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Cornwall / Re: Trengoffe manor Warleggan
« on: Sunday 03 November 19 06:43 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,
I'm not sure if my email came through to you?  I sent a PM but haven't heard back yet, I'm not sure if I've posted enough for it to go through...
Thanks,
Tamara

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Cornwall / Re: Trengoffe manor Warleggan
« on: Thursday 17 October 19 00:40 BST (UK)  »
Hello! 

I would dearly love any photographs or information on the Manor that you may have.  I have an old exterior photograph of it before it was demolished and that is all.  An interior photograph would be amazing! 

My ancestors story is an interesting one, and I haven't finished digging around yet so I hope to find out more about his life eventually.  His name was Subrata and he was from India.  He came out to England with George Gooch, who was apparently a Captain for the East India Trading Company according to family notes made in the 1920's but I haven't found any evidence yet of this.  (There was a George Gooch who was a Captain in the records but he lived longer than this George, so perhaps he operated privately with them..)

George was travelling to visit an Uncle when he died suddenly at Wakefield in 1788.  Not too long after this Subrata shows up being baptised at the Church by Mary Gooch's second husband Francis Cole in 1789. 

Subrata took on the surname of 'Trengoffe' and very likely was sent to George's sister Mary after George's death, living at Trengoffe Manor.  Subrata ended up marrying a Cornish lady and having two children.  Only one of them survived infancy, my ancestor Mary Ann, who later changed her surname to 'Trengo' as did her mother who remarried in Cornwall in 1802.  Subrata disappears from the records after Mary Ann's baptism in 1795.  I have no idea if he died or if he left and went back to India. 

Any photographs or information on Trengoffe would be wonderful, it featured so significantly in the life of Subrata, it would be very special to know more about the place that would have been his home for a while.

Thank you,
Tamara

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Other Countries / Western India male name advice
« on: Wednesday 16 October 19 08:11 BST (UK)  »
Hello everyone,
My ancestor was from India.  I've recently had the DNA test done which has linked me to a 4th cousin descended from the same man.  Their ancestry shows a location of Western/Central India and mine a more general India and surrounds result.  I'm presuming that it is likely then that he came from Western/Central and that this cousin had a closer result with the DNA than mine.  I was hoping that someone out there might be from Western India (the Gujarat/Ahmedabad/Suca region) and might be able to tell me what my ancestors name actually was?  I'm asking because it was spelt a few different ways, Subrata, Sobaretta etc and would love to know what the actual name was and perhaps even a meaning!  He lived in the late 1700s and I believe came out to England with a captain in the East India Trading co.  Thanks, Tam

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1592 handwriting help please
« on: Tuesday 08 October 19 21:48 BST (UK)  »
Thank you!  Wow I never would have picked that from looking at it!  Really appreciate your help

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / 1592 handwriting help please
« on: Tuesday 08 October 19 04:49 BST (UK)  »
Hello, I was wondering please if anyone could shed any light on what is written after the name in this burial record? He was an adult so I wouldn't expect to see a 'son of' and his family held some status in the village so perhaps it is something to do with that...It is the entry for Richard Austen in 1592, the second one down.  Thank you

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Kent / Re: Was she a widow?
« on: Tuesday 01 October 19 03:34 BST (UK)  »
Hi everyone,
Just wondering Matt if there has been an update on this?  I too am really interested in determining who Agnes's mother was and if Margaret was nee Wraith or Naishe?  Agnes was my ancestor through Valentine her son.  Thanks,
Tamara

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Kent / Re: The Sheafe family of Wye
« on: Monday 30 September 19 06:21 BST (UK)  »
Hi everyone : )

I think I just lost the message I spent the last half an hour typing out but here goes again! (Hopefully you don't end up seeing two messages from me!)

My ancestor was Agnes Austin who married Thomas Nott at Adisham in 1591.  There is no baptism for her at Adisham but I believe that she was likely Ann Austin daughter of Valentine and his wife Margaret Solye/Solley who were married in Adisham also.  I'd love to know what you think of that?

Valentine left a will which mentions his 4 daughters: Ann, Bennett, Margaret and Alice.  He also mentions his son's and his son in law Thomas Nott (and Thomas's daughters Margaret and Mary).  Ann was baptised in 1573 and Alice in 1578.  If Agnes was Ann she would have been about 18 when she married in 1591, but if she was Alice she would have only been about 13.  So I'm thinking that Agnes was Ann.....

I don't know much about the family but they certainly sound like they have left their mark on the records (wills, court cases etc)!  I would love anything anyone could pass on.  I'd love to learn more about them and their lives back then in this fascinating period of history.

I believe that Valentine was the son of Richard Austen and Agnes Denne?  I did read recently about the involvement of Richard and his brothers Thomas and John in the eventual arrest of the poor protestant vicar John Bland who ended up being Martyred during the reign of Queen Mary. 

Apparently the Austen family were staunch Catholics.  I wonder if there was an Abbey nearby before the dissolution?  If so they were bound to have been quite involved in it you would think...although Canterbury wasn't all that far from Adisham.

The other interesting thing I discovered online was a will left by a man named Thomas Swafford.  He mentions his daughter Elizabeth and that she will receive less of an inheritance if she marries a man named Stephen Solly.  This Thomas Swafford owed Alexander Deveson of Staple (Physician) over 800 pounds for medical treatment!  He must have been very ill. 

The unfortunate Stephen Solly was the cousin of my Agnes Austen and another connection was that Alexander Deveson's brother John Deveson married Agnes Austen and Thomas Nott's daughter Ann Nott.  Ann Nott was my direct ancestor : )

Tam (Australia)

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