Dear David,
You were looking for Tretheweys:
We have a family tree in the Stoke Climsland Parish Archive with two brothers Samuel and James, and about ten brothers and sisters. Whereas there are details of the later life of many of them, there's nothing about these two - perhaps they moved up north ?
The previous generation has another Samuel and James, and their 8 siblings. Samuel was the older, James his next brother down, was b in 1825. Samuel went to Australia (no details), James m Fanny Hooper and went to Tavistock. No more info about either. Their oldest brother was William James, b 1811.
Their father was Thomas, b 1786. He died in Breague (W Cornwall) in 1841.
Maybe your Sam (b 1796 - the same age as the Sam you found in Breague in 1861) and Jas (b 1798) were brothers of his, and maybe your William was his oldest son (b 1811).
I'll look in the Parish Registers for more detail of their births, but I don't think those ones were living here. It would be a good idea to look at the records for Breague as well, since the family may have originated there. Each generation seems to have gone off all over the world, suggesting a mining family. They may well have been engineers - one of them has Trevithick as a middle name, and some of the girls marry into the clergy.
As well as the researcher of this family tree, we have been contacted by three other Tretheweys, and I can let you have their contact details.
Do e-mail me off-list if you like,
Caroline Vulliamy
Stoke Climsland Parish Archive, and East Cornwall Mining History Assn.
> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 17:19:05 +0000
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> Subject: Trethewey, Engineers.
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> Good afternoon.
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> I am interested in learning more of the history of James and Samuel
> Trethewey.
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> These gentlemen arrived in Derbyshire sometime (but not much) before the
> 1841 Census. They arrived in Derbyshire to work at the Alport Mines for John
> Taylor, but eventually transferred their employment to work for William
> Wyatt at Watergrove Mine, Foolow, and High Rake Mine, Windmill. At these
> mines Samuel, in particular, worked on the Sims Combined Engine at High
> Rake, and the large engine at Watergrove Mine. At the time of the 1841
> Census James, aged 43 and an engineer, and his wife, Betsey, aged 42, were
> living in the cottage at Watergrove, together with 4 children, Samuel, aged
> 10, William, aged 8, James, aged 6, and Walter, aged 4. All these six were
> born outside Derbyshire. At the same time Samuel, aged 45 and an engineer,
> was living (apparently without a wife) about a mile or so away. He had six
> children with him - Harriett, aged 15, Samuel, aged 14, Paul Robins, aged
> 11, James, aged 9, Agnes, aged 6, and Jabez, aged 2. All except Jabez were
> not born in Derbyshire. There may also have been a William Trethewey as
> there were two children of William and Harriett Trethewey baptised at
> Bakewell Wesleyan Chapel in 1845 and 1849.
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> All of these Tretheweys had disappeared by the time of the 1851 Census,
> presumably as both Watergrove and High Rake were on their last legs at this
> time. The only Trethewey that I have been able to find later in Derbyshire
> is Samuel, son of Samuel, who was described as an engineer of Ripley (on the
> coalfield) when he married a girl from near Watergrove in 1853.
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> In the 1861 Census I have found a Samuel Trethewey, Mining Engineer, aged
> 66, living as a lodger at Church Town, Breage. He is listed as being
> married, but he is on his own, and was born in St. Dennis.
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> Can anyone fill any gaps in the history of the Tretheweys?
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> Thanks, in advance.
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> Dave Williams
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