The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 2 (of 4)
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The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 2 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
Mr. Joseph Tredinham was Sheriff of Cornwall in 1665, and was
knighted. One of his daughters, and eventually his coheiress, married
Scobell of Menigwins, in St. Austell; and from a coheiress of Scobell
this barton, together with an extensive manor, descended to the
Hawkins’s of Pennance, and from them to the late Sir Christopher
Hawkins, of Trewithan in Probus, and of Trewinnard in St. Erth.
Tregembo, or Tregember, bears an appearance of considerable antiquity.
Mr. Lysons says that it belonged to the family of Grosse, and that it
passed by sales, through King to Penneck, in the year 1684.
The Pennecks were originally of Trescow in Breage, and advanced
themselves in the world by the stewardship and patronage of the
Godolphins. One of this family, the Reverend John Penneck, who died in
1724, was Chancellor of Exeter, and would probably have been advanced
much higher in the church if the Marlborough and Godolphin
administration had remained longer in the possession of power.
On this gentleman’s decease, without children, his property devolved
on the Reverend John Penneck, vicar of Gulval, who married ――――
Wroughton, and left two sons and two daughters; John, who succeeded
him in the living of Gulval, and Charles, bred to the law, but who
quitted that profession for the militia during the American War.
Mr. John Penneck died in 1789, and his brother in 1801; they were
succeeded by their two sisters, who were, Catherine, married to the
Reverend William Borlase, son and eventually sole heir of the Reverend
Walter Borlase, LL.D. of Castlehorneck; and Ann, married to John
Bingham Borlase, M.D. who had the honour of bestowing his early
medical education on Sir Humphrey Davy. Each of these sisters left an
only daughter. Ann, daughter of the eldest, married to the Reverend
Mr. Peters; and Ann, daughter of the second, married to Captain
Pascoe.
The manor of Tregurtha also belonged to the Pennecks, having been
purchased in the early part of the last century; but this manor,
together with a large portion of their other possessions, were sold by
the two last brothers. This manor was bought jointly by Mr. Carne, of
Penzance, and the late Mr. Thomas Grylls, of Helston. Tregembo still
belongs to the two ladies.
Ennis, usually called Ninnis, was for some time a gentleman’s seat,
although it is now become a mere farm. Mr. Humphrey Millett, the last
resident gentleman, had been a member of Exeter College. He married
Mary, daughter of Mr. Sandys, of Helston, and dying early in life left
two daughters his coheiresses. The eldest daughter, Mary, married
Thomas Grylls, Esq. and the second daughter, Grace, married Charles
Short, Esq. of Devonshire, Clerk of the Rules in the Court of King’s
Bench, and both have families. The widow married secondly George
Trework, Esq. of Penzance.
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