History
of Old Hayle
compiled by Paul Mason
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including Maps,
Photographs, Postcards & the like...
Hayle,
Cornwall c1902
from The Towans
Camden's
Britannica map - 1789
includes reference to 'Heyl River' ('Heyl'
meaning 'Estuary')
Ordnance Survey 1st edition one-inch map of area around 'Heyl Mouth' -
1809
('Heyl' meaning 'Estuary')
Manor of Trevethow (Trevethoe)
Estate Plan 1820
[black
markers point at local orchards]
1825
Estate Plan of the Hayle Estuary
showing the design for bridges, a turnpike road and an
embankment causeway
Plan
of the Iron Foundry, Foundry Hill & Plantantion, Hayle - c1841
Hayle Foundry
area of St Erth Parish- Tithe map c1841
Foundry Square
& Foundry Hill, Hayle, St Erth Parish - Tithe
map c1841
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The
Harveys of Hayle
John Harvey 1739-1803 in about 1779
Blacksmith, Engineer and Ironfounder from Carnell Green
John
Harvey (1739-1803)
married
Joanna Ann Harvey - née Pearce (1733-1807) at Gwinear on 8th February
1756
* children *
- Joanna Harvey (1757-1836)
married
William West (1751-1832), the engineer/designer, at St Erth
on 9th May 1784
children,
Anne Nancy (1785-1866)
William II (1787-1852)
Jane
Harvey (1792-1871
Anna
(1794-1846)
Becky
(1797-1817)
John
(1800-1868)
(from
January 1816 William West
(1751-1832) becomes a
director of Harvey & Co. Ltd)
- William Harvey (1758-1762)
- John Harvey
(1760-1783) married Elizabeth
Stapleton
son
William Harvey
- William Harvey (1763-1768)
- Francis Harvey
(c1765-1767)
- Jane Harvey
(1772-1868)
married
Richard Trevithick (1771-1833),
the
inventor,
at St Erth on 7th November 1797
children; Richard
Trevithick (1798–1872)
Anne
Ellis (1800–1877)
Elizabeth
Banfield
(1803–1870)
John
Harvey Trevithick
(1807–1877)
Francis Trevithick
(1812–1877)
Frederick Henry Trevithick
(1816–1883)
- Anne Harvey
(1774-1808) married John Harvey (17**-1809) a
well-to-do Cabinet Maker of Helston
survived by 6 children
-
Henry 'Little Cap'n'
Harvey (1775-1850)
born
at Gwinear, 3rd
September 1775
Henry appears not to have married, but instead to have taken a mistress, a servant
called Grace Tonkin, 24 yrs his junior, installed in a house
just a few minutes walk
away, Mellanear House.
children; John
Tonking (1818-1838)
Edward
Harvey Tonking
(1821-1824)
William Harvey Tonking
(1822-1843)
Francis Harvey Tonking
(1823-1853)
Henry
Harvey Tonking
(1824-1844)
Richard Harvey Tonking
(1825-1856)
Juliana Harvey Tonking
(1828-1849), married John Polglase on
28th June 1848 at St Erth
Edward Harvey
Tonking (1830-1831)
Edwin
Harvey Tonking
(1832-1869)
James
Harvey Tonking (1833- ?
), married Eliza (Whitford) Trenerry, 15th May 1855 at Phillack
Charles Harvey Tonking
(1837-1908)
>
It
is said that in 1847 Henry
Harvey had a stroke and could not walk unaided
Henry
Harvey died 13th
May1850
- Elizabeth 'Betsy'
Harvey (1779-1848) unmarried,
resided with her brother, Henry
'Harveys of Hayle' by
Edmund Vale
cover picture of Henry Harvey (b.September
3rd 1775, d.May13th1850)
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Foundry House, also
known as Harvey House, facing 'Mill' and 'Swan Pool'
Harvey family residence
built c1780-90 on
land leased by John
Harvey
from the Lower
Trelissick estate
In 1812,
Henry Harvey's sister, Betsy, inadvertently found herself involved in a dispute
between Henry Harvey and a business partner, Hannibal Curnow Blewett, which Henry's
brother-in-law, Richard Trevithick, took full advantage of:
"Blewett
sent a handsome silver teapot to Miss Betsy Harvey, who kept her
brother's house, called Foundry House. Trevithick was sitting with them
when the box was brought in and opened. Mr. Henry Harvey was indignant
at Mr. Blewett sending a bribe or make-peace to his sister,
and threw
the silver teapot under the fireplace. Trevithick, however, quietly
picked it up, pointed out the dinge it had received, wrapped his pocket
handkerchief around it, and saying, if it causes bad feeling here it
will do for Jane, marched away home with the pot. The writer
drank tea
from it recently, and also laughed at the dinge.".
- 'Life of
Richard Trevithick: With an Account of His Inventions Vol II' by Francis Trevithick, 1872
pp52-3
And from January 1816, Miss Elizabeth 'Betsy'
Harvey became a director of Harvey & Co. Ltd
Henry Harvey's unmarried neice, Nanny Harvey, died in 1840 after living
at Foundry House with Henry and sister Elizabeth most of her life.
1841
Tithe apportionment 37,
Garden
and part of Stables
- occupier Henry Harvey
1841 Tithe apportionment 38, House, Garden and part of Stables -
occupier Henry Harvey
1841 Census
Hayle Foundry,1,Henry Harvey,65,,Independant,In county,
,,Elizabeth Harvey,,60,Independant,In county,
,,Sophia Tredinick,,25,Female Servant,In county,
,,Agnes Troon,,25,Female Servant,In county,
Messrs. Harvey & Co, Hayle, Cornwall 23rd January 1848
In 1848, Henry Harvey formed a deed of settlement, passing on the business to his nephews and neices.
Elizabeth 'Betsy'
Harvey died 1848
Henry
Harvey died 13th
May1850
Messrs Harvey & Co, Hayle, Cornwall 26th October 1850
1851 Census
52,Foundery,John West,Head,M,50,,Engineer,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,Mary West,Wife,M,,42,,Phillack Cornwall,,
,,Nicholas Ja's West,Son,,11,,Scholar,Perranporth Cornwall,,
,,Elizabeth Harvey West,Dau,,,7,Scholar,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,Henry Harrlem Mer Meer West,Son,,4,,,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,Francis Will'm West,Son,,,2,,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,Elizabeth Rollins,Servnt,S,,19,House Servant,Uny Lelant Cornwall,,
The Trevithicks, in 1852, left Harvey’s partnership and formed their own firm of J H Trevithick & Son, Millers.
The
partners of Harveys of Hayle were then Nicholas Harvey, William Harvey,
William West and John West; William John Rawlings became a partner in
1854.
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~treevecwll/family/hharvey.htm
1861 Census
88,,1,John West,Head,W,60,,Civil Engineer,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Nicholas James West,Son,U,21,,Civil Engineer,St Agnes Cornwall,,
,,,Elizabeth Harvey West,Dau,U,,17,[scholar],St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Honor Burt,Antlaw,U,,63,Housekeeper,Phillack Cornwall,,
On a plan of the Foundry area, dated 1864, Foundry House is marked 'Mr John West', presumeably Henry Harvey's nephew, and director of Harvey & Co, who died in 1868.
1871 Census
96,Foundry,1,Nicholas J West,Head,M,32,,Civil Engineer,St Agnes Cornwall,,
,,,Ellen West,Wife,M,,26,,Penryn Cornwall,,
,,,Rooblie Hassan West,Son,,3,,,Phillack Cornwall,,
,,,Haarlem Ethneen West,Son,,2,,,Phillack Cornwall,,
,,,Lavinia Webb,Servnt,U,,28,General Servant Domestic,Breage Cornwall,,
,,,Ann Lawrey,Servnt,U,,18,Nurs Girl,St Erth Cornwall,,
1881 Census
70,Foundry House,1,Nicholas J. West,Head,M,41,,Civil Engineer,St Agnes Cornwall,,
,,,Helen West,Wife,M,,36,,Penryn Cornwall,,
,,,Haarlew E. West,Son,U,12,,Scholar,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Howard S. West,Son,,6,,Scholar,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Ethel West,Dau,,,4,,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Julia Thomas,Servnt,U,,21,Cook Domestic Servant,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Ann Pascoe,Servnt,U,,19,Housemaid Domestic Servant,Camborne Cornwall,,
Harvey House was demolished in 1885 to make way for the expansion of
Harvey & Co's central 'Erecting Shop'.
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Harvey & Co
Towards the end of the 19th century the fortunes of Harvey & Co declined, and in 1903 they
announced the closing of their engineering works and Foundry, but the
company continued to trade as a general and builders merchant,
eventually merging with UBM to become Harvey-UBM (United Builders
Merchants) in 1969.
In 1981, on the instructions of the UBM Group Limited, Hayle Harbour was offered for sale.
UBM was then acquired by Jewson Builders Merchants who continued to use the Harvey & Co site in Carnsew, Hayle.
In 2022 it was reported that the Jewson chain was being sold in a
£740 million deal to the european building materials distributor
Stark Group.
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Tremeadow
Terrace -
formerly called
'Mill Row'
built by
Harvey & Co for employees
1841 Census
Book 12 Folio 30 Pages 2-7 - see Mill Row
link to census > > https://sites.rootsweb.com/~kayhin/40144.html
'Tremeadow
Terrace was built in about 1819 and was originally called Mill Row. An
unusually regular row
of cottages and half-houses, built of rubble stone and granite with
slate roofs, mostly replaced with mineral
slate, and red brick stacks. Varied plots of 1 window and 2 window
width, originally all sash windows,
many now replaced. The rear elevation, despite some C20 extension,
retains much of its original
character, including a number of back-to-back sheds set within the
shared courts of the cottage pairs.
One of the main features of the row is the surviving series of front
gardens, with rubble boundary walls
capped with brick, and now with an impressive array of C20 sheds at
their lower (south) ends; a municipal
parking scheme at the north end of the row that has allowed access for
garages is an intrusive feature .
These gardens and the cottages are served by a common path bounding the
Hammer Mills [24] to the
south, doorways into these buildings lead off this path as well,
indicating a common ownership and
perhaps date for both sets of structures . '
http://www.hayle.net/council/documents/2000R058HayleHistoricalAssessmentInventory-ocr.pdf
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Mill
built c1779 on
land leased by John Harvey from the Lower Trelissick estate
-
Hammer Mill
- for
crushing and grinding materials
'Harvey's hammer
mills were water powered by the nearby pond. The site is now a public
garden. Rubble
stone walls with some brick dressings. The walls show the scars of
demolished buildings, and the various
stages of development and build are traceable. This and the attached
grist mill complex (25] were when
photographed in 1905 prominent buildings some 5 or 6 storeys high with
a taller stack (The Old Days in
Hayle, n.d., Packet Publishing, 21).'
http://www.hayle.net/council/documents/2000R058HayleHistoricalAssessmentInventory-ocr.pdf
- Boring Mill - for
engineering
- Grist Mill - for
grinding corn and making flour
'Grist mill. Built by Harvey's it passed to the Trevithick side of the
family, and was for a long time known as
Trevithick's Mill. (H.E.D. Vale, St Erth Parish Checklist, 1966, CA14,
pg. 114). lt was extant in 1780 (W.H.
Pascoe, Phillack Parish Checklist, 1976, CA15, pg. 100). Parts of the
stabilised outer walls of the mill
survive within the complex of walls surrounding the memorial gardens.
The millpond seems not to have
been used to drive this mill, which was at first operated by
horsepower, and then from c.1830 onwards by
steam. Extended 1879, milling ceased in the 1890s, when a mint humbug
factory took over part of the
building (B. Acton, A View from Trencrom, 1992, 75). The walls were
reduced in height in 1940, reputedly
to prevent this large building being used as a target in German bombing
raids (pers. comm. B. Sullivan,
May 2000) .'
http://www.hayle.net/council/documents/2000R058HayleHistoricalAssessmentInventory-ocr.pdf
Ropeworks
'Ropemaking was one
of the first of John Harvey's diversified activities after setting up
his foundry. lt
seems to have commenced about 1796, and continued until 1916 (C. Noall,
1985, The Book of Hayle), but
is first recorded in trade directories only in 1844 (Pigots Directory),
when there were four other
ropemakers recorded in Hayle. '
http://www.hayle.net/council/documents/2000R058HayleHistoricalAssessmentInventory-ocr.pdf
'Harvey’s
Foundry started in the 1780s and this was the site of the boring and
hammer mills, and a five-storey grist mill, which was still in use
until the 1930s.'
'There were walls there
from a brass foundry, which once made ship’s bells.'
'The Ropewalk dates from
1793 and was worked until 1916, when most of the men had gone to war.
There are the
remains of a furnace where they used to boil tar for rope-making, and a
pit where the rope was soaked.'
'The inner pond was
originally an
ornamental lake for the people living in the villas in Millpond Avenue.
The outer pond powered the foundry. There’s a wheelhouse
there
housing three waterwheels... The outer pond is known as the swan pool'
- extracts from 'A conversation with warden
Georgina Schofield', February 2011
http://cornishgardenstories.co.uk/a-former-foundry-site-has-become-a-tranquil-open-space-for-the-people-of-hayle/
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Lane
between 'Harvey House' & 'Pond House' leading to 'Foundry
Stables'
'32
HAYLE, FOUNDRY HILL (Fig 15d) [reference key at foot of
webpage]
WALL
SW55783701 PRN: 139005
This early 19th century wall is a surviving component of the Foundry
Farm Yard complex and also
delineates a pathway that ran from the Yard to Foundry Hill (the
dressed granite quoins of the entrance to
the yard survive). lt was associated with the Foundry House
(1790-1885). Built of rubble stone and
granite, capped with pale buff coloured bricks, it is about 2-3 metres
high. lt is shown on the Plan of Hayle
Foundry and Lands Adjoining dating to 1864 (GRH 148/1, CRO 214/3/2).'
http://www.hayle.net/council/documents/2000R058HayleHistoricalAssessmentInventory-ocr.pdf
the
original lane became overgrown with trees, is now blocked off each end
with electricity substations
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Bungalow
built between lane and Pond House, 1930s, and thought first
to have housed Mother Superior of the Daughters of Liege
order, St Michael's
Hospital
'383
HAYLE, 2 FOUNDRY
HILL (Fig 15d)
[reference key at foot of webpage]
HOUSE
SW55773701 PRN:
139612
House, early C20.
Rock-faced granite with rendered return elevations and slate roof, with
red and white
brick stacks.
Single storey with hipped roof and stacks to left and to right. Large
windows to left and rght
and central door in
gabled porch with bargeboards. Stands in the former grounds of the
Foundry
Farmhouse. Its
relationship to Harvey's is not known.'
http://www.hayle.net/council/documents/2000R058HayleHistoricalAssessmentInventory-ocr.pdf
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Foundry Farmhouse, 9 Foundry Lane, facing Mill Pond, and formerly known as 'Pond House'
built c1799 on land
leased by John Harvey from the Lower Trelissick estate
1841 Tithe apportionment 39,
Dwelling House and Garden - Capt. John Vivian
Road adjoining
'384
HAYLE, FOUNDRY FARMHOUSE, FOUNDRY HILL (Fig 15d) [reference key at foot of
webpage]
HOUSE
SW55753701 PRN: 140792
House. Late 18th/early 19th century. Rendered stonework with slate
roof. Two storied, hipped
symmetrical house with boundary walls related to the rest of the
Foundry Lane. The roadside wall (to
Foundry Hill) were originally swept up to Foundry Lane, and possibly
had railings on them, but have been
partially raised with early/mid C19 brickwork, in itself an indication
of the probable late C18/early C19 date
of house and walls. A house is represented here on the 1791-6 map of
Hayle, and seems never to have
been extensively altered or extended. Part of the complex attached to
Harvey's Foundry (and owned
separately from the Foundry by the family,) it does not seem to have
been exclusively or even generally
used as the farmhouse probably before the later C19 (on the split of
the Harvey business in 1852 it was
part of the Trevithick inheritance)- In 1842 (Tithe Award) it was the
home of Capt. John Vivian, the man
who steered Richard Trevithick's steam carriage engine along the
streets of London in 1802 (Vale, 65),
and an engineer/sailor, not a farmer.'
http://www.hayle.net/council/documents/2000R058HayleHistoricalAssessmentInventory-ocr.pdf
1841 Census
Hayle Foundry,1,John Vivian,55,,Mariner (Sea),In county,
,,Elizabeth Vivian,,50,,In county,
,,James Vivian,25,,Agent,In county,
,,Elizabeth Vivian,,15,,In county,
,,Cat Williams,,25,Female Servant,In county,
1851 Census
53,Foundery,John Vivian,Head,M,67,,Agent For Steam Vessls,Phillack Cornwall,,
,,Elizabeth Vivian,Wife,M,,64,,Gwinear Cornwall,,
,,Elizabeth Vivian,Dau,S,,26,At Home,Gwinear Cornwall,,
,,John Vivian,Grnson,,12,,Scholar,Clifton Gloucestershire,,
,,Mary Thomas Burall,Visitr,S,,18,Farmers Daughter,Crowan Cornwall,,
,,Catherine Williams,Servnt,S,,39,House Servant,Gwinear Cornwall,,
1861 Census
89,,1,John Vivian,Head,M,76,,Retired Shipmaster,Phillack Cornwall,,
,,,Elizabeth Vivian,Wife,M,,74,,Gwinear Cornwall,,
,,,John Vivian,Grnson,U,22,,Merchants Clark,Bristol Somerset,,
,,,Emma Williams,Servnt,U,,24,Housemaid,Phillack Cornwall,,
1871 Census
97,Foundry,1,Elizabeth Vivian,Head,W,,85,,Gwinear Cornwall,,
,,,Grace Stevens,Servnt,U,,22,Domestic Servant,Phillack Cornwall,,
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According to the 1881 census, 'Pond
House' was then occupied by Richard Hawkins, Farm
Bailiff.
1881 Census
61,Pond House,1,Richard Hawkins,Head,M,52,,Farm Bailiff,St Issey Cornwall,,
,,,Mary E. Hawkins,Wife,M,,44,,Gulval Cornwall,,
,,,Linda E. Hawkins,Dau,U,,18,,St Issey Cornwall,,
,,,Thomas S. Hawkins,Son,U,16,,Engin Fitter At Works,St Issey Cornwall,,
,,,Frances L. Hawkins,Dau,U,,14,Scholar,St Issey Cornwall,,
,,,William R. Hawkins,Son,,12,,Scholar,St Issey Cornwall,,
,,,Sidwell M. Hawkins,Dau,,,4,,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Infant Hawkins,Son,,1m,,,St Erth Cornwall,,Age under one month
,,,Albert Rogers,Nephew,U,18,,Drapers Apprentice,St Erth Cornwall,,
1891 Census
56,Foundry Hill,1,Richard Hawkins,Head,M,62,,Farm Bailiff,Employed,St Issey Cornwall,,
,,,Mary E Hawkins,Wife,M,,53,,,Gulval Cornwall,,
,,,Linda E Hawkins,Dau,S,,28,,,St Issey Cornwall,,
,,,William R Hawkins,Son,S,22,,Engineer Fitter,Employed,St Issey Cornwall,,
,,,Gerald O. T. Hawkins,Son,S,10,,,,St Erth Cornwall,,
Farm bailiffs exist on landed estates. The farm bailiff is employed by the proprietor and his managerial duties can include collecting rent, taxes and supervising both farm operations and labourers.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailiff
Name |
Richard HAWKINS |
Birth |
1828 |
St Issey, Cornwall |
Christening |
25 Dec 1828 |
St Issey, Cornwall [1] |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
1910 |
Penzance Registration District [2] |
- 1910 Quarter of Registration:
Oct-Nov-Dec District: Penzance County:
Cornwall Volume: 5c Page: 145
|
Person ID |
I1022 |
St_Issey_Folk |
Last Modified |
23 Sep 2021 |
Census |
06 Jun 1841
|
Tredinnick, St Issey, Cornwall...................................Aged 12, Son
|
Census |
30 Mar 1851
|
Tredinnick, St Issey, Cornwall...................................Aged 22, Son, Employed on Farm
|
Census |
07 Apr 1861
|
Tredinnick, St Issey, Cornwall...................................Aged
32, Son, Unmarried, Farmer of 81 Acres Emplys 1 Lab & 2 Boys
|
Census |
02 Apr 1871
|
Foundry, St Erth, Cornwall.......................................Aged 42, Head, Widower, Hind
|
http://st-issey-folk.co.uk/opc/getperson.php?personID=I1022&tree=St_Issey_Folk
'Hind', was that an occupation?
Hind was a general term for a farm servant or agricultural labourer. However, in some regions it was a farm bailiff or steward.
https://genealogy-specialists.com/threads/what-job-is-a-hind.7124/
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Q. So, who was Captain John Vivian????
A. John Vivian was born
17th January 1784 at Phillack, Cornwall, and baptized at
Phillack on
11th March 1784.
Married to Elizabeth Rosewarne, born 13th
October 1786 at Hayle, Cornwall. d. 24th
December 1873
* children *
John Vivian
1809-1857
James Vivian
1811- ?
William Vivian
1813-70
Elizabeth Vivian
1824- ?
John Vivian died 7th January 1871 at Trenawen, Gwinear, Cornwall,
England, aged 86 years old
Having driven the first successful
steam passenger carrying locomotive, the 19-year old
John Vivian became one of the very first Engine
Drivers!
*Maybe the house
where Captain John Vivian lived at that time merits a heritage Blue
Plaque??*
'Trevithick's Common Road
Passenger Locomotive, London, 1803'
Andrew
Vivian (1759–1842)
was a British mechanical engineer, inventor, and mine captain of the Dolcoath
mine in Cornwall,
England.
In
partnership with his cousin Richard
Trevithick, the inventor of the "high pressure" steam
engine, and the entrepreneur Davis
Giddy,
Vivian financed the production of the first steam carriage and was
granted a joint patent for high pressure engines for stationary and
locomotive use in March 1802.
In
1801, Richard Trevithick completed his first full-sized road locomotive
in Camborne,
demonstrating it to the public on Christmas Eve with Vivian at the
controls. The first day it ran about the streets and up the very steep
Beacon Hill. The next day it went down to the village of Crane so
that Vivian's family, who lived there, might see it. In a further
trial, one week later, the machine overturned in a rut. It was dragged
into a shed while Trevithick and Vivian had lunch at a nearby inn; on
their return the boiler had run dry, setting fire to the machine's
timber frame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Vivian
'Undismayed
by this mishap,
Trevithick ordered castings and a wrought iron boiler from West at
Hayle Foundry for an improved road locomotive for demonstration in
London. William Felton, a coachbuilder of Leather Lane, being entrusted
with the bodywork. The carriage had one cylinder and three wheels, the
two eight foot driving wheels placed behind with the boiler and engine
between them. The small steering wheel at the front was controlled by a
tiller, while the chimney was in the form of a negro, from whose mouth
belched the smoke. It had accomodation for eight inside passengers.'
- 'The Book of Hayle'
by Cyril Noall, Barracuda Books, 1984 p42
'This
second locomotive,
tried in Camborne in the latter part of 1802 or commencement of 1803,
was sent to London in January, 1803. William West was then at Harvey's
foundry in Cornwall, preparing the new cylinder; and still in February
and March he was there preparing a new boiler, after which he was for
five months in London, about the steam-carriage; and in August, Felton
was paid for building the coach.
The
London locomotive of 1803 was a great improvement on the former ones:
it was not so heavy; and the horizontal cylinder, instead of the
vertical, added very much to its steadiness of motion; while wheels of
a larger diameter enabled it the more easily to pass over bits of bad
road, which had brought the Camborne one to a standstill. The boiler
was wholly of wrought iron, and, with the engine attached to it, was
put together at or near Felton's carriage shop in Leather Lane;
Trevithick, Andrew Vivian, and William West were with it; and Arthur
Woolf (then in Trevithick's pay with the first high-pressure sent to
London) came to see what was going on.
Andrew Vivian ran it, one day, from Leather Lane, Gray's Inn Lane, on
to Lord's Cricket Ground, to Paddington, and home again by way of
Islington - a journey of half a score miles through the streets of
London. Trevithick was not on the engine on that occasion. Andrew
Vivian was not an engineer, and would not have ventured on so long a
run had there not been prior proof of what the engine could do; and the
fact of an altered cylinder and boiler having been under construction
in Cornwall after the locomotive had been sent to London, proves that
several trials had been made, and changes found necessary.
"Captain Joseph Vivian recollects about 1803, his father, then a
captain of a vessel, on his return from London told them that he and
his nephew, John Vivian, had been invited to take a bit of a drive with
Captain Trevithick and Captain Andrew Vivian on their steam-carriage:
they went again for the next day; but Captain Vivian thought he was
more likely to suffer shipwreck on the steam-carriage than on board his
vessel and did not go a second time."
"Captain John Vivian, H.M.P.S., was, about the middle of 1803, on board
his uncle's vessel in London, and often went to see the steam-carriage
putting together at a coach-builders in Leather Lane. Captain
Trevithick and Captain Andrew Vivian were there, and Mr. William West
was the principal man in putting the engine together. Mr. Arthur Woolf
frequently came in, he being engaged close by as an engineer in Meux's
brewery.
"Thinks the engine had one cylinder, and three wheels; the two driving
wheels behind were about 8 feet in diameter. The boiler and engine were
fixed just between those wheels. The steering wheel was smaller, and
placed in front. There were some gear-wheels to connect the engine with
the driving wheels. The carriage for the passengers would hold eight or
ten persons, and was placed between the wheels, over the engine, on
springs. One or two trips were made in Tottenham Court Road, and in
Euston Square. One day they started about four o'clock in the morning,
and went along Tottenham Court Road, and the New Road, or City Road;
there was a canal by the side of the road at one place,
for he was thinking how deep it was if they should run into it. They
kept going on for four or five miles, and sometimes at the rate of
eight or nine miles an hour. I was steering, and Captain Trevithick and
someone else were attending to the engine. Captain Dick came alongside
of me and said, "She is going all right". "Yes" said I, "I
think
we had better go on to Cornwall". She was going along five or six miles
an hour, and Captain Dick called out, "Put the helm down, John!' [likely
meaning 'put the brake on']
and
before I could tell what was up, Captain Dick's foot was upon the
steering-wheel handle, and we were tearing down six or seven yards of
railing from a garden wall. A person put his head from a window, and
called out, "What the devil are you doing there! What the devil is that
thing!"
"They got her back to the coach factory. A great cause of difficulty
was the fire-bars shaking loose, and letting the fire fall through into
the
ash-pan.
"The waste steam was turned into the chimney, and puffed but with the
smoke at each stroke of the engine. When the steam was up, she went
capitally well, but when the fire-bars dropped, and the fire got out of
order, she did not go well.
"I heard afterwards that the framing of the engine got a twist, and she
was used to drive a mill for rolling hoop-iron; and also that
she
ran on a tramroad laid in Regent's Park."'
- 'Life of
Richard Trevithick: With an Account of His Inventions Vol I' by Francis Trevithick, 1872
pp141-3
Trevithick's London "Bus"
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John
Vivian and the Napoleonic Wars
'....
the Post Office had engaged Little
Catherine and appointed
John Vivian as her captain on 13 March 1813. On
25 November the French frigates Sultane and Étoile captured Little
Catherine as she was
sailing from Passages.[a] The
French took off Little
Catherine's
crew and abandoned her. On 28 November HMS Hotspur picked
her up at sea.[b] Hotspur found
her plundered, all but two of her guns thrown overboard, with her sails
set, but her rudder free so that she drifted at the mercy of wind and
waves. Captain the Honourable Jocelny Percy of Hotspur put
a crew on board who took her into Penzance. A gale on the 30th upset
her and put her on her beam ends, where she lay waterlogged.[13]
While
Captain Vivian was on board Sultana a
storm came up. Her crew consisted of untrained landsmen, many of whom
were sea-sick. Sultana's
captain appealed to Vivian for assistance. Vivian agreed
that he and his men would navigate the frigate, handing back control
when the weather moderated. In return, the frigate captain agreed to
put the Englishmen aboard the next prize they took.
When
the French captured the Falmouth packet Duke
of Montrose on 12
December, they put Captain Vivian and Little
Catherine's
crew aboard Duke of Montrose. Captain
Vivian was senior in the Packet Service to Captain John Forster of Duke
of Montrose and
so assumed command. The French also put on board their prisoners from
some other vessels they had taken. The British reached Falmouth on 20
December. The
commanders of both vessels assured the Packet Service's agent at
Falmouth that they had sunk the Service's book of private
(confidential) signals with the mails before the French had captured
the vessels.
John Vivian’s
grandfather was Captain John Vivian (senior); He was born at Phillack
in 1784, and was a Captain in Her Majesty's Packet Service, He married
in 1809 to Elizabeth Rosewarne.
Richard
Trevithick’s friend, William West married Joanna Harvey.
Richard
Trevithick married Jane Harvey, a younger sister of Joannah Harvey.
William West made the models of Richard Trevithick’s high
pressure
steam engine in 1796.
Captain John
Vivian’s
uncle was Captain Andrew Vivian; in 1802, Richard Trevithick, William
West, and Andrew Vivian patented the high-pressure engine. In 1803,
Captain John Vivian (senior), took the new engine on the LITTLE
CATHERINE to London, and when there, drove Trevithick and
West’s
“locomotive” along New Road; At sea, he
ran the
Blockade and made a successful voyage to Cronstadt in 1811; 15th March
1813, he was in command of HMP LITTLE CATHERINE, returning
from
Corunna, the ship was captured by two French frigates; He retired from
Packet service 1817;
In 1832, he became Commander of the HERALD, running between Hayle and
Bristol, the first steamer used on the Cornish coast.
He also commanded the CORNWALL (1842-59)
and the COLOMBIA (1859-60). He died at Hayle in 1871.
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~treevecwll/family/hharvey.htm
Cornubia,
from an original drawing redrawn by Pete Joseph.
Steamship
Cornubia Launched at Hayle
'Saturday 27
February 1858 saw the launch of the iron paddle steamer Cornubia
at Hayle. The vessel was built by Harvey and Co to work the packet
service between Hayle and Bristol. Her keel had been laid down a year
earlier and the intention was that she should replace the wooden hulled
steam paddler Cornwall.
In 1858 the Cornwall
was only 16 years old and she was to be sold to help the Hayle and
Bristol Steam Packet Company to cover the costs of the Cornubia.'
'Cornubia
was the first big iron paddler steamer built in Cornwall, she was
designed at Harvey's probably by Jebus Bickle...'
'Cornubia
had a overall length of 200 feet, 185 feet of keel, 241/2 feet beam and
a 13 feet depth of hold. She had a gross tonnage of some 500 tons and
was powered by a pair of oscillating engines of a nominal 230hp output
which were fed by twin steam boilers. In service she could accommodate
55 to 60 saloon passengers plus an unknown number of second cabin and
deck passengers. Fit out took four months and Cornubia underwent
her first sea trial, under Captain Vivian, on 11th June 1858.'
https://www.penwithlocalhistorygroup.co.uk/on-this-day/?id=58
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Triumphal Arch,
Foundry Lane
possibly Sam Ellis?, car driver for Harvey's
& Co. Ltd who lived closeby
'Listed building (No. 10/90).
This triumphal arch was built in 1843 for Harvey and Company reputedly
to
celebrate the Leeghwater Engine contract for draining the Haarlemmer
Meer in Holland. lt is constructed
of granite ashlar with rectangular-plan abutments on either side of a
fairly wide carriageway. Plinth,
rusticated and vermiculated quoins and voussoirs, double impost bands,
elliptical arch with projecting
keystone, moulded cornice and tall ashlar blocking course. lt is part
of the grandiose classicising and
landscaping scheme undertaken by Henry Harvey in the 1840s.'
http://www.hayle.net/council/documents/2000R058HayleHistoricalAssessmentInventory-ocr.pdf
On 1 August 1837, King William I appointed
a royal commission of inquiry; the scheme proposed by the commission received
the sanction of the Dutch Parliament's Second Chamber in
March 1839, and in the following May the work was begun.[5]
First, a canal was dug around
the lake, called Ringvaart (Ring Canal), to carry
the water drainage and boat and ship traffic which had previously gone across
the lake. This canal was 61 kilometres (38 mi) long, and 2.40 metres
(7.9 ft) deep, and the excavated earth was used to build a dike from 30 to
50 metres (98 to 164 ft) wide around the lake. The area enclosed by the
canal was more than 180 square kilometres (69 sq mi), and the average
depth of the lake 4 metres (13 ft). As the water had no natural drainage,
it was calculated that probably 1000 million tons of water would have to be
raised by mechanical means.[5]
All of the pumping was done by steam mills, an innovation contrasting with the
historic practice of draining polders using windmills. Three Cornish beam engines were imported from Hayle:
the Leeghwater, the Cruquius (the largest
Watt-design reciprocal stroke steam engine ever built and now a museum), and
the Lijnden.
Pumping began in 1848, and the lake was dry by July 1, 1852; 800 million tons
of water were actually discharged.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haarlemmermeer
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Hamilton Hawkins and Cyril
Eddy at the Foundry Stables, Hayle
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Carnsew Hillfort & Plantation
In 1852 the West
Cornwall
Railway decided to bring rail transport from up country to Hayle,
driving track through
Henry Harvey's Plantation at Carnsew
Plantation Walks, Hayle
postcard 77045
'345
HAYLE, CARNSEW
(Fig 15d) [reference key at foot of
webpage]
HILLFORT
SW55643713 PRN: 31934
The Victoria County History
noted a semi-circular embankment at Hayle overlooking both estuaries.
lt is
shown on earlier OS maps as an earthwork. Thomas says that the
earthwork at Camsew seems to have consisted of two ramparts,
the outer surmounting the 50ft high cliff. Farming and the railway
cutting have
removed nearly all traces of a rampart on the west side, but this may
be indicated by a change in slope.
The remaining ramparts were
walled up and the paths cut along them by Henry Harvey in the construction of an
ornamental park in 1845. There is an entrance in the north west with an
enclosure to
the east of it and a track leading from it to the shore. The fort was
probably cnstructed to guard the Hayle estuary and a prehistoric
trackway south of it. A field visit by the os in 1962 revealed that the
surviving
main rampart and annexe to the north are substantial but considerably
mutilated by the construction of the park. There is no ground
evidence of the earthwork having been completed by a rampart on the west side; it has probably been
ploughed out. In its present condition the original entrance cannot be
identified:
that on the track leading from it (mentioned by Thomas) are probably
modern. The earthwork appears to be a small hillfort rather
than a cliff castle, with natural slopes defending the north and east
sides. Wells
says there are indications of a terrace on the western side, which may
have been caused by the raising of the enterior. Altered and
landscaped in the 1840s by Henry Harvey, who added a number of
structures and ramped
walks as part of a wider landscaping activity. See also [30] [33 -44)
[59 -65] . '
http://www.hayle.net/council/documents/2000R058HayleHistoricalAssessmentInventory-ocr.pdf
The Plantation, Hayle
Postcard 39094
'30
HAYLE, CUNAIDE
STONE (Fig 15d) [reference key at foot of
webpage]
INSCRIBED STONE
SW55643716 PRN:
31978 SM: 30 10749 LB: 11
Listed building
(No. 10/113). A "stone" is marked at the location on current OS maps
(1964 OS, 1:2500
Map). lt is now embedded in a bank in the park created on Camsew
hillfort. Langdon says it was found in
1843 four feet below the ground surface near its present position.
According to Langdon the inscription
reads "hie (in pa) cem requievit .... Cunaide hie (in) tumulo iacit
vixit annis xxxiii" (A.G. Langdon, Victoria
County History 1, 420, PL 11, Fig. 10). Roman capitals are used
throughout the inscription: Hencken dates
the stone to the fifth and sixth century but it may be as earty as
fourth century. Hencken's translation
reads "here in the grave fell asleep ... Cunaide lies here in the
grave. She lived 33 years" (H.O.N.
Hencken, 1932, Archaeology of Cornwall and Scilly; 222, 225). Radford
says the stone compares most
closely with the late roman milestones of which there are five in
Cornwall. The formula is Christian and can
be paralleled in continental Christian cemeteries of the fourth and
fifth centuries. Epigraphically a date
before 400 is possible but the formulae and sequel show that some
inscriptions should be dated to the
middle of the late fifth century (C.A.R. Radford, 1975, Christian
Inscriptions of Dunmonia (CAS Holbeche
Corfield 1974). Macalister believes that the engraver made an error,
hammered it out, and started over
again. Hence "hie in tumulo requievit ..... Cunaide hie in tumulto
iacit vixit annos xxxiii" (R.A.S. Macalister,
1945, Corpus Inscription. Ins. Celticarum I, No. 479, 457-8). A modem
slate slab beside the stone has the
inscription "hie cenui requievii cunat do. Hie tumulo iacit vixit annos
xxxiii" and the translation "here cenui
fell asleep who was born in 1500. Here in this tomb he lies. He lived
33 years" (1962, FV, G.H.
Pitcher/OS). The inscribed stone was found in association with a cist
grave (see PRN 31798. 01). '
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Hayle
Millpond (formerly
called 'Swan Pool')
Millpond, Hayle
Wrench Series postcard 13059
Hayle. Mill Pond. c1905
Peacock postcard M.C. 1750
The Mill Pond, Hayle - Valentine postcard c1902
Ropewalk to the left, chimneys of Williams, Harvey & Co Ltd,
Mellanear Smelting Works to back right
Williams, Harvey &
Co Ltd, Mellanear
Smelting Works
built 1837
1841 Tithe apportionment 209, leased by Trelissick Smelting House
Company - House and Garden
1841 Tithe apportionment 210, leased by Trelissick Smelting House
Company - Smelting House, Yard etc
1841 Tithe apportionment 211, leased by Trelissick Smelting House
Company - Garden
illustration from 'A History of
Tin Mining and Smelting in Cornwall' by D.B. Barton p216
to the right of photo stand 3 horses harnessed to wagon
shafts, with heads in their nosebags
ingots of tin
from Williams Harvey & Co, Mellanear, Hayle
the logo being Lamb & Flag
Mellanear
Works demolished c1921
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Mellanear House (51
Mellanear Road)
Mellanear House, Hayle
thanks to Andy McTeare for sharing this old photo
'The date probably between 1922 and 1924.
He was Isaac Edwin Orchard, a Methodist preacher and Egg Merchant.
He married my great Aunt, Maud Carbis in 1922 and bought the house.
He was 74 when they married and she was 42. He died in 1924 and is buried in St Erth cemetery with his first wife Elizabeth.'
- Howard Jeffery
'375
HAYLE, 51 MELLANEAR ROAD (Fig 15b) [reference key at foot of
webpage]
HOUSE
SW55943635 PRN: 140111
House and walled garden. Circa 1800 and C20. Roughcast with concrete
tiled roof. Two storeys to hipped
roof with stacks at end left and end right. Symmetrical front of three
sash windows in moulded surrounds
on first floor, two on ground floor with central door. Stands back from
the road in a walled plot with
outbuildings, and a good early C20 moulded timber fence and gate on
rendered wall. This house was
reputed to be the home of Henry Harvey's mistress/housekeeper (pers
comm Rob Lello).One of a number
of smallholdings set within regular closes along Mellanear Road, and
part of a group shown on the 1809
OS survey drawings (although the present building may be a mid C19
rebuild ol the original cottage),
probably relating to the nearby mines on the Wheal Alfred set
{especially Mellanear or West Wheal
Alfred) rather then the industrial development in Hayle itself. The
regular block ot fields to the east was
called 'Tin Closes' in the St Erth 1842 Tithe Award .'
http://www.hayle.net/council/documents/2000R058HayleHistoricalAssessmentInventory-ocr.pdf
home
of Grace Tonkin, allegedly the mistress or common-law wife of Henry
Harvey
Grace Tonkin - born
9th December 1799, St Just, Penzance (mother Jane Nicholls, father
Thomas Tonkin) -
died 11th October 1895
said to have given birth to at least 9 children, William, Francis,
Henry, Richard, Juliane, John, Edwin, James and Charles,
all given
the middle name Harvey and all but one the surname Tonking.
more info about Grace
Tonkin and her children at https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~phillack/genealogy/tonkin.htm
1841 Census
Millenear,1,Grace Tonkin,,40,Ind,In county,
,,William Tonkin,19,,,In county,
,,Henry Tonkin,16,,,In county,
,,Richard Tonkin,15,,,In county,
,,Edwin Tonkin,10,,,In county,
,,Francis Tonkin,8,,,In county,
,,Charles Tonkin,4,,,In county,
,,Jane Trounce,,24,F.S.,In county,
1851 Census
89,Millanear,Grace Tonking,Head,S,,52,Annuitant,Penzance Cornwall,,
,,James Tonking,Son,S,17,,Assistant Draper,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,John Polglase,Grnson,,2,,,Phillack Cornwall,,
,,Sarah Saundry,Servnt,S,,66,House Servant,Cury Cornwall,,
1861 Census
42,Mellenare,1,Grace Tonking,Head,U,,61,Proprietor Of Houses,Penzance Cornwall,,
,,,Ann Sanders Lawrey,Servnt,U,,25,House Servant,St Erth Cornwall,,
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Mill Pond, Hayle c1935
Aerial photograph of
Millpond and old Foundry Buildings etc 1932
Aerial photograph of
Millpond, old Foundry Buildings and Foundry Hill c1950
Foundry
Hill
'68
HAYLE, DROVERS ROW, (4-32 FOUNDRY HILL,EVEN) (Figs 15b, d) [reference key at foot of
webpage]
ROW
SW55723698 PRN: 31970
Built as foundry worker's housing. Circa 1830. A row of 2 storey
cottages, mixed double and single
fronted. Granite and sandstone, mostly rendered or painted, slate and
mineral slate roofs. Most windows
and doors have been replaced, a few timber sashes survive. Set behind
long front garden plots, all with
mature planting, and sheds at the street end, the houses are almost
totally obscured from the street. A
private path gives access to the plots, with granite gate piers and
granite flags at the two entrances off the
pavement. The main access is now by the back lane; each house has a
small backyard, with a good
series of early outhouses and extension surviving. The end house at the
north-east end is larger than the
others, and was known as 'The Foreman's House' (see item [589]; The
most westerly house (no. 34) is
separately itemised [366]. The Row is not shown on a map of 1828, but
about that time, Harvey's
expanded their stables to accommodate 52 draught horses, divided into
13 teams of four for each for the
heavy wagons used to transport goods, each team with its own driver '
http://www.hayle.net/council/documents/2000R058HayleHistoricalAssessmentInventory-ocr.pdf
Some say the terrace of cottages on Foundry Hill
was at one
time known as 'Drivers Row' ('drivers' being those who
drive wagons or similar), even 'Drovers
Row' ('drovers' being
a term that refers to those who herd cattle, sheep or pigs), but though
the
occupants here seem to have had diverse occupations, such
as director, accountant,
civil engineer,
draughtsman, ship builder, seaman, schoolmaster,
dress maker, grocer, pattern
maker, moulder, stone
mason, builder, labourer, groom,
gardener, and all
manner of metal workers (smith, blacksmith, white smith &
hammer smith), there
are no sheep herders nor wagon drivers amongst those listed for these
dwellings in early censuses. But in the early part of the 20th Century
a Sam Ellis, chauffeur
to the Harveys, lived
on the terrace, so perhaps other drivers lived here too?
Interestingly, it has sometimes been the way with terraced houses in
these parts. that they get referred to by the profession of a sample of
the residents, such as with 'Captains Row' in Mellanear.
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6 Foundry
Hill (formerly 1 Foundry Hill until 1st May 1973)
built c1800
1841 Tithe apportionment 40,
House and Garden - John West
'589
HAYLE, 6 FOUNDRY HILL (DROVERS' ROW) (Figs 15b, d) [reference key at foot of
webpage]
HOUSE
SW55743699 PRN: 140960
House. Circa 1800. Rendered with slate roof. Two storeys, 2 window
bays, long front garden, Part of
Drovers Row, see item [68]. At some time (late C19) the home of John
Harvey, foreman of the foundry (M
& M Rew, 1998, Hayle, 72), and in 1842 (Tithe Award), that of
John West, foreman, and later Director of
Harvey's. lt may be the house referred to in 1807 as Mr. West's
(William West, engineer, manager of the
Foundry, and son-in-law of John Harvey) .'
http://www.hayle.net/council/documents/2000R058HayleHistoricalAssessmentInventory-ocr.pdf
1841 Census
Hayle Foundry,1,William West,25,,Engineer,WLS,
,,Jemima West,,25,,LND,
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8 Foundry Hill (formerly 2 Foundry Hill until 1st May 1973)
built c1820-5 on land leased by John Harvey
from the Lower Trelissick estate
1841 Tithe apportionment 41, House and Garden - Miss West
1841 Census
Hayle Foundry,1,Ann West,,50,Independant,In county,
,,Elizabeth Philips,,65,Female Servant,In county,
1851 Census
51,Foundery,Ann West,Unmar,,,64,Gentlewoman Annuitant,Helston Cornwall,
1861 Census
90,,1,Ann West,Head,U,,75,Fundholder,Helston Cornwall,,
,,,Honor Rapson,Servnt,W,,50,House Servant,Uny Lelant Cornwall,,
Harvey's
Argyll car, parked at foot of Cows House Hill, Foundry, Foundry, Hayle
c1902
Sam Ellis seated in Harvey's Argyll car, at foot of
Cows House Hill, near Foundry Stables, Hayle c1902
'..
images relating to Tony Ellis's Great Grandfather Sam Ellis who was a
driver for Harveys in the early 1900's. Sam lived at 2 Foundry Hill
formerly known as Drivers Row and worked as a driver for Harveys until
he retired aged 55. Tony advised that Harveys was the owner of the
first car in Hayle and also in Cornwall.'
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10 Foundry Hill (formerly 3 Foundry Hill until 1st May 1973)
built c1820-5 on land leased by John Harvey
from the Lower Trelissick estate
1841 Tithe apportionment 42, House and Garden - John Williams
1841 Census
Hayle Foundry,1,John Williams,45,,Hammer Smith,Not in county,
,,Elizabeth Williams,,45,,Not in county,
,,Mary Williams,,25,,Not in county,
,,Charlott Williams,,20,,In county,
,,Seleena Williams,,18,,In county,
,,John Williams,15,,,In county,
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12 Foundry Hill (formerly 4 Foundry Hill until 1st May 1973)
built c1820-5 on land leased by John Harvey from the Lower Trelissick
estate
1841 Tithe apportionment 43, House
and Garden - Richard Oliver
1841 Census
Hayle Foundry,1,Richard Oliver,34,,Grocer,In county,
,,Sarah Oliver,,32,,In county,
,,Mary Philps,,24,,In county,
,,Charles Philps,17,,Smith,In county,
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14 Foundry Hill (formerly 5 Foundry Hill until 1st May 1973)
built c1820-5 on land leased by John Harvey
from the Lower Trelissick estate
1841 Tithe apportionment 44, House and Garden - Thomas
Polkinghorne
1841 Census
Hayle Foundry,1,Thos Polkinghorne,30,,Accountant,In county,
,,Lidya Polkinghorne,,25,,In county,
,,Mary Polkinghorne,55,,,In county,
,,Elizth Hosking,,75,Independant,In county,
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16 Foundry Hill (formerly 6 Foundry Hill until 1st May 1973)
built c1820-5 on land leased by John Harvey
from the Lower Trelissick estate
1841 Tithe apportionment 45, House and Garden - John
Shakerly
1841 Census
Hayle Foundry,1,John Shackley,28,,Schoolmaster,In county,
,,Ruth Shackley,,27,,In county,
,,Honour Leicher,,32,Female Servant,In county,
Foundry
Hill c1905
Foundry Hill cottages -
c1905
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18 Foundry Hill (formerly 7 Foundry Hill until 1st May 1973)
built c1820-5 on land leased by John Harvey
from the Lower Trelissick estate
1841 Tithe apportionment 46, House and Garden - Oliver
Hosking
1841 Census
Hayle Foundry,1,Oliver Hosking,50,,Builder,In county,
,,Mary Hosking,,55,,In county,
,,Elizabeth Hosking,,25,,In county,
,,Oliver Hosking,24,,Drafsman,In county,
,,Mary Hosking,,20,,In county,
,,Richard Hosking,17,,,In county,
,,Jane Hosking,,15,,In county,
,,Elizabeth Symons,,45,Female Servant,In county,
1851 Census
46,Foundery,Oliver Hosking,Head,,63,,Builder,Paul Cornwall,,
,,Mary Hosking,Wife,,,66,,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,Elizabeth Hosking,Dau,S,,35,Dress Maker,Phillack Cornwall,,
,,Mary Hosking,Dau,S,,31,At Home,Phillack Cornwall,,
,,Richard Hosking,Son,S,27,,Pattern Maker,Phillack Cornwall,,
Land facing rear of 18 Foundry Hill
1841 Tithe apportionment 47, Garden -
Oliver Hocking
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20 Foundry Hill (formerly 8 Foundry Hill until 1st May 1973)
built c1820-5 on land leased by John Harvey
from the Lower Trelissick estate
1841 Tithe apportionment 48 House and Garden - Palk
Thomas
1841 Census
Hayle Foundry,1,Thomas Palk,30,,Labourer,In county,
,,Elizabeth Palk,,40,,In county,
,,William Wearne,12,,,In county,
,,Stepn Wearne,10,,,In county,
,,Elizabeth Wearne,,7,,In county,
,,Susan Wearne,,4,,In county,
,,Thos Palk,1,,,In county,
,,Ann Bess,,18,,In county,
1851 Census
45,Foundery,Thomas Polk,Head,M,43,,Labourer,Tavistock Devon,,
,,Elizabeth Polk,Wife,M,,50,,Phillack Cornwall,,
,,Stephen Wearne,Sonlaw,S,19,,Moulder,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,Elizabeth Wearne,Daulaw,S,,16,Servant At House,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,Susan Wearne,Daulaw,S,,14,Servant At House,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,Thomas Polk,Son,,11,,Scholar,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,John Polk,Son,,8,,Scholar,St Erth Cornwall,,
1861 Census
98,,1,Thomas Palk,Head,M,54,,Gassman,Tavistock Devon,,
,,,Elizabeth Palk,Wife,M,,61,,Phillack Cornwall,,
,,,Thomas Palk,Son,U,21,,Pattern Maker,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,John Palk,Son,U,18,,Blacksmith,St Erth Cornwall,,
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22 Foundry Hill (formerly 9 Foundry Hill until 1st May 1973)
built c1820-5 on land leased by John Harvey
from the Lower Trelissick estate
1841 Tithe apportionment 49, House and Garden - Moses
Symons
1841 Census
Hayle Foundry,1,Moses Symons,45,,Labourer,In county,
,,Cath Symons,,45,,In county,
,,Wm Couch,30,,Miller,In county,
,,John Hammon,20,,Labourer,In county,
,,Peter Bargwanath,15,,Ship Builder,In county,
,,Sarah Mills,,65,,In county,
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24 Foundry Hill (formerly 10 Foundry Hill until 1st May 1973)
built c1820-5 on land leased by John Harvey
from the Lower Trelissick estate
1841 Tithe apportionment 50, House and Garden - Joseph
Sleep
1841 Census
Hayle Foundry,1,Joseph Sleep,65,,Groom,In county,
,,Alice Sleep,,55,,In county,
,,Joseph Sleep,20,,Whitesmith,In county,
,,John Sleep,15,,Pattern Maker,In county,
,,William Francis,13,,Smith,In county,
,,John Ance,35,,Stone Mason,In county,
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Foundry Hill - c1978
26 Foundry Hill (formerly 11 Foundry Hill until 1st May 1973)
built c1820-5 on land leased by John Harvey
from the Lower Trelissick estate
1841 Tithe apportionment 51, House and Garden - Joseph
Sleep
1841 Census
???? perhaps Crowl????
Hayle Foundry,1,John Crowl,25,,Gardener,In county,
,,Mary Crowl,,20,,In county,
,,William Crowl,7m,,,In county,
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28 Foundry Hill (formerly 12 Foundry Hill until 1st May 1973)
built c1820-5 on land leased by John Harvey
from the Lower Trelissick estate
1841 Tithe apportionment 52, House and
Garden - Robert May
1841 Census
Hayle Foundry,1,Robt May,30,,Labourer,In county,
,,Elizabeth May,,35,,In county,
,,Emma May,,6,,In county,
,,Charles May,5,,,In county,
,,Susanna May,,3,,In county,
,,Samuel May,1,,,In county,
,,Saundry Service,20,,Labourer,In county,
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30 Foundry Hill (formerly 13 Foundry Hill until 1st May 1973)
built c1820-5 on land leased by John Harvey
from the Lower Trelissick estate
1841 Tithe apportionment 53, House and
Garden - William Williams
1841 Census
Hayle Foundry,1,William Williams,38,,Labourer,In county,
,,Philipa Williams,,39,,In county,
,,William Williams,5,,,In county,
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32 Foundry Hill (formerly 14 Foundry Hill until 1st May 1973)
built c1820-5 on land leased by John Harvey
from the Lower Trelissick estate
1841 Tithe apportionment 54, House and
Garden - William Williams
1841 Census
????
Hayle Foundry,1,William Nancollins,25,,Labourer,In county,
,,Elizabeth Nancollins,,25,,In county,
,,Jane Nancollins,,6,,In county,
,,Mary Nancollins,,4,,In county,
,,Martha Nancollins,,1,,In county,
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'Trethowa'
34 Foundry
Hill (at one time known as 'Ivy Cottage' and
formerly numbered 15 Foundry Hill, until 1st May 1973)
built c1820-5 on land leased by
John Harvey from the Lower Trelissick estate
1841 Tithe apportionment 55, House and
Garden - William John Rawlings
'366
HAYLE, 34 FOUNDRY HILL (Fig 15b) [reference key at foot of
webpage]
HOUSE
SW55713687 PRN: 139625
House. Pre 1842. Granite, with slate roof. Two storeys to hipped roof
with stacks to left and right. Two
sash windows to each floor and central door. Although predating 1842,
and at the southern end of Drovers
Row [68], this appears to be slightly later than the rest of the row,
and somewhat different and grander in
form, and in 1842 (Tithe Award) it is the home of W.J. Rawlings, an
official in Harvey's, and in 1854 made
a partner. He had Downes house and gardens built for himself in 1868 -9
[77].'
http://www.hayle.net/council/documents/2000R058HayleHistoricalAssessmentInventory-ocr.pdf
1841 Census
Hayle Foundry,1,Giles Gudge,50,,Seaman,In county, [possibly Master of the vessel 'The Elizabeth' ]
,,W J Rawling,25,,Accountant,In county,
,,Susana Rawling,,55,,In county,
,,Mary Ann Rawling,,20,,In county,
1851 Census
38,Foundery,William Jas Rawlings,Head,M,36,,Cashier To A Firm Of,Marazion Cornwall,,
,,Catherine Rawlings,Wife,M,,29,,Phillack Cornwall,,
,,Eliza Williams,Servnt,S,,21,,Crowan Cornwall,,
39,Foundery,Susanna Rawlings,Head,W,,74,Annuitant,Marazion Cornwall,,
1861 Census
95,Hayle Foundry,1,Susanna Rawling,Head,W,,79,Annuitant,Marazion Cornwall,,
106,Hayle Foundry,1,William John Rawling,Head,M,46,,Iron Merchant,Marazion Cornwall,,
,,,Catherine Rawling,Wife,M,,39,,Phillack Cornwall,,
,,,Kitty Be Rawling,Dau,,,7,Scholar,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Edith May Giddy Rawling,Dau,,,4,Scholar,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Caroline Simons,Servnt,U,,30,Houseservant,Cury Cornwall,,
,,,Harriet R Williams,Servnt,U,,24,Houseservant,Sithney Cornwall,,
1871 Census
82,Hayle Foundry,1,Jabus Bickle,Head,M,49,,Civil Engineer,Polgooth Cornwall,,
,,,Catherine Bickle,Wife,M,,42,,Padstow Cornwall,,
,,,Henrietta Bickle,Dau,U,,23,,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Catherine Bickle,Dau,U,,21,,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Jabus Bickle,Son,U,18,,Mechanical Draughtsman,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Thomas Edwin Bickle,Son,,13,,Scholar,St Erth Cornwall,,
1881 Census
46,Ivy Cottage Foundry Hill,1,Jebus Bickle,Head,M,59,,Civil Engineer,St Austle Cornwall,,
,,,Catherine Bickle,Wife,M,,53,,Padstow Cornwall,,
,,,Henrietta Bickle,Dau,U,,32,,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Thomas E. Bickle,Son,U,22,,Draughtsman At Factory,St Erth Cornwall,,
1891 Census
67,Foundry Hill,1,Jabus Bickle,Head,M,69,,Mining & Marine Engin,Employed,St Austel Cornwall,,
,,,Catherine Bickle,Wife,M,,63,,,Padstow Cornwall,,
,,,Henrietta Bickle,Dau,S,,43,,,St Erth Cornwall,,
6th July 1883 newspaper cutting
relating to cycling accident of Mr & Mrs Bickle
Mr & Mrs Jebus Bickle on 2-seater tricycle outside Ivy Cottage,
Foundry Hill, 1883
Jebus
Bickle (1822-1902)
Jebus Bickle stood inside cyclinder cast at Harvey's Iron Foundry,
Hayle 1894
Jebus Bickle,
Engineer of Hayle, born c1822, died on February 7th 1902, aged 80
Catherine Bickle, wife of Jebus Bickle, born
November 4th 1829, died September 13th 1907
Henrietta Bickle, born 1848
Jebus Bickle, born 1853 Steam Engine Maker, died 1941
Thomas Edwin
Bickle, Engineer, born at Hayle December 4th 1857, died at Plymouth
February 9th 1898 aged 41 years.
Publications of
Jebus Bickle
'Lays of Lyonesse'
by Jebus Bickle, Camborne 1900
also
'Sonnets'
by Jebus Bickle, Camborne, 1921
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Q. What is known about W J
Rawling, Susana Rawling and Mary Ann Rawling of 34 Foundry Hill?
A. Well
here are a few facts...
On 12 October 1805 in St Hilary an Abraham Rawlings married Susanna
Roskilly, and also in St Hilary, where they were both
residents, they
had the following children: Thoms Roskilly 1806, Susannah
Roskilly
1807, Jane Shorland 1810, William John 1812, William John 1815, and
Mary Ann Charlotte 1820, all baptised in St Hilary/Marazion.
information
obtained 16 November 2021 from Rebecca Noall tidybex@sky.com
Abraham
Shorland Rawlings
|
Birthdate:
|
September
25, 1784
|
Birthplace:
|
Truro,
Cornwall, England
|
https://www.geni.com/people/Abraham-Rawlings/6000000000435462584
The
Life Summary of
Susanna
When
Susanna Roskilly was born in 1776, in Marazion, Cornwall, England,
United
Kingdom, her father, Thomas Roskilly, was 31 and her mother, Susanna,
was 20.
She married Abraham Shorland Rawlings Grandfather of Admiral Sir Henry
Bernard
Hughes Rawlings 2nd in Command of the British Fleet WW2 on 12 October
1805, in
St Hilary, Cornwall, England. They were the parents of at least 4 sons
and 3
daughters. She lived in St Erth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom in
1851. She
died on 26 February 1870, in Foundry, Cornwall, England, United
Kingdom, at the
age of 94, and was buried in St Hilary, Cornwall, England, United
Kingdom.
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LZZ1-KK9/susanna-roskilly-1776-1870
W J Rawlings
marries Catherine Hambly, 6th
January 1848
West Briton
|
14 Jan 1848
|
RAWLINGS - HAMBLY - At Hayle, on 6th instant, Mr. W.J. Rawlings, to Miss Catherine Hambly.
|
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~phillack/genealogy/marriages.htm
Birth of Katherine Lee Rawlings 16th
September
1853
West Briton
|
16 Sep 1853
|
RAWLINGS -
At Hayle on Tuesday last, the wife of Mr. W. J. Rawlings, a daughter.
|
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~phillack/genealogy/births.htm
'The
partners of Harveys of Hayle were then Nicholas Harvey,
William Harvey, William West and John West; William John Rawlings
became a
partner in 1854.'
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~treevecwll/family/hharvey.htm
W. Rawlings is named as one of those principally
responsible
for forwarding the Hayle lifeboat project - the Isis, which was
launched 24th April 1866.
The Book
of Hayle'. Cyril Noall, Barracuda 1985 p105
Just up the
road from 34 Foundry Hill
is a grand house, Downes, erected for Harveys
director W J Rawlings.
Various dates have been suggested for the erection of this building,
but it
is believed the Rawlings took up residence in 1867-8.
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'Mrs. W. J.
Rawlings (née Hambly) of Hayle, who died in 1879
at the age of fifty-seven, had learnt to repeat the Lord's Prayer and
Creed in
Cornish when she was a child at school at Penzance, but unluckily had
quite
forgotten them in later life.'
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:A_handbook_of_the_Cornish_language;_Chiefly_in_its_latest_stages_with_some_account_of_its_history_and_literature.djvu/41
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No
mention has been
found as to whether as to whether Susanna Rawlings was still living at
32 Foundry Hill or had moved
to Downes.
Susanna
Rawlings died
in Foundry on 26 February 1870
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LZZ1-KK9/susanna-roskilly-1776-1870
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'I
believe WJ Rawling's
second wife to be Marion Florence Hughes. They married in St
Georges
Hanover Square in September quarter of 1882 (Volume: 1a, Page:
730).
The 1891 Census states that she was born in Middlesex,
London, so that
would tie in with the marriage location. I've found the
births of the two
sons listed on the census, and the maiden name of their mother is
Hughes.
All ties in nicely.
Births
- Sept
Qtr 1888, John Claude Rawlings, Penzance District, Vol: 5c, Page: 237,
Mother's
Maiden Name: Hughs.
- June Qtr 1889, Henry Bernard Rawlings,
Penzance District,
Vol: 5c, Page: 238, Mother's Maiden Name: Hughes.'
information
obtained 19 November 2021 from Rebecca
Noall tidybex@sky.com
...........................................................
William John
Rawlings
Father of Admiral Sir Henry Bernard Hughes Rawlings 2nd in
Command of the British Fleet WW2 1815-1890 - K2RX-WBR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Rawlings_(Royal_Navy_officer)
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Penzance
Natural
History and Antiquarian Society
William
J. Rawlings
|
Hayle
|
1885–89
(d. 1890)
|
https://west-penwith.org.uk/pnhas.htm
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RAWLINGS
|
William John
|
75
|
Downs St Erth
|
16-Aug
|
1890
|
|
RAWLINGS
William
John 75
Downs
St Erth 16-Aug
1890
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~phillack/genealogy/burials/bur1890_1894.htm
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Downes
(Probably so named as the general area was formerly known as Trelissick Downs.)
Grade II listed
'77
HAYLE, DOWNES (Figs 15a, b) [reference key at foot of
webpage]
COUNTRY
HOUSE
SW55553672 PRN: 139086 LB: 11*
Listed building (No. 12/158). Built 1867-8 for W. J. Rawlings, an
antiquarian and director of Harvey and
Co. Edmund Sedding, architect, the grounds designed by his brother J.
D. Sedding [78). Downes country
house is now a Roman Catholic Convent. The house was extended in 1902
by Miss Francis Ellis for use
as a convent, and St Teresa's convent founded in 1913 subsequently
founded St Michael's Hospital on
land bought in 1904. The first (nursing) sisters came in 1902, and from
their efforts, a new hospital was
built 1913 - see [361]. The interior has a wealth of Tudor Gothic
detail and is virtually unaltered since
builtSee list description) and D. E. Pett, The Parks and Gardens of
Cornwall, 1998, 62.'
http://www.hayle.net/council/documents/2000R058HayleHistoricalAssessmentInventory-ocr.pdf
Built 1867-8 for W. J.
Rawlings, an antiquarian and director of Harvey and Co. Edmund Harold
Sedding
(1863-1921), architect, the grounds of 6-7 acres including the
driveways by designed by his brother John Dando Sedding FRIBA (1838-91)
author of 'Garden-Craft
Old and New', published in 1891.
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The British Architect,
December 16th 1887
description of Downes on pages
480-482
including 'Down the the Land's End
' by T Raffles Davison Pages 478-482
Plates 15, 16, 17 are engravings of
Downes by T Raffles Davison
1871 Census
20,Foundry Hill,1,William John Rowlings,Head,M,56,,Merchant,Marazion Cornwall,,
,,,Catherine Rowlings,Wife,M,,49,,St Erth Hayle Cornwall,,
,,,Kitty Lee Rowlings,Dau,,,17,(Scholar),St Erth Hayle Cornwall,,
,,,Edith Mary Giddy Rowlings,Dau,,,14,Scholar,St Erth Hayle Cornwall,,
,,,Mary Hawke,Servnt,U,,40,Cook - Domestic Servant,Phillack Cornwall,,
,,,Mary Firstbrook,Servnt,U,,24,Housemaid - Domestic Servant,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Ellen White,Servnt,U,,19,Housemaid - Domestic Servant,St Erth Cornwall,,
21,Foundry Hill,1,John Crowl,Head,M,58,,Gardener Dom.,Redruth Cornwall,,
,,,Mary Crowl,Wife,M,,53,,Redruth Cornwall,,
1881 Census
92,Trelissick Downs,1,William J. Rowlings,Head,W,66,,Timber Merchant,Marazion Cornwall,,
,,,Edith M.S. Rowlings,Dau,U,,24,,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Lucy Gibson,Niece,U,,22,,Bromsgrove Worcestershire,,
,,,Sarah Dolly,Servnt,U,,35,Parlour Maid Domestic Servant,Wendron Cornwall,,
,,,Charity Liddicoat,Servnt,U,,23,Cook Domestic Servant,Phillack Cornwall,,
,,,Philippa Woolcock,Servnt,U,,36,Housemaid Domestic Servant,Crowan Cornwall,,
1891 Census
26,The Downs,1,Marion F Rawlings,Head,W,,39,Living On Her Own Means,,London Middlesex,,
,,,Edith M. G. Rawlings,Stpdau,S,,34,,,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,John C Rawlings,Son,S,2,,,,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Harry B.H. Rawlings,Son,S,1,,,,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Ann B Nicholls,Servnt,S,,22,Housemaid,,St Just Cornwall,,
,,,Whilmetta Smitham,Servnt,S,,21,Cook,,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Bessie Pope,Servnt,S,,40,Nurse,,Padstow Cornwall,,
Downes becomes a part of St. Michael's Hospital.
St
Theresa's Convent, a house of the Daughters of the Cross of Liege, was
founded in 1913 and the Order subsequently founded St Michael's
Hospital on adjacent land which had been purchased by Miss Ellis in
1904.
The Downes, Hayle,
Cornwall
postcard - D. Knights-Whittome
St Michael's Hospital, and "Downs" Private Grounds, Hayle
postcard
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Katherine
Rawlings
Excerpts
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Lee_Jenner
Kitty
Lee Jenner (12
September 1853 – 21 October
1936) was an English artist and writer. She grew up in Cornwall and
having studied art in
London, she became a writer. She published six novels under the
name Katharine
Lee, as well as writing books on Christian symbolism.
She was also known as Mrs Henry Jenner and Katharine
Jenner following her marriage to Henry
Jenner in 1877. To begin with, she
was the more famous person in the relationship. The couple had one
child
together.
Katharine
Lee Rawlings was born at Hayle in Cornwall on
12 September 1853, the eldest
daughter of Catherine and William Rawlings. She was educated at home
and then
studied in London at the National Art
Training School (now Royal College of
Art) in South Kensington and
the Slade School of
Fine Art in Bloomsbury.
Her artwork was based on sketches
and watercolours, but she was to become more famous as a writer.[1]
Rawlings
married Henry
Jenner on 12 July 1877 and became
known as Kitty Jenner or Mrs Henry Jenner. Her husband had corresponded
with
her since 1873, after he interviewed her father about the Cornish language,
which later became a major
research interest for the couple. They honeymooned in Europe and on 21
June
1878 Jenner gave birth to their only child, Cecily Katharine Ysolt
Jenner.[1]
Jenner
published her first novel in 1882. It was entitled A
Western Wildflower and she used the pseudonym
Katharine Lee. She was
to publish five more novels, the last being When
Fortune Frowns: Being
the Life and Adventures of Gilbert Coswarth, a Gentleman of Cornwall;
How he
Fought for Prince Charles in the years 1745 and 1746, and What Befell
Him Thereafter (1895).
Until her husband's fame grew in his old age, her writing career made
her the
better known of the two.[1][2] It
was published by Horace
Cox at the price of 6 shillings.[3] Jenner
retold the story of the Jacobite rising of
1745 and the Battle of Culloden, The Times review
remarking "she
acquits herself with credit".[2]
Jenner
and her husband were keen Jacobites, joining the Order
of the White Rose as part of
the Neo-Jacobite Revival.[1] They
returned to Jenner's home town
of Hayle in
1909 and immersed themselves in
Cornish culture, living in a house they called Bospowes. They worked
together
on the Cornish language
revival and sacred
art.[1]
In
1904, Jenner had become a bard,
being given the name Morvoren at Gorsedd Cymru.[1] In
August 1928, ten Cornish people were
initiated as bards at a Gorsedd at Treorchy and
planned to set up a Cornish Gorsedh to
promote Cornish
language and culture. Jenner and her husband joined the group to form
the
Council of Gorsedh Kernow. The first Gorsedh was held at the Boscawen-Un stone
circle in September
1928.[4]
In
the 1900s, Jenner published three works on the use of symbols in Christianity.
Referring to her Christian Symbolism (1910), D. H. Lawrence wrote
"It is
necessary to grasp the Whole. At last I have got it".[5] After
reading the book, he began to use
the phoenix as
his emblem.[6] Jenner
had explained the phoenix's
symbolic meaning in her book as the "resurrection of the dead and its
triumph
over death", commenting that "the Phoenix in itself was a recognised
emblem of the resurrection of Christ".[7]
Jenner
wrote and illustrated In the Alsatian Mountains:
A Narrative of a Tour in the Vosges (With a Map) (1883)
which gave an
account of a European tour made in 1882 and was dedicated to her
daughter
Ysolt.[8] She
released a book of poetry
entitled Songs of the Stars and the Sea in
1926.[1]
Jenner
died at home from myocarditis on
21 October 1936. She left
around £23,000 in her will (equivalent to
£1,600,000 in 2019). She is buried
together with her husband at Lelant in
west
Cornwall.[1]
Williams,
Derek R., ed. (2004). Henry and Katharine Jenner:
A celebration of Cornwall's culture, language and identity. Francis
Boutle. ISBN 9781903427194.
.................................................................................
* daughter - Cecily Katharine Ysolt
Jenner - born 21st June 1878
(later known as Sister Mary Beatrix Jenner of the Order of the Visitation)
Jenner married
Katharine Lee Rawlings in 1877 (she was a
novelist and author of non-fiction under the name Katharine Lee).[10] A
biography of Henry and Kitty, including much information about the
context in
which their work appeared, was published in 2004 by Derek R.
Williams.[11]
After working
at the British Museum for more than forty
years,[1] in 1909 Jenner and his wife Kitty[12] retired to Hayle, his
wife's
home town, and in January 1912 he was elected as the Librarian of the
Morrab
Library, a post he held until 1927. He also served as President of both
the
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society and of the Royal Institution of
Cornwall.[13]
He died on 8
May 1934 and is buried in St. Uny's Church,
Lelant. Before he died, he said: "The whole object of my life has been
to
inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jenner
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'Hwedhel Henry
Jenner' - 'The Story of Henry Jenner'
(narrated
in Cornish with subtitles in English)
A short documentary film in
Cornish about Henry Jenner (1848-1934)
who campaigned to get Cornwall recognised as a Celtic nation and prove
Cornish is a living language.
'A founding father of the
Cornish Gorsedd' - West Briton Thursday
September 2, 2004
.................................................................................
Katherine
Jenner (aka Katharine
Lee, Mrs Henry Jenner) - A
Bibliography
'A Western Wildflower', Katharine Lee, a novel, 3 volumes,
published by Richard Bentley and
Son, 1882
'In the Alsatian Mountains: A
Narrative of a Tour in the Vosges',
Katharine Lee,
published by Richard Bentley and Son, 1883
'In London Town'. a novel, 3 volumes, Katharine Lee,
published by Richard Bentley and
Son, 1884
'Katharine Blythe' a novel, 3 volumes, Katharine Lee,
published by Richard Bentley and
Son, 1886
'An Imperfect Gentleman' a novel 3 volumes, Katharine Lee,
published by Longmans, Green, and
Co. 1888
'Love or Money'. a novel, 3 volumes, Katharine Lee,
published by Richard Bentley and
Son, 1891
'When Fortune Frowns: Being the
life and adventures of Gilbert Coswarth, a gentleman of Cornwall, how
he fought
for Prince Charles in the years 1745 and 1746, and what befell him
thereafter',
Katherine Lee,
published by Horace Cox, 1895
'Christ in Art', Mrs Henry Jenner, published by
Methuen & Company, 1906
'Our Lady in Art', Mrs Henry Jenner, published by
Methuen & Company, 1908
'Christian Symbolism', Mrs Henry
Jenner, published by Methuen & Company, 1910
.................................................................................
Henry and Katharine Jenner: A
Celebration of Cornwall's Culture Language and Identity Paperback
– 30
Sept. 2004 by Derek R. Williams
(Editor)
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Bospowes (formerly known as 'Crofthill')
Stone-built house
'363
HAYLE, CROFTHILL (ST MICHAELS HOSPITAL) (Figs 15a, b) [reference key at foot of
webpage]
HOUSE
SW55613684 PRN: 139623
House. Early C19, extended mid C20. Granite rubble and dressed granite
with slate roofs and brick
stacks. Two storeys with hipped roofs, with projecting hipped early C20
wing to left, and single storey
hipped extension to right. Five glazing bar sashes on first floor, the
left 2 in projecting wing, and four on
ground floor with central half-glazed door. A slate plaque to the right
of the door records that this was the
house.'
http://www.hayle.net/council/documents/2000R058HayleHistoricalAssessmentInventory-ocr.pdf
Bospowes,
the house in Hayle where
Kitty Jenner lived with her husband, Henry Jenner, from 1909 onwards
It is of note that Bospowes is sited approximately midway between
Downes and Kitty's former home on Foundry Hill, in fact from Bospowes
she had uninterrupted sight of both houses.
From 1945 Bospowes becomes
nurses home.
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Richard Trevithick
& Family
Richard Trevithick
'BORN
13 April 1771
DIED 22
April 1833
Richard Trevithick,
was born in Illogan, Cornwall, in 1771.
Richard was educated
at Camborne
School but he was more interested in sport than academic learning.
Trevithick was six feet two inches high and was known as the Cornish
giant. He was a very strong lad and by the age of eighteen he could
throw sledge hammers over the tops of engine houses and write his name
on a beam six feet from the floor with half a hundredweight hanging
from his thumb. Trevithick also had the reputation of being one of the
best wrestlers in Cornwall.'
https://cornishstuff.com/2018/04/26/who-was-richard-trevithick-here-is-the-great-mans-story/
'When
the writer was a young man, Kneebone, a strong Cornish wrestler,
working in the tin-smelting works at Hayle, lifted him from the ground
with one hand, at arm’s length; he then raised two- blocks of
tin, each of them three hundred weight, from the ground,- remarking,
“ Captain Dick Trevithick could lift three blocks as easy as
I
can two; and he also lifted an old piston-rod, seven or eight
hundredweight, with a man sitting on each end of it.”'
'Life of
Richard Trevithick: With an Account of His Inventions Vol I' by Francis Trevithick, 1872 p56
Painting,
Richard Trevithick, John Linnell, 1816. Oil on canvas; 61x 51cm in gilt
frame 82x72x8cm. Portrait of Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) Cornish
inventor and mining engineer developed the first high pressure steam
engine and the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.; John
Linnell (1792-1882) was a well known English landscape and portrait
painter and engraver.
https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co65492/richard-trevithick-oil-painting-portrait
Jane Trevithick
(1772-1868) c1850
sister of Henry Harvey (1775-1850), wife of Richard Trevithick
(1771-1833)
Richard
Tevithick born 13th April 1771 (d. 22nd April 1833)
Jane Trevithick born 25th June 1772
married Richard Trevithick on 7th November 1797 at St Erth
* children *
Richard Trevithick II (1798–1872)
Anne Ellis (1800–1877)
Elizabeth Banfield (1803–1870)
John Harvey Trevithick (1807–1877) [who settled up Mellanear Road, at Tolroy Manor]
Francis Trevithick (1812–1877)
Frederick Henry Trevithick (1816–1883)
In 1816 Richard
Trevithick was all set
to work as a mine consultant overseas.
"On
the 20th October, 1816, Capt. Trevithick sailed for Lima in the 'Asp,'
South Sea whaler, Capt. Kenny, accompaned by Mr. Page, a gentleman of
London, and James Saunders, of Camborne, an engine maker; and on the
6th February, 1817, they arrived at Lima, where Capt. Trevithick was
immediately introduced to the Viceroy by Don P. Abudia. and he received
the most marked attention from the inhabitants (vide ' Lima Gazette' of
12th February).
"Perhaps
you think it proper to notice the furnaces which Captain
Trevithick took out in the 'Asp' to Lima for the purpose of purifying
the silver by sulphur. A great expense will be saved by these means.
...'
'Life of
Richard Trevithick: With an Account of His Inventions Vol II' by Francis Trevithick, 1872 p231
And... after a protracted absence, Trevithick's homecoming caused
something of a stir ...:
'Trevithick was
welcomed home at Hayle as if he were a conquering hero, and not a
penniless adventurer,
"by
all the neighbourhood by ringing of bells, and entertained at the
tables of the county and borough members, and all the first-class of
gentlemen in the west of Cornwall, with a provision about to be made
for me for the past services that his county has received from my
inventions just before I left for Peru, which they acknowledge to be a
saving in the mines since I left of above 500,000l. [another way of writing
'£500,000'],
and that the present existence of deep mines is owing to my inventions.
I confess that this reception is gratifying, and have no doubt but that
you will also feel a pleasure in it.'"
- Letter to J.M.
Gerard, dated Hayle Foundry, 1827, Nov. 15th.
'Richard Trevithick' by Arthur Tilley p209
Richard Trevithick's son, Francis, recalls his
father's return:
'In
the early part of October, 1827, the writer, then a boy at Bodmin
school, was asked by the master if any particular news had come from
home. Scarely had the curiousity of the boys subsided, when a tall man
with a broad-brimmed Leghorn hat on his head entered at the door, and
after a quick glance at his whereabouts, marched towards the master's
desk at the other end of the room. When about half-way, and opposite
the writer's class, he stopped, took his hat off, and asked, if his son
Francis was there. Mr Boar, who had watched his approach, rose at the
removal of the hat, and replied in the affirmative. For a moment a
breathless silence reigned in the school, while all eyes were turned on
the gaunt sun-burnt visitor; and the blood, without a defined reason,
caused the writer's heart to beat as though the unknown was his father,
who eleven years before had carried him on his shoulder to the
pier-head steps, and the boat going to the South Sea whaler.'
'Life of
Richard Trevithick: With an Account of His Inventions Vol II' by Francis Trevithick, 1872 p276
But
not everyone was enamoured with Richard Trevithick, as can be seen by
this extract from a letter from his former mentor, Davies
Giddy, an MP who is noteable for his extreme opposition to mass education [see quote
below].:
"I
must add that on last Tuesday [i.e. Oct. 9th 1827] Capn
Richard Trevithick,
after an absense of eleven years, during the whole of which he has not
held any communication whatever with his Family, arrived suddenly at
Hayle".
'Richard Trevithick'
by Arthur Tilley p208
Davies
Gilbert FRS (born Davies
Giddy,
6 March 1767 – 24 December 1839) was an Cornish engineer,
author, and politician. He was elected to the Royal
Society on
17 November 1791 and served as President
of the Royal Society from
1827 to 1830.[1][2] He
changed his name to Gilbert in 1817.[3]
Davies
Gilbert was opposed to mass education during his time in parliament.
When the Parochial Schools Bill of 1807 was debated in the Commons,
Tory MP Davies Gilbert warned the House that:
"However
specious in theory the project might be of giving education to the
labouring classes of the poor, it would, in effect, be found to be
prejudicial to their morals and happiness; it would teach them to
despise their lot in life, instead of making them good servants in
agriculture and other laborious employments to which their rank in
society had destined them; instead of teaching them the virtue of
subordination, it would render them factious and refractory, as is
evident in the manufacturing counties; it would enable them to read
seditious pamphlets, vicious books and publications against
Christianity; it would render them insolent to their superiors; and, in
a few years, the result would be that the legislature would find it
necessary to direct the strong arm of power towards them and to furnish
the executive magistrates with more vigorous powers than are now in
force. Besides, if this Bill were to pass into law, it would go to
burthen the country with a most enormous and incalculable expense, and
to load the industrious orders with still heavier imposts. (Hansard,
House of Commons, Vol. 9, Col. 798, 13 July 1807, quoted in Chitty
2007:15–16)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davies_Gilbert
Last Will & Testament 1863 of Jane Trevithick (1772-1868)
Whilst
in London in 1816, preparing for his departure for South America, his
portrait—a good likeness—was taken by Linnell. This
half-length
oil-painting (24 by 20 inches) has lately been presented to the South
Kensington Museum, where it is suspended among the portraits of
distinguished men—a painted copy and a photographic copy
having been
given in exchange for it. From this picture, and from a post-mortem
plaster cast, Mr. Neville Burnard, the Cornish sculptor, has made a
marble bust, plaster copies of which adorn various institutions.
'Contributions to the Biography
of Richard Trevithick - Richard Edmonds, 1859'
http://camborne.wikidot.com/edmonds
Plaster bust of Richard Trevithick
after Neville Northey Burnard, about 1859
Jane Trevithick & Family
standing: John Harvey Trevithick, Francis Trevithick, & Frederick Henry Trevithick
seated: Richard Trevithick Jr., Anne Trevithick, Jane Trevithick, & Elizabeth Trevithick
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Charlotte
House -
52 & 54 Foundry Hill (since 1st May 1973) - formerly known as
'Pencliff'
built c1804, Grade
II listed
'67
HAYLE, 52,54 FOUNDRY HILL (Figs 15b, c, d) [reference key at foot of
webpage]
HOUSE
SW55633690 PRN: 139071 LB: 11
Listed
building (No. 12/262). This house is shown on the 1842 Tithe Map when
it is called Pencliff and
appears to be one residence. Dating to about 1804 and remodelled -in
the early C19 and later C19 .
Charlotte House, as it was later called, is stuccoed or possibly
rendered replacing stucco. lt has asbestos
slate hipped roofs with projecting eaves and cast-iron ogee gutters.
Partly external stack at left-hand side
with rendered brick chimney over; pair of octagonal stuc90ed chimney
shafts over right-hand side and
brick chimney over original end of wing towards rear on right. lt has a
double depth plan plus C20
extensions. Two reception rooms at the garden front; stair hall behind
left-hand room, probably original
kitchen behind right-hand room. lt is two storeys high with regular two
window garden front with granite
plinth. The left-hand bay is bowed and there is a canted bay window to
the ground floor of each bay. In
front of the ground floor to a mid-late C19 four-bay veranda with
ornate cast-iron stanchions, the veranda
returns at either end both to cover the entrance doorway and for a
distance at the other side. The
transomed ground floor windows are probably contemporary with the
veranda and have diagonal and
square patterned glazing to the casements. First floor windows have
similar glazing to the top lights only.
The entrance front (left-hand wall) has a doorway with a pair of C19
panelled doors and overlight with
diamond panes all within an early C19 moulded doorcase with corner
blocks. The parts of the interior that
have been inspected all have their early C19 carpentry and joinery
details and plaster work including; dogleg stair with open string;
cornice with modillions in the stair hall; cornices with trailing bands
and six-panel
doors. Charlotte House was the home of Jane Trevithick (nee Jane
Harvey) wife of Richard Trevithick, the
famous engineer. '
http://www.hayle.net/council/documents/2000R058HayleHistoricalAssessmentInventory-ocr.pdf
Landower: Reverend Edward Rodd
Lessee: Mrs Trevithick
1841 Tithe apportionment 63
,
Lawn and Garden
1841 Tithe apportionment 64
,
Dwelling House, Courtlage etc
1841 Census
Hayle Foundry,1,Richd Trevithick,45,,Agent,In county,
,,Jane Trevithick,,70,,In county,
,,Ann Trevithick,,41,,In county,
,,Ann Shugg,,18,Female Servant,In county,
,,Fanny Shay,,20,Female Servant,In county,
1851 Census
34,Pen Cliff,Jane Trevithick,Head,W,,78,Land & House Proprietor,Gwinear Cornwall,,
,,Richard Trevithick,Son,S,52,,Agent Iron Trae,Camborne Cornwall,,
,,Eliza Ralph,Servnt,S,,27,House Servant,Crowan Cornwall,,
,,Fanny Burton,Servnt,S,,22,House Servant,Phillack Cornwall,,
1861 Census
113,,1,Richard Trevithick,Head,U,62,,Gentleman,Camborne Cornwall,,
,,,Jane Trevithick,Mother,W,,88,,Gwinear Cornwall,,
,,,Elizabeth Banfield,Sister,M,,58,,Camborne Cornwall,,
,,,Eliza Jane Dourick,Servnt,U,,23,Houseservant,Gluvias Cornwall,,
,,,Martha Orchard,Servnt,U,,25,Houseservant,Crowan Cornwall,,
1871 Census
78,Hayle Foundry,1,Richard Trevithick,Head,U,72,,Land Owner,Camborne Cornwall,,
,,,Mary Luke,Servnt,W,,49,General Servant,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Elizabeth Polkinghorne,Servnt,U,,40,General Servant,Phillack Cornwall,,
1881 Census
42,Pen Clift Foundry Hill,1,Charles Trevithick,Head,M,42,,Corn Merchant,Phillack Cornwall,,
,,,Elizabeth B. Trevithick,Wife,M,,43,,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Eleanor C.M. Mills,Sislaw,M,,48,Merchants Wife,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Samuel H. Mills,Nephew,U,12,,Scholar,Wadebridge Cornwall,,
,,,Charles V. Mills,Nephew,,3,,,Wadebridge Cornwall,,
,,,Elizabeth A. George,Servnt,U,,42,Cook Domestic Servant,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Hannah Harris,Servnt,U,,18,Housemaid Domestic Servant,Kings Lynn Norfolk,,
1891 Census
63,Pencliffe,1,Elizabeth B Trevithick,Head,M,,53,,,Hayle Cornwall,,
,,,Eliza Bowden,Servnt,S,,36,Cook Domestic,,Phillack Cornwall,,
,,,Mary Thomas,Servnt,S,,27,House Maid,,St Erth Cornwall,,
Visitors to Pencliff House, Hayle
'Charlotte
House', formerly 'Pencliff', home of Jane Trevithick & Family
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Tolroy, Mellanear Road
built c1842
'Tolroy', residence of
John Harvey Trevithick (1807–1877), son of Richard Trevithick the inventor.
later the residence of Henry Harvey Trevithick (1848-1941), son of John Harvey Trevithick.
1851 Census
85,Foundery,John Harvey Trevithick,Head,M,44,,General Merchant,Camborne Cornwall,,
,,Char. Jane Trevithick,Wife,M,,35,,St Hillary Cornwall,,
,,Richard Trevithick,Son,,8,,Scholar,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,Jane Trevithick,Dau,,,8,Scholar,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,Anna Trevithick,Dau,,,6,Scholar,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,Catherine Trevithick,Dau,,,5,,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,Henry Trevithick,Son,,3,,,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,Willliam Trevithick,Son,,1,,,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,Martha Rodda,Servnt,S,,24,House Servant,Gwinear Cornwall,,
,,Susan Williams,Servnt,S,,23,House Servant,Crowan Cornwall,,
,,Elizabeth Burton,Servnt,S,,23,House Servant,Penzance Cornwall,,
1861 Census
56,Hayle Foundry,1,John H Trevithick,Head,M,54,,Corn Merchant,Cambourne Cornwall,,
,,,Charlotta Jane Trevithick,Wife,M,,45,,St Michaels Mount Cornwall,,
,,,Charles Trevithick,Son,U,22,,Corn Merchants Assistant,Phillick Cornwall,,
,,,John H Trevithick,Son,U,20,,Corn Merchants Assistant,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Jane Stewart Trevithick,Dau,U,,18,Day Tutor Xxx Xxx,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Annie Trevithick,Dau,U,,16,Day Tutor Xxx,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,William Stewart Trevithick,Son,U,11,,Day Tutor,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Grace Glasson,Servnt,U,,24,House Serv,\- Cornwall,,
,,,Anne Curtis,Servnt,U,,25,House Serv,Cury Cornwall,,
,,,Eliza White,Servnt,U,,21,House Serv,St Kevern Cornwall,,
1871 Census
66,Tolry,1,John H Trevithick,Head,W,64,,Land Owner And Corn Merchant,Camborne Cornwall,,
,,,Catherine B Trevithick,Dau,U,,25,,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Henry H Trevithick,Son,U,23,,Corn Merchant,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,William S Trevithick,Son,U,21,,Corn Merchant,St Erth Cornwall,,
,,,Susan A Calloway,Servnt,U,,33,General Domestic Servant,\- Co. Cork,,
,,,Elizabeth L Hendy,Servnt,U,,32,General Domestic Servant,Cury Cornwall,,
1881 Census
10-13 |
189 |
Trevithick |
head |
U |
33 |
corn merchant |
St Erth |
10-13 |
189 |
Banfield |
sister |
W |
38 |
|
St Erth |
10-13 |
189 |
Trevithick |
sister |
U |
35 |
|
St Erth |
10-13 |
189 |
Harvey |
niece |
|
11 |
visitor (scho…. |
St Erth |
10-13 |
189 |
Harvey |
nephew |
|
4 |
visitor (scho…. |
St Erth |
10-13 |
189 |
Thomas |
serv |
U |
26 |
domestic serv… |
Breage |
10-13 |
189 |
Tripp |
serv |
U |
22 |
domestic serv… |
Breage |
1891 Census
40,Tolroy,1,Henry H Trevithick,Head,S,43,,Corn Merchant,Employer,Hayle Cornwall,,
,,,Jane S Banfield,Sister,W,,48,Living On Own Means,,Hayle Cornwall,,
,,,Catherine B Trevithick,Sister,S,,45,Living On Own Means,,Hayle Cornwall,,
,,,Janette H Banfield,Niece,S,,24,Living On Own Means,,Buenos Aires Overseas Brit. Subj,,
,,,Mary C.S. Banfield,Niece,S,,22,Living On Own Means,,Buenos Aires Overseas Brit. Subj,,
,,,Elizabeth Hampton,Servnt,S,,23,General Servant (Domestic),,Germoe Cornwall,,
,,,Susan A Williams,Servnt,S,,26,General Servant (Domestic),,Gwinear Cornwall,,
'John Harvey Trevithick (1806-1877)
was one of Richard and Jane’s six children. He married Charlotte
Jane Stewart (1815-1867) in 1838. He took over the milling, foodstuffs
and wholesale part of Harvey’s business in 1852, following the
splitting up of Henry Harvey’s enterprises. A tenement called
Tolroy in St Erth is mentioned in 1842, and is described as the
“new residence”, with 27 acres of grounds, of John Harvey
Trevithick. His family is remembered today in the group of holiday
homes at Tolroy known as Trevithick Court.
The 1881 census lists the following people at Tolroy:
Henry Harvey Trevithick (1848-1941),
son of John Harvey Trevithick, aged 33, unmarried, corn merchant; Jane
Stewart Banfield (1842-1921), aged 38, his widowed sister (she married
Edward Banfield of Ilfracombe in 1865); Katharine Bradshaw Trevithick
(1846-1924), aged 35, his unmarried sister; Frank (Francis) Stewart
Harvey (1876-1959), his nephew aged 4, and Catherine (Charlotte) Mary
Harvey (1869-1965), his niece aged 11, both visiting; Charlotte Thomas
and Anne Tripp, servants, both from Breage.
The 1891 census lists the following:
Henry Harvey Trevithick, now aged 43,
still single; Jane Stewart Banfield, aged 48, living on her own means.
She died in 1921, aged 78; Katharine Bradshaw Trevithick, 45 and
single, also living on her own means. She died in 1924, also aged 78;
Janette H. Banfield, a single niece aged 24, and Mary C. S. Banfield,
another single niece aged 22, both living on their own means; Elizabeth
Hampton and Susan A. Williams, general servants.
The house appears on the 1890 OS map
with the Mellanear copper mine a short distance away. The mine was
worked from 1815 to 1888 and produced 66,400 tons of copper. It was the
largest copper producer in the county in 1879, its predominance finally
being toppled by Levant mine. Some old dumps still lie in a field to
the east of the B3302 road into Hayle.
In June 1923, the Tolroy estate was
valued prior to a sale. The property included: Killanoon Downs (12
acres); Killanoon, with two front rooms, kitchen, dairy, 5 bedrooms,
and various outbuildings, all in very good order; various fields
totalling about 9 acres let to Redruth Brewery for 14 years from
Christmas Day, 1920; the Victoria Inn at St Erth Praze, leased to
Redruth Brewery on the same terms, with stables and half a dozen
adjoining cottages, but excluding the blacksmith’s shop; Tolroy
farm, with a wide range of buildings such as cattle sheds, pig sties,
stables and a weighbridge; and Tolroy itself, which was let on a
tenancy of £12 a month, and included sitting room, kitchen,
larder, scullery and three bedrooms. Several other cottages on the site
were also let.
The pencilled entries in this notebook * are careful to point out that the purchaser of Tolroy will “take over the oil eng[ine], dynamo & batt[er]y
- & all electric light wiring, lamps & fittings in the
homestead & houses ... the vendor having the joint use of the eng[ine], dynamo & batt[er]y
etc for 12 months subject to his paying the cost of oil & allowance
on terms to be settled by arbitration failing agreement. Also all
shafting, pulleys, belts and all such other fittings & fixtures
usually described as tenants fixtures whether attached to the freehold
or not by [the]
valuer”. In addition to showing that electricity supply was a
problem on the estate even at that time, this is, in fact, the first
real evidence of the true extent of the Tolroy estate, which covered
the entire strip of land to the north of Tolroy Road from Strawberry
Lane to St Erth Praze.
* A
copy was supplied by Plymouth & West Devon Record Office, reference
1023/47. The very legible photocopy appears to be pages 28-33 of a
notebook , a section dated 27/6/23 entitled "Tolroy Estate Hayle in
par. of St Erth"
“Tol” is the Cornish for
“brow” or “front” and the name Tolroy
presumably means “beside the brow (of the hill)”.'
- Tony Clifford
'From 1890 to his death in 1941, Henry Harvey Trevithick was a director of Hosken, Trevithick, Polkinhorn & Co Ltd.'
- Philip Hoskin
'I spoke to my Father Eustice Eddy
this evening and he has lots of memories of the large house in Tolroy.
He says it was never officially a manor house.
His first memory of the house was visiting Henry Harvey Trevithick some
time around 1938 to 1939. Father was born in 1932. He remembers being
in the conservatory and having splits and cream and jam. Please
let’s not debate which order the cream and jam went. He clearly
remembers Mr Trevithick as an invalid with a nurse present in all her
uniform.
My Grandfather Walter Thomas Eddy from Ludgvan had been farming some of Tolroy around this time.
When Mr Trevithick died in 1941 My Grandfather was offered the chance
to buy the farm complete. He did this and my Father says that they then
employed George Newton to decorate the house. Father says that he
remembers that Mr Newton had a bad leg as he found it difficult to
climb the step ladder. I suppose the sort of thing that would stick in
the mind of a 9 year old boy. The family moved in in 1942 and father
slept in what was Mr Trevithick’s bedroom until his marriage in
in 1956.
The house was never commandeered for military use but my grandfather
and grandmother used to entertain American troops who were stationed at
the Penmare and British soldiers from the searchlight station somewhere
near the Smugglers in. This also gave the soldiers a chance for a hot
shower.
Father remembers sitting on a matchless motorbike astride the petrol
tank while an American soldier demonstrated the pretty new idea of
telescopic forks by riding down over the granite steps in the garden.'
- John Eddy
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Foundry
Hill School
Private
boarding school
'1
HAYLE, 5 FOUNDRY
HILL (Fig 15b) [reference key at foot of
webpage]
SCHOOL
SW55733683 PRN:
138970 LB: 11
Listed building
(No. 12/173). School for foundry workers' children. 1838, enlarged
mid-late C19. Built for
Henry Harvey.
Symmetrical 2 storey 3 window front to road, glazing bar sashes.
Entrance on left return
(later C19 entrance
at first floor level with porch). Granite and killas rubble with
granite dressings,
slatehanging to
walls of rear wing. Hipped slurried scantle slate roof with wide eaves
and ventilator holes
drilled into the
soffits. Cast-iron ogee-section gutters. Large rectangular schoolroom
each floor, school
master's
accommodation in rear wing. Harvey's continued to support the school
financially until 1903,
when the new
Education Act came into force. Now subdivided and used as a house.
(List description; The
Book of Hayle, C.
Noall, 1984, 129) '
http://www.hayle.net/council/documents/2000R058HayleHistoricalAssessmentInventory-ocr.pdf
1851 Census
33,Foundery Hill,James Hocking,Head,S,29,,Teacher Of Mathematics,Perranuthnoe Cornwall,,
,,Mary Hocking,Mother,W,,69,,Fishguard Pembrokeshire,,
,,John Hocking,,S,24,,Teacher/ancient & Modern Lang.,Perranuthnoe Cornwall,,
,,Christian Burgan,Visitr,S,,37,,Perranuthnoe Cornwall,,
,,Thomas Field,,,13,,Scholar & Boarder,Marylebone London,,
,,James Field,,,9,,Scholar & Boarder,Marylebone London,,
,,Arthur Thomas,,,13,,Scholar & Boarder,Breage Cornwall,,
,,William Barry,,,12,,Scholar & Boarder,Bath Somerset,,
,,Edward Winsley,,,12,,Scholar & Boarder,Bristol Gloucestershire,,
,,John Vivian,,,11,,Scholar & Boarder,Crowan Cornwall,,
,,Charles Corin,,,11,,Scholar & Boarder,Penzance Cornwall,,
,,Arthur Corin,,,8,,Scholar & Boarder,Redruth Cornwall,,
,,Nugent Cosley,,,12,,Scholar & Boarder,Truro Cornwall,,
,,John Penberthy,,,11,,Scholar & Boarder,St Ives Cornwall,,
,,Tho's Stephens,,,9,,Scholar & Boarder,Hayle Cornwall,,
,,Ann Sincock,Servnt,S,,24,House Servant,Crowan Cornwall,,
,,Mary Floyd,Servnt,S,,18,House Servant,Crowan Cornwall,,
......................................................................................
Foundry Square, Hayle
Hayle, The Square. c1902
Peacock postcard M.C. 1751
in background to right of hotel can be seen the 5-storey Mill next to Swan Pool
sited directly opposite to Henry Harvey's home, known both as 'Foundry House' & 'Harvey's House'
8, 9, Foundry Square,
formerly the original White
Hart Hotel
2-storey
building,
built 1824
'109
HAYLE, 8, 9, FOUNDRY SQUARE (Fig 15d) [reference key at foot of
webpage]
FREEMASONS
HALL
SW55873707 PRN: 139145 LB: 11
This was fomerly the original White Hart Hotel built by Henry Harvey,
to support his sister Jane, wife of
Richard Trevithick 1771 - 1833, the famous engineer. lt has rendered
walls, and a hipped, almost
pyramidal, grouted scantle slate roof. Chimneys that once stood over
the side walls were removed in the
C20. Of a double depth plan it has two equally sized reception rooms at
the front flanking a central
entrance hall leading to a rear stair hall between two service rooms,
(possibly remodelled in the C20).
There are later extensions behind. Two storeys high and on the northern
front are three windows set
symmetrically with a central C20 doorway. They have original hornless
sashes. The window to the right of
the doorway is a complete sixteen-pane sash but the others have had
their secondary glazing bars
removed to leave four-panes in each. There are internal window shutters
to the ground floor rooms. This
building has important historical interest Jane Trevithick was the
hostess of the premises during Richard
Trevithick's long period of absence in South America, where he
travelled initially to supervise the
installation of nine of his engines in Peru. While he was in South
America, engaged in many daring and
some ill-fated ventures, Richard sent Jane no money, and when he
returned to the port of Falmouth in
October 1827 he had (according to Francis Trevithick) only the clothes
he wore, a gold watch, a drawing
compass, a magnetic compass, and a pair of silver spurs. The hotel is
also an interesting relic of Hayle's
prosperity. For the ceremonial first opening of the sluices, to clear
the sand from the river, on 27
December 1834, the occasion was celebrated by a breakfast at the White
Hart for the mine adventurers,
customers and four captains who had been employed in the work.'
http://www.hayle.net/council/documents/2000R058HayleHistoricalAssessmentInventory-ocr.pdf
When John Harvey set up his iron foundry in Carnsew in 1780,
there were no shops or inns in the immediate vicinity. The area had
since become a town, a thriving industrial hub with many visitors,
workers and there families living close by, so it was just a matter of
time before someone established an inn. Henry's invited his sister,
Jane Trevithick (1772-1868), to run the new inn he was having built on
an area of ground designated on the estate plan as 'THE POOL', close by
'THE GREEN', just yards up the road from Henry Harvey's own house,
Foundry House {marked 23} and, the hotel opened in 1824.
Penpol Pool,
Carnsew (Hayle)
from Manor of Trevethow (Trevethoe)
Estate Plan 1820
Somewhat lazily, historians have repeated and thereby perpetuated the notion that Jane
Trevithick (sister of the extrememely prosperous Henry Harvey) took on this role of landlady solely because she needed money
to support herself and her family, on account of her husband, Richard
Trevithick, the inventor, having left them destitute. If this were true, it
could only be partially so, for Richard
had sailed away from Penzance bound for Peru in October 1816, whereas Jane's
tenure at the White Hart Hotel commenced 8 years after his
departure. And importantly, we really don't know for sure the
actual situation between husband and wife. But son Francis later wrote:
'He wished his life
to be insured
for the benefit of his wife and family, but never thought of paying the
yearly insurance premium, leaving it for his wife to pay, whom he had
left, as far as he knew, penniless in England.
On his sailing from
Penzance, he
told his wife that he had paid the house-rent for a year in advance,
mentioning the sum. At the end of that time a demand was made on Mrs.
Trevithick for a year's rent, being a larger sum than her husband had
mentioned as the proper rent. It turned out that Trevithick had taken
and paid for the house at six-monthly periods, instead of yearly
periods. It was in the same street, and but three or four houses from
that occupied by the parents of the eminent Sir Humphry Davy.'
- 'Life of
Richard Trevithick: With an Account of His Inventions Vol I' by Francis Trevithick, 1872 p242
Anyway, after Richard's business overseas
was concluded, in October
1827 he returned to
Hayle.
'Trevithick seems,
for the time
being, to have settled down at Hayle to a life very like that which he
led before his departure for South America. He lived at the White Hart
Hotel, which was managed by his wife, and seems once more to have been persona
grata
at the Foundry, where he was working on some new ideas.'
- 'The Harvey's of Hayle'
by Edmund Vale, The Trevithick Sociey p169
'The
first thing to which Trevithick applied himself on his return from
South America, was to replenish his purse. Justly considering himself
entitled to remuneration from his country, he furnished my late father
(his solicitor) with instructions for a petition to the House of
Commons for that purpose. The petition was prepared accordingly in
December, 1827.'
The letter from Trevithick, enclosing the instructions for this
petition, was dated the 20th of December, 1827, and contained the
following postscript:—"I was at Dolcoath account on Monday,
and
made known to them my intention of applying to Government, and not to
individuals, for remuneration. They are ready to put their signatures
to the petition, and so will all the county."
Soon after the petition had been prepared, Trevithick met with a
partner, who supplied him with the money he required for perfecting his
never-ceasing inventions. This being all he wanted, the petition was
never presented, and he gladly resumed the kind of life which he had
pursued for so many years with so much success in Camborne, when in
partnership with Mr. Vivian.'
'Contributions to
the Biography of Richard Trevithick - Richard Edmonds, 1859'
http://camborne.wikidot.com/edmonds
Jane continued to run the
hotel, even after her husband's death in April 1833, until
March
1837, at which time, at 64 years of age,
she retired, and
responsibility for the running of the hotel was taken on by a William Crotch,
who is
said to have prevailed upon Henry Harvey to build a much larger hotel
next
door.
1841 Tithe apportionment 15 - Old
White Hart Premises - Francis Wyatt
1841 Census
Hayle Foundry,1,Francis Wyatt,25,,Tailor,In county,
,,Jane Wyatt,,25,,In county,
,,Isabela Stevens,,22,,In county,
,,Ann Stevens,,15,,In county,
,,Elizth Stevens,,12,,In county,
,,Mary Jones,,19,,In county,
,,Mary Jones,,4w,,In county,
,,Caroline Jones,,22,,In county,
,,Josiah Philip,18,,Engineer,In county,
1851 Census
10,Hayle Foundry,1,Francis Wyatt,Head,M,43,,Mercer And Tailor,Cury Cornwall,,
,,,Jane Wyatt,Wife,M,,44,,Lelant Cornwall,,
,,,Mary Jones,Sister,M,,39,Wife Of A Labourer,Lelant Cornwall,,
,,,Elizth. Gregory,Visitr,U,,29,Tailoress,Lelant Cornwall,,
,,,Richd. H. Mollard,Visitr,M,50,,Shipmaster Merchant Service,St Ives Cornwall,,
,,,Ben Mollard,Visitr,M,48,,Mariner Merchant Service,Padstow Cornwall,,
,,,Mary M Chelew,Visitr,M,,24,Wife Of A Labourer,St Ives Cornwall,,
The new, much larger 3-storied White Hart Hotel was built 12-13 years
later next door to the orginal building.
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White Hart Hotel
built
on site of Penpol Pool next
door to old White Hart Hotel, and
opened in 1838
'It was supposedly
fear for public
health that led Henry Harvey to acquire and drain Penpol Pool in the
1837, although since he went on to build the new White Hart on the
site, commercial interest may have had a significant role to play.'
-
Hayle Historical Assessment - 7.5.1.5 Community facilities - p56
White Hart
Hotel, Hayle 1840s
with
West Cornwall Railway station to right
The
new White Hart Hotel run by William Crotch.
'108
HAYLE, WHITE HART HOTEL, FOUNDRY SQUARE (Fig 15d) [reference key at foot of
webpage]
PUBLIC
HOUSE
SW55853709 PRN: 139144 LB: 11*
Listed building (No. 10/96). Dating to about 1838 this was built for
Henry Harvey, the brother-in-law of
Richard Trevithick as the new White Hart Hotel (which replaced the
original one [109]). lt has stuccoed
walls and a scantle slate roof behind a stuccoed parapet. There are
stuccoed chimneys over the left side
walls. Rectangular in plan it is two rooms wide and three rooms deep.
lt has two equally sized reception
rooms that flank a central entrance hall that leads to a large stair
hall behind the right-hand room .
Classical style. Three storeys high the elevations are stuccoed with
dassical detail. There are rusticated
courses at ground floor level with stucco flat arches. The northern
front entrance has the central doorway
within a panelled stucco porch. The doors are original with latticed
glazing and the original fanlight with
scrolled detail. The corners of the front of the building are panelled
pedestals carrying a giant order of
clasping square fluted columns, the antae to the three bays of the
upper floors with four engaged giant
round columns, the whole being surmounted by a Tuscan entablature and a
parapet with an open
pediment at the middle with a central round plaque. The columns are a
kind of debased Roman Doric with
an Egyptian influence to the design of the capitals. The first floor
windows have moulded hoods on carved
consoles. The side elevations have eared architraves to the first floor
windows with aprons under the sills .
All the windows (excepting the ground floor left one on the eastern
elevation) are original hornless sashes
with glazing bars. The west elevation has a tall round headed stair
window. The interior of the building has
been partially inspected. The entrance hall and stair hall have their
original architectural details, including
arches, plaster cornices and fine open well stair with mahogany
handrail curving down to form the newel
post. This building is erected on the site of the former Penpol pool
(blamed by Henry Harvey for the
spreading of cholera in the town) .'
http://www.hayle.net/council/documents/2000R058HayleHistoricalAssessmentInventory-ocr.pdf
1841 Census - Phillack - HO107/143 pt. 9 ED2 Book 12 Folio 29 p. 1
White Hart Hotel,1,William Crotch,57,,Inn Keeper,Not in county,
,,Margarette Crotch,,52,Wife (Crossed Out),In county,
,,Amelia Crotch,,19,Daughter,Not in county,
,,William Jnr. Crotch,16,,Son (Crossed Out),Not in county,
,,Mr. Stubbs,45,,Merchant,Not in county,
,,Mr. Johnson,40,,Merchant,Not in county,
,,Mr Werry,57,,Traveller,Not in county,
,,Mr Jackson,30,,Traveller,Not in county,
,,John Winnan,27,,Servant,In county,
,,Fras. Godolphin,49,,Servant,In county,
,,Nanny Ward,,22,Servant,In county,
,,Fanny Thomas,,25,Servant,In county,
,,Mary Wearne,,19,Servant,In county,
,,Mary Cutty,,46,Servant,In county,
,,Susan Petengile,,46,Servant,In county,
,,Eliz. Ann Rowe,,17,Servant,In county,
,,Grace Hicks,,24,Servant,In county,
,,Matilda Hicks,,21,Servant,In county,
1851 Census (unavailable)
1861 Census - Phillack
31,Hayle Foundry (Crotch Hotel),1,William Crotch,Head,M,69,,Hotel Keeper,Okehampton Devon,,Surname uncertain; might be CRUTCH
,,,Margaret Crotch,Wife,M,,73,,Perranuthnoe Cornwall,,
,,,William James Crotch,Son,U,36,,Chemist,Eardsley Herefordshire,,
,,,Elizabeth A Olver,Servnt,U,,26,General Servant,St Columb Cornwall,,
,,,Mary Bawden,Servnt,U,,30,General Servant,Breage Cornwall,,
,,,Jane Richards,Servnt,U,,26,General Servant,Phillack Cornwall,,
,,,Mary Jennings,Servnt,U,,22,General Servant,Gwennap Cornwall,,
,,,Jane H Bawden,Servnt,U,,22,General Servant,Phillack Cornwall,,
,,,Elizabeth A Berriman,Servnt,U,,26,General Servant,Crowan Cornwall,,
,,,Hester Ann James,Servnt,U,,18,General Servant,Mawgan Cornwall,,
,,,Mark Kempthorne,Servnt,U,19,,General Servant,Newlyn East Cornwall,,
'24 June
1871
Death of Mr. Crotch'
- Royal Cornwall Gazette
https://www.opc-cornwall.org/deaths/phillack_death_crotch_mr_1871.pdf
On a photograph of the White Hart Hotel, dated 1907, the name of 'T. Bater' is featured about the main doors.
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Foundry Square c1907
with view of multistoried Grist Mill
former White Hart Hotel (left), & 'new' White Hart Hotel, Hayle (right)
roof of 5-storey Mill to
far right had been demolished in 1940, allegedly to avert the building being
targeted for bombing in WWII
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Lloyd's Bank Building formerly Hayle Public Hall
established in 1869 - with Market House in basement
Foundry Square, Hayle
c1904
Foundry Square, Hayle
with West Cornwall Railway station to front of viaduct
Foundry Square, Hayle c1920
Post Office to left, The Cinedrone Cinema & Market Hall
building, centre, and West Cornwall Railway station to right
(old station
demolished c1948 in order to enable road widening)
'115
HAYLE, 3,4 FOUNDRY SQUARE {LLOYDS BANK) {Fig 15d) [reference key at foot of
webpage]
MARKET HOUSE
SW55873714 PRN: 139151 LB: 11
Listed
building (No. 10/93). Former market house with public hall over
(sometime cinema) that is now used
as a Lloyds Bank. 1868-8, built by a limited liability company under
the aegis of Harvey & Co. Originally 2
floors with a market on the ground floor and public hall on the first,
reconstructed after a fire in 1935 with
only the lower floor (C. Noall, The Book of Hayle, 1984, 130). Stuccoed
walls and a hipped dry Delabole
slate roof with slightly projecting eaves. The building is an L-shaped
plan being two rooms wide and three
rooms deep. There is a central through passage and originally there was
an axial passage in front of the
rear (south) rooms. A small C20 extension can be found at the back. The
building has Classical style
details. Although now only a single storey there were originally two.
Stucco detail is similar on all sides
with textured granite ashlar plinth, chamfered rustications to impost
string level and round arches with
alternate rustications to the voussoirs. The quoins and the piers,
punctuating the bays of the north and
west fronts, are also rusticated. Above the level of the pier shafts
and the tall keystones of the arches is an
entablature with moulded architraves, plain frieze and moulded eaves
cornice. Symmetrical 1 :1:1 bay
north and south entrance fronts both with central doorways (north front
is wider). The north doorway has a
moulded stucco arch over responds with moulded imposts. Original
panelled doors. Over the south doors
is the original geometric and spoked fanlight. The west front has an
early C20 shop window to the lefthand side of the middle bay. This
window has a pair of round-headed lights with glazed spandrels within a
square-headed opening .'
http://www.hayle.net/council/documents/2000R058HayleHistoricalAssessmentInventory-ocr.pdf
'Destructive
fire at Hayle'
-
The West Briton newspaper, November 1935
West Briton newspaper -
November 1935
reporting the fire of 11th November 1935 which gutted the Palace Cinema, the town hall and Lloyds Bank.
Foundry Square, Hayle 1950s?
Lloyds Building to right
Foundry Square / Penpol Terrace shops
It appears that Harvey & Co. had
something like a monopoly locally, insofar as workers would, after he
set up a shop in 1830 to sell general grocery and hardware, likely have
had to source their goods from the company's Emporium (that is until
The Truck Acts of 1831 and 1887, Acts which limited the potential for
employers to exploit their workers by paying in goods rather than cash,
or/& selling them goods at inflated prices). It was not until after
1887 that shops started to spring up around Foundry Square, and
along Penpol Terrace in what used to be garden space.
The Square, Hayle c1905
Valentines postcard 39091
The Square, Hayle c1905
postcard
Penpol Terrace, Hayle c1904
railway track to quays
visible
Penpol Terrace, Hayle c1912
Penpol Terrace, Hayle
oil painting by Stanhope A Forbes
(1857-1947)
Hayle Terrace c1898
postcard E Williams, The "Ark," Hayle
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Ferry from Lelant to The Spit, Hayle c1904
Valentines Real Photo postcard S1345
'On
his retirement in 1932 ex-sailor Mr John Couch, a colourful and
well-remembered personality, took over the ferry, which he ran for
about 27 years until six months before his death at the age of 83.'
- 'The
Book of Hayle' by Cyril Noall, Barracuda Books, 1984, p112
This
ferry point has
quite a bit of history attached, not least in recent times when the
famous artist John Miller (1931-2002) lived at the Ferryman's
Rest painting his iconic seascapes, and
talented musician and songwriter Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues
lived down there, writing such compositions as 'Nights in White Satin'
and 'Voices in the Sky'
on that very beach.
“What
a magical part of the world. It still is. It’s gorgeous, and
there’s something about that. I can remember when big
steamers
were coming in there, and a power station opposite that they took down
in almost one day. We were at the Ferryhouse, right on the beach,
terribly impractical, with a beach café opposite....'
- Justin Hayward, interviewed by Malcolm Wyatt, posted April 27th 2018
https://writewyattuk.com/2018/04/27/a-question-of-life-balance-the-justin-hayward-interview/
Pity
no one is offering a ferry service these days..!
Thanks!
grateful
acknowledgements
for help and inspiration received from those interested in local
history who shared their passion for Hayle's heritage, particularly
Bill Martindale, Chris Quick, Trevor Smitheram, Kingsley Rickard, John
Daniels, Chris
Ryan, Rebecca
Noall, Malcolm Burkett, Daren King, Sharon Johnson and John
Lloyd.
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