Truran/Truan

[Cornish Terrier]

I know we have some discussion on the Trewren (var.) families in the Ludgvan section but the family I am looking at is at Kea so ....

Been looking through som US information regarding the Trewhella (var.) families and have found something interesting.

Matthew TREWHELLA m. Juliana LANYON at Ludgvan 19th August 1827 and had 10 children that I am certain of all born Ludgvan.

In the early 1840's Matthew and his family went to the USA and appear to have settled in Connecticut.

His eldest son, Matthew, was born at Ludgvan in 1829 and it now appears he married twice.

It is the second marriage that is of interest here.

In the 1880 Connecticut Census Matthew is with wife Victoria and two children.

I knew that Victoria was supposed to have been born in England sometime around 1841 - but that is all I knew.

Information just found gives a date of marriage (but no place ) of 28th November 1872.

And her maiden name is given as TRUAN!

There is no Victoria TRUAN recorded in FreeBMD anywhere in England and likewise there is no Victoria TREWREN.

But FreeBMD records the births of TWO girls named Victoria TRURAN.

This is for the entire period from 1837 until past 1920.

One of these births was at Merthyr Tydfil and is followed a year later by a death.

And that means that the remaining girl is probably te one I want.

Victoria Honor TRURAN born December Qtr Truro Vol 9 Page 311

And this will be her family in the 1851 Census:-

1851 Census

Piece: HO107/1910 Place: St Clement -Cornwall Enumeration District: 1o
Civil Parish: Kea Ecclesiastical Parish: Chacewater
Folio: 767 Page: 5 Schedule: 15
Address: Killewerras


Surname First name(s) Rel Status Sex Age Occupation Where Born Remarks
TRURAN Elizabeth Head W F 45 Pauper Cornwall - St Agnes
TRURAN Mathew Son - M 12 Agricultural Labourer Cornwall - Redruth
TRURAN John Son - M 9 Cornwall - Kea
TRURAN Victoria Dau - F 8 Cornwall - Kea
TRURAN Catherine Dau - F 7 Cornwall - Kea
TRURAN Sarah Dau - F 5 Cornwall - Kea


Does anyone have any knowledge or connections of/with this family?

And here is something that will need some verification:-

IGI Baptisms - User Submitted

Victoria Honor TRURAN d/o Matthew and Elizabeth bp. 16th February 1849 at Chacewater.

CT

[Cornish Terrier]

A small update on my last - just to keep things up to date.

I am yet to find a marriage for Matthew and Elizabeth TRURAN but I have a little more on Matthew himself.

Matthew s/o William and Mary TRURAN bp. 13th September 1807 at Kenwyn

From there I struggled a little to find William and Mary but I had found there first child, Mary, baptised at Kenwyn 3rd July 1791.

There is only one possible marriage for the parents:-

William TRURAN marred Mary BIDDICK 3rd May 1791 at St Issey

Exactly two months prior to the baptism of daughter Mary at Kenwyn!!

[teresa]

Mar 11, 2009 17:33:38 GMT -5 Cornish Terrier said:

I know we have some discussion on the Trewren (var.) families in the Ludgvan section but the family I am looking at is at Kea so ....

Been looking through som US information regarding the Trewhella (var.) families and have found something interesting.

Matthew TREWHELLA m. Juliana LANYON at Ludgvan 19th August 1827 and had 10 children that I am certain of all born Ludgvan.

In the early 1840's Matthew and his family went to the USA and appear to have settled in Connecticut.

His eldest son, Matthew, was born at Ludgvan in 1829 and it now appears he married twice.

It is the second marriage that is of interest here.

In the 1880 Connecticut Census Matthew is with wife Victoria and two children.

I knew that Victoria was supposed to have been born in England sometime around 1841 - but that is all I knew.

Information just found gives a date of marriage (but no place ) of 28th November 1872.

And her maiden name is given as TRUAN!

There is no Victoria TRUAN recorded in FreeBMD anywhere in England and likewise there is no Victoria TREWREN.

But FreeBMD records the births of TWO girls named Victoria TRURAN.

This is for the entire period from 1837 until past 1920.

One of these births was at Merthyr Tydfil and is followed a year later by a death.

And that means that the remaining girl is probably te one I want.

Victoria Honor TRURAN born December Qtr Truro Vol 9 Page 311

And this will be her family in the 1851 Census:-

1851 Census

Piece: HO107/1910 Place: St Clement -Cornwall Enumeration District: 1o
Civil Parish: Kea Ecclesiastical Parish: Chacewater
Folio: 767 Page: 5 Schedule: 15
Address: Killewerras


Surname First name(s) Rel Status Sex Age Occupation Where Born Remarks
TRURAN Elizabeth Head W F 45 Pauper Cornwall - St Agnes
TRURAN Mathew Son - M 12 Agricultural Labourer Cornwall - Redruth
TRURAN John Son - M 9 Cornwall - Kea
TRURAN Victoria Dau - F 8 Cornwall - Kea
TRURAN Catherine Dau - F 7 Cornwall - Kea
TRURAN Sarah Dau - F 5 Cornwall - Kea


Does anyone have any knowledge or connections of/with this family?

And here is something that will need some verification:-

IGI Baptisms - User Submitted

Victoria Honor TRURAN d/o Matthew and Elizabeth bp. 16th February 1849 at Chacewater.

CT

[teresa]

I have found Victoria Honor Truran who married Matthew Trewhella in Cheshire, Connecticut on November 28, 1872. She is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Shelton, Fairfield County, CT. She is buried near her daughter and son-in-law. I received this information from the Cemetery office.
0676 Trewhella, Victoria T., born Nov. 28, 1841, died Apr. 23, 1899.
Find A Grave Memorial# 141078303
0679 Thomas, Lillie V. Trewhella, wife of John A. Thomas, born Jan. 13, 1874, died Dec. 24, 1962.
Find A Grave Memorial# 92203945
0680 Thomas, John A., born Jan. 30, 1870, died May 9, 1960.

[Cornish Terrier]

Hello Teresa and Welcome to this site. And thankyou very much also for the information about Victoria.

I have been searching for information on the Connecticut Trewhellas (and others) for many years and some details, such as what you have supplied, have eluded me all that time largely due to the lack of ready access to the records.

I note that you have provided details of the marriage of Victoria to Matthew Trewhella in the Findagrave Memorial. Do you have a copy of the record by any chance? If so then would it be possible to send me a copy for my own records?

If you need any help on the Trewhella side or if you have any queries relating to family in Cornwall then please post them here and I will do what I can to help.

Ct

[tenpoundpom]

Oct 4, 2015 18:47:44 GMT -5 teresa said:

I have found Victoria Honor Truran who married Matthew Trewhella in Cheshire, Connecticut on November 28, 1872. She is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Shelton, Fairfield County, CT. She is buried near her daughter and son-in-law. I received this information from the Cemetery office.
0676 Trewhella, Victoria T., born Nov. 28, 1841, died Apr. 23, 1899.
Find A Grave Memorial# 141078303
0679 Thomas, Lillie V. Trewhella, wife of John A. Thomas, born Jan. 13, 1874, died Dec. 24, 1962.
Find A Grave Memorial# 92203945
0680 Thomas, John A., born Jan. 30, 1870, died May 9, 1960.

Hi CT and Teresa,

Here are some notes I made for Mathew a while ago, to look into further. He is a 2nd cousin to me.

"Information on Ancestry suggests he was married to Margaret Diane Hotchkiss in 1856 - Grass Valley, Nevada Co, California in 1856 and had several children. Margaret dies in 1872 and is buried in Connecticut. Mathew later marries Victoria Honor Truan. He is found in 1880 census in CT and dies in 1909. On of the children from first wife is Theodore Nelson Trewhella (1868 - 1938), and from his second, Lillian. These are recorded in the 1880 census. There is a death record for a Margarette D. Trewhella in extracted CT records for 1872."

I suspect this is already known to you, but this post gave me a chance to brush off my notes!

Simon

[Cornish Terrier]

Simon - you can ignore any and all references to Grass Valley, Nevada Co., California as far as this family is concerned. I have absolutely no idea how or why that location ever became associated with the family of Matthew but I can guarantee that it is incorrect!

I should imagine that in those days it would have been quite difficult to die in California and then be buried in Connecticut just a couple of days later!

In my case Matthew was a 1st cousin to my 2xgt-grandfather so I also have had particular interest in him and his family.

I think those marriage details for Matthew and Margaret might have been in the old IGI although I am not sure but as you say they have and are certainly evident in Ancestry user records. If you check FamilySearch you will find that the marriage actually took place in Connecticut where Margaret was also born in 1830. A more details of her family, including (I think) the marriage, can be found in a work called 'Foote Family - comprising the Genealogy and History of Nathaniel Foote of Westerfield Conn., and his descendants'. This work was published in multiple volumes (2 I think) and, from memory, I found it on archive.org. Margaret Hotchkiss is related to his family.

As far as I have been able to find there were eight children from this marriage with all but three dying under the age of four. The three surviving children were:-

Susan F - born 1857 and married Thomas Edward Hurlbut 2nd July 1882 at Seymour, Connecticut
Margaret Jane - born 1859 married Benjamin Williams 21st August 1879 at Cheshire, Connecticut
Theodore Nelson - born 1868 married Ida Cromwell bef 1895. He died in Connecticut 10th April 1938

From Matthew's second marriage to Victoria Truran I have six children recorded with only the eldest, Lillian, having survived.

I should point out that my database for this family has not been updated for a long time and I also still have references to Grass Valley. However over the last several years I have collected more reliable data which is stored and awaiting processing once I begin the planned Trewhella review.

CT

[tenpoundpom]

Oct 5, 2015 22:46:23 GMT -5 Cornish Terrier said:

Simon - you can ignore any and all references to Grass Valley, Nevada Co., California as far as this family is concerned. I have absolutely no idea how or why that location ever became associated with the family of Matthew but I can guarantee that it is incorrect!

I should imagine that in those days it would have been quite difficult to die in California and then be buried in Connecticut just a couple of days later!

In my case Matthew was a 1st cousin to my 2xgt-grandfather so I also have had particular interest in him and his family.

I think those marriage details for Matthew and Margaret might have been in the old IGI although I am not sure but as you say they have and are certainly evident in Ancestry user records. If you check FamilySearch you will find that the marriage actually took place in Connecticut where Margaret was also born in 1830. A more details of her family, including (I think) the marriage, can be found in a work called 'Foote Family - comprising the Genealogy and History of Nathaniel Foote of Westerfield Conn., and his descendants'. This work was published in multiple volumes (2 I think) and, from memory, I found it on archive.org. Margaret Hotchkiss is related to his family.

As far as I have been able to find there were eight children from this marriage with all but three dying under the age of four. The three surviving children were:-

Susan F - born 1857 and married Thomas Edward Hurlbut 2nd July 1882 at Seymour, Connecticut
Margaret Jane - born 1859 married Benjamin Williams 21st August 1879 at Cheshire, Connecticut
Theodore Nelson - born 1868 married Ida Cromwell bef 1895. He died in Connecticut 10th April 1938

From Matthew's second marriage to Victoria Truran I have six children recorded with only the eldest, Lillian, having survived.

I should point out that my database for this family has not been updated for a long time and I also still have references to Grass Valley. However over the last several years I have collected more reliable data which is stored and awaiting processing once I begin the planned Trewhella review.

CT

Well I'm glad I didn't blow too much dust off my notes!
Thanks for the extra information.

Simon

[Cornish Terrier]

Well I'm glad I didn't blow too much dust off my notes!
Thanks for the extra information.

Just proves once again how important it is to check all information thoroughly and, where possible, with original sources.

CT

[zibetha]

To my Cornish cousins CT & Tpp,

I corresponded with Teresa via another family history-related website, and she was very generous in sharing her (very thorough) research re: Matthew Trewhella with me. The Trewhella-Truran marriage is documented on microfilm via Family Search Protestant Episcopal marriage records for Cheshire, Connecticut. I have long been seeking a great-grandfather's family (he had the good luck to marry a woman of Cornish descent!) that goes back to that area and asked her about record resources as I had not been able to find an online source.

Zib

[Cornish Terrier]

Zib - many thanks for the information you sent and for which you should by now have received a reply via email. Please feel free to pass on a copy to Teresa especially the information about the marriage of Matthew and Elsie.
I really do need to try and get myself moving on sorting through my information again but I am anticipating many interruptions in the near future with our fire season currently predicted to last for 6 months.

CT

[Cornish Terrier]

After posting my last I decided to have a look at my collection of newspaper articles collected via Genealogybank a few years back. Almost immediately I found what I was looking for!

The New Haven Register dated 9th March 1900 informs that Matthew Trewhella died at his home in New Britain at 4.45pm the previous day (8th March 1900) of pneumonia from which he had suffered for a week.

Says the New Britain correspondence of today contains: "Matthew Trewhella died at his home in this city at 4:45 yesterday afternoon after a week's illness with pneumonia. He is survived by a wife, three children and his parents. He was employed in the meat business. The funeral will take place Sunday, the remains being taken to Marion for internment. He was 34 years old."
Mr. Trewhella was formerly of this place and married Miss Elsie Thompson of Marion. He was a son of William Trewhella for years engaged in the meat business.

CT