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Oh Wow, Thank you so much for all your research and help. It's very much appreciated. 

 According to my amateur detective work, Rebecca  Adams of Trewen was the mother of Grace Petherick - as per parish baptism register, 15 August,1892. Petherick may have been given as baby Grace's surname  as a nod to impending legitimacy, or a middle name as an acknowledgement of the father.  I believe this is most likely the Grace Adams who married James Harris at St Juliot, 15 July, 1818.

Interestingly, there is a record (photo image, Family Search) of the banns being called between Rebecca Adams of Trewen and William Petherick of Treneglos, in the month before Grace's birth . . . but there is no evidence of an eventual marriage. 

Further, I have found a photo image record (Family Search) of the banns being called between (most likely our) Rebecca  and Robert Hancock of Trewen in 1799/1800 (no date given)  - but at least 9 months before the birth - and death - of baby Anne in October, 1800 - who was baptised as Ann Adams.  No mention of the father again in the baptism records, and no evidence of  a subsequent marriage between Rebecca and Robert.   I found an image (Family Search) of a marriage licence between Peter Darton and a Rebecca Adams (1805) of the St Stephens by Saltash parish - and no evidence of the actual marriage again, so if that's our Rebecca, she does seem to be a recidivist fiancee . . .  Interesting to speculate the story behind those details.

The  family of Thomas Adams and Mary Cheley from St Winnows (Family Search) have a Rebecca who fits the necessary criteria - I'm just not able to find out what happened to her post-baptism. 

I'm wondering if she's the sister of Charity Adams, and Joseph Adams (father of the Sophie Adams in the title of this post). 

There's another Adams family from St Mellion - with  a Rebecca and two other daughters who had illegitimate children - so there's another possibility. 

It's very easy to mix up the members of the different families - with so many similar names, places and dates!
Many thanks again. You have been a great help. I  shall continue to tease this out. 

Hi,  I discovered CHARITY ADAMS (born Saint Winnow c. 1764-1766) when I was researching  the ADAMS connection to the HARRIS family, through CHARITY's  sister REBEKAH ADAMS born 1771. This thread has been most helpful in establishing names, dates and places - even if I end up eliminating this particular family as not being that of our REBECCA  ADAMS.   I note that this particular family don't seem to show on the Cornwall Parish Records page, but there's quite a full family tree on Family Search (LDS) site.  There are some discrepancies, but it's clear that CHARITY is the daughter of THOMAS and MARY as her youngest child is called Henry CHEALY STEPHENS - a nod to her mother MARY's maiden name, given as CHELEY in the parish records (that one is available on the Cornish Parish Register site). There are a few REBECCA ADAMS who could be the mother of my ancestress GRACE ADAMS (born Trewen, 1792), and it certainly is a detective's job to reduce  and eliminate the non-likely contenders.