24 Planet Park
Delabole
Cornwall PL3 9DT
22.6.78

Dear Mrs Foster,

Many thanks for your reply to my advertisement.

Although I have been compiling a Trevan genealogy for some years beginning with John Archer Trevan 1766, I had not heard of a Sampson until a Sampson descendent visited me a fortnight ago in search of Trevan ancestors. The Vicar of St. Teath put her on to me. He knew my interest because, having seen a Trevan headstone in the churchyard, I asked to see the parish records.

My visitor's mother's father was Sampson Trevan born 1844. He was a son of Sampson, born 1803 who was a grandson of another Sampson. It is this earliest known Samson we want the dates of. You put your grandfather as being a sailor. Do you know his name? I think perhaps he was a grandson of John Trevan who married Christiana Henwood.

My visitor (Mrs Banks) and I think the Trevans who settled in Sheviock in the late 18th century came from North Cornwall. My mother's father (John William Trevan) and his wife came form Port Issac to Plymouth where they brought up their family. There are four plaques in St Endellion Church to the memory of five Trevans and a dozen graves in the churchyard. St Endellion was the parish church for Port Issac. The present one in Port Issac is comparitively new.

I go fairly frequently to Plymouth, not on Mondays, Wednesdays or Sundays. If you are interested in this genealogical quest and would care to know more of what I have discovered perhaps we could meet there one day. The coach arrives at 4.45 pm.

Yours truly,

([signed]) B.A. Cocking (Mrs.)