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Early life
Thomas was baptised in St Gennys on the 6th July 1779, the son of Michael and Mary Jollow and the grandson of Peter and Joan Sharp. Thomas's paternal grandparents has both died long before he was born but his maternal parents, Thomas and Margaret Jollow, were both alive and he was their first grandchild. Accordingly it is thought that Michael and Mary chose to name him Thomas after his grandfather, Thomas Jollow.
His mother, Mary, died six months after he was born. Mary had been the only surviving child of her parents and baby Thomas was their only grandchild. Following Mary's death, it is thought that grandparents Thomas and Margaret helped Michael bring up their grandson. Thomas may have been living with his grandparents sometime prior to 1792, because in January that year his grandfather drew up a Will by which Thomas was explicitly to live with his grandmother Margaret at their home in Coals Tenement, Hill, St Gennys, so long as he remained unmarried, and he was to inherit the property when Margaret died. In August 1793, when Thomas was fourteen years old, his father, Michael, remarried and lived thereafter in Clovelly, North Devon. From then on Thomas would certainly have lived with his grandparents. What is not clear is whether Michael had already moved to Clovelly and Thomas was already living with his grandparents when his grandfather had drawn up his will. In March 1794, his grandfather Thomas Jollow died. Thomas was too young to perform his executor duties so his father Michael and John Elstone the younger of St Juliot acted as Executors in Trust. It seeems likely that Thomas would have stayed with his grandmother certainly until he married.
Like his father, Thomas became a respected member of St Gennys parish and served the community as a church warden but whereas Michael served once, Thomas served twice. The first time was in 1803, during the Napoleonic Wars, when he and Thomas Hicks were church wardens. In that year ballots were drawn for men to serve in the Additional Army of England, an organisation that seems to have had a similar function to the Home Guard. Thomas, Stephen Bray, and John Hooper were the three names drawn by ballot from the total of 63 men of St. Gennys aged between 18 and 45 but almost certainly because Thomas was serving as Church warden that year, he was replaced by a substitute, James Cornelius. As an incentive, James, the substitute, would have been paid about two or three shillings a week from parish funds to do this. Interestingly the other two names drawn were also both replaced by substitutes.
Marriage
On the 2nd of April 1806, when he was nearly 27, he married Mary Elson at Lesnewth, Cornwall, about 4 miles south of St Gennys. Mary had been born during 1781 in Lesnewth. Her parentage is unknown at present but it is thought that she may have been a relative of John Elson the younger of St Juliot who was, together with Thomas's father Michael, joint executor of Thomas Jollow's will.
Thomas and Mary had two sons and a daughter, one son dying before he was a year old. All three children were baptised in St Gennys so it appears that Thomas stayed living in St Gennys parish. When his grandmother died in February 1808, he inherited her house, Coals Tenement at 'Hill', St Gennys. In 1814 Thomas served again as churchwarden at St Gennys, this time with Edward Smeeth.
Thomas then moved from St Gennys parish to possibly a larger farm in Egloskerry parish where he recruited two young apprentices to help him. In April 1818. William Pawley aged 15 was apprenticed to him followed in January 1819 by Jennifer Smith aged 11.
Early death
ChildrenOn the 8th August 1820, aged only 41, Thomas died. Although he was living in Egloskerry parish, he was buried in St Gennys Church three days later in a grave near to the rest of his family. Thomas did not leave a Will so he may have died suddenly and unexpectedly. His wife was granted administration of his personal estate valued around £450 on the 13th June 1821. Richard Kitto and Robert Sandercock of Egloskerry acted as sureties for her.
Their only son John was 12 years old and too young to take over his father's farm but later he too became a farmer, just like his father. Thomas's wife Mary outlived him by over 40 years and lived with her son, who seems to have remained a confirmed bachelor until quite late in his life. Certainly from at least 1841 onwards she was living with him at 'Hill', St Gennys. When he finally got married in 1857 she moved out to live nearby at Sweets, St Gennys, with a domestic servant to do the household duties for her and died there on the 13th January 1862, aged 81. She was buried in St Gennys Churchyard in a joint grave with her husband. Theirs is the oldest Trease gravestone still existing there.Mary and Thomas had three children :-
- son Thomas was baptised in St Gennys Church on 26th January 1807 and buried there on the 18th January 1808.
- son John was born in 1808 and remained a bachelor living with his mother until 1857 when he married Mary Jewell, the daughter of another St Gennys farmer, Humphrey Jewell of Rosecare, St Gennys. John and Mary did not have any children. John died during 1882 age 74 at Rosecare, St Gennys and Mary died there during 1886 age 83.
- daughter Mary was born in St Gennys during 1812. During 1834, when she was 22 years old, Mary married at St Gennys, John Venning of Marhamchurch, Cornwall (about 5 miles North of St Gennys). John was then 28 years old. After their marriage John farmed at Morwenstow, Cornwall (on the coast about 10 miles North of St Gennys). John and Mary had 9 children, three sons and six daughters. Mary died at Morwenstow during 1855, aged only 43 and John died there during 1880, age 74.
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Early Life
John Trease was baptised at St Gennys Church on the 27th May 1808 and was only 12 years old when his father died. Like his father, John became a farmer, and twice served as churchwarden for St Gennys. The first time was in 1834 when he was 26 years old and his fellow churchwarden was Nathaniel Greenaway. From the early 1840's and possibly earlier John was farming at 'Hill' St Gennys which was about 1.5 miles south of St Gennys Churchtown and a large farm of over 200 acres. John lived there with his mother and employed several farm labourers and a maid to help him. In 1842 he appears to have been one of the largest landowners in the parish as he paid a poor rate of £1.0s.3d, which was the fifth largest in the parish. In 1846 he did his second term as churchwarden, this time with John Smeeth. The 1852 voters list shows the property qualification for John Trease as being the ownership of a freehold house and land at Dizard. It is thought that his father may have inherited this from his Aunt Mary Mill who died in 1808 but this is purely speculation until her Will is inspected.
Marriage
On the 24th September 1857, John got married in St Gennys Church to Mary Jewell. She had been baptised in January 1802 the daughter of Humphry Jewell and Mary Cock who had married in St Gennys in 1800. Both her parents were dead. Her father had been, like John, a yeoman farmer. After her mother had died and her father had retired from farming, she had lived with her father at a house in Rosecare, until he died in 1853. At 55 Mary was 5 years older than John and well past child bearing age so the intention of the marriage appears to have been companionship for them both. It would have been awkward for John's mother, who was then 76 years old and had spent about 50 of those years with her son, to continue living with him after he had married and his wife had moved in, so she went to live at 'Sweets' which was about a half mile northwards between Hill and what is now called Higher Crackington. She died there five years later.
John then moved to a smaller farm 'Ballhead' at Rosecare, St Gennys. The 1871 census shows that this farm was about 50 acres and John was employing two men and one boy as farm workers. These details are almost certainly correct as John himself was census enumerator for the area that census year. In 1873 John held a total of 131 acres of land in St Gennys with an estimated rental of £74.15s.0d. of which 'Ballhead' accounted for 50 acres. It is not clear what the other 81 acres related to but in his Will he mentions Dizzard (which also appeared in the 1852 voter's list) and Hill (where his father had inherited property from Thomas Jollow).
At sometime in the 1870s John moved again, this time to 'Broom Hill' farm in Rosecare where in 1881 he is recorded with his wife together with Mary Harris a 22 year old domestic servant and Richard Sandercock an 18 year old farm worker. What is not clear is why John should have moved to a slightly bigger farm. 'Ballhead' is mentioned in his will so he presumably owned that property when he moved, whereas he does not mention 'Broom Hill' in his Will.Death
On the 14th August 1882, John drew up his will. He died on either the 24th or 25th of October and was buried in St Gennys churchyard on the 28th October 1882. He was 74. As he had no children, he left his estate to the children of his sister Mary Venning, after making provisions for his wife, Mary.
After his death, Mary continued living in Rosecare but possibly not at 'Broom Hill'. Mary drafted her will on the 12th March 1883 leaving one hundred pounds to her niece Mary Cock Smeeth and everything else to her nephew John Jewell Smeeth whom she also made sole executor. Both beneficiaries were children of her sister Loveday whose wedding to John Smeeth in 1847 had been witnessed by Mary's late husband John Trease. She died on the 23rd January 1886 and was buried in St Gennys in a separate grave alongside that of her husband.RETURN TO START of SON JOHN'S LIFE STORY
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Thomas Trease
Mary Elson
His son Thomas
His son John
His son John's wife
His daughter Mary
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Thomas TREASE 1779 c. 06Jul1779 St Gennys. Thomas, son of Michael and Mary Trease (ER) 1792 13Jan1792. Named executor of his paternal grandfather Thomas Jollow's will 1803 (per 'Wreckers and Wrestlers' by Parnall) Thomas Trease, Stephen Bray and Thomas Hooper were the three names drawn by ballot from the total of 63 men of St. Gennys aged between 18 and 45 and eligible to become part of the Additional Army of England (like the Home Guard).
All were replaced by substitutes, Thomas by James Cornelius.1803 Thomas Trease and Thomas Hicks were the two churchwardens of St. Gennys. 1804 His signature occurs on the accounts of the Overseers of the Poor for 1804. 1806 m. 02Apr1806 Lesnewth. Thomas Trease of St Gennys (signs) and Mary Elson (signs) bt Banns (COD) Witnesses: John Elson, Samuel Langford 1814 Thomas Trease and Edward Smeeth were the two churchwardens of St. Gennys. 1814 (Royal Cornwall Gazette, Sat 22Jan1814) LOT VIII
The reversion in Fee after three lives, age 62, 62, and 53 of one undivided 9th Part of and in All those messuages and tenements called East Venn situate in the parish of St Gennys in the said County now in occupation of Thomas Treise1818 07Apr1818 William Pawley, aged 15, was apprenticed in husbandry to Thomas Treize until the age of 21. Thomas signs himself in the margin as "Trease". (Egloskerry Apprenticeship Indenture) 1819 21Jan1819 Jennifer Smith, aged 11, was apprenticed to Thomas Treise- no trade or termination being specified. Document does not appear to be signed by Thomas. (Egloskerry Apprenticeship Indenture) 1820 i. 11Aug1820 Thomas Treas of Egloskerry 1820 Inscription on gravestone: -
Here
Resteth (in hope of a joyful
Resurrection) the Body of
THOMAS TREASE
late of this Parish, Yeoman
who departed this life the 8th
day of August in the year
our Lord 1820 Aged 41 years.
Also rests in hope the remains of
MARY TREASE
Wife of the aforesaid Thomas Trease
who departed this life the
13th day of Janry.
1862
Aged 81 years.
The beautifully carved and crafted slate(?) gravestone has two symbols and associated inscriptions either side of 'here' on the first line.
- The hour-glass symbol to the left is inscribed 'Time is Short'
- The heart with arrow (NW-SE) symbol to the right is inscribed 'Eternity is Long'.
1821 w. 13Jun1821. Administration of the estate of Thomas Trease
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Wife - Mary ELSON She may be a daughter of John Elson the younger of St. Juliot who with Thomas's father Michael Trease was an Executor in Trust of the will of Thomas Jollow, Thomas's maternal grandfather. This John Elson the younger may be the son of John Elson who during 1749 married Christian Smeeth (b. 1725) at St Gennys. Her father Edward Smeeth (b. 1698) was the elder brother of John (b. 1701) the father of Ann Smeeth (b. 1744) who In St Gennys during 1765 married John Trease, Thomas Trease’s uncle.
m. 30Mar1748/9 St Gennys. John Helson and Christian Smeethe (COD)
c. 01Jan1749 St Gennys John Helson son of John and Christian (C02097-1)1841 1841 Census - living with her son John. 1851 1851 Census - living with her son John. 1861 1861 Census. Sweets St Gennys. (RG9/1514 f26 p6) Mary Trease, 79, Widow, Landed proprietor, b. St. Gennys
Mary Ann Panter, Servt, Widow, 62, Formerly dressmaker, Boscastle1862 i. 16Jan1862 St Gennys Mary Trease of Sweets, St Gennys age 81 (COD)
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Son Thomas TREASE 1807 c. 26Jan1807 ) St Gennys. Thomas son of Thomas and Mary TREASE (IGI C020971) d. 18Jan1808 )
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Son John TREASE 1808 c. 27May1808 St Gennys. John son of Thomas and Mary TREASE (IGI C020971) 1834 St Gennys. John was a churchwarden with Nathaniel Greenaway (ER) 1834 27Mar1834 St Gennys. Witnesses sister's marriage to John Venning of Marhamchurch (COD) 1841 1841 Census Hill, St Gennys (HO107/140 Bk6 f5 p2) John Trease, 30, Farmer, b. Cornwall
Mary Trease, 60, b. Cornwall
John Sutton, 20, Male Servant, b. Cornwall
William Harris, 15, Male Servant, b. Cornwall
Stephen Stacey, 10, Male Servant, b. Cornwall
Grace Ham, 15, Female Servant, b. Cornwall1842 John occupied a farm at Hill in St. Gennys (about 1½ miles south of St. Gennys Churchtown) and paid a poor rate of £1. 0s. 3d. (the fifth largest in the parish). (per Parnall op. cit. p.169 - ER) 1846 St Gennys. John was a churchwarden with John Smeeth (ER) 1847 27Sep1847 St. Gennys. John Smeeth of St Gennys bachelor of full age and son of John Smeeth, farmer (signs) AND Loveday Jewell of St Gennys spinster of full age daughter of Humphrey Jewell, farmer Witnesses: Thomas Jewell, John Trease (COD) 1851 1851 Census. Hill St Gennys. (HO107/1897 f327 p10) John Trease, Head, Unmarried, 41, Farmer of 200 acres employing 3 labourers, b. St. Gennys
Mary Trease, Mother, Widow, 68, Annuitant, b. St. Gennys
Eliz Harris, Servnt, U, 18, House Servant, b. St. Gennys
Thomas Ridgment, Servnt, U, 27, Farm Labourer b. St. Gennys
George Bottrell, Servnt, U, 20, Farm Labourer b. St. Gennys
Daniel Cornish, Servnt, U, 13, Farm Labourer b. St. Gennys
1852 Voters List. 2586 Humphrey Jewell of Roskeare Freehold land at Penkuke 2611 John Trease of Hill Freehold house and land at Dizard 1856 Kelly's Directory of 1856 again mentions him as of "Hill" (ER) 1857 m. 24Sep1857 St Gennys. John Trease full age bachelor farmer of St Gennys (signs) son of Thomas, Farmer and Mary Jewell full age Spinster of St Gennys (signs) daur of Humphrey, Farmer by Banns
Witnesses: Thomas Jewell, John C Petherick1861 1861 Census. Hill St Gennys (RG9/1514 f26 p6) John Trease, 56, Farmer of 260 acres employing 4 labourers and 2 boys, b. St. Gennys
Mary Trease, 57, Wife, b. St. Gennys
Mary Cock Smith, Visitor, U, 5, b. St. Gennys
Margrett Olson, Servt, U, 26, House maid, b. St. Gennys
Ann Tinney, Servt, U, 17, Dairy maid, b. St. Gennys
William Olson, Servt, U, 29, Shepherd, b. St. Gennys
Thomas Dymond, Servt, U, 18, Carter, b. St. Gennys
William Fuge, Servt, U, 15, Carter, b. St. Gennys
John Dingle, Servt, U, 12, Boy, b. St. Gennys
1871 Was a census enumerator (ER) 1871 1871 Census. Ballhead, Rosecare, St. Gennys (RG10/2217 f24 p5 entry 22)
John Trease Head Mar 60 Farmer of 50 acres employing 2 men and 1 boy b. St Gennys
Mary Trease Wife Mar 65 Farmers Wife b. St Gennys
Ann Heal Female Farm Servant U 24 b. St. Gennys
William Hatton Indoor Farm Servant U 66 b. St. Gennys
John Medland Indoor Farm Servant 18 b. Otterham
1873 Return of Owners of Land John Trease 131 acres rental £74. 15s.0d. 1881 1881 Census. Broom Hill, Rosecare, St. Gennys (RG11/2271 f28 p14 entry 52) John Trease Head 76 Farmer b. St. Gennys
Mary Trease Wife 78 b. St. Gennys
Mary Harris 22 Domestic Servant b. St. Gennys
Richard Sandercock 18 Farm Servant (Indoor) b. St. Gennys
1882 14Aug1882 Draws up his Will 1882 i. 28Oct1882 St Gennys. John Trease of St. Gennys. Age 74 In
Affectionate Remembrance
of
JOHN TREASE
of
Broomhill House in this Parish
who died Oct. 24th 1882
Aged 74 years.
NOTE: Gravestone is next to that of his father and mother. 1883 31Jan1883 Grant of Probate for his Will
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Son's wife Mary JEWELL Her parents:- m. 21Feb1800 St Gennys. Humphrey Jewell and Mary Cock (IGI M02097-1)
Other children recorded:-
c. 11May1800 Thomas, c. 03Aug1804 & i. 23Sep1808 Humphry Jewell, c. 01Jan1807 John Briant Jewell,
c. 19May1810 Humphrey Jewell & Ann Jewell, c. 10Jun1813 Loveday Jewell parents 'of Skare'
i. 24Apr1849 St Gennys Mary Jewell 71 (COD)
1852 Voters List. 2586 Humphrey Jewell of Roskeare Freehold land at Penkuke
i. 19Aug1853 St Gennys Humphrey Jewell age 81 (COD)
w. 1855 Humphry Jewell, yeoman of st Gennys (CRO AP/J/2688)
1802 c. 04Jan1802 St Gennys. Mary Jewell daur of Humphrey and Mary (C02097-1) 1841 1841 census Roscare. Next entry is Stephen Bray, Schoolmaster (HO107/140 Bk6 f15 p3) Humphrey Jewell 60 Farmer b.Cornwall
Mary Jewell 60 b.Cornwall
Mary Jewell 32 b.Cornwall
Ann Jewell 30 b.Cornwall
Loveday Jewell 25 b.Cornwall
Sarah Cory 30 Independent Not born in County
William Edwards 30 Male Servant b.Cornwall
Edward Cornish 17 Male Servant b.Cornwall
James Spry 10 Male Servant b.Cornwall
Sarah Broad 20 Female Servant b.Cornwall
1851 1851 census Roscare. Next entry is John Petherick 42 a farmer married to Ann (HO107/1897 f313 p9) Humphrey Jewell Head 76 Formerly farmer b. St Gennys
Mary Jewell daughter U 48 b. St Gennys
Mary Spry servant U 23 House servant b. St Gennys
1883 12Mar1883 Makes her Will 1886 Memorial Inscription: - In loving remembrance
of
MARY TRAYSE
who died at Rosecare Janry. 23rd
1886
Aged 83 years.
"Sorrow vanquished, labour ended,
Jordan passed, victory won,
Home at last."
NOTE: Gravestone is next to that of her husband. 1886 07Aug1886 Probate of her Will granted at Bodmin
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Daughter Mary TREASE 1812 c. 19Jan1812 St Gennys. Mary daur of Thomas and Mary TREASE (IGI C020971) 1834 m. 27Mar1834 St Gennys. John Venning of Marhamchurch (signs) and Mary Trease otp (signs) By Banns (COD) Witnesses: Edward Smeeth, John Trease 1855 i. 21Aug1855 Morwenstow. Mary Venning of Leigh aged 43 (COD)
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