Trewhella Newspaper Snippets

[cornishmaid]

A few bits and pieces I came across today from St Ives Weekly Summary:

13 January 1911 edition
Death - Trewhella - January 5th, at the residence of Mr William Dunn, 4 chapel Place, Penzance. Elizabeth Trewhella, aged 98.

20 January 1911 edition
Birth - Trewhella - January 19th at St Hilary, the wife of Mr W Trewhella of a daughter.

24 February 1911 edition
Trewhella - At Bolivia, South America, William John, the eldest son of John Trewhella of Regent Square, Penzance, aged 44 years.

Jotted them down in case they were of any interest to anyone.

[Cornish Terrier]

Nice work yet again!

Elizabeth Trewhella was the aunt of William Dunn whose father Richard married Jane Trewhella at Ludgvan 3rd August 1839.
Elizabeth and Jane were daughters of John Trewhella and Mary (nee Berryman).

Interesting thing about Elizabeth is that, according to St Catherine's House Death Index and also her Death Certificate - Elizabeth was a mere 94 when she died! ;D

The second snippet provides me with a little more information that what I had.
This will be Catherine Lavinia, d/o William and Lavinia Trewhella of St Hilary. I did not have her actual date of birth before.
Her father was born and baptised at Towednack and later died and was buried there.
However, sometime before 1922 they seem to have separated and Lavinia remarried.
From the 1901 Census it also appears that Lavinia had another daughter about three years before her 1899 marriage to William.

The third snippet - William John who died in Bolivia died 1st December 1910 at Pairumani, Oruro, Bolivia.
He was son of John Trewhella and Jessie (nee Bone) and married Charlotte Rezzie (nee Rodway) at St Buryan 30th September 1896.
He left two daughters, Charlotte Wilhelmina (bn. 1897) and Gwendoline Winifred (bn. 1909).

Helpful stuff all of this so as you keep finding it - please keep posting it. There will be more stuff I don't have full details for.

[cornishmaid]

Another small snippet for info, which might be useful to someone:

Penzance Gazette & West Cornwall Advertiser - Wednesday May 11th 1842
Deaths -
On the 28th ultimo, at St Ives, William, son of M Trewhella Esq., aged 5 years.

[Cornish Terrier]

Thanks Cornishmaid - I had his burial on 29th April 1842 from the St Ives Parish Register but did not have the date of death.

One more little piece added.

[nzjohn1]

Hi all,

where does this one fit??

The text is an OCR of the newspaper -there are mistranscriptions in some letters/words.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3290, 14 April 1885, Page 3
MURDER BY A LUNATIC.
(By Telegraph.)
Auckland, April 13. The Auxiliary Lunatic Asylum was the scene of a foul murder this morning. One of the warders, Jas. Thomson, was attacked by a lunatic named Jas. Trewhellar, who struck him with a pitchfork and killed him instantly. At the time of the shocking occurrence a number of patients were at work in a potato field under three warders, of whom the deceased was one. Trewhellar was working some distance from the others, and Thomson requiring him is believed to have gone to ask him for his pitchfork. The first intimation the other warders heard of the tragedy was by one of them, Warder Hughes' hearing a blow struck, and on looking round he saw Thomson on the ground and Trewhellar standing over him with a pitchfork raised. Two other blows were struck before Warders Hughes and Maccouge could reach the spot and secure the patient, who at first seemed as if he were determined to defend himself. He was promptly secured and appeared to be highly satisfied with his exploit, saying that it was the best he could do. The other patients did not make the slightest movement, but kept working on as if the murder had not happened. The body was taken to the building, and Dr Young telephoned for. The Auxiliary Asylum, it may be mentioned, is about a quarter of a mile distant from the main Asylum. Dr Young had gone into town to attend tho Supreme Court, but he was advised by telephone of the occurrence. Hardy, the head attendant, went over the farm and found the body of tho deceased in the potato field, but he was quite dead, and his neck was dislocated. It was quite evident from the manner m which the head moved when raised that the neck was broken by the blow, and death must have been instantaneous. The weapon with which the deed was committed is an old four-pronged pitchfork, and rather light. Several hairs still adhered to the side of the prongs, showing that it was with that portion of tho weapon that tho blow was struck. Joseph Thomson, the deceased, was a powerful looking young man, about 25 years of age, is single, and is said to have a sister living in the South. She came to Auckland to visit him recently, and is possibly still here. Thomson has only been at the Asylum since last September, having come from the south. He was originally employed as cook, and subsequently as warder. He is from North Ireland, and is believed to have been only a short time m the colony. He was a quiet young fellow and is said to have been a great favorite among the patients. Chas. Trewhellar is 28 years of age, and was formerly a laborer at Hunua, near Papakura. He was admitted to the Asylum on December 24th, 1883, suffering from a delusive mania. For a short time after his admission he absolutely refused to eat food, but otherwise his conduct has been good. He has for some time been an inmate of the Auxiliary Asylum where all patients who are not considered to be violent or dangerous are kept. The attendants say they never had special cause to watch him. One night he escaped and went to town, but this was not considered anything exceptional as patients would all do it if they could.

Cheers

NZJohn1

[Cornish Terrier]

Hi NZJohn - hope you have had an enjoyable Christmas.

The culprit was baptised 24th December 1854 at Illogan s/o William Edward and Elizabeth (nee BERRY) TREWELLA.

Charles died at the Avondale Lunatic Asylum 13th June 1899 with his age recorded as 42.

Verdict of Jury - death caused by 'Disease of the brain and tuberculosis'.

He was buried 16th June 1899 at Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland.

(All this from his Death Certificate)

He had an uncle, Henry TREWELLA, who went to America and had two daughters born there, one in New Hampshire and one in Connecticut.
Both daughter were married at Virginia City, Nevada where I obtained copies of their Marriage Certificates whilst I was there.

Henry is supposed to have died 1st January1904 after having 'shot himself' but that information is from another source so I do not know where it occurred.

Henry's wife Martha (nee RICHARDS) was buried at Virginia City 19th May 1894 so I would assume that he may possibly have still been in the area when he died.

Another uncle, John, married Jane OAS at Redruth in 1854 and came almost immediately to New South Wales.
They settled around Orange and had ten children with descendants still, as far as I know, living in NSW.

This family can be traced back to the 1686 marriage of Charles TREHEELAH and Margery LUKE at Camborne.

Charles and Margery would be the connection to your own family as we have discussed in the past.