The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 3 (of 4)
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The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 3 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
This gentleman’s elder brother married in London, but finally settled
at Trereife, with one son and two daughters. The two daughters
married, the eldest Mr. Love of Penzance, the second William Harris,
of Kenegie, Esq. but neither left any family. The son, William
Nicholls, married Miss Ustick, of Penzance, and died leaving one son.
Mrs. Nicholls subsequently married the Rev. Charles Valentine Le
Grice, of Bury St. Edmunds, then Lecturer of Penzance, and bore him a
son, who, together with Mr. Le Grice, now hold the estate as tenants
in remainder, and by the courtesy, under the will of Mr. Nicholls,
Jun. who lived to the age of twenty-three or twenty-four years.
Trengwainton appears to have been inhabited by branches of the
Arundell family, for a long series of years, and finally the last Mr.
Arundell, of Menadarva, removed there, having in a great measure
rebuilt the house. Soon after his decease it was sold, and Mr. Praed,
of Trevethow, became the purchaser. Trengwainton was thus chiefly used
as a farm-house till the late Sir Rose Price, wishing to form a seat
in that neighbourhood, obtained it as an accommodation from the late
Mr. Praed, and under his hands it has become a splendid residence.
It appears that a gentleman of the name of Price accompanied Venables
and Penn in their successful expedition against Jamaica, during the
Protectorate, and obtained an extensive grant of land, which his
descendants lived on and improved, till early in the last century one
of the sons was sent to England for education and health. It is
understood that Doctor Nicholls was consulted as a physician, and that
he recommended the climate of Penzance; perhaps Mr. John Price may
have been the first invalid ever sent from a distance to breathe the
soft air of this all but island in the Atlantic. At that time Mr.
Henry Badcock, from the parish of Whilstone, in the north-eastern
extremity of Cornwall, held the office of Collector at Penzance, where
he had married Parthenia Keigwin, daughter of Mr. John Keigwin, of
Mousehole. The young patient was received into their house by Mr. and
Mrs. Badcock, who had several daughters. Mr. Price married in the year
1736 Margery, one of their daughters; but having gone back to Jamaica
he died there three years afterwards, leaving her with an only son,
also John Price.
This gentleman, having gone through the usual stages of education,
ending with Trinity College, Oxford, went also to Jamaica, and there
married Elizabeth Williams Bramer, daughter of John Bramer, a
physician. They had only one son, who lived to a mature age, and
succeeded his father in January 1797.
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