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Known emigrants

So far the main Trease descendants found abroad have been in Australia and are descended from James Trease and Eliza Gynn who married in Warbstow in 1840. The Australian Treases far outnumber the Treases who remained in the UK and are the descendants of two of James and Eliza's sons who had 27 children between them, with many of the sons subsequently marrying and themselves having large families :-

• William who left England in 1863 with his sister, Amelia and her husband. He married in Australia in 1869 and settled in Mardan, Gippsland, Victoria. His sister's husband died in a mining accident and she remarried, and also had a large family.
  
• and Thomas who married in Boscastle, Cornwall in 1866 and shortly after left England for Melbourne. He died in 1923.

A third son, John Trease, emigrated to Tilbury West, Ontario, Canada in 1871. He never married and died there in 1891 aged only 40. The three sons had neices and nephews who also emigrated, but there were no sons to continue the family surname: -

• Neice Amelia Maud Trease born in 1892, emigrated to Canada. She married Edward Bailey and brought up a large family in Ontario, Canada. She died in Milton, Ontario in 1966.
  
• Neice Mabel Gynn Trease born in 1884, married Ernest Henry Graves in this country and emigrated to Australia. She had at least two children.
  
• Nephew James Gynn Trease emigrated to South Africa where he worked in the gold mines near Johannesburg. He died there of lung disease in 1916 aged only 35. He married and had three daughters who were all brought up in England.

The only other Trease descendant who emigrated abroad and is known to have had surviving sons is William Vener Trayes who married Maria Darton in 1858 and emigrated to Australia in 1858. This family has yet to be researched to ascertain whether there are any living descendants.

Frederick Peter Trayes who married Margaret Polson in Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand in 1869 may have been one of the first of the family to emigrate as he worked the Australian goldfields in the early days of the gold rush there before trying his luck in New Zealand. He had two daughters but no surviving sons.

Daniel Trease, the youngest son of William and Martha, emigrated to Wisconsin some time between 1856 and 1860. He fought in and survived the Civil War but it is not known what happened to him after that and no descendants have been traced.

Possible emigrants

Several male Treases whose life cannot be traced in this country may also have emigrated : -

• John Trease, youngest brother of William about whom nothing further has been found in this country. Emigration at that time would be too early for Australia but America would have been a possiblity.
• Descendants of William Trease's uncle Samuel who had naval careers and whose life cannot be traced in this country, may have emigrated. His descendants eventually adopted the surname "Treays".
• William Trease's grandfather Peter married Joan Sharp in 1740 whose family appears to have had many with a seafaring background. Peter's brother, Samuel, may be the Samuel Treys who married in Bristol in 1751. Bristol was very much a seafaring town at that time, and he may have had sons who emigrated to America.

The name Trease is found across the USA. Some of these Treases can be traced to a family of German immigrants with the surname Dreese whose name came to be spelt Trease but there is something of a conundrum regarding the change in spelling which could be accounted for by others with their name spelt 'Trease' living in the same area. It would certainly seem strange if no others of our family, apart from those we already know, emigrated to the USA.

Family members of other possibly related trees

A possibly related family is the Traies family from Crediton, several of whom we know to have emigrated to the USA. Most we only know about because of special circumstances such as a Will or they or members of their family returning to this country:-

• John Traies, son of John Traies and Mary Porter, joined the East India Company and left for India in February 1779. He died within a year or two (apparently a common state of affairs for young men newly arrived in India at that time).
• James Traies, after he married Elizabeth Nicks in 1817, emigrated to the USA. His daughter Elizabeth was born in Baltimore, Ohio, around 1819/1820. James died on a date unknown and his wife returned to the UK with daughter Elizabeth.
• William Traies, cousin of the James who married Elizabeth Nicks, was a silversmith from Dartmouth. After dissolving a partnership with George Nangle junior in London on 1st February 1824 he worked as a silversmith on his own account until 1831 when he is recorded as living at Powell Street London. Sometime after, when he was in his early forties, he left England to live in Cincinnatti, Ohio and had returned by the 26th January 1841, when he made his will. He died shortly after. Cincinnati was a boomtown at that time, and maybe he worked with George Nangle while he was out there.
• Betsey Traies, sister of William, married George Nangle, a widower (possibly the same George, who had been William's business partner), in 1823. In November 1831 she, her husband, and 5 children left England for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and as far as we know did not return.

The earliest emigrant found so far who may be from the Trease family is Samuel Trese, who in 1635, aged 20, was transported to St Christopher in the 'Matthew' of London seemingly not by choice. Unfortunately we know nothing more about him, but the surname may indicate he was one of the Cornish Trease families. Most of the emigration from the UK to the Americas was at that time to the West Indies.