My earliest known ancestors to live here were Richard Collings and Elizabeth Sibley who married in 1678. It was one of their granddaughters, Elizabeth Evans, who married into my Vanderband family. By the 1720's my Trevan and Vanderband ancestors were also living in the parish of Antony in the East. The Trevan family stayed only for a few years but the Vanderbands remained for a few generations.
On the Trevan side, these were my earliest known Trevan ancestors, John and Francis Treveighen nee Moar, who used the church in 1729 and 1730. Other than the parish register entry for their marriage and the baptism of their first son, nothing more is known about their time when they lived in this parish. They then moved to live at the nearby parish of St. Germans. It was probably their grandson William who fathered an illegitimate child here in 1799. William was the base child of Sarah Kearing. Great-grandson John Trevan (1805-1862) was later to marry Honour Treliving whose family came from Willcove in Antony, and his father John (1776-1850) was living in Torpoint, which was created from part of Antony, at the time of his death. He appears to have moved there after becoming a widower following the death of his wife Christiana nee Henwood, originally from the parish of St Teath. Her brother Thomas Henwood (c1785-1837) married ELizabeth Lyne in Antony before they return to St Teath where the members of their family were born and baptised.
On the Vanderband side John Vanderband (-1776/7) was also my earliest known ancestor, although I have been told that there was a Cornelius Vanderband who was living in the neighbouring parish of St John in the 1690s, and that there is or was a Vanderband Farm in the parish. In the 1720's he and his first wife Michal nee Popelstone lived in the parish. I am descended from his second marriage to Elizabeth Raine (1703-81) in 1744. It was her second marriage as well, and her maiden name was Evans. She and her siblings were all baptised in the parish as children of William and Honor Evans nee Colling.
The Treliving family moved to the parish of Antony when Honor's parents John Treliving and Honor Vanderband married there in 1771. John was a bargeman.
John (1730-1809), the eldest child of
John and Francis, was baptised in Antony before the family moved to St Germans in the early 1730s. He remained in the parish of St. Germans where he married
Honour Spillar in 1757 and had 4 children (John, Honour, Jane, Jeney).
Presumably John and Honour later moved to Stoke Damerel as this is
where they
are buried in a part of the graveyard along with about 8 other Spillar
graves.
On the headstone their names are shown as Trevan. Their eldest 2 children
lived there at least from 1797 onwards, although they were probably there
earlier.
Their second son Matthew was the first child to leave the parish. He was in Stoke Damerel by 1757 and later became a Yeoman with property in Eggbuckland, which is now a suburb of modern day Plymouth, and he married twice; firstly to Elizabeth Stephens who was also from St. Germans, and secondly to Catherine Hosegood who was from Stoke Damerel. Judging from where his family were baptised, married and buried, he moved between the different parishes in which he rented (and owned) properties. Their descendents include the family who are buried in St. Endellion Churchyard, in the north east of Cornwall. This branch was descended from John Archer Trevan, Matthew and Elizabeth's youngest son, who was a Custom's Officer at Port Isaac. It is thought that the name Trevan has died out on this branch. Next reference to Matthew and Elizabeth
Their third child Jane died when only a few weeks old.
Their fourth child Frances married twice; firstly in 1753 to Richard Pawley, and secondly after he was buried in Landrake on 24 Jan 1776, she remarried to George Hancock in 1777 at St. Germans. She and Richard had 3 children (Ann, John and Richard) who were baptised at St. Germans, and the eldest 2 were also buried there when under a year old.
John and Francis's fifth child Elizabeth married Samuel Goyne, a blacksmith, in 1765. They remained in St. Germans and had 5 children who were baptised there.
John and Francis's sixth child Sampson married Frances Lord by whom he had already had an illegitimate child, Jane. They had heir next 3 children baptised here before moving on to the parish of Sheviock. Sampson was a churchwarden at St. Germans and later became Overseer of the Poor at Sheviock. He became a Yeoman like his elder brother Matthew, but he stayed in Cornwall. He is buried in the graveyard at Landrake, and the inscription on his headstone describes him as being of the parish of Sheviock. He left about 1700 pounds in his estate, which included monies owed and crops in the ground. I am descended from him. Next Sampson and Frances reference.
Their seventh child and youngest son William moved to the Plymouth area and had at least four children by his first wife Elizabeth in the Stoke Damerel and St. Budeaux parishes (both now part of modern day Plymouth). Elizabeth died at St. Budeaux in 1775. Later he had a licence for a Victuals House. He remarried Martha Rushworth from Ugborough on 18 Mar 1778 at Ugborough, Devon. Martha out-lived him and remarried John Marrs on 23 Jul 1784 at Stoke Damerel. Next reference to this William.
Their youngest child Anne married Peter Stephens on 19 Sept 1766 at Sheviock and they moved to St. Budeaux, where her elder brothers Matthew and William soon also joined them. Anne and Peter had 6 children baptised at St. Budeaux.
After the family had moved out of the parish, a later generation returned to Polbathic, one of the other villages in the parish.
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Parish Register Entries for Trevan (and variants) and their descendents in chronological order
John Trevan was churchwarden during 1807-8.
Other assorted burials which are most likely related to the family are
3 generations of the Trevan family lived in Sheviock and the descendants of the female Trevan's had a longer association with the parish. See also the introduction page.
There were also baptisms of Pawley in this parish at this time, but I have not yet researched if they were related or not.
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