Trewhella in Kentucky

[Zenobia]

Here is an odd one:

1870, Paducah, McCracken Co., Kentucky:

William Trewella, age 35, b. ENG
Mary E. Trewella, age 28, b. KY
Sally Trewhella, age 5, b. KY
Mary E. Trewella, age 3, b. KY

Any ideas who this one is?

[Cornish Terrier]

I reckon I do - although I still need a little more information to be sure.
His age in 1870 iindicates a birth about 1835 but, if I have the right family, his wife's age in 1870 seems to match with later Census entries and puts her birth at about 1842.

I believe this man is WILLIAM BOASE TREWOLLA bp. Penzance February 19th, 1830 s/o John Cuurtenay Trewolla and Elizabeth (nee Boase).

This family went to the USA in about 1835.
I have found baptisms in Cornwall for the first five children up to 1831.
Then there is a gap - a reference by an old contact suggests that daughter Maria was born in 1835 and died 'at sea' that same year.
As I cannot find a birth record in the UK I have presumed that she was born on the voyage to the US and died during the voyage.
I have birth and death information on most of the children born in America and, although much has come from Ancestral File, I have no real reason to doubt it so far. (Many of the details I got from my old contact many, many years ago so I think there may be some sort of verification there.)

Now, I believe the man in question (as mentioned above) was William Boase Trewolla who was the fourth child of John and Elizabeth.
Of the later children of this family three (Nicholas, Joseph B and James F) served as Confederate Soldiers during the Civil War so further details are available about them.

Back to William - if you check the 1880 Federal Census you will find him listed as William B Trewolla in McCracken Co.
By this time he has had a further three children - Harriett E. (10), Fayett (5) and Charles B (2).

His wife, Mary E Trewolla, died in 1922 in McCracken Co. at the age of 80 but I have not yet found a death for William.

I still have a lot of information to collate and update on the Trewolla family in America but I am reasonably confident of the above.

[Cornish Terrier]

Mary Elizabeth (Harrison) Trewolla died May 1st 1922 (Ancestry.com) and is buried at Heath, McCracken Co., KY.
Husband William Boase Trewolla died November 2nd, 1895 (Ancestry.com) and is buried in McKendree Methodist Cemetery, Heath, McCracken Co., KY.
Both burials are ref. 'Findagrave'.

Am still working on all the US Trewolla families so will try and update information as I can.