Richard (Gynn) was born at Warbstow Cross during 1855, the youngest son of
James and Elizabeth Gynn
and a grandson of
William and Martha Uglow.
His mother, Elizabeth, died only 18 days after his birth.
Richard like his father and three elder brothers trained as a blacksmith.
During 1876 when he was 21 years old Richard married Eliza Pearce of Canworthy Water, Jacobstow at the Tower Street Chapel Launceston by a
Bible Christian Minister. Eliza always gave her age as the same as Richard and her place of birth ‘Middlesex, London’ but as yet her exact
place and date of birth have not been identified. On the marriage certificate it is stated that Eliza’s father was George Pearce (deceased)
Cabman.
Richard took over the running of the Smithy, adjacent to their house at Warbstow Cross, from his father sometime before 1880.
Richard and Eliza had three daughter and two sons. [The baptisms of their children, like Richard and Eliza's wedding, were not found in the
Warbstow Church registers. During 2007 their baptisms were located in the Week St Mary, Bible Christian Circuit registers.]
Eliza died during 1915 in Warbstow aged ‘60 years’ according to the M.I. on her grave.
By 1923 Richard had retired from being Blacksmith, being recorded as Farmer, and had handed over the Smithy to his youngest son. Sometime
later he moved to Plymouth, Devon where he lived with his eldest daughter until his death, age 77, during 1933. Both Richard and Eliza are
buried in Warbstow Churchyard.
- daughter
Mary Matilda Gynn
was born during 1877. Nothing is known as yet of her early life except that she appears to have been known
locally in Warbstow as ‘Tilsey’. During 1908 she married Ernest John Charke. Mary Matilda was then about 30 years old whereas Ernest John
appears to have been about 24, approximately six years younger than her. Mary Matilda’s father Richard Gynn Trease appears to have lived
with her and her husband in Plymouth during the last decade or so of his life. Mary Matilda and John Charke are understood to have had only
one child, a daughter. As yet their dates of death are unknown.
- son
James Gynn
was born at Warbstow Cross during 1881.Nothing is known as yet of his early life except that he appears to have been
known locally in Warbstow as Jim. James emigrated to South Africa, at some date as yet unknown probably sometime around 1900, where he
worked in the gold mines near Johannesburg. He is said to have done well there but that the dust affected his lungs causing his death at
the relatively early age of 35. James had married a widow, Mary Elizabeth Sparks who had two daughters by her previous husband, David
Sparks. So far his marriage has not been located in this country's records and it is thought probable that they met and married in South
Africa. James and Mary Elizabeth had three daughters. He died and was buried in South Africa.
- daughter Mabel Gynn was born during 1884. Nothing more is known of Mabel until her marriage recorded in the Long Ashton (Bristol)
Registration Area of Somerset during the December Quarter 1908 when she married Ernest Henry Greaves. At the time of their marriage Mabel
was 24 years old and Harry 42 years old. At some date, as yet unknown they emigrated to Australia and had two children, a son and a daughter.
As yet it is not known where in Australia they lived, when they died or whether any descendants are still living there or elsewhere.
- daughter
Amelia Maud was born during 1892. Nothing is known to date about her early life. She emigrated to Canada at some date yet
unknown and married Edward Bailey: they had 10 children. When Amelia Maud died in Milton, Ontario Canada during 1966 as well as her
surviving children, she left 17 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.
- son Richard Owen Trelawney was born during 1897. He appears to have been known outside the family by the second of his forenames, Owen
but within the family he was known as Lawn, an abbreviation of his third forename. He succeeded his father Richard Gynn Trease as
blacksmith at Warbstow Cross. His marriage to Lily Bolt is recorded as having taken place in the Launceston Registration Area during the
September Quarter of 1918. From their dates of baptism it would appear that Lily was just over a year older than Lawn and that when they
married he was 21 years old and she 22. In later years she was known as Lillian. Lawn and Lillian did not have any children of their own
but latterly they had living with them a niece of Lillian’s. Lawn's died during 1956 quarter when he was 59 years old. Lillian's died just
over two years later, during 1958 when she was 62 years old. With Owen's and Lillian's deaths both the family blacksmith business in
Warbstow, started over a hundred years previously by his grandfather James, and the name Trease in Warbstow appear to have died out. A
final sadness is that Lawn’s grave in Warbstow churchyard is not with those of his Trease and Gynn ancestors.