Sarah CHAMPION

[Cornish Terrier]

Time for me to seek a little help once more.

This will be the first of a possible number of Trewhella-related queries I have just found.

Whilst searching FreeBMD recently for information relating to another query I happened to spot an interesting name - John TREWHELLA Keigwin.

I believe I know who this fella was and will pursue him later.

But I decided 'on a whim' to try a few different searches using TREWHELLA as a second christian name and with no surname entered into the search.

For example - John Trewhella, Martin Trewhella, Ann Trewhella and so on. (Using mainly first names that I could think of at the time that were common in the family.

So - Martin Trewhella CHAMPION born 1875

This is one of a few that came out of 'left field'.

Checking the 1881 Census I found the family of a widowed Sarah CHAMPION at St Ives.

This famioly was from Lelant and further investigation proved that it must have been the family of:-

John CHAMPION m. Sarah EDDY 1st February 1830 at Lelant

At 1881 Sarah still had unmarried daughter Mary and unmarried son Richard J living with her.

AND grandchildren Martin T and Loveday A T CHAMPION.

After hours of searching I can not determine the parents of these two grandchildren and I cannot find a reason for the use of the name TREWHELLA. (I suspect the grandaughter is Loveday Ann Trewhella CHAMPION).

Sarah died in 1890 and in 1891 Martin and Loveday were with their Uncle Richard and Aunt Mary.

Loveday married John Uren CLARK in 1898 and in 1901 Martin was boarding up in Lancashire and working as a quarry labourer.

Also with Martin was a James CURNOW who was also born in Cornwall about 1875.

So - who did Martin and Loveday belong to?

Richard remained and unmarried as did his sister Mary.

Other children of John and Sarah:-

John born 1830 - ddisappears
Elizabeth Eddy (by 2) - both died young
Benjamin - disappears
William - married Jane STEVENS at St Ives in 1867 and had at least seven children - his daughter Sarah Ann CHAMPION married a Joseph QUICK in 1895

(Lannanta and Gandolf - I do not know who this Joseph QUICK was because he was not at home on the night of the 1901 Census. )

James - disappears
Martin Pascoe - died in 1874 age 19

So the options for parents of Martin and Loveday seem limited.

Mary must be considered a possibility and she appears to have been the only surviving daughter.

Or did one of the 'disappearing' sons marry and father these two?

And just how does the name TREWHELLA fit into this picture?

I have been able to rule out a direct connection via the marriage of a Trewhella girl to one of the Champion boys.

To find the baptisms would be the most helpful answer (short of spending money to buy the Birth Certificates) but I am having difficulty locating them.

They do not appear in the St Ives OPRs, the OPC site, the St Ives Methodist New Connexion or Primitive Methodist baptisms.

The only other item I have that might suggest a connection:-

Martin TREWHELLA of Madron was born in 1815 and married three times.

His third wife was Nanny FOX nee CHAMPION.

Problem is that there appears to be no connection between Nanny and the family of John and Sarah.

Nanny was born about 1828/9 and was the daughter of a John CHAMPION and I think I have found her at Newlyn in 1841 with parents John and Jane and several siblings who were all born after 1830.

And although she married Martin TREWHELLA as her second husband the marriage did not occur until 1879 - four years after Martin Trewhella CHAMPION was born.

Any ideas and/or help very much appreciated.

CT

[londoner]

Something for you to chew over:
20 May 1826 Germoe John Champion m Dorothy Scholar
21 Jun 1829 Nanny champion bp to John & Dorothy

cannot find in 1841 or 51 but Dorothy Champion buried 1857 age 59 @ St Hilary

1851 Nanny Champion m Thomas Fox Q1 penzance 9,255
1879 Nanny Fox m Martin Trewhella as you know

1881 at Hea, Madron
Martin Trewhella 62 Dairyman Madron
Nanny Trewhella 53 wife Breage
Martin T Nankervis 20 nephew Madron

next door:
Loveday Friggens W 74 Mullion
Mary H Fox 43 Gulval daug sailors W
Loveday A W Friggens 38 Gulval unm
Eliza R Friggens 29 Gulval unm
James R Fox 10 Madron g'son

Mary Harvey Friggens m James Fox (f John) Madron 3 Aug 1865
unfortunately Nanny & Thomas's marriage is in the missing (online) Madron years so I cant tell if Thomas & James were brothers. But I find it a huge co-incidence that Loveday Ann Webber Friggens should be living next door to Martin and single!

His previous wife Elizabeth was still living in 1871 and although the Friggens family are next door Loveday is nowhere to be found! - (She married in 1888 Thomas Henry Mathews but was widowed by 1901 when she is living with sister Mary .)

I guess certificates will be the only way to find out whose Martin T & Loveday A T Champion's parents really were.
BTW it is possible that Sarah called herself their grandmother for convenience and was not actually related. Although when John & Dorothy Champion were married there was another John Champion as witness so perhaps that is the link.

[londoner]

I now suspect that THomas Fox was b 1823 St Hilary s/o John & Ann
(1841 census)
in 1861 Thomas is with wife Nancy (1829 Germoe so must be Nanny) and children Anne b 1846 and John 1847. This would imply that Thomas had been married before but I haven't found that yet. But bapisms for Anne & John ay St Hilary (IGI) give parents as Thomas & Mary

16 Feb 1874 burial at St Hilary Thomas Fox 51 of Relubbus - which fits with Nanny being free to marry Martin Trewhella.

Also 26 Oct 1873 Madron burial of Elizabeth Thomas Trewhella age 62 - presumably Martin's previous wife.

[londoner]

And you probably already know that the Nephew, Martin T Nankervis was the son of Caleb (B 1839 Phillack s/o John & Elizabeth) and Elizabeth Jane Trewheela m Q3 Pz 5c 486

[Cornish Terrier]

I am yet to properly work on the information you have supplied and will do so in the next day or so.

But I was having a bit of a think whilst trying to find some more information about Martin's second wife - Jane POOL - who he married in 1874. (Yes that Elizabeth was his first wife.)

Having a lot of trouble finding anything about Jane but that can wait.

My thoughts turned more to Martin TREWHELLA and it then occurred to me that I have what is probably a much better scenario to consider.

The one thing that has probably been concerning me about this more than anything else is the name of LOVEDAY.

I am now starting to wonder whether Martin Trewhella CHAMPION and his sister Loveday might be just a little more closely related to me than I might have thought.

It may just be that I created my own 'red herring' in chasing the CHAMPION line for clues.

The Martin TREWHELLA we have been considering speng all his life (to my knowledge) around Madron and Gulval yet much of the goings on appear to have been centred around LELANT.

And therein might be the 'legitimate' clue.

You see - there was another Martin TREWHELLA who, but for a couple of years in Australia, spent most of his time at LELANT and Carbis Bay.

Martin was the youngest brother of my 2xgt-grandfather Benjamin TREWHELLA.

Martin arrived in Victoria aboard the 'Suffolk' in February 1868 and was a witness to the marriage of his sister Phillis in December of that year.

In January 1872 Martin departed Melbourne for London aboard the 'Somersetshire'.

He resided at Carbis and died there in 1913 and is buried in the Carbis Bay Cemetery.

So he returned to Cornwall in 'nice time' and was living in the 'right area' and his name was Martin TREWHELLA.

AND his mother, even though she had died in 1846, was named LOVEDAY! ;D

I might add that he also had a niece of that name.

I have a copy of Martin's Will which I have just re-read but there is no mention of young Martin or Loveday CHAMPION.

In fact, apart from bequests to some of his nephews, a lot of his estate is left to the Carbis Bay Wesleyan Methodist Church.

Everything here suggests that this might just be the 'culprit'.

If we could just find a couple of baptisms .........