Post by cavaliercat on Oct 22, 2018 19:15:41 GMT -5
Hello group,
My brother came across this forum while searching for information on a Trewhella stationary engine and he thought I'd be interested. Well, I am. My brother and I are great grandsons of William Trewhella a stone mason who had gone to South Africa to work and became sick. He died 16 Nov 1887 while returning to Cornwall on the ship Tartar. He was buried at sea. While he had gone to Africa, his son, my grandfather, also William Trewhella, emigrated to America. My grandfather married Mary Nicholas 19 Dec 1889. Mary was born 4 Jul 1873 in Wendron, Cornwall. With immense help from a travelling Trewhella from down under, I have about seven generations on my Trewhella lineage but not very much on their respective siblings and/or spouses with surnames Adams, Hocking, White, Thomas, etc.
Now, my father, Matthew Trewhella, married Millicent Wiliams. My Williams ancestry also is rooted in Cornwall and connected to Stoneman, Truran, Richards, Patch, and Jeffery, to name a few.
In reading some of the earlier posts, I believe I may have cousins amongst you?
My brother came across this forum while searching for information on a Trewhella stationary engine and he thought I'd be interested. Well, I am. My brother and I are great grandsons of William Trewhella a stone mason who had gone to South Africa to work and became sick. He died 16 Nov 1887 while returning to Cornwall on the ship Tartar. He was buried at sea. While he had gone to Africa, his son, my grandfather, also William Trewhella, emigrated to America. My grandfather married Mary Nicholas 19 Dec 1889. Mary was born 4 Jul 1873 in Wendron, Cornwall. With immense help from a travelling Trewhella from down under, I have about seven generations on my Trewhella lineage but not very much on their respective siblings and/or spouses with surnames Adams, Hocking, White, Thomas, etc.
Now, my father, Matthew Trewhella, married Millicent Wiliams. My Williams ancestry also is rooted in Cornwall and connected to Stoneman, Truran, Richards, Patch, and Jeffery, to name a few.
In reading some of the earlier posts, I believe I may have cousins amongst you?
If I have the right brother then you and I are known to each other! 
If my hunch is correct then we met way back in 1994 having been in 'snail-mail' contact a few years prior. 
I am gradually working through all my variant Trewhella data and getting everything updated and hopefully I should be starting on the US information fairly soon. From then it should not be long before I dig into the box of old correspondence for your letters.