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Thank you, that clarifies much.  If my relationship chart skills are working, that means that John #1 and John #2 were First Cousins, Once Removed.  It also means that John #1 and I are First Cousins, 5X Removed, while John #2 remains my Second Great Grandfather. 

There are sure a lot of John and Warren Trestrails in Redruth and environs!  But this helps a lot with this side of my Cornish forebears.  The other side is more difficult, since John #2's daughter Annie married William Williams (apparently of St. Blazey) with no thought to future genealogists!

It is sad about the London Inn.  From the land agent's site, it appears that the upper floor has been or will be converted to apartments, and the ground floor has been available for rent for over five years.  It would be cool if some arrangement could be made with the Red Lion for some kind of joint operation, and taking down the plywood would certainly improve Fore Street, but there may not be sufficient trade in the area to permit such an expansion.

Thanks again.

I don't know if you are still monitoring this after so many years, but it just came up in a Google search.  My Second great-grandparents John and Martha (Tregonning) Trestrail owned the London Inn from sometime before 1871 to sometime after 1891 (John died there in 1887).  It was a coaching inn dating back to the 1700s, and John apparently got the money to buy it by silver mining in Australia.  The inn was shut down around 2001 (perhaps due to drug dealing) and remains boarded up on Fore Street.  It is too bad because it is in a prime location in central Redruth, a town which seems to be on the mend, but perhaps it would cost too much to renovate it to modern standards.

A history of Redruth indicates that in 1776 the London Inn was one of the "principal hosteleries" of the town, with stabling for 60 horses and carriages.  It had had been purchased by Thomas and Peggy Curgenven Clark, who stayed until 1779.  An entry for 1854 states that the inn (the "London Hotel") was owned by James Snow, "afterward John Trestrail."  This was probably a few years afterward, since John was in Australia in 1861.

Martha was running the place up to 1891, but was not there in 1901 and it does not appear that any of the children took the place over, so my guess is that it was sold sometime between 1891 and 1901.  I am afraid I do not have any information as to ownership after that.