Elizabeth Moyle,
married a daughter of William Harris of Pickwell in Devonshire; and
their son Francis Gregor, born in 1728, left two sons, Francis Gregor,
sheriff of Cornwall in 1788, and member for the county from 1790 to
1806, and the Rev. William Gregor. Mr. Francis Gregor first married
the eldest daughter of Mr. William Masterman, of Restormal, who had
married a Cornish lady, and made a large fortune by the practice of
the law, as a solicitor in London, and afterwards represented Bodmin
in Parliament. Mr. Gregor married secondly Miss Urchuarth from
Scotland, but died in 1815 without any family; and his brother, the
Rev. William Gregor, survived but a few years, leaving an only
daughter, who died at the age of three or four-and-twenty, and with
her the name of Gregor became extinct.
But Mr. Masterman had a second daughter, married to Mr. Francis
Glanville Catchfrench, who also left an only daughter. To this lady
Miss Gregor gave the whole of her property, with an injunction to take
her name. Miss Granville is married and has several children, having
made Trewarthenick her residence, and improved the fine new house
mentioned by Mr. Tonkin into one of the largest and most decorated
mansions to be seen in Cornwall.
This parish contains 1047 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 1704 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 88 3 0
Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 137 | 151 | 168 | 170;
giving an increase of 24 per cent. in 30 years.
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