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)
Adjoining to Nansavallan is Kelliou, the groves, this name being the
plural of Kelli, a grove. It was once the seat of a family of the same
name, but whether they were of the same stock with the Kellios of
Lanleke and Rosiline I am yet to learn. By a daughter and heir, this
place, if I am not mistaken, came to Edward Vivian, Esq. a younger son
to Vivian of Trenoweth, by whom he had only one daughter and heir
Jane, married to John Howeis, of Redruth, whose great-grandson
Reginald Howeis, Esq. is the present owner of it. He was Sheriff of
Cornwall in the tenth year of George I. 1724, and hath married
Susanna, the eldest daughter and coheir of Edward Harris, Esq.; and
his brother Edward Howeis, Jane her younger sister, and both have
issue. The family of Howeis, give for their arms, Azure, a fess wavy
between three lions passant Or, armed and langued Gules.
Trevoster. This place is very pleasantly situated on Truro river,
facing the town, from which it is but two miles distant by water. This
was a seat of a younger branch of the Trevanion family, for here lived
John Trevanion, youngest son of John Trevanion, of Carhays, Esq. which
John Trevanion had by his wife, the daughter of Holland, Esq.
of Devonshire, a son of the same name, who married Marianne, the
daughter of John Somaster, of Painsford, in Devon, Esq. by whom he had
three daughters and coheiresses. Mary, married to Richard Trefusis, of
Trefusis, Esq.; Joan, to William Bligh, of Botathon, Esq.; and Alice
to Nicholas Boscawen, of Tregothnan, Esq.
Since that, Trevoster has been held on lease by one of the family of
Davies, and now Mr. Howeis, of Killion, has a lease of it on lives.
All these estates before mentioned, I take to be within the manor of
Blanchland, and I have passed by one place in it to the north-west of
the Great Works, called Kelly freth: this was for several generations
the seat, in lease from the Boscawens, of the Winters, a younger
branch of that eminent family in Gloucestershire, and the family
remained here till very lately, giving for their arms, Sable, a fess
Ermine.
I don’t know whether it be worth while to take notice of a place to
the south of it, called Chase Water, which being on the great road
between Truro and Redruth, and very near the Great Works, hath now
several houses built in it.
_The manor of Key, alias Landegay._
I take this to be the same with that called by Mr. Carew Landegy. I
find this parish called Ecclesia de Landigay.
This manor was forfeited by Francis Tregion, Esq. with the rest of his
estate, as may be seen in Probus.
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