Post by liat on Dec 21, 2015 12:22:58 GMT -5
Hi there,
new to the site, and just introducing myself.
I'm a Trevarthen by marriage, my husband being William Henry Trevarthen, in NZ.
In June we visited Cornwall, and had a fabulous time looking up old places with our daughter.
Keen to visit again, and next time better armed with family information.
We did visit the parish church, and saw some, I would guess, family graves. (I've yet to get all the photos off my camera and organise them!) We stayed in Camborne for about 3 days.
I have since caught the bug of family research (working on my own family that arrived in NZ in the 1850s from Ireland), and decided to fill in the gaps on the existing family tree for my husband, which was done by a relative in Te Aroha, and found a lot of missing information, and records that needed correction.
My husband is descended from the eldest son of William Henry Trevarthen and Elizabeth Blackwell, who was Thomas born in 1828 in Crowan. When the family emigrated to NZ, they settled in Auckland, after initially arriving in Wellington in 1840, when Thomas Trevarthen was 11 years old. The Rowe family, connected to the Trevarthens (also part of our extended family tree), also travelled to NZ. I think I recall reading some other families from the same areas in Cornwall also being on board the ship (the Bolton) that came to New Zealand at that time. I guess there was safety in numbers. They were really pioneer families, as there was extremely little to come to in New Zealand at that time. My husband's ancestor, Thomas, was a miner in Thames - setting up mines.
Places in Cornwall I am interested in are Camborne, Crowan, St Erth, St Blazey, Truro.
I note one of our Trevarthen relatives settled back in the UK in 1910 - 1911 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. He fought in the Boer War (I have his army issue jodphurs, and have him identified in photos), and later became a renowned rugby player. There appear to be a number of descendants of his in Huddersfield, that I have not yet added in to our family tree. His record is fairly tricky, as he was raised as Thomas Trevarthen & Margaret Trevarthen's son, but appears to be the illegitimate son of their daughter (who was 19 and unmarried at the time of his birth). If my suspicions are correct, his middle name reflects his father's name, and there was a family of the same name living "next door" to them in Thames NZ at the time.
Goodness, I have just got caught up again and am about to miss my bus to work. I'll post again hopefully soon.
new to the site, and just introducing myself.
I'm a Trevarthen by marriage, my husband being William Henry Trevarthen, in NZ.
In June we visited Cornwall, and had a fabulous time looking up old places with our daughter.
Keen to visit again, and next time better armed with family information.
We did visit the parish church, and saw some, I would guess, family graves. (I've yet to get all the photos off my camera and organise them!) We stayed in Camborne for about 3 days.
I have since caught the bug of family research (working on my own family that arrived in NZ in the 1850s from Ireland), and decided to fill in the gaps on the existing family tree for my husband, which was done by a relative in Te Aroha, and found a lot of missing information, and records that needed correction.
My husband is descended from the eldest son of William Henry Trevarthen and Elizabeth Blackwell, who was Thomas born in 1828 in Crowan. When the family emigrated to NZ, they settled in Auckland, after initially arriving in Wellington in 1840, when Thomas Trevarthen was 11 years old. The Rowe family, connected to the Trevarthens (also part of our extended family tree), also travelled to NZ. I think I recall reading some other families from the same areas in Cornwall also being on board the ship (the Bolton) that came to New Zealand at that time. I guess there was safety in numbers. They were really pioneer families, as there was extremely little to come to in New Zealand at that time. My husband's ancestor, Thomas, was a miner in Thames - setting up mines.
Places in Cornwall I am interested in are Camborne, Crowan, St Erth, St Blazey, Truro.
I note one of our Trevarthen relatives settled back in the UK in 1910 - 1911 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. He fought in the Boer War (I have his army issue jodphurs, and have him identified in photos), and later became a renowned rugby player. There appear to be a number of descendants of his in Huddersfield, that I have not yet added in to our family tree. His record is fairly tricky, as he was raised as Thomas Trevarthen & Margaret Trevarthen's son, but appears to be the illegitimate son of their daughter (who was 19 and unmarried at the time of his birth). If my suspicions are correct, his middle name reflects his father's name, and there was a family of the same name living "next door" to them in Thames NZ at the time.
Goodness, I have just got caught up again and am about to miss my bus to work. I'll post again hopefully soon.