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)
Trewithian is now vested in Matthew Garland Cregoe, Esq. who married
Anna Coryton Kempe, eldest daughter of the late Arthur Kempe, Esq.
Admiral of the White.
The Kempes of Cornwall were derived from the knightly family of Kempe,
of Olantigh, in Wye, in Kent; Richard Kempe, Esq. grandson of Sir
William Kempe, Sheriff of Kent 20 Henry VIII. is the first of the
family recorded to have settled at Lavethan, in Blisland.
Gerans measures 2,460 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 3487 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 387 9 0
Population, {in 1801,| in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 771 | 698 | 732 | 766
giving the unusual result of a diminution, although extremely
small, on the population, 5 on 771, or about ⅔ per cent. in
30 years.
GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE.
The rocks of this parish belong to the same series as those of St.
Anthony in Powder. On the eastern side of Porthskatho Cove the blue
slate is very much curved and contorted; and is intersected by
innumerable quartz veins, which are exceedingly irregular, and partake
much of the same arrangement as the laminæ of the slate. Here also
occur, interstratified with the slate, beds of a compact blue rock,
which is very hard, and effervesces with acids, occasioned by
particles, and minute veins or strings, of calcareous spar. In the
cliff also may be seen a small patch of conglomerates, and red
sandstone of the most recent formation, such as is common on these
shores.
ST. GERMAN’S.
HALS.
Is situate in the hundred of Eastwellshire, and hath upon the east
Landrak and Saltash, north Menhynet, west Morvall, south Shevyock, and
the British Channel; as for the name of this parish it is derived from
the tutelar guardian of the church, St. German, Bishop of Anticiodorum
in Gallia, now France, anno Dom. 425. Whether this name be derived
from the Latin Germanus, i. e. come of the same stock, very like or
natural; or the adverb Germaine, brother or a very brother; or from
Garnan or Gernan, Saxon German, signifying altogether a man, or a
complete and entire man; I must leave to others to resolve.
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