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Hi Barrie,

Is your email address correct please? I cannot get my message to send.

Best wishes for 2018

Clare

What has happened to the ceiling? It was the Lonsdale coat of arms. Surely it could not have been destroyed? The Hobsons are my ancestors. Just starting to research again after a gap.
C

Hi Barrie,

Thank you for your quick reply.

I would love anymore information. I think that I am  also related to John Trist who married Elizabeth Edgecombe, though it is a while since I was researching. I was sent a huge family tree that had been researched by Peter Trist, and Australian. I believe that it is through the link with the Edgecome family that my ancestors moved to Cawsand in the parish of Rame. My Grandmother knew that there was a family link to Cawsand, but she knew little more. She lived in London and bought a cottage in Cawsand which they did up and eventually retired to. It happens to be right opposite the house where her great grandmother, Mary Trist lived by sheer coincidence! We still have the cottage and all my childhood holidays were spent there.
The first Devon recorded Trist that I have is John Trist c. 1469. The name of his wife is unknown, but they had two sons, William and Richard. My line is from Richard (b.1498 in Diptford, D. 1571 in Aveton Gifford). My line moves down to Cornwall Richard Trist (b.1753 in Diptford) who marries Margaret Williams in Rame.The Edgecombe estate borders Cawsand and the family were always very philanthropic to the village.
I am actually living in Singapore at the moment, but go back to England in April 2017. I have flown between the two places a great deal though over the last 4 years and not all my research is in one place.
There is a historian who has lots of Trist family papers who lives in Harberton and I will plan a visit next year.

Is it ok to post an email address?

Best wishes,
Clare

I have visited some houses connected to the Trist family in the South Brent area

I am a descendant of Helen Florence Lyne. She was not illegitimate. I have her parents' marriage certificate.
Her father was Alfred Edwin Lyne, also known as Stock. Her mother was Mary Trist. Alfred signed up to The Navy under the surname Stock, but married under the name of Lyne. She are not sure why he uses two names, but it adds complexity to the search and may have been dos mother's maiden name with an estrangement from his family(?). He does return yo England in 1871 and makes a will, but returns to sea. I find him in ships' census in various places, but poor Mary was left in relative poverty, living with her sister in Cawsand (parish of Rame) and eventually moving up to London. Helen Florence married Henry John Fane Preedy and spent much of her life in India, so Helen Florence had an interesting life. These people are my direct grandparental ancestors.
My grandmother bought a cottage in Cornwall actually in Cawsand, knowing there was a bit of a family connection. She told me that her great grandfather went to sea and never came back. She liked to think he was a pirate and we gently smiled. The story, however is correct, though Alfred Edwin was not a pirate. Though if he is the same man who marries in Hull twenty or so years late( I have a copy of the certificate) then he was certainly a cad. We still have the cottage. It turns out to be opposite the house that Mary Trist was brought up in. The Trists were an important Devon family, being the biggest land holders in the county at one time. They had too many sons though!