nicholls - Cotton`s of the Penzance area of Cornwal

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NICHOLLS
FAMILY
of
GULVAL PARISH
CORNWALL, ENGLAND
(Note: births, marriages and burials in Gulval parish unless otherwise stated. Burials indicated with a ‘b’.
Minor differences in some dates from various sources have not been emphasised. Individuals crossreferenced by page number where possible. References to St Just are for St Just in Penwith.)
Latest amendment: 8th December 2008 (previously 28th April 2008)
[File name: Nicholls_Tree18]
Warren Duff, 201 William Street, Granville, NSW 2142, Australia
With grateful assistance of June Nicholls, 2 Stephanie Drive, Morayfield, QLD, 4506, Australia
Dedicated to my Grandmother Rhoda Malvina Nicholls
The surname ‘Nicholls’ is Norman and comes from name ‘Nicholas, meaning ‘Victory’s people’
as the Normans once were. Probably first originated as a nickname.
“When human beings have lived together for a long time under similar conditions (of climate,
soil, danger, needs, work), there arises from this a group who ‘understand each other’, a people.
In every soul within this group an equivalent number of frequently recurring experiences has
gained the upper hand. It is on the basis of these that people understand each other, quickly and
ever more quickly. It is on the basis of this quick understanding that they unite together, closely
and ever more closely.”
From “Beyond Good and Evil” by Friedrich Nietzsche
Domesday Book, folio 120d, chapter 2, paragraph 10 – Translation: [Archdeacon] Roland holds
Gulval [Landicle] from the Bishop; In the time of King Edward [before 1066] it paid taxes for 1
hide [120 acres]; 1 ½ hides there however. Land for 12 ploughs [requiring, perhaps, 8 oxen
each]; in lordship 1 plough; 3 slaves; 13 villagers and 4 smallholders with 3 ploughs. Meadow 2
acres, Pasture 2 leagues long and 1 league wide. Value formerly, and now £3. Exon Domesday
adds that 1 virgate [30 acres] was held by the lord, 1 hide 3 virgates by the villagers and that there
were “1 cob [horse]; 3 cows; 30 sheep”. The sum of the parts makes two hides so perhaps Exon
overestimates the villagers share.
Gulval Parish Area:
4355 acres.
Population:
1801 – 1076; 1811 – 1224; 1821 – 1353; 1841 – 1941; 1851 – 1859; 1861 –
1743; 1871 – 1668; 1881 – 1623; 1891 – 1476; 1901 – 1476; 1911 – 1332; 1921 – 1292; 1931 –
1223; 1981 – 770; 1991 – 1055; 1998 – 1290
Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 – “Gulval, a parish in the hundred of Penwith
county of Cornwall, 1 ½ miles NE from Penzance, containing 1353 inhabitants. The church is
dedicated to St Gulwal. There is a spring called Gulfwell, or the Hebrew brook, which is held in
great veneration by the superstitious. Several tin mines have been worked in the northern part of
the parish, but being in an exhausted state, they are now almost relinguished.”
Variants of Nicholls name: Nichols, Nicholl, Nickhals, Nickolls, Nechols, Niccholl, Nicoll,
Nicklells, Nicols, Nicolls.
Variants of Nicholas name: Nicholes, Nichlis, Nichles, Niclas, Nickles, Nickless, & Nicklis.
Census dates: June 7th 1841, March 31st 1851, April 8th 1861, April 3rd 1871, April 4th 1881, &
April 6th 1891.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ANDREW NICHOLL(S) M. MARY CIRCA 1595...................................................................................... 7
RICHARDUS (RICHARD) NICHOLL(S) M. JOANNA LAKE** 25/4/1619.................................................. 8
EDWARDUS (EDWARD) NICHOLL(S) M. GARTRIDA MORRISH 25/6/1626 ........................................... 9
JOHANNES (JOHN) NICHOLL(S) M. MARGERITA HARVIE 13/10/1627.............................................. 10
JOHANNES (JOHN) NICHOLLS M. ELIZABETH DONITHORNE 17/11/1639......................................... 11
LOCRIN NICHOLS/NICKOLLS M. ELIZABETH** CIRCA 1650* ........................................................... 12
JOHN NICHOLLS
M. ANNE [BENNETT?] CIRCA 1652* ...................................................................... 13
WILLIAM NICHOLLS M. JANE CIRCA 1652* ...................................................................................... 14
ALEXANDER NICKLELLS/NICHOLLS* M. JONE BANT 10/2/1657....................................................... 15
JOHN NICHOLLS (JUNIOR) M. MARGARET TREMBATH 20/1/1665 ..................................................... 16
RICHARD NICHOLLS M. AME MOORISH**** 28/10/1665.................................................................. 17
SAMPSON NICHOLLS* M. BLANCHE RAWE/ROWE 17/11/1665 ......................................................... 19
HENRY NICHOLLS* M. MARGERY DONITHORNE CIRCA 1666 .......................................................... 20
CIPRIAN NICHOLLS M. MARGARETT CISSELL 23/4/1666.................................................................. 21
HUGH NICHOLLS M. ELIZABETH* CIRCA 1668 ................................................................................. 22
GREGORY NICHOLLS*
M. ANE DONITHORNE 28/11/1673 ................................................................ 23
ROGER NICHOLLS M. ELIZEBETH LAWRY 5/10/1678........................................................................ 23
PAUL NICHOLS/NICHOLLS* M. FLORANCE RUNDELL 5/8/1682 LUDGVAN ....................................... 24
ANDREW NICHOLLS M. JANE COWLES 16/1/1686............................................................................ 25
BARTHOLOMEW NICHOLLS* M. PHILLIPA JASPER** 17/4/1686 ....................................................... 26
ISAC/ISAAC NICHOLLS
M. MARY* CIRCA 1692 ................................................................................ 26
JOHN NICHOLLS*
M. MARY MICHELL** 3/4/1695 .......................................................................... 27
ROGER NICHOLLS (JUNIOR) / SARAH WILLIAMS 1695 ...................................................................... 28
RICHARD NICHOLLS M. JOAN NECHOLS 24/4/1701 ......................................................................... 29
JOHN NICHOLLS M. BATHSHEBA OLIVEY 23/10/1705 ...................................................................... 31
RICHARD NECHOLS/NICHOLLS M. JOAN BONE 6/11/1706 ................................................................ 33
RICHARD NICHOLLS* M. JANE CURGENVEN CIRCA 1715 (UNY LELANT?)....................................... 34
LOCRINE NICHOLLS* M. SICILY SAMPSON 11/4/1716 LUDGVAN ...................................................... 37
JOHN NECHOLLS/NICHOLLS*
M. KATHERINE GILES 26/3/1722 MADRON ...................................... 38
RICHARD NICHOLLS/NICKOLS M. MARGERY NICOLAS* 15/1/1728 ................................................ 39
SCIPIO/SEMPRONE NICHOLLS* M. MARGARET HARVEY 26/4/1732.................................................. 39
JOHN NICHOLL/NICHOLLS* M. MARY REED** 25/4/1733................................................................ 40
HENRY NICHOLLS M. ANNE LEGGOE* 1/11/1733 MADRON .............................................................. 41
HUGH NICHOLLS M. MARY ELLIS* 20/4/1734 ................................................................................. 44
THOMAS NICHOLLS*
M. SARAH CIRCA 1738................................................................................... 45
RICHARD NICHOLLS (BELOW) M.1 TAMESIN HARVEY 29/9/1740...................................................... 46
RICHARD NICHOLLS (ABOVE) M.2 SARAH TREWREN/TRUREN 14/1/1758........................................ 48
STEPHEN NICHOLLS (BELOW) M.1 JOAN GEORGE 13/11/1751 LUDGVAN ........................................ 49
STEPHEN NICHOLLS (ABOVE) M.2 HANNAH EDDY 8/1/1771 MADRON ............................................. 49
JOHN NICHOLLS* / MARY ROBERTS 1754........................................................................................ 50
JOHN NICHOLLS
M. ANNE JASPER 27/7/1754 PAUL ......................................................................... 50
ANDREW NICHOLLS M. ANNE ROBERTS 9/7/1758............................................................................ 53
RICHARD NICHOLLS M. ANNE DAVY 22/8/1760 MADRON ................................................................ 55
RICHARD NICHOLLS M. ANNE NICHOLLS 18/10/1760 ...................................................................... 56
JOHN NICHOLLS M. MARY DAVY 9/5/1763 LUDGVAN ...................................................................... 58
THOMAS NICHOLLS (BELOW) M.1 ALICE PEARCE 6/6/1763 (BY LICENCE*) .................................... 59
THOMAS NICHOLLS (ABOVE/BELOW?) / ANNE JENKINS 1771........................................................... 59
THOMAS NICHOLLS (ABOVE) M.2 PHILLIS HODGE* 27/12/1771 (BY LICENCE) ............................... 60
WILLIAM NICHOLLS M. BLANCH BODY 2/2/1764 ............................................................................. 62
JOHN NICHOLLS
M. GRACE RICHARDS 9/1/1765 MADRON .............................................................. 63
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ANDREW NICHOLLS M. CHRISTIAN RICHARDS* 19/2/1765............................................................... 65
HENRY NICHOLLS/NICKLES* M. MARY CIRCA 1765 IRELAND ......................................................... 68
STEPHEN NICHOLLS M. ELISABETH COOK 8/12/1766 BODMIN......................................................... 69
THOMAS NICHOLLS (BELOW) M.1 BLANCH COCK 20/1/1770 ........................................................... 70
THOMAS NICHOLLS (ABOVE) M.2 MARY NICKLESS 20/2/1797 ......................................................... 71
SAMUEL NICHOLLS M. FRANCES QUICK* 29/1/1770 MADRON ......................................................... 72
THOMAS NICHOLLS M. ELISABETH EDWARDS 5/2/1770 UNY LELANT.............................................. 74
JOHN NICHOLS* M. MARGARET CONEY 28/8/1770 MADRON ........................................................... 74
HENRY NICHOLLS M. MARGERY WALLISH 13/2/1776 MADRON ....................................................... 75
RICHARD NICHOLLS (BELOW) M.1 MARGARET EDWARDS 5/2/1776 TOWEDNACK .......................... 78
RICHARD NICHOLLS (ABOVE) M.2 ELIZABETH TUCKFIELD* 29/12/1785 (BY LICENCE) .................. 78
EDMUND NICHOLLS* M. ELIZABETH HOOKER** 9/5/1782............................................................... 79
CYPRIAN NICHOLLS (BELOW) M.1 CATHARINE KEMP 15/2/1783 MADRON...................................... 80
CYPRIAN NICHOLLS (ABOVE) M.2 JANE DENNIS 10/2/1821 MADRON .............................................. 81
ANDREW NICHOLLS M. ELIZABETH LOREY/LAWRY 1/1/1791........................................................... 82
RICHARD NICHOLLS (BELOW) M.1 ELISABETH PEARCE 29/10/1791 MADRON ................................. 83
RICHARD NICHOLLS (ABOVE) M.2 ANN THOMAS 24/4/1800 LUDGVAN ............................................ 83
JOHN NICHOLLS
M. GRACE BASSETT 6/8/1792 MADRON ................................................................ 84
THOMAS NICHOLLS M. ELIZABETH TREDREA 10/4/1795.................................................................. 85
THOMAS NICHOLLS M. THOMASIN ROACH 24/6/1795 TOWEDNACK ................................................ 86
JOHN NICHOLLS
M. GRACE BAYNARD* 25/9/1795 MADRON ........................................................... 87
JOHN NICHOLLS M. ELIZABETH (BETTY) TUCKER 7/1/1796 ............................................................ 88
HENRY NICHOLLS M. MARY SIMONS 22/1/1796 ............................................................................... 89
HENRY NICHOLLS (ABOVE) / JANE SYMONS 1822 ............................................................................. 90
ANDREW NICHOLLS M. ANNE BRUSH* 26/2/1796............................................................................. 91
CYPRIAN NICHOLLS M. JANE PERRY 28/4/1796 MADRON............................................................... 93
PETER NICHOLLS M. ANN STRATTON 26/3/1798 UNY LELANT ........................................................ 94
RICHARD NICHOLLS M. MARY BILSBOROUGH* 24/10/1798 (BY LICENCE)....................................... 95
STEPHEN NICHOLLS M. GRACE VINGOE 31/1/1800 .......................................................................... 96
HENRY NICHOLLS
M. ANNE MURISH 14/2/1800 MADRON ............................................................ 100
RICHARD NICHOLLS M. ELIZABETH CHRISTOPHER 8/8/1801 ZENNOR........................................... 102
HENRY NICHOLLS M. MARGARET MANN 19/6/1802 MORVAH ....................................................... 105
FRANCIS NICHOLLS M. GRACE HOSKING 9/10/1802 ....................................................................... 107
STEPHEN NICHOLLS M. CHRISTIANA CHELLEW 21/1/1804 LUDGVAN .......................................... 109
WILLIAM NICHOLLS M. MARY PHILLIPS 28/4/1804 LUDGVAN ...................................................... 111
JOHN NICHOLLS
M. MARY SPASSHATT 20/8/1805 MADRON........................................................ 113
PETER NICHOLLS * M. CHRISTIAN FRIGGENS 29/5/1806 MADRON .............................................. 113
HUGH NICHOLLS M. MARY JAMES 7/9/1806 LUDGVAN .................................................................. 115
HUGH NICHOLLS (ABOVE) /
GRACE HOSKEN 1817 ...................................................................... 117
ANDREW NICHOLLS M. ANN MARTINS* 25/8/1810 ......................................................................... 118
CYPRIAN NICHOLLS M. ANNE WARREN 29/2/1812 SANCREED ...................................................... 119
RICHARD NICHOLLS M. MARY ELLIS 30/6/1818 MADRON ............................................................. 121
WILLIAM NICHOLLS M. JANE JELBART 15/5/1819 ST JUST ............................................................ 122
CYPRIAN NICHOLLS M. JANE THOMAS 14/4/1821 ST HILARY ........................................................ 124
THOMAS NICHOLLS M. ANN COCK 9/11/1822 MADRON................................................................. 126
JOHN NICHOLLS M. MARY TROON 26/1/1824 ST HILARY .............................................................. 127
JOHN NICHOLLS M. ELIZABETH HARRIS 29/4/1824 LUDGVAN ....................................................... 129
RICHARD NICHOLLS M. JANE BETTY 5/4//1824 MADRON ............................................................... 131
ANDREW NICHOLLS M. MARY PROWSE 17/6/1824.......................................................................... 132
WILLIAM NICHOLLS M. HONOR TREGLOAN 22/5/1825 MADRON .................................................. 134
JOHN NICHOLLS
M. JANE WALLIS 1/10/1825................................................................................. 134
HENRY NICHOLLS
M. MARY HALL 15/8/1825 MADRON ................................................................ 136
CHRISTOPHER NICHOLLS M. CHRISTIANA NICHOLAS 5/8/1826 ST JUST ...................................... 138
RICHARD NICHOLLS M. ANN MATTHEWS 4/12/1826 MADRON....................................................... 139
THOMAS NICHOLLS M. SALLY CORL LAVERS* 21/10/1827 ST ERTH ............................................. 141
FRANCIS NICHOLLS M. SARAH LANYON 1/12/1827 MADRON .......................................................... 142
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STEPHEN NICHOLLS M. JANE COCK 8/3/1828 ................................................................................ 143
RICHARD NICHOLLS M. MARY REYNOLDS 20/9/1828 MADRON ..................................................... 145
JOHN NICHOLLS M. ELIZABETH MARKS 5/12/1829 MADRON......................................................... 146
HENRY NICHOLLS
M. MARY NICHOLLS 19/6/1830 ........................................................................ 147
HENRY NICHOLLS* M. ELIZABETH TREMBATH 12/11/1831 ST LEVAN .......................................... 149
HENRY JAMES NICHOLLS M. ELIZABETH DANIEL 14/11/1831 ........................................................ 150
RICHARD NICHOLLS (BELOW) M.1 MARTHA KITTO 22/12/1831.................................................... 152
RICHARD NICHOLLS (ABOVE) M.2 ANN SAMPSON 14/5/1837 GERMOE .......................................... 153
ANDREW NICHOLLS (BELOW) M.1 ANN NICHOLLS 21/6/1832 MADRON ........................................ 155
ANDREW NICHOLLS (ABOVE) M.2 ANN CARBIS 11/10/1842 LUDGVAN ........................................... 156
THOMAS NICHOLLS M. JULIA CIRCA 1833 ...................................................................................... 158
ABRAHAM NICHOLLS M. SARAH BEAR 9/9/1834 MADRON ............................................................. 159
CYPRIAN NICHOLLS (BELOW) M.1 ELIZABETH BOSENCE 25/10/1834 MADRON ............................. 160
CYPRIAN NICHOLLS (ABOVE) M.2 MARY NICHOLAS PEARCE DEC QRT 1868................................ 160
ANDREW NICHOLLS M. ELIZABETH TROUNSON 17/11/1835 ST HILARY ........................................ 161
FRANCIS NICHOLLS M. MARGARET HOSKINS 6/1/1836 LUDGVAN .................................................. 162
WILLIAM NICHOLLS M. CATHERINE THOMAS 6/2/1836 ST LEVAN ................................................ 163
THOMAS NICHOLLS M. ELIZABETH TREGURTHA 20/2/1836 MADRON ........................................... 165
ANDREW NICHOLLS M. CHARLOTTE NICHOLLS 6/3/1836 .............................................................. 166
RICHARD NICHOLLS* M. BARBARA TREMBATH 9/8/1836 ST LEVAN ............................................. 168
HUGH NICHOLLS M. JANE LAWRY 26/11/1836 LUDGVAN .............................................................. 169
ANDREW NICHOLLS M. WILMOT OSBORNE 24/3/1837 GWINEAR ................................................... 170
THOMAS NICHOLLS (BELOW) M.1 SARAH GRENFELL 8/4/1837 ST JUST ......................................... 172
THOMAS NICHOLLS (ABOVE) M.2 JANE GRENFELL 11/12/1843 PENZANCE ................................... 172
THOMAS NICHOLLS M. GRACE NICHOLLS CADDY 9/12/1837 LUDGVAN ........................................ 174
JAMES NICHOLLS (BELOW) M.1 SUSANNAH GRIBBLE 10/2/1838 ..................................................... 175
JAMES NICHOLLS (ABOVE) M.2 ELIZABETH WHITE 24/1/1846 LUDGVAN ...................................... 175
JOHN NICHOLLS (BELOW) M.1 MARY ANN QUICK 3/11/1838.......................................................... 177
JOHN NICHOLLS (ABOVE) M.2 JANE CARY BLEWETT DEC QRT 1869 PENZANCE........................... 179
JOHN NICHOLLS M. HANNAH THOMAS 26/9/1840 ZENNOR ............................................................ 180
FRANCIS NICHOLLS M. ELIZABETH RODDA 6/12/1840 MADRON .................................................... 182
ANDREW NICHOLLS (BELOW) M.1 ELIZABETH SIMS 17/1/1841....................................................... 184
ANDREW NICHOLLS (ABOVE) M.2 ELIZABETH ANN BOTTRELL MARCH QRT 1873 ...................... 185
RICHARD NICHOLLS M. MARY ANN BLIGHT STONE 5/2/1842......................................................... 186
WILLIAM HENRY NICHOLLS M. MARY WEARNE NANKERVIS 30/3/1843 ST JUST......................... 189
CYPRIAN NICHOLLS M. MARY EDDY 22/1/1844 SANCREED............................................................ 190
WILLIAM NICHOLLS M. ELIZABETH WARREN 15/4/1844 LUDGVAN ............................................... 192
JOHN NICHOLLS M. FRANCES NEWTON 15/10/1844 LUDGVAN ....................................................... 193
HENRY NICHOLLS M. TABITHA JENKYNS 21/10/1844 ST IVES........................................................ 194
RICHARD NICHOLLS M. CELIA REYNOLDS 28/10/1844 SANCREED ................................................. 195
JOHN ELLIS NICHOLLS M. MATILDA JACCA 23/7/1845 PAUL......................................................... 196
LOAMI CHELLEW NICHOLLS (BELOW) M.1 ANN CIRCA 1845 SANCREED? ..................................... 197
LOAMI CHELLEW NICHOLLS (ABOVE) M.2 ELIZABETH FRIGGENS 8/12/1874 ................................ 197
FRANCIS NICHOLLS M. MIRANDA SULLIVAN 25/10/1845 PERRANUTHNOE .................................... 198
RICHARD NICHOLLS M. VICTORIA KELYNACK 27/5/1849 PAUL .................................................... 199
WILLIAM NICHOLLS M. ELIZA UREN BLEE 8/9/1849 PHILLACK ................................................... 200
JOHN COCK NICHOLLS M. MARY JAMES 31/8/1850 LUDGVAN ...................................................... 200
JOHN NICHOLLS
M. JANE POLMEAR 3/4/1851................................................................................ 201
HENRY NICHOLLS M. PHILLIS CHAPPELL 11/10/1851 .................................................................... 202
ANDREW NICHOLLS M. ELIZABETH CURNOW 20/11/1852 ............................................................. 204
WILLIAM HENRY NICHOLLS M. JOHANNA TREGEAR 4/12/1852 MADRON ..................................... 206
WILLIAM NICHOLLS M. CATHERINE CIRCA 1853........................................................................... 207
JOHN NICHOLLS
M. ELIZABETH WILLIAMS CIRCA 1853................................................................ 208
RICHARD NICHOLLS M. MARY PEARCE SAMPSON 13/1/1853 PENZANCE ....................................... 209
HENRY NICHOLLS M. CHARITY CHRISTOPHER 11/3/1854 ZENNOR ............................................... 210
ANDREW NICHOLLS M. MARY ANN LAWRY 14/8/1854 GULVAL CHAPEL ...................................... 213
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RICHARD NICHOLLS M. MARY THOMAS 19/11/1854 ZENNOR ........................................................ 215
EDWARD NICHOLLS/GRIBBLE M. MARY ANN SYMONS 10/1/1855 .................................................. 216
RICHARD NICHOLLS M. JANE RICHARDS CURNOW 21/4/1855 ........................................................ 219
JOSEPH NICHOLLS (BELOW) M.1 MARY DEC QRT 1855 ................................................................. 220
JOSEPH NICHOLLS (ABOVE) M.2 SARAH PEARCE SEPT QRT 1876 .................................................. 220
JOHN NICHOLLS
M. MARY ANN HALL 14/6/1856 ........................................................................... 221
STEPHEN NICHOLLS M. CATHERINE BRUSH 30/6/1857 ................................................................... 223
JAMES NICHOLLS M. MARY JANE LOVE 3/10/1857 MADRON.......................................................... 225
RICHARD NICHOLLS M. JANE GLASSON GILES 8/5/1858 PAUL...................................................... 226
ANDREW NICHOLLS M. ANN PEARCE MARTIN 4/9/1858 LUDGVAN ............................................... 227
SAMPSON PENDER NICHOLLS M. ELIZABETH ELLIS 2/6/1859 ST IVES ........................................... 228
HUGH NICHOLLS M. MARTHA PENBERTHY 22/4/1860 LUDGVAN................................................... 229
WILLIAM NICHOLLS M. NANNIE PROWSE 13/10/1860 .................................................................... 231
FRANCIS NICHOLLS M. MIRIAM ELLIS FLOYD 10/12/1860 PERRANUTHNOE.................................. 232
HENRY NICHOLLS M. MARYANN ROWE 9/3/1861 TOWEDNACK ..................................................... 234
WILLIAM HENRY NICHOLLS M. MARY ROBERTS 4/5/1862 MADRON ............................................. 235
WILLIAM NICHOLLS M. HONOR CURNOW DEC QRT 1862 .............................................................. 237
ANDREW NICHOLLS M. CHARLOTTE HAWKE LEVERS DEC QRT 1863 BODMIN ............................. 238
HUGH NICHOLLS M. ELIZABETH WILLIAMS 12/11/1864 ................................................................ 239
NICHOLAS THOMAS NICHOLLS M. MARY ANN JENKIN 26/11/1864 MADRON ................................ 240
WILLIAM SIMS NICHOLLS M. SARAH ANN VINGOE 31/12/1864 PENZANCE.................................... 241
RICHARD NICHOLLS M. MARY WILLIAMS MARCH QRT 1867 ........................................................ 242
JOHN NICHOLLS M.1 ELIZA JANE WRIGHT 24/11/1869 PAUL ....................................................... 243
JOHN NICHOLLS M.2 JESSIE R. HAWKE CIRCA 1880...................................................................... 243
WILLIAM NICHOLLS M.1 CHARLOTTE MATTHEWS ANDREW* 28/3/1870 SITHNEY .......................... 244
WILLIAM NICHOLLS (ABOVE) M.2 ELIZABETH PIPER 14/6/1884 PLYMOUTH ................................ 245
HENRY NICHOLLS M. NANNY MICHELL 28/11/1872 LUDGVAN ....................................................... 247
JOHN NICHOLLS M. ELLEN WILLIAMS 22/3/1873 ........................................................................... 247
RICHARD NICHOLLS M. MARGARET WOOLCOCK FRIGGENS 1/5/1875........................................... 248
ANDREW NICHOLLS (BELOW) M.1 EMMA JANE GILBERT 1/1/1876 ................................................ 249
ANDREW NICHOLLS (ABOVE) M.2 ELIZA GILBERT MARCH QRT 1881 ........................................... 249
SAMUEL NICHOLLS M. MARY ANN MANN JUN QRT 1881 ............................................................... 250
JOHN NICHOLLS* M. ELIZA ANN JELBERT 25/12/1895 PENZANCE ................................................. 252
JOHN FRANCIS NICHOLLS M. CAROLINE ADA QUELCH 30/7/1893 TILEHURST ............................. 254
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Andrew Nicholl(s) m.
Mary
circa 1595
c. Circa 1569 of Gulval [IGI ref.]
c. circa 1573 of Gulval [IGI ref.]
or c. 6/6/1571 Sancreed (father: John)
b. 9/2/1625 (‘Nicholl’)
b. 26/12/1626 (‘Nicoll’)
(Died Carfury)
(Died Carfury – ‘Widow’)
Richardus
Edwardus
Johes
(Richard)
(Edward ‘Nicholls’)
(John ‘dicti Nichols’)
c. Prior to 1598
b. 28/3/1628
c. 4/10/1601
b. 22/6/1671
c. 4/10/1601
b. 8/8/1674
m. 25/4/1619
(Gulval)
Joanna
Lake (p8)
m. 25/6/1626
(Gulval)
Gartrida
Morrish (p9)
m. 13/10/1627
(Gulval)
Margerita
Harvie (p10)
A John Nycholl/Nicholl married Jane Odgers 20/11/1564 at Sancreed, son Andrew Nycholl
baptised 6/6/1571 at Sancreed (no other children recorded on IGI for Sancreed). However the
Nicholls had lived in Gulval parish since earlier times – Thomas Nicoll of Gulval recorded in
Cornwall Tinners Roll [year unknown but most likely 1520’s to 1530’s] and Thomas [son of] John
Nicoll recorded in Gulval Landowners Roll of 1522.
From the Henry VIII Subsidies 1524 there is a William Nicoll of Madron with goods worth £10,
and in 1543 John Nycoll of Ludgvan had goods worth £2 and Ralph [son of] John Nicoll of
Madron had goods worth £3 (however no relevant entries for Gulval). Sancreed entries 1524 give
a John Nicoll with goods worth £4, however no Nicoll entries in 1543.
Possible link with Nicholls/Nicholas of Ludgvan – Will probates for John Nicholls 1572 (recorded
but no longer exists), Henry Nicholls 1588 (recorded but no longer exists), William Nicholas
(alias Trevorrow) 1604, Nicholas Trevorrow 1606 and John Nicholls 1608 (Wills inconclusive for
linkage with Gulval). Gulval church registers for baptisms commence 1598.
Note: From the 16th century there lived at Carfury the Clemowe family that had the alias of
‘Carfury’ due to them living there.
Manor Survey of Trezula & Mulfra 1607:
“Carvery [Carfury] – Andrew Nichol, Mary his wife and Richard their son holdeth for other lives
by grant of Nicholas Tregodeck Esq and Grace his wife. Rent 4/6d, Heriot 6/8d, Capon 4d. Tenant
4 acres.” [Heriot = a fine, payable upon death, for deceased tenants. Capon = a fattened cockerel.]
Most lands were leased for a term of ‘3 lives’. A ‘fine’ was paid at the commencement of the
lease, amounting generally to from ten to fourteen times the annual value of the land, followed by
a small annual quit-rent. A heriot, commuted to a fixed payment by the mid-18th century, was
payable at the death of each of the ‘3 lives’.
Court Roll Book of Trezela & Mulfra 1629:
“Death of Mary Nicholl, widow, tenant of Carfurye. Heriot 6/8d to [Mr. Ezekiel] Grosse pro parte
[Mr. Thomas] Trefusis.” On 9/6/1621 Nicholas Trefusis of Landue Esq for £420 sells to Ezekiel
Grosse of Rosewarne Esq all the 6th part of various manors including Trezula & Mulfra.
[The sub-manor of Trezela first dated from 1549 was originally a portion of Lanesley manor. On
9/6/1621 Nicholas Trefusis of Landue, Esq., sold for 420 pounds all the sixth part of various
manors including Trezela and Mulfra to Ezekiell Grosse of Rosewarne, Esq.]
Carfury Will (abstract) of Andrew Nicholls dated 19/2/1624: To son Richard one cow; to Mary,
son Richard’s daughter one lamb; rest of goods to wife Mary. Sons John & Edward to be
executors, and witnessed by sons Richard, Edward & John Nicholls (no marks or signatures).
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Inventory dated 24/2/1625 includes: 1 heifer, 1 steer, 3 yearlings, 4 cows, 20 sheep, 1 horse & 1
colt, corn, corn in the ground, pans, crocks, platters, cupboard, chamber vessels, woollen & cloth
linen, pigs, geese, hens, plough, harrow, chains. Goods appraised by John Trevailer & Harry
John.
Richardus (Richard) Nicholl(s)
c. Prior to 1598
m.
Joanna Lake** 25/4/1619
c. circa 1595
(Parents: Andrew/Mary – p7)
(Parents? Thomas Lakes & Joane –
Married Madron 1589)
b. 28/3/1628 (‘Nicoll’)
b.?
(Died Carfury)
Court Roll Book of Trezula & Mulfra 1/4/1629:
“Death of Richard Nicholl – pre [Nicholas] Trefusis; heriot to Grosse 6/8d”
Elizabeth
Maria
Blanche
Johana**
Locrin
(Nicholl)
(Nicoll)
(Nicholl)
(Nicholl)
(Nicoll)
c. 28/5/1620
c. 1/5/1621
c. 2/6/1622
c. 18/10/1624 c. 30/8/1625
b.
b.? 8/3/1688 b. 13/8/1664
(‘Of Carfury’)
b. 25/6/1620 b.
(Nicholl’)
m.? 27/5/1657 m.? 22/4/1640 m. circa 1650
(Redruth)
(Gulval)
(Gulval?)
Degory
Martinus
Elizabeth (p12)
Rowe
Edmond
Johannes* (John)
(Nicoll)
c. 25/6/1627
b.? 28/8/1682
m.? Circa 1652
(Gulval?)
Anne (p13)
* Gulval Church registers incomplete during years 1646 to 1653 due to Civil War (1642-1652)
and aftermath (no marriage entries between 27/4/1646 to 27/11/1653).
** Marriage seemingly correct although Joanna would have been about 15 [girls were allowed to
marry at 12 and boys at 14 and this did not change until the 1930’s]. Marriage register gives her
name as ‘Joanna Nicoll’. Martinus/Martin was buried 11/10/1705 and Johana/Joanna was buried
8/3/1688, both at Gulval. Children of the marriage were Robartus c. 15/9/1644 Gulval (buried
29/9/1654 Gulval) and Hwe (Hugh?) c. 22/7/1659 Gulval. Also a possible son Edward Edmonds
whose son Marten was christened and buried early October 1685.
A Johana Nichlis, daughter of Johnis, was christened at Gulval 30/3/1617. Perhaps she married
Martinus Edmond.
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Edwardus (Edward) Nicholl(s) m. Gartrida Morrish
25/6/1626
c. 4/10/1601
c. 10/6/1604 Madron
(Parents: Jerman Morish**/Morishe & Allic)
b. 22/6/1671
b. 24/11/1657
(‘Edward Nicholls’)
(‘Gartar Nichell’)
Court Roll Book of Trezela & Mulfra 1/4/1629: Supervisors Edward Nicoll & Thomas
Anborne***.
Cornwall Protestation Returns 1641 for Hundred of Penwith – Edward Nicoll of Gulval.
Thomas
Wilius (William)
Radulphus*? (Ralph?) Sampson
(Nicoll)
(Nicoll)
(Nicoll)
(Nicoll)
c. 3/6/1627
b.
c. 19/3/1630
b.
c. 11/5/1636
b.
c. 12/3/1639
b. 5/3/1677
m. Circa 1652
(Gulval?)
Jane (p14)
m. 17/1/1665
(Gulval)
Blanche
Rawe (p19)
Johanna
(Nicholl)
c. 21/8/1642
b.
* Between 1671 and 1689 a Ralph & Beaton Nicoll at St Buryan had the following children:
David, Michall, Elizabeth, Richard, Ralph, Stephen & Tiberia. Surname was variously given as
Nicholas, Nicholl, Nicoll, Nicolls and Nicols. Christian names do not coincide in any way with
Nicholls family in Gulval so assumed that this St Buryan family is unlikely to be related.
** Admon & Inventory of German Morris of Madron 1617 (ref. M302/1,2). German also referred
to as Cornelius. Inventory valued at 33 pounds, 7 shillings. His estate went to Alice Morrish, his
widow. The Inventory of German Morris of Madron 1626 (ref. M458) is presumably the son of
German above.
*** Thomas Anbone married Maria Harrye 14/2/1606 Gulval.
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Johannes (John) Nicholl(s) m.
c. 4/10/1601
Margerita Harvie
c. circa 1605
13/10/1627
(Father: Cornelius**)
b. 8/8/1674
b. 31/10/1680
(‘John Nicholls senior’)
(‘Margery Nicholls, widow’)
Carfury Will (nuncupative abstract) of John Nicholls dated 8/1/1668 (proved 20th September
1674): To Son Hugh £20; to son Ciprian one shilling; son Richard one shilling; rest of goods to
eldest son John, executor. There is no mention of wife but daughter Margaret mentioned.
Witnessed by William Veal & William Harvye [c. 12/2/1609 Gulval, son of Cornwall [Cornelius]
Harvie, married 1628 - Church scribe 1662].
Inventory dated 24/8/1674 includes his wearing apparel & five acres of corn. Goods appraised by
William Veale & William Noye (1616-1675 Madron). Valued at £16/10/Cornwall Protestation Returns 1641 for Hundred of Penwith – John Nicoll of Gulval.
Hearth Tax 1662 – John Nicholls of Gulval for 2 extra hearths (fireplaces)
Maria
Willimus
(Nicoll)
(William Nicoll) (Nicoll))
Maria**
Johannes****
c. 22/3/1629
b. 1/4/1629
c. 18/7/1630 c. 11/12/1631 c. 21/9/1634
b. 2/10/1630 b.
b. 29/9/1704
(‘Nicoll’)
(‘Nicoll’)
(John Nicholl)
m. 20/1/1665
(Gulval)
Margaret
Trembath (p16)
Ciprianus*
Richardus
Hugo
Margarett***
(Ciprian/Cyprian Nicoll) (Richard Nicoll)
(Hugh Nicoll)
c. 10/2/1637
b. 3/5/1698
c. 8/3/1640
b. 5/11/1698
c. 26/11/1643
b. 28/12/1703
c.?
b. 1668+
m. 23/4/1666
(Gulval)
Margaret
Cissell (p21)
m. 28/10/1665
(Gulval)
Ame
Moorish (p17)
m. circa 1668
(Gulval)
Elizabeth
(p22)
m. 26/2/1665
(Phillack)
John
Richards
*Macquarie Dictionary, origin of name of Cyprian: Saint Cyprian, AD 200? - 258, a Bishop of
Carthage, writer, and martyr.
** Will of Cornelius Harvie dated November 1632, proved 1633, bequeaths to his daughter
Margeria one sheep and to his granddaughter Mary Nicholls one sheep (Will and Inventory ref.
H852/1,2). Cornelius was buried 5/12/1632 Gulval.
*** No baptism but ‘daughter Margarett’ mentioned in 1668 Will to receive ‘one ewe’. No
further details known. Possibly error in nuncupative Will or daughter Mary commonly called
Margaret. John Richards buried Gulval 21/3/1711. Margaret buried 1704 or 1723. Children
baptised Gulval: John 11/5/1667, Clare 16/11/1668 & Dorothea 21/34/1672.
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**** On 7th June 1629 Joh’anes, son of Joh’anis Nicoll was baptised at Gulval - no burial prior to
baptism of Johannes, son of Johannis, 21/9/1634 at Gulval. It assumed that 1629 John is son of
John Nicholas and buried 3rd April 1642 at Gulval.
Johannes (John) Nicholls
c.? 27/7/1606 Madron
m.
Elizabeth Donithorne
c. 12/12/1604 Gulval
(Parents? Richard/Elizabeth Nickles)
(Father: Johnis (John))
b. 1660+
b. 1/1/1660
17/11/1639
(‘Elizabeth, wife of John Nickell died’)
Richardus*
Maria**
(Richard Nicholl)
(Nicoll)
c. 24/1/1641
b.? 6/9/1662
c. 23/8/1645
b.? 17/3/1646
(‘Richardus Nichols’)
(‘Maria Nicoll’)
Madron baptism 18/11/1638 – Dyna, base child of Blanch Holla; John Nicholls (above?) reputed
father.
The Will of Margaret Edwards of Sancreed, widow, dated 20/10/1645, admon granted June 1646,
refers to Bondsman John Nicholls of Madron.
* Assumed to be of this marriage rather than that of John & Margaret (previous page) as there is
no burial in Gulval for their son Richard, baptised 8/3/1640.
** Assumed to be of this marriage rather than that of John & Margaret (previous page) as the next
burial of a Maria Nicholls is on 17th March 1646 (after this baptism) and there is no mention of
Maria in the 1668 Will of John (p10).
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Locrin Nichols/Nickolls
m.
Elizabeth** circa 1650*
(Also variously named as Lockrin, Locren & Lockery)
c. 30/8/1625
c. circa 1630
(Parents: Richard/Joanna – p8)
(Parents?)
b. 13/8/1664
b.? 7/7/1697
(‘Lockrin Nickolls’)
(‘Elizabetha Nicols, Widow’)
Roger****
c. Circa 1650
b.? 2/11/1729
Richard*** Ursilla******* Alise*****
c. circa 1652 c. circa 1654 c. 26/12/1654
b. 5/11/1654 b. 13/1/1686 b.
m. 5/10/1678
(Gulval)
Elizabeth
Lawry (p23)
Susanna******
c. 7/4/1661
b.
m.? 23/6/1683 m.? 27/4/1678
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
Thomas
John
Cock
Batten (of Penzance)
Richard
c. 6/3/1664
b.
and aftermath (no marriage entries between 27/4/1646 to 27/11/1653), however marriage may
have occurred elsewhere.
** Wife’s name deduced by process of elimination of Burial Register entries.
*** Burial Register transcription states “Richard Nickhell son of Lockery Nickhell.
**** Parentage deduced from the fact that Roger had a son called Locrinus (a Latin form of
Lockrin), presumably named after Roger’s father.
***** Alise/Alice christened as daughter of ‘Hockrey Mickhell’ according to 1893 transcription.
John Batten baptised 30/1/1652 Paul, son of John.
Children of marriage: John, c. 28/6/1679 Madron, & Nicholas c. 12/2/1682 Gulval.
****** Though to have married Stephen Corno/Curnow (of Gulval) 6/11/1680 however according
to CFHS Journal of September 2001 this Susannah was baptised 21/10/1653 Phillack, daughter of
Jelbart/Gilbert & Barbary/Barbara Nickolls (married 1646).
******* Thomas Cock baptised 6/8/1655 Madron, son of Nicholas. Ursilla’s baptism not
recorded, presumably due to incomplete registers during Civil War. She most probably fits into
the above family – her marriage records her name as ‘Ursilla Nicholls’. Ursilla/Usilla, ‘wife of
Thomas Cock’, was buried Gulval 13/1/1686. A daughter Ane baptised 11/11/1683 at Gulval.
Thomas Cock later married Elizabeth Reed at Gulval 16/10/1690 – he was buried at Gulval
28/12/1692 or 14/4/1722. A son Nicholas baptised 4/12/1692 at Gulval.
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John Nicholls
(Alias Trevello**)
c.? 25/6/1627
m.
Anne [Bennett?]
Circa 1652*
c.? 14/3/1628 Madron
(Parents? Richard/Joanna – p8)
(Father? ‘Base child of Edward Bennett’)
b. 28/8/1682
b. 1682+
(‘John Nicholls, alias Trevello’)
[Madron Church burial entry related to persons connected with the Parish of Madron – ‘John
Nicholls, alias Trevello, at Gulval’.
Children ?
Gulval Admon of John Nicholls dated 31/8/1682 (proved 18/9/1682) with sign of wife Anne
Nicholls of Gulval, William Bennetts of Madron (p27) and Richard Nicholls of Uny Lelant
(brother?). The Nicholls of Gulval interface with the Nicholls of Uny Lelant but the connections
are difficult to determine. In 1662 a Richard Nicholls of Uny Lelant was paying a Hearth Tax.
Inventory appraised 4/9/1682 contained: wearing apparel £1, old house and one stitch of land 10/-,
corn 12/-, cattle £11/10/-, old horse 15/-, cow 15/-, pewter 2/6d, brass £1/13/6, cupboard & table &
frames (chairs?) 6/-, pigs 8/- and forgotten goods 2/-; total value £17/14/-. Appraised by John
Boskinning [of Madron] & John Barnes (p33) [born 1641 Gulval].
(A Lelant Will of John Nicholas alias Trevorow, tinner of Lelant, written 20/7/1682 (proved
22/10/1683) refers to his eldest son John and another son Richard. The Will was witnessed by
James Bennatts senior. Perhaps this is the connection with John above, but unlikely.)
** The alias of Trevello is probably a reference to the place name Trevelloe in the nearby parish of
Paul. It is the only reference to that alias in the Gulval Parish Registers 1598-1812 as well in the
Madron Parish Registers. It is probable that it was not the individual who adopted an alias – it
was the parish clerk attributing it to him. Possibly ‘alias’ here is used to mean ‘of’ or ‘from’ and
was simply a way of identifying an individual from a particular location as many names originated
from where people lived. There are other possible explanations for an alias - the second name
could be that of a stepfather or it could result from an inheritance of property through the female
line. There is however no John Nicholls christened at Paul during the 17th century. Perhaps there
may be a link to the ‘Nicholls alias Treve’ family of Madron (adjoining the parish of Paul).
There were also, at this time, families of Nicholas alias Trevorrow/Trevoro at Ludgvan from the
early 17th century). This Nicholas alias Trevorrow family also existed at Uny Lelant. This would
be in reference to the place-name of Trevorrow in Ludgvan. The surnames coexisted into the
early 18th century and were interchangeable to some extent, e.g. Tobias Nicholas alias Trevorrow,
son of John Nicholas alias Trevorrow, of Uny Lelant married as Tobias Trevorrow on 2/2/1711.
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William Nicholls
c. 19/3/1630
m.
Jane
circa 1652*
c. circa 1630
(Parents: Edward/Gartrida – p9)
(Parents?)
b. 1663+
b. 12/7/1663
(‘Janetta uxor Gulielmi Nichols’)
Jane?**
c. Circa 1652
b.
Elizabeth
c. 30/10/1657
b. 15/5/1706
William***
c. 15/1/1660
b. 6/3/1698 St Just (‘William Nichols’)
m.? 27/2/1677
(Gulval)
Charles
William
m. 30/6/1676
(Gulval)
Robert
Tonkin****
m. 23/8/1684
(St Just)
Grace
(Of St Twin)
(Of Penzance)
** Jane was of Gulval at the time of her marriage. Most likely parents are William & Jane.
*** Children of William & Grace at St Just; Margery Nichols, c 25/11/1689 & Sibella Nichols, c.
3/9/1693. William’s wife Grace [‘Nichols’] was buried St Just 20/10/1698.
**** Robert Tonkin c. 14/3/1646 Paul, son of John, buried Gulval 11/7/1681.
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Alexander Nicklells/Nicholls*
c. Circa 1625
(Parents?)
b. 7/1/1703 (‘Nechols’)
m.
Jone Bant
c. 11/9/1625
10/2/1657
(Parents: Digorii**/Avis [Rawe])
b. 5/4/1701 (‘Joanna Nechols’)
Richard
Andrue (Andrew)
Johannes (John)
Jeremiah
(Nickhells)
(Nickhals)
(Nichols)
(Nicholls)
c. 12/4/1658 c. 6/9/1659
b. 25/1/1661 b. 30/12/1729
c. 23/1/1663
b. 13/1/1664
c. 8/5/1664
b. 26/2/1674
(‘Nichols’)
(‘Nicholls’)
(‘Nicholls’)
m. 16/1/1686
(Gulval)
Jane
Cowles (p25)
Isaac/Isaak
Jone
Alexander
(Nicholls)
(Nicholls)
(Nichols)
c. 3/9/1665
Died 1696
c. 23/3/1668
b.
c. 17/12/1671
b. 17/12/1671
(‘Nichols’)
m. circa 1692
(?)
Mary
? (p26)
m.? 26/10/1690
(Falmouth)
Thomas
Dolbee
* Originally thought to be son of Richard and Joanna (p8) as 1st son Richard and 2nd son Andrew
(named after father and grandfather?). Possibly Alexander c. 6/8/1628 Ludgvan, son of Myhell
(IGI Christian names only index where surname unknown or illegible due to decay or neglect of
Parish register) – probably father is Mychell Nycholl c. 9/11/1597 Ludgvan, son of John, however
marriage not determined.
** Digorius Bant buried 30/3/1641 Gulval.
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John Nicholls (junior)
(Yeoman/tinner)
c. 21/9/1634
m.
Margaret Trembath 20/1/1665
c. circa 1640
(Parents: John/Margaret – p10)
(Father: Richard*)
b. 29/9/1704 (died Carfury)
b. 11/8/1725
(‘Johannes Nechols’)
(‘Margaret Nicolls’)
No children
Gulval Will (abstract) of John Nicholls dated 23/9/1704: mentions wife Margaret, nephews John
and Richard Nicholls (sons of Hugh), John and Cyprian Nicholls (sons of John Nicholls (son of
John’s brother Cyprian of Bosoljack), nephew John Nicholls (son of Richard) of Tredinneck.
Also his sister Margary Richards and her son John, Jane wife of Richard Trembath, god-daughter
Margaret Lukes (p21) wife of Edmond, Marten Rodda [married Margaret Trembath 22/8/1685
Gulval – both buried December 1740] and wife [Margaret] and their daughter Jane [c. 27/9/1685].
There are numerous gifts and conditions. ‘To Richard Nicholls son of Hugh a field in Trythall
called Parke Polfra and adjoining field’ (this land must have passed from Richard who died in
1698 to John above for his use as not mentioned in his Inventory). Will with mark of John
Nicholls (his mark). Witnessed by Thomas Noyes (of Madron), Richard Trembath junior (of
Morvah) and Marten Rodda.
Inventory dated 9/10/1704 includes: wearing apparel, household goods, corn, quick stuff
(probably coins), husbandry implements, chattel estate in Higher Carverry [Carfury], and chattel
estate in Lower Carverry [Carfury]. Goods appraised by John Thomas & William Friggens.
Document dated 11/10/1704 binding John Nicholls (1670-1735), father and guardian of John
Nicholls, to administer the residue of the estate until his son comes of age and acquires ownership.
Signed by Richard Trembath junior (c. 14/1/1661 Morvah) and Thomas Noyes, with mark of John
Nicholls.
John Nicholls junior (above) named as a Churchwarden in August 1664. A James Nicholls junior
was Churchwarden in 1666 - seemingly baptised 14/5/1619 Ludgvan, son of James Nichols.
Survey of Manor of Trezela & Mulfra 1st February 1677:
“Francis Buller Esq leases to John Nicholls of Gulval, tinner, (who hath surrendered a lease 25th
November 1659 granted by Francis Buller Esq, father of said … … to John Cawman all his 1/6th
part of Carfury [John Gawman married Adrun Niclas 4/2/1655 Gulval; John Gawman buried
Gulval 16/11/1712. John Cawman also witness to Will of Lazarus Perrow 1661/2]. Indenture of
Lease at Courtney Library, Truro – ‘under lives of Margaret Nicholls wife of John, John Nicholls
son of Hugh (p22) and Richard Nicholls son of Cyprian (p21) for a period of 99 years’
Lease Trevarrack, Gulval 1/3/1685 for John Nicholls (CRO ref. P77/25/16):
Gulval Charities – Tripconey Trust 3rd Indenture 1st March 1684 (CRO Ref. DDP/17/25/16) [the
1st Indenture is dated 1/6/1636, the 2nd Indenture is dated 20/12/1636]. This 3rd Indenture is
between Christopher Harris (of Kenegie), William Veale (son of Richard Veale, a former Vicar of
Gulval), Edward Witton, William Ginver, John Friggens, John Nicholls, and Henry Philips,
described as “seven of the twelve men of the parish of Gulvall”, on one part. And on the other
part a certain Cornelius Trevayler, a mason of the other part, whereby Thomasina Tripconey
assigns for 1,000 years the income from the house and gardens she occupied in Trevarrack, for the
benefit of the poor of Gulval. Indenture has the mark of Cornelius Trevailer. [From “The Parish
of Gulval past and present” by William Wood, 1956.] Thomasina Tripconey was buried at Gulval
5/3/1661. John Tripconey (Thomasina’s husband) was buried at Gulval 24/6/1631.
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* Will of Richard Trembath of Sancreed (Ref. AP/T/843) dated 15/6/1656 (proved 1656) - his
daughter Margaret to receive the sum of four pounds. Inventory valued at £16/13/4d. Name of
wife is ‘Archant’ or similar name. Small sums allocated to the poor of Sancreed and Morvah.
Other children are John, Benet, William, and Joane. Richard signed Will with an ‘x’. Will was
witnessed by Benet Gibbs and Archant (?) Trembath. Inventory valued by John Cowling &
William Noyes.
Richard Nicholls
m.
Ame Moorish**** 28/10/1665
(Yeoman, named as a Churchwarden in Nov 1671)
c. 8/3/1640
c. circa 1643 (Morvah?)
b. 5/11/1698 (‘Nichols’)
(Father: Thomas/Elizabeth [Noye] ***)
b. 14/3/1704 (‘Amia Nechols’)
Gulval Will (abstract) of Richard Nicholls dated 26/3/1698: To daughter Amy £50 when age 21;
to daughter Jane £50 when age 21; to daughter Mary (Hall) £4; daughter Elizabeth (Hoskin) £4;
son John £4; balance to wife Amy and son John. Daughter Amy to get cow called ‘Amy’s cow’;
daughter Jane to get cow called ‘Jane’s cow’ and one cow to daughter Elizabeth; to his grandson
Thomas Hall ‘one heifer calf of one year old’. There are other bequeaths, as well as conditions.
Ends with the mark of Richard Nicholls; witnessed by George Veale (p21 & p33) and brother
John Nicholls (his mark).
Inventory dated 2/2/1698/9 includes: wearing apparel, household goods & husbandry implements,
quick stuff (probably coins), corn & grain of all sorts, some chattel estates* [value £100], money
due on corn. Overall value £170. Appraised by John Nicholls and John Richards [refer p21 &
below] (with their marks).
Margaret
Mary
Elizebeth
c. 13/5/1666 c. 14/7/1667 c. 31/7/1670
b. 16/5/1666 b. 1712+
b. 1698+
Jane
Jone
c. 20/4/1673 c. 20/6/1675
b. 10/5/1673 b.? 14/5/1735
(‘Nicholls’)
m. circa 1695
(Madron?)
Richard
Hall**
m. 24/2/1697
(Gulval)
Robert
Hoskin
m.? 24/4/1701
(Gulval)
Richard
Nicholls (p29)
(At Madron 1698)(At Madron 1698)
John
c. 17/8/1679
b. 6/1/1712
Amey
Jane
c. 29/7/1683 c. 29/7/1683
b. Prior to 1712 b. 1712+
m. 23/10/1705 m. 21/10/1704
(Gulval)
(Madron)
Bathsheba
Paul
Olivey (p31) Clark
* Indenture of Lease dated 24/3/1695 for property called “Parke Polfra” + meadow containing in
all 5 acres and another ½ acre mentioned in 1716 Indenture of Bathsheba Nicholls (wife of
Richard’s son John). This is presumably some or all of the unrecorded chattel estates mentioned
in the Inventory of Richard Nicholls above.
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Land transfer document DDML301 relates to a lease dated 17th October 1678 records Elizabeth
Nicholls, daughter of Richard Nicholls of Gulval, as one of the lives on a lease of 1/8 part of
Rosemergy, Morvah. Thomas Morrish, yeoman of Morvah, was the lessor. A counterpart
indicated Elizabeth had become the wife of Robert Hosken of Madron. Thomas would appear to
be the brother (not father) of Amy, mother of Elizabeth – based on Will of Thomas Morrish of
Madron, yeoman, dated 11/2/1664/5, of whose Inventory was taken on 10/10/1666 by John
Richards [refer page 21 & above] & Richard Nicholls.
Will of Sampson Morrish of Madron, yeoman, dated 26/9/1712, includes mention of the daughters
of his sister Amey (deceased) – Mary, wife of Richard Hall, yeoman of Madron; Jane Nicholas
(sic), spinster; and his kinsman [nephew] John Clerk [Clark], son of Amey Clerk (deceased).
There is no mention of Amy’s other daughters Jone/Joan & Elizabeth. Sampson Morrish had land
in Boswarthen, Madron, & Rosemergy, Morvah.
NOTE: A Sampson Morrish was baptised 3/2/1667 at Madron, son of Thomas (some years after
his sister Amy) however this may be another Sampson Morrish. The 1691 Will of Margaret
Tayler of Sancreed, widow, has Sampson Morrish of Madron as a trustee/overseer.
** Richard Hall baptised 9/10/1665 Madron, son of Thomas.
*** Elizabeth Noye born Madron 1609, father Sampson.
**** Amy Morrish is a niece of Gartrida Morrish who married Edward Nicholls in 1626 (p9).
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Sampson Nicholls*
c. 12/3/1639
m.
Blanche Rawe/Rowe 17/11/1665
c. 19/2/1640
(Parents: Edward/Gartrida – p9)
(Father: Gulihelmi (William)/Elizabeth [Stoell])
b. 5/3/1677
b. 18/12/1692
Elizabeth
Mary
Jane/Janetta**
c. 8/7/1666
c. 26/4/1668 c. 27/2/1670
b. 24/6/1667 b. 25/2/1670 b.
Elizabetha
c. 3/3/1672
b. 20/3/1709
(‘Elizabetha Simons’)
m. 29/6/1699
(Gulval)
Rawlen
Boas
Honor
c. 9/8/1674
b.
m. 13/2/1700
(Sennen)
John
Simons****
Roger***
c. 14/11/1675
b.? 1695+
* Variously spelt as Nichollas, Nichols & Nicholls
** Gulval baptism 6/10/1700: ‘Sampsonis, filius Rawleni Boas, Gallici [French or the name of a
ship?], natus Oct 1, 1701’. Father referred to as ‘Rawlen Boas, Gallicus,’ for 1699 marriage.
*** Possible illegitimate child, Michael, c. 10/3/1695, son of Sarah Williams, ‘reputed father
Roger Nicholls jnr’ [not necessarily a son of Roger senior - sometimes meaning a younger person
of the same name]. Refer p28. Gulval burial 2/11/1729 most probably that of Roger Nicholls on
page 23.
**** John Simons baptised 6/6/1672 Ludgvan, son of William.
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Henry Nicholls*
c. Circa 1640
m.
(Parents?)
b. Prior to 1680
Margery Donithorne
c. 10/10/1641
circa 1666
(Parents: John (jnr)/Ann [Cannan] – married Gulval 1632)
b. 31/10/1680 (‘Widow’)
Margery
c. 14/6/1668
b.? 13/11/1733 or 15/4/1754
m. 6/6/1691
(Gulval)
John
Thomas**
* Henry Nicolls baptised 30/8/1640 Linkinhorne, son of Richard & Temperance (married 1637
Linkinhorne) - whether same person as above uncertain. Another possibility is that he is the son
of Henry Nickell who married Joan at Ludgvan 19/6/1637 although no baptism found in IGI.
** John Thomas c. 18/9/1664 Gulval & buried 8/12/1705 Gulval. Children of marriage baptised
Gulval – John 1692 (p27), Katherin 1694, Christiana 1697, Margeria 1700 & Anna 1703. Also
refer p32 in regard to indenture of lease for land at Ninnis & Mulfra Vean renegotiated in 1713 to
include the life of Ann Thomas, daughter of John Thomas.
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Ciprian Nicholls
(Yeoman)
c. 10/2/1637
m.
Margarett Cissell
23/4/1666
c. 1/1/1635 Madron
(Parents: Samewell (Samuel) Sissell/Margaret)
b. 3/5/1698
b.? 7/3/1704
(Died Carfury?)
Gulval Admon of 1698 of Cyprian Nicholls refers to sons Richard and John (both yeomen); signed
by Richard Nicholls, John Nicholls and John Pidwell (their marks). [John Pidwell baptised
22/9/1622 Breage, son of Edmund & Katherine.]
Inventory dated 9/5/1698 includes: household goods, stock, one chattel estate called Bossulla
Downe in Madderne (Madron), one chattel estate in Lower Carfury upon one life, his portion of
one chattel estate in Higher Carfury. Appraised by John Nicholls and John Richards [p17] (their
marks).
Declaration of wife Margaret dated 7/5/1698 to the effect that she cedes the right of administration
to her son Richard owing to her age and infirmity. Declaration signed by Margaret Nicholls (her
mark); witnessed by William Veale and George Veale (p17 & p33).
Will of Ralph Morrish of Madron, yeoman, Admin dated 17/4/1667 mentions debts paid to Cipio
(Ciprian) Nicholl (among others) in Admin Accounts.
Will of William Sandry of Gulval 1690 has Cyprian Nicolls and Walter Lanyon as valuers of
Inventory of goods and chattels.
Margaret*
John
Richard
c. 24/3/1667 c. 6/1/1670 c. 22/9/1672
b. 20/10/1699 b.? 23/1/1735 b.14/7/1733
m. 20/4/1696
(St Just)
Edmond
Luke
m. 3/4/1695
(Gulval)
Mary
Michell (p27)
m. 24/4/1701
(Gulval)
Joan
Nechols (p29)
Ane/Anne
c. 8/2/1674
b. 1674/5
Ane/Anne**
c. 12/9/1675
b. 16/4/1731 St Hilary
m. 13/1/1699
(St Hilary)
John
Brea
* Edmond c. 18/12/1669 St Just, son of Francis & Grace. Children of marriage to Margaret,
baptized Gulval: Margareta 18/6/1699 (buried 20/10/1699), Grace 4/10/1700 (born Sept 28th) &
Margareta 1/5/1703 (born April 3rd). Margaret Luke/Lukes is mentioned in the 1704 Will of John
Nicholls (p16).
** John Brea baptised January 1671 St Hilary. Johannes Brey of Madron buried Gulval
14/12/1706, also Johannes Bray of Madron buried 7/2/1711 Gulval.
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Hugh Nicholls
c. 26/11/1643
m.
Elizabeth*
c. circa 1645
circa 1668
(Parents?)
b. 28/12/1703
b.? 27/9/1716
(‘Hugo Nichols’)
(‘Elizabeth Nicklis’)
John**
c. 26/6/1670
b. 1710+
Hugh
Elizabeth
Ambrose
c. 9/3/1673 c. 22/3/1674 c. 29/8/1675
b. 17/3/1673 b.? 1/1/1693 b.
Hugh
c. 29/5/1677
b. 29/5/1677
Richard*** Margaret
Hugh
Scipio****
c. 9/5/1680
c. 31/3/1684 c.?
c. 27/2/1687
b. 18/1/1711 b.
b. 9/11/1691 b.
(Died infancy?)
m. 6/11/1706
(Gulval)
Joan
Bone (p33)
m. 13/5/1711
(Madron)
George
Cony
m. 26/4/1732
(Gulval)
Margaret
Harvey (p39)
* Name deduced by process of elimination of Burial Register entries and family names.
** John received a mare from estate of Uncle John Nicholls in 1704 (p16). John included in one
of three lives of Carfury lease (p16). John Nicholls appraised Inventory of Richard Nicholls in
1710/11 (p33).
*** Richard received field and meadow called ‘Parke Polfra’ at Trythall, Gulval from estate of
Uncle John Nicholls in 1704 (p16).
**** Married as ‘Semprone’ [‘Cyprian?] not Scipio (latinised).
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Gregory Nicholls*
(Of Fellack / Phillack)
c.? 1/12/1632
m.
Ane Donithorne
(Of Gulval)
c.? 4/10/1626
(Father? John)
(Father: William)
b. 14/7/1718
b.
28/11/1673
Christian(a)**
c.?
b. 16/12/1683
* The Nicholls of Phillack are obscure.
Cornwall Muster Roll of 1569 for Phillack mentions Harry Nycoll & William Nycoll.
Phillack Church registers for baptisms may be incomplete during the Civil War (1642-1652) and
its aftermath.
Susannah Nickles of Fellack (c. 2/10/1653 Phillack, daughter of Gelbart Nickolls) married
Stephen Corno/Curnow of Gulval at Gulval 6/11/1680 – relationship to Gregory (above)
unknown.
The Will of John Nicholls of Phillack (c. 22/11/1624 Phillack), yeoman, dated 5/1/1660-1 &
proved 5/2/1660-1, mentions his wife Margery and leaves his son Grigory 6d. A Gregorie
Nycholls, son of John Nycholls, was baptised 1/2/1632 Phillack.
** Christiana, daughter of Gregory, c. 6/5/1666 Gwinear – perhaps a daughter from a previous
marriage.
Roger Nicholls
(Of Gulval)
c. Circa 1650
m.
Elizebeth Lawry
(Of St Just)
c. 27/4/1651 St Just
5/10/1678
(Parents: Locrin/Elizabeth – p12)
(Parents: Brian/Elizabeth)
b.? 2/11/1729
b.? 1/1/1693 or 2/2/1735
Thamsin
c. 4/3/1683
b.
Locrinus
c. 18/9/1687
b. 1719+
Richard*
c. 13/4/1691
b.
m. 25/11/1704
(Ludgvan)
Edward
Nicklis/Nicholas**
m. 11/4/1716
(Ludgvan)
Sicily
Sampson (p37)
* Originally thought to be the Richard of Uny Lelant who married Jane circa 1715 but Indentures
of 1731 & 1732 refer to this Richard as being the son of Richard Nicholls senior of Uny Lelant
(not Roger). Investigation of Lelant parish registers shed no light on the matter. Burial in 1743
could be that of Richard the son of Richard & Margery (p39).
** Edward Nicholas c. 17/2/1683 Madron, father Edward. There is a Will of Edward Nicholas
(senior?) of Ludgvan proved Feb. 1723 - wife’s name is Phillipa.
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Paul Nichols/Nicholls*
c. Circa 1660
m.
Florance Rundell
c. Circa 1660
(Parents?)
(Parents?)
b.
b.
William**
c. 10/3/1683
Katherine*** Honner
c. 14/9/1684 c. 21/2/1685
Jeremiah****
c. 3/4/1687
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Gulval)
b. 1741?
b. 1/9/1729
b. Aug 1686
b.
(Ludgvan)
(Gulval)
(Ludgvan)
m. 4/11/1706
(St Buryan)
Henry
Jose
5/8/1682 Ludgvan
m.? 24/5/1708
(Redruth)
Mary
Harris
* Paul may be another son of Alexander (p15) who had a son called Jeremiah c. 8/5/1664.
** Ludgvan Admon 16/7/1741 was for a William Nicholas who married Anne Tellam at Ludgvan
26/1/1719.
*** Married and buried as ‘Catherine’. Henry Jose baptised 10/9/1677 St Buryan, son of Henry &
Judeth. Henry & Catherine were witnesses to the 1733 Will of Gregory Nicholas of Sancreed,
yeoman. Henry’s sister Katherine/Catherine of St Buryan (c. 24/7/1675) married Francis Richards
(1678-1739), son of John, 4/11/1701 Gulval. Daughter Catherine Richards married David
Edwards at Gulval 2/2/1739 – seemingly related to the Edwards of Boswarthen (p168). Son
Francis Richards married Elizabeth Friggens 6/1/1742 Gulval.
The Will of Gregory Nicholas of Sancreed, yeoman, dated 17/3/1733, proved 1734, was witnessed
by Henry Jose and Catherine Jose.
**** Redruth marriage was for a Jeremiah Nichlus/Nicholes.
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Andrew Nicholls
(Yeoman)
c. 6/9/1659
(Parents: Alexander/Jone – p15)
b. 30/12/1729 (‘Nicholls’)
m.
Jane Cowles
16/1/1686
c. 16/12/1655
(Father: William/Sabrica (or Sabina))
b. 25/4/1732 (‘Nicholls’)
Gulval Will (abstract) of Andrew Nicholls dated 19/2/1729: To daughter Elizabeth thirty shillings
to buy her apparel; to four sons and one daughter of Robert Trythal one shilling each. To daughter
Isabella part of the house upon paying rent whilst mother alive; granddaughter Elizabeth Trythal
five pounds; daughter Katherin to be executrix. Isabella to have part of the house and use of the
barn on payment of rent of 15 shillings whilst her mother is alive and 7/6d after her death.
Witnessed by Henry Mishell/Michell (died 1745), Henry Foss (1700-1782) & John Ginver (16611747), with mark of Andrew Nicholls.
Inventory dated 17/2/1729, valued at £17/10/- includes: wearing apparel, dwelling house, some
horses & bullocks (£10), household goods, small parcel of corn. Goods appraised by Isaac
Newton (buried Gulval 1735, ‘of Penzance’) and Richard Nicholls (p29), with the sign of both.
Katherin***
Jone
Elizebeth
Margeria
Isabella/Izzabel
(Born 3/5/1701)
c. 24/10/1686 c. 13/1/1689 c. 15/10/1693 c. 16/4/1696
c. 11/5/1701
(‘Nicholls’)
(‘Nechols’)
(‘Nicholls’)
(‘Nicholls’)
(‘Nichols’)
b. 26/4/1760 b. 18/5/1738 b. 24/6/1767 b. 22/7/1698 b. 24/6/1739
(‘Catherine’) Breage
m. 15/1/1725
(Gulval)
William
Harvey
m. 26/9/1718
(Germoe)
Henry
James
m. 20/7/1716
(Gulval)
Robert
Trythal *
m. 26/10/1728
(Gulval)
James
Trevalier/Trevailor**
* Robert Trythall was baptised 15/1/1693 at Gulval, son of Samson Trythal & wife Katherin (nee
Cock) – married 12/11/1687. Robert was buried at Gulval 16/9/1769. In 1715 members of this
family group were living at Trythall (as mentioned on Indenture of Lease of Bathsheba Nicholls).
Children of marriage baptised Gulval: Elizabeth 1716, John 1718 (died 1736), Catherine 1721,
Robert 1722, Edward 1724, Philemon 1729, Tabitha 1733 & John 1737. The Will of James
Gelbert of Madron, dated 17/10/1664, bequeaths to his grandson James a ‘right in Edward
Trithall’s land in Trithall [Trythall], Gulval’.
** James Trevailor was baptised 13/8/1693 at Gulval, son of Edmund. James was buried at
Gulval 5/1/1764. Children of marriage baptised Gulval: Catherine 1730 (died 1730) & Catherine
1731.
*** At marriage Katherin’s name recorded as ‘Catherine Nechols’. Catherine buried Gulval
26/4/1760 - ‘Catherine, wife of William Harvey. William Harvey ‘of Rosoon’ [probably Reswoon
in Gulval]
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Bartholomew Nicholls*
(Of Lelant)
c. Circa 1650
m.
Phillipa Jasper**
17/4/1686
c.? 5/2/1653 Madron (‘Phillis’)
(Father? John)
(Parents? Nicholas/Joan)
b.?
b.?
Elizabeth***
c. 5/3/1687
Mary****
c. 1/12/1689
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
b.
b.
m.? 13/2/1710
(Ludgvan)
William
Hoskin
m. 2/11/1712 (Mary a resident of Lelant)
(Ludgvan)
James
Tredennick
* Another Nicholls of Lelant but Lelant baptismal entries only commence from 1684.
Cornwall Protestation Returns 1641 mentions John Nichol of Uny Lelant.
Cornwall Hearth Tax 1662 mentions Richard Nicholls of Lelant.
** Transcript of Madron Parish Registers (marriages) has the following entry: Phillis c. 5/2/1653
Madron, dau. of Nicholas Jasper (Joane, wife of Nicholas Jasper buried 24/11/1657 Madron).
Index of marriage transcript states ‘Phillip’. Believe that Phillis & Phillip_ (Philippa) is same
person – probably transcription error.
*** Christening of Elizabeth at St Ives in 1686, according to IGI – perhaps a previous child.
William Hoskin, son of James, christened 5/4/1686 Ludgvan.
**** Also baptised 11/12/1689 at Ludgvan. Husband James baptised 28/2/1684 Ludgvan, son of
Richard.
Isac/Isaac Nicholls
(Mariner – H.M.S.)
c. 3/9/1665
m.
Mary*
(Parents: Alexander/Jone – p15)
(Parents?)
Died early 1696
b.?
circa 1692
c. circa 1670
Appointment of Executor dated 16/3/1695 by Mary Nicholls (her mark) – “lately died on board
one of his Majesty’s ships of war” [no wars at this time – death probably due to disease].
Document witnessed by John Betty, John Hosken, Thomas Drake [of Helston – named in Will of
same period] & Robert Wallis.
Inventory dated 8/5/1696 only refers to Mary to receive £10 widow’s payment from Navy mentions Isaac being a mariner from parish of Gulval.
Elizebeth
c. 22/7/1694
b.
* Possible marriage of Mary to John Raw 1699 at Paul.
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John Nicholls*
m.
Mary Michell**
3/4/1695
(Yeoman, at Bosoljack in 1704)
c. 6/1/1670
c. circa 1670
(Parents: Cyprian/Margaret – p21)
(Parents: John/Jane [Cock] – married 1666 Gulval)
b.? 23/1/1735
b. 4/4/1732
Janetta (Jane)
c. 16/2/1696
b. 9/5/1768
Johanes (John)
c. 30/5/1697
b. 17/7/1757
Ciprianus*** (Cyprian)
c. 1/11/1699
b. 10/2/1768
m. 26/3/1722
(Madron)
Katherine
Giles (p38)
Seemingly unmarried
(‘Wife of John Thomas’)
m.? 18/2/1735
(Gulval)
John
Thomas****
Manor Rents for 1716:
Lessee – John Nicholls: Carfury Wartha 1/6 part – 4/8d annual rent. Carfury Wartha other parts –
5/2d, Carfury Wollas – 3/1½d, Carfury Wollas other parts – 3/1½d.
(Son John to receive property of great-uncle John Nicholls of Carfury in accordance with 1704
Will – p16)
Land Tax 25/3/1710 Gulval – John Nickols jnr, gent 9/-.
Will of William Bennetts (p13), husbandman of Madron, dated 20/11/1719, was witnessed by
John Nicholls.
* The title of ‘jnr’ is written against the baptism entries of all his children, probably to differentiate
him for John Nicholls the elder (1634-1704). The title does not mean his name is the same as his
father.
** The Will of John Michell of Gulval dated 3/5/1697 named his daughter Mary as executrix, wife
of John Nicholas [sic].
*** Not to be confused with Scipio (page 22) – refer page 39 for more details.
**** John Thomas, of Madron, carpenter, buried Gulval 1/7/1780. Baptised 10/4/1692 Gulval,
son of John Thomas & wife Margery (nee Nicholls) – refer p20.
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Roger Nicholls (junior) / Sarah Williams 1695
(Note: The term ‘junior’ could refer to a younger person of the same name, not necessarily a father
& son combination - deduced as being the son of Sampson.)
c.? 14/11/1675
c. 10/12/1676 Gulval
(Parents? Sampson/Blanche - p19) (Father: Thomas/ Jane [Marten])
b.? 2/11/1729
b.
* Michell/Michil (Michael) Nicholls/Williams
c. 10/3/1695
b.
* On 27/11/1730 Michil Nicholls of St Ives (Admon St Ives 1762) married Mrs Mary Stevens of
St Ives by licence at Zennor. Whether or not this is the same person is unknown. Children
christened at St Ives: Mary 1731, Martha 1733, John 1734, Sarah 1737, Susanna 1739 & Samuel
1744 (refer p72).
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Richard Nicholls
m.
Joan Nechols
(Also name spelt as Necols, Nichols & Nechols)
c. 22/9/1672
c.? 20/6/1675
(Parents: Cyprian/Margaret – p21)
(Parents? Richard/Ame – p17)
b. 14/7/1733
b. 14/5/1735
24/4/1701
Muster Roll 1715 (CRO DDML/641) – names being Richard Nicholls, Robert Trythall, Paskow
Symons, John Holla, Charles Bond, William Sandry, William Gowan, Mark Nuton, William
Roberts junior, Mark Rodda and Richard Williams.
Richard included as one of three lives in Carfury lease (p16).
Manor of Trezella & Mulfra – Gulval Carfury Wollas [Lower Carfury] (CRO Ref. RH/1/2753 &
RH/1/2756) dated 28/5/1735: ‘1/6th part of messuages, lands & tenements in Carfury Wollas in
Gulval, at the bounds of the croft whereof on the west are two great stones at the west end of
Bezoliack and a croft or waste piece of land on the north east of the lane, of two acres, late in the
indenture of Katherine, wife of Alexander Penhellick of Pengersick, gent, deceased, and daughter
of William Millington, esq; deceased, late in the occupation of Richard Nicholls.’
Lease dated 30/4/1777: ‘Premises as in RH/1/2753, late in the occupation of Richard Nicholls,
then of Andrew Stevens and of the lessee’.
Lease subsisting 11/2/1794 – William Sandry – lives to be added – Elizabeth, daughter of Henry
… [?] and lessee Andrew Stevens junior (c. 27/12/1768 Gulval), aged 27.
Lease dated 29/9/1837: ‘Property as in RH/1/2753, late in the possession of Richard Nicholls then
of Andrew Stevens then of Richard Stevens and now of the lessee’.
Lease Notice 14/9/1841 for 99 years – Now in the occupation of William Lawry, and which fell in
hand to James Buller & Mrs Agar on the death of Andrew Stevens - auctioned 28/9/1841.
Divided moiety of Carfury Wartha [Higher Carfury] – about 29 acres; contained within Mr
Buller’s leases of 1/3rd of Carfury.
Lease Notice 14/9/1841 for 99 years – Now in the occupation of William Lawry, and which fell in
hand to James Buller & Mrs Agar on the death of Andrew Stevens - auctioned 28/9/1841.
Divided moiety of Carfury Wartha [Higher Carfury] – about 29 acres; contained within Mr
Buller’s leases of 1/3rd of Carfury.
Gulval Admon of Richard Nicholls dated 20/9/1733 refers to wife Joan, daughters Catherine
(spinster) and Joan Stephens, and son-in-law Andrew Stephens of Gulval, tinner; signed by
Andrew Stevens, with the marks of Catherine Nicholls & Jone Nicholls. Also witnessed by
Thomas Drewe [of Helston, yeoman, c. 4/9/1664 Gulval, son of Matthew].
Land Tax 25/3/1710 Gulval – Richard Nickols 2/2d
Andreus
Joanna*
Margaretta
Catherina**
(Andrew)
Born 24/2/1702
(Joan)
Born 7/3/1704
(Margaret)
Born 9/4/1706
(Catherine)
c. 8/3/1702
b.? 19/9/1714
c. 19/3/1704
b. 26/8/1783
c. 14/4/1706
b.? 6/6/1720
c. 17/4/1709
b. 1733+
m. 23/12/1728
(Gulval)
Andrew
Stevens*** (of Morva (Morvah))
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* Seemingly a bastard son to Joan Nicholls - John c. 25/3/1726 - reputed father: John Saundry
(refer 1739 Carfury lease on p38). A John Saundry, tinner & husbandman, married Margaret
Stevens 5/8/1762 Gulval – daughter Joan c. 25/10/1767.
** The Gulval Admon of Catherine’s father, dated 20/9/1733, refers to his daughter Catherine as
being unmarried. The marriage of another Catherine Nicholls to William Freythy of Ludgvan on
29/1/1733 at Gulval could be Catherine c. 25/5/1712 Uny Lelant, daughter of Richard (she is
probably the sister of Richard who died in 1763 – refer p34). Catherine Frethy, ‘wife of William
Frethy’ was buried Gulval 14/6/1757. There are other Frethy/Freethy marriages into the Nicholls
family and the associated Baynard family in later generations (p75 & p87 and flow scheme on
p258).
*** Andrew Stevens was later a husbandman & tinner of Tredinneck. Between 1762 and 1770 he
was Churchwarden of Gulval (replaced by David Eddy). His life spans 1704-1778.
Children of Andrew & Joan Stevens (baptised Gulval): Christiana 1729, Andrew 1732, Catherine
1737, Jane 1740 & Richard 1743.
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John Nicholls
m.
(Yeoman of Gulval)
Bathsheba Olivey 23/10/1705
(Of Sancreed)
(Surname also spelt as Nechols & Necols)
c. 17/8/1679
c. 6/6/1675 Sancreed
(Parents: Richard/Ame – p17)
(Parents: Jo. Olivy*/Alice [Truren])
b. 16/3/1724 (‘Barsheba Roberts’ – at St Levan)
(Remarried 3/1/1716 at St Levan to Joseph Roberts –
bur. 13/4/1735 St Levan****)
b. 6/1/1712
Gulval Admon of John Nicholls dated 13/2/1711 [CRO ref. AP/L/477/1-2] (estate to wife
Bathsheba) signed by Thomas Olivie (of Sancreed, yeoman) & Thomas Roberts (of Penzance,
yeoman), with mark of Bathsheba Nicholls. Admon witnessed by Henry Bennett.
[Bersheba, daughter of Thomas Olivey, baptised 11/10/1734 Gulval]
Inventory dated 11/2/1711 includes: wearing apparel, cows and young bullocks, five young calves,
six labour horses and three colts, fifteen small sheep and three lambs, four swine, pullen (young
hens), corn, household goods, husbandry implements, chattel estate** and debts due. Goods
appraised by Thomas Olivie and Thomas Roberts, valued at £98/8/4 of which chattel estate was
valued at £60.
(John mentioned in 1704 Will of Uncle John Nicholls - received 10 shillings (p16). John probably
living at Tredinneck at the time)
Maria (Mary)
Hugo (Hugh)
Johannes (John)
Thomas*****
Born 9/5/1706
c. 13/5/1706
b. 1728+
c. 5/9/1708 c. 5/10/1708
b. 15/8/1777 b. 6/10/1708
m. 30/11/1728
(Madron)
Thomas
Richards***
m. 20/4/1734
(Gulval)
Mary
Ellis (p44)
c. 7/7/1711
b. 6/2/1712
* Will of John Olivye, yeoman of Sancreed, (Ref. O301/4) dated 19/6/1682 (proved 1682) left to
his daughter Bathsheba (as well as other daughters Jane & Mary) the sum of forty pounds, to be
paid on reaching the age of 22. Daughters Jane, Mary & Bathsheba ‘shall have competent
maintenance for clothing, meat, drink and lodgings and schooling’ until they can contribute
something towards the cost. His wife Alice to receive one third part of his tenement of Trenogoe
during her unmarried lifetime and if she should marrry then she shall forfeit the same and receive
the sum of five pounds annually until her death. His son Thomas is to receive the balance of the
estate upon reaching full age. Trustees and overseers are to be Robert Carne of Buryan, yeoman;
John Olivye of Sancreed, yeoman; and Elisha Oliyve of Sancreed, tinner. Will is signed by John
Olivie (sic) and witnessed by John Smyth, Thomas Olivye and … [?] Hill.
Sancreed Will of another John Olivey dated 4/3/1702 mentions the sum of one shilling to go to
Joseph Roberts of Sancreed and the sum of one shilling to go to Thomas Roberts of Penzance.
Most of estate valued at £20 to go to wife Elizabeth.
** Chattel estates determined from 1716 Indenture of Lease of Bathsheba Nicholls as follows:
Trythall land under lives of John Nicholls jnr son of Richard (husband), Richard Nicholls son of
Hugh (died 18/1/1711) and Amy Nicholls daughter of Richard (married 1704). Also other land
and premises at Trythall – one house of 2 rooms, fields “Carnelloe” of 1 ¼ acres, “The Acre”,
“Ithondown” of 1 acre, close of ¼ acre and “Caraquidneow” of 3 acres. Also a reference to
Indenture of Lease 24/6/1700 for 1/6th of Ninnis or Mulfra Vean, Madron which reverted back to
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Earl of Radnor on death of John Nicholls (above). This lease was renegotiated in 1713 under the
lives of Bathsheba Nicholls & Thomas Olivey jnr (aged 18) and Margaret Olivey (aged 16), son
and daughter of Thomas Olivey (brother of Bathsheba?). Other land at Ninnis or Mulfra Vean
negotiated in 1713 under lives of Thomas Olivey jnr (aged 18) and Ann Thomas (aged 12) [c.
18/5/1703 Gulval] daughter of John Thomas the elder of Gulval (married Margery Nicholls 1691,
daughter of Henry & Margery) – p20. There is also a reference to land in Trythall ats Treny [?]
for lives of John Nicholls and Elizabeth Hoskin, daughter of Robert Hoskin of Madron (married
Elizebeth Nicholls 1697, daughter of Richard & Ame/Amy – p17).
*** Thomas Richards baptised 16/2/1706 Madron, son of Ralph.
**** The Roberts family of St Levan Records (CRO Ref. X440/1) - record dated May 1735:
Claim by John Roberts that Will [of Joseph Roberts] is invalid because Testator was of unsound
mind; that property was entailed on the marriage to Joseph Roberts with Bathsheba Nicholls,
widow; and for want of issue, he as brother and next of kin should inherit. Only members of the
Roberts family are mentioned in the Will of Joseph Roberts.
***** Gulval Admon of Thomas Nicholls [CRO ref. AP/N/479] dated 13/2/1711 (estate to mother
Bathsheba) signed by Thomas Olivie (of Sancreed, yeoman) & Thomas Roberts (of Penzance,
yeoman), with mark of Bathsheba Nicholls. Admon witnessed by Henry Bennett and W. Dinham.
Admon made out on the same day as that of John Nicholls, husband of Bathsheba.
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Richard Nechols/Nicholls
(Husbandman)
c. 9/5/1680
m.
Joan Bone
6/11/1706
c. 17/1/1686
(Parents: Hugh/Elizabeth – p22)
(Parents: Henry*/Welmett [Eva])
b. 18/1/1711
b. 14/7/1723 or 26/12/1754
Gulval Admon of Richard Nicholls dated 31/3/1711 has signature of Henry Williams, with marks
of his brother John Nicholls & George Noye; witnessed by George Veale (p17 & p21).
Declaration of wife Joan dated 26/1/1710? grants administration of estate to her husband’s brother,
John Nicholls; witnessed by Henry Bone and John Penrose, with mark of Joan.
Inventory dated 2/2/1710/11 includes: wearing apparel, household goods and husbandry
implements, quick stuff (coinage?), corn & grain of all sorts, chattel estate. Goods appraised by
John Nicholls [son of Hugh].
Richardus
Elizabetha
Henricus
(Richard)
(Elizabeth)
(Henry)
c. 9/8/1707
b. 16/12/1732
c. 5/2/1709
b. 12/4/1719
c. 25/3/1711
b. 6/2/1757 (Madron)
m. 15/1/1728
(Gulval)
Margery
Nicolas (p39)
m. 1/11/1733
(Madron)
Anne
Leggoe (p41)
(Of Towednack)
NOTE: Difficult to separate from children of Richard & Joan Nicholls on
previous page – as only daughters Catherine & Joan are mentioned in Richard’s
1733 Admon then Richard, Elizabeth & Henry are placed under this couple.
* Extract of Will of John Bone of Gulval (buried 4/4/1684), dated 27/2/1683/4, proved 11/4/1684:
To sister Marye Robarts 2/6d, to her daughter Margarett 2/6d, to sister Elizabeth Bone £5, to his
brother Henry Bone (executor) all the rest. Will was witnessed by Richard Nicholls (p17), John
Barnes (p13) & Margaret Nicholls (p21); Inventory taken 8/4/1684 by Sippren [Cyprian] Nicholls
(p21) and Francis Lanion.
A Henry Bone was Clerk of Gulval for 63 years and buried 6/6/1765.
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Richard Nicholls*
c. 1690’s Lelant
m.
Jane Curgenven
c. 1690’s Lelant
(Father: Richard)
(Father: John)
b. 24/6/1763
b. 22/6/1763
circa 1715 (Uny Lelant?)
Richard
c. 2/6/1717
Jane
c. 1/5/1719
Grace***** Stephen
c. 16/10/1720 c. 10/3/1722
John
c. circa 1724
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant?)
b. 1789+
b. 25/1/1813 b. 2/9/1804
(‘Aged 93’)
(Uny Lelant)
b. 21/8/1786 b. 21/1/1816
Camborne
Ludgvan
(‘Widow, aged 84’)
(1763 Tinner
of Gulval)
(‘Of Try, aged 91’)
(1763 Tinner
(1763 Tailor
of Ludgvan,
of Gulval)
at Gulval 1751)
m1. 29/9/1740 m. 2/6/1750
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
Thamesin
Henry
Harvey (p46) Brush**
m. abt 1740’s
(?)
William
Roberts
m2. 14/1/1758
(Gulval)
Sarah
Trewren (p48)
m1. 13/11/1751 m. 27/7/1754
(Ludgvan)
(Paul)
Joan
Anne
George (p49) Jasper (p50)
m2. 8/1/1771
(Madron)
Hannah
Eddy (p49)
Anne
c. 1/5/1728
Thomas
Elizabeth**** Andrew
c. 27/5/1731 c. 31/8/1734 c. 13/3/1737
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
b. 2/4/1788
b. 17/9/1816 b. 21/4/1792 b. 1789 or 1793
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(‘Of Trezela,
Aged 88’)
(1763 Tinner
of Gulval)
(‘Of Towednack’)
(‘Berryman’)
(1763 Tinner
of Gulval)
m. 13/7/1764
(Gulval)
James
Pearce***
m1. 6/6/1763
(Gulval)
Alice
Pearce (p59)
m. 7/4/1755
(Gulval)
Richard
Berriman
(Tinner)
(Sister of James)
m. 9/7/1758
(Gulval)
Anne
Roberts (p53)
m2. 27/12/1771
(Gulval)
Phillis
Hodge (p60)
The Will of John Curgenven (CRO Ref. AP/C3553), tinner of Lelant, dated 20/2/1740 (proved
1740) states ‘I give and bequeath to my eldest daughter Jane the wife of Richard Nicholls of
Gulval the sum of twenty pounds’. Other children are Cattren, Tamsen, Anne (wife of William
Coager) and John (executor). Will signed by John Curvengen and witnessed by Thomas Hosking
and Welmet Penberthy (?).
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Gulval Will (abstract) of Richard Nicholls dated 18/1/1763: To son Stephen three fields with croft
at Garris with quarterly payments to go to his sister Ann - after Stephen’s death the Garris estate to
go to his brother Thomas. To son Andrew two fields with dwelling house and garden at Trezela,
Gulval (occupied by son John); to son John £50; to son Richard £20; to daughter Elizabeth £4; to
daughter Jane £25; to daughter Ann £4 yearly; to daughter Jane £8 yearly. To his son Thomas
‘inheritance of and in the Garris’ and is to be made sole executor. Richard’s wife Jane is to
receive £8 yearly, with milch cow on the holding of Chysauster; with household goods & bed and
furniture of her choice. Witnessed by Richard Eddy, James Wallis & John Martins (his mark)
[labourer, married Mary 1762, dau. of Richard Eddy], with the mark of Richard Nicholls. No
inventory given.
* Indentures dated 1731 & 1732 at Courtney Library, Truro (ref. BIR/4/1 & BIR 3/25) refer to
Richard Nicholls, yeoman, son of Richard Nicholls of Lelant. Also John Nicholls aged 23, son of
Richard Nicholls of Lelant (probably the same John Nicholls of Lelant who married Mary Reed
25/4/1733 at Gulval – refer p40). Indenture refers to land at Chysauster at yearly rent of £3 under
the lives of Richard Nicholls of Lelant, Jane his wife and Richard their son aged 14.
This Richard was originally thought to be the son of Roger & Elizabeth Nicholls, c. 13/4/1691 at
Gulval however 1731 & 1732 Indentures give his father’s name as Richard. Uny Lelant baptisms
start from 1684 but there is no trace of baptisms of Richard Nicholls in 1690’s & John Nicholls
circa 1709. Presumably the records are incomplete.
Lelant Information:
A Robert Nicholl & Stephen Nicoll, both of Lelant, are on the Tinners Roll 1522.
The Landowners Roll 1522 mentions James Nicoll of Lelant.
A Stephen Nicoll of Lelant is on the Cornwall Subsidies 1524.
There is no mention on Cornwall Subsidies 1545 or Cornwall Muster Roll 1569 for Nicholls of
Lelant.
A John Nichol of Uny Lelant is on the Cornwall Protestation Returns 1641.
A Richard Nicholls of Uny Lelant is on the Hearth Tax of 1662.
Guy Nicholls baptised 20/10/1667 Uny Lelant, son of Richard.
Richard Nicholls baptised 8/12/1673 Uny Lelant, son of Richard. (This child will probably
become the father of Richard Nicholls who married Jane Curgenven.)
The Gulval Admon of John Nicholls dated 31/8/1682 (refer p13) refers to a Richard Nicholls at
Uny Lelant. Refer also marriages of Bartholomew in 1686 (p30) and John in 1733 (p40).
Elizabeth Nichol, widow, buried 1612 Uny Lelant.
Baptisms Uny Lelant – Richard 1/12/1706 & Catherine 25/5/1712; Father: Richard Nicholls.
Lelant Occupiers 1717 includes Richard Nicholls. (Note: Richard Nicholls & Hugh Tyack had
land at Mount Tyack & Trenoweth.)
Lelant Ratepayers 1722 includes Richard Nickolls, Richard Nickolls (for part of … Stevens land)
& Steven Nickolls. Stephen Nicoll married Anne Thomas 24/1/1700 Uny Lelant.
Justments of the Parish of Lelant 1722 include William Nickolls & James Nickolls. William
Nicholls married Margaret Nicholls 1/3/1719 Uny Lelant. James Nicholls baptised 12/1/1692 Uny
Lelant, son of William.
Burial of Richard Nicholls at Lelant 22/11/1724.
Leaseholders Lelant 1731: Lease (RIC No. 4/1) dated 24/6/1731 between John Curgenven junior,
yeoman, aged 22 [land]; Richard Nicholls, aged 14 [life] & Richard Nicholls, father of Richard
aged 14.
There is also a 1731 Indenture (Courtney ref. BIR/4/2) between John Pennerke of Barly, Devon
and John Corgennen jnr, yeoman of Uny Lelant, for land at Nantarrow [Nanterrow] Wartha,
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Gwithian. It refers to the three lives of John Corgennen/Curgenven jnr, aged 23, Richard Nicholls
junior (p46-49), aged 14, and Ann Corgennen, aged 12.
Lelant Ratepayers 1750 includes James Nicholls.
Lelant Poor Law book 1770-1771 includes Mary Nicholls.
** Henry Brush, at the time of his marriage in 1750, was a tinner of Gulval. He was baptised at
Gulval 8/10/1720, son of Richard [buried Gulval 24/12/1786, ‘aged 96’]. Children of marriage
baptised Gulval: Henry 1751, Mary & Martha 1752, Richard 1755 (died 1756), Jane 1756,
Richard 1759, Elizabeth 1760 & Anne 1763. His Will was proved 14/5/1806 at Gulval – at this
time he was a yeoman at Bodrifty. The Brush family is another family of interest who
intermarried with the Nicholls family on other occasions (p91, p96 & p233). Gulval
apprenticeship to Sarah Toman, aged 9, to Henry Brush of Try, dated 24/4/1794.
Diary of William Veale of Trevaylor, Gulval 1782-1865 (CRO ref ML1032/1-55):
23/1/1784 ‘Walked up to the Spalliard [Wheal Spalliard mine of William Veale], called around to
Try on Henry Brush, the Captain in charge of the mine.’
24/12/1786 ‘Richard Brush of Try aged 97 was buried today; he lived formerly with my greatgrandfather; [Brush] a servant.’
30/11/1787 ‘Henry Brush junior with me having Wheal Spalliard account of which mine he is the
Captain or Manager’
Extract from “Mining & Methodism in the Penzance hinterland: an introductory study” by C. C.
Short – ‘No society ever existed in the hamlet [of Bodrifty], but in 1812 “a few old persons … met
in class at Capt. Brush’s, Bodrifty”.
*** Marriage details: James Pearce, tinner, and Anne both of Gulval, with signature of Janes and
mark of Anne; witnessed by Joseph Pearce and John Green. James Pearce baptized 6/10/1734
Gulval, son of John. James was still alive in 1788. There is a death of a James Pearce of
Trevarrack, Gulval 19/3/1813, aged 70.
**** Marriage details: Richard of Towednack, tinner, and Elizabeth of Gulval, with signature of
both; witnessed by Richard Nicholls and Henry Bone (?). Richard Berriman baptized 5/5/1733
Zennor, son of Richard. Daughter Elizabeth baptised 1/6/1755 Gulval – father mentioned as
‘sojourner’. In 1763 Richard Berriman was a yeoman of Towednack.
***** No marriage for Grace Nicholls & William Roberts found. William Roberts buried
12/3/1766 Gulval (‘Of Ludgvan’). Grace’s brother Andrew married Anne Roberts but no
established link between Anne & William Roberts. There is a reference to Grace Roberts living at
Rospeath, Ludgvan, in the Will of Stephen Nicholls dated 1772 (p49).
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Locrine Nicholls*
m.
Sicily Sampson
11/4/1716 Ludgvan
(Also name variously spelt as Lockrin, Locrine, Locken & Lockram)
c. 18/9/1687
c. 2/10/1692 Ludgvan
(Parents: Roger/Elizabeth – p23)
(Parents: Samuel/Margery [Christopher])
b. 1719+
b.
Elizabeth
c. 6/3/1716
Jennatt
c. 25/4/1718
Sampson**
c. 12/12/1719
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan & Gulval)
(Ludgvan & Gulval (‘of Ludgvan’))
b. 16/5/1719 b.
Ludgvan
b.? 23/5/1781
Sennen
m.? 12/2/1754 (‘Nicholas’)
(St Just)
Margaret
Roberts (c. 31/10/1736 St Just)
* Children to a Lockram Nichols at St Austell – Ann c. 18/7/1730, Elizabeth c. 14/4/1733, Richard
c. 26/4/1735 & Mary c. 31/5/1737 (buried Gulval 6/11/1751 ‘Mary Nicholls of St Just’?).
** Register Notes for burial of Sampson Nicholls – ‘son of Arthur Roberts’ [?]. There is a
Sennen burial 16/7/1777 for Margaret Nicholas, widow, and another Sennen Burial 22/2/1787 for
Margaret Nicholas (1787 burial more likely as 1777 burial states Margaret was a widow but
Sampson did not die until 1781).
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John Necholls/Nicholls*
(Of Gulval)
c. 30/5/1697
m.
(Parents: John/Mary – p27)
Katherine Giles 26/3/1722 Madron
(Of Morvah)
c. 14/10/1694 Morvah (‘Catherine’)
(Parents: Thomas/Mary [Martin])
b.? 2/5/1765 [‘Catherine’]
b. 17/7/1757
[Heir to Carfury property of great-uncle John Nicholls in accordance with 1704 Will (p16)]
John
Andrew
c. 2/2/1723
c. 3/7/1725
b. 19/2/1806 b. 9/6/1731
Catherine** Mary***
Ann
c. 3/9/1727 c. 8/3/1730 c. 12/11/1732
b. 15/9/1734 b. 18/6/1766 b. 31/10/1796
(Madron)
m. 9/1/1765
(Madron)
Grace
Richards (p63)
William****
c. 27/12/1736
b. 31/1/1816 Madron
m. 6/1/1758
(Madron)
John
Baynard
m. 18/10/1760
(Gulval)
Richard
Nicholls (p56)
Andrew
c. 19/5/1739
b. 9/3/1789 or 5/1/1793
(‘Of Trewen, Madron
- Aged 82’)
m. 2/2/1764
(Gulval)
Blanch
Body (p62)
m. 19/2/1765
(Gulval)
Christiana
Richards (p65)
Lease 10/11/1739 Trezela & Mulfra (CRO ref. WH4277): John Sandry (born 1719 Gulval) &
William Sandry (born 1721 Gulval) this lease of a 1/6th part of Carfury Wartha [Higher Carfury]
for the lives of John Nicholls of Madron esquire (seemingly John above – refer p27, William
Sandry and Ann Sandry, son and daughter of the late William Sandry – rent of 4/8d and heriott of
6/8d. Refer page 29 for following lease.
* The title of “jnr” is written against the baptism entries of his first two children.
** Will of Thomas Giles (father of Katherine), yeoman of Morvah, dated 18/6/1723 and proved
11/2/1724, mentions his wife Mary, daughter Mary the wife of Trustram Davy, and Catherine the
wife of John Nicholls the younger (to receive 10 shillings).
*** Marriage details: Both of Madron, with signature of John Baynard & mark of Mary Nicholls.
Witnessed by John Sampson & Mary’s sister Anne Nicholls (sign).
**** Names of the above children of John & Katherine are also the names of seven of the children
of William & Blanch.
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Richard Nicholls/Nickols
m.
Margery Nicolas*
15/1/1728
(Of Towednack)
c. 9/8/1707
c. circa 1707
(Parents: Richard/Joan – p33)
(Parents?)
b. 16/12/1732
b. 1740+
Richard**
c. 27/9/1730
b. 19/12/1743
Margery
c.?
b. 3/4/1740 (illegitimate? / not baptised?)
(‘Chiandower’)
[Chyandour, Madron]
(‘Dau of Margery Nicholls, widow’)
* Probable remarriage – Margery Nicholls to William James of Madron 16/4/1743 at Gulval.
Two burials of Margery James are at Madron – 21/11/1758 & 20/3/1764.
** Burial thought to have been that of Richard Nicholls c. 13/4/1691 (p23) but Madron connection
for this Richard more likely.
Scipio/Semprone Nicholls* m.
c. 27/2/1687
Margaret Harvey
c. 30/8/1691
(Parents: Hugh/Elizabeth – p22)
(Parents: George Harvie/Phillip_ [Roberts])
b. 3/2/1767 (‘Margaret Nicholls’)
b.
26/4/1732
* Confused with Cyprian (p27). Considering Margaret’s year of baptism Scipio appears the most
likely spouse.
Seemingly no issue
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John Nicholl/Nicholls*
(Of Uny Lelant)
c.? 1/12/1706 Uny Lelant
m.
Mary Reed**
25/4/1733
c. 28/5/1709 Gulval (twin to Joel)
(Father: Richard)
(Parents: Alexandrii/Margery [Harry]) ****
b. 15/4/1764
b. 16/5/1782
Jennifer***
c. 7/6/1742
b. 26/12/1742
Mary
c.?
b. 16/4/1758
(‘Dau of John Nicholls of Uny Lelant’)
* John Nicholls is most probably the son of Richard senior of Uny Lelant and brother of Richard
junior who are all mentioned in the Indentures of 1731 & 1732 (p35). A John Nicholls, son of
Richard, was baptised 1/12/1706 Uny Lelant.
The Will of Henry Curnow of Lelant, miller, dated 19/9/1734, proved 17/4/1735, was witnessed
by John Nicholls.
** Mary was the sister of John Read (c. 23/11/1690 Gulval) who married Mary Neckols at Gulval
31/12/1720 - identity of Mary Neckols uncertain – possibly Mary Nicholls, daughter of Steven, c.
2/8/1696 Ludgvan or Mary Nichols, daughter of John & Elizabeth, c. 11/2/1698 Phillack. Mary
Reed, ‘widow’, was buried at Gulval 6/1/1765. Children of marriage baptised Gulval: John 1722,
Henry 1724, Joel 1726 & Michael 1729. John Reed (‘of Madron’) buried Gulval 16/8/1738; also
a John Reed buried Gulval 25/11/1741.
*** A daughter, Jennifer, to Mary’s twin brother, Joel, baptised on 26/4/1740 at Gulval. Also a
daughter, Jennifer, to Richard Nicholls (p46), baptised 14/2/1741.
**** Alexander buried Gulval 25/1/1738 (no Will) & wife Margery Reed buried Gulval
22/3/1741.
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Henry Nicholls
c. 25/3/1711 Gulval
m.
Anne Leggoe*
c. 8/8/1714 Madron
1/11/1733 Madron
(Parents: Richard/Joan – p33)
(Parents: Thomas/Ann [Tonkin])
b. 6/2/1757 Madron
b. 12/11/1776 Madron
Anne
c. 24/2/1734
Richard
c. 6/5/1736
Anne
c. 3/4/1738
Elizabeth**
c. 26/12/1739
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 10/2/1737 b. 7/11/1788
b. 16/12/1740
b.
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron, ‘aged 55’)
m. 22/8/1760
(Madron)
Anne
Davy (p55)
Anne***
c. 16/5/1742
Joan****
c. 17/7/1743
Henry
c. 27/1/1745
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b.? 26/4/1818 Madron b. 1779+
b. 17/7/1805 Madron
(‘Of Penzance, aged 80’)
(‘Of Gulval’)
m. 7/2/1767
(Madron)
Richard
Menear/
Mynhere/Menneer
m1. 13/11/1769
(Gulval)
Andrew
Eddy (tinner)
m. 13/2/1776
(Madron)
Margery
Wallish (p75)
m2. 25/5/1779
(Gulval)
Francis
Jelbert (tinner)
Thomas
c. 8/3/1747
Christiana*****
c. 20/8/1749
Margaret******
c. 14/7/1751
Cyprian
c. 31/8/1755
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 3/10/1810 b.? 13/6/1821
b.31/3/1830 Madron b. 23/1/1839
(Madron, ‘of Gulval’)
(‘Of Towednack, aged 81’)(‘Of Ninnes, aged 84’)
m1. 20/1/1770 m. 19/4/1776
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
Blanch
Philip
Cock (p70) Rogers
m2. 20/2/1797
(Gulval)
Mary
Nickless (p71)
m. 3/12/1770
(Gulval)
Richard
Nickless
m1. 15/2/1783
(Madron)
Catharine
Kemp (p80)
m2. 10/2/1821
(Madron)
Jane
Dennis (p81)
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* As per Gulval Settlement Examination DDX506/117 at Cornwall Record Office:
Anne Nicholls 28/9/1769 Gulval –
‘Aged about 52, born Maddren (Madron) as she heard and believed. Lived with grand-father
Arthur Tonkin [m. 16/1/1675 Madron – daughter Ann m. 29/9/1713 Thomas Legon (sic) at
Madron] and her Aunt Dorithy Rodda [c. 29/9/1695 Madron – m. 23/12/1721 Madron to Ralph
Rodda] (her father Thomas Leggo dying when she was very young) till she was about 25 when she
intermarried with Henry Nicholls of Gulval. They lived together about 22 years when her
husband died. About one year later after marriage they took part of an estate called Lanyon in
Maddren at yearly rent of 10 guineas held for some 15 or 16 years. Afterwards [he] held parts of
two other estates at different times in Maddren called Bosiljack & Boswarton [Boswarthen] the
former about 2 years at about 15 pounds and the latter about 2 years at 29 pounds 10 shillings per
annum. She had lived in the parishes of Maddren [Madron] and Morvah before her husband’s
death which happened about 15 years ago till about six months ago when she came to the parish of
Gulval. [She] maintained herself by working at different employment for daily wages and on the
bounty of her children.’ Document signed with the mark of Anne Nicholls.
** Another Elizabeth (p46) most probably married Edward Trythall.
*** Marriage details: Richard Menear, widower, & Anne Nichols, both of Madron, with the mark
of Richard & mark of Anne. Witnessed by Andrew … [?] & Thomas … [?].
**** Marriage details: Andrew Eddy signed and Joan made her mark; witnessed by Henry Cock
and John Green. Child of Andrew & Joan Eddy baptised Gulval: Jane 1/1/1775. Andrew Eddy
baptised 6/5/1736 Morvah, son of Andrew. Second husband Francis Jelbert, a tinner, was
christened 28/12/1743 Gulval, son of Samuel. A daughter, Sarah was christened 30/8/1779
Gulval. A burial at Gulval 27/4/1788 was that of Joan Jelbart, daughter of Francis Jelbart of
Madron.
***** Marriage details of Phillip Rogers & Catharine / Christian_ [Nicholls]: both of Gulval; both
put their mark; witnessed by Ann Penneck (daughter or wife of John Penneck, vicar) & Mary
Green.
A Catherine Rogers was buried at Gulval 13/6/1821, aged 76 (born circa 1745).
Phillip was baptised 19/3/1755 at Sancreed - his father Phillip was buried 11/7/1765.
As per Gulval Settlement Papers DDX506/138 at Cornwall Record Office:
Phillip Rogers 5/3/1778 Gulval –
‘Wife Catherine and Phillip their son [aged] about 12 months. [Phillip senior] was born Sancreed.
[He] lived with parents until 7 when bound as apprentice to William Rodda of Morvah by
Overseers of the Poor. Served 14 years then removed to Gulval where he married present wife
and has lived ever since, renting a dwelling house with the milk of 6 milch cows at a rate of £4 a
cow yearly.’
Signed by Phillip Rogers
Children to Phillip & Catharine: Phillip, born 1776; Thomas, bpt 14/2/1779 Gulval; Henry born
1780 Madron (buried 3/1/1781 Madron); Catherine born 1787 Sancreed; Sepron (Cyprian?), born
1789 Sancreed.
Refer further details page 63 regarding 1806 Will of John Nicholls.
Phillip Rogers junior died St Ives 3/10/1848 aged 72. A Bond of Philip Rogers is dated
27/1/1851. He named his son William Nicholls Rogers who had a daughter named Grace Nicholls
Rogers. Seemingly of the same family, Mary Ann Nicholls Rogers, of Ninnis, aged 1, was buried
at Madron in 1818.
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****** Details of marriage of Richard Nicholas/Nickless to Margaret Nicholls: Richard Nickles
and Margaret Nicholls both of Gulval, signatures of both. Marriage witnessed by Hannah Green
and John Green.
Richard Nickless c. 14/12/1746 Madron, son of Richard & Elizabeth [Jelbert]; buried 11/12/1811
Madron (‘Richard Nicholls of Towednack, aged 66’). Margaret Nicholls buried 31/3/1830
Madron (‘Margaret Nicholas of Towednack, aged 81’).
Children of marriage:
Richard c. 24/11/1771 Madron, buried 25/3/1824 Madron (‘Of Towednack, aged 55’), married
15/1/1795 Towednack to Elizabeth Edwards.
Cyprian c. 30/11/1773 Madron, buried 24/3/1797 Madron
Margaret c. 14/4/1776 Madron, buried 1785+
Francis c. 22/3/1778 Madron, buried 1785+
Mary c. 27/3/1780 Madron, buried 30/12/1859 Penzance St Mary (Of Union Workhouse, aged
79’), married 27/9/1815 Thomas Rowe
Elisabeth c. 7/10/1781 Madron, buried 7/1/1861 St Buryan (‘Of Church Town, aged 81’), married
10/3/1805 Sancreed to Benjamin Davey
Ann c. 15/5/1785 Gulval, buried 1785+
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Hugh Nicholls
m.
Mary Ellis*
20/4/1734
(Of Madron)
c. 5/9/1708
(Parents: John/Bathsheba – p31)
(Father: George)
b. 15/8/1777
b.? 1/9/1756 Madron (‘Mary Nichols’)
John**
c. 13/4/1735
b.? 9/1/1809
(‘Pauper’)
Richard
c. 14/11/1737
b. 19/5/1789
or 6/4/1792
Hugh***
c. 17/10/1742
b. 1761+
m. 18/10/1760
(Gulval)
Anne
Nicholls (p56)
Window Tax Assessment 6/5/1777 Gulval – Hugh Nicholls of Carfury, 4 windows, tax 3/-.
* A Mrs Mary Nicholls, widow, was married 25/4/1778 or 25/9/1778 at Ludgvan by licence to
William Thomas, yeoman - possibly the widow of Hugh as 1756 Madron burial unproven.
** John though to have married Margaret Coney 1770 but unlikely – refer p74.
3/4/1784 ‘Paid John & Richard Nicholls 1/-‘[one shilling].
27/4/1784 ‘Rode up to the Spalliard [Wheal Spalliard, mine of William Veale] and spoke with
John Nicholls, one of the men, who informed me of their having discovered another course of
easier ground.’
*** Militia List 1761 Gulval (CRO ref X173/64-68): Hugh Nicholls junior.
Originally though to have married Mary Oats but more likely Hugh Nicholas, son of Tobias marriage details: both of Ludgvan, with signature of Hugh Nicholas and signature of Mary Oats;
witnessed by Richard Oates & William Hosking.
Hugh Nicholas baptised 25/1/1735 St Just, son of Tobias. Hugh’s brother Tobias Nicholas
married Elisabeth Tonkin 7/1/1770 at Ludgvan.
Mary Oates was christened 12/4/1739 Ludgvan, daughter of John & Mary [nee Carnarthen] –
married 10/1/1730 Ludgvan.
Will of Mary Oates of Ludgvan proved 29/5/1765 [CRO ref. AP/O/535] was witnessed by
Stephen Nicholls (p49) & Mary Carby.
Known children of marriage of Hugh & Mary Nicholas: John 1769, Mary 1771, Elizabeth 1773,
William 1775, Elizabeth 1777 & Jane 1780 (all christened at Ludgvan under the surname of
‘Nicholas’).
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Thomas Nicholls*
Born circa 1715
m.
Sarah
Born circa 1715
circa 1738
(Parents: Steven/Ann [Thomas])
(Parents?)
b. 8/5/1778 Uny Lelant
Stephen
c. 7/3/1739
Ann
c. 2/2/1741
Mary**
c. 9/12/1744
Thomas
c. 10/12/1748
(Breage)
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
b. 29/7/1785 b.
b.
b. 1779+
m. 8/12/1766
(Bodmin)
Elisabeth
Cook (p69)
m. 26/4/1774
(Uny Lelant)
John
Tucker
m. 5/2/1770
(Uny Lelant)
Elisabeth
Edwards (p74)
* Thomas Nicholls senior is most probably the son of Steven Nicholls who married Anne Thomas
at Uny Lelant 24/1/1700. Known children of Steven & Anne are Ann c. 4/4/1706 Uny Lelant and
Mickell c. 13/4/1712 Uny Lelant. In turn Steven born circa 1675 (church registers no longer in
existence prior to 1680’s and later registers incomplete) is probably the son of Michael (born circa
1650) and Michael possibly the brother of Bartholomew Nicholls (p26).
** Marriage details: John Tucker of St Hilary & Mary Nicholls of Uny Lelant; with the signature
of John and the mark of Mary; witnessed by Stephen Bennett & William Pearce.
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Richard Nicholls (below)
(1763 Tinner of Gulval)
c. 2/6/1717 Uny Lelant
m.1
Elizabeth*
c. 17/4/1743
b. 9/5/1808
Madron
29/9/1740
c. 19/5/1719 [‘Thomasin’]
(Parents: Richard/Jane - p34)
b. 19/5/1789 or 6/4/1792 or 24/9/1799
Jenifer****
c. 14/2/1741
b.
Tamesin Harvey
(Father: Richard Harvy)
b. 22/5/1755 (‘Thamesin wife of Richard’)
Anne**
c. 18/8/1745
b. 18/3/1772
Gulval
Mary***
c. 8/11/1747
b. 12/5/1835
Ludgvan
(‘Of Uny Lelant’) (‘Aged 88’)
m. 2/2/1768
(Ludgvan)
Nathaniel
Williams
m. 2/3/1768
(Madron)
Edward
Trythall
Thamesin******
c. 2/4/1749
b.? 2/4/1749
m.11/1/1772
(Ludgvan)
Joseph
Fox
Jane*****
c. 10/5/1751
b.? 19/5/1799
Richard
c. 15/7/1753
b. 19/5/1789 or 6/4/1792
m. 17/11/1774
(Uny Lelant)
William
Thomas
m1. 5/2/1776
(Towednack)
Margaret
Edwards (p78)
(transcription error?)
m. 25/7/1773
(Uny Lelant)
Robert
Roach (refer p86)
m2. 29/12/1785
(Gulval)
Elizabeth
Tuckfield (p78)
A 1731 Indenture (Courtney ref. BIR/4/2) between John Pennerke of Barly, Devon and John
Cargennen jnr, yeoman of Uny Lelant, for land at Nancarrow Wartha, Gwithian, refers to the three
lives of John Cargennen jnr, aged 23, Richard Nicholls jnr, aged 14, and Ann Cargennen, aged 12.
The name Cargennen also recorded as Corgennen and Curgenven. Also refer p35.
* Marriage details: Edward Trythall of Gulval, Elizabeth of Madron, with the sign of Edward and
the sign of Elizabeth; witnessed by William Hosken (p49) & William Wallis.
Edward Trythall c. 27/10/1745 Gulval, base child of Elizabeth Donithorne & Edward Trythall who
married 23/8/1750 (Elizabeth a widow). Edward senior buried 28/1/1788 (‘alias Old Ned’).
Children of Edward & Elizabeth (baptised Gulval): Tabitha 1768, Robert 1770, Catherine 1771,
Isabella 1774 (died 1780), John 1776 (privately baptised), Joan 1778 & Margaret 1780.
** Gulval Burial Register mentions father as being Richard Nicholls of Lelant parish.
*** Marriage details: Both of Ludgvan, with the mark of Joseph & the mark of Mary; witnessed
by Richard Nicholls & William Nicholas.
Joseph Fox baptized 6/7/1740 Madron, son of Edward. Joseph buried Gulval 11/4/1792 (‘from
Ludgvan’). Richard Fox, son of Joseph Fox of St Hilary, buried 3/3/1779 Gulval.
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**** Marriage details: Both of Ludgvan, with the signature of Nathaniel and mark of
Jenefer/Jennifer; witnessed by Thomas Williams & Ann Terrill. Nathaniel Williams baptised
2/2/1741 Ludgvan, son of Thomas. Nathaniel buried 30/5/1826 Ludgvan, aged 80 [?]
***** Marriage details: William & Jane both of Uny Lelant, with marks of both; witnessed by
Richard Nicholls and Hannibal Hoskings.
****** Unlikely that Thamesin was buried the same day of her baptism. Believe burial to be
incorrect as Vicar John Penneck did not write in name of child’s father as was his usual habit in
the case of child burials – may have been written in wrong section of church register and not later
deleted. Another possibility is that Millett/Bolitho transcription is in error. Most likely is that
Thamesin married Robert Roach of Lelant – daughter Thomasin married Thomas Nicholls 1795
(refer p86).
Marriage details: Robert Roach of Towednack & Thomasin, sojourner of Towednack, with the
signature of Robert and the mark of Thomasin; witnessed by Rivhard Berryman & Richard
Hawes.
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Richard Nicholls (above)
m.2
Sarah Trewren/Truren
14/1/1758
(Richard, tinner, & Sarah, spinster, both of the parish of Gulval; signatures of Richard & Sarah;
witnessed by John Green junior & Hannibal Trenery).
(Living at Lelant by 1763)
(Parents: Richard/Jane – p34)
b. 19/5/1789 or 6/4/1792 or 24/9/1799
(Parents: Jonah/Elisabeth)
b. 4/5/1806
Thomas
Andrew*
Catherine
Sarah***
Stephen
c. 2/11/1758
c. 22/11/1761 c. 16/11/1762 2/10/1763
c. 8/7/1765
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Towednack)
b. 8/6/1767
b. 17/6/1831 b.
(‘Nicholas’)
(Gulval)
(Towednack)
b.? 30/1/1820 b. 5/8/1765
Breage
(‘Of Uny Lelant’) (’Of Try, aged 72’)
(‘Of Germoe, 55’) (‘Of Uny Lelant’)
m. 1/1/1791
(Gulval)
Anne
Brush (p91)
m.? 5/7/1795
(Breage)
Thomas
Kitto
Clarinda**
Thomas
c. 23/11/1766 c. 21/10/1770
Stephen
c. 3/2/1775
Ann
c. 28/4/1776
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
(St Ives)
(Towednack)
b. 6/5/1833
St Hilary
b. 1805+
b. 17/1/1838
b.
(‘Of Perranuthnoe, aged 66’)
(‘Of Chysauster, aged 64’)
m. 10/4/1795
(Gulval)
Robert
Ellis
m. 31/1/1800
(Gulval)
Grace
Vingoe (p96)
m. 10/4/1795
(Gulval)
Elizabeth
Tredrea (p85)
m.? 18/7/1801
(Gulval)
William
Perry
Hannah****
c. 23/11/1779
(Towednack)
b. 15/10/1813
(‘Of Lower Courihan [?], aged 34’)
m.29/6/1799
(Gulval)
William
Trembath
* Baptism entry mentions father as Richard junior.
** Marriage details: Robert Ellis, of town of Penzance, parish of Madron (c. 1/1/1766 Ludgvan,
son of Thomas); Clarinda Nicholls, of the parish of Gulval, spinster. Robert put his sign, Clarinda
her sign. Marriage witnessed by Thomas Nicholls & Elizabeth Reynolds (p85).
Robert Ellis was buried Gulval 8/9/1808 (‘Pauper’).
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*** Marriage details: Thomas Kitto, tinner, & Sarah Nicholls, both of Breage, with marks of both;
witnessed by Thomas Johns & Thomas Oram (?).
**** Marriage details: Both of GulvalWilliam signed and Hannah made her mark; witnessed by
Thomas Nicholls & Stephen Nicholls (Hannah’s brothers).
William Trembath baptised 13/10/1776 Morvah, son of William.
Children of William & Hannah Trembath: Richard c. 29/6/1800, Mary c. 27/6/1802, William c.
15/1/1804, John c. 2/2/1806 & James c. 25/2/1810 (all at Gulval).
Part of Ludgvan Leaze, Carvossowe, circa 1840 – occupied by William Trembath, 59 acres; also 7
acres of undivided common (owner: John Ward).
Stephen Nicholls (below)
m.1
Joan George 13/11/1751 Ludgvan
(Stephen of Gulval & Joan of Ludgvan)
c. 8/1/1718 Ludgvan
(Parents: James/Margaret [Hays])
b. 21/8/1786 Ludgvan
b. 20/11/1766 Ludgvan
Seemingly no issue
Stephen Nicholls (above)
m.2
Hannah Eddy
8/1/1771 Madron
(Stephen of Ludgvan & Hannah of Madron, with signatures of Stephen & Hannah. Witnessed by
Henry Eva [born 1731 Gulval] & William Hosken (p46) [buried 1810 Gulval])
c.?
(Parents?)
b.?
(Possible marriage to James Harris 6/9/1788 Perranzabuloe)
Seemingly no issue
Ludgvan Will of Stephen Nicholls (abstract) dated 5/7/1772 (proved 11/1/1787): To his brothers
Richard, Andrew, Thomas & John and sisters Jane, wife of Henry Brush, Elizabeth, wife of
Richard Berriman, and Ann, wife of James Pearce, the sum of one shilling each.
His wearing apparel to go to his brother John; his wife and executrix Hannah to get the messuage
or dwelling wherein Grace Roberts (Stephen’s sister) now lives together with the field and orchard
thereto belonging [part of the tenement of Rospeath, Ludgvan] to hold for her lifetime.
The dwelling then to go to his brother John ‘by virtue of the lives now thereon as aforesaid’.
‘The house wherein I now live with the barn and garden thereto belonging being part of the
Tenement of Carvossoe in the parish of Ludgvan will on my death fall to the original
leaseholder. In case I shall reverse the same in my lifetime I then also give and bequeath the
same to my said well beloved wife Hannah’. The residue of the estate is to go to wife Hannah.
Signature of Stephen Nicholls
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John Nicholls*
/
(Of Gulval, reputed father)
c. 13/4/1735 (son of Hugh – p44) or
Born circa 1724 (son of Richard – p34)
Mary Roberts
1754
(Of Gulval)
c. 8/3/1721 Gulval, dau of John, or
c. 3/2/1725 Gulval, dau of Stephen
(Father: Hugh or Richard)
(Father: John or Stephen)
b.
b.
John Nicholls/Roberts
c. 17/4/1754
b. 30/6/1754 [‘John, base child of Mary Roberts’]
John Nicholls
m.
Anne Jasper
27/7/1754 Paul
(John, sojourner, tinner; Anne of Paul, with signature of John & mark of Anne; witnessed by
Richard Kelynack & John Carvossoe [c. 14/12/1718 Paul])
(Tailor of Gulval 1763 & 1786)
c. Circa 1724
c. 7/4/1731 Paul (‘Ann’)
b. 21/1/1816 (‘Of Try, aged 91’)
(Parents: Richard/Catherine [Gilbert])
b. 11/1/1802 (‘Wife of John Nicholls’)
Stephen*
c. 7/7/1755
Anne****
c. 2/2/1757
Catherine
Phillis
c. 19/11/1758 c. 31/5/1762
Honor/Honour
c. 29/7/1764
(Paul)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 23/9/1823 b. 3/3/1794 b. 1823+
(‘Of Try, aged 68’) Towednack
b. 1823+
b.? 5/1/1856 Madron
Unmarried
m. 26/1/1795
(Gulval)
Richard
Ralf*******
m. 5/2/1780
(Zennor)
William
Baragwanath
m. 7/6/1793
(Uny Lelant)
William
Penberthy
(‘Of St Keverne, aged 93’)
m. 9/2/1793
(Zennor)
John
Jelbert**
(Of Towednack) (Tinner)******
Alice
c. 19/5/1766
Mary***
c. 29/6/1768
Elizabeth*****
c. 5/12/1769
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 14/5/1826
b. 5/4/1815 Zennor
b.
(‘Died Zennor aged 62’)
(‘Aged 44’)
Unmarried
m. 27/7/1800
(Zennor)
Richard
Cock
Militia List 1761Gulval (CRO ref X173/64-68): John Nicholls of Crankan.
Window Tax Assessment 6/5/1777 – John Nicholls of Crankan, 6 windows, tax 3/-.
28/10/1786 ‘John Nicholls, Taylor [sic], & Thomas Thomas of Zennor, two of Wheal Spalliard
[mine of William Veale] men, run down informing me of the shaft on the south [?] end being
holed.’
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11/4/1787 ‘At Mulfra Hill & then Wheal Growan this morning for load [lode] discovered in
Mulfra Hill, Zennor side, the crom [?] cap by John Nicholls & James Pearce [John’s brother-inlaw]. No value I believe.’
* Diary of William Veale of Trevaylor, Gulval 1782-1865 (CRO ref ML1032/1-55):
9/7/1785 ‘Load [lode] cut in the Spalliard’ [Wheal Spalliard, mine of William Veale]. ‘Steven
Nicholls & Richard Allen down informed me of it.’ [Richard Allen of Ludgvan, thatcher, married
Blanch Eddy (widow of Richard Eddy) 2/9/1780 Gulval]
2/1/1787 ‘Additional end vault to Steven Nicholls & partners for 13/6d a fathom’
The names of all Miners & Working Tinners between the ages of 15 & 60 years living within the
parish of Gulval 23rd April 1798 mentions Stephen Nicholls, aged 36 [unsure if this relates to the
above Stephen as age is incorrect]
Gulval Will (abstract) of Stephen Nicholls, yeoman of Gulval, dated 25/8/1823: To his sister Alice
(executrix, living with Stephen at that time) most of the estate and one third of the remainder to
the four children of his sister Mary (Cock). To John Jelbart junior (nephew) one sixth of the
remainder in paying £1 to sister Phillis Ralph; one sixth to Mrs. Penberthy junior (niece?) and
Jeremiah Jelbart (nephew) in paying £1 to Catherine Penberthy (sister). The remaining one third
to William & John Baragwanath (sons of John Baragwanath), Elizabeth Hosking (relationship
uncertain), Jane Baragwanath, John Baragwanath (the son of Mary Baragwanath). Witnessed by
Henry Brush (Stephen’s cousin – refer p34 & p36) & John Grenfell (refer p93 – a witness to Will
of Cyprian Nicholls), with the mark of Stephen Nicholls.
** Marriage details: John Jelbert & Honor Nicholls both of Zennor, with marks of both; witnessed
by William Cock (p62, p63, p70 & p91) & William Polmear. John Jelbert, farmer of Zennor,
buried 21/1/1828 Zennor, aged 56.
Children baptised Zennor: Honor c.1793, John c.1799, Ann c.1802 & Jeremiah c.1806. Son John
Jelbert died 31/12/1855 at Trewern, Madron, buried 5/1/1856 Madron. Honor married William
Nicholas 3/11/1819 Gulval.
*** Marriage details: Richard Cock & Mary Nicholls both of Zennor, with signature of Richard &
mark of Mary; witnessed by Richard Nicholls & William Polmear. The identity of Richard
Nicholls may be the one who married Elizabeth Christopher at Zennor in 1801 (p100). Richard
Cock possibly baptised 1/5/1774 Morvah, son of William (witness to marriage of Honor Nicholls
above).
Children of marriage of Richard & Mary Cock: John, c. 1/4/1807 Zennor; Maria, c. 5/8/1810
Zennor (married John Williams 28/2/1841 Gulval – living at Boskednan 1851 with four children).
The Will of Stephen Nicholls however refers to four children of his sister Mary.
The Will of William Cock, yeoman of Zennor, dated 24/5/1813 and proved 18/5/1815 refers to
son William, wife Elizabeth, brother-in-law Richard Nickells [?] & brother-in-law John Rodda.
The Will is witnessed by Richard Cock & John Rodda. William Cock was buried 19/9/1813
Zennor, aged 59. William Cock junior of Zennor married Elizabeth Rodda of Morvah 26/12/1791
Madron. Cannot find link of brother-in-law Richard Nickells – possibly Richard Nicholls of
Zennor on p102 but not directly related.
**** Marriage details: William Baragwanath of Towednack & Anne Nicholls of Zennor, with
signature of William & mark of Anne. Witnessed by John Mann & … [?] Stevens.
William Baragwanath baptized 27/12/1747 Towednack, son of William & Prudence. William
buried Towednack 15/10/1813, aged 65. Daughter Ann buried Towednack 20/7/1783 and
daughter Jane buried Towednack 20/9/1792.
***** An Elizabeth Nicolls, spinster of Gulval married Robert Barnes of Gulval 24/1/1790 at
Gulval, both of Gulval; with signature of Robert and mark of Elizabeth. Most likely Elizabeth
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Nicholls c. 12/8/1764 Ludgvan, father: Henry. The marriage was witnessed by Joseph Nicholls (c.
10/2/1760 Ludgvan, father: Henry therefore most likely Joseph is the brother of Elizabeth.
Elizabeth Barnes was buried Gulval 11/2/1809 (‘pauper’).
Robert Barnes baptised 14/2/1768 Gulval, son of Robert (cordwainer at time of 1763 Gulval
marriage to Constance Cowles).
Another Elizabeth Nicholls married George Rudman 6/3/1797 Madron.
Children of marriage (baptised Gulval): Henry Nicholls Barns c. 3/7/1791; Constance c.
28/4/1793; Elizabeth c. 8/3/1795; Robert c. 11/6/1797; John c. 10/11/1799; Elizabeth Nicholls
Barns c. 15/11/1801 & William c. 11/11/1804.
****** Marriage details: William, tinner, & Catherine both of Lelant.
baptized 2/11/1762 St Just, son of Henry & Ann.
William Penberthy
******* Marriage details: Richard made his mark & Phillis signed. Witnessed by William
Pengilly (married Susannah Uren 1798 Gulval), John Green & Stephen Nicholls – all signed.
Richard Ralf/Ralph baptised 16/10/1758 Manaccan, son of Richard & Jane.
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Andrew Nicholls
m.
Anne Roberts
9/7/1758
(Andrew, tinner, and Ann, both of Gulval parish; signed by Andrew, with mark of Ann.
Witnessed by Richard Nicholls [Andrew’s brother] & John Green junior)
(In 1763 Andrew a tinner of Gulval – as per father’s Will)
c. 13/3/1737
c. 13/6/1741
(Parents: Benjamin/Sarah [Murrish])
b. 2/1/1802 (‘Widow’)
b. 9/3/1789 or 5/1/1793
(Refer other Andrew p65)
Ann*
c. 16/3/1759
Jane**
c. 26/9/1761
Andrew
c. 30/11/1764
Elisabeth***
c. 7/6/1767
(Ludgvan)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 1799+
b. 25/4/1789
b. 2/3/1814
b. 1797+
(‘Of Madron, aged 50’)
m. 13/9/1783
(Gulval)
Cyprian
Friggens
m. 1/1/1791
(Gulval)
Elizabeth
Lorey (p82)
m. 1/6/1782
(Gulval)
Phillip
Corin
John
c. 10/1/1773
Hannah
c. 13/8/1775
Abraham James****
c. 3/5/1778
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 20/3/1854
b.
b. 8/8/1816
m. 5/8/1797
(Gulval)
Thomas
Curnow
(‘Of Barleygrove, aged 81’)
(‘Of Gulval Cross, aged 38’)
m. 7/1/1796
(Gulval)
Elizabeth
Tucker (p88)
Unmarried
Militia List 1761 Gulval (CRO ref X173/64-68): Andrew Nicholls at Trezela (refer Trezela
reference p35).
Records of the Archdeaconry Court – Citations (CRO Ref ARD/156/847) dated 19/6/1772:
Andrew Nicholls, Gulval – Tithes. A summons to appear before the Archdeaconry Court of
Cornwall in the parish church of Lostwithiel on 17/7/1772 and there to answer in a cause of
substraction of tithes or offerings or other eccesiastical dues. (Andrew above or Andrew p65?).
14/1/1784 ‘Andrew Nicholls informed me that they had cut a … load [lode] in Wheal Spalliard’
[mine of William Veale].
* Marriage details: Phillip, husbandman, & Ann, spinster. Phillip put his signature, Ann her mark.
Witnessed by Henry Thomas [m. Ann Bennatts 9/10/1779 Gulval] & John Green.
Philip Corin, husbandman, bpt 19/5/1755 Gulval, died 16/5/1830 Ludgvan.
Parents: James Corin (born 1727 Gulval, buried 20/10/1810, labourer/carrier of Chyandour,
Gulval) married Cordelia Sampson (born 1722, died July 1815) on 3/6/1754 at Gulval - 8 children.
Children of Philip & Ann: Ann 1783, Jennifer 1785, Philip 1786, Mary 1788, John 1793 (died
1883) & Elizabeth 1799. Jennifer (also called Jane) Corin married 19/1/1805 at Gulval John
Edwards (bpt 1783 Gulval, buried 28/2/1864 Ludgvan), occupation tinner & agricultural labourer
in 1841.
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1803 Gulval Militia List of persons between the ages of 15 & 60 together with their livestock, etc.
and how armed for general assembly (CRO ref X173/69):
Phillip Corin – 2 men (1 cart driver & 1 on foot), 4 cows, 9 young cattle & colts, 15 pigs, 4 draft
horses, and armed with a firelock & pitchfork.
** Marriage details: Both made their marks, and witnessed by William Webb & Elizabeth Webb.
parish of Gulval 23rd April 1798 mentions Cyprian Friggens, aged 32. Cyprian was baptised
Gulval 12/2/1765, son of Richard Friggens & wife Martha (nee Curnow), seemingly being only 18
years old at the time of his marriage to Jane Nicholls. Children of Cyprian Friggens & wife Jane
baptised Gulval: Martha 1783 & Cyprian 1786. Cyprian remarried 2/10/1790 at Ludgvan to
Elizabeth King. Children of 2nd marriage baptised Gulval: Humphry 1792 (p134), William 1793,
Richard 1795, Elizabeth 1797, Ann 1799, Samuel 1803 & Andrew 1803. Cyprian was buried at
Gulval 15/12/1812.
[Manor Rental 1716 Trezela & Mulfra (owned by James Buller) refers to Charles Friggens of
Tredinneck 9/10d.]
*** Marriage details: Thomas Curnow & Elisabeth both of Gulval, with marks of both; witnessed
by Thomas Bond and James Ellis (his mark).
Thomas Curnow baptised 11/3/1768 Paul, son of Thomas & Honour. A Thomas Curnow of New
Town, Gulval buried 6/6/1816 Gulval, aged 52.
**** Probably named after Abram [Abraham], c. 4/4/1747 Gulval, brother of Anne Roberts.
There is uncertainly as to the reason for Abraham’s middle name of James.
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Richard Nicholls
m.
Anne Davy
22/8/1760 Madron
(Both of Madron, with mark of Richard & signature of Anne; witnessed by Harriet Borlase & Jane
Davey [Anne’s sister].)
c. 6/5/1736 Madron
c. 2/5/1733 Zennor
(Parents: Henry/Anne – p41)
b. 7/11/1788 Madron (‘Nichols’)
(‘Aged 55’)
(Parents: William/Anne [Eddy])
b.? 23/12/1812 Breage (‘Ann Nicholls aged 78’)
Ann(e)
c. 23/11/1760
Jane
c. 9/10/1763
Richard
c. 23/11/1766
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 22/5/1838 Breage b. 15/7/1767 Madron b. 8/7/1767 Madron
(‘Of Tregunna, aged 77’) (‘Infant’)
(‘Infant’)
m. 8/10/1786
(St Buryan)
Robert
Matthews (b. 24/3/1800 Madron)
Richard
c. 10/7/1768
Henry
c. 1/4/1771
William
c. 1/1/1774
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 7/3/1851 Zennor
b. 24/1/1815 Zennor b. 1788+
(‘Of Kerrow, aged 85’)
(‘Aged 45’)
m. 8/8/1801
(Zennor)
Elizabeth
Christopher (p102)
m. 19/6/1802
(Morvah)
Margaret
Mann (p105)
Note: sons Richard & Henry established themselves at Zennor, birthplace of their mother.
Records of the Archdeaconry Court – Excommunication (CRO Ref. ARD/160/274) dated
15/10/1779: Anne Nicholls, wife of Richard Nicholls, Madron; legacy cause. Anne was the
executor of the estate of her father William Davy of Madron. An action was brought against her
by her brother William Davy for failing to provide a legacy. As Anne did not appear at the court
she was subsequently excommunicated.
Will of William Davy of Madron dated 12/5/1778 proved 26/6/1778 (CRO Ref.AP/D/1805): His
son William Davy and his son-in-law Richard Nicholls to receive £10 each one year after his
death. Ann Nicholls, his grand-daughter, and daughter of Richard Nicholls, to receive £20 one
year after his death. Also a Jone Reynolds is to receive a mourning gown if she is living in his
house at the time of his death. The residue of the estate is to go to his daughter Ann Nicholls who
is sole executrix. Will was witnessed by Thomas Warren & … Wallis.
Will of Richard Nicholls of Madron dated 11/10/1788 (CRO ref. ARD/167/81): eldest son Richard
to be executor, wife Ann to receive £5 to be paid £1 per year until paid, to son Henry one shilling,
to son William £10 if he lives with his brother Richard, daughter Ann Matthews one shilling, and
to grandson Robert Matthews £5 to be paid 2 years after my decease. With the mark of Richard
Nicholls and witnessed by William Thomas & Enoch Jenkin.
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Records of the Archdeaconry Court – Citations (CRO Ref. ARD/156/1480) dated 2/3/1793:
Richard Nicholls, Madron – testamentary. Richard Nicholls, son of Richard Nicholls deceased
(above) to appear in the Bodmin parish church before the Archdeaconry Court on
12/4/1793 concerning the Will of Richard Nicholls deceased. It concerns a debt of the deceased
Richard Nicholls owed to Thomas Tresize of Madron [Cyprian, brother of Richard senior, leased
land from Thomas Tresize in 1789 (refer p80)].
Richard Nicholls
m.
Anne Nicholls
18/10/1760
(Richard, tinner, and Anne, spinster, both of Gulval parish; both put their mark. Witnessed by
Anne’s brother William Nicholls (signature) & John Green junior)
c. 14/11/1737
c. 12/11/1732
(Parents: Hugh/Mary – p44)
(Parents: John/Katherine – p38)
b. 31/10/1796 (‘Widow of Richard’)
b. 19/5/1789 or 6/4/1792
Ann**
c.? 16/11/1760
Cyprian
c. 24/6/1761
Mary***
c. 11/6/1764
b. 31/5/1815
b. 18/12/1843
(‘Of Treen, Zennor,
- Aged 55’)
(‘Of Penzance
Union House, aged 79’)
m. 1/12/1792
(Madron)
James
Uren
m. 28/4/1796
(Madron)
Jane
Perry (p93)
m. circa 1790
(Ludgvan?)
William
Allen
Jane
c. 9/11/1766
b.? 27/8/1800
Richard
c. 25/6/1769
b. 22/8/1828
Catherine*
c. 16/11/1772
b. 1808+
(‘From Madron’)
(Gwennap)
b. 1839+
m1. 29/10/1791
(Madron)
Elizabeth
Pearce (p83)
m. 25/9/1797
(Gulval)
Daniel
Eddy
m2. 24/4/1800
(Ludgvan)
Ann
Thomas (p83)
Militia List 1761 Gulval (CRO ref. X173/64-68): Richard Nicholls
Window Tax Assessment 6/5/1777 Gulval (CRO ref. X173/28-56) – Richard Nicholls of
Tredinneck, 3 windows, tax 3/-.
13/8/1784 ‘Richard Nicholls boring rocks for shooting in the higher field of Blue Bridgeland’
15/8/1784 ‘Richard Nicholls here working about the rocks’
16/8/1784 ‘[Paid] Richard Nicholls 4/-‘[4 shillings]
12/2/1785 ‘[Paid] Richard Nicholls for blowing rock 4/6d’ [4 shillings 6 pence]
11/3/1785 ‘[Paid] Richard Nicholls for blowing rock 1/6d’
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2/9/1786 ‘[Paid] Richard Nicholls for beer or bread for the harvest people 14/-’
18/7/1787 ‘Daniel Rogers not being able to get sufficient security for the payment of the part of
Rablands field; they were set by W. Thomas to Richard Nicholls Serjs [Sergeant of Cornish
Militia?], the next best offerer for £12/2/6 per annum.’ [Not sure if this refers to above Richard
Nicholls.]
* Marriage details: Daniel Eddy, bachelor, and Catherine, spinster, both of Gulval, with signature
of Daniel and mark of Catherine. Witnessed by Richard Boyens [m. Cordelia Corin 10/11/1794
Gulval], Jane Boyens & Richard Nicholls (sign).
Children of Eddy marriage baptised Gulval: Daniel 1798, Elizabeth 1800, Catharine 1801,
Jennifer 1804, Kitty 1806 & Ann 1808.
Seemingly an illegitimate child to Catherine prior to her marriage - Richard, baptised 14/7/1793
Gulval
** Possible baptism at Gwennap – ‘Ann Nicolls baptised 16/11/1760; parents: Richard & Ann
Nicolls’.
Marriage details: Anne of Madron & James of Gulval, with signature of James & sign of Anne.
Witnessed by Cypran (Cyprian) Nicholls, brother of Anne, & Joseph Glasson jnr [c. 28/6/1752
Gulval]. James Uren baptised 1/5/1764 Gulval, son of George.
James Uren ‘of Poltair’ buried 17/1/1820 Madron aged 62.
Possible child of marriage: William c. 13/3/1803 Towednack.
Anne mentioned in 1828 Will of her brother Richard (refer p83). Also Anne received possessions
of her Uncle John Nicholls in 1839 (refer page 64).
*** Mary mentioned in the 1828 Will of her brother Richard (p83). William Allen baptised
30/11/1755 Ludgvan, son of Richard. William buried 31/12/1829 Ludgvan, aged 75.
William, son of William & Mary Allen, baptised 13/3/1803 Towednack.
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John Nicholls
m.
Mary Davy
9/5/1763 Ludgvan
(John Nicholls of St Olave, Southwark, Surrey to Mrs Mary Davy, widow, of Ludgvan; with the
signatures of both parties; witnessed by Richard Nicholls & R.Davy)
[Note: First marriage of Mary Davy not found]
c. 26/9/1735 Phillack
born circa 1740
(Parents: Richard/Mary)
(Parents: Henry/Catherine [Michell])
[Henry married Catherine Michell 15/7/1738 Ludgvan]
b. 1776+
b. 1776+
Mary
Born circa 1765
b. 1775+
The Will of Katherine Davy dated 7/6/1775, proved 20/5/1778 [CRO Ref. AP/D/1804], named her
daughter Mary, wife of John Nicholls (to receive ‘one guinea to purchase a ring to be kept in
remeberance of me’).The balance of the estate to be given to her friends (and executors) Richard
Nicholls of St Erth, yeoman, and John Edwards of Phillack, merchant (married Joan Polgrene
27/5/1764 Ludgvan), to be used for the sole benefit of his grand-daughter Mary Nicholls (under
the age of 21). The Will was signed by Katherine Davy and witnessed by Christian Michell &
William Grey.
[Richard Nicholls c. 9/1/1737 Phillack is the brother of John. Marriage details: Richard Nicholls,
yeoman of Phillack, married Mary Curnow, spinster of St Erth, 29/4/1760 St Erth – witnessed by
Richard Nicholls & John Curnow. Children of marriage baptised at St Erth: Margery 1761,
Thomas 1762, Richard 1763, & Mary 1776. There is a Gulval burial 9/1/1828 of Richard Nicholls
of Bossallack aged 65 (bringing his birth to circa 1763)]
An Indenture dated 5/5/1763 [CRO Ref. AD/9/3] between Mary Davy (the daughter of Henry
Davy deceased) & Robert Davy of Ludgvan & Richard Nicholls the younger of St Erth, yeoman,
concerning a lease for a year of tenements in Treverthen,Ludgvan, Chirgwin Meadows in St Levan
and Brane in Sancreed.
The Will of Robert Davy, gent of Ludgvan, dated 16/8/1738 (proved 27/10/1738) refers to the
above tenements in Ludgvan, St Levan & Brane, as well as numerous other properties in various
places. Relatives referred to include his wife Jone, son William, son Henry [see above], son
Richard, son Robert, son Edmond, widow Katherine Davy [mother?], daughter Anne, & nieces
Katherine & Mary (daughters of Nicholas Davy).
Records of the Archdeaconry – Citations (CRO Ref ARD/156/956) dated 9/8/1776: Mary
Nicholls, Robert Davy & John Mitchell – testamentary. It concerns a request from the
Archdeaconry of Cornwall Court at Bodmin parish church on 23/8/1776 for an inventory of the
late Robert Davy of Ludgvan, gentleman, who died intestate. Parties include William Davy,
Henry Davy, Edmund Davy, Richard Davy, Robert Davy, John Michell (married Joan Davy
14/2/1737 Ludgvan), and other next-of-kin including Mary Nicholls (the wife of John Nicholls).
There was some dispute regarding the distribution of Robert Davy’s assets, which included an
estate call Varfell in Ludgvan.
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Thomas Nicholls (below)
m.1 Alice Pearce
6/6/1763 (by licence*)
(Thomas & Alice, both of Gulval, with signature of Thomas, tinner, and signature of Alice,
spinster; witnessed by John Pearce & John West. Licence signed by Thomas Nicholls & Joseph
Pearce [Alice’s brother] (both yeomen) [only surviving 18th century licence for Nicholls of
Gulval])
c. 11/2/1739
(Father: John Pearce*/Triphosa [Dunithorne]))
b. 17/9/1816
b. 28/2/1770
(‘Of Trezela, aged 88’)
(‘Wife of Thomas’)
Alice
Jane***
Alice
Jennifer
Thomas**
c. 20/11/1763 c. 9/12/1764 c. 30/11/1766 c. 24/6/1768 c. 28/2/1770
b. 10/9/1765 b. 1816+
b.
b. 11/3/1795 b. 21/9/1855
(Died Tregarris ‘aged 86’)
m. 23/1/1798
(Madron)
Thomas
Tonkin
m.? 25/10/1792
(St Levan)
William
Hodge
Unmarried
Militia List 1761 Gulval (CRO ref X173/64-68): Thomas Nicholls
* John Pearce (of Towednack) married Triphosa at Gulval 28/12/1728. Triphosa was buried at
Gulval 11/5/1770 and John was buried at Gulval 31/1/1792.
** 1841 Census – Higher Garris, Gulval: Thomas Nicholas, 70, agricultural labourer; Richard
Nicholas [presumably brother], 60, agricultural labourer; Grace Nicholas [sister] and Andrew
Nicholas, 4, [refer p162 – grandson of Thomas’s brother Andrew]; also Elizabeth Dunken, 40,
‘keeps school’.
1851 Census – Garris, Gulval: Thomas Nicholls, head, unmarried, 81, parishioner, born Gulval;
Grace Nicholls, sister, unmarried, 55, housekeeper, born Gulval; Andrew Nicholls, lodger,
unmarried, 14, born Gulval (see 1841 census).
*** Marriage details: Both signed their names; witnessed by Thomasin & M. Wright.
Thomas Tonkin baptised 19/11/1766 Paul, son of Thomas & Jane. Possible burial of Jane 1842
Madron - ‘of Union Workhouse, aged 84’
Thomas Nicholls (above/below?) / Anne Jenkins
(Of Gulval, reputed father)
c.? 27/5/1731
Born?
(Parents? Richard/Jane – p34)
b.? 17/9/1816
1771
(Parents: unknown)
b.? 19/3/1801 (‘Ann Jenkin from Penzance’)
Richard Nicholls/Jenkins
c. 10/3/1771
b.
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Thomas Nicholls (above)
m.2 Phillis Hodge* 27/12/1771 (by licence)
(Both of Gulval, with signatures of Thomas and Phillis; witnessed by C. Pennick & Francis
Hodge.) [C. Penneck = Catherine Penneck, c. 1745, dau. of John Pennick, Vicar – Catherine
married William Borlase, Vicar of Madron, 1777.]
(Tinner & yeoman of Gulval 1763, living at Chysauster 1777 & 1782, living at Garris in
1798 & 1803)
c. 10/10/1749 Paul
(Parents: Francis/Grace [Carvosow])
b.? 14/1/1805 (‘Nicholas’)
b. 17/9/1816
Phillis
Richard
c. 18/10/1772 c. 6/3/1774
Stephen
c. 4/8/1776
Grace
John
c. 14/11/1779 c. 3/11/1782
(‘Chisoister’=Chysauster)
b. 1816+
b. 1851+
b. 22/5/1846 b. 20/4/1781 b. 1851+
(‘Died Madron
- Aged 71’)
m. 7/10/1800
(Gulval)
James
White**
m. 24/10/1798 m. 21/1/1804
(Gulval)
(Ludgvan)
Mary
Christian
Bilsborough (p95) Chellew (p109)
m. 20/8/1805
(Madron)
Mary
Spasshatt (p113)
(Of Madron)
Andrew
Charles*** Grace
William
c. 23/10/1785 c. 13/1/1788 c. 22/11/1789 c. 25/7/1792
b. 3/4/1859 b. 1816+
b. 13/9/1857 b. 1816+
(‘Of Tregarris,
Aged 74’)
(‘Of Tregarris,
Aged 64’)
m. 25/8/1810 m.? 21/6/1813 Unmarried
(Gulval)
(Falmouth)
Ann
Sarah
Martins (p118) Terrell
m.? 26/4/1813
(Falmouth)
Ann Hill
Rogers
Window Tax Assessment 6/5/1777 Gulval – Thomas Nicholls of Chysauster, 6 windows, tax 3/-.
26/1/1782 ‘[Mine] Captain Thomas Nicholls work in Chyoister [Chysauster]. Load supplied to
take into Tollcabbas’ [?].
5/3/1787 ‘At Wheal Growan [another mine of William Veale; ‘growan’ = weathered granite] …
account … Thomas Nicholls.’
Land Tax Assessment List 1798 Gulval – Thomas Nicholls of Garris, occupier.
1803 Gulval Militia List of persons between the ages of 15 & 60 (occasionally above the age of
60) together with their livestock, etc. and how armed for general assembly (CRO ref X173/69):
Thomas Nicholls – 2 cows, 7 young cattle & colts, 10 sheep & goats, 5 pigs, 2 draft horses, and
armed with 2 firelocks (another male to be brought along) - may be Thomas Nicholls on p70.
Gulval Will (abstract) of Thomas Nicholls dated 3/8/1816: To sons Thomas, Richard & John one
shilling each; to sons Charles & William one pound each. To daughter Jane Tonkin one pound; to
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daughter Phillis White five shillings; to daughter Grace Nicholls £4 annually for life if single &
one half of household furniture and goods. Sons Stephen & Andrew to receive all the estate in the
Garris (inherited by Thomas after death of his brother Stephen in 1787). Stephen & Andrew are
executors of Will. Witnessed by Philip Calloway (c. 11/8/1792 Ludgvan, son of Philip &
Catherine), John Friggens (c. 1744 Gulval, son of Charles) & Henry Brush (p98), with mark of
Thomas Nicholls.
* Will of Arthur Hodge (brother of Phillis), husbandman of Ludgvan, dated 25/4/1816 and proved
14/5/1817 mentions his wife Frances, brother-in-law Thomas Nicholls of Gulval, brother-in-law
John Wearne and children of John Uren senior - John Uren jnr, James & Grace. Also mentioned
are children to Thomas & Phillis Nicholls – Richard, John, Andrew, Charles, William, Phillis
(White) & Grace. Will witnesses: James Hosking, John William & William Hosking.
** Marriage details: James White & Phillis both signed. Witnessed and signed by Charles
Richards [m. Catherine Gale 1/1/1795 Gulval] and Thomas Bond.
James White baptised 1/1/1771 Gulval, son of Nicholas. James ‘of Boskinning, aged 56’ buried
Madron 10/2/1827.
*** No known children to marriage of Charles & Sarah. The marriage of Charles seems uncertain
– refer census below.
1851 Census – Bodriggy, Gwinear: Charles Nicholas, 56, unmarried, farm servant, born Gulval;
with William Vivian, farmer of 32 acres, & wife.
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William Nicholls
m.
Blanch Body
2/2/1764
(William Nicholls, tinner of Gulval, and Blanch Body of the town of Penzance in the parish of
Madron; signatures of William & Blanch, with signatures of witnesses - William Body & John
Green junior.)
c. 27/12/1736
c. 18/10/1738 Madron
(Parents: William/Dorcas [Daniel])
b. 31/1/1816 Madron
b. 10/10/1819 Madron
(‘Of Trewren, Madron aged 82’)
(‘Of Trewren, Madron aged 85’)
William
Andrew
John
Catherine
(Private baptism)
c. 6/1/1765
c. 12/3/1769
c. 8/11/1771
c. 25/7/1773
(Gulval)
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 29/8/1790 b. 9/1/1802
Madron
b. 22/5/1776 b. 2/4/1815
Madron
St Hilary
(‘Aged 25’)
(‘Infant’)
(‘Pauper’)
m. 6/8/1792
(Gulval)
Grace
Bassett (p84)
(‘Of Lower Downs, widow, 42’)
m. 14/10/1798
(Madron)
John
Phillips*
Blanche**
Mary****
c. 18/10/1775 c. 18/10/1777
Andrew
c. 25/4/1779
Anne***
c. 24/8/1782
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 1798+
b. 7/1/1842
Gulval
b. 25/7/1779 b. 30/10/1846
Madron
Madron
m. 10/3/1798
(Madron)
Henry
Cock
(‘Of Boskednan, aged 65’)
(‘Of Mulfra, aged 65’)
m. 4/10/1800
(Madron)
Francis
Laury/Lawry
m. 16/9/1809
(Madron)
Nicholas
Warren
* John Phillips ‘of Penzance’ buried Madron 22/5/1833, aged 70.
** Marriage details: Both made their signs; witnessed by John Cock & John Phillips.
Henry Cock baptised 27/8/1769 Madron, son of William. Henry Cock ‘of Sancreed’ buried
Madron 13/10/1821, aged 50. Admon of William Cock, yeoman of Gulval, dated 14/2/1801,
granted to son Henry Cock. Refer William Cock on p51, p63, p70 & p91.
*** 1841 Census – Mulfra, Madron: Nicholas Warren, 55, tin miner; wife Ann, 55; children:
William, 15; Archelaus, 13; Elizabeth, 12, servant.
Nicholas Warren buried 8/1/1845 Madron (‘Of Ninnis, aged 61’).
**** 1841 Census – Tredennack, Gulval: Mary Lawry, 65, labourer; Catherine Lawry, 15;
William Ford, 12.
Francis Lawry buried 1/5/1839 Gulval (‘Of Tredinnick, aged 63’)
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John Nicholls
m.
Grace Richards 9/1/1765 Madron
(John Nicholls of Gulval and Grace of Madron, with the signature of John Nicholls & the mark of
Grace; witnessed by David Preha [?] and John Wallis.)
(Yeoman)
c. 2/2/1723
c. 23/5/1734 Madron
b. 19/2/1806 (‘Died Carfury’)
(Parents: Thomas/Dinah [Cisley])
b. 28/2/1824 (‘Died Carfury aged 90’)
Gulval Will (abstract) of John Nicholls dated 9/1/1806: To loving wife Grace an annuity of £7.
Daughter Mary to receive an annuity of £1/10/- with the proviso that ‘in case my said daughter
shall enforce any demand for wages or other services whilst living with me or pretended to be
rendered by her to me; then it is my Will that one shilling only be paid her in full satisfaction for
all her legacy’.
In the event of son John Nicholls dying without legitimate issue then daughter Mary to ‘enjoy the
rest and residue of my said estate in Carfury’ under the special condition ‘that she do not marry
with Philip Rogers’ [refer p41-42 – Philip Rogers (born 1776) was the son of Phillip Rogers who
married Christiana Nicholls in 1776]. ‘If she [Mary] do in despite of all my advice and caution;
then give her five shillings only after the death of her brother, and the remainder of my estate give
to the said John Nicholls of Trevean.’
Nett residue and remainder of any estate ‘to Cyprian Nicholls of Ninnis, Madron, yeoman, John
Sherris Brown of Chyandower [Chyandour], Madron, yeoman, and John Nicholls of Trevean
Madron*, yeoman, IN TRUST to and for the sole use and benefit of my son John Nicholls’ [John
Sherris Brown c. 12/3/1780 Madron, father: Tobias.] Cyprian appears to be a distant cousin to
John, as well as being a near neighbour. Will was witnessed by Andrew Stevens (of Carfury) & N.
Wright, with signature of John Nicholls.
* John Nicholls of Trevean is the son of Hugh Nicholls (p44) – Hugh was at Carfury in 1777.
Probably the lease was under three lives and reverted to John Nicholls (1723-1806) after the death
of Hugh in 1777. Hugh’s son John probably was buried at Gulval in 1809 (see p44) – his
marriage to Margaret Coney is in doubt although he may have had a daughter Margaret, c.
15/12/1771 Madron, buried 3/10/1825 Madron, ‘of Trevean, aged 54’.
Mary***
c. 15/9/1765
b. 3/2/1838
Grace
John**
Hugh
Martha
c. 20/4/1767 c. 24/2/1771 c. 4/4/1774 c. 7/7/1776
b. 12/6/1767 b. 20/12/1829 b. 29/9/1779 b. 3/1/1797
(‘Of Higher Hellangove,)
Aged 73’)
(Died 17/12/1829,
Yeoman of Carfury
‘Aged 59’)
Unmarried
Window Tax Assessment 6/5/1777 Gulval – John Nicholls of Bodrifty (near Carfury), 3 windows,
tax 3/-. Hugh Nicholls (buried 15/8/1777) was at Carfury at this time (4 windows, 3/-); other
Carfury residents were Andrew Stevens (7 windows), William Lanyon (6), Jacob Trythall (6) and
John (surname illegible) 6 windows.
Window Tax 1796-7: John Nicholls of Carfury, 4 windows (same dwelling as Hugh’s in 1777?).
Land Tax 1798 for occupiers at Carfury: John Nicholls, William Cock (p51, p62, p70 & p91),
Andrew Stevens & Richard Stevens.
** The names of all Miners & Working Tinners between the ages of 15 & 60 years living within
the parish of Gulval 23rd April 1798 mentions John Nicholls junior, aged 24 [?], as being deaf.
This may explain his unmarried state.
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and how armed for general assembly (CRO ref X173/69): John Nicholls (above?) - 1 man (driver
of cart), 2 cows, 2 young cattle & colts, 1 pig, 2 draft horses, and armed with pitchfork.
Manor of Trezula & Mulfra - Rents for 1831 (1787 Rent Book – revised 1831):
Lessee John Nicholls [deceased]: Carfury Wollas – 3/1½d, Carfury Wollas other parts – 3/1½d.
The possessions of John (1771-1829), died intestate, valued at under £200, went to a niece, Ann
Uren, in 1839 (refer p56-57). Court documents have the signature of James Uren, John Uren and
the mark of Ann Uren.
*** Lessee Mary Nicholls – house & garden (now known as ‘The Willows’) – plot 10 (plot 95 on
Tithe Map) owned by James Buller. Rent notes: 1/6 Carfury Wollas, tenant Mary Nicholls under
lives of Andrew Stevens, Thomas Glasson***** & Mary Nicholls.
Other landowners include Andrew Stevens*** (3/6 Carfury Wartha (Upper)), George Alexander
Stevens**** (3/6 Carfury Wollas (Lower)) and William Harvey (1/6 Carfury Wollas). Lessee
William Lawry – Carfury Wartha rent 4/- + Boskednan Wollas & other parts.
*** Probably Andrew Stevens (1732-1823) [son of Andrew (1704-1778) who married
Joan Nicholls 1728 (p28)], who died at Carfury. Son Andrew (1768-1841) also died at
Carfury – Will proved 1844 mentions lands etc ‘now in occupation of myself and
William Lawry and others’ to be sold.
**** George Alexander Stevens (1785-1854) [son of Richard Stevens of Tredinnick
(1743-1824), another son of Andrew Stevens (1704-1778]. George married Christina
Chellew 1809 St Ives, who died Carfury 1832.
***** Thomas Glasson buried Madron 1832 – ‘of Breage, aged 84’. Son Thomas
baptised Gulval 1799.
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Andrew Nicholls
m.
Christian Richards*
19/2/1765
(Andrew, tinner of Gulval & Christian, spinster of Gulval; married by John Penneck, Vicar; with
the signs of Andrew & Christian; witnessed with signatures by Blanch Nicholls [sister-in-law of
Andrew] and John Green).
c. 19/5/1739
c. 26/10/1746
(Parents: Francis**/Elizabeth*** [Friggens])
b. 23/4/1828 (‘Catherine’ - see below)
(‘Of Carnequidden, aged 83’)
b. 9/3/1789 or 5/1/1793
(Refer p53 for other Andrew)
Andrew
c. 4/5/1766
John
William***** Christiana / Catherine****
c. 14/2/1768 c. 12/8/1770 c. 23/8/1772
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 8/3/1767
b. 31/12/1822 b. 9/6/1774
b. 27/6/1774
(‘Of Ludgvan’)
(‘Of St Ives’)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(‘Of St Ives’)
m. 25/9/1795
(Madron)
Grace
Baynard (p87)
William
c. 14/5/1775
Francis
c. 1/1/1778
Francis
c. 19/3/1780
Christiana******
c. 11/5/1783
(St Ives)
(St Ives)
(Gulval)
(Zennor)
b. 10/4/1832 b. 9/2/1779
b. 2/9/1868
b.? 1/10/1851
Sennen
(‘Of Ding Dong, aged 88’) (‘Of Cove Hill, aged 60’)
m. 28/4/1804
(Ludgvan)
Mary
Phillips (p111)
m. 9/10/1802
(Gulval)
Grace
Hosking (p107)
m.1/4/1801
(Madron)
Richard
Nicholas
(By licence)
Hugh
c. 30/7/1786
Thomas
c. 18/5/1788
(Zennor)
(Gulval)
Died 18/5/1849
b. 29/3/1789 b. 26/1/1789
(South Australia)
Andrew
c.?
(‘Son of Andrew Nicholls’)
m. 7/9/1806
(Ludgvan)
Mary
James (p115)
Militia List 1761 Gulval (CRO ref X173/64-68): Andrew Nicholls of Carfury (refer Carfury
reference p38).
Records of the Archdeaconry Court – Citations (CRO Ref ARD/156/847) for 1772: Andrew
Nicholls, Gulval – Tithes (Andrew above or Andrew p53?).
* Window Tax List 1796-7 Gulval – Kitty Nicholls of Churchtown, Gulval.
Catherine Nicholls was buried 23/4/1828 Gulval, aged 83 (born circa 1746), of Carnequidden,
Gulval – son Hugh Nicholls was a labourer of Carnequidden during years 1824 -1829. Burial
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recorded as ‘Catherine’ rather than ‘Christiana – the names being interchangeable in other
instances, for example her daughter Christiana.
Christian Richards is descended from the Clemow alias Carfury family of Carfury who were
residents there from the 16th century as indicated on the Cornwall Muster Roll of 1569.
** Concerning the father of Christiana – Francis Richards. The Will of John Richards, tinner,
dated 21/6/1718, proved 6/5/1719, leaves to his brother Francis 1/6th part of Beskednan Wartha
(Boskednan – near Carfury) in Gulval. The Will of Francis (senior), yeoman, 1738, proved 1740,
leaves to his son Francis (Christiana’s father), an estate in Beswedna Wartha (Boskednan
Wartha?) in Gulval. The 1790 Gulval Will of Francis Richards left his daughter Christian, wife of
Andrew Nicholls, the sum of one shilling.
[Manor Rental 1716 Trezela & Mulfra (owned by James Buller) mentions Francis Richards of
Boskednan Wartha 2/7d.]
*** The Will of John Friggens dated 8/11/1774 gives to his granddaughter Christiana, wife of
Andrew Nicholls, one guinea.
**** The burial entry of Catherine in 1774 states ‘daughter of the above-mentioned Andrew
Nicholls of St Ives’.
The name ‘Catherine’ has occasionally be substituted for ‘Christiana’. It is most probable that the
above Catherine and Christiana are the same person, explaining the absence of a Gulval burial for
Christiana and the absence of a Gulval baptism for Catherine.
***** The burial entry of William in 1774 states ‘son of Andrew Nicholls, formerly of Gulval but
now of St Ives’.
****** The marriage of Christiana Nicholls to Richard Nicholas seems correct. The marriage of
Christiana’s niece Christiana (daughter of Francis & Grace (p107) was witnessed by Richard
Nickless, John Nicholls & Ann Richards.
There is a marriage of an unidentified Christiana Nicholls 22/5/1804 Gulval to Thomas Smith.
Marriage details: Christiana Nicolls & Thomas Smith both of Gulval, with signature of Thomas &
mark of Christiana. Witnessed by William … [?] & Thomas Gray. Further research required
Children of Thomas & Christiana Smith – Joseph c. 9/9/1804, twins Francis & Thomas c.
17/4/1808, Sarah c. 6/8/1809 and Kitty c. 25/12/1811 – all at Gulval. In each instance the
mother’s name is recorded as Catherine or Catharine. Thomas Smith was either buried at Gulval
4/8/1830 ‘aged 56’ or at Madron in 1845 (died Madron Union Workhouse - ‘of Penzance aged
63’).
Details of marriage of Richard Nicholas to Christiana Nicholls: Richard of Madron put his
signature, Christiana her mark. Marriage witnessed by John Cock & W. Wright.
Richard c. 5/1/1777 Madron, son of Francis & Catherine [Williams]; buried 12/4/1848 Gulval
‘Richard Nickless of Breage, aged 72’. The probable burial of Christiana Nicholas is 1/10/1851
Sennen (‘Of Cove Hill, aged 60’).
Children of marriage:
Richard c. 2/10/1803 Madron, buried 1841+, married 11/11/1826 Gulval to Margaret Pearce
William c. 25/5/1806 Sancreed, buried 2/1/1859 Gulval (‘Of Churchtown, aged 53’), married
17/2/1835 Gulval to Mary Saundry, widow; married a 2nd time 9/10/1841 Gulval to Elizabeth
Barns.
Christiana c. 12/4/1807 Sancreed, buried 20/5/1884 Gulval (‘Of Towednack, aged 77’), married
27/3/1830 Gulval to William Pearce (brother of Margaret)
Francis c. 26/6/1808 Gulval, buried 25/10/1872 Gulval (‘Of Barleygrove, aged 64’), married
28/7/1832 Gulval to Catherine James
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John c. 7/4/1810 Gulval, buried 14/4/1815 Gulval (‘Of Boscreege, aged 5’)
Henry c. 10/11/1811 Gulval, buried 28/8/1860 Madron (‘Aged 49’), married 16/8/1834 Gulval to
Grace Bosence
Mary c. 20/6/1813 Gulval, buried 1/11/1833 (‘Aged 20’)
Elizabeth c. 16/7/1815 Gulval
Catherine c. 24/3/1817 Gulval, buried 10/8/1818 Gulval (‘Of Boscreege, aged 1’)
Catherine c. 11/4/1819 Gulval, buried 1845+, married 26/7/1845 Gulval to Christopher Carbis
Maria c. 27/8/1820 Gulval
Eliza c. 8/12/1822 Gulval, married 26/7/1845 Gulval to John Martins
Jane c. 6/2/1825 Gulval, buried 1851+
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Henry Nicholls/Nickles*
c. 21/5/1737 St Ives
m.
(Father: John Nickles – other children:
Richard 1736 & Mary 1739 at St Ives)
b.? 30/8/1804 (‘Pauper’)
Mary
Ann(e)***
Mary
circa 1765 Ireland
c. circa 1739
(Parents?)
b.? 16/2/1814 (‘Died Penzance aged 75’)
John***
Henry
Michael**
(Private baptism)
c.?
c.? 4/4/1769
c.? 26/9/1769 c. 23/4/1772
c. 14/4/1775
(Ireland?)
(Paul)
(Paul)
(Gulval)
(Madron)
b. 1785+
b. 1785+
b. 5/8/1794?
b. 25/4/1772 b. 1821
(‘Pauper’)
m. 13/9/1783
(Ludgvan)
Henry
James
m1. 2/2/1802
(Budock)
Ann
Butcher
m2. 10/5/1806
(Madron)
Jane
Batten (Widow)
Elizabeth
c. 4/1/1778
Henry
c. 1/10/1780
George
c. 24/10/1784
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Gulval)
b. 1785+
b.? 25/9/1836
b.? 8/6/1849
(Madron)
(Madron)
(‘Of Penzance, aged 58’) (‘Of Union Workhouse, aged 68’)
* As per Gulval Settlement Examination DDX506/119 at Cornwall Record Office: Henry Nicholls
12/11/1785 Gulval ‘[He is] aged about 52 years, born St Ives, Mary his wife and children Mary, Ann, John, Michael,
Elizabeth, Henry and George. Father removed to Gulval when he was an infant where he rented
some mills called Boslewarna Mills. Lived with father till he enlisted as a soldier and married his
wife in Ireland and that about 20 years ago he returned to the parish of Gulval and has since lived
there and in the parishes of Madron and Ludgvan. [He] constantly worked as a day labourer.’
Signed Henry Nicholls
** At time of first marriage Michael was of Madron, a private in the Cornwall Militia. There is a
Bond (dated 20/6/1821 at Penzance) upon the Admon of the goods of Michael Nicholls,
gentleman, granted to Jane Nicholls of Penzance, widow of the deceased. No inventory given.
Bond contains the signatures of Jane Nicholls, John Mathews and William Leggoe.
2nd marriage details: Michael & Jane both signed (possibly filled in by someone else); witnessed
by M. Wright & John Wright.
*** Anne c. 4/4/1769 Paul – daughter of Henry & Mary, John c. 26/9/1769 Paul – son of Henry &
Mary [no explanation for five months between baptisms other than the family arriving from
Ireland in early 1769].
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Stephen Nicholls
m.
Elisabeth Cook
8/12/1766 Bodmin
(Stephen Nichols & Elisabeth Cook both of Bodmin, with her mark. Witnessed by William
Williams & John Jeffery)
c. 7/3/1739 Breage
c. circa 1740
(Parents: Thomas/Sarah – p45)
(Parents?)
(‘Pauper’)
Peter
c. 3/4/1768
Sarah
Hester/Esther Stephen
Elisabeth
c. 24/12/1769 c. 24/12/1769 c. 15/12/1771 c. 17/1/1773
(Bodmin)
(Bodmin)
b. 1806+
b.? 19/11/1787b. 22/12/1787 b.
b. 12/1/1780
(Uny Lelant)
(‘Pauper’)
(Uny Lelant)
(‘Esther; pauper’)
(Uny Lelant)
Jane
c.?
John
John
Elisabeth
c. 17/10/1779 c. 24/10/1783 c. 15/5/1785
(Bodmin)
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
m. 26/3/1798
(Uny Lelant)
Ann
Stratton (p94)
Mary
c. 24/9/1775
(Uny Lelant)
b.
(Uny Lelant)
(Bodmin)
b. 8/4/1777
b. 12/1/1780 b.
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
b.
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Thomas Nicholls (below)
m.1
Blanch Cock 20/1/1770
(Blanch a spinster of Gulval signed her name & Thomas, tinner, put his sign; witnessed by
William Cock (p51, p62, p63 & p91) & James Green.)
(Tinner)
(Yeoman, living at Bosoljack 1775-1810)
c. 8/3/1747 Madron
(Parents: Henry/Anne - p38)
b. 3/10/1810 Madron (‘Of Gulval’)
Thomas
c. 7/7/1772
c. 27/11/1743 Madron
(Parents: William*/Anne [Daniel])
Henry
c. 5/3/1775
Cyprian
c. 8/9/1782
(‘Of Bosoljack’)
(‘Of Besoljack’)
b. 11/4/1823 Madron
(‘Of Ludgvan, aged 52’) (‘Of New Bridge, Sancreed aged 70’) (‘Of Sancreed, aged 39’)
b. 26/10/1825 Madron b. 15/1/1850 Madron
m. 24/6/1795
(Towednack)
Thomasine
Roach (p86)
m. 22/1/1796
(Gulval)
Mary
Simons (p89)
m. 29/2/1812
(Sancreed)
Anne
Warren (p119)
Blanch*
c. 6/9/1795
(‘Of Bosoljack’)
b.
Window Tax Assessment 6/5/1777 Gulval – Thomas Nicholls of Bosoljack, 5 windows, tax 3/-.
Window Tax 1796-7 Gulval – Thomas Nicholls of Bosoljack, 6 windows
Tax List 1798 Gulval – Thomas Nicholls of Bosoljack
Land Tax Assessment 1798 Gulval – Thomas Nicholls of Bosoljack, occupier
Land Tax 1799 Gulval – Thomas Nicholls of Bosoljack, tax 6/9¼d
Thomas Nicholls – 2 cows, 5 young cattle & colts, 6 sheep & goats, 4 pigs, 4 draft horses, 1 cart,
and armed with a firelock and bringing one billhook (another male also brought along) - may be
Thomas Nicholls on p60.
* Burial of William Cock at Madron 7/5/1797 - probably the father or brother of Blanch Cock.
William Cock baptised 28/11/1735 Madron (presumably died young) & baptized 10/1/1746
Madron, both sons of William. Refer pages 51, 62, 63 & 91 for William Cock.
** The burial of Blanch is assumed to be that of her mother because in the case of an infant death
it was generally noted as such. She is not mentioned in her father’s Will however this may be
because the Will was written in 1804 when she would have been 9 years of age.
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m.2
Mary Nickless
20/2/1797
(Thomas, widower, put an ‘x’ and Mary, spinster of Madron, signed her name ‘Mary Nicholls’.
Marriage witnessed by Thomas Hicks & James Green.)
(Widower, yeoman)
c. 8/3/1747 Madron
(Of Madron)
c.? 19/8/1750 Madron
(Parents: Henry/Anne –p41)
(Parents? Richard Nicholas/Elizabeth [Jelbart])
b. 1810+
[Note: If Mary’s parents are correct then Mary’s brother Richard was married to Thomas
Nicholls’s sister Margaret – p41. Also Mary’s other brother Francis married Catharine Williams
1770 Gulval. However there is a doubt as there is a death of a Mary Nicholas 26/8/1750 at
Madron – IGI Film Batch No P001692 (same batch number as for baptism). This needs further
investigation as no other Mary Nickless can be found from Madron.]
No Issue of this marriage
Gulval Will (abstract) of Thomas Nicholls dated 5/11/1804 (proved 10/12/1810): To son Henry
one shilling; to son Thomas my wearing apparel. To wife Mary half of my household goods and
furniture, and half of all stock (‘settled upon her and secured to her use by me to an article of
settlement executed before our marriage’). To his son Cyprian the other half of my household
goods, furniture and stock; wife Mary and son Cyprian to be joint and equal executors. Will
signed with the mark of Thomas Nicholls.
A Will written 12/2/1810 by Elizabeth Lugg of Madron, spinster, mentions Mary, wife of Thomas
Nicholls of Bosoljack. The Will was proved 11/8/1810 to Elizabeth’s uncle Richard Uren.
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Samuel Nicholls
m.
Frances Quick*
29/1/1770 Madron
(Signature of Samuel (of HMS ‘Wolf’) and mark of Frances (of Penzance); witnessed by William
Hoskens & Daniel Millers.)
c.? 13/4/1744 St Ives
c. 29/2/1752 Penzance
(Father? Michael – refer page 28) (Parents: Thomas/ Elizabeth [Nichols]
– c. 13/10/1723 Paul, daughter of John Nichols)
b. 1781+
b.? 23/11/1836 Penzance (‘Aged 101’???)
Francis
c. 14/6/1771
Loveday**
c. 1/1/1773
(Penzance)
(Penzance)
b.
b. 1796/7
Illegitimate children of Frances
Mary***
c. 18/7/1792
Elizabeth****
c. 27/7/1794
Loveday*****
c. 25/2/1798
John******
c. 5/9/1802
(Penzance)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b.
b.? 11/8/1820
b. 16/4/1818
b.
Penzance St Mary
Penzance St Mary
(‘Of Penzance, aged 25’) (‘Of Penzance, aged 20’)
m. 8/9/1817
(Gulval)
Thomas
Hugh
* Bastardy Bond 21/1/1793 – CRO ref P77/15/10: Bond to indemnify the parish of Gulval against
pregnancy of Frances Nicholls. Bond by John Thomas Cunnack, gentleman, Penzance (father of
child) & James Cunnack & William Edmunde
From the publication ‘The Laws of Settlement in Gulval Parish, 1739 – 1821’ by Dr. John Rowe –
The 120th Annual Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society (1953), pages 18–31 [CRO
reference X506/62-163 inclusive]:
‘Rather different, however, was the case of Frances Nicholls in January 1796. She said she was 44
years of age and had married Samuel Nicholls a seaman when she had been 18. She had heard
nothing of him since the time he had been serving on the warship Raven 14 or 15 years before, but
she believed that he was dead. [She went] on to say that she had never heard him say where he
was born or where he had a legal settlement; all she knew for certainty was the fact that he was a
Welshman and that she herself had been born in Penzance. On the same occasion the justices
examined Loveday Nicholls, a 21 year old girl, probably the daughter of the other woman, who
had also been in Penzance but had served as a parish apprentice for two years to a Gulval man
who had gone off to London early in 1794. It was the plight of the younger woman that seems to
have led to the appearance of both before the magistrates, but it does not seem that on this
occasion the overseers were able to shift the two women and an expected illegitimate child to
some other parish.’
Further inspection of Gulval Settlement Papers DDX506/118 at Cornwall Record Office: Frances
Nicholls 7/1/1796 –
Husband Samuel boatswain of Wolf, Sloop of War. Frances lived at Penzance with parents &
relations at time of marriage. Samuel was last heard of as being on Raven, Ship of War, 14 or 15
years ago.
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Relief for the Poor of Gulval 1825:
Fanny Nicholls £2/11/Relief for the Poor of Gulval 1826:
Frances Nicholls £2/19/6
Frances Nicholls – blanket 4/6d, bed sheets 1/6d, relief 6/6d, relief 1/-, shift 3/9d, handkerchief 1/3d,
shoes 3/1d.
** As per Gulval Settlement Papers DDX506/121 at Cornwall Record Office: Loveday Nicholls
7/1/1796 Gulval –
‘Born as heard and believes in Penzance, about 24 years old. When about 15 [he was] apprenticed
to John Richards, carpenter, until 21. [He] served about 2 years of apprenticeship when he went to
London. Left behind in Penzance and has ever since resided with mother. Despondent is now
pregnant with child, which is likely to be born a bastard and to be chargeable to Gulval.’
“X” Mark of Loveday Nicholls
** Christening of another child named Loveday to Frances in 1798 would indicate that first
Loveday had died.
*** Mary’s mother Frances referred to a ‘pauper’ in church baptismal records.
**** Elizabeth ‘base child of Frances Nicholls’; sworn father of Elizabeth John Hosking of Uny
Lelant. Possible burial of Elizabeth Nicholls aged 26 at Penzance St Mary 11/8/1820.
Possible illegitimate child, John Nicholls, baptised 18/5/1818 Penzance St Mary - marriage of
John Nicholls to Sophia Hill 1/1/1838 Madron, witnessed by William Hill (Sophia’s father) &
Elizabeth Webb (neighbour). John gave following details: shoemaker of Penzance, aged 19,
father: William Nicholls, shoemaker (seemingly incorrect as untraceable).
1841 Census – Coinage Hall Street, Penzance: William Hill, 55, shipwright; wife Arabella, 50;
daughters Elizabeth, 20 & Eliza,12; John Nicholas, 20, shoemaker & wife Sophia, 20, with
children Fanny, 3, & John, 6 months. Note: Frances/Fanny seemingly named after her paternal
grandmother.
1851 Census – Cornish’s Square, Penzance: John Nichols, head, 32, shoemaker, born Penzance;
wife Sophia, 33, born St Michael’s Mount; children (all born Penzance): John, 11, scholar;
William, 7, scholar; Margaret, 5, scholar; Benjamin, 2.
1851 Census – Quay Street, Penzance: Fanny Nicholls, 12, born in Penzance, with grandmother
Arabella Hill, head, widow, 65, nurse, born Penzance.
***** Thomas Hugh a widower, Loveday a spinster. Marriage witnessed by Thomas Proud &
Elizabeth Nowing. Thomas Hugh baptised 9/5/1779 Penzance, son of Thomas.
****** John, son of Frances, was born when she was 50 years old or else a late baptism.
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Thomas Nicholls
m.
Elisabeth Edwards 5/2/1770 Uny Lelant
(Thomas, tinner of Lelant & Elisabeth Edwards of Gulval, with the signature of Thomas & the
sign of Elisabeth; witnessed by William Humphries & John Cogare)
c.? 27/7/1746 Landhydrock
(Parents: Thomas/Sarah – p45)
(Parents? Thomas/Grace)
b. 1779+
b.
Elisabeth
c. 27/6/1773
Ann
c. 7/7/1776
Alice
c. 7/11/1779
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
b.
b.
b.
John Nichols*
m.
Margaret Coney
28/8/1770 Madron
(Both of the town of Penzance, Madron, with signatures of John Nichols & Margaret; witnessed
by Charles Coney & James Batten)
Note: Witness James Batten married Anne Nichols 12/2/1733 Madron – an Ann Nichols c.
27/12/1711 Paul, daughter of John Nichols (m. Alice Bodinnar 6/1/1710 Paul); also a John
Nicholls c. 13/10/1717 Paul, son of John Nichols - married at Paul 7/2/1742 Elizabeth Nicholls [c.
3/11/1717 Paul, dau of Henry Nichols].
[Not associated with the Nicholls of Gulval]
c. 10/3/1744 Paul
(Parents: John/Elizabeth [Nicholls])
(Parents: George/Mary [George])
b. 1771+
b. 1771+
Margaret
c. 15/12/1771
(Madron)
b. 3/10/1825
(Madron)
(‘Of Trevean, aged 54’)
* Originally thought to be John Nicholls c. 13/4/1735 Gulval, son of Hugh & Mary (p44) but John
c. 10/3/1744 Paul, son of John & Elizabeth more likely.
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Henry Nicholls
m.
Margery Wallish
13/2/1776 Madron
(Henry of Gulval and Margery of Madron; with the signs of Henry & Margery; witnessed by
William Frethy (p30 & p87 & flow scheme on p258) & William Morrish [William Murrish buried
Madron 1829 – ‘of Boskinning aged 83’])
(At Bosoljack 1801 & 1805)
c. 27/1/1745 Madron
c. 21/5/1749 Madron
(Parents: Henry/Ann – p41)
(Parents: John/Anne [Boskinning])
b. 17/7/1805 Madron
b. 1805+
(‘Of Gulval’)
(? Margery Nicholas buried Madron 1/4/1827 –
‘Of Bosiliack aged 80’)
Gulval Will of Henry Nicholls (abstract) dated 28/6/1805 (proved 14/5/1806): To wife Margery
for the remainder of her life my dwelling house with the little new house in the end of it, and the
gardens and premises, in Bosoljack, Gulval, together with three little fields (parcels) at
Boskenning, Madron, and use of household furniture except as hereafter mentioned. To daughter
Christian (commonly called Kitty) the bed, bedstead and bedding whereon she now sleeps, my
large looking glass [mirror], my little new house and garden (‘from and after her mother’s decease
during the remainder of the lease’) ‘and I recommend it to her to live in peace and quiet with her
mother’. To son Henry ‘my said little premises’; to Mrs. Ann Vinicombe of Madron Churchtown
under and subject to the repayment of £3; to daughters Jane Mann, Margery Matthews, Elizabeth
Nicholls & Ann Nicholls ten shillings annually. Wife Margery to be sole executrix; witnessed by
Christian Ellies & M. Wright, with the sign of Henry Nicholls.
Jennifer/Jane**
c. 2/6/1776
b. 28/11/1856
Madron
Henry
24/8/1777
b. 25/9/1836
Madron
Margery***
25/7/1779
b. 15/3/1852
Madron
Elizabeth
c. 7/10/1781
b. 12/6/1843
St Just
(‘Of Chyandour, aged 82’) (‘Of Penzance, aged 58’) (‘Of Church Town, 72’)
(‘Carnyorth, 63’)
m. 1/2/1800
(Madron)
James
Mann
m. 14/2/1800
(Madron)
Anne
Murish (p100)
m. 29/9/1804
(Madron)
Charles
Matthews
m.? 15/2/1817
(Madron)
Samuel
Rodda****
Ann
c. 21/11/1784
b.
Christian* (Kitty)
c. 2/9/1787
b. 5/5/1878
Grace
c. 25/12/1791
b. 3/11/1797 Madron
(‘Infant from Gulval’)
m.? 26/8/1810
(Madron)
William
Dunstan
m. 24/11/1821 (‘Catherine’)
(Gulval)
William
Nay/Noy (of Madron)
23/7/1787 ‘Rode up to Wheal Growan [mine of William Veale] in the morning; two fathoms set to
drive in the sink to H. Nicholls & partners for £5/5/-.’
parish of Gulval 23rd April 1798 mentions Henry, aged 49 [?] years, and son Henry, aged 19 years.
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Arrears for Corn sold at Kennegy, Gulval on Parish account 1801 (CRO Overseers papers)
mentions Henry Nicholls of Bosoljack in May & June 1801.
Henry Nicholls – 3 sheep & goats, 1 pig, and not armed.
* Marriage witnessed by Elizabeth Freethy & Henry Bottrell. Child of marriage, William Henry
Noy, buried Madron 1828 – ‘of Boselin [?], Gulval, aged 5’.
Tithe Map 1831 – William & Kitty Noy living at Bosoljack Cottage, the next dwelling leading up
Bone Valley from Bosoljack Farm.
1841 Census – Trythal, Gulval – William Noy, wife Kitty, son Thomas 15, son James 13, Grace
Noy, 70. Follow up the road from Bosoljack Farm towards Carfury – 1st dwelling on left.
1851 Census – Trythal, Gulval: William Noy, head, 55, farmer of 25 acres, born Morva[h]; wife
Cathrine, 61, born Gulval; son James, unmarried, 25, employed on the farm, born Gulval;
daughter Grace, unmarried, 21, employed on the farm, born Gulval.
1861 Census – Trythal, Gulval: William Noy, 65, born Morvah; wife Catherine [Kitty], 72; son
James, 32, born Gulval & his wife Elizabeth, 36, born Lelant (nee Berryman) & children. Son
Thomas, 36, born Gulval married to Wilmot, living at Boskednan.
1871 Census – Trythal, Gulval: Catherine Noy, head, widow, 82, at Trythall Croft with
granddaughter Catherine, 20, unmarried.
Son Thomas Noy with 2nd wife Caroline living at Boskednan in 1881 and at Trythall in 1891.
Wife Caroline died 14/10/1899 aged 61; buried Gulval. Thomas died 4/12/1912, aged 88; buried
Gulval.
Son James Noy remains at Trythall up to his death 4/11/1892. Thomas, son of James, & wife
Thomasin were living at Carfury in 1891.
** The names of Jane & Jennifer (or Jenny) are occasionally interchangeable. Refer marriage of
Cyprian junior on p93 and also Jennifer Corin (daughter of Phillip & Ann Corin) on p53.
Marriage details: Both made their mark; witnessed by Henry Nicholls.
James Mann baptised 2/5/1771 Madron, son of James.
1841 Census – Boswarthen, Madron: James Mann, 70, agricultural labourer; wife Jane, 65; Grace,
25; Richard, 20, tin dresser; Jane, 7.
1851 Census – Chyandour, Gulval: Jane Mann, widow, 76, widow of a labourer, born Gulval;
children (all born Madron): Grace, unmarried, 32; Richard, unmarried, 30, tin smelter; Jane,
unmarried, 16.
Age of Jane in 1841 is 65 putting birth circa 1776 (although 1841 Census generally has age to
nearest 5 years).
James Mann buried Madron 1846 – ‘of Chyandour aged 74’. Jane Mann buried Madron 1856 –
‘of Chyandour aged 82’.
*** Marriage details: Charles signed & Margery made her mark. Witnessed by John Matthews &
William Rowe [?].
Charles Matthews buried Madron 30/8/1835 - ‘of Boswarthen aged 54’. Margery Matthews
buried Madron 1852 – ‘of Churchtown aged 72’.
1841 Census – Boswarthen, Madron: Margery Matthews, 60, independent; Thomas Matthews, 20,
agricultural labourer; Jane Matthews, 16. Children baptised Madron: Ann 13/8/1805 (married
Richard Nicholls 4/12/1826 – refer p139); William 17/9/1807; Charles 21/8/1808; Charles
19/6/1809; Margery 29/11/1813 (married Phillip Rowe Pengilly 17/8/1833 – living Bodrifty
1841): Eliza 24/6/1816; & John 14/3/1819 (married Mary Ann Arundell of Boswarthen 30/5/1840
– living at Boswarthen 1851).
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1851 Census – Madron: Margery Matthews, head, widow, 71, lodging house keeper, born Gulval;
& daughter Jane Guy, 26, widow, lodging house keeper, born Madron; & 3 lodgers.
**** Samuel Rodda baptised 18/11/1785 St Hilary, son of James & Mary. Samuel buried Madron
1847 – ‘of Breage aged 71’.
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m.1
Margaret Edwards 5/2/1776 Towednack
(Richard [Nicols] & Margaret both of Towednack, with signature of Richard & mark of Margaret;
witnessed by Christopher Michell and Richard Curnow [c. 5/1/1741 Towednack])
c. 15/7/1753
c. 9/2/1751 Towednack
(Parents: Richard/Tamesin – p46)
(Parents: Peter/Thomasin)
b. prior to 1785 (not at Towednack)
b. 19/5/1789 or 6/4/1792
Margaret
c. 29/9/1776
Richard
c. 19/9/1779
(Towednack)
(Towednack)
b. 19/5/1789 or 6/4/1792
b.
m.2 Elizabeth Tuckfield* 29/12/1785 (by licence)
(Richard Nicholls of Towednack, widower, & Elizabeth Tuckfield, of Gulval parish, widow; both
put their signature; witnessed by Henry Thomas [Gulval farmer 1779] & John Green.)
c. 15/7/1753
c. circa 1758
(Parents: Richard/Tamesin – p46)
(Parents?)
b. 19/5/1789 or 6/4/1792
b.? 26/3/1828
(‘Of Trewednack [Towednack], aged 70’)
Issue?
Note: There is a baptism of a Richard Nicholls 12/10/1788 Towednack to Richard & Susannah (no
marriage found nor is there any other baptism to Richard & Susannah). Possibly Richard is a son
of Richard and Elizabeth Nicholls above.
1861 Census – Frudgan Street, Paul: Richard Nicholls, 72, fisherman, born Towednack; wife
Elizabeth, 58, born St Just. [No marriage found]
Richard was buried 2/4/1865 Paul ‘of Newlyn, aged 77’.
1881 Census – Frudgan, Paul: Elizabeth Nicholls, 77, cook (dis), born St Just; with Nicholas
Richards (fisherman) & family.
Elizabeth was buried 15/2/1891 Paul.
* Marriage of Catherine Tuckfield to Thomas Oliver 2/1/1808 Gulval – daughter of Elizabeth?
Elizabeth Nicholls, widow – blanket 7/3d, shift 4/5d, w. stocking [woollen stockings?] 2/2d,
wrapper 2/2d, shoes 5d
Elizabeth Nicholls £2/11/Relief for the Poor of Gulval 1826:
Elizabeth Nicholls £2/19/6
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Edmund Nicholls*
m.
Elizabeth Hooker** 9/5/1782
(Edmund, servant, & Elizabeth, spinster, both of Gulval parish; Edmund put his signature,
Elizabeth her mark; witnessed by Ann James & William Harman.)
[Ann James, daughter of Nicholas James, husbandman/tinner of St Hilary at time of his 1758
Gulval marriage to Anne Frethy/Freethy – refer flow scheme p258]
c. Circa 1760
c. 4/7/1762 Compton near Guildford, Surrey
(Parents?)
(Parents; James/Anne)
b. 23/2/1807 (‘Pauper’)
b. 1846 Surrey
Possibly Edmund is the son of James Nicholls who married Mary Berriman at Towednack
5/11/1759. No further details known. Also a James Nicholas married Ann Man 8/1/1758 St Just.
James***
Edmund****
(Nicholas)
(Nicholas)
c. 13/4/1783
c. 3/4/1785
(Penzance, parish of Madron)
(Penzance, parish of Madron)
b. 1809+
b. 1834+
m. 1809
(West Sussex)
?
m. 1834
(London)
?
[An unrelated Edmund & Elizabeth Nicholas had a number of children christened at Sennen
during the 1770’s & 1780’s.]
Servant Tax 1778 Gulval – Edmund Nicolls, footman to William Veale [of Trevaylor]
Cornwall Military Muster 1781-2: Edmund Nicholls, Private to Company Captain [William?]
Veale.
Diary of William Veale of Trevaylor, Gulval 1782-1865 [father & son] (CRO ref ML1032/1-55):
8/6/1782 ‘Carried into Church this morning by Edward [sic] Nicholls & Michael Vibert’ (p95).
* Gulval Parish Poor Law Papers 8/3/1802 (CRO Ref. X506/171) – Order for Maintenance of
Edm. Nicholls, Gulval: ‘Very poor and impotent and not able to work’ - allotted 4/- a week.
** Elizabeth came from an old Surrey family with many branches over West Surrey. Her family
was in the leather trade/shoemaking etc.
Elizabeth moved back to Guildford about 1800 without her husband. She died in 1846 aged 84
and is buried at Compton, near Guildford.
*** James married August 1809 in Midhurst, West Sussex, and had 10 children. He worked for
his Uncle William Hooker as a Tanner.
**** Edmund (jnr) worked with his uncle, James Hooker, in Shere, Guildford from about 1810 as
a Tanner/Currier. He was at various times a farmer, tanner, businessman, magistrate, overseer of
the poor and a Freeman of Guildford. He married in 1834 in London and was very successful in
business. He had one child. The name Edmund carried through later generations – Joseph
Edmund Rogers was canon of Norwich Cathedral in 1900 and Henry Edmund Nicholls was a
businessman in Canterbury in the 1900s.
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Cyprian Nicholls (below)
m.1
Catharine Kemp
15/2/1783 Madron
(Both of Madron, with signature of Cyprian (yeoman / mason) & sign of Catherine; witnessed by
Matthew Hopkins & Thomas Tresise [see below])
[Thomas Tresize junior c. 11/3/1759 Madron - married Grace Kemp at Madron 2/3/1767]
c. 31/8/1755 Madron
c.? 2/3/1746 Madron (‘Katherine’)
(Parents? Thomas/Grace [Reed])
b. 23/1/1839 Madron
b.? 12/11/1809 Madron
(Died 19/1/1839 ‘Of Ninnes aged 84’)
[Death due to diarrhoea]
Grace*
c. 1/6/1789 (private baptism)
(Madron)
b. 1/6/1813 Madron
(‘Of New Mill aged 24’)
m. 6/6/1808
(Madron)
William
Pascoe
Lease (CRO ref. WH4283/1, 2) dated 29/9/1789 – 99 years Lease (Cyprian Nicholls of Madron &
Catherine, daughter of Thomas Tresize of Madron). Rent 4/4 ½. Owned by James Buller &
Thomas Kemp of Madron, yeoman (Cyprian’s father-in-law) - 1/6th part of Mulfra Vean & Ninnis,
last in occupation of Elizabeth Reed, for consideration of £48.
Lease (CRO ref. WH4284) dated 7/9/1798 – 99 years Lease (life of lessee’s daughter Grace
[Nicholls]. Rent 4/4 ½. James Buller of Shillingham to Cyprian Nicholls of Madron, yeoman consideration of £28 for 1/6th part of Mulfra Vean & Ninnis.
Cyprian is mentioned in Will of nephew Henry Nicholls (brother of Richard), yeoman of Zennor –
died 1814, Will proved 29/4/1815.
Madron Will (abstract) of Cyprian Nicholls dated 24/7/1835: mentions Joan Menear [c. 2/2/1768
Madron, daughter of his sister Anne, married to Richard Menear/Mynhere], son-in-law William
Pascoe, grandson William Pascoe and wife Mary Ann, also Richard Nicholls jnr and Henry
Nicholls [brothers & sons of Cyprian’s nephew Richard? – p102]. To son-in-law William Pascoe
senior one shilling; to Joan Menear £5. To Mary Ann Pascoe (the wife of his grandson) and her
children the one-sixth or higher part of Ninnes, Madron, held under a lease from James Buller, and
to receive the rents & profits so long as Richard Nicholls junior shall live (‘now in the occupation
of Charles & James Hosking’). To my grandson William Pascoe junior the lower part or one-sixth
of Ninnes, held under a lease from James Buller, now in the occupation of Henry Nicholls.
William Pascoe junior to be executor. Will witnesses: Richard Brush and James Hosking; with
the mark of Cyprian Nicholls.
Manor of Trezula & Mulfra Rents for 1831:
Lessee – Cyprian Nicholls: Mulfra Vean (Higher Ninnes) - rent 4/5½d + other parts (landowner
James Buller). Rent notes: 2/6 of Ninnis alias Mulfra Vean – Cyprian Nicholls, held on two lives
– Lives: Richard Nicholls on 1/6 of Cyprian Nicholls, Catherine Tresise [related to Thomas
Tresise (above) – daughter of Richard Tresise c. 1737] & William Pascoe junior on 1/6.
1831 Survey of the Manor of Pengersick & Trezella [Trezula] Mulfra, Property of J. W. Buller –
Field names relating to Crosses & Churchways:
Farm Name: Mulfra/ Ninnes
Occupier: Cyprian Nicholls
Field Names: Homer Park an Grouse (B11 = TA2656) & Further Park an Grouse (B23 = TA2665)
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Land at higher and lower parts of Ninnes under lease from James Buller – the higher part occupied
by Charles Hosking (still at Ninnes 1856) and James Hosking, the lower part occupied by Henry
Nicholls as tenant.
1841 Census – Ninnes, Madron: Charles Hoskin, 30, farmer, wife Jane, 30; children: Elizabeth, 2,
and Jane, 7 months.
1841 Tithe Schedule & Map (Field Names relating to Crosses & Churchways):
Farm Name: Mulfa/Ninnes, Manor of
Occupier: Charles Hoskins
Field Name: Homer Park Grouse (TA2656) [previously occupied by Cyprian Nicholls]
Farm Name: Mulfra/Ninnes, Manor of
Occupier: William Pascoe
Field Name: Southern [or Further] Park an Grouse (TA2665) [previously occupied by Cyprian
Nicholls]
1851 Census – Ninnes, Madron: Charles Hoskin, 47; wife Jane, 42; children: Elizabeth, 12, &
Priscilla J., 10.
1851 Census – Ninnes, Madron: James Hoskin, 45, wife Jane, 40; children: John, 13, & Ursula, 9.
1851 Census – [Ninnes?], Madron: John Hoskin, 50, wife Fanny, 48, and daughter Ursula, 10.
1856 Post Office Directory: Charles Hosking, John Hosking jnr. & William Nicholls – all farmers
at Ninnis.
* Marriage details: William & Grace both of Madron, with signatures written in for them;
witnessed by Cyprian Nicholls & A. Wright.
William Pascoe buried Madron 1848 – ‘of Phillack aged 63.
William Pascoe junior married 1/3/1834 Madron to Mary Ann Nicholls (c. 12/5/1812 Zennor,
father Henry) - refer p105-106. Cyprian’s 1835 will mentions that his grandson William Pascoe
junior & wife Mary Ann were living with him at Ninnes.
Cyprian Nicholls (above)
m.2
Jane Dennis 10/2/1821
Madron
(Both of Madron, with signature of Cyprian (widower) & sign of Jane (widow). Witnessed by
Ann Lanyon (p77) & Tobias Read [c 25/4/1784 Penzance, father: Tobias].)
c. 31/8/1755 Madron
c. circa 1753
(Parents?)
b. 23/1/1839 Madron
b. 29/9/1829 Madron
(Died 19/1/1839 ‘of Ninnes aged 84’)
(‘Of Penzance aged 76’)
No Issue
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Andrew Nicholls
m.
Elizabeth Lorey/Lawry
1/1/1791
(Both of Gulval, with sign of Andrew & signature of Elizabeth, and witnessed by Cordelia Curno
[Andrew’s sister Elisabeth married Thomas Curno] & Elizabeth Sharpe.)
c. 30/11/1764
c. 6/5/1764
(Parents: Andrew/Ann – p53)
(Parents: Piercy Lawry/Sarah [Hollah])
b. 2/3/1814
b. 31/3/1824
(‘Of Madron aged 50’)
Mariam
c. 3/4/1791
Andrew
c. 8/7/1792
William
c. 14/12/1794
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 4/4/1791
b.? 9/4/1824
b. 18/6/1873 Madron
(‘Died Madron aged 30’) (‘Of Union Workhouse, aged 78’)
m. 15/5/1819
(St Just)
Jane
Jelbart (p122)
Thomas
John
(‘Nicholas’)
c. 16/4/1797
c. 20/9/1801
(Sancreed)
(Madron)
b. 30/4/1845 Penzance St Mary b. Dec qrt 1866
(‘Aged 66’ [Madron?])
m. 9/11/1822
(Madron)
Ann
Cock (p126)
m. 5/12/1829
(Madron)
Elizabeth
Marks (p146)
Baptism of Rebecca, daughter of Andrew Nichols at Penzance Chapel 7/10/1810 – whether
daughter of above Andrew is uncertain. Rebecca may have married William Phaby 2/7/1827 at
Madron.
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m.1
Elisabeth Pearce
29/10/1791 Madron
(Richard of Gulval & Elisabeth of Madron, with mark of Richard & mark of Elisabeth. Marriage
witnessed by Cyprian Nicholls [brother] & Francis Trethorrow [Trevorrow? - Francis Trethowan
of Madron, yeoman, married Judeth Cowls 1790 at Gulval])
c. 25/6/1769
(Parents: Richard/Ann – p56)
(*Parents: Henry (p89?) /Kezia [Rowe])
b. 22/8/1828
b.? 21/10/1799 Madron
Issue?
Records of the Archdeaconry Court – Citations (CRO Ref ARD/158/65) dated 1810: Richard
Nicholls (above?) vs Catherine Pearce. A defamation case between Richard Nicholls & Catherine
Pearce held 21/9/1810, 5/10/1810 & 2/11/1810. Case dismissed when Proctor not having
produced names of sureties. Total bill £1/18/8d.
St Mary Parish Church, Truro Records – Civil – Constables – document (CRO Ref. P236/10/5)
dated 20/2/1811: Warrant to apprehend Richard Nicholls of Madron, husbandman, alleged father
of bastard child of Ann Pascoe, single woman. Warrant concerns a need to indemnify the parish
of St Mary, Truro, for possible future expenses incurred by the Overseers of the Poor. The
identity of this Richard Nicholls is uncertain but unlikely to be the above.
* Henry Pearce of Towednack buried 19/2/1788. Wife Kezia of Towednack buried 31/10/1794.
Henry Pearce of Ludgvan buried 9/4/1807, brother of Elisabeth above – seemingly witnessed
marriage of Richard Nicholls (son of Thomas & Phyllis) to Mary Bilsborough (p95).
m.2
Ann Thomas
24/4/1800 Ludgvan
(Richard of Madron [no reference to being a widower] and Ann of Ludgvan, by licence, with mark
of Richard & mark of Ann, and witnessed by his brothers-in-law Daniel Eddy & James Uren
[p56].)
(Widow of Benjamin Thomas – m. 22/4/1781 St Just)
(Maiden name ‘Thomas’)
c. 25/6/1769
c. 11/5/1760 St Just
(Parents: Richard/Ann – page 56)
(Parents: Augustine/Phillis [Hill])
b. 22/8/1828
b. 8/2/1826 Ludgvan
(Ann, ‘aged 66’)
No issue
Will of Richard Nicholls, yeoman of St Hilary, written 7/8/1828 (proved 22/10/1829) to the
executors Benjamin Thomas & nephew Cyprian Nicholls (present tenant in Relubbus, St Hilary –
see page 124). Effects valued under £800. Will was witnessed by John Trythall & Benjamin
Downing with the mark of Richard Nicholls.
Will mentions his sisters Mary, wife of William Allen (p56), and Ann, wife of James Uren (p56).
Mentions also the sons and daughters of his late wife Ann by her former husband Benjamin
Thomas - Ann, wife of William Lanyon; Benjamin Thomas junior (exec); Prudence, wife of
William Semmens; Phillis, wife of Thomas Wallish; James Thomas; Gabriel Thomas; Augustine
Thomas; John Thomas; & Martin Thomas. Also mentions his nephew Cyprian Nicholls [the son
of Richard’s brother Cyprian] and his wife Jane [‘daughter of my late beloved wife Ann by her
former husband Benjamin Thomas’] (p124).
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John Nicholls
m.
Grace Bassett
6/8/1792 Madron
NOTE: It was previously thought that John Nicholls married Mary Hancock 21/9/1792 at Gulval,
however his signature is definitely ‘John Nicholas’ - John Nicholas & Mary Hancock, both of the
parish of Gulval; with the signatures of both parties; witnessed by Ann Michell & Eliza Gwavas.
Mary Hancock was baptised 11/1/1767 Gulval; father: Nathaniel.
This John Nicholas possibly baptized 1/4/1764 St Erth, son of John & Martha. There is a Madron
burial 22/4/1838 for a John Nicholas of Ninnis, Madron, aged 75 [born circa 1763].
Therefore it can only be assumed that John Nicholls married Grace Bassett 6/8/1792 at Madron.
There is no reference to his wife for the baptisms of his children.
(Marriage details: John & Grace, both of the town of Penzance, with the signs of John & Grace;
witnessed by Joseph Spasshatt [p113] & Matthew Hosken).
c. 12/3/1769
born circa 1770
(Parents: William/Blanch – p62)
(Parents?)
b. 9/1/1802
b. 1796+
(‘Pauper’)
Andrew*
Born 1792
b. 10/12/1792
Mary**
John
(Nicholls)
(Nicholls)
c. 3/8/1794
b. 1826+
c. 20/3/1796
b.
(‘Son of John Nicholls’)
* Presumably died soon after birth.
** Illegitimate children:
Mary Ann Nicholls/Man c. 12/11/1820 Gulval
Richard Nicholls/Greenfell c. 27/8/1825 (‘Of Churchtown’)
Mary Nicholls 14 weeks @ 3/- (3 shillings) & 13 weeks @ 2/6d (2 shillings & 6 pence) + shift
4/3d, petticoat 4/-, wrapper 2/2d, bed gown 3/-, check apron 2/-, handkerchief 1/8d, w. chair
(wicker chair?) 4/6d, another shift 4/-.
Mary Nichols, child by Rd Grenfell £1/6/-
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Thomas Nicholls
m.
Elizabeth Tredrea
10/4/1795
(Both of Gulval, with their signatures; witnessed by Stephen Nicholls [brother] and Elizabeth
Reynolds [p48])
c. 21/10/1770
c. 31/3/1766 St Hilary
(Parents: Richard/Sarah – p48)
(Parents: Thomas/Sarah)
b. 1805+
b. 1805+
Elizabeth
Thomas
c. 28/6/1795 c. 27/1/1799
b. 16/4/1797 b. 1851+
John
c. 15/11/1801
b. 26/7/1886
Andrew
c. 10/2/1805
b. Mar qrt 1870
(‘Aged 86’)
m. 21/10/1827
(St Erth)
Sarah (Sally)
Corl Lavers (p141)
[Trewavas]
m. 26/1/1824
(St Hilary)
Mary
Troon (p127)
m. 24/3/1837
(Gwinear)
Wilmot
Osborne (p170)
Thomas Nicholls – 6 pigs, and armed with a firelock.
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Thomas Nicholls
m.
Thomasin Roach
24/6/1795 Towednack
(Thomas, tinner of Gulval & Thomasin of Towednack, with signature of Thomas & mark of
Thomasin, and witnessed by Richard Baragwanath [c. 22/11/1772 Towednack] & Christopher
Michell)
c. 7/7/1772
c. 2/4/1774 Towednack (‘Thamasin’)
(Parents: Thomas/Blanch – p70) (Parents*: Robert/Thomasin [Nicholls – refer p46])
b. 26/10/1825 Madron
b. 26/10/1856 Ludgvan
(‘Of Ludgvan, aged 52’)
(‘Thomasine, aged 84’)
Richard
c. 19/7/1795
Thomas
c. 4/11/1798
Mary
c. 2/8/1801
Elisabeth**
c. 12/6/1803
(Gulval)
(Madron)
(Towednack)
(Towednack)
b. 22/3/1864
b. 22/2/1802 b. 2/3/1805
(‘Of Tolcarne, aged 70’) (Towednack)
(Towednack)
m. 30/6/1818
(Madron)
Mary
Ellis (p121)
b. 3/10/1861 Pendeen
(‘Of Carnyorth, aged 61’)
m. 4/3/1843
(St Just)
Peter
Boase
Mary
c. 14/7/1805
Thomas
Charlotte
c. 28/7/1808 c. 25/9/1811
(Towednack)
(Towednack)
(Towednack)
b.
b. 1875
b. 1871+
m. Circa 1833
(?)
Julia
? (p158)
m. 6/3/1836
(Gulval)
Andrew
Nicholls (p166)
parish of Gulval 23rd April 1798 mentions Thomas Nicholls, aged 25 years, as being willing to be
armed, arrayed, trained or exercised with firelock.
1841 Census – Trenowin Downs, Ludgvan: Thomasin Nicholas, 65, independent; Thomas
Nicholas, 30, mason; Sarah Tucker, 20; William Trembath, 6 months.
1851 Census – Trenowin Downs, Ludgvan: Thomasin Nicholls, widow, 76, born Towednack;
with her son Thomas & wife & family – refer p158.
* Parents of Thomasin Roach married 25/7/1773 Uny Lelant - Robert Roach of Lelant &
Thomasin Nicholls, spinster & sojourner of Lelant. Robert has his signature and Thomasin her
mark. Witnessed by Richard Berryman & Richard … [?].
A Robert Roach buried 15/1/1825, aged 76.
** Marriage details: Peter of St Just and Elisabeth recorded as ‘sojourner’ [temporary dweller] at
St Just, with signature of Peter and mark of Elisabeth. Marriage witnessed by John Tregear &
Hugh Sampson (?).
Peter Boase baptised 24/1/1804 St Buryan, son of Peter & Margaret. [Seemingly Peter’s brother
Henry Boase married Martha Nicholls (refer p115).
1851 Census – Carnyorth, St Just: Peter Boase, 50; and wife Elizabeth, 50, born Towednack.
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John Nicholls
m.
Grace Baynard*
25/9/1795 Madron
(John of Gulval and Grace of Madron, with the sign of John & the signature of Grace; witnessed
by William Baynard & William Freethy**) [John & Grace are 1st cousins]
c. 14/2/1768
c. 8/1/1766 Madron
(Parents: Andrew/Christiana – p65)
(Parents: John/Mary [Nicholls – refer page 38])
b. 31/12/1822 Gulval
b. 3/10/1819 Gulval
(Died 29/12/1822 Ludgvan ‘aged 54’)
(Died 30/9/1819 Carvussa, Ludgvan, ‘aged 52’)
John
William
c. 11/9/1796
c. 13/1/1799
Andrew
c. 5/5/1800 IGI (1/6/1800 Transcript)
c. 5/6/1800 private bapt.
(Gulval)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 1851+
b. 3/6/1817 Gulval
(Died 1/6/1817 (‘Of Breage; aged 57’)
‘Of Carvusser, aged 18’)
m. 29/4/1824
(Ludgvan)
Elizabeth
Harris (p129)
m. 17/11/1835
(St Hilary)
Elizabeth
Trounson (p161)
Mary
c. 22/6/1803
Grace
c. 26/8/1804
Thomas
c. 3/3/1811
(Madron)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b.? Prior to 1824
b.? 7/10/1803 Madron b. 25/7/1816 Gulval
(Died 24/7/1816
(‘Of Carvussa, aged 12’)
First three sons have same names as first three sons of Andrew & Christiana.
* Will of John Baynard of Ludgvan (buried 31/3/1824 Ludgvan), yeoman, dated 27/2/1824
(proved 16/6/1824): ‘I give and bequeath to my nephews John Nicholls & Andrew Nicholls sons
of my sister Grace Nicholls the sum of £5 each to be paid them immediately after my decease’..
** A William Freethy/Frethy of Ludgvan married Catherine Nicholls 29/1/1733 Gulval (refer
p30). William Freethy was an Overseer of the Poor at Gulval for the years 1741 & 1745.
Catherine Frethy, (‘wife of William Frethy’) buried 14/6/1757 Gulval’.
A William Freethy married Catherine Baynard at Madron 10/8/1756. Will of William Frethy of
Madron, gentleman, dated 3/1/1783, proved 8/2/1783, refers to wife Katherine & son William;
witnessed by Joseph Glasson. A son William Frethy c. 19/12/1758 Madron, married Mary
Stevens Leggo 1795 Zennor, (William buried Madron 1816 – ‘of Boskinning aged 57’). A
daughter Joan c. 3/8/1760 Madron married John Baynard 3/3/1787 Madron.
Refer also pages 30 & 75 and flow scheme on p258.
[An indication of what Carvossa/Carvussa/Carrvossoe was like is contained within the Tithe Map
of c1840. Carvossa bounded by the areas named as Nansidden, Vellenoweth, Lower Quarter,
Crowlas and Tregender. It consists of several farms, or parts of farms, and a small, somewhat
scattered hamlet of about a dozen houses. There was some mining activity there and, since it
appears that a turnpike trust road (probably the present A30) ran through it or near it, it contained
two inns as well as an old, abandoned one. There were also two mills. The area was owned then
by the Earl of Darlington (a minor) and the Dowager Countess of Sandwich.]
87
John Nicholls
m.
Elizabeth (Betty) Tucker
7/1/1796
(John, bachelor, & Elizabeth, spinster, both of Gulval parish - John put his signature, Elizabeth her
mark. Witnessed by Richard Nicholls (uncle?), Elizabeth Shevill (?), & Cordelia Boyns (nee
Corin) - her brother Phillip married Ann Nicholls (p53).
(Labourer of Gulval Cross 1813, agricultural labourer of Barlewenna 1841, labourer of
Barley Grove in 1851)
c. 10/1/1773
c. circa 1770 (Washfield, Devon)
(Parents: Andrew/Anne – p53)
(Parents?)
[? c. 5/5/1770 Bratton Fleming, Devon – dau. of James/Mary]
b. 20/3/1854
b. 7/3/1852
(‘Of Barleygrove aged 81’)
(‘Of Barleygrove aged 82’)
John
c. 29/1/1797
b. 1854+
Henry
c. 3/11/1799
b. 1861+
Elizabeth**
c. 4/2/1798
b.
Ann*
c. 4/3/1804
b. 7/1/1829
Abraham
c. 6/4/1806
b. 15/7/1888
(‘Of Barleyvina (Penzance)
- Aged 24’)
m. 1/10/1825
(Gulval)
Jane
Wallis (p134)
m.? 17/12/1826m. 19/6/1830
(Madron)
(Gulval)
Phillip
Mary
Hall
Nicholls (p147)
m. 9/9/1834
(Madron)
Sarah
Bear (p159)
William Tucker
c. 21/5/1809
b. 16/10/1813
Andrew
c. 10/3/1813
b. 30/7/1890
William Tucker
c. 14/11/1819 (Madron)
b. 16/2/1825
(‘Of Gulval Cross, aged 77’) (‘Of Gulval Cross, aged 5’)
m1. 17/1/1841
(Gulval)
Elizabeth
Sims (p184)
m2. 1873
(?)
Elizabeth A.
Bottrell (p185)
John Nicholls – 3 pigs, and armed with one firelock & one sword.
1841 Census – Barlewenna, Gulval: John Nicholls, 65, agricultural labourer; wife Elizabeth, 65;
Andrew Nicholls, 25, blacksmith, (wife Elizabeth at mother’s house – refer p184); Selena
Nicholls, 15, (illegitimate daughter of Ann Nicholls, daughter of John Nicholls (above).
1851 Census – Gulval (in Millage of Barleygrove): John Nicholls, head, 79, labourer, born Gulval;
wife Elizabeth, 80, born Washfield, Devon; lodger Alexander Rowe, 33, born Gulval; & his wife
Selina (nee Nicholls), 26, born Gulval [see below].
* Ann had illegitimate child, Selina Smith/Nicholls, baptised 4/8/1824 (‘Of Cross’, Gulval), died
14/7/1898 Gulval (buried 16/7/1898 Gulval).
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Selina Smith/Nicholls married Alexander Rowe 12/5/1850 at Gulval – children: Thomas 1859,
Elizabeth 1862, Margaret J. 1869. Alexander Rowe, baptised 20/3/1818 Gulval, died 1/3/1891
Gulval (buried 4/3/1891 Gulval). In 1841 & 1851 Selina was living with relatives John &
Elizabeth Nicholls (above) at Barlewenna / Barley Grove (in 1851 husband Alexander a farm
labourer).
1861 Census – Churchtown, Gulval: Alexander Rowe, with wife Selena and children: Mary Anne,
9; John, 8; Alexander, 5; James, 4; Thomas, 2, & Selena, 11 months.
1881 Census - Churchtown, Gulval – Rowe family still living there
** Marriage details: Phillip & Elizabeth both residing Penzance, with signatures of both;
witnessed by Thomas Hall.
Henry Nicholls
m.
Mary Simons
22/1/1796
(Both of Gulval, with signatures of both; witnessed by William Pollard & John Green). [William
Pollard, gent of Paul, married Mary Richards at Sancreed 1785]
(Farmer of Sancreed 1841)
c. 5/3/1775
c. 17/10/1773 Madron
(Parents: Thomas/Blanch – p70)
(Parents: John/Mary [Richards])
b. 15/1/1850 Madron
b. 23/9/1851 Madron
(‘Of Newbridge, Sancreed aged 70’)
(‘Of Newbridge, Sancreed aged 76’)
Catherin
Mary*
(‘Nicholas’)
c. 2/2/1798
c. 12/10/1800
(Sancreed)
(Madron)
b.
b.
m. 27/7/1823
(Gulval)
Thomas
Warren
1841 Census – Higher Tregerrast, Sancreed: Henry Nicholas, 60, farmer; wife Mary, 60; Loarri,
15 [see Loami below]; Elizabeth Nicholas, 30; Hugh [Hugh Lanyon] Nicholas, 15, wheelwright
apprentice; Henry Tonkin, 12, servant.
(Elizabeth Nicholas baptised 1/7/1809 Sancreed, daughter of William & Grace Nicholas. Hugh
Lanyon Nicholas baptised 26/11/1825, illegitimate son of Elizabeth Nicholas.)
1851 Census – Receven, Sancreed: Mary Nicholls, head, 70, widow, born Madron.
1851 Census – Receven, Sancreed: Loami Nicholls, 28, tin miner, born Gulval; wife Ann, 30, born
Truro; children (all born Sancreed): John Henry, 4; Charles, 3; Elizabeth, 1 [next door to Mary
Nicholls].
Laomi Nicholls was baptised Sancreed 15/3/1822 as Loami Chellew Nicholls or Symons,
illegitimate son of Jane Symons & Henry Nicholls, farmer of Sancreed (refer p197).
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* Marriage details: Thomas Warren of Madron & Mary Nicholls of Gulval, with signature of
Thomas & mark of Mary; witnessed by Jane Rowe & Thomas Bond.
1841 Tithe Schedule & Map (Field names relating to Crosses & Churchways):
Farm Name: Penhale, Madron
Occupier: Thomas Warren & William Trudgen
Field Name: Churchway
Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas & Mary Warren, married William Nicholls 15/12/1844
Ludgvan (refer p 192).
Henry Nicholls (above)
c. 5/3/1775
/
Jane Symons
born ?
(Parents?)
b. 15/1/1850 Madron
b.
1822
‘Of Newbridge, Sancreed aged 70’)
Loami Chellew Nicholls or Symons
c. 15/3/1822
(Sancreed)
b. 1874+
m1. circa 1845
(?)
Ann (p197)
m2. 8/12/1874
(Gulval)
Elizabeth
Friggens (p197)
90
Andrew Nicholls
m.
Anne Brush*
26/2/1796
(Both of Gulval, with marks of Andrew & Anne; witnessed by Henry Brush [1720-1806] &
William Cock [refer below])
c. 22/11/1761
c. 6/11/1763
(Parents: Henry/Jane [Nicholls – refer p34])
b. 17/6/1831
b. 3/3/1851
Note: It has been suggested that Andrew was baptised 29/8/1773 Redruth - son of Francis Nicholls
& wife Margery (nee Johns) – married 5/1/1765 Redruth. This is a long line of Nicholls of
Redruth but none seem to link in with Nicholls of Gulval. It is unlikely as the Redruth Andrew
would be 10 years younger than his wife.
Andrew
c. 19/11/1797
b. 28/3/1863
Richard
c. 13/10/1799
b. 26/3/1864
Ann**
c. 15/11/1801
b. 2/3/1878 Zennor
(‘Of Try aged 65’)
(‘Of Foage, aged 77’)
m. 17/6/1824
(Gulval)
Mary
Prowse (p132)
m. 4/12/1826
(Madron)
Ann
Matthews (p139)
m. 29/5/1830
(Gulval)
James
Mann
Henry
c. 19/2/1804
Francis
c. 23/6/1805
John
c. 17/8/1806
(Gulval)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 26/11/1823
b. 27/3/1853
b. 1/11/1884 Zennor
(‘Of St Ives, aged 48’)
m. 1/12/1827
(Madron)
Sarah
Lanyon (p142)
m. 3/4/1851
(Gulval)
Jane
Polmear (p201)
Andrew Nicholls – 3 cows, 8 young cattle & colts, 6 sheep & goats, 3 pigs, 2 draft horses, and
armed with 1 firelock.
Manor of Trezula & Mulfra Rent Book 1831:
Part of Tredinneck Common – William Cock (p51, p62, p63 & p70), late Andrew Nicholls
[possibly above] – Lives: Andrew Nicholls [junior?], Mary Nicholls [wife of Andrew junior, nee
Prowse?] & Charles Crapp [c. 11/4/1802 Kenwyn, father – Charles. Charles Crapp junior married
Grace Prowse at Gulval 13/6/1824.]
1841 Census – Try, Gulval: Ann Nicholls, head, 80; son John Nicholls, miner, 35, and grandson
Andrew, 10 [son of Andrew junior living in next household – see p132].
Tithe Apportionment Award Gulval 1843: Ann and John Nicholls [mother & son], occupiers of 14
acres of land at Try – includes house & town plot (18 perches). Lessee is Ann Nicholls.
* Ann Nicholls (nee Brush) receives from her father’s Will dated 12/1/1798 one shilling and ¼ of
residue of estate after expenses.
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** Marriage details: James of Zennor & Ann of Gulval, with signature of James & mark of Ann;
witnessed by John Carbis & William Major.
James Mann was baptised 12/5/1805 Madron, son of James & Jane (nee Nicholls) – refer p75.
The Will of James Mann, yeoman of Zennor, proved 1/6/1847, mentions bonds to Richard Brush.
1851 Census – Trye, Gulval: James Mann, head, 55, miner, born Zennor; wife Ann, 59, born
Gulval; children: Ann, 20, domestic servant, born Zennor; James, 17, miner, born Zennor; John,
13, miner, born Gulval; Jane, 10, at home, born Gulval; Elizabeth, 8, at school, born Gulval; &
Emma, 5, born Gulval.
1861 Census –Trye, Gulval: Ann Mann, head, 59, housekeeper, widow, born Gulval; children:
John, 23, miner, born Gulval; Emma, 15, housemaid, born Gulval.
1871 Census – Foage, Zennor: Ann Mann, widow, born Gulval, was living with her brother John
Nicholls at Zennor (p202).
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Cyprian Nicholls
m.
Jane Perry
28/4/1796 Madron
(Cyprian of Gulval and Jane of Madron, with signature of Cyprian and sign of Jane; witnessed by
John Harvey & W. Wright.)
c. 24/6/1761 Gulval
c.? 27/5/1769 Zennor
(Father: George)
b. 31/5/1815
b.? 29/4/1820
(‘Of Treen [Zennor] aged 55’)
(‘Of Treen, aged 67’)
Cyprian
c. 5/6/1796 Madron
Died 29/3/1847 Uny Lelant
m. 14/4/1821
(St Hilary)
Jane (Janey/Jenny)
Thomas (p124)
Zennor Will of Cyprian Nicholls, tinner, dated 16/3/1814 (proved 3/5/1815): estate to go to wife
and son jointly. Guardianship of son Cyprian till reaching the age of 21 was given to Andrew
Stephens the younger of Gulval. ‘I desire to be buried in the parish of Gulval (with decency)’.
Witnesses: John Grenfell (refer p51 – witness to 1823 Will of Stephen Nicholls) and John Uren
senior* (son or grandson John married Anne Jelbart 1822 – refer John Nicholls 1723-1806
connection (p63).)
Zennor Bond dated 11/6/1828 upon the Admon of the goods of Jane Nicholls, widow, granted to
Cyprian Nicholls the son & next in kin of deceased. Effects were under £100. At the time
Cyprian was a yeoman in the parish of St Hilary. Bond signed by Cyprian Nicholls & Richard
Coppin.
* John Uren, tinner, married Mary Grenfell 25/12/1767 Ludgvan (Banns recorded
26/12/1767 Uny Lelant). Marriage witnessed by John Thomas & Clement Uren (p129).
Son John bpt 5/3/1775 married Grace Kemp 27/10/1798 Madron - son John, bpt
15/9/1799 Madron, married Ann Jelbart, daughter of John Jelbart & Honor (nee Nicholls)
[p50].
93
Peter Nicholls
m.
Ann Stratton
26/3/1798 Uny Lelant
(Peter, a private in Cornwall Militia, and Ann of this parish, with the sign of Peter & the sign of
Ann; witnessed by John Curno & Richard Hawes)
c. 3/4/1768 Bodmin
born circa 1770
(Parents: Stephen/Elisabeth – p69) (Parents?)
b. 1806+
b. 1806+
Christopher
c. 21/11/1800
Jane
c. 11/6/1804
Elizabeth
c. 29/10/1806
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
b. 1851+
b.
b.
m. 5/8/1826
(St Just)
Christiana
Nicholas (p138)
94
Richard Nicholls
m.
Mary Bilsborough* 24/10/1798 (by licence)
Richard, bachelor, & Mary (widow), both of Gulval, with signatures of both; witnessed by
Michael Vibert (p79) & Henry Pearce**).
(Agricultural labourer 1841; farm labourer 1851)
c. 6/3/1774
c.? 6/10/1771 Kenwyn
(Parents: Thomas/Phillis – p60)
(Father? John Lorey)
b. 30/10/1856
b. prior to 1841
(‘Of Union Workhouse, aged 84’)
Richard?
c. 3/6/1799
(Mawnan – near Falmouth – see below)
b.
Richard Nicholls – 1 pig, 1 draft horse, and armed with a firelock
Reference to Richard Nicholls being Overseer of the Poor 1811 on Bond P77/5/21
Vestry meetings for Gulval were held at the house of a Richard Nicholls, innkeeper at
Churchtown, during the years 1811, 1812, 1814 & 1815 (and possibly in other years).
Gulval apprenticeship dated 7/7/1820 to Mary Ellis [c. 25/9/1803 Gulval, daughter of James Ellis
& wife Mary [Jenkin], aged 17, to Richard Nicholls for the Churchtown.
1841 Census – Higher Garris, Gulval: Thomas Nicholas [p59], 70, agricultural labourer; Richard
Nicholas [presumably brother of Thomas], 60, agricultural labourer; Grace Nicholas [sister], 40;
Andrew Nicholas, 4, [refer p166 – grandson of Thomas’s brother Andrew]; also Elizabeth
Dunken, 40, ‘keeps school’.
1851 Census – Church Town, Gulval: Richard Nicholls, visitor, 77, farm labourer, widower, born
Gulval; with Richard Ellis, head, 55, farm labourer; wife Margaret. Also three other visitors:
Martin Curnow, 61, widower, farm labourer, born Gulval; Daniel Roberts, 31, widower, farm
labourer, born Gulval; George Roberts, 5, scholar, born Penzance.
* Robert Bilsburow married Mary Lorey at Falmouth 11/8/1794.
9/10/1797
Disbursement of the Overseers of the Poor of Gulval on account of Samuel
Halls, children belonging to the parish of Morvah:
‘To Robert Billsborough for their dist [district?], lodgings 4/-.’
Robert Bilburgh buried Gulval 19/1/1798 – probably husband of Mary. Taxes paid by Mary
Bilsborough in Gulval (year unknown but probably 1798).
** Henry Pearce of Ludgvan buried 9/4/1807, father or brother of Elisabeth who married Richard
Nicholls (p83)
95
Stephen Nicholls
m.
Grace Vingoe
31/1/1800
(Both of Gulval, with signature of Stephen & mark of Grace; witnessed by Thomas Nicholls
[brother] & Thomas Bond)
(Labourer of Little Chysauster 1814, tinner of Lower Chysauster 1816, labourer of Lower
Chysauster 1819-21, yeoman 1837, farmer of Chysauster 1838)
c. 3/2/1775
c. 31/7/1779 Sennen
(Parents: James/Amy [Courtney])
b. 17/1/1838
b. 15/10/1861
(‘Of Chysauster aged 64’)
(‘Of Germoe aged 83’ – at home of son Richard)
[Gulval Memorial inscription: ‘Sacred to the Memory of Stephen Nicholls of this Parish who
departed this life the 12th of January 1838’]
Stephen
c. 22/6/1800
b. 6/5/1873
Mary
Grace**
Elizabeth
c. 21/3/1802 c. 20/5/1804 c. 9/6/1805
b. 7/12/1885 b. 11/10/1867 b. 1837+
Zennor
Richard
c. 6/9/1807
b. 13/12/1876
Germoe
(‘Of Bodrifty, aged 63’)
m. 8/3/1828
(Gulval)
Jane
Cock (p143)
m. 26/3/1832
(Gulval)
William
Lawry1
m. 9/1/1826
(Gulval)
Richard
Brush2
m. 29/10/1825 m1. 22/12/1831
(Ludgvan)
(Gulval)
Peter Blight Martha
Millett***** Kitto (p152)
m2. 14/5/1837
(Germoe)
Ann
Sampson (p153)
Joanna
James
John***
c. 1/7/1810
c. 12/4/1812 c. 15/5/1814
b. Prior to 1816 b. 17/1/1887 b. 1841+
Joanna*
c. 22/1/1816
b. 1860
Maria****
c. 17/1/1819
b. circa 1850
Madron
(‘Of Chysauster Aged 74’, died 13/1/1887)
(‘Of Church Town - (Died Victoria, Aust.)
aged 45’)
m1. 10/2/1838
(Gulval)
Susannah
Gribble (p175)
m. 14/12/1833 m. 20/10/1838
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
Robert
Thomas
Matthews
Ninnes
m2. 24/1/1846
(Ludgvan)
Elizabeth White (p175)
Jennifer
c. 1/3/1821
b. 5/4/1821 (‘aged 2 months’)
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Gulval Parish Vestry Meetings Jan to May 1817: “A list of labouring men belonging to the Parish
of Gulval, residing within the said Parish” – Steven Nicholls of Chysauster, labouring with John
Harris Esq.
Penzance Circuit – Bible Christians for July - September 1817: Local Preacher S. Nicholls.
Geerstamps (Gear?) & Gulval on 20th July; Morva (Morvah) on 27th July; Carfurey (Carfury) on
3rd August; Sancreet (Sancreed) on 10th August; Towednack on 17th August; Madron on 31st
August; Bussollow (Bosollow) on 7th September; Lelant on 14 September; Geerstamps & Gulval
on 28th September. The Vacancies at Towednack, Bullollow [Bosullow?], Zennor, and
Geerstamps [are] to be supplied by Brother Brush.
Gulval Will (abstract) of Stephen Nicholls dated 18/2/1837: To son Stephen & Richard one
shilling; to son James £15; to daughters Mary [Lawry], Grace [Brush], Elizabeth [Millet] &
Johanna [Matthews] one shilling each; to daughter Maria Nicholls £5; son John ‘my Great Bible’;
my books to be divided among my children and executrix; the remainder of the estate to go to his
wife Grace (sole executrix). Will was witnessed by Richard Brush and Francis Lawry; with
signature of Stephen Nicholls. Gulval Probate granted 19/6/1838 – effects valued at under £100.
1841 Census – Lower Chysauster, Gulval: Grace Nicholls, head, widow, 60; son John, 25,
independent; granddaughter Grace, lodger, 5, and relative William Vingoe [brother of Grace?),
independent lodger, 68.
1851 Census – Churchtown, Germoe: Grace Nicholls, head, widow, 71, Milk Woman, born
Sennen; Martha Maria Nicholls, niece, 18, servant, born Germoe [daughter of Richard – p152].
* Marriage of Robert & Joanna witnessed by Lewis Grenfell & James Nicholls (son of Stephen).
Robert Matthews was baptised 8/7/1810 Paul, son of Robert & Margery.
1851 Census – Madron: Joanna Matthews, head, married, 35, agricultural labourer’s wife, born
Madron; children (all born Madron): Robert, 16, agricultural labourer; Richard, 6, scholar; &
Anna, 1. [Another Robert, 40, with wife Maria, 35, also living at Madron in 1851.]
** Marriage details: Richard & Grace both of Gulval, with signature of Richard & mark of Grace;
witnessed by Henry Brush and Stephen Nicholls.
*** Descendants of their brother Stephen have in their possession three watercolour silhouettes,
supposedly of three Nicholls – parents & daughter, circa 1860. Family legend has it that John and
family went to Malaya where they made their fortune in the tin industry. Upon returning to
Cornwall for a holiday they made a donation to Truro Cathedral. On their return by ship to
Malaya they were all drowned. One can only speculate that this was the fate of John.
**** Marriage of Thomas & Maria witnessed by John Nicholls, with his signature. Thomas
Ninnes was baptised 23/2/1812 Towednack, son of William & Christiana. Thomas & Maria went
to South Australia in the late 1840’s. With their two children, they left Clare/Burra in South
Australia for the new goldfields at Bendigo in Victoria. Maria took ill and died on the outskirts of
the goldfields and was buried under a mallee gum in a paddock just off the main road. A
Commemoration Ceremony was performed in 2002 for the 150th Anniversary of her death.
***** Marriage details: Peter & Elizabeth both of Ludgvan.
Peter Blight Millett baptised 24/11/1799 Ludgvan, son of John & Jane.
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Refer following notes:
1
Marriage details: William & Mary both of Gulval, with signature of William & mark of
Mary; witnessed by John Carbis & Grace Brush (her mark).
Manor of Trezula & Mulfra Rents for 1831:
Lessee William Lawry - Carfury Wartha 4/- + Boskednan Wollas & other parts.
7/1/1839 ‘Paid Wm Lawry of Carfury 1 bushel of potatoes for … 7 sheaves of oaten head
[?] 10/- [10 shillings]’
17/2/1840 ‘Paid W, Lawry of Carfury, 1 bushel of potatoes for seed 10/-.’
14/4/1841 ‘Wm Lawry of Carfury for 2 bushels of kidney potatoes 16/-.’
18/1/1843 ‘Paid Wm Lawry for 3 bushels of kidney potatoes £1/8/6d.’
23/1/1851 ‘Gave “One Horse Lawry” on account of the loss of a pig 2/6 [2 shillings & 6
pence].’
16/9/1852 ‘Paid W. Lawry for the use of his bull by Rd Kestle 1/-.’
Tithe Apportionment Map & Schedule 1840 – William Lawry occupies plots 134 to 139
Carfury Wollas. In 1841 William Lawry was living at Carfury – plot 31 backing on to
large field ‘Gweal Chye’. The Map shows the Lawry family living beside what is now
the Old Sunday School (once Carfury School) and farming most of the land known as
Carfury Wartha, and including the farmyard and buildings above the road.
When Andrew Stevens (1768–1841) wrote his Will, he mentions William Lawry at
Carvery [Carfury] Wartha.
1841 Census – Carfury, Gulval: William Lawry, 45; wife Mary, 35; children: William,
15, & Mary, 7.
1851 Census – Boskednan, Gulval: William Lawrey, head, 60, miner, born Madron; wife
Mary, 48, born Gulval; daughter Ann, 22, at home, born St Just; lodgers Joseph Lutey,
20, miner, born Gulval, & Mary Lutey, 19, born Gulval. Their other daughter, Mary,
married her first cousin, Henry Brush, son of Richard Brush, 25/10/1853 Gulval.
William Lawry buried Madron 1854 – ‘of Gulval aged 66’. Probably c. 18/4/1786
Penzance, father Richard married Grace Nickless 25/10/1784 Madron.
Mary Lawry buried 7/12/1885 Gulval – ‘of Madron, aged 85’.
2
Richard Brush was baptised 26/9/1790 Gulval, son of Henry & Catherine. Richard was
living at Bodrifty, Gulval in 1834 when his brother Henry (1787-1834) died at Lelant,
leaving his estate to Richard. Children of Richard & Grace: Henry 1826 (married Mary
Lawry), Jane 1828 (married Edward Hoskin), Elizabeth 1830 (unmarried) & Catherine
1833 (married Stephen Nicholls – p223). Richard’s son Henry, farmer of Carfury in
1865, was a Carfury Chapel trustee. Richard’s brother-in-law Edward Hoskin,
blacksmith of Carfury in 1864, was another Carfury Chapel Trustee. Both men are
described as ‘chapel elders from Bodrifty’ in the 1851 Religious Census. [Refer p36 re
Brush family]
1841 Census – Bodrifty, Gulval: Richard Brush, 50; wife Grace, 35; children: Henry, 14;
Jane, 12; Elizabeth, 11; Catherine, 7; also Mary Nicholls (p132), 15, female servant.
1851 Census – Bodrifty, Gulval: Richard Brush, head, 60, farmer of 62 acres, born
Gulval; wife Grace, 47, born Gulval; children (all born Gulval): Henry, unmarried, 24,
employed on farm; Jane, unmarried, 22, employed at home; Elizabeth, unmarried, 20,
employed at home; Catherine, unmarried, 17, employed at home. Other occupants are
98
William Nicholls [p132], unmarried, 17, farm labourer, born Gulval; Jane Eddy, 10,
house servant, born Madron; Stephen Hoskins, 7, scholar, born Sancreed.
1861 Census – Gulval: Richard Brush, 70; wife Grace, 57; daughter Elizabeth, 30. Henry
Brush, 34; wife Mary, 44; and son Henry, 2
1871 Census – Bodrifty, Gulval: Elizabeth Brush, head, 40, unmarried, owner of 4 acres,
born Gulval.
1871 Census – Tredennick, Gulval: Henry Brush, head, 44, farmer of 6 acres, born
Gulval; wife Mary, 53, born Gulval; son Henry, 12, born Gulval; and servant Mary Jane
Mann, 20, born Madron.
The Brush family lived in the area for a considerable time, as reflected in the 1901
Census:
Tredinnick, Gulval: Mary Brush (wife of Henry Brush), 83, head, widow, living on own
means, born Morvah.
Bodrifty, Gulval: Elizabeth Brush (daughter of Richard & Grace Brush), 70, head, single,
living on own means, born Gulval.
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Henry Nicholls
m.
Anne Murish
14/2/1800 Madron
(Both of Madron, with mark of Richard & mark of Anne; witnessed by W. Wright & James Mann
[brother-in-law of Henry])
(Labourer of Try 1817; Miner of Try 1836)
c. 24/8/1777
c. 10/1/1779 Madron
(Parents: Henry/Margery – p75)
(Parents: William Morrish*/Kesia [Oates])
b. 25/9/1836 Madron
b. 28/6/1834 Madron
(‘Of Penzance aged 58’ died 23/9/1836)
(‘Of Ninnes aged 58’)
parish of Gulval 23rd April 1798 mentions Henry Nicholls jnr (above).
Gulval Will (abstract) of Henry Nicholls dated 22/9/1836: To daughter Ann & sons Thomas &
Richard ten shillings per year each (‘while the leases hold good’). His daughter Grace is to
receive £4 per year until the age of 21 and then ten shillings per year. Balance of estate to go to
sons Henry (miner of Towednack) and Cyprian (miner of Madron) and to take care of their sister
Grace. Will witnessed by John Bennetts (yeoman of Gulval) and William Noy (brother-in-law),
with the mark of Henry Nicholls; signed with the marks of Cyprian Nicholls and Henry Nicholls.
* Will of William Morrish of Madron, yeoman, made 5/4/1829, mentions his daughter Anne
Nicholls.
Henry
c. 17/5/1801
William
c. 1/4/1804
Cyprian**
c. 23/8/1807
Ann
30/12/1810
(Madron)
(Towednack)
(Towednack)
(Towednack)
b. 20/1/1857
b. 5/12/1825
b. 9/2/1881
b. circa 1838
(Madron)
(Madron)
(‘Of Ninnis aged 22’)
(‘Of Bosoljack, aged 73’)
m. 22/5/1825
(Madron)
Honor
Tregloan (p134)
m1. 25/10/1834 m. 21/6/1832
(Madron)
(Madron)
Elizabeth
Andrew
Bosence (p160) Nicholls (p155)
m. 15/8/1825
(Madron)
Mary
Hall (p136)
m2. 1868
Mary Nicholas
Pearce (p160)
Thomas
c. Circa 1814
Richard
c. 16/2/1817
Grace***
c. 7/7/1822
(Towednack)
(Gulval)
(Madron)
b. 1851+
b. 21/2/1896 Madron
b. 1871+
m. 9/12/1837
(Ludgvan)
Grace Nicholls
Caddy (p174)
m. 5/2/1842
(Gulval)
Mary Ann Blight
Stone (p186)
m. 31/10/1846
(Gulval)
John
French
** Christening of Cyprian has parents recorded as Henry & Elizabeth, but seems to be mix-up
with Richard & Elizabeth Nicholls who had children at Towednack around this period. Evidence
seems to confirm that parents were Henry & Ann.
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*** Marriage details: Grace Nicholls, residence Gulval, father Henry, a miner. John French,
labourer, Gulval, son of George, labourer (John c. 22/10/1820 Gulval, son of George & Johanna).
Witnesses: George French jnr & William Berryman.
1841 Census – Bosoljack, Gulval: Grace Nicholls, 15, female servant, living with her brother
Cyprian [p160].
1851 Census – Trevarrack, Gulval: John French, head, 30, farm labourer, born Gulval; wife Grace,
28, born Madron; daughter Jane, 1, born Gulval.
1861 Census – Trevarrack, Gulval: John French, head, 40, warehouseman, born Gulval; wife
Grace, 38, born Gulval; children (all born Gulval): Jane Francis, 11; Grace, 8; Mary Ann, 5; John,
3.
1871 Census – Chycornick, Gulval: John French, head, 50, warehouseman, born Gulval; wife
Grace, 49; children: Grace, 18, dressmaker; Mary A., 16; John, 13; Jane, 7.
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Richard Nicholls
m.
Elizabeth Christopher
8/8/1801 Zennor
(Richard & Elizabeth both of Zennor, with signature of Richard & mark of Elizabeth; witnessed
by William Quick [related to the Thomas family] & William Leggo)
(Farmer at Churchtown, Zennor 1814, farmer at Carrow/Kerrow 1819-61)
c. 10/7/1768 Madron
c. 30/11/1777 Zennor
(Parents: Richard/Anne – p55)
(Parents: Nicholas/Charity [Thomas])*
b. 7/3/1851 Zennor
b.? 11/1/1860 Madron
(‘Of Gulval aged 83’)
Richard
c. 9/5/1802
Elizabeth** Nancy
c. 17/7/1803 c. 2/12/1804
Nancy***
c. 9/2/1806
Charity****
c. 4/10/1807
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
b. 1871+
b. 28/4/1833 b. 10/3/1805 b.
Zennor
Zennor
b. 29/12/1836
Zennor
(‘Of Trewithy, 29’) (‘Nanny’)
(‘Of Buswednack, 29’)
(Zennor)
m. 20/9/1828 m. 4/6/1825
(Madron)
(Zennor)
Mary
Thomas
Reynolds(p145)Osborn
m. 7/7/1827
(Madron)
William
Wallis
William
c. 20/8/1809
Henry
c. 17/11/1811
Grace*****
c. 15/5/1814
(Zennor)
(Bpt privately 10/6)
(Zennor)
(Bpt. privately 20/11)
(Zennor)
Died 21/9/1858
b. 28/3/1885
b. 1871+
(Madron)
(‘Of Landithy aged 49’)
(Zennor)
m. 6/2/1836
(St Levan)
Catherine
Thomas (p163)
m. 11/3/1854
(Zennor)
Charity
Christopher (p210)
m. 18/7/1829
(Zennor)
Matthew
Thomas
m. 17/12/1836
(Zennor)
Matthew
Osborn (of Zennor)
(Sister of Hannah)
Cyprian
c. 29/12/1816
John
c. 13/6/1819
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
b. 26/12/1820
b.? 26/1/1898 Paul
(‘Of Currow, aged 4’)
(‘Of Newlyn, aged 80’)
m. 26/9/1840
(Zennor)
Hannah
Thomas (p180)
(Sister of Catherine)
Note: First six children baptised as ‘Nichols’.
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22/6/1830 ‘Went to Zennor and viewed the Glebe and Mr. Grylls’s property with a view to
exchange lands. Richard Nicholls of Kerrow accompanied. Gave Richard Nicholls 2/6d [2
shillings & 6 pence]’. Note: William Veale was the Vicar of Zennor prior to 1851 and married a
sister of Rev. R. Grylls, late Vicar of Luxulyan.
1838 Stanary Court case concerning mine ‘Wheal Dollar’: Rev. William Hockin, of Phillack,
filled a petition against John Rosewarne, gentleman, and Thomas Pearce, mine agent, both also of
Phillack. The extent of Wheal Dollar was given as all those parts of the estates or Tenements of
Kerrowe and Carnelloe situate in the pariah of Zennor. In September 1837 Pearce and Rosewarne
“entered on a certain field within the said limits, in the occupation of one Richard Nicholls, a
Tenent of the said Complaintant, and there caused to be stripped of the soil and meat earth in two
several places to the extent of about seventy feet long and twelve feet wide and to a depth of about
sixteen inches.” They also “caused to be dug certain small pits commonly called Costeen pits at
intervals within the place so stripped.” The Court’s verdict was given on January 23rd 1841 in
favour of the Complaintant (Hockin) with damages of 10 pds against Rosewarne.
Richard Nicholls of Kerrow, Zennor was a Vestryman of the parish of Zennor and together with
Charles Osborn (Matthew’s father) was a churchwarden of Zennor parish church. Richard
Nicholls farmed the Kerrow farm just to the west of Trewey in Zennor as a yeoman farmer. This
farm was taken over after his death by his sons: John Nicholls (who married Hannah Thomas)
who farmed 25 acres of it and Henry Nicholls (who married Charity Christopher) who farmed 26
acres of it. Richard’s widow Elizabeth lived in the farmhouse with her son Henry who eventually
took over the whole of Kerrow when John & Hannah left Zennor in the early 1850’s for
Perranuthnoe.
1841 Census – Kerrow, Zennor: Richard Nicholls, 76, farmer; wife Elizabeth, 65; son Henry
Nicholls, 25; also Cathren Trembath, 15, servant; William Wallis, 18, servant; Nancy Wallis, 10.
1851 Census – Lower Kerrow, Zennor: Henry Nicholls, unmarried, 39, farmer of 26 acres, born
Zennor; Elizabeth Nicholls, mother, widow, 73, born Zennor. Also Belinda Thomas, servant,
unmarried, 21, born Zennor; Elizabeth Wallis, servant, 14, born Zennor; John Thomas, servant,
14, born Zennor.
* Nicholas Christopher & Charity Thomas were married 11/5/1767 Zennor. Nicholas’s parents
were Nicholas Christopher & Ann (nee Eddy). Charity Thomas was born 1749 to Matthew
Thomas & Ann (nee Roberts). Matthew Thomas of Treen, Zennor (1714 – 1796) was
fundamental in bringing John Wesley to Cornwall. Ann Roberts was born 1740 Towednack,
daughter of John & Mary. Source material – ‘A Pedigree of the Thomas Family, of Zennor,
Cornwall’ showing eight generations – copyright Jilbert Anderson, June 1922.
Nicholas Christopher a witness to the Will of Henry Nicholls (p105).
** Marriage details: Thomas & Elizabeth both of Zennor.
Daughter Elizabeth Nicholls Osborn of Trewithy buried Zennor 20/7/1833 aged 3 months.
*** Marriage details: William Wallis, widower, of Tremethick, Madron. Marriage witnessed by
Richard & Elizabeth Nicholls.
**** Marriage details: Matthew & Charity, both of Zennor.
***** Marriage details: Matthew & Grace, both of Zennor.
Matthew Osborn baptised 5/6/1814 Zennor, son of Christopher & Anne.
1871 Census – Bossigran, Zennor: Matthew Osborn junior, head, tin miner, 31, born Zennor; wife
Grace, 30, born Zennor; children (all born Zennor) – Grace, 5, school; Matthew, 5 months.
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Zennor headstones – Grace Nicholls died Penzance 13/11/1932 aged 70; William, husband of
Ann, died Kerrow 3/1/1935 aged 71. Ann, wife of William, died 30/3/1955 aged 81. Charity died
Kerrow Farm 26/8/1955 aged 49; sister Fanny died 29/12/1991; William Nicholls of Kerrow Farm
died 15/1/1985 aged 85 and wife Grace Ida died 13/11/1957 aged 55.
In Loving Memory of
Grace Nicholls
Who died at 71 High St
Penzance
Nov 13th 1932
Aged 70 Years
In Loving Memory of
William Nicholls
The Beloved Husband of
Ann Nicholls
Who passed away at Kerrowe, Zennor
Jan 3rd 1935 Aged 71 Years
Also of the Above
Ann Nicholls
Who passed away March 30th 1955
Aged 81
In Loving Memory of
Our Beloved Sister
Charity Nicholls
Of Kerrow Farm, Zennor
Who died 26th August 1955
Aged 49 Years
And Fanny her Sister
Who died 29th Dec 1991
Aged 88
In Loving Memory of
Grace Ida
Dearly beloved wife of William Nicholls
Who died 13th Nov 1957
Aged 55 Years
Also of the Above
William Nicholls
Who died 15th Jan 1985
Aged 85 Years
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Henry Nicholls
m.
Margaret Mann
19/6/1802 Morvah
(Henry of Zennor & Margaret of Morvah, witnessed by Richard Nicholls & Richard Mann)
c. 1/4/1771 Madron
c. circa 1772
(Father: Richard?)
b. 24/1/1815 Zennor
b. 4/3/1854 Zennor
(‘Aged 45’)
(‘Of Churchtown, aged 82’)
Nanny
c. 24/7/1803
Jane*
Henry
c. 10/8/1806 c. 26/3/1809
Mary Ann**
c. 12/5/1812 (private baptism)
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
b. 25/9/1858 b. 1841+
b. 1881+
b. 1861+
(Madron)
(Zennor ?)
m. 29/12/1827 m.21/10/1844
(Zennor)
(St Ives)
Charles
Tabitha
Friggens (jnr) Jenkyns (p194)
m. 1/3/1834
(Madron)
William
Pascoe (jnr)
Zennor Will of Henry Nicholls, yeoman of Zennor, dated 12/5/1814 (proved 29/4/1815): Wife to
receive annuity of £4 out of my tenement at Tremethack, Madron as long as she remains a widow.
Son Henry & daughters Jane, Nanny & Mary Ann to receive 2/6d a week each for their
maintenance during their minority, and upon their majority to receive the tenement of Tremethack
in the following proportions: Henry 4/8th, Nanny 1/8th, Jane 1/8th & Mary Ann 1/8th. To brother
Richard a suit of mournings, to brother’s wife [Elizabeth] a handkerchief and gloves; to sister
[Anne] a gown and handkerchief, to Uncle Cyprian a hatband and gloves. To any nephews who
attend my funeral a hatband & gloves and to any nieces who attend my funeral a handkerchief &
gloves. Brother Richard to be supervisor guardian & trustee of the said children during their
minorities or if he were to die then replaced by Uncle Cyprian & nephew Richard Nicholls. Son
Henry is to receive remainder of the estate and become executor. In case wife or children contest
the Will then brother is to defend Will and to be reimbursed for expenses incurred.
Will was witnessed by William Palmer & Nicholas Christopher (p102); with signature of Henry
Nicholls.
1841 Census – Trythal, Gulval: Margaret Nicholls, 55, independent; daughter Nanny Nicholls, 35.
1851 Census – Trythal, Gulval: Margaret Nickles, head, 73, annuitant, born Morvah; Nancy
Nickless, 50, daughter, unmarried, annuitant, born Zennor.
* Charles Friggens baptised 19/1/1800 Madron, son of Charles Friggens & Mary [nee Stevens].
Charles Friggens senior is the brother of Christiana Friggens who married Peter Nicholls of Tresco
(p113) in 1806 who were living at Higher Ninnes in 1841.
Farm Name: Boswarthen, Part of Occupier: Charles Friggens junior
Field Names: Churchway Field (TA760), Little Grouse (TA761), Great Grouse (TA762), The
Three Cornered Grouse (TA763), The Cross Downs (TA775).
Shown on the Tithe map as occupying (?) first dwelling on right entering Boswarthen; landowner
was Francis Herle Stephens Esq.
1841 Census – Boswarthen, Madron: Charles Friggens senior, farmer, 72; Charles Friggens junior,
farmer, 40, and wife Jane, 34; children: Mary, 7; Jane, 5; Emily, 2; Grace, 3 months; also John
Pearce, male servant, 12, & Rosevena Pearce, female servant, 15. Charles junior is named as
Carfury Chapel Trustee 30/4/1832. Family was not at Boswarthen in 1851.
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Charles Friggens senior (of Ninnes) buried Madron 1855, aged 75.
[At the right-hand side of Bodrifty Townplace was a homestead, which no longer remains. The
Occupier was John Gilbert, landowner James Wentworth Buller, and lessee Charles Friggens
(senior or junior?). The 1841 Census records John Jelbart, 40, miner; wife Mary, 40; children:
Stephen, 20; Elizabeth, 15; Jeremiah, 13; Charles, 11; William, 6; Honor, 3. The same family was
living at Trythall in 1851 with sons Stephen & Charles at Ninnis in 1861, sons William &
Jeremiah at Trythall in 1861.]
** William Pascoe junior baptised 31/12/1811 Madron, son of William & Grace [nee Nicholls].
Refer further details under marriage of Cyprian/Catherine Nicholls 1783 (p80-81). William
Pascoe junior buried Madron 1849 – ‘of Ninnes aged 37’.
William Pascoe junior married 1/3/1834 Madron to Mary Ann Nicholls (c. 12/5/1812 Zennor,
father Henry). Cyprian’s 1835 Will mentions that his grandson William Pascoe junior & wife
Mary Ann were living with him at Ninnes.
Daughter Grace Nicholls Pascoe buried Madron 1840 – ‘of Ninnes aged 3’.
1841 Census – Lower Ninnes, Madron: William Pascoe junior, farmer, wife Mary and children
Cyprian, 6, and Grace, 1 – also the household included Elizabeth Pearce, 10, and Peter Chapell,
(independent), 75.
William Pascoe junior buried Madron 1849 – ‘of Ninnes aged 37’.
1851 Census – Ninnes, Madron: Mary A. Pascoe, farmer’s widow, 40, born Zennor; children:
Cyprian, 15, born Madron; Grace, 10, born Madron; Mary Ann, 7, born Madron; & Jane***, 9,
born Madron. Also includes Elizabeth J. Pascoe, 17, visitor, born St Hilary.
1861 Census – Ninnes, Madron: Mary Ann Pascoe, 49, head, Housekeeper, widow of agricultural
labourer, born Zennor; children: Grace, 21, unmarried,, garden labourer, born Madron; Jane, 19,
unmarried, garden labourer, born Madron; Elizabeth Ann, 16, Tin Stamps labourer, born Madron;
William Nicholls [Pascoe], 10, scholar, born Zennor.
*** Jane Nicholes Pascoe (above) married 29/12/1861 at Gulval to Andrew Stevens (son
of Andrew & Margaret (living at Carfury 1861, grandson of George Alexander Stevens)
1871 Census - Higher Boswarthen, Madron: Andrew Stevens, 31, Blacksmith, born
Gulval; Jane, 28, wife, born Madron; Grace, 5, daughter, born Madron; William, 1, son,
born Madron; Mary Ann Jilbert, 60, grandmother [?], miner’s widow, born Zennor.
[Grace and William started school in September 1871 at Carfury – living then at Carfury
Bottoms.]
In 1881 Andrew & Jane Stevens were living at Heamoor.
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Francis Nicholls
m.
Grace Hosking
9/10/1802
(With the mark of Francis & the mark of Grace; witnessed by William Hosking & Thomas Bond)
(Farmer of Garris 1813-1816, of Trythall 1817, farmer of Boswarthen 1838, agricultural
labourer of Bosiliack/Bosiljack 1841, retired farmer 1851, labourer 1861)
c. 19/3/1780
c. 1/6/1777 Ludgvan
(Parents: William/Margaret [Davy])
b. 2/9/1868
b. 27/6/1865
(‘Of Ding Dong, aged 88’)
(Francis, of Boskednan, died 29th August)
Christiana*
c. 10/7/1803
b. 6/1/1892 Madron
Francis
c. 31/1/1808
b. 27/3/1853
Grace***
Selina**
c. 30/5/1813 (4 months)c. 7/1/1816
b. 24/10/1891
Died 1901
(‘Of Sancreed aged 88’)
(‘Of Boskednan, age 77’) (Penzance)
m. 12/4/1823
(Gulval)
James
Newton
m. 6/1/1836
(Ludgvan)
Margaret
Hoskin (p162)
m. 12/10/1833
(Madron)
John
Trembath
m. 22/1/1838
(Madron)
Stephen
Eddy
Francis Nicholls – 1 pig, and armed with one firelock.
of Gulval, residing within the said Parish” – Francis Nicholls of Trythall.
Deeds & Leases, Manor of Godrewy, Leases Phillack (CRO Ref. G/89): 30/9/1839 Rev. William
Hockin of Phillack, clerk, to Francis Nicholls, father & son, of Madron, yeomen, & William
Hosking of Trassoe in Ludgvan, yeoman.
1841 Census – Bosiljack (now Bosiliack), Madron: Francis & Grace with Eddy family (see
below).
1851 Census – Polminick, Madron: Francis Nicholls, head, 70, retired farmer, born Gulval; wife
Grace, 68, born Gulval.
1861 Census – Heamoor, Madron: Francis Nicholls, head, 81, labourer, born Gulval; wife Grace,
84, born Ludgvan.
* Marriage of James & Christiana Newton witnessed by Richard Nickless ([Nicholas] - p65), John
Nicholls (p65) and Ann Richards. James Newton baptised 17/2/1799 St Just, son of John &
Judith.
Children: James (c. 9/11/1823 Gulval); Grace (c. 23/4/1826 Madron); Francis (c. 22/3/1829
Madron); John (c. 3/7/1831 Madron); William (c. 5/3/1833 Madron); Elizabeth (c. 3/5/1835
Madron); Christiana (c. 6/6/1841 Madron, buried Madron 1846 – ‘Of Bosiljack, aged 6’).
Additionally Eliza, c. 22/6/1845 Madron - married William Hosken, wheelwright & builder, at
Penzance 1867.
1841 Census – Bosiljack (now Bosiliack), Madron: James Newton, farmer, 40; wife Christiana
and children: James, 16, Grace, 15, Francis, 12, William, 8, Elizabeth, 6, and Christiana 5 weeks.
1851 Census – Madron: James Newton, head, 52, farming 30 acres & crofts, born St Just; wife
Christiana, 48, born Gulval; children (all born Madron): Francis, unmarried, 22, farmer’s son;
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John, unmarried, 19, farmer’s son; William, 17, farmer’s son; Elizabeth, 15, farmer’ daughter;
Eliza, 5, farmer’s daughter.
1871 Census – Sancreed: James Newton, farmer, & wife Christiana with daughter Grace (later
married Matthew Newton, born 1822 St Just in Penwith; farmer of 40 acres at Sancreed in 1871
and farmer of 60 acres at Traffal, Newlyn in 1881).
James Newton of Sancreed was buried Madron 8/12/1874, aged 76.
1881 Census – Post Office, Sancreed: Christiana Newton, where daughter Eliza Hosken was
employed as Postmistress.
1891 Census – Christiana at Newbridge, Sancreed
** Marriage details: Selina Nicholls, 22, residence Boswarthen, daughter of Francis, farmer.
Stephen Eddy, 24 [c. 30/10/1814 St Just in Penwith], residence Zennor, father Stephen, tin dresser.
Marriage witnessed by Francis Nicholls and James Newton.
Children: Alfred (c. 1/8/1839 Madron), Stephen (c. 18/1/1842 Madron), Grace (born 1844
Madron), John (born 1847 St Just in Penwith), Francis (born 1851 St Just in Penwith) & Emily
(born 1857 St Just in Penwith).
1841 Census – Bosiljack, Madron: Stephen Eddy, 25, tin dresser;, wife Selina, 25; Alfred Eddy,
12; Jane Beckerleg, 25, tin dresser; Mary Beckerleg, 2; Francis Nicholes, 60, agricultural labourer;
and wife Grace Nicholes, 60.
Stephen Eddy, son of Stephen & Catherine [Grenfell], was buried 6/6/1866 St Just in Penwith,
aged 54. His widow, Selina, is recorded in the following Censuses:
1871 – Breage; 1881 – Bosorne Lane, St Just in Penwith; 1891 – Regent Terrace, St Just in
Penwith; 1901 – St Just in Penwith. Her occupation is given as annuitant / living on own means.
*** Marriage details: John Trembath of Morvah & Grace of Madron, with signature of John &
mark of Grace; witnessed by Francis Nicholls & Christine Newton.
Children of John & Grace Trembath: Grace Nicholls Trembath (c. 18/5/1834 Morvah), Jane (c.
26/3/1837 Morvah), John (c. 18/10/1840 Morvah), Francis (born 1844 Gulval), Margery (born
1847 Gulval), William (born 1850 Gulval), James (born 1853 Gulval) & Richard (born 1856
Gulval).
1851 Census – Boskednan, Gulval: John Trembath, head, 42, miner, born Madron; wife Grace, 32,
born Gulval; children: Grace, 16, labourer in mine, born Morvah; Jane, 14, labourer in mine, born
Morvah; John, 10, born Morvah; Francis, 7, born Gulval; Margery, 4, born Gulval; William, 1,
born Gulval.
1861 Census – Boskednan, Gulval: John Trembath, head, 52, tin miner, born Madron; wife Grace,
48, born Gulval; children: Jane, 24, born Morvah; John, 20, born Morvah; Francis, 17, born
Gulval; Mary Ann, 14, born Gulval; William, 11, born Gulval; James, 8, born Gulval; Richard, 5,
born Gulval.
1871 Census – Boskednan, Gulval: Francis Trembath, 27, head, unmarried, miner, born Gulval;
mother Grace, 57, widow, housekeeper & annuitant, born Gulval; brother James, 18, miner, born
Gulval; sister Jane, 30, domestic servant, unmarried, born Morvah; brother Richard, 15, miner,
born Gulval. Other Trembath families also resided in Gulval.
Daughter Grace Nicholls Trembath married William Stevens (son of William (brother of George
Alexander Stevens)) 8/9/1860 Gulval.
1861 Census – Tredinneck, Gulval: William Stevens, Head, 23, Mine Engine Worker, born
Gulval; Grace, wife, 26, born Morvah; William John, 3 months (later grandfather of Willie
Stevens, blacksmith).
1871 Census – Boskednan Wartha, Gulval: William Stevens, Engine Driver; wife Grace; children:
William John, 10; Elizabeth Myeia, 8; Elisa Jane, 6; Francis, 4; Ann, 2; & William Trembath, 23,
lodger.
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1881 Census – Boskednan, Gulval: William Stevens, farmer of 15 acres; William, 20; Eliza, 16;
Francis, 13; Richard A., 2.
1891 Census – Tredinneck, Gulval: William Stevens, 53; Grace, 56; Eliza, 26, unmarried; Frank,
23, unmarried; Annie, 21; Richard A., 12; Grace M. Trembath, 77, mother-in-law.
Stephen Nicholls
m.
Christiana Chellew
21/1/1804 Ludgvan
(Both of Ludgvan, with signature of Stephen & mark of Christian; witnessed by William Thomas
& George White.)
(Farmer of Ludgvan 1841, farmer of Kenegie & Garris 1843)
c. 4/8/1776
(Parents: Henry Chelew/Mary [Ellis])
b. 22/5/1846 Gulval
Buried 25/12/1855 Gulval
(‘Christian Nickless of Ludgvan, aged 76’)
Richard
c. 23/12/1804
Henry*
c. 1/6/1806
Thomas**
c. 19/12/1808
Phyllis***
c. 25/3/1810
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
b. 1876
b. 1880
Died 21/7/1877
b.
Ballarat,
Victoria, Aust
Ballarat,
Victoria, Aust
Beswick Hospital, Ballarat,
Victoria, Aust
m. 9/8/1836
(St Levan)
Barbara
Trembath (p168)
m.12/11/1831 m. 16/2/1861
(St Levan)
(Victoria, Aust.)
Elizabeth
Jane Mary
Trembath (p149) James
(Sister of Elizabeth)
(Sister of Barbara)
m.? 2/4/1832
(Madron)
John
Mitchell
Christiana
c. 4/4/1813
Stephen
c. 25/6/1815
Mary Ann
c. 25/1/1818
Charles****
c. 27/1/1822
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
b.
b. 5/6/1848
b. 5/11/1818
Died 19/11/1911
(Gulval)
(Ludgvan,’aged 1’)
(Bendigo, Victoria,
Australia)
m. 15/2/1853
(Ludgvan)
Phyllis Shakerley
Thomas
Stephen Nicholls – 1 pig, 1 draft horse, and armed with a pitchfork
15/5/1832 ‘To S. Nicholls for 100lbs of butter £3/13/6’
1841 Census – Bowgegheere, Ludgvan: Stephen Nicholls, 60, farmer; Christiana Nicholls, 55;
Thomas Nicholls, 25; Stephen Nicholls, 15; Charles Nicholls, 15; with servants Mary Gibard, 15,
& John Woolcock, 10.
Tithe Apportionment Award Gulval 1843 (rent charge in lieu of tithes): Stephen Nicholls,
occupier of 14 acres at Kenegie (owner Thomas Ellis); includes house, garden & plot (20 perches),
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town field by Garris, ‘James’ Field’ & ‘Andrew’s Field’. Also Stephen is occupier of 3 acres at
Garris as well as owner & occupier of 5 acres at Garris (includes lane house & town plot of 36
perches).
1851 Census – Garris, Gulval: Kitty (Christiana) Nicholls, head, 74, widower, late farmer’s wife,
born Ludgvan.
* Elizabeth Trembath was the daughter of John & Christiana (nee Edwards) and the sister of
Barbara who married Henry’s brother Richard.
** Children of Thomas & Jane: Thomas Henry Hodge Nicholls, 1862; Mary Jane Christine 1864:
Stephen James 1869; Elizabeth Emily circa 1873 (all born in Victoria).
*** Marriage details: John & Phyllis both of Penzance, with mark of both. Witnessed by … [?]
Read & Walter Edmunds
John Mitchell baptised 29/10/1809 Zennor, son of Robert. Perhaps brother of Matthew
Michell/Mitchell baptised 21/6/1818 Zennor, son of Robert & Jane, who married Catharine
Nicholls (p136).
**** Phyllis Shakerley Thomas was the daughter of Martin Thomas & wife Phillis [nee
Shakerley], baptised 16/11/1823 St Hilary. Martin was the brother of Jane Thomas who married
Cyprian Nicholls (p124).
Children of Charles & Phyllis:
1. Elizabeth, born 1854 Newt, Victoria
2. Phillis Shackerley Thomas, born 1856 Ballarat, died 1856 Ballarat
3. Charles, born 1857 Ballarat, died 1857
4. Stephen Charles, born 1858 Ballarat, died 1858
5. Jane Shackerley Thomas, born 1859 Ballarat, married Thomas Davies 1882 Victoria
6. Phillis Shackerley, born 1860 Ballarat, died 1861
7. Martin Thomas, born 1863 Ballarat, died 1864
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William Nicholls
m.
Mary Phillips
28/4/1804 Ludgvan
(William of Gulval & Mary of Ludgvan, with mark of William & mark of Mary; witnessed by
William Phillips & George White.)
(Living Lower Hellangove 1813, labourer of Garris 1815, at Hellangove 1817, labourer
of Carnequidden 1818-1822, miner of Hellangove 1825, labourer of Garris 1830, of
Trezela 1832)
c. 14/5/1775 St Ives
c. 5/11/1786 St Erth
(Parents: Andrew/Christiana – p65) (Parents: William/Elizabeth [Tregenza])
b. 10/4/1832
b. 7/7/1840 (‘Of Ludgvan, aged 54’)
(‘Of Trezelah aged 57’)
(Died Ludgvan 5/7/1840 of yellow fever)
(John Harvey of Hellangove in attendance)
(‘Widow of William, a miner’)
William
c. 7/7/1805
Mary**
Christian(a)
c. 10/1/1808 c. 11/3/1810
John
c. 8/12/1811
John
c. 30/8/1815
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 1881+
Died Dec 1882 b.
(Gulval)
b. 25/9/1813 b. 6/8/1873 Pendeen
(‘Of Lower Hellangove, 1’)
m. 8/9/1849
(Phillack)
Elizabeth
Uren Blee
(p200)
m. 20/5/1832
(Gulval)
John
Harvey
m. 1/6/1833
(Phillack)
Edward
Briant***
m1. 3/11/1838
(Gulval)
Mary Ann
Quick (p177)
m2. 1869
(Penzance)
Jane Cary
Blewett (p179)
Andrew
Elizabeth
c. 22/11/1818 c. 9/6/1822
Francis
c. 10/4/1825
Ann Phillips*
c. 22/8/1830
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b.? 30/5/1844 b. 1841+
(Gulval)
b. 9/6/1873 N.S.W.
(‘Of St Erth, aged 24’)
(Died 8/6/1873)
m. 25/10/1845
(Perranuthnoe)
Miranda
Sullivan (p198)
m. 30/9/1854
(Ludgvan)
Benjamin
Chellew
(Remarried 1868)
parish of Gulval 23rd April 1798 mentions William Nicholls, aged 22, willing to be armed,
arrayed, trained or exercised with pike.
William Nicholls – 1 cow, 1 young cattle & colts, 4 sheep & goats, 3 pigs, 1 draft horse, and
armed with two firelocks (another male to be brought along).
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of Gulval, residing within the said Parish” – William Nicholls of Hellangove.
29/12/1830 ‘[Paid] William Nicholls & Co for putting back a hedge [a stone wall] £4/10/6.’
1841 Census – Crowlas, Ludgvan: William Nicholls, 30, agricultural labourer; Andrew Nicholls,
20, agricultural labourer; Elizabeth Nicholls, 15; Ann Nicholls, 10.
* Marriage witnessed by Henry Chellew & John Harvey.
Benjamin Chellew, c. 1/9/1834, was the son of Henry Chellew and wife Mary (nee Williams).
Benjamin living at Lanquarth, Ludgvan, in 1841
Children of Chellew marriage: John Harvey, c. 27/5/1855 Ludgvan; Mary, c. 3/8/1856 Ludgvan,
died 1903 High Lanes, Phillack; Benjamin, c. 7/2/1858 Ludgvan, died 1859 Ludgvan; Elizabeth
Curgenven, born 1859 Ludgvan [named after her paternal grandmother]; Benjamin, born circa
1860 Ludgvan; Ann Phillips, born 9/3/1862, c. 21/4/1862 Ludgvan, buried 30/4/1862 Ludgvan.
1861 Census – Ludgvan: Benjamin Chellew, 28, born Ludgvan; Ann Phillips Chellew, 30, born
Ludgvan [?]; children (all born Ludgvan): John Harvey, 6; Mary, 5; Elizabeth Curgenvin, 2;
Benjamin, 6 months.
After the death of his wife Ann, Benjamin Chellew married Margaret Trudgian 28/12/1868
Ludgvan. Benjamin & Margaret were living at Ludgvan 1871.
** Marriage of John Harvey & Mary Nicholls witnessed by John Harvey & John Carbis.
Children: John (c. 10/11/1833 Ludgvan), William Nicholls Harvey (c. 16/8/1835 Ludgvan),
Andrew Nicholls Harvey (c. 17/9/1837 Gulval) & Mary Ann (born circa 1840 Gulval).
1841 Census – Clodgy [?], Gulval: John Harvey, 35, sawyer; wife Mary, 30; children: John, 8;
William, 6; Andrew, 4; Mary Ann, 1.
1861 Census – Lower Tregerest, Sancreed: Mary Harvey, widow, 54, living with brother John
(refer p166).
1871 Census – family at Ludgvan
William Nicholls Harvey in 1891 Census for Ludgvan
Andrew Nicholls Harvey, sawyer & carpenter, in 1871, 1891 & 1901 Census for Ludgvan
*** Marriage details: Edward of Gwithian and Christiana of Phillack, with signature of Edward
and mark of Christiana; witnessed by William Prowse and Thomas Blewett.
Edward Bryant buried Madron 1853 – ‘of Union Workhouse aged 53’.
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John Nicholls
m.
Mary Spasshatt 20/8/1805 Madron
(John & Mary both of Penzance, with the mark of John and the signature of Mary; witnessed by
Sarah Innes & Joseph Spasshatt [p84])
c. 3/11/1782 Gulval
born circa 1788 Marazion
(Father: Joseph?)
b.? 24/8/1852 Penzance St Mary
(‘Of Penazance, aged 69’)
b. 1851+
Elizabeth
Born circa 1820
(Devonport, Devon)
b. 1851+
m. 26/5/1836
(Madron)
William Strick
Michell
** 1841 Census – North Street, Penzance: John Nicholls, 66, shopkeeper; wife Mary, 50; Daniel
Clark, 23, bookseller; Soreun Sperholder, 23, clockmaker; Mary Carbin, 16, servant; Angelina
Sparshalt, 4.
1851 Census – North Street, Penzance: John Nicholls, head, 69, superannuated dockyard smith,
born Gulval; wife Mary, 63, born Marazion; daughter Elizabeth Michell, married, 31, born
Devonport, Devon; & granddaughter Mary A. S. Michell, 13, born Penzance.
Peter Nicholls *
m. Christian Friggens
29/5/1806 Madron
(Peter of Tresco, Isle of Scilly, & Christian of Madron; with signature of Peter and sign of
Christian. Witnessed by Charles Friggens (senior) & Samuel Rodda (buried Madron 1847 – ‘of
Breage aged 71’, married Elisabeth Friggens 9/3/1799 Madron).)
(Shoemaker of Higher Ninnis 1841)
(Seemingly not connected with earlier Nicholls families of Gulval)
c. 28/10/1773 Scilly
c. 19/4/1778 Gulval
(Parents: Samson/Caroline)
(Parents: Charles/Mary [Stevens])
b. 2/5/1843 Madron
(‘Christian Nicholls of Crowlas Ludgvan, aged 80’)
Christiana Friggens
c. 8/11/1807
Peter
c. 24/6/1811
Sampson Pender
c. 23/4/1815
(Scilly)
(Scilly)
(Madron)
b. 1851+
b. 22/7/1817
b. circa 1868
(Madron)
m. 4/12/1841
(Gulval)
Anthony
Cock**
m. 2/6/1859
(St Ives)
Elizabeth
Ellis (p228)
1840 Tithe Records – family situated at Ninnes, Madron. Peter was an owner/occupier of 3 acres
1 rood and 32 perches at Ninnis.
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1841 Census – Higher Ninnes, Madron: Peter Nicholls, head, 60, shoemaker; wife Christiana, 60;
daughter Christiana, 30; son Sampson, 20, farmer.
1851 Census – Ninnes, Madron: Christiana Nicholls, head, widow, 73, shoemaker’s widow, born
Gulval; son Sampson Nicholls, unmarried, 34, tin miner, born Madron; daughter Christiana Cock,
widow, 41, miner’s widow, born Scilly; grandson William Cock, 8, scholar, born Madron;.
* Other Scilly links: Samson (brother of Peter) c. 8/11/1766 Scilly. Other siblings to Peter include
Mary (c. 29/9/1776 Scilly) and Caroline (c. 10/9/1769 Scilly). There were also other Nicholls
families on Scilly.
Other links:
Samuel Rodda married Elizabeth Nicholls 15/2/1817 at Madron (p75).
Cyprian Friggens married Jane Nicholls 13/9/1783 at Gulval (p80).
Charles Friggens junior (c. 19/1/1800 Madron) married 29/12/1827 at Zennor to
Jane Nicholls (c. 10/8/1806 Zennor, daughter of Henry & Margaret) – (p105)
** Marriage details: Christiana, 33, residence Madron, father: Peter, shoemaker. Anthony, 38,
widower, a miner, Tredinneck in Gulval, father: Anthony Cock, a miner. Marriage witnessed by
Sampson Nicholls & Jane Curnow (mark). Anthony Cock c. 25/12/1803 Gulval, son of Anthony
& Mary, married Elizabeth Rowe 25/5/1823 Gulval – son Anthony c. 15/8/1830 Gulval.
Manor of Trezula & Mulfra Rent Book 1831:
Tredinneck Common & part of Gurnick (near Tredinneck) – tenant Anthony Cock (senior).
Tithe Apportionment Award Gulval 1843: Anthony Cock, occupier of 12 acres in Tredinneck.
Anthony Cock senior buried Madron 1832 – ‘of Church Town aged 57’. Perhaps the Anthony
Cock in the 1803 Muster List recorded as ‘infirm, lost an arm’ and owner of 2 pigs.
Anthony Cock junior buried Madron 1850 – ‘of Gulval aged 48’.
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Hugh Nicholls
m.
Mary James 7/9/1806 Ludgvan
(Hugh of Ludgvan & Mary of Gulval, with mark of Hugh & signature of Mary, and witnessed by
George White.)
(Labourer of Venton Jilbert [Venton Gilbert Downs, Madron?] 1814, labourer of Trezela
1816-1822, labourer of Carnequidden 1824-1829, tin miner of Ludgvan 1841)
c. 30/7/1786 Zennor
c. 13/11/1785 Ludgvan
(Parents: Henry/Mary [Nicholl – p68])
Died 18/5/1849
b. 1841+
(Burra, South Australia)
(Hugh arrived Port Adelaide 10/11/1848 on ship “Navarino” – paid fare therefore not assisted)
of Gulval, residing within the said Parish” – Hugh Nicholls of Ludgvan, labouring with William
Bolitho Esq.
Mary
Christiana*
Henry James
Andrew
(‘Nicholas’)
c. 7/12/1806
c. 10/7/1808
c. 18/2/1810
c. 24/1/1812
(Gulval)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Gulval, born Ludgvan)
b. 1861+
b. 1841+
b. 8/2/1881
b. 1868
m. 14/11/1831
(Gulval)
Elizabeth
Daniel (p150)
m1. 21/6/1832
(Madron)
Ann
Nicholls (p155)
m. 19/6/1830 m. 10/9/1831
(Gulval)
(Ludgvan)
Henry
Thomas
Nicholls (p147) Martin
m2. 11/10/1842
(Ludgvan)
Ann
Carbis (p156)
Martha**
c. 22/5/1814
Hugh
c. 14/7/1816
William
c. 8/8/1819
John
c. 31/12/1822
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 1841+
Died 1842
b. 1863+
b. 1867+
m. 15/2/1844
(Ludgvan)
Elizabeth
Warren (p192)
m. 15/10/1844
(Ludgvan)
Frances
Newton (p193)
m. 25/10/1834 m. 26/11/1836
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
Henry
Jane
Boase
Lawry (p169)
(m2. Thomas Martins 1842)
More children next page
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Maria
Joseph
c. 21/11/1824 c. 10/8/1826
James***
c. 20/9/1829
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 1841+
b. 1881+
Died 1903 Macedon, Victoria
m1. Dec qrt 1855
(?)
Mary (details unknown)
(p220)
m. 18/7/1850
(Trinity Church, Adelaide)
Eliza
Weedon
m2. Sept qrt 1876
(?)
Sarah
Pearce (p220)
(Widow)
1841 Census – Castle Town, Ludgvan: Hugh Nicholls, 50, tin miner; wife Mary, 50; children:
William, 20; John, 18; Maria, 15; Joseph, 14, & James, 11.
* 1841 Census – Castle Town, Ludgvan: Thomas & Catherine (Christiana) Martin with their three
children.
** Henry Boase baptised 13/5/1811 St Buryan, son of Peter & Margaret. [Seemingly Henry’s
brother Peter married Elisabeth Nicholls (p86)].
Marriage details: Both of Ludgvan, with signature of Henry Boase and Mark of Martha; witnessed
by Elizabeth Nicholls & Gideon Semmens.
1841 Census - Castle Town, Ludgvan: Henry & Martha with their four children.
1851 Census – Wheal Carn, Towednack: Henry Boase, head, 38, tin miner, born St Buryan; wife
Martha, 36, born Gulval; children (1st three born Ludgvan, last three born Towednack): Mary Jane,
14; Thomas, 10, scholar; Hugh Nicholls Boase, 8, scholar; Josiah, 6, scholar; Martha Maria, 3;
James Nicholls Boase, 1.
*** James arrived at Port Adelaide 29/10/1847 on ship ‘Duchess of Northumberland”.
Weedon arrived Port Adelaide 5/12/1848 on ship “Hooghly” – she was born
Walworth, London, & baptised 5th June 1831. James went into bricklaying, mining
He built the State Nursery Hotel in 1859 and had land and a brickbuilding business.
wife had ten children.
Wife Eliza
25/12/1830
& farming.
He and his
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Hugh Nicholls (above) /
Grace Hosken
(Reputed father, ‘labourer’)
(Of Trezela)
c. 30/7/1786 Zennor
c.? 4/7/1784 Ludgvan
b. 18/5/1849 Burra, South Australia
(Parents? John/Mary)
1817
b.? 4/4/1848
(‘Grace Hosking, Penzance, aged 62’)
Henry Nicholls/Hosken
c. 11/5/1817
b.
Cornwall Quarter Sessions (CRO Ref. QS/1/9) – Order Book: Hugh Nicholls of Gulval 15/7/1817:
Session held at Lostwithiel (later Sessions held at Bodmin & Truro up to 20/4/1819). This is
presumably in relation to the above illegitimate child. The sentence was ‘to remain in custody’
but perhaps only for the Sessions as it does not explain the baptism of son William on 8/8/1819.
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Andrew Nicholls
m.
Ann Martins*
25/8/1810
(Both of Gulval, with signature of Andrew & mark of Ann; witnessed by Joseph Edwards (c.
31/3/1776 Breage, son of James & Grace) & Elizabeth Harris [?].)
(Farmer of Trezelah 1814, farmer of Higher Garris 1839-1843, farmer of Garris 1851, of
Tregarris 1859)
c. 23/10/1785
c. circa 1782 Kenwyn (?)
(Parents?)
b. 3/4/1859
b.? 19/9/1863
(‘Of Tregarris aged 74’)
Andrew
c. Circa 1812
b. Mar qrt 1886
Thomas
c. 30/4/1814
b. 1839+
(Penzance ref. 5C 234, ‘aged 76’)
m. 6/3/1836
(Gulval)
Charlotte
Nicholls (p166)
m. 20/2/1836
(Madron)
Elizabeth
Tregurtha (p165)
8/12/1820 ‘To A. Nicholls for 40 bushels of potatoes £6’
5/2/1849 ‘Paid A. Nicholls 3/6d’
1841 Census – Higher Garris, Gulval: Andrew Nicholls, head, 50 (generally age taken to nearest
five years), farmer; wife Ann, 60.
Tithe Apportionment Award Gulval 1843: Andrew Nicholls, owner & occupier of 4 acres of land
at Garris (includes garden, house & town plot of 10 perches).
1851 Census – Garris, Gulval: Andrew Nicholls, head, 69, farmer of 5 acres, born Gulval; wife
Ann, 69, born Gulval [?].
1861 Census – Garris, Gulval: Ann Nicholls, 78, born at Kenwyn, with son Andrew (p166).
* Possibly Anne Martins was baptised 16/12/1781 Madron, daughter of George Martins. Also of
interest is the Gulval burial 30/1/1781 of Ann Martins from Mawgan parish.
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Cyprian Nicholls
m.
Anne Warren 29/2/1812 Sancreed
(Cyprian was from Gulval. Married in presence of Enoch Warren & Cyprian’s brother Henry
Nicholls)
(Farmer of Bosoljack 1813, yeoman of Sancreed 1814 & 1815, farmer of Sancreed 1817
& 1819, husbandman of Sancreed 1821, labourer of Sancreed 1823)
c. 8/9/1782
c. 1/7/1792 Sancreed (‘Ann’)
(Parents: Enoch/Ann [Williams])
b. 11/4/1823 Madron
b. 26/12/1842 Sancreed
(‘Of Sancreed, aged 39’)
(‘Aged 50’)
Cyprian
Thomas
Ann Warren
Mary*
c. 28/2/1813
c. 15/5/1814 c. 5/11/1815
25/5/1817
(Gulval)
(Sancreed)
(Sancreed)
(‘Nicholas’)
(Sancreed)
(Born St Just)
b. 11/4/1893 b. 16/3/1868 b. 19/2/1897
Died 17/2/1897
(Auburn, S.A.)
(Newlyn)
(Sancreed)
m. 22/1/1844
(Sancreed)
Mary
Eddy (p190)
m1. 8/4/1837 m. 16/2/1839
(St Just)
(Sancreed)
Sarah (Sally) Richard
Grenfell (p172) Grenfell
b. July 1861
Died 11/7/1861
(Kooringa, S.A.)
m. 2/2/1843
(Sancreed)
Archelaus
Warren
(Brother to Sarah)
c. 8/12/1822 St Just – son of
(c. 6/10/1809 St Just)
Archelaus/Margery [Roberts]
(Died 23/2/1866 Watervale, S.A.) (Died 24/11/1873 at
(Bur 25/2/1866 Penwortham, S.A.) Sliding Rock, S.A.)
m2. 11/12/1843
(Penzance)
Jane Grenfell (p172)
(Sister of Sarah)
William Henry
c. 10/10/1819
Richard
c. 7/10/1821
Elizabeth Blanch
c. 4/4/1824
(Sancreed)
(Born St Just)
Died 17/7/1871
(Buried 20/7/1871)
(Ballarat, Victoria, Aust.)
(Sancreed)
(Born St Just)
Died 18/3/1873
(Sancreed)
(Born St Just)
m. 30/3/1843
(St Just)
Mary Wearne
Nankervis/
Nickervis (p189)
m. 28/10/1844
(Sancreed)
Celia
Reynolds (p195)
b. 16/6/1824 Madron
(‘Of Trewren Mills, Madron, age 7 months’)
(Ballarat)
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1841 Census – Boslow, Sancreed: Enoch Warren, 75, farmer; Ann Nicholls [widowed dau.], 45.
Cyprian Nicholls, 25; Sally Nicholls, 20; Arkles [Archelaus]
Warren, 25, tin miner & William Thomas, 12, male servant
Richard Grenfell, 30, tin miner; Ann Grenfell, 25; children:
Mary, 5; Richard, 2; also Grace Victor, 20, labourer, &
Priscilla Stevens, 15, labourer.
Richard Eddy, 50, tin miner; wife Elizabeth Eddy, 45;
children: Richard, 15; Mary, 15; John, 14; James, 12; Ann, 10.
Administration of the Estate of Enoch Warren of Sancreed, yeoman, was granted 14/5/1845 to his
grandson & next of kin Cyprian Nicholls. Sureties were John Uren the elder of Gulval and Henry
Grenfell of Sancreed, yeoman. Effects were under £50.
* Children of Archelaus & Mary Warren: Archelaus Warren, born 1844 Sancreed; Cyprian
Nicholls Warren, born 1845 Sancreed; Mary Anne Dennis Warren, born 27/12/1846 St Just (died
Eaglehawk, Victoria, Australia, 20/3/1921).
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Richard Nicholls
m.
Mary Ellis
30/6/1818 Madron
(Gardener 1818, 1825, 1845 & 1861)
c. 19/7/1795
(Parents: Thomas/Thomasin – p86)
(Parents: John/Honner)
b. 22/3/1864
b. 14/2/1848
(‘Of Tolcarne, Madron - aged 70’)
(‘Of Tolcarne, Madron - aged 64’)
Richard
Thomas*
Elizabeth Ellis
c. 18/10/1818
c. 24/8/1820
c. 12/1/1823
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
Died 22/1/1868 b.
b.
b. 18/11/1823
Born 27/9/1818 (Madron)
(London)
(Madron)
(‘Of Weary Me Out in Trereife, Aged 1’)
m. 27/5/1849
(Paul)
Victoria
Kelynack (p199)
m. circa 1850
(?)
Elizabeth
John Ellis
c. 23/1/1825
Elizabeth Ellis
c. 10/12/1826
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 1881+
b. 28/6/1829 Madron
(‘Of Gulval, aged 3’)
m. 23/7/1845
(Paul)
Matilda
Jacca (p196)
1861 Census – Tolcarne, Madron: Richard Nicholas, widower, 66, gardener, born Ludgvan;
boarder with Thomas & Mary Williams.
* 1881 Census – 28 Rosvean Road, Madron: Thomas Nicholls, head, 60, navy pensioner, born
Madron; wife Elizabeth, 49, born Penzance; son Thomas, 22, painter, born Felixstow, Suffolk.
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William Nicholls
m.
Jane Jelbart
15/5/1819 St Just
(William Nickles of Madron and Jane of St Just; with mark for both; witnessed by John Richards
& John Tregear)
(Miner at Bosullow 1823-34; miner of Great Bosollow 1841, farmer of Ninnis 1851,
1855 & 1861)
c. 14/12/1794
c. 3/7/1794 St Just
(Parents: Andrew/ Elizabeth – p82) (Parents: William/Elizabeth [Edwards])
b. 18/6/1873 Madron
b. 9/1/1869 Madron
(‘Of Union Workhouse aged 78’)
Jane*
c. 5/11/1820
Kitty
c. 5/1/1822
Sally/Sarah
c. 16/1/1823
Kitty
c. 29/8/1824
Andrew
c. 15/6/1828
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 1861+
b. 17/7/1823 b. 1851+
b. 2/11/1824 b. 3/4/1878
(Madron)
(‘Of Bosullow
- Aged 18 months’)
(Madron)
(Madron)
(‘Of Bosullow
- Aged 11 weeks)
m. 13/2/1841
(Gulval)
John
Warren
m. 20/11/1852
(Gulval)
Elizabeth
Curnow (p204)
William Henry
c. 3/10/1830
Elizabeth
William Henry
c. 30/10/1831 c. 27/10/1833
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 12/6/1831
b. 26/10/1834 b. 2/6/1900
(Madron)
(‘Of Bosullow)
- Aged 4 months’)
(Madron)
(‘Of Bosullow
- Aged 3’)
(Madron)
(Madron Methodist)
(‘Aged 62’)
m. 4/5/1862
(Madron)
Mary
Roberts (p235)
Tithe Apportionment Map & Schedule 1840 / Tithe Apportionment Award Gulval 1843:
Carfury Wartha - occupier William Nicholls, lessee Henry Nicholls [identity unknown],
Landowner James Wentworth Buller Esq. – plots 76, 87-92, 94-96, 112-113 (13 acres).
Carfury Wollas – occupier William Nicholls, lessee George Alexander Stevens, Landowner Duke
of Leeds 5/6 & George Alexander Stevens 1/6 – plots 85-86, 97, 131-133.
William was “occupying” the lower of the three cottages at Carfury and also the dwelling called
the ‘Willows’ (the higher end / terraced ‘Cottage Carfury’ beside the lane, also referred to as
Town Plot & Homestead on Tithe map, now recently named ‘Butterfly Cottage’). This also
included the two meadows above and two meadows below that property.
1841 Census – Great Bosollow, Madron: William Nicholls, 45, miner; wife Jane, 47; children:
Sally, 18; Andrew, 12; William, 7.
1851 Census – Ninnis, Madron: William Nicholls, head, 56, farming 26 acres, employing one
man, born Madron [?]; wife Jane, 58, born St Just; children: Sally, 27, unmarried, farmer’s
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daughter, born Madron; Andrew, 22, tin miner, born Madron; William H., 15, born Madron; and
general servant Charity Martin, 14, born Ludgvan.
1855 Post Office Directory, Cornwall: William Nicholls, farmer of Ninnes, Madron.
1861 Census – Ninnes, Madron: William Nicholls, 66, farmer of 7 acres, born Madron; wife Jane,
68, born St Just; children: Sarah [Sally], unmarried, 38, born Madron; William H., unmarried, 22,
born Madron. Also daughter Jane Warren, 40, tin miner’s widow & Andrew Nicholls (son of
Andrew – refer p205), grandson, 8, scholar, born Gulval.
William Nicholls named as tenant of ‘Rocky Field’ in the 1864/5 Carfury Chapel Lease.
1871 Census – Madron: William Nicholls, head, 75, born Sancreed [?]; son William H., 30, born
Madron & wife Mary, 31, born Sancreed, with children (born Madron) Mary J., 7; W.H., 5, Joseph
T., 4, & Elizabeth A, 2.
* Marriage details: Jane Nicholls, 20, residence Carvithney (Carfury) in Gulval, father: William,
farmer. John Warren, 21, a miner, residence Besoljack [Bosoljack] in Gulval; father: Henry,
labourer. Marriage witnessed by Thomas Warren & William Nicholls (mark).
John Warren baptised 19/2/1819 Madron, son of Henry & Elizabeth.
1841 Census – Carfury, Gulval: John Warren, 20, a miner; wife Jane, 20.
A son, John, born 1841 – buried Madron, aged 2 years. John Warren buried Madron 1841 – ‘of
Mulfra, aged 25’.
1851 Census – Carfury, Gulval: Jane Warren, head, 30, wife of a miner, born Madron. John
Warren, 44, at Madron with Elizabeth Warren, 13, & John Warren, 7, does not appear to be Jane’s
husband.
1861 Census – Ninnes, Madron: Jane Warren with parents (see above).
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Cyprian Nicholls
m.
Jane Thomas
14/4/1821 St Hilary
(Jane also known as ‘Janey’ & ‘Jenny’ – sister of Martin (p105))
(Cyprian of Zennor and Jane of St Hilary, with signatures of both; witnessed by Thomas Wallis &
Gabriel Thomas [Jane’s brother])
(Farmer at Treen, Zennor, 1822 & 1824, at St Hilary from 1826, at Uny Lelant 1847)
c. 5/6/1796 Madron
Born circa 1797 St Hilary or Madron
(Parents: Cyprian/Jane – p93)
(Parents: Benjamin/Anne [Thomas] – refer p83)
Died 29/3/1847 Uny Lelant
b. 1871+
Jane**
c. 14/4/1822
Ann(e)
Anne***
c. 16/5/1824 c. 12/3/1826
Elizabeth*****
c. 13/1/1828
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
(St Hilary)
(St Hilary)
b. 1851+
b. 4/2/1826
b. 1871+
b. 30/10/1901
(Zennor, aged 1’)
m. 15/5/1847
(Madron)
William Kingston
Stevens
(Illogan)
m. 24/12/1850
(Ludgvan)
Zacharias
Williams
No issue
Richard*
c. 16/1/1831
Philippa*
c. 19/5/1833
John****
c. 21/6/1835
(St Hilary)
(St Hilary)
(St Hilary)
b. 9/1/1872
b. 1914
b. 1851+
(Melbourne Hospital (Victoria, Aust.)
(N.S.W.)
m. 13/1/1853
(Penzance)
Mary Pearce
Sampson (p209)
m. 13/1/1853
(Penzance)
Thomas
Sampson
Vestry Minutes – St Hilary
1829 – Cyprian Nicholls: land, yearly value £2; tax assessed 1/3d
- Relubbus Lane, value £18, tax assessed 7/6d
- Willow Lane, value £2, tax assessed 10d
1830 – Cyprian Nicholls: Relubbus house & land, value£23, tax assessed 8/10d
1831 – Cyprian Nicholls: Relubbus house & land, value £23, tax assessed 9/7d
1834 – Cyprian Nicholls: Relubbus house & land, value £20/10/-, tax assessed 8/3 ½d
1835 – Cyprian Nicholls not listed
Cyprian (jnr) & Jane Nicholls resided in Relubbas Vean, St Hilary, on property owned by Richard
Nicholls (refer p83 - Richard Nicholls/Ann Thomas marriage) on a lease of £60 a year. The Will
of (Uncle) Richard Nicholls provides that Cyprian jnr would pay no more than £50 a year, for the
remainder of the term of the lease.
Uny Lelant Admon of Cyprian Nicholls dated 28/11/1849 - effects were under £50 and went to his
widow Jenny. The executor was his son-in-law William Kingston Stevens who was also witness
to the marriage of his brother-in-law Richard Nicholls.
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1841 Census – lower Lelant Town, Uny Lelant: Jane Nicholas, 44, shopkeeper, born Cornwall;
children: Anne, 16; Elizabeth, 14; Phillipa, 8; John, 6.
1851 Census – Rose-an-Grouse, St Erth: Jane Nicholls, head, grocer, widow, 54, born St Hilary;
children: Richard, 20, rail labourer, born St Hilary; Phillipa, 18, schoolmistress, born St Hilary.
Also William Rowe, 58, lodger, rail labourer, born Tamerton, St Columb; Richard Michell, 55,
widower, stone mason, born South Devon.
1861 Census – Ninnes, Madron: Jane Nicholas, head, 64, widow, grocer, born Madron.
1871 Census – Madron: Jane Nicholas, head, 75, miner’s widow, born Madron.
* 1841 Census – Rosvidney, Ludgvan: Richard Nicholls, 11, servant with [his uncle & witness to
parent’s marriage] Martin & Phillis Thomas.
Richard Nicholls & Mary Sampson and Thomas Sampson & Philippa Nicholls were married on
the same day at Wesley Rock Chapel, Madron. All were residents of Canon’s Town, near
Marazion (reported in ‘West Briton & Cornwall Advertiser’ newspaper).
Richard & his sister Philippa went to Australia with their spouses (all children born in Australia)
aboard “Calliope” and arrived in Melbourne 18/5/1853.
Mary Pearce Sampson baptised 23/11/1828 Ludgvan, daughter of Samuel & Kezia.
Thomas Sampson baptised 23/8/1831 Uny Lelant, son of William & Catherine.
[Not brother & sister as originally thought]
** 1841 Census – Victoria Place, Penzance: Jane Nicholas, 15, shop apprentice with [her uncle]
Thomas & Phillis Wallis.
Marriage details: Jane Nicholls, 25, resident of Penzance, father Cyprian - farmer. William
Stevens, 31, tailor, resident of Penzance, Father: Thomas Kingston Stevens, basketmaker.
Witnesses: Martin Thomas (her uncle) & Jane Thomas.
1851 Census – Market Jew Street, Penzance: William Kingston Stevens, head, 36, tailor, born
Penzance; wife Jane, 29, born Penzance; John Nichols, lodger, 15, apprentice tailor, born St
Hilary; Henry Roach, lodger, 17, draper, born St Ives.
*** 1861 Census – Nanceddan, Ludgvan: Ann Nicholls, unmarried, 34, dressmaker, born St
Hilary; with her sister & brother-in-law Elizabeth & Zacharias Williams & family.
1871 Census – Penzance: Eliza J. Wallis, head, unmarried, 46, owns houses, born Penzance; Ann
Nicholls, niece [actually cousins], unmarried, dressmaker, born St Hilary.
**** 1851 Census – Market Jew Street, Penzance: William Kingston Stevens, head, 36, tailor,
born Penzance; wife Jane, 29, born Penzance; John Nichols, lodger, 15, apprentice tailor, born St.
Hilary; Henry Roach, lodger, 17, draper, born St Ives.
***** 1861 Census – Nanceddan, Ludgvan: Zacharias Williams, head, 32, tine dresser, born
Ludgvan; wife Elizabeth, 33, born Ludgvan; children (all born Ludgvan): Cyprian Nicholls
Williams, 9; Zacharias, 6, scholar; & William Stevens Williams, 4.
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Thomas Nicholls
m.
Ann Cock
9/11/1822 Madron
(Thomas of Bosullow, Madron and Ann of Bosiliack; witnessed by William Cock [junior?] & Jane
Noy)
(Miner of Bosullow Vean 1823, of Bosullow 1824-26, of Boskednan 1832, of
Carthew 1836, agricultural labourer of Penzance 1841)
Born circa 1798 Madron
(Parents: Andrew/Elizabeth – p82)
b. 30/4/1845 (Penzance St Mary)
(Father: William?)
b.? 27/2/1891 (Penzance St Mary)
(Ann Nicholas ‘of Penzance, aged 90’)
John
c. 1/7/1823
Ann
Elizabeth
William Cock Elizabeth**
c. 11/7/1824 c. 10/10/1826 c. 24/6/1832 c. 16/81836
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 30/7/1823
b. 1871+
(Madron)
(‘Of Bosullow,
Aged 1 month’)
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 25/8/1829
b. 1841+
b. 1857+
(Madron)
(‘Of Gulval aged 3’)
m. 3/1/1847
(Madron)
Thomas
Welch
m. 8/9/1857
(Madron)
Thomas
Grenfell
John
Born 1840
(Penzance)
b. 11/9/1861 Penzance
(‘Aged 20’)
1841 Census – Green Street, Penzance: Thomas Nicholas, 40, agricultural labourer; wife Ann, 40;
children: Ann, 10; William, 10; Elizabeth, 4; John, 5 months.
1851 Census – Western Green, Penzance: Ann Nicholas, lodger, widow, 51, charwoman, born
Madron; daughter Elizabeth Nicholas, lodger, 12, born Madron, & son John Nicholas, lodger, 9,
born Madron; with [son-in-law] Thomas Welch, head, 29, agricultural labourer; & wife Ann, 26,
& 2 daughters.
1861 Census – Back Wherry Town, Penzance: Ann Nicholas, widow, 63, charwoman, born
Madron; son John, unmarried, 19, sailor, born Penzance; with her daughter & son-in-law Ann &
Thomas Welch & their two daughters.
1871 Census – Penzance: Ann Nicholls, widow, 78, born Madron; with daughter & son-in-law
Ann & Thomas Welch & family.
** Marriage details: Elizabeth, of Penzance, age 21, daughter of Thomas Nicholls, labourer
(deceased). Thomas, sailor, of Penzance, age 21, son of John Grenfell, a miner. Marriage
witnessed by Thomas Welch [Elizabeth’s brother-in-law] & Jane Harry.
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John Nicholls
m.
Mary Troon
26/1/1824 St Hilary
(Agricultural labourer 1841, farm labourer 1851, labourer 1860, agricultural labourer &
Methodist Minister 1861, farm labourer 1871, agricultural labourer 1881)
c. 15/11/1801
(Parents: Thomas/Elizabeth – p85) (Parents: William/Jennifer [Blight])
Died 21/9/1879 [buried] Ludgvan
(‘Aged 86’)
(‘Aged 80’)
[Ludgvan Memorial inscription: ‘In Memory of Mary wife of John Nicholls who died Sept 21st
1879 aged 78 Years. Also of the above John Nicholls who died July 26th 1888 aged 86 Years.
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints. In sure and certain hope of the
Resurrection to Eternal Life, through our Lord Jesus Christ’]
Mary*
c. 16/5/1824
Elizabeth
c. 14/5/1826
John
c. 27/1/1828
John**
c. 24/2/1833
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
Died 20/2/1846
21/11/1826
b. 4/1/1830
b. 1861+
Ludgvan (‘Aged 22’)
Ludgvan (‘Aged 8months’)
m. 25/8/1860
(Morvah)
Elizabeth
Green
William***
c. 23/11/1834
Andrew****
c. 15/7/1838
Richard Henry
born early 1841
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
b. 1861+
b. 1873
b. 1866+
(Victoria, Aust.)
m. 1861
(Ludgvan)
Sarah Ann
Trewhella
m. 1866
(Ludgvan)
Mary Jane
Hall
1841 Census - Crowlas, Ludgvan: John Nicholls, 40, agricultural labourer; wife Mary, 40;
children: Mary, 15; John, 7; William, 6; Andrew, 3; Richard, 2 months.
1851 Census - Crowlas, Ludgvan: John Nicholls, 50, farm labourer, born Gulval; wife Mary, 50,
born Ludgvan; son Richard H., 9, scholar, born Ludgvan; Jane Troon [Jane Lenton m. James
Troon 6/8/1792 Ludgvan], lodger, widow, 81, formerly miner’s wife, born Ludgvan.
1851 Census – Ludgvan Leaze, Ludgvan:
John Nicholas, 18, farm servant, born
Ludgvan, Andrew Nicholas, 13, farm servant, born Ludgvan [sons of John & Mary (Troon)
above] with Mary Nicholas & family [not related].
1861 Census – Crowlas, Ludgvan: John Nicholls, 59, agricultural labourer and Methodist
Minister, born Gulval; wife Mary, 59, born Ludgvan; son Richard Henry, 19, tin miner, born
Ludgvan.
1871 Census – Crowlas, Ludgvan: John Nicholls, 70, farm labourer, born Gulval; wife Mary, 70,
at home, born Ludgvan.
1881 Census – Crowlas, Ludgvan: John Nicholls, head, 79, widower, agricultural labourer, born
Gulval.
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* Ludgvan Memorial inscription: ‘This Memorial is erected as a Tribute of Respect to the Memory
of Mary the daughter of John & Mary Nicholls of this parish who fell asleep in Jesus the 20th of
February 1846 aged 22 years. Corruption, earth and worms shall but refine this flesh Till my
triumphant spirit comes To put it on afresh’
** Marriage details: John Nicholls, of Morvah; father: John, labourer. Elizabeth Green, of
Morvah; father: John, carpenter. Marriage witnessed by John Green & John Tregurtha.
1861 Census – Rospeath Road, Ludgvan: John Nicholls, head, 28, tin mine engine worker, born
Ludgvan; wife Elizabeth, 29, domestic work, born St Hilary; son John, 4 [c. 28/12/1856 Ludgvan],
scholar, born Ludgvan.
*** 1861 Census – Croft, Ludgvan: William Nicholls, unmarried, 25, ploughman, born Ludgvan;
with Benjamin & Martha Richards.
1881 Census – Gwennap: Sarah Ann Nicholls, head, 47, born St Day; son William Nicholls, 20,
brick maker, born Gwennap; daughter Sarah Ann Knuckley, 25, tailoress, born St Day; granddaughter Edith, 6, scholar, born St Day.
**** Children of Andrew & Sarah Ann: Mary Sarah born 1869; Andrew, William John & James
Henry, all c. 20/11/1870 Ludgvan; Mary born 1873 Eagle, Victoria, Australia.
Mary Jane Hall baptised 26/11/1843 Madron, daughter of Richard (labourer of Church Town,
Madron) & wife Mary Ann.
Ludgvan Memorial inscription: ‘In Memory of Mary Sarah daughter of Andrew and Sarah Ann
Nicholls who died Dec 9th 1870 aged 16 months. Yet these, new rising from the tomb, With
Lustre brighter far shall shine; Revive with ever-enduring bloom, Safe from disease and decline’
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John Nicholls
m.
Elizabeth Harris
29/4/1824 Ludgvan
(John of Ludgvan & Elizabeth of Camborne, with signature of John & signature of Elizabeth.
Witnessed by Clement Uren (p93) & John Rowe [see below])
(Miller of Ludgvan 1825, 1827, 1829; miller of Roskennals Mill, Sancreed 1831; miller
of Polteggan, Sancreed 1833; miller of Sancreed 1837; miller of Lower Bosullow,
Madron 1841 & 1851, miller 1855)
c. 11/9/1796
c. 22/5/1796 Uny Lelant [‘Elisabeth’]
(Parents: John/Grace – p83)
(Parents: Henry/Caroline)
b. 1851+
b. 15/6/1879
Wendron (‘Elizabeth Nicholas, aged 83’)
John
William Henry
Henry Harris*
Born 8/4/1825
Born 31/10/1827
Born 18/3/1829
c. 22/5/1825
c. 25/11/1827
c. 14/6/1829
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
b. 1871+
b. 26/4/1874 Madron
(Tin Miner 1851)
(‘Of Bosullow aged 44’) (‘Aged 5 months’)
(Miller 1851)
m. circa 1853
(?)
Elizabeth
Williams (p208)
m. 4/12/1852
(Madron)
Johanna
Tregear (p206)
Grace Baynard**
Francis
Born 8/4/1831
Born 11/8/1833
c. 8/5/1831
c. 8/9/1833
c. 30/7/1837
(Sancreed)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 1861+
b. prior to 1891
b. 11/5/1847 Madron
(Died USA?)
(‘Died Lanyon aged 10’)
m. 9/6/1855
(St Hilary)
James
Johns
Elizabeth
m. 10/12/1860
(Perranuthnoe)
Miriam Ellis
Floyd (p232)
An Elizabeth Nicholls was buried Ludgvan 21/11/1826, aged 8 months – possible child of John &
Elizabeth (not in Family Bible).
‘Richard Reuce 1828’ is written in family Bible but no trace of individual.
A possible connection to John Rowe (witness above):
Part of Ludgvan Leaze, Carvossowe (circa 1840):
Owned by Miss Catherine Davy
Occupiers: John Hosking & Richard Trevaskis, 7 acres including the old inn & a pool of water;
Richard Pascoe, grist mill & dwelling House; John Rowe, homestead; sundry tenants, cot houses,
buildings, yards & waste [refer Nicholls family Carvossoe connection on p87].
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1840 Tithe Records: John Nicholls, miller, at Lanyon with six plots. (Cornelius Green was miller
in 1839, buried Madron 1846; ‘Of Bosullow, aged 77’)
Plot details:
Plot No. Description
Details
acres roods perches
293
Mill, dwelling & plot behind
Arable
24
334
Higher South Mill croft
Croft
1
2
24
335
Higher North Mill croft
Croft
1
3
3
336
Lower South Mill croft
Arable
1
3
17
337
Middle South Mill croft
Arable
1
3
3
338
Lower North Mill croft
Rough pasture 1
3
35
Total area
9
0
26
The mill is, in this century, heavily overgrown and in ruins making it difficult to put into
perspective. The mill seems to consist of two small adjoining rooms and another small, detached
room. The middle room may have been the mill itself as a large even hole was contained up high
in a corner of the stone wall, the adjoining room may have been for the grain and the detached
room for storage. In a Survey Map of the 1880’s the mill was apparently still functioning as a
corn mill and several farmhouses were further up the track but are now ruins. Mr. Bone is
currently (2001) the owner of the property, which is leased out to another farmer.
From the book “Madron’s Story” 2001: ‘Lanyon Mill was near Little Bosullow and was said to
consist of two mills, one milling produce for human consumption, the other, for livestock feed.
Adjoining was a house for the miller and for a skilled millwright engineer. It was the scene of a
tragic accident in 1940 when the miller, Robert Penberthy, was caught by his jacket in the cogs
and crushed, killing him instantly. The mill never worked again.’
1841 Census – Little Bosullow, Lanyon Mill, Madron: John Nicholls, head, 44, Miller; Elizabeth,
wife, 46; children: John, 15; William, 13; Grace, 10; Francis, 7; Elizabeth, 4.
1851 Census – Little Bosullow (cottage), Madron: John Nicholls, head, 53, miller, born Gulval;
Elizabeth, wife, 55, born Lelant; children: John, 25, unmarried, tin miner, born Ludgvan; William
Henry, 23, unmarried, miller, born Ludgvan; Grace, 19, unmarried, miller’s daughter, born
Sancreed; Francis, 16, miller’s son, born Madron.
* Named after mother’s brother Henry Harris.
** Marriage details: James Johns, 22, miner, of St Hilary, father: Arthur, miner. Grace Nicholls,
24, spinster, of St Hilary, father John, miller. Marriage witnessed by William H. Nicholls and
Louisa Richards.
1861 Census – Carthvean, Wendron, Cornwall: James Johns, head, 28, tin miner, born St Hilary;
wife Grace Baynard Johns, 29, born Sancreed; children: James Arthur Johns, 5, born St Hilary;
John Henry Johns, 3, born St Hilary; Samuel Broad Johns, 1, born Wendron; also Elizabeth
Nicholas, mother-in-law, 67, visitor, born Lelant.
1871 Census – Wendron: Elizabeth Nicholas, head, widow, 74, pauper, born Sithney [?]; Anne
Tippet, grand-daughter, 10, visitor, born Wendron.
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Richard Nicholls
m.
Jane Betty
5/4//1824 Madron
(Richard & Jane, both of Penzance, with the signature of Richard & mark of Jane; witnessed by …
[?] Stevens).
c. 16/11/1774 Paul
c. 14/6/1776 St Levan (‘Jane Bette’)
(Parents: Henry/Mary)
(Parents: Moudecai/Margaret)
b. 18/8/1846 Penzance St Mary b. 21/3/1856 Penzance St Mary
No Issue
No connection with the Nicholls of Gulval.
(Included to separate from any other Richard Nicholls born about this time)
1841 Census – New Street, Penzance: Richard Nicholls, 65, labourer; wife Jane, 65; with William
Hawes, 80, labourer.
1851 Census – New Street, Penzance: Jane Nicholas, head, widow, 74, formerly housekeeper,
born St Levan.
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Andrew Nicholls
m.
Mary Prowse
17/6/1824
(Signature of Andrew & mark of Mary; witnessed by Joseph Burgns & Thomas Bond)
(Tinner of Busalack (Bosoljack?) 1824; miner of Try 1831, 1841 & 1851, miner 1854,
miner & farmer 1860, of Try 1861 & 1863)
c. 19/11/1797
born circa 1801 St Buryan
(Parents: William/Mary – residing Carfury 1817)
b. 28/3/1863
b. 31/7/1880
(‘Of Tolver, aged 80’)
Mary*
c. 31/10/1824
Henry
c. 30/11/1828
Andrew
c. 17/6/1831
(Gulval)
(Madron (born Gulval))
(Gulval)
b. 12/1/1887
b. 9/12/1894 Zennor b. 1886+
(Glossop, Derbyshire)
(‘Of Bosporthenis, aged 66’)
m1. 3/12/1848
(Madron)
John Peak
Edwards
m. 11/10/1851
(Gulval)
Phillis
Chappel (p202)
m. 14/8/1854
(Gulval Chapel?)
Mary Ann
Lawrey/Lawry (p213)
m2. 1/12/1849
(Madron)
William
Ninnes
William
John
Born 3/1/1833 Gulval Born 1835 Gulval
c. 20/3/1833
Martha**
Born 1837 Gulval
(Bible Christian Penzance
Circuit, Zennor)
b. 2/1/1872
b. 24/11/1888 Zennor b. 1871+
(‘Of Lady Downs, aged 52’)
m. 13/10/1860
(Gulval)
Nannie
Prowse (p231)
m. 14/6/1856
(Gulval)
Mary Ann
Hall (p221)
m. 25/8/1860
(Gulval)
William
Hall (brother of Mary Ann)
1841 Census – Trye, Gulval: Andrew Nicholls, head, 40, miner; Mary, wife, 40; children: Henry,
13; William, 7; John, 5; and Martha, 3. The two children, Mary and Andrew, are not with their
parents – Andrew is living in the next household at Trye with his grandmother Ann Nicholls & his
uncle John Nicholls (p91) and Mary is with Richard Brush & family (p98).
Tithe Apportionment Award Gulval 1843: Andrew Nicholls, lessee and occupier of 4 acres of land
at Trye.
1851 Census – Trye, Gulval: Andrew Nicholls, head, 53, miner; Mary, wife, 51, born St Buryan;
children (all born Gulval): Henry, 23, miner; Andrew, 20, miner; John 15, miner. Son William is
with Richard Brush & family (p223).
1861 Census – Trye, Gulval: Andrew Nicholls & wife Mary with son William (p231).
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1871 Census – Mill Downs, Zennor: Mary Nicholls with married daughter Martha Hall (see
below).
25/3/1861 ‘Drove to Penzance. Andrew Nicholls for the use of his shop [shed?] 5/- [5 shillings].’
25/6/1861 ‘Andrew Nicholls for the use of his shop 5/-.’
* Mary Nicholls was living with relatives Richard & Grace Brush (nee Nicholls) at Bodrifty as a
servant in 1841 and at time of her marriage to John Peak Edwards who was baptised 11/3/1827
Madron, son of Michael & Ann.
Marriage details: Mary, 23, residence Ninnes, father: Andrew, miner. John, 21, labourer,
residence Churchtown; father: Michael, labourer. Witnessed by Catherine Brush (see Brush
family details on p98-99) & John Prouse (probably father of Nanny Prowse).
William Ninnes, c. circa 1816 Towednack, buried 27/9/1889 Glossop.
1851 Census – Skillywadden, Towednack: William Ninnes, head, 35, engineman, born
Towednack; wife Mary, 26, born Gulval; daughter Mary Nicholls Ninnes, 3 weeks, born
Towednack; Martha Nicholls, visitor, 12, scholar, born Gulval; Emily Jane Nicholls, visitor, 3,
born Madron; Mary Ninnes, widow, 67, born Lelant.
Son Joseph John Ninnes married Emma Crossland.
** Marriage details: Martha Nicholls, 21, of Gulval, father: Andrew, miner; William Hall, 23,
miner of Gulval, father; Richard, miner. Witnesses: John Nicholls (mark) & Mary Ninnes.
(Couple not found in 1861 Gulval census)
1871 Census – Mill Downs, Zennor: William Hall, head, 34, tin miner, born Gulval; wife Martha,
33, born Gulval: children: Richard, 10, born Gulval; Martha, 7, born Zennor; Mary A., 6, born
Gulval; Margaret J., 3, born Zennor; William H., 1, born Zennor. Also Mary Nicholls, 70, widow,
mother-in-law, born St Buryan.
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William Nicholls
m.
Honor Tregloan
22/5/1825 Madron
(Both residing Ninnes, witnessed by Jane Thomas & … [?] Tregloan)
c. 1/4/1804 Madron
c. circa 1804
(Parents?)
b. 5/12/1825 Madron
b. 1825+
(‘Of Ninnes, aged 22’)
(Remarried John Merrett 15/12/1828 Madron?)
Jane
c. 27/11/1825
(Madron)
b. 25/12/1825
(Madron)
(‘Aged 2 months)
John Nicholls
m.
Jane Wallis
1/10/1825
(John referred to as John junior. Signature of John & sign of Jane; witnessed by Humphry
Friggens [son of Cyprian – refer p54] & Thomas Bond)
(Baker of Gulval Cross 1826-1842, brewer’s labourer of Gulval Cross 1851, labourer
1854)
c. 29/1/1797
c. 22/8/1802 Paul
(Parents: John/Elizabeth – p88)
b. 7/8/1855 Penzance St Mary
(Parents: James/Jane)
William
c. 16/4/1826
b. 1891+
Jane**
c. 2/3/1828
b. 1871+
John
c. 21/3/1830
b. 7/11/1842
m. circa 1853
(?)
Catherine
(?) (p207)
m. 24/12/1854
(Gulval)
John
Julian
Henry*
c. 28/2/1835
b. 19/4/1861
Andrew
c. 4/1/1839
b. 1881+
b. 7/12/1850
Elizabeth*
c. 22/7/1832
b. 1861+
(Of Ridgeo ‘aged 26’)
m. Dec qrt 1863
(Bodmin)
Charlotte Hawke
Levers (p238)
1841 Census – Gulval Cross, Gulval: John, 45, agricultural labourer; wife Jane, 40; children:
William, 15; Jane, 12; John, 10; Elizabeth, 8; Henry, 6, and Andrew, 3.
1851 Census – Cross, Gulval: John Nicholls, head, widower, 55, brewer’s labourer, born Gulval;
children (all born Gulval): William, unmarried, 25, smith; Jane, unmarried, 23, housekeeper;
Elizabeth, 18, dressmaker; Henry, 16, mason; Andrew, 11, scholar.
134
* 1861 Census – Ridgeo, Gulval: Henry Nicholls, 26, & Elizabeth Nicholls, 29, were with Barnes
family. Described as nephew and niece [unsubstantiated] to William Barnes, 49, head of
household, born Gulval; others residing there was William’s wife Margaret, 54, born St Just, and
son Charles Gundry Barnes, 18, born Gulval, and daughter Jane Barnes, 15, born Gulval.
William Nicholas (c. 25/5/1806 Sancreed – son of Richard Nicholas & Christian Nicholls – refer
p65), labourer of Boscrey [Boscreege], Gulval, widower, aged 35, married Elizabeth Barns (c.
12/3/1816 Gulval – dau of Joseph Barns and Christian Gundry), spinster of Ludgvan, aged 25, on
9/10/1841 at Gulval.
In the 1861 Census for Gulval Elizabeth Nicholls, head, 45, widow, born Gulval (the widow of
William Nicholas/Nickless, and formerly Elizabeth Barnes – p156) is living in Gulval near the
household of her brother William Barnes. Elizabeth is with her seven children Richard, 19;
Joseph Barnes, 18; John, 16; Francis, 12; Thomas, 10; Alfred, 7; James H., 3 (all born Gulval).
Household also includes Harriet Barnes, 16, servant.
** John Julian baptised 10/2/1828 Helston, son of Henry & Mary.
Marriage details: Jane, 25, of Gulval, father: John, labourer. John Julian, 25, of Gulval, father:
Henry, farmer. Marriage witnessed by Jane’s uncle Andrew Nicholls & Michael Oliver.
1871 Census – St Ives: John Julian, head, miller, 41, born Helston; wife Jane, 42, born Gulval;
Alfred Elliot, 13, tin mine loader / servant, born Sancreed. Julian children: Mary T., 15, born
Gulval; Richard, 13, school, born St Ives; Elizabeth, 10, school, born St Ives; John H., 9, school,
born St Ives; Selena, 5, school, born St Ives.
135
Henry Nicholls
m.
Mary Hall
15/8/1825 Madron
(Sign of Henry of Ninnis & sign of Mary of Landithy. Witnessed by his brother William Nicholls
& Sarah Dale [or Hall])
(Living at Towednack 1827, 1830, 1832-1834, 1836-1837, 1840, 1842-1843, 1851, 1857)
(Miner of New Mill 1826, miner of Ladydowns, Towednack 1827-1833, farmer of
Ladydowns 1834-1836, miner of Ladydowns 1837, 1841, 1851 & 1857)
c. 17/5/1801
c. 9/2/1805 Madron
(Father: Thomas
– Fields in Trevean, Madron 1841 & Tredinneck 1843)
b. 20/1/1857 Madron
b. 19/3/1882 Madron
(‘Of Towednack, aged 56’)
(‘Of Ladydowns, Towednack aged 81’)
Mary Ann
c. 26/2/1826
Elizabeth
c. 9/9/1827
Jane
c. 22/2/1829
William
circa 1830
Catharine
c. 8/1/1832
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 1851+
b. 1851+
b. 7/5/1909
Zennor
b. 2/5/1886
Gulval
b.
(‘Of Kerrow, 80’)(‘Of Mulfra, aged 56’)
m. 12/6/1851
(Towednack)
Samuel
Martins***
m. 5/1/1850
(Towednack)
William
Mann
m. 1862
m.? 1/11/1855
(?)
(Towednack)
Honor
Matthew
Curnow (p237) Michell****
Jemima Hall* Ann Murrish
c. 19/5/1833 c. 12/10/1834
Eliza**
c. 13/3/1836
Henry
c. 24/12/1837
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 1901+
b.
b. 17/5/1890
b. 7/10/1865
m.? 9/3/1862
(Towednack)
Richard
Penglase
Richard
c. 9/8/1840
Cyprian
c. 26/6/1842
(Madron)
b. 11/8/1844
(Madron)
(‘Of Towednack, aged 5’)
m. 15/5/1858
(Gulval)
James
Jelbert/Gelbert
Samuel (son or g/son)
m. 9/3/1861
(Towednack)
Maryanne
Rowe (p234)
Richard?
Born March qrt 1851
(Madron)
Born March qrt 1844
(‘Nicholas’)
(Towednack)
b. 1871+
Died 6/3/1902
b.
(Madron)
(Sancreed)
m. June qrt 1881
(Penzance district)
Mary Ann
Mann (P250)
1841 Census – Ladydowns, Towednack: Henry Nicholas, 40, miner; wife Mary, 38; children:
Elizabeth, 13; Jane, 11; Catherine, 9; Minna [Jemima], 7; Ann, 6; Eliza, 5; Henry, 3; Richard, 1.
1841 Census – Banns, St Buryan: William Nicholas, 10, servant with William Angwin, 30,
farmer, and wife Elizabeth, 35.
136
1851 Census – Lady Downs, Towednack: Henry Nicholas, 49, miner, born Madron; wife Mary,
48, born Madron; children: Elizabeth, 23, unmarried, born Towednack; William, 21, unmarried,
miner, born Towednack; Eliza, 15, born Towednack; Henry, 13, born Towednack; Cipron
[Cyprian], 8, born Towednack; Samuel, 6, born Towednack; Richard, 2 months, born Madron.
1851 Census – Boskerris, Uny Lelant: Catherine Nicholls, unmarried, 19, born Towednack, a
servant with Robert & Ann Bennetts & family.
1861 Census – Ladydowns, Towednack: Mary Nicholls, 59, widow, tin miner’s wife, born
Madron; son William, 30, tin miner, born Towednack; son Cyprian, 18, born Towednack; also
Samuel Michell, 16, born Towednack.
1871 Census – Lady Downs, Towednack: Mary Nicholls, head, widow, 69, housekeeper, born
Madron; son Cyprian, 27, tin miner, unmarried, born Towednack; son Samuel, 25, tin miner, born
Towednack; grandson Emmanuel Jenkin, 12, tin miner, born 1859 Gulval.
1881 Census – Ladydowns, Towednack: Mary Nicholls, head, widow, 80, farmer’s wife, born
Madron; grandson Samuel Nicholls, unmarried, 36, farmer of 12 acres, born Towednack
* Illegitimate daughter Catherine died 18/11/1862, aged 1 year, at Union Workhouse, Madron.
Three baptisms of Catherine (mother Jemima of Union Workhouse; no father named) – Catherine
Nicholas bpt 10/10/1860 Madron, Catherine Nicholes bpt 10/5/1861 Madron, & Catherine
Nicholls bpt 21/4/1862 Madron [another similarly named Jemimah Nicholas in Penzance in 1851
– see below]
1851 Census – New Mill, Madron: Jemimah Nicholls, general servant, unmarried, 17, born
Towednack; with John Donithorne, head, 66, innkeeper, & wife Susanna [later to marry Richard
Nicholas] & 2 lodgers.
1851 Census – Queen Street, Penzance: Sarah Nicholas, unmarried, 24, general servant, born St
Buryan; visitor Jemima Nicholas [sister?], 12, scholar, born St Buryan; with James Hoskin, head,
widower, 40, livery stable keeper, & children.
An illegitimate son, Emanuel was born 1859 at Gulval to Jemimah Nicholls.
1871 Census – Trythall Moor, Gulval: Susan Nicholas, head, widow, 83, dairywoman, born
Ludgvan; Francis Nicholas, lodger, unmarried, 68, farmer, born Towednack; Jemima Nicholas,
lodger, unmarried, 36, dressmaker, born Towednack.
1881 Census – New Mill: Jemina Nicholls, head, unmarried, 44, tailoress, born Towednack; son
Emanuel Nicholls, 22, agricultural labourer, born Gulval.
1891 Census – New Mill: Jeminah Nicholls, 54, unmarried, charwoman, born Towednack.
1901 Census – Gulval: Jamania (sic) Nicholls, 65, born Towednack.
1901 Census – New Mill: Emmanuel H. Nicholls, head, 45, general labourer (worker), born
Madron; wife Mary Jane, 29, born Cardiff, Wales; son George, 8, scholar, born Cardiff; son
Alfred H., 2, born Madron; and Harold Andrews, child to nurse, 4 months, born Madron. [Alfred
born 9/4/1898, baptised 20/9/1898 Madron – father at Newmill, mother separated from husband,
of Cardiff.]
Carfury School Registers:
4/9/1898 - George, born 28/6/1893, left neighbourhood - resident of New Mill, father a
labourer.
30/4/1901 - Alfred Henry, born 30/4/1898, removed to Gulval – resident of New Mill,
father a labourer.
** Marriage details: Eliza Nicholls, 22, of Ladydowns, father: Henry, miner. James Jelbert, 23, a
miner, of Crankan, father: Richard, farmer. James baptised 3/4/1836 Gulval, son of Richard &
Alice Jelbart. Marriage witnessed with the marks of William Nicholls & Anne Nicholls.
137
1851 Census – Crankan, Gulval: Richard Jilbart, head, 57, farming 25 acres, born Madron; wife
Alice, 59, born Madron; children: 7 including James, 16, shoemaker, born Gulval; also
granddaughter Mary Lutey & 4 others.
1861 Census – Crankan, Gulval: Alice Jelbert, head, 69, farmer of 50 acres employing inmates
[family] only, born St Buryan; son James, 25, born Gulval & wife Eliza, 25, born Gulval; son
John, 24, born Gulval; son George, 22, born Gulval; Richard Jelbert, 15, servant, born Gulval;
grandchildren: Eliza Ann, 2, born Gulval, & James, 1, born Gulval.
1871 Census – Tredennick, Gulval: James Jelbert, head, 35, miner, born Gulval; wife Eliza, 34,
born Towednack [?]; children (all born Gulval) – Eliza Ann, 12, school; James, 10, school;
Martin, 9, school; Richard Henry, 6, school; William John, 1.
*** Samuel Martins baptised 11/7/1824 Zennor, son of Samuel & Patience.
**** Matthew Michell/Mitchell baptised 21/6/1818 Zennor, son of Robert & Jane.
Christopher Nicholls
m.
Christiana Nicholas 5/8/1826 St Just
c. 25/5/1801 St Just
(Parents: Peter/Ann – p94)
(Parents: Elisha/Mary [Bone])
b. 1851+
b. 8/1/1863 St Ives
(‘Of Halsetown, aged 62’)
Mary Anne** Christiana
Esther
Christopher* Jane
c. 11/4/1827 c. 23/11/1828 c. 30/10/1830 c. 10/11/1833 c. 3/1/1836
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
b. 1881+
b.
b. 1851+
b. 1871+
b. 1851+
m. circa 1850
(?)
Mr. Thomas
m. circa 1857
(?)
Harriet
Orpah**
c. 11/8/1839
Elisha***
c. 8/9/1841
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
b. 1881+
b. 1881+
m. circa 1862
(?)
Mary
1841 Census – Trencrom, Uny Lelant: Christopher Nicholls, 40, tin miner; wife Christiana, 40;
children: Esther, 9; Christopher, 7; Jane, 5; Orpah (daughter), 3.
1851 Census – Trencrom, Uny Lelant: Christopher Nicholls, head, 50, born Lelant; wife
Christiana, 50, born St Just; children (all born Lelant): Esther, 19; Christopher, 17; Jane, 15;
Orpah, 12; Elisha, scholar, 9.
1861 Census – Halsetown, St Ives: John Arthur, head, widow, 53, tin miner, born Crowan;
Christiana Nicholls, boarder, widow, tailoress, born St Just; Elisha Nicholls, boarder, 19, tin
miner, born Uny Lelant.
* 1861 Census – Chyanweal, Uny Lelant: Christopher Nicholls, head, 27, tin miner, born Lelant;
wife Harriet, 27, born Lelant; children (all born Lelant): William, 2, & Harriet, 1.
138
1871 Census – Halsetown: Christopher Nicholls, head, 37, tin miner, born Lelant; wife Harriet,
37, born Lelant; children (all born Lelant): William A., 12, tin miner; Harriet J., 10, scholar;
Christopher, 7, scholar; James, 5; Kate, 3; John, 1.
** 1881 Census – Westbridge, St Ives: Mary A. Thomas, head, 54, seamstress, born Lelant;
daughter Mary A. Thomas, 18, dressmaker, born Lelant; Orpah Nicholls, sister, unmarried, 42,
domestic general servant, born Lelant; George Jabus, 40, boarder, labourer, born St Columb.
*** 1871 Census – Halsetown: Elisha Nicholls, head, 29, tin miner, born Lelant; wife Mary, 32,
born St Ives; children (all born St Ives): Mary, 7; Elisha H., 4; Nancy T., 2; Orpha, 1.
1881 Census – Halsetown: Elisha Nicholls, head, 39, tin miner, born Lelant; wife Mary, 42, born
St Ives; children (all born St Ives): Elisha H., tin miner; Nancy T., 12, scholar; Orpah, 11, scholar;
Annie, 9; Christopher, 5; Elizabeth T., 2.
Richard Nicholls
m.
Ann Matthews
4/12/1826 Madron
(Signature of Richard (of Mulfra, Madron) & sign of Ann (of Boswarthen, Madron); witnessed by
Charles Matthews and Elizabeth Trembath [refer p109 & 149])
(Miner of Crankan 1832, miner of Boskednan 1841, farmer of Try 1846, Miner of Try
1851 & 1861)
c. 13/10/1799
c. 13/8/1805 Madron
(Father: Charles/Margery [Nicholls] - refer p76-77)
b. 25/4/1886 Penzance
(‘Aged 80’)
b. 26/3/1864
Ann
c. 2/12/1827
Jane*
Elizabeth**
c. 15/2/1829 c. 4/11/1832
Richard
c. 28/1/1834
Mary
c. 30/7/1837
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 1841+
Died 29/3/1912 b. 7/8/1888 b. 1880+
South Australia Towednack
(Gulval)
b. 1851+
(‘Of Trevessa, 56’)
m. 17/5/1848
(Penzance)
George
Chellew
m. 10/11/1851 m. 21/4/1855
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
William S.
Jane Richards
Quick
Curnow (p219)
Martha ***
c. 1/10/1839
Andrew**** Margery***** John******
c. 18/11/1840 c. 30/7/1843 c. 23/8/1846
Eliza
c. 10/11/1851
(Gulval)
(Carfury Chapel) (Madron)
(Zennor)
(Gulval)
b. 1871+
b. 1851+
Died 20/7/1897 b. 1861+
b. 1861+
(Walhall, Vic.)
m. 4/4/1863
(Gulval)
Richard
Semmens
m. 1873
(Victoria, Aust.)
Peggy Davis Teague
Allen
1841 Census – Boskednan, Gulval: Richard Nicholls, 40, miner; Ann, 35, wife, and all the above
children from Jane to Andrew.
139
1841 Census – Boskednan, Gulval: Richard Bennatts, 35, tin dresser; wife Elizabeth, 30; children
Mary Ann, 6, & Richard, 2. Also William Lawry, 20, blacksmith, and Ann Nicholls, 13, female
servant.
1841 Census – Boskednan, Gulval: Richard Stevens, 70 [c. 25/7/1768 Gulval], miner; Elizabeth
Stevens [nee Nekervis, m. 20/2/1813 St Just – 2nd wife of Richard], 45. Children: Richard
Nicholls Stevens, 25 [private bpt 1/6/1813 Gulval]; Eliza Stevens, 11; Mary Nicholls Stevens, 7,
& Susannah Stevens, 4 [c. 16/7/1837 Gulval].
1851 Census – Trye, Gulval: Richard Nicholls, head, 51, miner, born Gulval; wife Ann, 46, born
Madron; children: Elizabeth, 19, domestic servant, born Madron; Richard, 17, miner, born
Madron; Mary, 14, born Gulval; Martha, 12, born Gulval; Margery, 7, born Madron; John, 4, born
Gulval; and Eliza, 1, born Gulval.
Son Andrew with his Uncle John Nicholls – refer p202.
1861 Census – Trye, Gulval: Richard Nicholls, head, 61, miner, born Gulval; wife Ann, 55, born
Madron; children: John, 14 and E. J., 11 (both born Gulval); and W. H., 2, grandson, born Gulval.
1871 Census – Lesengey, Madron: Ann Nicholas, 65, widow, general servant, born Madron; with
Thomas Ivey, farmer of 60 acres, wife Ann, & 3 other servants.
1881 Census – Lesengey Farm House, Madron: Ann Nicholas, 76, widow, aunt [?], annuitant,
born Madron; with Thomas Ivey, farmer of 45 acres, and wife Ann with 3 children, & one servant.
* Marriage details: George Chellew, 21, bachelor, miller, living ‘at the Cross, Gulval’, son of
William Chellew, miner. Jane Nicholls, 19, spinster, household servant, living ‘at the same place’,
a daughter of Richard Nicholls, a miner. Both signed certificate with a mark; witnessed by
Richard Nicholls & Isaac Pearce. George & Jane Chellew went to South Australia in 1848.
George died 22/12/1891 Clare, SA & Jane died 29/3/1912 Jamestown, SA.
** 1851 Census – Trevarrack, Gulval: Elizabeth Nicholls, unmarried, 18, house servant, born
Gulval; with James Roberts, head, farmer, 55, & wife Mary & sons – employing 2 men.
Marriage details: Elizabeth Nicholes, 19, of Try, father: Richard, miner. William Stevens Quick,
22, of Try, father: James, a miner. Witnesses: Richard Nicholls & Isabella Carbis.
*** Marriage details: Martha Nicholls, 23, of Gulval, father: Richard, miner. Richard Semmens,
20, stonecutter, of Gulval; father: James Semmens, labourer. Witnesses: John Nicholls (mark) &
Thomas Semmens (mark).
1871 Census – Madron: Richard Semmens, 26, farm labourer, born Gulval; wife Martha, 30, born
Gulval; children: Edith, 7, school, born Gulval; Richard, 6, born Gulval, Margery, 3, born Gulval;
John C., 9 months, born Madron.
**** Andrew baptised at Carfury Chapel, Gulval, 18/11/1840 by Thomas Green (Penzance Bible
Christian Circuit).
***** 1861 Census – Chysauster, Gulval: Margery, 17, servant, born Madron, with Martins
family.
****** Marriage reg. No. 2832; John’s death reg. no. 10797. Peggy was from Redruth and died
1926 in Northcote, Victoria. John & Peggy had 9 children.
140
Thomas Nicholls
m.
Sally Corl Lavers*
21/10/1827 St Erth
(Thomas Nicholls of St Hilary; marriage witnessed by James Hambly and William Sandow)
(General labourer of Penzance 1851)
c. 27/1/1799
c. 18/1/1801 Paul
(Parents: Thomas/Elizabeth – p85)
(Parents: John Trewavas/Sarah [Wright])
b. 1851+
b. 1851+
Thomas H
Emma J
John Richard William A
Joshua S
Born 1831
(Devon)
Born 1834
(Devon)
Born 1838
(Devon)
Born 1830
(Devon)
Born 1842
(Devon)
b. 1851+
b. 1851+
b. 1851+
b. 1851+
b. 1851+
Charles E
Born 1843
(Devon)
b. 1851+
* Surname should be Trewavas – John Trewavas married Sarah Wright 30/4/1791 Paul.
1851 Census – Voundervoor Lane, Penzance: Thomas Nicholls, head, 52, general labourer, born
Gulval; wife Sarah, 45, born Paul. Children: Thomas H., 19, printer & book binder, born
Stonehouse, Devon; Emma J., 16, servant, born Stonehouse, Devon; John Richard, 12, scholar,
born Stonehouse, Devon; William A., 10, scholar, born Devonport; Joshua S., 8, scholar, born
Plymouth; Charles E., 7, scholar, born Plymouth.
141
Francis Nicholls
m.
Sarah Lanyon
1/12/1827 Madron
(Both residing Penzance, with mark of both; witnessed by Tobias Read & Jane Jenkins [p199?]
(her mark))
(Tin miner of Uny Lelant 1836 & 1841, tin dresser of St Ives 1851)
c. 23/6/1805 Madron
c. 16/5/1810 Morvah
(Father: Ralph/Alice [Chirgwin])
b. 27/3/1853
b. 23/2/1867
Francis Andrew*
c. 30/11/1828
John
James Chirgwin
born abt 1833 c. 28/2/1836
William
c. 5/4/1840
(Ludgvan)
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
(Uny Lelant)
b. 1851+
b. 1851+
b. 1851+
b. 1861+
1841 Census – Nance, Uny Lelant: Francis Nicholas, 35, tin miner; wife Sarah, 30; children:
Francis, 12, tin dresser; John, 7, tin dresser; James, 5, tin dresser; William, 1; also Maryann
Nicholas [identity unknown], 14, female servant.
1851 Census – Halsetown, St Ives: Francis Nicholas, head, 45, tin dresser, born Madron; wife
Sarah, 40, born Morvah; children: John, 17, tin dresser, born Uny Lelant; James, 15, tin dresser,
born Uny Lelant; William, 10, tin dresser, born Uny Lelant.
1851 Census – Nance, Uny Lelant: Francis Nicholls, 22, lodger, tin miner, born Ludgvan, with
John Richards & family.
1861 Census – Halsetown, St Ives: Sarah Nicholls, head, miner’s widow, 50, born Morvah; & son
William, 20, engine worker at tin mine, born Uny Lelant.
* 1851 Census – Nance, Uny Lelant: Francis Nicholls, unmarried, 22, tin miner born Ludgvan;
with John & Mary Williams & family.
142
Stephen Nicholls
m.
Jane Cock
8/3/1828
(Sign of Stephen & sign of Jane. Witnessed by John Cock & Stephen’s brother Richard)
(Labourer of Kenegie 1828, labourer of Garris 1831-1837, agricultural labourer of Garris
1841, labourer & occasional tinner of Trezela 1847, tin miner & farmer of Ludgvan 1851,
miner 1854, farmer 1857, tin miner & farmer of Zennor 1861, retired farmer of
Tredinneck Moor 1871)
c. 22/6/1800
c. 11/3/1807 Breage
(Parents: Stephen/Grace – p96)
(Parents: John/Mary [Richards])
b. 6/5/1873 Zennor
b. 1/6/1861 Zennor
(Died 30/4/1873)
(Died 20/5/1861)
John Cock
Stephen
Richard
c. 21/12/1828 c. 17/4/1831 c. 4/8/1833
b. 4/3/1895 b. 10/5/1878 b. July 1909
James*
c. 22/11/1835
b. July 1914
(Died 1/3/1895
Cumberland)
(Died 5/5/1878
Tredinneck ‘Aged 47’)
(Died 20/7/1909
Truro)
(Died 3/7/1914
Cumberland)
m. 31/8/1850
(Ludgvan)
Mary
James (p200)
m. 30/6/1857
(Gulval)
Catherine
Brush (p223)
m. 19/11/1854
(Bosporthennis, Zennor)
Mary
Thomas (p215)
m. 3/10/1857
(Madron)
Mary Jane
Love (p225)
Jane**
c. 12/2/1837
b. 1871+
Grace***
Mary****
c. 18/8/1839 c. 29/8/1847
b. 1861+
b. 18/3/1869
(‘Of Tredennick Moor,
Aged 21’)
Andrew
c. 9/5/1851
b. 21/5/1868
(‘Of Tredinneck, aged 16’)
m. 30/6/1860
(Madron)
Henry
Rich
1840 Tithe records – Stephen Nicholls at Garris, arable plots: 1565 Higher Field, 1566 Lower
West Field, 1567 Lower East Field & 1571 Higher East Field – total area: 3 acres 1 rood and 20
perches.
1841 Census – Garris, Gulval: Stephen Nicholls, head, 35, agricultural labourer; Jane, wife, 30;
children: John, 10; Stephen, 10; Richard, 5; James, 5; Jane, 1; Grace, 1; also Jane Berriman, 15,
female servant.
1851 Census – Trussowe Downs, Ludgvan: Stephen Nicholls, head, 50, tin miner, born Gulval;
wife Jane, 44, born Gulval; children (all born Gulval): Stephen, 20, tin miner; Richard, 17, tin
miner; Grace, 12; Mary, 3.
1861 Census – Bosporthennis, Zennor: Stephen Nicholls, 61, tin miner farming 8 acres of land,
born Gulval; wife Jane, 54, born Breage; son Andrew, 9, scholar, born Gulval; nephew Richard
Matthews, 15, tin miner, born Madron [p97]; mother-in-law Mary Cock, tin miner’s widow, 83,
born Zennor.
143
1871 Census – Tredinneck Moor, Gulval: Stephen Nicholls, head, 71, widower, retired farmer,
born Gulval.
* 1851 Census – Churchtown, Ludgvan: James Nicholls, 15, born Gulval; farm servant with
Andrew & Charity Eddy.
** Jane living with James Nicholls (uncle) at Chysauster, Gulval, in 1851 (p176).
Henry Rich baptised 18/10/1835 Madron, son of Thomas & Mary.
Henry was a witness to marriage of Richard Nicholls in 1855 (p220).
1871 Census – Madron: Henry Rich, head, 35, farm labourer, born Madron; wife Jane, 33, born
Gulval; son James H., 8, school, born Madron; daughter Annie J., 4, school, born Madron.
*** 1861 Census – Chyandour, Penzance: Grace Nicholls, 21, unmarried, born Gulval, servant
with John and Amy Pearce & family. The household also includes a visitor - Ann Nicholls,
unmarried, 22, born Germoe [Grace’s 1st cousin – p154].
**** 1861 Census – Merry Meeting, Madron: Mary Nicholls, 13, born Gulval, general servant
with William & Elizabeth White.
144
Richard Nicholls
m.
Mary Reynolds
20/9/1828 Madron
(Farmer of Madron 1841, farmer of Paul 1861 & 1871)
c. 9/5/1802 Zennor
(Parents: Richard/Elizabeth – p102)
(Parents: William/Margaret)
b. 1871+
b. 21/12/1875 Paul
(‘Of Raginnis, aged 75’)
Elizabeth Ann*Richard
c. 29/11/1829 c. 7/7/1833
Mary
c. 2/10/1837
Grace
c. 5/4/1840
John
c. 27/11/1842
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 1852+
b.
b.
b. 28/6/1840 b.
(‘Of Nanzeglos,
4 months)
m. 13/11/1852 m. 8/5/1858
(Paul)
(Paul)
Joseph
Jane Glasson
Pollard
Giles (p226)
m1. 24/11/1869
(Paul)
Eliza Jane
Wright (p243)
m2. circa 1880
(?)
Jessie (p243)
1841 Census – Nanzeglos, Madron: Richard Nicholls, farmer; wife Mary, 35; children: Elizabeth,
11; Richard, 8; along with servants Grace Reynolds, 40; Martin Reynolds, 16; Martin Rowe, 14;
James Jeffery, 12.
1851 Census – Regennis, Paul: Richard Nicholas, head, 49, farmer of 45 acres employing 4
labourers, born Zennor; wife Mary, 48, born Sancreed; with children: Elizabeth, 21, born Madron;
Richard, 19, agricultural labourer, born Madron; John, 8, born Madron. Also Joseph Pollard,
servant, unmarried, 24, agricultural labourer, born Madron; Grace Beriman, neice, 12, born Lelant.
1861 Census – Reginnis, Paul: Richard Nicholls, head, farmer employing 1 man & inmates, born
Zennor; wife Mary, 58, born Creed; son John, 18, agricultural labourer, born Madron; Thomas
Hugh [?], 16, carter; Emily Harvey, house servant, 13, born Paul; Diannah Oats, house servant, 21,
born St Creed.
1871 Census – Reginnis, Paul: Richard Nicholls, head, 68, farmer, born Zennor; wife Mary, 68,
born Sancreed; son John, married, 28, born Madron, and wife Eliza J., 27, born Paul; also Mary
Wright, unmarried, 25, domestic servant, born Paul; William Mathews, 16, indoor servant, born
Paul; Grace Edwards, visitor, 70, widow, born Sancreed.
* Marriage details: Joseph Pollard, farmer of Madron; father: Joseph, farmer. Elizabeth Ann
Nicholls of Paul; father: Richard, farmer. Marriage witnessed by Richard Nicholls & Elizabeth
Andrewartha.
145
John Nicholls
m.
Elizabeth Marks
5/12/1829 Madron
(Both of Penzance with signature of John & mark of Elizabeth; witnessed by Tobias Read &
William Withey (?))
(Miner of Great Bosullow, Madron 1841 & 1851; miner of St Just 1861)
c. 20/9/1801 Madron
c. circa 1807 Gorran
(Parents: Andrew/Elizabeth – p82) (Parents?)
b. Dec qrt 1866 (‘Aged 66’) b. 1871+
(Penzance district ref. 5C 197)
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
John
c. 30/10/1831 c. 30/7/1837 c. 23/9/1839
Thomas
Joanna
c. 29/11/1840 Born 1850
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 26/10/1834 b.
b. 21/2/1841 b. 1861+
(Madron)
(‘Aged 3’)
(Madron)
(‘Of Bosullow, aged 2’)
(Madron)
b. 1861+
1841 Census – Great Bosollow, Madron: John Nicholls, 39, miner; wife Elizabeth, 35; son
Thomas, 7 months; along with servant Louisa Marks, 19.
1851 Census – Cottage at Great Bosullow, Madron: John Nicholls, head, tin miner, 48, born
Madron; Elizabeth, 44, born Gorran; children: Thomas, 10, tin miner, born Madron, and Joanna, 1,
born Madron.
1861 Census – Tregeseal, St Just: John Nicholls, head, tin miner, 59, born Madron; wife Elizabeth,
57, born Gorran; son Thomas, 20, tin mine engine driver, born Madron; daughter Joannah, 11,
born Madron.
1871 Census – St Just: Elizabeth Nicholls, head, widow, 64, housekeeper, born Gorran.
146
Henry Nicholls
m.
Mary Nicholls
19/6/1830
(Henry resided at Towednack; with marks of Henry & Mary. Witnessed by John Carbis &
William Major)
(Miner of St Neot 1851, tin miner of Ludgvan 1861)
c. 3/11/1799
c. 7/12/1806
(Parents: Hugh/Mary [James] – p115)
b. 1861+
(‘Of Union Workhouse, aged 65’)
John
Henry
Born circa 1834
(Trewednack)
Born circa 1836 Born circa 1842 Born circa 1851
(Trewednack)
(St Just)
(Ludgvan?)
Martha
Died 6/3/1859
b. 1851+
b. 1861+
William Henry
b. 1871+
(‘Tin miner, Ludgvan
Aged 25’)
1841 Census – Rose Common, St Just: Henry Nicholls, 40, tin miner; wife Mary, 35; Mary*, 14;
John, 7, and Henry, 4.
[* Mary Nicholls/Plent c. 14/8/1827 Gulval – illegitimate daughter of Mary]
1851 Census – Lower Lampen, St Neot: Henry Nicholls, head, 51, tin & copper miner, born
Gulval; wife Mary, 45, born Gulval; children: John, 16, miner, born Trewednack, Madron; Henry,
14, miner, born Trewednack; Martha, 8, scholar, born St Just.
1861 Census – Manwinion, Ludgvan: Henry Nicholas, head, 62, tin miner, born Ludgvan; wife
Mary, 53, born Ludgvan; daughter Martha, 19, born Ludgvan; son William Henry, 11, born
Ludgvan.
1871 Census – Treassowe Downs, St Erth: Mary James, head, 46, widow, born Breage; children
(all born Ludgvan): James R. James, 9; Charles James, 8; Mary James, 3; John James, cousin, 46,
unmarried, dumb from birth, born Ludgvan; Mary Nicholls, visitor, 62, born Gulval.
147
148
Henry Nicholls*
m.
Elizabeth Trembath 12/11/1831 St Levan
(Henry was from Ludgvan. Witnessed by Stephen Nicholls & Pascoe Grenfell)
* Richard Nicholls, brother of Henry, married Barbara Trembath, Elizabeth’s sister.
(Farmer of Madron 1841)
c. 1/6/1806 Ludgvan
c. 13/12/1802 St Levan
(Parents: Stephen/Christiana – p109)
(Parents: John/Christiana [Edwards])
b. 1880
b. 1849+
(Ballarat, Victoria, Aust)
Elizabeth Trembath
c. 9/9/1832
John Trembath*
c. 26/7/1835
Christiana Trembath
c. 27/11/1835
(St Levan)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 28/11/1832 Ludgvan b. 1877+
b. 1857 Victoria
(‘Aged 3 months’)
m. 1863
(Victoria)
Elizabeth
Grundy
m. 1857
(Victoria)
John
Sperry
Elizabeth Trembath was also a witness to the marriage of Richard Nicholls to Ann Matthews in
1826 (p139).
The Will made 8/10/1836 by John Trembath, yeoman of Bosustow, St Levan, names his daughter
Eliza, wife of Henry Nicholls.
1841 Census – Trewren, Madron: Henry Nicholas, 35, farmer; wife Elizabeth, 35; children: John
Trembath, 5; & Catherine [Christiana] Trembath, 4. Also includes servants Elizabeth Daniel, 20;
William Quick, 15; & John Quick, 10.
From the Victorian Shipping Records: On the vessel “Hope”, arrived Port Phillip 21/7/1849, John
Nichols, 42, farm labourer; wife Elizabeth, 46; children: John, 14, labourer; & Christiana, 13. All
were born in Penzance [district], denomination Church of England, all could read & write. They
came out with Richard & Barbara Nicholls, with their children [Richard (p168) was the brother of
Henry (above), and Barbara (p168) was the sister of Elizabeth].
* Children of marriage of John T. & Elizabeth Nicholls:
James Henry, born 1864 & died 1865; Henry, born 1865, died 1865; Christiana Trembath, born
1866, died 1867; Ann Eliza Trembath, born 1868; James Henry Stephens, born 1870; Frances
Victoria, born 1871, died 1871; Frances Edith, born 1872; Christina, born 1874, & William John,
born 1877. [All children were born at Geelong except for James Henry at Kild, Victoria]
149
Henry James Nicholls
m.
Elizabeth Daniel
14/11/1831
(Sign of Henry & sign of Elizabeth. Marriage witnessed by Matthew Daniel & Matilda Bennetts)
(Constable of Tredinneck 1830, miner of Tredinneck 1832, miner of Trevarrack 1835,
miner of Tredinneck 1838-1851, tin miner of Sancreed 1861, farm labourer of
Tredinneck 1871)
c. 17/8/1800 Zennor
(Born Morvah, according to 1851 census)
(Father: Matthew – miner/tinner 1798)
b. 8/2/1881
b. 3/3/1891
(‘Of Tredinneck Moor, aged 71’)
(Died 2/2/1881)
(‘Of Ninnis, Madron; aged 90’)
[Gulval Probate of Henry Nicholls mentions his widow Elizabeth. Goods valued at under £100.]
Elizabeth Daniel*
c. 13/5/1832
Mary Ann***
c. 15/2/1835
Emma Patience**
c. 17/6/1838
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 1856+
b. 1871+
b. 1871+
m. 27/9/1856
(Gulval)
Martin
James
m. 10/6/1854
(Madron)
John
Richards
m. 30/1/1858
(Madron)
Richard
Hall
William Henry
James****
Born 4/3/1844 Gulval
c. 29/8/1841
c. 24/3/1844
(Gulval)
(Ludgvan)
b. 6/11/1849
Died 6/3/1912 Farnworth, Lancashire
(‘Of Boskednan, aged 8’) (‘Aged 68’)
m. 19/7/1869
(Manhattan, New York, USA)
Martha W.
Booth
Gulval Parish Vestry Meeting 25th March 1830 mentions: Henry Nicholls of Tredinneck,
Constable.
1840 Tithe Records – Henry is living at Tredinneck Moor, owning & occupying plot 327.
1841 Census – Tredinneck, Gulval: Henry Nicholls, head, 30, miner; Elizabeth, wife, 35; children:
Elizabeth, 9; Mary Ann, 6; Emma, 3; and Patience Daniel, tailor, 65.
Tithe Apportionment award Gulval 1843: Henry Nicholls, owner & occupier of house & town plot
at Tredinneck (12 perches).
1851 Census – Tredinneck, Gulval: Henry Nicholls, head, 41, miner, born Gulval; wife Elizabeth,
48, born Morvah; children (all born Gulval): Mary Ann, 16, at home; Emma, 12; and James, 6.
1861 Census – Tredinneck Moor, Gulval: Elizabeth Nicholls, 59, head, tin miner’s wife, born
Morvah; with son James, 17, carpenter, born Gulval.
1861 Census – Botrea, Sancreed: Henry Nicholes, married, 51, tin miner, born Gulval; boarder
with Henry & Peggy Ann Roberts.
150
1871 Census – Tredinneck Moor, Gulval: Henry Nicholls, head, 61, farm labourer, born Ludgvan;
Elizabeth, wife, 68, born Morvah.
1881 Census – Tredinneck, Gulval: Elizabeth Nicholls, head, 77, labourer’s widow; granddaughter
Elizabeth James, 13, scholar, born St Just.
* Martin James baptised 26/4/1835 Sancreed, son of John & Mary.
Marriage details: Elizabeth Nicholls, 24, at Gulval, father: Henry, miner. Martin James, 22, a
miner, of Sancreed, father: John, labourer. Signed with his & her mark; witnesses: William James
& Richard Hall.
1851 Census – Trevarrack, Gulval: Elizabeth Nicholls, 18, born Gulval, servant with the Roberts
family.
** 1871 Census – Madron: Emma Hall, head, 31, born Gulval, husband Richard Hall in Chile;
daughter Caroline, 12, at school, born Gulval.
Richard Hall baptised 22/5/1836 Madron, son of John & Caroline, or 31/3/1839 Gulval, son of
Thomas & Mary Ann.
*** Marriage details: Mary Ann Nicholls, 19, of Penzance, father: Henry, miner. John Richards,
20, labourer of Madron, Father: Henry John Richards, carrier. Marriage witnessed by Mary Ann
Richards & John Bennetto.
1871 Census – Madron: John Richards, head, 36, born Madron; wife Mary A., 36, born Gulval;
children (all born Madron): Grace, 9; John H., 8; Annie J., 6; Richard C., 4; James, 2.
**** Martha was born in New Jersey. Her parents were John Booth & wife Jane (nee Orrell) who
appear to have come from Bolton, Lancashire. James and Martha had two daughters in Brooklyn
– Jane circa 1871 and Emma Annie circa 1874. The family went to live in Farnworth (near
Bolton), Lancashire, prior to 1881 and were still there in 1901 (with unmarried daughter Emma,
27, school teacher – married Henry Hatton circa 1904. James (and eventually daughter Jane)
worked in the cotton mill there.
151
m.1
Martha Kitto
22/12/1831
(Signature of Richard & mark of Martha; witnessed by John Carbis & William Major.)
(Farmer of Germoe 1841, shopkeeper of Germoe 1842, yeoman 1844, farmer of Germoe
1851, shopkeeper & innkeeper of Germoe 1855, farmer 1856, innkeeper, grocer & farmer
of Germoe 1861, farmer & innkeeper of Germoe 1871, husbandman of Germoe 1876)
c. 6/9/1807
c. 2/2/1806 Germoe
(Parents: Thomas/Sarah [Nicholls]*)
b. 13/12/1876 Germoe
b. 23/11/1835 Germoe
(‘Husbandman of Trewithen, aged 69’)
(‘Aged 29’)
Martha Maria**
c. 9/12/1832
Richard
c. 6/7/1834
(Germoe)
(Germoe)
b. 1856+
b. 1/10/1904 Godolphin
(‘Of Helston, aged 70’)
m. 6/1/1856
(St Erth)
Peter
Dale
m. Mar qrt. 1867
(Breage?)
Mary
Williams (p242)
* Sarah Kitto of Germoe buried at Breage 30/1/1820 aged 55. Sarah married Thomas Kitto at
Breage 5/7/1795. Origins of Sarah are uncertain. Marriage details: Thomas Kitto, tinner, & Sarah
Nicholls, both of Breage, with marks of both; witnessed by Thomas Johns & Thomas Oram (?).
** Marriage details: Peter Dale, of St Erth; father: James, labourer. Martha Maria Nicholls, of St
Erth; father: Richard, farmer. Marriage witnessed by Richard Nicholls & Grace Nicholls.
1851 Census – Churchtown, Germoe: Grace Nicholls, head, widow, 71, Milk Woman, born
Sennen; Martha Maria Nicholls, niece, 18, servant, born Germoe [daughter of Richard – p152].
152
m.2
Ann Sampson 14/5/1837 Germoe
(Richard, widower, of Germoe & Ann of Germoe. Witnessed by Jno Sampson & Geo Wm Wood)
(Farmer of Germoe 1841, shopkeeper of Germoe 1842, yeoman 1844, farmer of Germoe
1851, shopkeeper & innkeeper of Germoe 1855, farmer 1856, innkeeper, grocer & farmer
of Germoe 1861, farmer & innkeeper of Germoe 1871, husbandman of Germoe 1876)
c. 6/9/1807
c. 28/10/1810 Germoe
(Parents: William/Elizabeth [Jordan])
b. 13/12/1876 Germoe
b. 26/11/1888 Germoe
(‘Husbandman of Trewithen; aged 69’)
(‘Of Trewithen, South Germoe; aged 85’)
(Died 21/11/1888)
(Burial of Ann is certified by William Nicholls; a dissenting funeral)
Ann*
Elizabeth
John
Mary Bragwhole
(‘Nicholas’)
(‘Nicholas’)
(‘Nicolls’)
(‘Nichols’)
c.? 15/7/1838 c. 27/12/1840
c. 8/5/1842
c. 24/9/1843
(Germoe)
(Germoe)
(Germoe)
(Germoe)
b. 1869+
b. 1/8/1849
b. 1861+
b. 1861+
(‘Of Trewithen, aged 9’)
m1. 11/7/1863
(Germoe)
Joseph
Manson
m2. 1/9/1869
(Melbourne, Aust.)
Noah
Mills
William
Stephen
James Vingoe
William
(‘Nichols’)
(‘Nicholls’)
(‘Nichols’)
(‘Nichols’)
c. 25/12/1844 c. 25/12/1844 c. 24/11/1847
c. 15/1/1848
(Germoe)
(Germoe)
(Germoe)
(Germoe)
b. 21/2/1845 b. 18/12/1864 b. 1861+
b. 1887+
(‘Of Trewithen’) (‘Aged 20’)
m1. 28/3/1870
(Sithney)
Charlotte Matthews
Andrew (p244)
m2. 14/6/1884
(Plymouth)
Elizabeth
Piper (p245)
1841 Census – Trewithen, Germoe: Richard Nicholls, 30, farmer; wife Ann, 30; children: Martha,
8; Richard, 6; Ann, 3; Elizabeth, 10 months. Also includes Nancy Austin, 20, servant.
In 1842 Richard Nicholls is named as executor of the Will of his mother’s brother James Vingo –
Will made 8/12/1842 mentions his sister Grace of Gulval, widow, William Lawry of Gulval,
husband of niece Mary (p96), and Richard Nicholes (sic) of Germoe, shopkeeper, executors.
153
Will of John Pope, Germoe a miner, (proved 16/6/1852 (died 1832?)) mentions Bonds to Richard
Nichols (sic), yeoman, of Germoe.
The Estate of the Duke of Leeds (CRO Ref. RH/1/1999) – Lease Germoe - Mount Whistle, dated
29/9/1844: Francis Godolphin D’Arcy, Duke of Leeds, to Richard Nicholls of Germoe, yeoman.
The Estate of the Duke of Leeds (CRO Ref. RH/1/2043) – Lease Germoe – Trewithen, (undated –
1834-1850): John Dunn of Germoe, miner, to Richard Nicholls of Germoe, miner.
1851 Census – Trewithen, Germoe: Richard Nicholls, head, 43, farmer of 20 acres, born Gulval;
wife Ann, 44, born Germoe; children (all born Germoe): Richard, 16, tin miner; Ann, 12, at home;
John, 9, scholar; Mary, 8, scholar; Stephen, 6, scholar; James, 4, scholar; William, 3, scholar.
Also includes Elizabeth Sampson, mother-in-law, widow, 96, at home, born Germoe.
1855 Post Office Directory, Cornwall: Richard Nicholls, shopkeeper & innkeeper of Germoe.
1861 Census – Godolphin Arms, Breage: Richard Nicholls, head, 53, innkeeper, grocer & farmer,
born Gulval; wife Ann, 56, born Germoe; children (all baptised Germoe): Richard, 27, unmarried,
tin mine labourer; John, 21, tin miner; Mary, 19; Stephen, 16; James, 15; William, 14. Also Grace
Nicholls, mother, widowed, dairy woman, born Sennen, blind; Elizabeth Nicholls, granddaughter,
6 (illegitimate daughter of Ann, c. 24/9/1858 Germoe), born Germoe; Elizabeth Berriman, visitor,
married, 54, born Breage; Mary Gilbert, visitor, unmarried, 46, general servant, born Breage.
1871 Census – Trewithen, Germoe: Richard Nicholls, head, 64, farmer & innkeeper, born Gulval;
wife Ann, 66, grocer, born Germoe; Elizabeth Nicholls, granddaughter [see details above], 16,
domestic servant; and Alfred Manson, 15, farm servant indoors.
1881 Census – Trewithen, Germoe: Ann Nicholls, head, widow, grocer shopkeeper, born Germoe;
son William, married, 33, farmer of 8 acres, born Germoe; grandson James Sackville Nicholls, 10,
scholar, born Germoe [c. 21/4/1871 Germoe, parents: William & Charlotte Matthews Nicholls].
Also includes Elizabeth Hampton, 13, servant, born Germoe.
Newspaper notice: ‘Death 21/11/1888 at Trewithen, Germoe, Ann, relict of Mr. Richard Nicholls,
formerly of Godolphin Arms, Germoe, aged 85.’
* Ann’s parents recorded as Richard & Grace Nicholas – may be clerical error in register.
Illegitimate daughter of Ann, called Ann, baptised 24/9/1858 Germoe (born circa 1855).
1861 Census – Chyandour, Penzance: Ann Nicholls, visitor unmarried, 22, born Germoe – with 1st
cousin Grace Nicholls (refer p144). Ann, daughter of Ann, is with grandparents at Breage.
154
Andrew Nicholls (below)
m.1
Ann Nicholls
21/6/1832 Madron
(Both of Madron, with mark for both; witnessed by Thomas Nicholls (brother of Ann) & Elizabeth
Terrell)
(Tin miner of Ludgvan 1841, miner 1856 & 1864)
c. 24/1/1812 Gulval (born Ludgvan)
b. March qrt.1868 (Ludgvan?)
b. circa 1841+
(Penzance district ref. 5C 224, ‘aged 56’)
Ann*
Andrew**
c. 10/11/1833 c. 21/2/1836
(Madron)
(Ludgvan)
b. 1841+
b. 1868+
m. 4/9/1858
(Ludgvan)
Ann Pearce
Martin (p227)
1841 Census – Tremin Lane, Ludgvan: Andrew Nicholls, 25, tin miner; wife Ann, 30.
* IGI records Ann as the daughter of Ann Nicholls – perhaps the father’s name was illegible.
1841 Census – Castle Town, Ludgvan: Ann Nicholls, 7, with Henry & Martha Boase & their four
children. [Henry Boase was the brother-in-law of Andrew Nicholls.]
Another child called Ann was born circa 1854 from Andrew’s 2nd marriage – the first Ann had
apparently died.
** 1841 Census – Castle Town, Ludgvan: Andrew Nicholls, 5, with Thomas Martin, 35, & wife
Catherine [Christiana] & their four children. [Thomas Martin was the brother-in-law of Andrew
Nicholls.]
155
Andrew Nicholls (above)
m.2
Ann Carbis
11/10/1842 Ludgvan
(Both put marks for their names. Fathers: Hugh Nicholls, miner & Peter Carbis, labourer.
Witnessed by Gidion Simmons & William Thomas)
(Tin miner of Ludgvan 1841, miner 1856 & 1864)
c. 24/1/1812 Gulval (born Ludgvan)
born circa 1817 Ludgvan
b. March qrt. 1868 (‘Aged 56’)
(Parents: Peter/Ann [Treman])
b. June qrt. 1891 (‘Aged 73’)
William*
c. 21/5/1843
Peter
Hugh
James
c. 25/12/1844 c. 22/11/1846 c. 5/5/1848
Mary
c. 27/1/1850
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
b. 1861
b. 1851+
b. 1881+
b. 1851+
b. 1871+
(Victoria, Aust. ‘aged 17’)
m. 12/11/1864
(Gulval)
Elizabeth
Williams (p239)
John
c. 18/10/1850
Henry
c. 1/10/1852
Thomas
c. 22/1/1854
Ann
born 1854
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
b. 1881+
b. 1884+
b. 1871+
b. 1881+
m. 22/3/1873
(Gulval)
Ellen
Williams (p247)
m. 28/11/1872
(Ludgvan)
Nanny
Michell (p247)
(Not sister of Elizabeth)
Richard
c. 25/1/1857
William Andrew
c. 23/1/1859
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
b. 1901+
b. circa 1860
m. 1/5/1875
(Gulval)
Margaret Woolcock
Friggens (p248)
1851 Census - Treassowe, Ludgvan: Andrew Nicholls, head, 38, tin miner, born Ludgvan; wife
Ann, 34, born Ludgvan; children (all born Ludgvan): Andrew, 15, (from 1st marriage); William, 8,
scholar; Peter, 6, scholar; Hugh, 5, scholar; James, 3, scholar; Mary, 2; and John, 1. Also includes
Mary Carbis, servant, 14, born Towednack.
1861 Census - Treassowe, Ludgvan: Ann Nicholls, head, married, 43, born Ludgvan; children (all
born Ludgvan): Hugh, 15, tin miner; Mary, 12, scholar; John, 11, tin miner; Henry, 9, tin miner;
Thomas, 7, scholar; Ann, 6, scholar; Richard, 4, scholar.
1871 Census – Trezela, Gulval: Ann Nicholls, head, miner’s widow, 53, born Ludgvan; Ann
Carbis, labourer’s widow, 83, grandmother, born Paul; Nicholls children (all born Ludgvan) -
156
Mary, 21, unmarried, fieldworker; John, 20, miner; Henry, 19, miner; Thomas, 17, miner; Ann,
16, fieldworker; Richard, 14, labourer.
1881 Census – Vallenoweth, Ludgvan: Ann Nicholls, head, 62, widow, born Ludgvan; daughter
Ann, 26, unmarried, born Ludgvan; Elizabeth J. Lawrey, niece, unmarried, 21, born Liskeard;
Mary A. Lawrey, unmarried, 19, born St Buryan.
* William went to Australia with Uncle John Nicholls & wife Frances (p193).
157
Thomas Nicholls
m.
Julia
circa 1833
(Mason of Ludgvan 1851, 1861 & 1871)
Born circa 1805 Uny Lelant
(Parents: Thomas/Thomasin – p86)
b. Sep qrt 1875 (‘Aged 65’)
(Parents?)
b. Dec qrt 1882 (‘Aged 78’)
John T
William H. Mary Ann
Julia
Richard
Born abt 1834 born abt 1836 born abt 1838 born abt 1840 born abt 1843
(St Ives)
(St Ives)
(St Ives)
(Madron)
(Ludgvan)
b. 1851+
b. 1851+
b. 1861+
b. 1881+
b. 1861+
m. Sep qrt 1861
(Westbury S. (on Severn)
(Ref. 6a 362)
Mr. Jacka
Richard*
Born abt 1844
Elizabeth
born abt 1846
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
b.
m. circa 1867
(Ludgvan?)
Charity
b. 1861+
1851 Census – Trenowin Downs, Ludgvan: Thomas Nicholls, head, 43, mason, born Towednack;
wife Julia, 47, born Uny Lelant. Children: John T., 16, mason, born St Ives; William H., 14,
mason, born St Ives; Mary Ann, 12, born St Ives; Julia, 10, born Madron; Richard, 7, born
Ludgvan; Elizabeth, 4, born Ludgvan. Also Thomasine Nicholls, widow, 76, born Towednack.
1861 Census – Trenowin Downs, Ludgvan: Thomas Nicholls, 52, mason, born Towednack; wife
Julia, 55, born Uny Lelant; Children: Mary Ann, 20, tin dresser framer, born St Ives; Julia, 18, tin
dresser framer, born Madron; Richard, 17, mason, born Ludgvan; Elizabeth, 15, born Ludgvan.
1871 Census – Trenowin Downs, Ludgvan: Thomas Nicholls, head, 62, mason, born Towednack;
wife Julia, 65, born Lelant; daughter Julia Jakeh, married, 28, garden labourer, born Madron; John
Jakeh, grandson, 8, born Ludgvan.
1881 Census – Trenowin Downs, Ludgvan: Julia Nicholls, head, widow, 77, born Lelant; daughter
Julia Jacka, married, 38, agricultural labourer, born Madron; grandson John Jacka, 18, mason,
born Ludgvan.
* 1871 Census – Trenowin Downs, Ludgvan: Richard Nicholls, 25, mason, lodger, born Ludgvan;
wife Charity, 24, born Ludgvan; children (all born Ludgvan): Richard H., 3; Joseph, 2; Elizabeth,
5 months.
158
Abraham Nicholls
m.
Sarah Bear
9/9/1834 Madron
(Both of Penzance, with signature of Abraham & mark of Sarah; witnessed by C. Read &
Benjamin Lawry (?))
(Mason of Penzance 1851, 1861, 1871 & 1881)
c. 6/4/1806
c. 4/10/1810 Madron (‘Beard’)
(‘Of Bromley Square; aged 81’)
(Father; James)
(‘Of Bromley Square; aged 78’)
Abraham
Born 1835
James
Born 1836
John
Born 1841
Samuel
Born 1846
Albert
Born 1850
(Penzance)
(Gulval)
(Penzance)
(Penzance)
(Penzance)
b. 1851+
b. 1851+
b. 1871+
b.1861+
b. 1851+
William
Born 1851
(Penzance)
b. 1871+
m. Mar qrt. 1877
(St Ives district ref. 3b 359)
Emma
1841 Census – Coinage Hall Street, Penzance: Abraham Nichollas, 25, mason; wife Sarah 25; son
Tucker [seemingly nickname for Abraham]; 6; James, 4; John 3 weeks.
West Briton & Cornwall Advertiser newspaper 6/1/1843: Abraham Nicholls & Uriah Hollow
found guilty of having stolen a quantity of onions, the property of Henry Warren of Paul.
1851 Census – Adelaide Street, Penzance: Abraham Nicholls, head, 39, mason, born Gulval; wife
Sarah, 39, born Madron; children: Abraham, 16, butchery assistant, born Penzance; James, 14,
mason, born Gulval; John, 10, born Penzance; Samuel, 4, born Penzance, & Albert, 8 months,
born Penzance.
1861 Census – Queen Street, Penzance: Abraham Nicholls, 57, stone mason, born Penzance; wife
Sarah, 53, born Penzance; children (all born Penzance): John, 19, stone mason; Samuel, 15, stone
mason; William, 8, scholar.
1871 Census – Penzance: Abraham Nicholls, head, 67, mason, born Gulval; wife Sarah, 66, born
Madron; son John, 30, potter, born Penzance; son William, 19, mason labourer, born Penzance;
daughter-in-law Emma, 18, born Fowey; granddaughter Selina, 4 months, born Penzance.
1881 Census – No. 8 Bromley Square, Penzance: Abraham Nicholls, head, mason, 76, born
Gulval; wife Sarah, 80 [?], born Madron.
159
Cyprian Nicholls (below)
m.1
Elizabeth Bosence
25/10/1834 Madron
(Both of Madron, with mark of Cyprian (bachelor) & sign of Elizabeth; witnessed by Elizabeth
Bosence & Elizabeth Carpenter?)
(Miner of Bosoljack 1841, farmer of Bosoljack 1851, agricultural labourer of Bosoljack
1861, farmer of Bosoljack Vean 1871, at Bosoljack 1881)
Died 9/2/1881 Madron Methodist
(‘Of Bosoljack aged 73’)
(Parents: William/Margaret [Thomas])
b. 5/10/1866 Madron Methodist
(‘Of The Kennels aged 63’)
Seemingly no issue
1841 Census – Bosoljack, Gulval: Cyprian Nicholls, head, 30, miner; wife Elizabeth, 30; John
Boscence, labourer, 75; also Grace Nicholls [sister of Cyprian – p101], 15, female servant.
1851 Census – Bosoljack, Gulval: Cyprian Nicholls, head, 45, farmer of 10 acres, born
Towednack; wife Elizabeth, 43, born Madron.
1861 Census – Bosoljack, Gulval: Cyprian Nicholls, head, 60 [?], agricultural labourer, born
Towednack; Elizabeth, wife, 59, born Madron.
Cyprian Nicholls (above)
m.2
Mary Nicholas Pearce
Dec Qrt 1868
(Miner of Bosoljack 1841, farmer of Bosoljack 1851, agricultural labourer of Bosoljack
1861, farmer of Bosoljack Vean 1871, at Bosoljack 1881)
c. 2/8/1835 (‘Mary Nickles Pearce’)
(‘Of Bosoljack, aged 73’)
(Parents: William/Christiana [Nickless] – refer p66)
[Gulval Probate mentions his widow Mary. Goods valued at under £600.]
No issue
1851 Census – North Parade, Madron: Mary Pearce, 16, general servant, born Ludgvan; with
Mary Hosking, 70, retired draper’s widow, born Devon.
1871 Census – Bosoljack Vean [Higher Bosoljack?], Gulval: Cyprian Nicholls, 63, farmer of 2 ½
acres, born Towednack; Mary N., wife, 35, born Ludgvan.
1881 Census – Bosoljack, Gulval: Mary Nicholls, head, widow, 45, farming 3 acres, born Gulval.
Madron Methodist Cemetery inscription – ‘In Loving Memory of Cyprian Nicholls who departed
this life Feb 9th 1881 aged 76 years “Forever with the Lord”; also of Mary N Penrose [Nicholls]
died April 2nd 1928 aged 92 years “At Rest”.’
160
Andrew Nicholls
m.
Elizabeth Trounson 17/11/1835 St Hilary
(Andrew of Madron & Elizabeth of St Hilary, with signature of Andrew & mark of Elizabeth.
Witnessed by John Agwartha (?) & Mary Berriman)
(Miller of St Buryan 1836, Miller of New Mill 1841 & 1843, of Breage 1857)
c. 5/6/1800 Madron
Born 12/7/1818 St Erth
(Parents: John/Grace – p87)
(Parents: Peter/Margaret)
b. 1881+
(‘Of Breage, aged 57’)
William Andrew
c. 25/12/1836
Elizabeth
Grace Baynard*
born abt 1838 c. 3/10/1841
Peter Trounson
c. 5/3/1843
(St Buryan)
(St Buryan)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 1877+
b. 1861+
Died 1882 (‘Aged 46’) b. 1861+
(Eaglehawk, Victoria)
m. Circa 1871
(?)
James
Sowden
John Francis
c. 12/7/1846
Paul (or Joel)
born 1850
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 1861+
b. 1861+
1841 Census – New Mill, Madron: Andrew Nicholls, 40, miller; wife Elizabeth, 24; children:
William 4, & Elizabeth, 2; with servants Sarah Petters, 59, & Peter Petters, 15.
1851 Census – Roseworth Wood, Gwinear: Andrew Nicholas, head, 50, miller, born Madron; wife
Elizabeth, 33, born St Erth; children: William, 14, born St Buryan; Elizabeth, 12, born St Buryan;
Grace, 10, born Madron; Peter, 8, born Madron; John, 5, born Gulval; Paul, 1, born Madron.
1861 Census – Treswithan Downs, Camborne: Elisabeth Nicholls, head, widow, 43, miller’s wife,
born St Erth; children: Elisabeth S., 22, unmarried, dressmaker, born St Buryan; Grace, 19,
tailoress, born Madron; Peter, 18, copper miner, born Madron; John, 15, copper miner, born
Madron; Joel, 11, copper miner, born Camborne.
1871 Census – Phillack: Elizabeth Nicholls, 53, widow, annuitant, born St Erth, living with James
Pendray, farmer of 45 acres, & wife Mary [Elizabeth’s sister] & others.
1881 Census – with daughter Grace (see below)
* 1871 Census – Camborne, Cornwall: Grace B. Nicholls, head, tailoress, unmarried, 29, born
Madron.
James Sowden baptised 19/9/1835 Camborne, son of James & Catharine (living New Downs,
Camborne, 1841).
Children to Sowden marriage: Grace Baynard (1872-1954), Katherine (1877-?), Mary Margaret
(1877-?).
Grace Baynard Sowden (1872-1954) first married her cousin James Sowden (1870-1900) and later
married Jacob Cocking Medlen (1880-1954) on 26/12/1906 at Penponds, Camborne. A son Jacob
Baynard Medlen was born in December 1909. A daughter Grace was born 1911 and died in 1978.
1881 Census – Kehelland, Camborne: James Sowden, head, 44, agricultural labourer, born
Camborne; wife Grace B., 39, born Madron; daughter Grace B., 7, born Camborne; daughter Mary
M., 4, born Camborne; mother-in-law Elizabeth Nicholls, 63, born St Erth.
161
Francis Nicholls
m.
Margaret Hoskins
6/1/1836 Ludgvan
(Francis of Madron & Margaret of Ludgvan, with signatures of both. Witnessed by William
Hosking, William Hosking junior & James Hosking)
(Farmer of Phillack 1841)
c. 3/1/1808
(Parents: Francis/Grace – p107)
(Father: William)
b. 27/3/1853
b. 16/3/1870 St Buryan
(‘Of Rosenodrass, aged 55’)
Francis
William
Margaret Hoskin
c. 27/11/1836 c. 26/5/1839 c. 23/11/1840
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 1841+
b. 12/8/1839 b. 1841+
(Phillack)
(Madron)
(‘Of Bosiliack, aged 3 months’)
(Refer p80-81 for more on Hoskins family)
Deeds & Leases, Manor of Godrewy, Leases Phillack (CRO Ref. G/89): 30/9/1839 Rev. William
Hockin of Phillack, clerk, to Francis Nicholls, father & son, of Madron, yeomen, & William
Hosking of Trassoe in Ludgvan, yeoman.
1841 Census – Pulsack, Phillack: Francis Nicholls, 30, farmer; wife Margaret, 25; children:
Francis, 4, & Margaret, 9 months. Also Francis Nicholls (a cousin – refer p111 & p198), 15,
servant in husbandry – son of William & Mary (refer p111). Also Henry Cock, 12, servant in
husbandry & Harriet Doon, 15, servant in husbandry [‘Husbandman’ = a tenant farmer].
162
William Nicholls
m.
Catherine Thomas
6/2/1836 St Levan
(William of Zennor & Catherine of St Levan, with signature of William & mark of Catherine.
Witnessed by Hannibal Thomas (p180) & Henry Harvey)
(Farmer of Tremethack, Madron 1841, yeoman of Landithy, Madron 1848, agricultural
labourer of Tremethick, Madron 1851, farmer of Landithy, Madron 1855 & 1858)
c. 20/8/1809 Zennor
c. 18/10/1812 St Levan
(Parents: Richard/Elizabeth – p102)
(Parents: Hannibal (p180)/Jane [Quick])
b. 21/3/1894 Madron (died 19/3/1894)
(‘Of Landithy, aged 49’)
(‘Of Landithy, aged 81’)
[Madron Memorial inscription: ‘In Memory of William Nicholls who died at Landithy Sept 21st
1858 aged 50 years. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His Saints. Also of his
children William, Jane, Elizabeth Jane who died in infancy. For such is the kingdom of Heaven.
Also Catherine his widow who died 19th March 1894 aged 81 years’]
b. 25/9/1858 Madron
William
c. 29/1/1837
Richard*
Nicholas Thomas
Born abt 1838 Zennor
c. 25/10/1840
John
born 1842 Madron
c. 8/2/1843 (‘10wk’)
(Zennor)
(Madron)
(Penzance Wesleyan)
b. 11/8/1844 Died 12/2/1921
b. 31/1/1900
b. 1881+
(Madron)
(Madron)
(‘Of Tremethick’)
(Madron)
(‘Of Churchtown, aged 59’)
m. Dec qrt 1886
(Penzance 5C 464)
Elizabeth
Hicks (‘Widow’)
m. 26/11/1864
(Madron)
Mary Ann
Jenkin (p240)
Jane
Born 1844
Elizabeth Jane
born abt 1846
William Henry
born abt 1848
Catherine***
born 3/4/1851
(Madron?)
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
c.
c.
c.
c. 16/6/1851
(Penz. Wesleyan)
b. 12/9/1846 Madron
b. 20/8/1852 Madron
(‘Of Tremethick, aged 2’) (‘Of Pennarrack, aged 6’)
b. 1861+
b. 1876+
m. 26/4/1876
(Madron)
Joseph Hoskin
James
Born 11/2/1853
Ann/Annie/Hannah Jane**
born 5/10/1855
(Madron)
(Tregavera, Madron)
c. 27/3/1853
c. 19/11/1855
(Penzance Wesleyan)
(Madron)
b. 22/6/1900
b. 1877+
(Of Penzance, aged 47’)
m. 6/10/1877
(Madron)
John Thomas
163
Will of William Nicholls of Llandithy farm, Madron, yeoman, dated 24/7/1858: Beneficiaries
were his wife Catherine and his sons & daughters. He named his brothers Richards & Henry
Nicholls and his friend William Matthews of Treleaven in Sithney, gent, as executors in trust.
Witnesses were Fred A. Cocks & John Trythall. His will was proved 24/2/1859 – effects were
under £450.
1841 Census: Tremethack, Madron: William Nicholls, 31, farmer; wife Catherine, 28; children:
William, 4, & Nicholas, 8 months. Also includes John Uren, servant, 16, & Prudence Wallis,
servant, 20.
1851 Census – Tremethack, Madron: William Nicholls, head, 41, agricultural labourer, born
Zennor; wife Catherine, 38, born St Levan; children: Richard, 12, at home, born Zennor; Nicholas
Thomas, 10, born Madron; John, 8, born Madron; Elizabeth J., 4, born Madron; William H. 2,
born Madron. Also includes Jane Trembath, 22, general servant, born Paul.
1855 Post Office Directory, Cornwall: William Nicholls, farmer of Trewethnack, Madron.
1861 Census – Landithy, Madron: Catherine Nicholls, head, widow, 48, farming 108 acres, born
St Levan; children: Richard, unmarried, 23, born Zennor; Nicholas T., 20, born Madron; John, 18;
Willliam H., 12, scholar; Catherine, 10, scholar; James, 8, scholar; Ann, 5, scholar; house servant
Jane Trembath, 30.
1871 Census – Madron: Catherine Nicholls, head, 57, born St Levan; children (all born Madron):
John, 27; Catherine, 19; James, 17; Annie J., 15.
1881 Census – Churchtown, Madron: Catherine Nicholls, widow, 69, farmer of 110 acres, born St
Levan; son Richard Nicholls, unmarried, 42, farmer’s son, born Zennor; son John Nicholls,
unmarried, 38, farmer’s son, born Madron; son James Nicholls, unmarried, 27, agricultural
labourer, farmer’s son, born Madron. Also grandson John Nicholls, 12, scholar, born Madron;
with general servant Jane Trembath, unmarried, 50, born Sancreed.
1891 Census – Landithy, Madron: Richard Nicholls, head, 52, farmer, born Zennor; wife
Elizabeth, 43, born Sancreed; daughter Valetta, 3, born Madron; Joseph A. Hicks, stepson, 18,
farmer’s son, born California, USA. Also Catherine Nicholls, mother, widow, 79, living on own
means, born St Levan; Sarah M. Hall, general servant, 17, born Sancreed.
* 1901 Census – Madron: Richard Nicholls, head, 62, farmer, born Zennor; wife Elizabeth Jane,
52, born Sancreed; daughter Valetta Maud, 13, born Madron.
Living next door to
Vicarage/Rectory (occupied by William Borlase Tremenheere and wife Ann) and opposite
Madron Church.
Madron Methodist Cemetery inscription – ‘In Loving Memory of Richard Nicholls the beloved
husband of Elizabeth J Nicholls who passed away at Madron February 12th 1921 aged 82 years
“At Evening Time It Shall be Light”; also of Elizabeth Jane his wife who entered into rest at St
Agnes May 18th 1924 aged 76 years “Peace, Perfect Peace”.’
** Marriage details: John Thomas, 32, of Sancreed; father: Thomas, farmer. Hannah Jane, 22, of
Madron; father: William, farmer (deceased). Marriage witnessed by Thomas Nicholls & Fred A
Cocks.
*** Marriage details: John Hoskin, of Sancreed; father: Gabriel, carpenter. Catherine Nicholls, of
Madron; father: William, farmer. Marriage witnessed by Nicholas Thomas Nicholls & Annie Jane
Nicholls.
164
Thomas Nicholls
m.
Elizabeth Tregurtha 20/2/1836 Madron
(Thomas, bachelor of Penzance; witnessed by James Tregurtha jnr & Catherine Jeffery)
c. 30/4/1814
c. 18/6/1809 St Buryan
(Father: James/Elizabeth [Rodda])
b. 1839+
b. 1844+
Elizabeth Ann
c. 3/12/1837
(Madron)
b.
The Will dated 12/12/1844 by James Tregurtha of St Buryan, formerly a miller, now a farmer,
names his daughter Elizabeth Nicholls – ‘I give to my son Thomas Tregurtha my daughter Ann
James and my daughter Elizabeth Nicholls that freehold house gardens and premises situate at the
New Downs in the parish of St Just after the decease of myself and wife’.
30/12/1839 ‘Gave Thos Nicholls, son of A. Nicholls of Garris, to assist him to go to London for
advice about his elbow 5/- [5 shillings].’
165
Andrew Nicholls
m.
Charlotte Nicholls
6/3/1836
(Signature of Andrew & mark of Charlotte; witnessed by his brother Thomas Nicholls & Elizabeth
Nicholls – wife of Thomas)
(Miner of Garris 1837, 1841 & 1842, miner of Tregarris 1847-1848, retailer of vegetables
of Garris 1851, carter of Higher Garris 1862, miner of Penzance 1871, miner 1883)
c. Circa 1812
(Parents: Thomas/Thomasin [Roach] – p86)
b.? Mar qrt 1886
b. Sep qrt 1876
Thomasine Harvey* Andrew
Elizabeth Anne
Phyllis****
Born 19/4/1837
Born 19/4/1837 Born 1840
Born 16/12/1841
c. 8/10/1837
b. 1871+
c. 8/10/1837 c. 4/7/1847
b. 16/4/1854 b.
c.?
Died 26/6/1912
(‘Of Tregarris, aged 18’)
m. 18/3/1861
(Madron)
John
Boase
Thomas
m. 28/8/1866
(?)
William James
Williams (Tin miner)
Mary Jane
Frances
Born 1844
c. 23/7/1843
b. 2/6/1847
c. 4/7/1847
b. 1861+
c. 4/7/1847
b.
Christiana
Andrew***
Born 1850
Born circa 1855
c. 6/10/1862
b. 1862+
c. 6/10/1862
b. 1901+
(‘Of Tregarris, aged 4’)
Thomas**
c. 20/2/1848
b. 1901+
m. 1878 (Dec. qrt.)
(?)
Thomasine
Osborne
m. 6/10/1883
(Penzance)
Caroline Oats
Osborne
1841 Census – Higher Garris, Gulval: Andrew Nicholls, head, 25, tin miner; Sharlot, 25; children:
Thomasine, 3; and Elizabeth, 1 [Son Thomas is with relatives at Garris – refer p59].
1851 Census – Garris, Gulval: Andrew Nicholls, head, 39, retailer of vegetables, born Gulval;
wife Charlotte, 39, born Trewednack [Towednack]; children (all born Gulval): Tamsine, 13, at
school; Elizabeth, 11; Phillis, 9; Mary, 7; Thomas, 3; Christiana, 1. Son Andrew, 13, with
unmarried great-uncle Thomas Nicholls, 81, and his unmarried stepsister Grace, at Garris (refer
p60).
1861 Census – Garris, Gulval: Andrew Nicholls, head, 49, farming 15 acres employing inmates
only, born Gulval; wife Charlot, 46, born Towednack; children (all born Gulval): Mary Jane, 16;
Thomas, 12; Charina/Christiana, 10; Andrew, 6; Ann Nicholls, lodger, widow, mother, 78, born
Kenwyn.
1871 Census – Pendarves Row, Penzance: Andrew Nicholls, head, 59, miner, born Gulval; wife
Charlotte, 54, charwoman, born Towednack; son Thomas, 22, unmarried, wharf labourer, born
Gulval; son Andrew, 16, blacksmith apprentice, born Gulval.
166
* Seemingly named after earlier namesake Thomasin Harvey Nicholls, buried 29/1/1837 Madron,
died St Just, aged 22.
1871 Census – Madron: John Boase, head, 37, born Penzance; wife Tomazin (sic), 32, born
Gulval; children (all born Penzance): Henrietta, 9; Charles, 7; John, 6; Edward, 3, & Elizabeth, 6
months.
** 1881 Census – Leskinnick Place, Penzance: Thomas Nicholls, head, 31, general labourer, born
Gulval; wife Thomasine, 24, born St Buryan; daughter Charlotte Ann, 2, born Madron; daughter
Caroline Oats, 6 months, born Madron. Also includes Andrew Nicholls (brother of Thomas),
boarder, unmarried, 25, blacksmith, born Gulval; & Mary Davey, lodger, unmarried, 49,
dressmaker, born St Ives.
1891 Census – Chyandour: Thomas Nicholls, head, 40, miller, born Gulval; wife Thomasine, 35,
born St Buryan; children: Caroline O., 10, scholar, born Penzance; Thomas, 9, scholar, born
Penzance; Andrew, 4, born Madron; Charlotte M., 11 months, born Madron.
1901 Census – Madron: Thomas Nicholls, head, 51, flour miller, born Gulval; wife Thomasine,
44, born St Buryan; children (all said to be born in Madron): Caroline, 20; Thomas, 18, general
blacksmith; Andrew, 14, telegraph messenger; Charlotte, 10; John, 9; Sydney, 7; Christabelle, 4.
*** Marriage details: Andrew, blacksmith of Penzance; father Andrew a miner. Caroline Oats
Osborne of Chyenhall; father John a farm labourer. Marriage witnessed by Thomas Nicholls &
Elizabeth Stevenson.
1891 Census – Penzance: Andrew Nicholls, head, 36, fitter, born Gulval; wife Caroline, 32, born
St Buryan; sister-in-law Grace C. Osborne, 29, unmarried; niece Mary H. Osborne, 11, born Paul.
1901 Census – Gulval: Andrew Nicholls, 45, engineer fitter, born Gulval; wife Caroline 42, born
St Buryan.
Caroline O Nicholls buried Penzance 14/3/1906, aged 47.
**** William James Williams born 4/6/1844, baptised 30/6/1844 Ludgvan, son of William &
Elizabeth [most likely brother of Ellen who married John Nicholls (p156 & 247). William James
Williams died 12/3/1893. A son Benjamin was born 14/12/1866.
167
Richard Nicholls*
m.
Barbara Trembath 9/8/1836 St Levan
(Richard, sojourner of St Levan & Barbara of St Levan, with signature of both; witnessed by
Joseph Richards & Henry Harvey [c. 5/4/1812 Gulval, son of William & Jennifer])
(Farmer of Boswarthen, Madron1841)
c. 23/12/1804 Ludgvan
c. 17/10/1813 St Levan
(Parents: Stephen/Christiana – p109)
(Parents: John/Christiana [Edwards])
Died 1876 (Victoria, Aust.)
Died 1885 (Victoria, Aust.)
Charles
c. 6/2/1837
Elizabeth Trembath
c. 6/12/1839
Elizabeth
Born 1853
(St Levan)
(Madron)
(Geelong, Victoria – ref. 435)
b. 1849+
Died 1849
b.
(Geelong, Victoria, Aust)
* Henry Nicholls, brother of Richard, married Elizabeth Trembath, Barbara’s sister.
The Will of John Trembath, dated 8/10/1836 & proved 22/3/1837, yeoman, of Bosustow, St
Levan, makes reference to his daughter Barbara, wife of Richard Nicholls.
Age of Barbara in 1841 Census is accurate thus assuming that Richard’s age is also accurate –
born circa 1806. Age at time of departure to Australia makes him born circa 1814, however age
often reduced to ensure passage.
First son Charles seemingly named after youngest son of Stephen & Christiana.
1840 Tithe Records: In the 1840 Tithe Records Richard Nicholls was farming on land owned by
his mother-in-law Christiana Trembath*, who had land at Boswarthen of 87 acres, 3 roods and 9
perches. There was also ownership of 30 acres of land at Boswarthen with Pascoe Grenfell.
Farm name: Boswarthen, Tenement in
Occupier: Richard Nicholls
Field names: Higher Way Field (TA624) & Farther Field (TA632)
1841 Census – Boswarthen, Madron: Richard Nicholls, head, 35, farmer; Barbara, wife, 28;
children: Charles, 4, Elizabeth, 1; Christiana Trembath, 65, independent [mother-in-law]; Sharlot
(Charlotte) Chapple, 19, house servant; John Richards, 14, M. S. (male servant). John Richards
was probably related to Joseph Richards, a witness to the marriage of Richard & Barbara.
Mother of Barbara, Christiana c. 10/10/1773 Madron, daughter of David Edwards (buried Madron
1823 – ‘of Boswarthen aged 82’) & wife Christiana (nee Uren) (buried Madron 1823 – ‘of
Boswarthen aged 77’) – married 3/3/1772 at Gulval. Christiana also a sister of David Edwards
junior of Boswarthen (c. 19/3/1775 Madron and buried Madron 1846 – ‘of Boswarthen aged 72’).
She married John Trembath on 19/12/1797 at Madron. There is the 1845 Will of a Christiana
Trembath, widow of Ludgvan. David junior’s daughter Elizabeth married Thomas Pascoe
3/12/1832 Madron - they were living at Boswarthen in 1841 (Thomas, 30, a tin dresser). David
Edwards junior married Ann Hosken/Hoskin 14/2/1804 St Levan. 1841 Census – Boskednan:
David Edwards, 65, farmer; wife Ann, 60; Jane Edwards, 30; John Edwards, 20; James Edwards,
18; Jane Edwards, 9.
Richard & Barbara and children sailed on ship “Hope” to Australia, arriving at Port Phillip
(Victoria) 21/7/1849. Passenger list included Richard Nichols (sic), 34, labourer, born Madron;
wife Barbara, 35, born Madron; children: Charles, 12, born Madron, & Elizabeth, 9, born Madron.
Barbara Nicholls died 1885 in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray – death certificate gives her
parents as John & Christina (sic) Trembath.
168
Hugh Nicholls
m.
Jane Lawry 26/11/1836 Ludgvan
(Both of Ludgvan, with marks of Hugh & Mary; witnessed by Joseph Martin & Gideon Semmens)
(Tin miner of Ludgvan 1841)
c. 14/7/1816
c. 3/1/1819 Madron
(Parents: William/Clarinda [Ellis])
[Note: Clarinda Ellis is probably the daughter of Clarinda Nicholls who married Robert Ellis in 1795 (p48)]
Died Sep qrt 1842
b. 1851+
(Penzance district ref. 9/151)
(Remarried to Thomas Martin(s) Dec qrt 1842)
William Lawry
c. 23/4/1837
Hugh
Mary Jane
c. 13/10/1839 c. 26/12/1841
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
b. 1841+
b. 1883
b. 1851+
m. 22/4/1860
(Ludgvan)
Martha
Penberthy (p229)
1841 Census – Pool Hedgy, Ludgvan: Hugh Nicholls, 20 (age seemingly rounded down as
commonly done), tin miner; wife Jane, 20, sons William, 4, and Hugh, 2. Also includes Mary
Orchard, 20, dressmaker.
Hugh, husband of Jane, died prior to 1851 Census and Jane married Thomas Martins/Martin - Dec
qrt 1842 (Penzance district marriage ref. 9/277) – ‘Thomas Martin to Jane Nicholas’.
1851 Census – Trassowe Downs, Ludgvan: Thomas Martins, head, 44, tin miner, born
Towednack; wife Jane, 33, born Ludgvan; children: Thomas, 19, tin miner, born Towednack;
William L, 6, scholar, born Towednack; John, 2, born Ludgvan; Pearce L, 4 months, born
Ludgvan. Also children from Jane’s 1st marriage: Hugh Nicholls, son-in-law, 11, tin dresser, born
Ludgvan; Mary J. Nicholls, daughter-in-law, 9, scholar, born Ludgvan.
169
Andrew Nicholls
m.
Wilmot Osborne
24/3/1837 Gwinear
(Andrew [incorrectly recorded as Arthur in West Briton & Cornwall Advertiser of Truro]
of Taskis (117 acre farm in Gwinear parish), & Wilmot of St Hilary)
(Dairyman of Trevessa, St Erth 1840, agricultural labourer of St Erth 1841, dairyman of
St Erth 1842, agricultural labourer of St Erth 1851 & 1861)
c. 10/2/1805
(Parents: Thomas/ Elizabeth – p85) (Parents: Robert/Mary [Angove])
b. March qrt 1870
b. Mar qrt 1893
(Redruth ref. 5C 221, ‘aged 65’)
(Redruth district ref. 5C 187, ‘aged 88’)
Mary N*
Angove
Andrew**
Richard***
(‘Nicholas’)
Born 16/6/1837 Born 10/5/1839
(St Hilary)
(St Erth)
(‘Nicholes’)
Born 15/12/1840
(St Erth)
Born 17/4/1843
(St Erth)
c. 2/10/1842
c. 20/9/1842
c. 20/10/1842
c. 21/5/1843
(St Erth)
(St Erth)
(St Erth)
(St Erth)
b. 1870+
b. 18/6/1843
b. 1901+
b. 1891+
(St Erth)
(‘Aged 4’)
m. 19/1/1870
(Madron)
William
Hall
Sarah****
m. June qrt 1880
(Redruth ref. 5C 326)
Ann
Angove/Angon
Bessy
(‘Nicholes’)
Born circa 1845 Born 27/7/1847
(St Erth)
(St Erth)
(‘Nichols’)
Born 27/12/1849
(St Erth)
c.
c. 18/2/1848
c. 31/12/1851
(St Erth)
(St Erth)
(St Erth)
b. 1881+
b. 31/12/1851
b. 1861+
(St Erth)
m. 9/1/1870
(Truro, St Clement)
William
Bilkey
1841 Census – Trevassowe, St Erth: Andrew Nicholls, 35, agricultural labourer; wife Wilmot, 30;
children: Mary, 4; Angove, 2; Andrew, 5 months; also a servant Caroline Christow, 15.
1851 Census – Trevessa, St Erth: Andrew Nicholls, head, 47, agricultural labourer, born Madron
[?]; wife Wilmot, born St Hilary. Children: Mary N., 13, born St Buryan [?]; Andrew, 10, scholar,
born St Erth; Richard, 7, scholar, born St Erth; Sarah, 5, scholar, born St Erth; Angove, 3, born St
Erth; Bessy, born St Erth.
1861 Census – Trevessa, St Erth: Andrew Nicholls, head, 56, agricultural labourer, born Gulval;
wife Wilmot, 53, born St Hilary; children: Mary, unmarried, 23, school assistant, born Bodmin
[?]; Sarah, 15, dressmaker, born St Erth; Bessy, 11, scholar, born St Erth.
1871 Census – 2 Carbaws, St Hilary: John Verrant, head, 60, farmer of 47 acres, born St Hilary;
wife Mary, 54, born St Hilary; Wilmot Nicholls, visitor, widow, 66, born St Hilary; Elizabeth
Verrant, unmarried, 19, general domestic servant, born St Erth; Richard Edwards, unmarried, 20,
170
indoor farm servant, born Uny Lelant; Thomas H. Skewys, 15, indoor farm servant, born
Perranuthnoe.
1881 Census – Coachman’s Cottage, Holbeton, Devon: Wilmot Nicholls, widow, 73, visitor, with
daughter & son-in-law Sarah & William Bilkey and family.
1891 Census – Ventonleague, Phillack: Wilmot Nicholls, 83, living on her own means, born St
Hilary, & 7 others.
* Marriage details: William Hall, 41, widower, of Penzance; father: William, mason. Mary
Nicholls, 36, of Penzance: father: Andrew, farmer. Marriage witnessed by Charles Hall & Fred A
Cocks.
William Hall baptised 18/6/1837 Madron, son of Thomas & Mary Ann.
** 1881 Census – Ventonleague, Phillack: Andrew Nicholls, head, 39, carpenter, born St Erth;
wife Ann, 34, born Hayle.
1891 Census – Ventonleague, Phillack: Andrew Nicholls, head, 50, carpenter, born St Erth; wife
Ann, 45, born Phillack; children (all born Phillack): Andrew, 7, scholar; Arnold, 5, scholar; Mary,
1. Also Wilmot Nicholls, mother, widow, 83, living on own means, born St Hilary.
1901 Census – Phillack: Andrew Nicholls, 60, carpenter; wife Ann, 50, born Phillack; children:
Andrew, 18, carpenter; Arnold, 16, biscuit maker; William, 14.
*** 1861 Census – St Hilary: Richard Nicholls, 17, servant, born St Erth, agricultural labourer,
with the Roberts family – William Roberts, 49, farmer of 40 acres, employing 2 labourers.
1881 Census – Frighton’s Farm, St Hilary: Richard Nicholls, unmarried, 36, born St Erth, indoor
farm servant with William & Elizabeth Roberts.
1891 Census – Ventonleague, Phillack: Richard Nicholls, lodger, single, 48, living on own means,
born St Erth; with John Paddy and his family (next door to Richard’s brother Andrew).
**** Marriage details: William Wilkey; father: Richard. Sarah Nicholls, of St Paul’s; father:
Andrew.
171
Thomas Nicholls (below) m.1 Sarah Grenfell
8/4/1837 St Just
(Thomas Nicholls itp & Sarah (Sally) Grenfell otp; witnessed by Thomas Nicholas and James
Nicholas.
(Miner of St Just 1841 & 1851, miner 1856)
c. 25/7/1816 St Just
(Parents: Cyprian/Anne – p119)
(Parents: Richard/Catherine [Harry])
b. 12/12/1838 St Just
(‘Of Pendeen, aged 54’)
(‘Sally Nicholls, of Boscaswell, aged 24’)
Elizabeth Jane*
c. 3/9/1837
Sally Grenfell**
c. 12/12/1838
(St Just)
(St Just)
b. 1856+
b. 1851+
m. 16/8/1856
(Pendeen)
Charles Prowse
* Marriage details: Charles Prowse, 22, of Carnyorth, Pendeen; father: Charles, labourer.
Elizabeth Jane Nicholls, 19, of Carngarth; father: Thomas, miner.
** 1851 Census – Boslow, Sancreed: Sally Nicholls, 12, house servant for Hercules Warren, 39,
tin miner, and family.
m.2
Jane Grenfell
11/12/1843 Penzance
(Miner of St Just 1841 & 1851, miner 1856)
c. 31/10/1814 St Just
(Parents: Richard/Catherine [Harry])
Nanny
c. 7/5/1841
Thomas
Born 1842
Mary
c. 17/4/1844
Richard*
c. 23/3/1846
Henry**
c. 2/6/1847
(St Just)
(St Just)
(St Just)
(St Just)
(St Just)
b. 1867+
b. 1861+
b. 11/11/1845 Died 14/10/1886
b. 1871+
(St Just)
(St Just)
(‘Of Carnyorth’)
m. 12/9/1867
(Pendeen)
Richard
Grenfell
m. 23/7/1868
m. 25/12/1869
(Pendeen)
(Pendeen)
Jane
Elizabeth
Stevens (of Boscaswell) Warren
William***
Born 1850
Mary
Born 1852
Nicholas Grenfell
c. 18/5/1856
Elizabeth Jane
c. 20/2/1859
(St Just)
(St Just?)
(Pendeen)
(Pendeen)
b. 1872+
b. 1861+
b. 1871+
b.
m. 21/12/1872
(Pendeen)
Grace Noy
172
NOTE: No satisfactory explanation for first two children born prior to marriage.
1841 Census – Boscaswell Row, Boscaswell, St Just: Thomas Nicholls, 25, tin miner; Jane, 25;
Elizabeth, 3, Nanny, 1 month; Nicholas Grenfell, 15, tin miner (Jane’s brother).
1851 Census – Carnyorth, St Just: Thomas Nicholas (sic), 36, miner; Jane, 36; Elizabeth, 13;
Nanny, 9; Thomas, 8; Richard, 5 [his son Richard born 1870]; Henry, 3; William, 1.
1861 Census – Nobs Place, Canyorth, St Just: Thomas Nicholls, 46; Jane, 46; children Nanny,
Thomas, Richard, Henry, William, Mary, Nicholas Grenfell Nicholls.
* 1871 Census – Boscaswell, St Just: Richard Nicholls, head, 23, tin miner; wife Jane [dau. of
John Stevens & wife Christiana [Michell], 25; son Richard, 11 months.
In 1881 the family was living at Green Lane, St Just.
** 1871 Census – Boscaswell Downs, St Just: Henry Nicholls [c. 2/6/1847], head, 24, tin miner;
wife Elizabeth [dau. of James Warren & wife Mary [Veale]], 29 [married 25/12/1869 Pendeen];
son Henry, 11 months [c. 19/6/1870 Pendeen – father a miner of Bojewyan]. Another son,
William Thomas, was baptised 6/3/1871 Pendeen.
*** 1871 Census – Coastguard Row, St Just: William Nicholls, unmarried, 21, tin miner, &
Nicholas Nicholls, 14, tin miner, both boarders with Richard & Nanny Grenfell.
Marriage details: William Nicholls, miner of Pendeen; father: Thomas, miner. Grace Noy [c.
5/5/1850 Madron, daughter of William & Jane (nee Guy)] of Penzance; father: William, mine
agent at Pendeen.
173
Thomas Nicholls
m.
Grace Nicholls Caddy
9/12/1837 Ludgvan
(Tin miner of Ludgvan 1841 & 1851)
c. Circa 1814
c. 9/7/1815
(Parents: Robert/Jane [Trythal])
b. 1851+
b.? 2/10/1899 Pendeen
(‘Of Trewellard, aged 83’)
Thomas*
William**
Elizabeth
c. 30/12/1838 c. 24/1/1841 c. 10/7/1842
Robert
Henry
c. 19/11/1843 c. 22/2/1846
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
b. 1862+
b. 1881+
b. 1891+
b. 1861+
b. 1871+
m. 26/1/1862 m. 3/3/1866
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
Elizabeth Jane Eliza Jane
Carbis
Barnicoat
Mary
c. 19/3/1848
Ann
Jane
c. 11/11/1849 c. 3/8/1851
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
b. 1871+
b. 1861+
b. 1851+
1841 Census – Castle Town, Ludgvan: Thomas Nicholls, 25, tin miner; wife Grace, 25, & son
William, 5 months. Also William Caddy, 15, tin miner.
1851 Census – Trassowe Downs, Ludgvan: Thomas Nicholls, head, 36, tin miner, born
Towednack; wife Grace, 36, born Gulval; children (all born Ludgvan) – Thomas, 13; William, 11;
Elizabeth, 9, scholar; Robert, 7, scholar; Henry, 5, scholar; Mary, 3; Ann, 1. Also Ruth Williams,
1, nurse child; & Joan (Jane?) Caddy, 76, mother-in-law; born Gulval.
1861 Census – Trassowe Downs, Ludgvan: Grace Nicholls, head, widow, 45, born Gulval;
children (all born Ludgvan): Thomas, 22, tin miner; William, 21, tin miner; Elizabeth, 18; Robert,
17, tin miner; Henry, 15, tin miner; Mary, 13, scholar; Ann, 10, scholar.
1871 Census – Ludgvan: Grace Nicholls, head, widow, 60, born Gulval; son Henry, 25, tin miner,
born Ludgvan; daughter Mary, 21, garden labourer, born Ludgvan.
1881 Census – Castle Gate, Ludgvan: Grace Nicholls, head, 65, widow, born Ludgvan.
1891 Census – Castle Gate, Ludgvan: Grace Nicholls, head, 75, widow, born Gulval; daughter
Elizabeth, 45, charwoman employed, born Ludgvan.
* Long Rock, Ludgvan: Thomas Nicholas, 2, with grandparents Robert & Joanna Caddy.
Two known children of Thomas & Elizabeth Jane Nicholls: Mary Jane c. 16/9/1862 Ludgvan &
Thomas c. 16/2/1864 Ludgvan
1871 Census – Ludgvan: Thomas Nicholas, head, 32, a miner, born Ludgvan; wife Elizabeth J.,
30, born Ludgvan - [no children].
** Known children of William & Eliza Jane Nicholls: Eliza Jane, born 1868 Ludgvan; Jessey,
born 1870 Ludgvan; Elizabeth Annie, c, 22/11/1871 St Ives (father a miner of Ludgvan)
1871 Census – Ludgvan: William Nicholls, head, 30, tin miner, born Ludgvan; wife Eliza Jane,
28, born Gulval; children: Eliza Jane, 2, born Ludgvan; Jessey, 9 months, born Ludgvan.
174
1881 Census – Castle Gate, Ludgvan: William Nicholls, head, 40, tin miner, born Ludgvan; wife
Eliza J., 39, born Gulval; children: Eliza J., 12, scholar, born Ludgvan; Elizabeth A., 8, scholar,
born Ludgvan.
James Nicholls (below)
m.1
Susannah Gribble
10/2/1838
(Mark of James, farmer of Little Chysauster, father: Stephen, farmer (deceased). Mark of
Susannah; of Churchtown, father: Benjamin, gardener. Witnessed by Benjamin Gribble & John
Nicholls)
(Farmer of Little Chysauster & (nearby) Hellangove 1838, agricultural labourer of Garris
1841, labourer of Chysauster 1851, farmer of Chysauster 1861, 1871 & 1881)
c. 12/4/1812
c. 5/5/1811 Gulval
(Parents: Benjamin {of Chyandour}/Elizabeth [Pauley])
b. 17/1/1887
b. 3/8/1841
(‘Of Chysauster aged 74’ 13/1/1887)
(‘Of Chysauster aged 30’ [in childbirth?])
Grace
James
c. 3/6/1838
c. 3/8/1841
b. 21/10/1845 b. 5/9/1841
(‘Died Garris aged 2 months’)
29/11/1835 ‘[Paid] N. Williams & Jas Nicholls for stones before Carnequidden to balance account
- £3/9/9.’
4/12/1835 ‘[Paid] James Nicholls 5 days 7/6 [7 shillings & 6 pence]’
22/1/1836 ‘J. Nicholls 8 days 12/-’
19/2/1836 ‘James Nicholls 5 days 7/6’
18/3/1836 ‘James Nicholls 10 days 15/- for stones for Carnequidden’
19/5/1836 ‘James Nicholls 1 day 1/6’
24/6/1836 ‘James Nicholls 2 days 3/-’
1841 Census – Garris, Gulval: James Nicholls, 25, agricultural labourer; wife Susannah, 25;
children: Edward [illegitimate son of Susannah – see below], 5; Grace, 2.
Tithe Apportionment Award Gulval 1843: James Nicholls, occupier of 15 acres in Kenegie (owner
Thomas Ellis); includes house & town plot - area 1 rood 30 perches.
James Nicholls (above)
m.2
Elizabeth White
24/1/1846 Ludgvan
(Farmer of Little Chysauster & (nearby) Hellangove 1838, agricultural labourer of Garris
1841, labourer of Chysauster 1851, farmer of Chysauster 1861, 1871 & 1881)
c. 12/4/1812
c. 7/11/1813 Madron
(Parents: John/Jane [Lawry])
b. 17/1/1887
b. 26/4/1876
(‘Died 13/1/1887 Chysauster aged 74’)
(‘Died Chysauster aged 60’)
[Gulval Probate mentions his son James, farmer of Chysauster. Goods valued at £167.]
Stephen
c. 12/12/1848
b. 4/11/1866
Maria
c. 6/4/1851
b. 1871+
James*
c. 2/9/1855
b. 1902+
(‘Died Chysauster aged 17’)
175
1851 Census – Chysauster, Gulval: James Nicholls, head, 40, labourer, born Gulval; wife
Elizabeth, 37, born Madron; Steven, 2, born Gulval; and Maria, 3 weeks, born Gulval. Also
present are Edward Nicholls, 18, born Gulval [illegitimate son of Susannah Gribble c. 6/1/1833
Gulval - refer his marriage p216], and niece Jane Nicholls, 14, house servant, born Gulval (p144).
7/9/1857 ‘Paid James Nicholls & Wm Warren for cutting clover 11/- [11 shillings]’
10/9/1857 ‘Paid Jas Nicholls 5 days 10/-.’
1861 Census – Little Chysauster, Gulval: James Nicholls, head, 42, farmer of 46 acres, born
Gulval; wife Elizabeth, 46, born Madron; children (all born Gulval): Stephen, 12; Marian, 10;
James, 5.
1871 Census – Chysauster, Gulval: James Nicholes, head, 58, farmer of 25 acres employing
family only, born Gulval; wife Elizabeth, 56, born Madron; Maria, unmarried daughter, 20, born
Gulval; James, son, 16, born Gulval.
Draft Lease - Little Chysauster 2/7/1878 (CRO ref AD/154/41).
1881 Census – Chysauster, Gulval: James Nicholls, head, 69, farmer of 30 acres, born Gulval; son
James, unmarried, 23, born Gulval.
Kelly’s Directories 1883: James Nicholls, farmer, Lower Chysauster.
1887 Gulval Probate mentions son James, farmer of Chysauster.
* Draft Lease – Little Chysauster 29/9/1891 (CRO ref AD154/42).
1901 Census – Gulval: James Nicholls, 42, farmer, born Gulval.
Kelly’s Directories 1902: James Nicholls [jnr], farmer, Lower Chysauster.
176
John Nicholls (below)
m.1
Mary Ann Quick
3/11/1838
(John Nicholls of Carnequidden, father: William, miner (deceased). Mary Ann of Carnequidden,
father: James Thomas Quick, husbandman. Mark of John & mark of Mary Ann; witnessed by
brother-in-law John Harvey (p111) & Ann Thomas.
(Husbandman of Carnequidden 1838 & 1846 & 1848, labourer of Higher Carne 1850,
farm labourer of Chysauster 1851, miner of Higher Garris 1852, tin mine labourer of
Sancreed 1861 & St Just 1871)
c. 30/8/1815
c. 15/3/1818 Sennen
(Parents: William/Mary – p111)
(Parents: James Thomas Quick (husbandman) / Mary [Cock])
Died Sept 1873 Penzance
b. 7/2/1866 Pendeen (‘aged 48’)
Mary Ann Phillips** Elizabeth Cock
Jane****
Elizabeth Eve
(‘Nicholas’)
c. 14/8/1840
c. 5/6/1842
c. 25/2/1844
c. 24/5/1846
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Gulval)
b. 1881+
b. 19/11/1844
b. 1891+
b. 1861+
(‘Nicholas’, aged 2, of Bosulval)
m. 3/10/1863
(Pendeen)
William Thomas
Boase
Ellen Sophia***
c. 27/8/1848
John James
c. 3/11/1850
James
c. 8/2/1852
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
Died 8/12/1926
b. 1871+
(Gulval)
(Tegerras, Sancreed)
b. Prior to 1866 Died 7/5/1905
Nevadaville, Gilbin County,
Colorado U.S.A
Moonta, South Australia)
m. 4/11/1875
(Pendeen)
William Andrew*
Born 14/5/1854
William Charles
Trebilcock
m. 27/7/1878
(River Phillip, Cumberland
County, Nova Scotia)
Elizabeth Ann
Guy
(Bpt. 12/12/1854 St Just:
(Died 4/9/1919 Moonta, SA)
(Born 28/10/1860, Sancreed;
Died 2/2/1927 Denver, N.V.)
Anna Maria
c. 7/9/1856
Francis
Ann
c. 24/4/1859 c. 30/3/1862
James Thomas Quick
c. 22/1/1866
(Sancreed)
(Sancreed)
(Pendeen)
(Pendeen)
b.
b. 1871+
b. 31/3/1863
b. 7/2/1866 (‘3 months’)
(Pendeen)
(’Aged 13 months’)
(Pendeen)
1841 Census – Trewren, Madron: John Nicholas, 25, labourer; wife Mary Ann, 20; daughter Mary
Ann, 10 months; Mary Quick, mother-in-law, widow, 40; James Thomas Quick, 15, miner;
Elizabeth Quick, 10.
177
19/4/1848 ‘Gave J. Nicholls at Higher Carnequidden £1/1/-.’
22/3/1849 ‘Paid J. Nicholls of Higher Carnequidden £1/-/-.’
3/1/1851 ‘Gave J. Nicholls of Higher Carnequidden for watching for poachers £1/-/-.’
Tithe Apportionment Award Gulval 1843: John Nicholls (above?), occupier of house & garden of
15 perches at Trythogga (owner Rev. William Veale).
1851 Census – Chysauster, Gulval: John Nicholls, 35, farm labourer, born Gulval; wife Mary A.,
33, born Sennen; children: Mary A., 10, born Madron; and Ellen, 3, born Gulval; & John, 3
months, born Gulval [other children – see below].
1861 Census – Lower Tregest, Sancreed: John Nicholas [sic], 45, tin mine labourer, born Gulval;
wife Mary A., 42, born Sennen. Children: Mary, 20, employed at home, born Madron; Elizabeth,
14, tin dresser, born Gulval; Ellen, 12, scholar, born Gulval; John J., 10, scholar, born Gulval;
Andrew, 6, scholar, born Sancreed; Francis, 2, born Sancreed. Also Mary Harvey, sister [of John],
54, widow.
* William Andrew Nicholls, miner & labourer, buried 9/5/1905 Bald Mountain Cemetery, Gilpin
Co., Colorado, USA. Wife Elizabeth Ann, dressmaker, buried 5/2/1927 Crown Hill Cemetery,
Jefferson Co., Colorado, USA.
William Andrew Nicholls naturalized 10/5/1890 Gilpin Co., Colorado.
** Marriage details: William Thomas Boase, 27, a miner of Sancreed. Mary, 23, of Pendeen,
father: John Nicholls, a miner. William Thomas Boase baptised 9/3/1836 St Buryan.
1871 Census – Sancreed
1881 Census – 51 St Clare Street, Madron: William Boase, head, 43, agricultural labourer, born St
Buryan; wife Mary Ann, 39, born Madron; daughter Annie, 15, scholar, born St Just.
*** Emigrated 1/4/1876 on “Golden Sea” – assisted immigrants to South Australia.
**** 1851 Census – St Clare Street, Penzance: Jane Nicholls, niece, 7, scholar, born Madron; with
Mary A. Quick [Jane’s aunt], head, 58, unmarried, annuitant, born Zennor, & niece Elizabeth E.
Quick, 20
1871 Census – Penzance: Jane Nicholls, 27, shop assistant, born Gulval; with her aunt Mary A. E.
Quick, head, widow, 79, annuitant, born Zennor.
1891 Census – St Clare Street, Penzance: Elizabeth A. Quick, head, widow, 59, lodging house
keeper, born Sennen; Jane Nicholls, niece, 46, single, dressmaker, born Madron.
178
John Nicholls (above) m.2 Jane Cary Blewett
Dec qrt 1869 Penzance
(Penzance district marriage ref. 5C 473)
(Husbandman of Carnequidden 1838 & 1846 & 1848, labourer of Higher Carne 1850,
farm labourer of Chysauster 1851, miner of Higher Garris 1852, tin mine labourer of
Sancreed 1861 & St Just 1871)
c. 30/8/1815
c. circa 1821 St Just
b.? 5/4/1885 Tuckingmill
(Parents?)
(‘Of Brea, aged 64’)
No issue to this marriage
1871 Census – Calartha Terrace, St Just in Pendeen: John Nicholls, head, 54, labourer in tin mine,
born Gulval; [2nd] wife Jane), 50, born St Just; children: Ellen S., 21, unmarried, born Gulval; John
J., 20, unmarried, born Gulval; William, 15, born Sancreed; Francis, 11, born Sancreed.
179
John Nicholls
m.
Hannah Thomas
26/9/1840 Zennor
(John Nicholls, bachelor, of Kerrow; father Richard Nicholls, farmer. Hannah or Anna Thomas,
spinster of Treen; father Hannibal, farmer. Marriage by Banns was witnessed by Hannibal
Thomas & Richard Nicholls; Anna signed as Hannah)
(Farmer of Zennor 1841 & 1851, farmer of Pendeen 1861, farmer of Boscreege, Gulval
1871, farmer of Trythall, Gulval 1881 & 1884, retired farmer Madron 1891)
c. 13/6/1819 Zennor
c. 17/10/1819 St Levan (‘Anna’)
(Parents: Richard/Elizabeth – p102) (Parents: Hannibal (p163)/Jane [Quick])
b.? 26/1/1898 Paul
b. Dec qrt 1900 (‘Aged 81’)
John
Born 1840
Hannah Jane
c. circa 1847
Elizabeth Ann**
born circa 1849
Grace
c. 21/8/1853
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
(Perranuthnoe)
b. 1880+
b. 1871+
b. 19/7/1850 b. 14/6/1870
(‘Of Kerrow, 9’) (‘Of Boscreage’)
m. 24/5/1880
(Gulval)
John
Leggo
Richard
William*
Catherine
c. 26/5/1855
c. 6/4/1856
c. 4/10/1857
Henry Eddy
Born 27/11/1858
c. 30/10/1859
(Perranuthnoe)
(Perranuthnoe)
(Perranuthnoe)
(Perranuthnoe)
b. 1871+
Died 31/7/1906
b. 1861+
Died 1915
(Buried Perranuthnoe)
New Zealand
m. circa 1880
(?)
Jennie
Elfreda
c. 29/7/1860
John***
c. 2/2/1864 Madron
(Perranuthnoe)
(Born Perranuthnoe)
b.
b. 1884+
[Note: Four sons other than William went to New Zealand]
1841 Census – Chykembro, Zennor: John Nicholls, 20, farmer; wife Hannah, 20, and son John, 5
months; also Josiah Dally, 25, tin miner.
1851 Census – Lower Kernow, Zennor: John Nicholls, head, 32, farmer of 25 acres, born Zennor;
wife Hannah, 32, born St Levan; Hannah, daughter, 4, born Zennor; Elizabeth, daughter, 2, born
Zennor; and two servants.
1855 Post Office Directory, Cornwall: John Nicholls, farmer of Trebarvah, Perranuthnoe.
1861 Census – Trebarvah, Pendeen: John Nicholls, head, 41, farmer of 50 acres, born Zennor;
wife Hannah, 42, born St Levan. Children: Hannah J., 14, born Zennor; Elizabeth A., 12, scholar,
born Zennor; Grace, 7, scholar, born Pendeen; Richard, 6, scholar, born Pendeen; William, 5,
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scholar, born Pendeen; Cathrine, 3, born Pendeen; Henry, 2, born Pendeen. Also includes William
Stone, servant, 12, farm work, born Breage.
1871 Census – Boscreege, Gulval: John Nicholls, head, 51, dairyman, born Zennor; wife Hanna,
52, born St Levan; Elizabeth Ann, 21, unmarried dau., born Zennor; Grace, 17, unmarried dau.,
born Perranuthnoe; Richard, 16, son, born Perranuthnoe; Henry E., 12, son, scholar, born
Perranuthnoe; John, 7, son, born Perranuthnoe. Also a visitor Frances Thomas, 11, born Perran,
1881 Census – Trythall, Gulval: John Nicholls, head, 61, farming 9 acres, born Zennor; wife
Hanna, 62, born St Levan; son John, 17, servant, born Perranuthnoe.
1884 Madron Methodist Trustees: John Nicholls, farmer of Trythall Vean (also an 1843 Trustee),
and John Nicholls junior.
1891 Census – Churchtown, Madron: John Nicholls, head, 71, retired farmer, born Zennor; wife
Hannah, 72, born St Levan.
* 1871 Census – Penzance: William Nicholas, 15, born Perran, lodger with Elizabeth Wallis, head,
51, unmarried.
Perranuthnoe Memorial inscription: ‘In Loving Memory of William Nicholls who died July 31st
1906 aged 51 years. Peace, Perfect Peace. Also his widow Jennie aged 76. Also of Beatrice
Mary Nicholls their daughter died 11th February 1953’.
** Marriage details: John Leggo, 31, builder of Trythall; father: John, farmer. Elizabeth Ann
Nicholls, 31, of Trythall Vean; father: John, farmer. Marriage witnessed by John Nicholls &
Catherine Hoskin.
*** Carfury School Registers:
24/4/1871 - John, 7 years 4 months, started school, resident of Boscreege, father a farmer.
March 1872 – Left school aged 8 years 3 months - gone to Boys’ School.
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Francis Nicholls
m.
Elizabeth Rodda
6/12/1840 Madron
(Francis Nicholls, 22, mariner of Penzance; father: James, a carrier. Elizabeth Rodda, 23, of
Penzance; father: John, butcher. Marriage witnessed by Richard Rodda & Elizabeth Rodda)
Born circa 1818 Penzance
Born circa 1820 Paul
(Father: James)
(Parents: John/Elizabeth)
b. 1861+
b. 1871+
No association with Nicholls family of Gulval
Francis*
Born abt 1841
Mary J
Elizabeth
Ellen
born abt 1844 born abt 1848 born abt 1851
(Penzance)
(Penzance)
(Penzance)
(Penzance)
b. 1923
b. 1851+
b. 1861+
b. 1871+
m. 10/10/1863
(Madron)
Eliza Kingston
Stevens
Georgina
Born abt 1853
James
William Henry
born abt 1856 born abt 1860
(Penzance)
(Penzance)
(Penzance)
b. 1871+
b. 1861+
b. 1871+
1841 Census – Battery Street, Penzance: Francis Nichollas, 20, mariner; wife Elizabeth, 20;
and Catherine Rodda, 15.
1851 Census – Cross Street, Penzance: Francis Nicholls, head, 32, shoemaker journeyman, born
Penzance, wife Elizabeth, 32, born Paul; children (all born Penzance): Francis, 9, butcher’s errand
boy; Mary J., 6, scholar; Elizabeth, 2.
1861 Census – Camberwell Street, Penzance: Francis Nicholls, head, 42, cordwainer, born
Penzance; wife Elizabeth, 42, born Paul; children (all born Penzance): Elizabeth, 13, scholar;
Ellen, 10, scholar; Georgiana, 8, scholar; James, 4; W.H. [William Henry], 1.
1871 Census – Adelaide Street, Penzance: Elizabeth Nicholls, head, widow, 50, shopkeeper, born
Penzance; daughter Ellen, married, 19, dressmaker, born Penzance; daughter Georgina, 17, at
home, born Penzance; son William Henry, 10, scholar, born Penzance; mother Elizabeth Rodda,
78, butcher’s widow, born Penzance.
* Marriage details: Francis Nicholls, 22, of Penzance; father: Francis, mariner. Eliza Stevens, 22,
of Penzance; father: George Kingston Stevens, farmer. Marriage witnessed by Thomas Smith.
Children of Francis & Eliza (all born Penzance): Francis, born circa 1866; Jessie, born circa 1869;
George, born circa 1871; William, born circa 1875; Charles, born circa 1876 (died 1919); Arthur,
born circa 1879.
1871 Census – Penzance: Francis Nicholls, head, 29, mariner; wife Eliza, 27; son Francis, 4,
scholar; daughter Jessie, 1.
1881 Census – Boase’s Row, Penzance: Francis Nicholls, head, 38, mariner; wife Eliza, 37;
children: Francis, 14, mason; Jessie, 11, scholar; George, 9, scholar; William, 5, scholar; Charles,
4; Arthur, 1.
1891 Census – Boase’s Row, Penzance: Eliza Nicholls, head, married, 48, born Penzance;
children (all born Penzance): Jessie, 21, dressmaker; George, 19, printer; William, 16,
stonemason; Charles, 14; Arthur, 11; John, 9, scholar; Frederick, 8, scholar; Lillian, 4.
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1901 Census – Penzance: Francis Nicholls, 59, tailor trading, born Penzance; wife Eliza, 55, born
Penzance; children: Esmie [Jessie], 30; George, 29, compositor printers; Arthur, 22, stone cutter;
John, 21, painter; Fred, 18, mason; Lillian, 15, shop assistant.
Francis died aged 80 in 1923 and his wife Eliza died aged 81 in 1924. Charles, a stone mason, &
one of his brothers (most likely William) went to Ireland in 1899 to build the Fastnet Lighthouse
using Cornish granite. In Ireland they married two sisters, Elizabeth & Sarah Burchill,
respectively, from Crookhaven, County Cork. After the lighthouse was completed both brothers
went to live in the Rhonda Valley in Southern Wales.
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m.1
Elizabeth Sims
17/1/1841
(Andrew, 28, of Barley Grove, father: John, labourer. Elizabeth, 28, of Old Vicarage, Gulval,
father: William, servant. With signatures of Andrew & Elizabeth; witnessed by William Sims &
Selina Nicholls [p88])
(Blacksmith of Gulval Cross & Trevarrack 1842, blacksmith of Trevarrack 1846, 1847,
blacksmith of Churchtown 1849, blacksmith of Gulval Cross 1851, 1861 & 1864, retired
blacksmith of Gulval 1881)
c. 10/3/1813
Born 13/4/1813 (On gravestone Gulval cemetery)
(Father: William (servant)/Elizabeth [Pauley])
b. 30/7/1890
b. 11/6/1872
(‘Died 28/7/1890 Gulval Cross aged 77’)
(‘Died 7/6/1872 Chyandour aged 59’)
[Gulval Memorial inscription: ‘Sacred to the Memory of Elizabeth the beloved wife of Andrew
Nicholls born April 13th 1813 died June 7th 1872’]
Elizabeth Sims
William Sims
c. 2/2/1842 (born Jan.) c. 29/6/1842
John
c. 12/7/1846
Alfred
c. 25/3/1849
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 29/9/1842
b. 1914+
b. 15/2/1848 b. 1871+
(‘Aged 8 months’)
(‘Aged 17m’)
(With brother – p241)
(‘Old Vicarage’)
m. 31/12/1864
(Penzance)
Sarah Ann
Vingoe (p241)
Fanny
c. 13/7/1851
Fanny
Born 1853
(Gulval)
(Gulval?)
b. 21/3/1852
b. 22/5/1854
(‘Of Gulval Cross
- Aged 9 months’)
(‘Of Gulval Cross
- aged 9 months’)
1841 Census – Trevarrack, Gulval: Elizabeth Sims, 50, independent; daughter Elizabeth Nicholls,
25 (husband John Nicholls with his parents – p88).
1851 Census – Cross, Gulval: Andrew Nicholls, head, 37, blacksmith employing two apprentices,
born Gulval; wife Elizabeth, 37, born Gulval; children: William, 7, scholar, born Gulval; Alfred,
2, at home, born Gulval.
1861 Census – Cross, Gulval: Andrew Nicholls, head, 48, blacksmith, born Gulval; Elizabeth,
wife, 48, born Gulval; children: William Sims Nicholls, 18; and Alfred, 12.
1871 Census – Cross, Gulval: Andrew Nicholls, 57, born Madron; Elizabeth, 57, born Gulval.
Also Louisa Cotton, servant, unmarried, 35, housekeeper, born Paul.
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m.2
Elizabeth Ann Bottrell March qrt 1873
(Blacksmith of Gulval Cross & Trevarrack 1842, blacksmith of Trevarrack 1847,
blacksmith of Churchtown 1849, blacksmith of Gulval Cross 1851 & 1861, retired
blacksmith of Gulval 1881)
c. 10/3/1813
(Parents: Batholomew/Cordelia [Polglase]))
b. 30/7/1890
b. 12/10/1893
(‘Died 28/7/1890 Gulval Cross aged 77’)
(‘Of No 3 Leskinnack Place Penzance, aged 57’)
[Gulval Probate of Andrew Nicholls mentions his son William Sims Nicholls, grocer of Penzance.
Goods valued at £130/11/10d.]
Annie Dawson Bottrell*
Born 3/12/1872
(Gulval)
b. 26/11/1886
1841 Census – Rosvean Road, Penzance: Bart (jnr) Bottrel, 26, carrier; wife Ann, 31; children:
Elizabeth Ann, 5; William, 2; John, 1.
1851 Census – Rosvean Road, Penzance: Bartholomew Bottrell, head, 37, carrier & small grocer,
born Penzance; wife Cordelia, 45, born St Agnes; daughter Elizabeth A., 14, errand girl, born
Penzance; & 4 other children (all born Penzance); & wife’s sister Mary Polgrase, unmarried, 48,
house servant, born St Agnes.
1881 Census – Cross, Gulval: Andrew Nicholls, head, 67, blacksmith (retired), born Gulval; wife
Elizabeth A., 45, born Penzance; daughter Annie, 8, scholar, born Penzance.
1891 Census – Cross, Gulval: Elizabeth A Nicholls, head, widow, 54, living on own means, born
Madron.
* Carfury School Registers:
4/11/1878 – Annie, born 3/12/1872, started school, resident of Higher Ninnis [?], father a farmer
[?].
19/2/1886 – Left for work.
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Richard Nicholls
m.
Mary Ann Blight Stone
5/2/1842
(Richard, 25, smith of Crankan, father: Henry, miner. Mary Ann, 20, of New Mill in Gulval,
father: William, blacksmith. Signature of Richard & mark of Mary Ann; witnessed by W. M.
Condey & Milli Stoane [Stone].
(Smith of Crankan 1841, blacksmith of New Mill 1843 & 1845-6, stonemason of Gulval
1848, smith of New Mill 1849 & 1850, labourer of New Mill 1851, miner of Crankan
1853, smith of Zennor 1855 & 1861, labourer of Boscreege 1862, blacksmith of New
Mill 1869, stonecutter of New Mill 1877, blacksmith of Penzance 1881)
c. 16/2/1817
c. 10/6/1821
(Parents: William/Ann [Climo?])
(‘Of Union Work House, aged 78’) (‘Of Adelaide Street; aged 67’)
b. 21/2/1896 Madron
William
c. 7/1/1843
Richard*
c. 4/4/1845
John George**Ann Stone
c. 28/6/1846 c. 28/5/1848
Cyprian
c. 27/5/1849
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 1851+
b. 1861+
b. 12/1/1914 Died 23/1/1938 b. 1867+
(Penzance)
(‘Aged 70’)
(Scotland)
m. 24/2/1867
(St Gluvias)
Selina
Lampshire
Thomas***
Mary Ann
Born 5/11/1850 Born 1853
James*****
Born 1854
Alfred
Born 1857
Catherine
Born 1859
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Towednack)
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
c. 9/5/1853
c. 20/5/1853 c. 6/10/1862
c. 6/10/1862
c. 6/10/1862
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 1901+
b. 1871+
b. 29/7/1874 b. 1871+
b. 1881+
(‘Died New Mill
- Aged 20’)
m. 23/7/1870
(Paul)
Mary Jane
Ladner
Grace Frances
Born 1861
Minny/Minnie Rosella****
Born Aug 1867
(Gulval)
(Madron)
c. 6/10/1862
c. 9/6/1869
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 19/6/1881
Penzance St Mary
b. 1881+
(‘Of Stanford Terrace, aged 19’)
m.? 1884
(June qrt Truro 5C 251)
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1841 Census – Crankan, Gulval: Richard Nicholls, 20, smith; with William Stone, 50, smith; wife
Ann, 50; & children Ann Stone, 20, & John Stone, 9. Also George Blight, 80, carpenter, wife
Ann, 80, & Sarah Ann Chaple, 2.
23/4/1845 ‘Paid Rd Nicholls for stones raised £2/-/6.’
16/2/1849 ‘Paid Richard Nicholls for raising stones for ridge 8 days 12/- [12 shillings].’
23/2/1849 ‘Paid Richard Nicholls 6 days raising stones 9/-.’
22/6/1849 ‘Paid Rd Nicholls 3 days cleaving stones 4/6’
5/7/1849 ‘Rd Nicholls 4 days 6/-.’
1851 Census – New Mill, Madron: Richard Nicholls, head, labourer, 34, born Towednack; wife
Mary Ann, 29, born Gulval; children (all born Gulval): William, 7; Richard, 6; John George, 5;
Ann Stone, 3; Cyprian, 2; Thomas, 6 months.
1861 Census – Mill Downs, Zennor: Richard Nicholls, head, 45, blacksmith, born Towednack;
wife Mary Ann, 39, born Gulval. Children: William, 17, tin miner, born Gulval; Cyhprin [sic], 13,
tin miner, born Gulval; Anne S., 12, born Gulval; Mary A., 8, born Gulval; James, 7, born
Towednack; Alfred, 5, born Zennor; Catherine, 1, born Zennor.
1871 Census – New Mill, Gulval: Richard Nicholls, head, 56, born Towednack; wife Mary Anne,
51, born Gulval; children: Alfred, 14, labourer; Catherine, 12, school; Grace Frances, 10, school;
Missy R. [Minny/Minnie Rosella], 4, school.
1881 Census – Stanford Place, Alverton, Penzance: Richard Nicholls, 64, blacksmith, born
Madron; wife Mary Ann, 60, born Gulval; children: Catherine, 22, unmarried, domestic duties,
born Gulval; Grace F. 20, unmarried, born Gulval; Minnie, 14, born Madron; also James F.
Nicholls, grandson [?], 7 months [1901 Census – Gulval: James Nicholls, 20].
1891 Census – 45 Adelaide Street, Penzance: Richard Nicholls, head, 75, labourer, born Madron;
with Joseph Stone, greengrocer, & family.
* 1861 Census – Trye, Gulval: Richard Nicholls (jnr), 16, carter, born Gulval – servant with the
Thomas & Mary S. Care.
1871 Census – Gulval: Richard Nicholls, head, 26, born Gulval; wife Mary Ann, 26, born Gulval,
son William John, 3, born Gulval [c. 23/11/1870 Gulval; father a miner of Trezelah]; daughter
Mary Ann, 2 months, born Gulval [c. 1/10/1873 Gulval].
Richard Nicholls, retired shale miner, widower, died 23/1/1938 of senile decay at 52 Niddry,
Winchburgh, district of Kirkliston, county of West Lothian, Scotland. Informant: Isaac Nicholls,
son, of Bankhead, Niddry, Winchburgh.
Alfred, son of Richard, married 14/6/1901 in Broxburn, parish of Uphall, Scotland, to Elizabeth
Sinclair Friggins. Alfred, 20, was a miner residing at Niddry.
** Marriage details: John George Nicholls, of Penryn & Selina Lampshire, under age, of Penryn.
*** On birth certificate mother put ‘X’ her mark.
1870 – At time of marriage Thomas was a quarry man in Sheffield, Paul, Cornwall. Wife Mary
Jane Ladner was also a resident of Sheffield, her father Joseph Ladner a quarry man.
1871 Census – Sheffield Terrace, Paul: Thomas Nicholls, head, 20, stone cleaver, born Gulval;
wife Mary J., 19, born Paul.
Family later moved to Scotland where they were living at the time of the 1881 Census with their
two children, Mary & Joseph. Thomas went to the USA in 1882 and Mary Jane followed in 1883.
Obituary in unknown newspaper circa 1910: “Cornish Woman’s Death at a Railway Station.
News from Pittsburgh USA states that the death occurred suddenly from heart disease at the
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railway station Pittsburgh, at midnight, of Mrs. Mary Jane Nicholls, wife of Mr. Thomas Nicholls,
and daughter of the late Mr. Joseph Ladner, of Sheffield, Paul, Cornwall. Mrs. Nicholls, who was
59 years of age, leaves husband, five daughters, and three sons. The funeral service was held at
deceased’s residence, 117 McGinnis Avenue, Pitcairn, Pa. Among the large number who attended
from the Old Country were Mrs. Julia Wolstenhome (sister), Mr. John Ladner, the Quay, Penzance
(nephew), Mr. & Mrs. R. Mitchel, Glasgow (nephew & niece), Mr. & Mrs. Jewell (Helston), Mr.
Lawry (St Ives), Mr. John Nicholls, (Newlyn), etc. The internment took place in the Grand View
cemetery, East McKeesport.
**** Carfury School Registers:
1877 – Minnie Ros., born August 1867, started school, resident of New Mill, father a stone cutter.
***** James Nicholls, originally baptised 15/11/1855 at Ladydowns, Zennor chapel by Penzance
Bible Christian Circuit – father Richard of Zennor, smith.
1871 Census – Pendeen: James Nicholls, born Gulval, 16, indoor farm servant with William &
Elizabeth Ann Gilbart & family.
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William Henry Nicholls
m. Mary Wearne Nankervis 30/3/1843 St Just
(William Henry Nicholls, 24, of St Just; Mary, 24, of St Just; father: Charles. Marriage witnessed
by John Tregear & James Hall [mark])
(Tin miner of St Just 1841)
c. 1/10/1817 St Just
(Parents: Charles/Ann [Wearn])
Died 17/7/1871
Died 17/5/1885
(Buried 20/7/1871 ‘Aged 51’
Ballarat, Victoria, Aust)
(Buried 19/5/1885 ‘Aged 68’
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia)
William
Born 1840’s
William
Born 1840’s
Richard
Born 1840’s
William Henry
c. 15/6/1845
(St Just)
b. 1840’s
b. 1840’s
b. 1840’s
b. 1849+
(Died in infancy) (Died in infancy) (Died in infancy)
Ann
Born 1848
Mary
Born 1855
Mary
Born 1857
Charles Thomas
Born 3/9/1860
(St Just)
(Ballarat)
(Ballarat)
(Ballarat)
b.
b. circa 1856 b.
m. 20/2/1869
(Ballarat, Vic.)
William
Jennings
b.
m. 1881
(Victoria, Aust)
Sarah Jane
Kift
1841 Census – Bojewan, St Just: William Henry Nicholas, 20, tin miner; with John & Jane
Nankervis.
William Henry Nicholls sailed to South Australia on “William Money” 3/1/1849 from Plymouth,
with wife, son William Henry & daughter Ann.
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Cyprian Nicholls
m.
Mary Eddy
22/1/1844 Sancreed
(Cyprian, 30, bachelor, farmer of Boslow, Sancreed; father: farmer. Mary Eddy, 20, of Boslow,
father: a labourer. Witnessed by John Toman & Richard Eddy)
(Farmer of Sancreed 1844, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, farmer of Morvah 1891)
c. 28/2/1813
Born 1824 St Just
(Father: Richard/Elizabeth [Thomas])
Died 11/4/1893 Newlyn
b. 1891+
(‘Aged 80’)
Beatrice
c. 1840’s
Mary Jane
c. 16/2/1845
Richard Cyprian*
c. 2/5/1846
Mary Jane
c. 9/1/1848
(Sancreed)
(Sancreed)
(Sancreed)
(Sancreed)
Died circa 1850
b. 9/12/1845 Died 1920
b. 6/3/1848
Sancreed
(‘Aged 1’)
Sancreed
(‘Infant’)
Sancreed
m. 15/7/1871
(St Levan)
Mary Ann
Jeffery
Mary Anne
c. 28/1/1849
Elizabeth Eddy
c. 4/6/1852
Elizabeth Eddy
c. 7/8/1853
Louisa Jane
c. 18/1/1858
(Sancreed)
(Sancreed)
(Sancreed)
(Sancreed)
b. 1871+
Died 15/9/1852
b.
b. 1891+
Sancreed
(‘Aged 1’)
m. Mar qrt. 1878
Philip
Williams
William Richard Thomas**
c. 29/10/1862
(Sancreed)
Died 1932
m. Jun qrt. 1895
(Scilly district ref. 5C 437)
Annie
Administration of the estate of Enoch Warren, yeoman of Sancreed, was granted 14/5/1845 to his
grandson and next of kin Cyprian Nicholls (above). Sureties were John Uren the elder of Gulval,
yeoman, and Henry Grenfell of Sancreed, yeoman. Effects were valued at under £50.
1851 Census – Buslow, Sancreed: Cyprian Nicholls, head, 38, farmer of 30 acres, born Sancreed;
wife Mary, 27, born St Just; children: Cyprian, 5, scholar, born Sancreed; Mary A., 2, born
Sancreed.
1861 Census – Recevens, Sancreed: Cyprian Nicholas, head, 48, farmer of 24 acres, born Gulval;
wife Mary, 38, born St Just; children (all born Sancreed): Sypprian [Cyprian], 15; Mary, 12,
scholar; Elizabeth, 8, scholar; Louisa, 3.
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1871 Census – Lower Recevan, Sancreed: Effrian [Cyprian] Nicholls, head, 58, farmer of 12
acres, born Gulval; wife Mary, 48, born St Just; daughter Mary A., unmarried, 22, employed at
home, born Sancreed; son William R., 8, scholar, born Sancreed.
1871 Census – Buslow, Sancreed: Ephraim [Cyprian] Nicholls junior, 25, unmarried, farmer of 14
acres, born Sancreed; Elizabeth Nicholls, 18, employed at home, born Sancreed; Louisa 13,
employed at home, born Sancreed.
1881 Census – Farm House, Sancreed: Cyprian Nicholls, head, 68, farmer of 44 acres, born
Gulval; wife Mary, 58, born St Just; daughter Louisa J., unmarried, 23, farmer’s daughter, born
Sancreed; son William R. T., 18, farmer’s son, born Sancreed.
1891 Census – Boslow, Morvah: Cyprian Nicholls, head, 78, farmer, born Gulval; wife Mary, 68,
born St Just; son William R., unmarried, 28, farmer & Bible Christian Preacher, born Sancreed;
Louisa J., 33, unmarried, born Sancreed; grandson John Williams, 12, employed on farm, born
Sancreed
* Commonly known as Cyprian.
Marriage details: Cyprian Nicholls, farmer of Sancreed, bachelor, 24, married Mary Ann Jeffery,
c. 24/3/1850 St Levan, daughter of William Jeffery & Elizabeth [Tregurtha], spinster, 21. Married
15/7/1871 St Levan by Banns read 4th, 11th & 18th June at Sancreed. Cyprian Nicholls senior was
a farmer and William Jeffery a dairyman.
1881 Census – Bosistow Cottage, St Levan: Cyprian Nicholls, head, 34, farm labourer, born
Sancreed; wife Mary Ann, 31, born St Levan; son William Arthur, 7, scholar, born St Levan;
daughter Jane, 3, born St Levan. Also includes Elizabeth Jeffery, mother-in-law, 68, annuitant,
born St Levan; Margaret Murley, boarder, unmarried, 78, annuitant, born Sennen.
1891 Census – Recevin, Morvah: Cyprian Nicholls, head, 45, farmer, born Sancreed; wife Mary
Ann, 41, born St Levan. Children: William A., 17, apprentice carpenter, born St Levan; Jane, 13,
scholar, born St Levan; Richard H.,*** 6, scholar, born St Levan; Mary Louisa, 5, born Sancreed;
Elizabeth A., 2, born Sancreed.
1901 Census – Sancreed: Cyprian Nicholls, 55, farmer, born Sancreed; wife Mary, 51, born St
Levan; children: Janie, 23, born St Levan; Louisa, 15, born Sancreed; Ann, 12, born Sancreed;
Dora, 9, born Sancreed.
Cyprian died 1920 aged 74 at Sancreed & wife Mary died 1934 aged 84 at St Levan.
** 1901 Census – Paul: William Nicholls, 38, farmer, born Sancreed; wife Annie, 36, born
Gulval; children (all born Paul): William, 8, scholar; Richard, 6, scholar; Sydney, 4; Joseph, 1.
Also Louisa [William’s sister], 42, born Sancreed.
*** Richard Henry married Edith Hattam 5/12/1915 Madron. Edith was the born 1890, the
daughter of Henry Hattam & wife Mary Jane Roberts.
Children:
Olive Edith born 1916 married Samuel Came
Kathleen born 9/7/1917 St Just married James Ellis
Richard Henry born 1918 Sancreed married May Ellis
May Florence born 1919 Sancreed married Gordon Roberts
Mary born 1920 Sancreed married William Stevens
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William Nicholls
m.
Elizabeth Warren
15/4/1844 Ludgvan
(Tin miner of Ludgvan 1851, tin miner of Towednack 1861, miner 1868)
c. 8/8/1819 Gulval
c. 3/5/1824 Madron
(Parents: Thomas/Mary [Nicholls] – m. Gulval 1823 [p90])
b. 1863+
b. 1863+
Elizabeth Mary*
Josephua**
Born 1844
Born circa 1845 Born 1848
Prudence Jane
William Henry
Born 1850
c. 4/8/1844
c. 21/10/1850 c. 21/10/1850
c. 26/8/1857
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
b. 1868+
b. 1/9/1908
b. 1861+
b. 1850’s
(Penzance)
(‘Aged 61’)
m. 5/1/1868
(Madron)
James
Burt
Thomas Warren
Nicholas
Catherine
Hugh***
Born 1852
Born 1855
c. 17/1/1857
c. 26/8/1857
c. 26/8/1857
c. 26/8/1857
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
b.
b. 6/9/1857
b.
b. 1881+
(Ludgvan)
(‘Of Pothiggey, aged 3m’)
Martha Maria
Nicholas
Born 1860
c. 3/4/1863
c. 3/4/1863
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
b. 1871+
b.
1851 Census – Pool Hedgy, Ludgvan: William Nicholls, head, 31, tin miner, born Gulval; wife
Elizabeth, 26, born Madron. Also children (all born Ludgvan): Elizabeth, 7; Josephua
[Josephia/Josepha], 6; Prudence Jane, 4; William Henry, 1 (born 1850). Household also included:
Sarah Warren, sister-in-law, unmarried, 19, born Towednack; Thomas H. Warren, brother-in-law,
17, born Towednack; Nicholas Warren, brother-in-law, 13, tin miner; Martha Warren, sister-inlaw, 12.
1861 Census – Woon Smith, Towednack: William Nichols, head, 41, tin miner, born Gulval; wife
Elizabeth, 37, born Madron; children: Elizabeth M., 17, born Ludgvan; Josepha, 16, born
Ludgvan; Prudence, 12, born Gulval; William, 11, born Ludgvan; Catherine, 9, born Towednack;
Hugh, 6, born Towednack; Martha, 1, born Towednack.
* Marriage details: James Burt, 22, blacksmith, of Penzance; father: John, accountant. Elizabeth
Mary Nicholls, 23, of Penzance; father: William, miner. Marriage witnessed by Thomas Warren
& John Burt.
** 1871 Census – Punyou, Gulval: Josephia Nicholes, unmarried, 23, born Ludgvan, servant with
Robert and Elizabeth Thomas.
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*** 1871 Census – Croftblow, Ludgvan: Hugh Nicholls, 15, tin miner, born Ludgvan; Martha M.
Nicholls, 11, scholar; both living with uncle and aunt - Thomas H. & Elizabeth Warren and
family.
1881 Census – Chypons, Towednack: Hugh Nicholls, head, unmarried, 25, tin miner, born
Towednack; also Sophia [Josephia?] Nicholls, sister, unmarried, 36, housekeeper, born Ludgvan.
John Nicholls
m.
Frances Newton
15/10/1844 Ludgvan
(Miner 1845)
c. 31/12/1822 Gulval
(Parents: Isaac/Ann)
b. 1867+
b. 1867+
Mary Anne
Frances
Hugh
Isaac Newton
Rosetta
c. 2/2/1845
Born 1856
born 1858
born 1863
born 1867
(Gulval)
(The Loddon,
(Sandhurst,
Victoria, Aust.) Victoria)
(Beechworth,
Victoria)
(Beechworth,
(Victoria)
b.
b.
b.
b.
(‘Nicholes’)
b. 1859
(Victoria)
Note: John’s cousin Christiana Nicholls married James Newton (p107).
John & Frances Nicholls went to Victoria, Australia, with their nephew William Nicholls (p156),
who died in Victoria 1861.
193
Henry Nicholls
m.
Tabitha Jenkyns
21/10/1844 St Ives
(Henry, 36, bachelor, grocer of Zennor, father: a farmer. Tabitha, 22, spinster of St Ives, father: a
blacksmith. Witnessed by Thomas Allen & Thomas Williams)
(Grocer of Zennor 1851, shopkeeper of Zennor 1855, tin miner 1871 Zennor, tin dresser
Zennor 1881)
c. 26/3/1809 Zennor
c. 25/8/1822 Sithney (Tabitha William Gluyas Jenkin)
(Parents: Henry/Margaret – p105)
(Parents: William/Elizabeth)
William a blacksmith of Sithney Trough))
b. 1881+
b. 1881+
(A Tabitha Nicholas buried March 1897 aged 80
– Penzance ref. 5C 190)
No issue
1851 Census – Churchtown, Zennor: Henry Nicholls, head, 43, grocer, born Zennor; wife Tabitha,
25, born St Ives.
1855 Post Office Directory, Cornwall: Henry Nicholls, shopkeeper of Zennor.
1861 Census – Trewey, Zennor: Henry Nicholls, lodger, married, 55, tin mine labourer, born
Zennor [resides alone].
1861 Census – Belluvue Terrace, Penzance: Tabitha Nicholls, head, 38, retired grocer, born
Helston; daughter Ann Buttler [not Nicholls], 10 months, born Penzance.
1871 Census – Higher Rose, Zennor: Henry Nicholls, head, married, 63, tin miner, born Zennor.
[No trace of Tabitha or her daughter Ann in 1871]
1881 Census – The Rose, Zennor: Henry Nicholls, married, 72, tin dresser, born Zennor.
1881 Census – 22 North Street, Madron: Tabitha Nicholls, head, widow [?], 50, provision dealer,
born Helston [sole person in household].
1891 Census – 22 Causeway Head Street, Penzance: Tabitha Nicholas, head, widow, 70, butcher’s
shop, born Halestown [Helston].
From “A Cornish Farmer’s Diary” of James Stevens 1847-1918 [diary page 32]:
“I was born at Jownes in Zennor halfway between Churchtown and the Mill, and it is well known
that Jownes house was once a mill house and some pieces of millstones can be seen around the
place in the garden hedge. In times past Jownes had three dwelling houses, and twice I have heard
of a school being kept there. I’ve heard my mother say she attended there to school whilst she
lived at Foage, and later Henry Nicholls kept a school there. He lived in his later days in a little
house near the western side of the river half ways up between Churchtown & Foage. Where he
built his house and a water wheel stamps with three heads where he stamped tin stones that he
raised in a mine in Trewey Downs called the White Works and in other places. Before then he
lived in a house in Churchtown near the Church stile where he kept a grocery shop and had a pair
of millstones which he worked by a horse; I remember it but it was not a success. He was perhaps
the most learned man in Zennor in his time and was very inventive and handy. I could write much
more about him and his doings but have not space here. I have drunk a glass of sweet drink (in his
house that he named the Cuckoo Stamps) that he made of honey.”
Extract from “The Life & Progress of Henry Quick of Zennor” edited by P.A.S. Pool:
‘One man who did remember him [Henry Quick] was Henry Nicholls, who in his younger day had
been at times schoolmaster [at Foage], grocer and proprietor of a horse-mill at Zennor’. ‘In later
life [he] became an eccentric and recluse, living at a tin-stamping mill which he had built up the
Foage valley.’ In 1850 [Henry Nicholls was] Overseer of the Poor of Zennor. The poet [Henry
194
Quick] in 1852 wrote four riddle verses for [Henry] Nicholls who sent … his own recollections of
Quick [in 1873] in a document “which is confused, incoherent and factually very inaccurate.”
18/8/1830 ‘Henry Quick for a new copy of verses’
28/6/1832 ‘Henry Quick for copy of verses 6d.’
16/9/1834 ‘Henry Quick with a copy of verses 6d.’
1/12/1836 ‘Gave Henry Quick 6d.’
[Henry Quick also once sold William Veale some Christmas verses & occasionally some brooms
(his usual trade).]
Richard Nicholls
m.
Celia Reynolds
28/10/1844 Sancreed
(Richard & Celia, both of this parish; witnessed by Louisa Reynolds (mark) & John Tregear)
(Miner of Trewellard, St Just 1851 & 1854; gent (?) of Trewellard 1856)
c. 7/10/1821
c. 26/6/1817 St Just
(Parents: William/Elizabeth [Trahair])
Died 18/3/1873
b. 1860+
(Ballarat, Vic.)
William Reynolds
Richard Hamelton
John Henry
Born 1847
Born 22/11/1852 Born 26/4/1858
Ballarat, Vic.
Charles Aitken
c. 14/5/1845
c. 8/8/1854
c. 10/9/1856
(St Just)
(Pendeen)
(Pendeen)
b. 1851+
b. 1851+
Died 1861
c.
b. 1881+
Victoria (‘aged 9’)
m. 29/1/1881
(Melbourne, Vic.)
Eliza
Ronalds
Celia
Born 1860
(Ballarat)
b.
The Will of William Reynolds, yeoman of St Just, written 5/9/1847 and witnessed by Richard
Nicholls & Celia Nicholls was proved 27/4/1848 to his daughter Louisa Reynolds.
1851 Census – Trewellard, St Just: Richard Nicholls, head, 27, a miner, born St Just; wife Cecilia,
30, born St Just; son William Reynolds, 6, born St Just; son Richard, 3, born St Just.
Richard and Celia & their children went to Australia circa 1857.
195
John Ellis Nicholls
m.
Matilda Jacca
23/7/1845 Paul
(John Nicholls of Paul; father: Richard, a gardener. Matilda Jacca of Paul; father: Peter,
fisherman)
(Tailor at Paul 1851)
c. 12/1/1823 Madron
c. 19/9/1826 Paul
(Parents: Richard/Mary – p121)
(Parents: Peter/Catherine)
b. 1891+
b. 3/6/1898 Paul
Richard
c. 22/2/1846
William Curnow
c. 25/1/1848
Andrew
c. 2/1/1853
Elizabeth Mary
c. 2/1/1853
(Paul)
(Paul)
(Paul)
(‘Aged 3’)
(Paul)
b. 1881+
b. 5/10/1852 Paul
b. 1891+
b. 1871+
(‘Aged 5, of Newlyn’)
William
c. 15/4/1855
Ann
Matilda
born abt 1860 Born abt 1863
(Paul)
(Paul)
c. 25/4/1878 Newlyn
(Paul)
b. 1871+
b. 1871+
b. 1871+
1851 Census – Trudgan, St An Nowan, Paul: John [Ellis] Nicholls, head, 26, tailor, born Madron;
wife Matilda, 25, born Paul; children (all born Paul): Richard, 5, scholar; William, 4, scholar; &
Andrew, 1.
1861 Census – Fradgan Street, Paul: John Ellis Nicholls, 36, tailor, born Madron; wife Matilda,
35, bonnet maker, born Paul; children (all born Paul): Richard, 15; Andrew, 11; Elizabeth, 8;
William, 6, Ann, 1.
1871 Census – Fradgan, Paul: John Nicholls, head, 46, tailor, born Madron; wife Matilda, 45, born
Paul; children (all born Paul): Andrew, unmarried, 21, fisherman; Elizabeth M., 18, net maker;
William, 16, fisherman; Annie, 11, scholar; Matilda, 7, scholar; also Elizabeth Richards, visitor,
16, baker’s daughter, born Redruth.
1881 Census – Fradgan, Paul: John E., head, 55, tailor, born Madron; wife Matilda, 54, born Paul;
son Andrew, 30, fisherman, born Paul; son Richard, 35, fisherman, born Paul; grandson Richard
Nicholls, 5; scholar, born Paul; grand-daughter Mary Nicholls, 3, scholar, born Paul; granddaughter Bessie Badcock, 3, scholar, born Paul.
1891 Census – Ann Nowan, Paul: John E. Nicholls, head, 66, tailor, born Madron; wife Matilda,
65, born Newlyn, Paul; son Andew, 40, single, fisherman, born Newlyn, Paul.
196
Loami Chellew Nicholls (below)
m.1
Ann
circa 1845 Sancreed?
(Tin miner Sancreed 1851)
born circa 1821 Truro
(Parents: Henry Nicholls/Jane Symons – p90)
(Parents?)
b. 1874+
b. 1851+
John Henry
Charles
Elizabeth Burn
James
c. 4/10/1846
c. 6/12/1847 c. 15/1/1850
c. 28/12/1851
(Sancreed)
(Sancreed)
(Madron)
(Sancreed)
b.
b.
b.
b.
(‘Nicholas’)
1841 Census – Higher Tregerrast, Sancreed: Loami is with his father.
1851 Census – Receven, Sancreed: Loami Nicholls, 28, tin miner, born Gulval; wife Ann, 30, born
Truro; children (all born Sancreed): John H., 4; Charles, 3; Elizabeth, 1.
[No trace of family for 1861 Census & 1871 Census]
Loami Chellew Nicholls (above)
m.2
Elizabeth Friggens 8/12/1874
(Loami Nicholls, widower, of St Mary Penzance; father: Harry, farmer [deceased]. Elizabeth of
Gulval; father: William, farmer. Marriage witnessed by Richard Friggens & Christiana Harvey.
(Tin miner Sancreed 1851)
c. 18/4/1824 Gulval
(Parents: Henry Nicholls/Jane Symons – p90)
(Parents: William/Grace)
b. 1874+
b. 1874+
Issue?
197
Francis Nicholls
m.
Miranda Sullivan
25/10/1845 Perranuthnoe
(Francis Nichols of Trevean, father: William, miner (deceased). Miranda Sullivan of Trevean,
father: Richard, smith. Witnessed by Richard Sullivan & Elizabeth Hampton)
(Farm labourer of Phillack 1851 & 1853, farmer & general dealer of Newcastle, N.S.W.
1873)
c. 10/4/1825 Gulval
Born 1821 Paul
(Parents: Richard/Johanna [Rowe])
b. 9/6/1873
b. 24/10/1880
(Newcastle, N.S.W.)
(Newcastle, N.S.W.)
Children (see below)
1841 Census – Francis was living with his cousin Francis Nicholls in Phillack (page 162).
Marinda was the daughter of Richard Sullivan/Sullifant & wife Johanna ‘Hannah’ Gift [nee
Rowe]. At time of marriage living at Trevean – marriage witnessed by Richard Sullivan &
Elizabeth Hampton.
1851 Census – Hayle, Phillack: Francis Nicholas, 26, farm labourer, born Gulval; wife Miranda,
28, housekeeper, born Paul; children: Mary Ann, 4, born Perran; and Elizabeth, 1, born Paul. Also
includes lodgers William Huchin, 62; Henry Varker, 48; and John Gray, 42.
Family immigrated to Australia on 17th February 1855 on ship “Samuel Boddington”.
Francis died June 1873 at Wickham, Newcastle, NSW Australia, occupation: Farmer [1865+ at
Hinton] and General Dealer [1873]. Francis buried 9/6/1873 at Christ Church Burial Ground,
Newcastle.
Miranda buried 24/10/1880 at Christ Church Burial Ground, Newcastle - occupation: Tailoress.
Children of Francis & Marinda:
1.
Mary Ann, born 29/12/1846 Treveane, baptised Perranuthnoe 21/3/1847, died 22/1/1904
Stockton, Newcastle N.S.W. Married 5/1/1866 at Newcastle to Thomas Joseph Masters
Dudley.
2.
Elizabeth Jane (also referred to as Mary Jane), born 28/4/1849 Perran Downs, baptised
Perranuthnoe 14/10/1849, died 28/2/1917 Woodville, Uralla, N.S.W. Married 7/5/1870 at
Newcastle to John Lindsay.
3.
Andrew, born 13/12/1851 Hayle, Phillack, registered Redruth. Birth certificate with mark of
father Francis, labourer. Died 25/12/1851 aged 12 days.
4.
Christian/Christiana Hannah, born 21/6/1853 Phillack, registered Redruth. Birth certificate
with mark of mother Miranda. Married 1874 at Newcastle to John Hogbin. Died 23/4/1927
Tighe’s Hill, Newcastle N.S.W.
5.
Francis, born 27/10/1856 Hinton, Newcastle N.S.W, died 2/7/1930 Birmingham Gardens,
Newcastle. Married 1876 at Newcastle to Elizabeth Osmond.
6.
John, born 13/3/1858 Hinton, died 14/9/1918 Singleton, N.S.W. Married 23/7/1878 at
Wickham, Newcastle to Emma Whaler. The second ‘l’ in the surname was dropped and the
family goes by the surname of ‘Nichols’.
7.
Catherine, born 8/3/1860 Swan Reach. Married 1879 at Newcastle to Thomas Anderson.
8.
Andrew, born 16/3/1862 Rosebank, near Newcastle, died 4/1/1876 Wickham (buried Christ
Church Burial Ground 5/1/1876).
198
9.
Emily, born 27/7/1865 Seaham, William’s River, Newcastle, died 7/6/1944 Birmingham
Gardens, Newcastle (spouse Richard Barker) – son Harold born circa 1894.
Richard Nicholls
m.
Victoria Kelynack 27/5/1849 Paul
(Richard, mariner of Paul; father: Richard, a gardener. Victoria, spinster of Paul; father: Charles,
deceased. Marriage witnessed by Jane Jenkin (p142?) & Tobias Read.
Born 27/9/1818 Madron
c. 18/10/1818
born circa 1830 Paul or Newlyn
(Parent: Richard/Mary – p112)
(Father: Charles)
Died 1868 London
b. 1881+
Charles Kelynack*
c. 27/7/1851
Henry
c. 25/12/1857
Victoria K
Born abt 1862
(Paul)
(Paul)
(Cardiff, Wales)
b. 1870+
b. 1881+
b. 1881+
m. 6/6/1870
(Paul)
Mary Ann
Hichens/Hitchens
Richard
Born abt 1863
Florence
born abt 1867
(Cardiff, Wales)
(Cardiff, Wales)
b. 1881+
b. 1881+
1851 Census – Trudgan, St An Nowan, Paul: Victoria Nicholls, married [to Richard], 21, master
mariner’s wife, born Paul; with mother Phillis Kelynack, head, 62, fisherman’s widow; Nanny
Badcock, daughter, fishwife, 22; & Richard Badcock, visitor, 55, gardener’s labourer.
1871 Census – Fradgan, Paul: Job Kelynack, head, unmarried, 50, fisherman, born Paul; Victoria
Nicholls, sister, 40, housekeeper, born Paul; Henry Nicholls, nephew, 14, scholar, born Paul;
Florence Nicholls, niece, 4, scholar, born Cardiff.
1881 Census – Fradgan, Paul: Victoria Nicholls, head, 50, widow, grocer, born Newlyn; children:
Henry, 23, fisherman, born Newlyn; Victoria K., 19, draper’s assistant, born Cardiff; Richard, 18,
assistant master in school, born Cardiff; Florence, 14, monitoress in day school, born Cardiff.
Captain Richard (Dick) Nicholls, skipper of a 33ft, 16 ton, lugger ‘The Mystery’, set out on an
historic and record setting journey from Newlyn in 1854 that ended 116 days later at Melbourne,
Australia (the smallest boat to make the journey). Prior to this event he was living at Hayle, on
leave from his post as Captain of a 700-tonner in the Welsh trade. With him as crew were the
brothers William & Richard Badcock, Job Kelynack, Charles Boase, Phillip Curnow Matthews
(all from Newlyn) and Lewis Lewis, from Penzance, who was the cook. Captain Dick and the
Badcock brothers had married the three sisters of Job Kelynack – Harriet, Nanny, & Victoria.
Captain Dick was knocked down and killed by a horse cab in London in 1868. [From newspaper
‘The Cornishman’ December 31, 2003]
* Marriage details: Charles Kelynack Nicholls, 19, fisherman of Newlyn; father: Richard, mariner.
Mary Ann Hichens, 21, of Mousehole; father: Arthur, fisherman. Marriage witnessed by Arthur
Hitchens & Harriet Badcock.
199
William Nicholls
m.
Eliza Uren Blee
8/9/1849 Phillack
(William, husbandman of Hayle Copperhouse; father: William, a labourer. Eliza of Hayle
Copperhouse; father: Thomas, miller. With signatures of William & Eliza; witnessed by William
Harris & Rudruce (?) Hosken)
c. 7/7/1805 Ludgvan
born circa 1813 Mawgan
(Parents?)
b. 1881+
b. 1881+
Issue?
1851 Census – Hayle Terrace, Phillack: William Nicholas, head, 43, farm labourer, born Ludgvan;
wife Eliza, 37, housekeeper, born Mawgan; Elizabeth Nicholas, 4, visitor, born Gulval [Elizabeth
is the daughter of William’s brother John – refer p111].
1861 Census – Rosengrouse, St Erth: William Nichoalls, head, 54, agricultural labourer, born
Ludgvan; wife Eliza, 44, born Mawgan.
1871 Census – Rosengrouse, St Erth: William Nicholas, head, 64, agricultural labourer, born
Ludgvan; wife Eliza, 54, born MAwgan.
1881 Census – Canonstown, Ludgvan: William Nicholls, head, 75, farm labourer, born Gulval;
wife Eliza, 64, born Mawgan.
John Cock Nicholls m.
Mary James
31/8/1850 Ludgvan
(Miner of Garris 1851, overseer of iron miners Lamplugh, Cumberland 1881)
c. 21/12/1828
c. 2/9/1832
(Parents: Stephen/Jane – p143)
(Parents: Richard/Jane)
Died 1/3/1895 Cumberland
Died 10/4/1905
(Buried 4/3/1895 Cumberland)
(Buried 12/4/1905 Cumberland)
Stephen*
Jane**
John***
Richard James****
Born 1/1/1852
Born 2/9/1865
Born 17/6/1867
John
Born 28/1/1853
c. 7/3/1853
c. 8/7/1854
c.
c. 31/10/1865 c. 19/10/1867
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Gulval)
(Cumberland)
(Cumberland)
b.
b. 11/9/1854 b. 1881+
b. 1881+
b. 1881+
(Ludgvan)
(‘Of Baldue, aged 4m’)
m1. 25/6/1869
(Egremont, Cumb.)
Samuel
Fearon
m. 2/4/1887
(Arlecdon, Cumb.)
Jane Armstrong
Bewley
m2. 25/8/1875
(Whitehaven, Cumb.)
(Primitive Methodist Chapel)
Jacob George
1851 Census – Garris, Gulval: John [Cock] Nicholls, head, 23, a miner, born Gulval; & wife
Mary, 23, born Lelant.
200
1881 Census – Fair View Cottages, Lamplugh, Cumberland: John Nichols, head, 50, overman of
iron mines, born Gulval; wife Mary, 47, born Lelant; daughter Jane George, married, 26, born
Gulval; son John, 15, iron worker, born Egremont, Cumberland; son Richard, 13, scholar, born
Egremont. Also includes grandson Jacob George, 3, born Frizington, Cumberland; granddaughter
Mary J. George, 11 months, borm Lamplugh, Cumberland; Jane Litt, general domestic servant,
born Egremont.
1891 Census – 46 Dalziell Street, Egremont, Cumberland: John Nicholls, head, 61, iron ore mine
manager (retired), born Gulval; wife Mary, 58, born Lelant.
John Cock Nicholls died 1/3/1895, aged 66, at Dalziell Street, Moor Row, Egremont, Cumberland
– buried 4/3/1895 Egremont, Cumberland (cemetery monumnt inscription at Egremont). Will was
proved 1895. [John’s brother James was at 55 Dalziell Street, Egremont in 1901 – refer p225]
Mary Nicholls died 10/4/1905, aged 72, at 46 Dalzell Street, Moor Row, Egrement, Cumberland –
buried 12/4/1905 Egremont (cemetery monument inscription at Egremont).
* Stephen born 28/1/1853 Canonstown, Ludgvan; died Kimberley, South Africa.
** Jane born 1/1/1852 Higher Garris.
*** John born 2/9/1865 Moor Row, Egremont, Cumberland; baptised 31/10/1865 Cleator,
Cumberland.
**** Richard born 17/6/1867 Moor Row, Egremont, Cumberland; baptised 19/10/1867 Moor
Row, Egremont. Died 25/11/1903 Kimberley, South Africa – buried Kenilworth Road Cemetery,
Kimberley, South Africa 26/11/1903. Wife Jane died 8/3/1944 at 235 Frizington Road, Frizington
– buried Frizington, Cumberland. Children of marriage: John 1887, Margaret Jane 1888, Joseph
Bewley 1890, Richard James 1892, Walter 1894, William 1895.
John Nicholls
m.
Jane Polmear
3/4/1851
(John, bachelor, 44, farmer of Try, father: Andrew. Jane, spinster of Zennor, father: William,
farmer. Signature of John and signature of Jane; witnessed by John Thomas snr & Richard Noall.
(Farmer of Zennor 1861, 1871 & 1881)
c. 17/8/1806 Madron
c. 20/2/1803 Zennor
(Father: William, farmer of Zennor/Anne [Osborn])
b. 1/11/1884 Zennor
b. 16/1/1884 Zennor
No Issue
Gulval Parish Vestry Meeting 25th March 1830 mentions John Nicholls of Try, Constable.
1851 Census – Foage, Zennor: Jane Polmear, head, unmarried, 48; John Nicholls, lodger,
unmarried, 45, farming 20 acres, born Madron; Andrew Nicholls [nephew of John, son of Richard
& Ann – p139], 11, miner’s servant, born Gulval.
1861 Census – Foage, Zennor: John Nicholas, head, 54, farmer of 25 acres, born Gulval; wife
Jane, 57, born Zennor; Mary A Polmear, 17, house servant, born Zennor; John Polmear, 11, farm
servant, born Zennor.
1871 Census – Foage, Zennor: John Nicholls, head, 64, farmer of 30 acres, born Madron; wife
Jane, 67, born Zennor; Ann Mann, 69, sister (of John), widow, born Gulval; William Osborn,
indoor servant, 12, born Gulval.
1881 Census – Foage, Zennor: John Nicholls, head, 74, farmer of 4 acres; wife Jane, 77, born
Zennor.
201
Henry Nicholls
m.
Phillis Chappell
11/10/1851
(Mark of Henry & signature of Phillis; witnessed by Andrew Nicholls & John Chappell (mark).
Henry, 23, a miner of Try, father: Andrew, a miner. Phillis, 20, of Try, father: John, farmer)
(Miner of Try, Gulval 1851, agricultural labourer of Zennor 1861, farmer of Great
Bosullow, Madron 1871, farmer of Zennor 1881 & 1891)
c. 30/11/1828 Madron
(Parents: John/Dinah [Quick])
b. 10/9/1892 Zennor (‘Phyllis’)
b. 9/12/1894 Zennor
William H*** Mary L.
Born 1852
Born 1854
Elizabeth Ann
Born 1858
Dinah Quick Martha
Born 1861
Born 1866
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
(Zennor )
(Madron)
b. 1877+
b. 1871+
b. 1871+
b. 1871+
b. 1871+
m. 3/2/1877
(Morvah)
Elizabeth
Oates
Andrew
Born 1868
Annie
c. 11/8/1875
(Madron)
(Pendeen)
b. 1871+
b. 22/9/1875
(Pendeen)
(‘Of Keigwin, aged 6 months’)
1861 Census – Kerrow, Zennor: Henry Nicholls, head, 33, agricultural labourer; wife Phillace, 30;
children: William H., 8; Mary L., 7; & Elizabeth A., 1.
1871 Census – Great Bosullow, Madron: Henry Nicholls, head, 43, farming 26 acres, born Gulval,
Phyllis, wife, 39; children: William H., 18, born Zennor; Elizabeth A., 12, born Zennor; Dinah, 9,
born Zennor; Martha, 4, born Madron; Andrew, 2, born Madron.
1871 Census – Tin Croft, Towednack: John Chapple, head, 75, farmer of 10 acres, born St Ives;
granddaughter Mary L. Nicholls, 17, born Zennor.
1881 Census – Bosporthennis, Zennor: Henry Nicholls, head, 53, farmer of 6 acres, born Gulval;
wife Phillis, 49, farmer’s wife, born Gulval; children: Martha, 14, born Madron; & Andrew, 12,
scholar, born Madron; grandson Richard Nicholls*, 7, scholar, born St Just; granddaughter Jane
Nicholls**, 5, scholar, born St Just. Also includes mother-in-law Dinah Chappel, 79, born
Zennor.
1891 Census – Bosporthennis, Zennor: Henry Nicholls, head, 63, farmer, born Gulval; wife
Phillis, 59, born Gulval; grandson Richard Nicholls, 17, farmer, born St Just; grand-daughter Jane,
15, born St Just.
* 7/9/1884 – R. J., born August 1873, started school, resident of Bosporthenis, Zennor, father a
farmer [Richard James, c. 13/11/1873 Pendeen ‘of Keigwin’, illegitimate son of Mary L.]
20/11/1885 – Left for work, aged 12.
** 7/9/1884 – Jane, born July 1875, started school, resident of Bosporthennis, father a farmer.
20/10/1888 – Left for work, aged 13.
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1891 Census – Bosporthennis, Zennor: Henry Nicholls, head, 63, farmer, born Gulval; wife
Phillis, 59, born Gulval; grandson Richard, 17, farmer, born St Just; granddaughter Janey, 15, born
St Just.
*** 1881 Census – Trevean. Morvah: William H. Nicholls, head, 28, agricultural labourer, born
Zennor; wife Elizabeth, 32; also Selina Matthews, servant, 16, dairymaid, born St Just.
1891 Census – Trewince, Stithians: William H. Nicholls, head, 38, farm labourer, born Zennor;
wife Elizabeth, 42, born St Just; daughter Annie, 5, born Morvah. Also Jane Thomas, general
servant, 21, born St Just; Edith Moyle, general servant, 17, born Wendron; Mary A. Oats, visitor,
unmarried, 17, born St Just.
1901 Census – Stithians: William Nicholls, 48, cattle & dairyman; wife Elizabeth, 52, born St
Just; daughter Annie, 15, born St Just.
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Andrew Nicholls
m.
Elizabeth Curnow
20/11/1852
(Andrew, 25, a miner, of Carfury, father: William, farmer. Elizabeth, 22, of Carfury, father:
Thomas, a miner. Mark of Andrew & mark of Elizabeth; witnessed by Moses Callaway &
Elizabeth Glasson.)
(Miner of Carfury 1852 - 1854, 1857 & 1861, miner of Tredinneck Moor 1858 & 1863,
tin miner of Carfury 1861, miner 1866, miner of Ding Dong 1869 & 1873, tin miner of
Boskednan Wartha 1871, miner of Madron 1874, miner & farmer of Upper Ninnes 18751878)
c. 15/6/1828 Madron
c. circa 1830 Towednack
(Parents: William/Jane – p122)
(Father: Thomas)
b. 3/4/1878 Madron
b. 8/6/1894 Gulval
(‘Of Higher Garris, aged 66’)
Andrew
c. 14/6/1853
b. 1886+
Sarah Jane
William Henry
Born 1855
c. 3/11/1854 c. 12/10/1866
b. 1871+
b. 1922
Thomas Curnow*****
Born 1/4/1857 Carfury
c. 6/4/1857
Died 22/8/1917 N.S.W.
Randwick, Sydney, N.S.W.
m1. 1/1/1876
(Gulval)
Emma Jane
Gilbert/Jelbert (p249)
m. 28/9/1889
(NSW)
Elizabeth Lydia
Rivers
m2. March Qrt 1882
(Penzance district)
Eliza Gilbert (p249)
Francis
John
Mary Elizabeth
Catherine Ann*
Born 1858
Born 1863
Born 1863
Born 1867
c. 12/10/1866
b. 1871+
c. 12/10/1866
b. 1881+
c. 2/5/1863
c. 2/5/1863
b. 29/3/1904 b. 14/11/1863
(“Penzance)
(‘Aged 45’)
(‘Of Tredinneck
- Aged 8 months’)
John**
c. 9/6/1869
Minnie Rosella***
c. 3/6/1871
Amelia Ann
c. 28/5/1873
James Curnow****
c. 5/8/1874
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 31/8/1879
b. 15/12/1877
Died 11/10/1907
(‘Of Ninnes, aged 8
- Died 27/8/1879)
(‘Of Ninnes, aged 5’)
b. 1891+
1851 Census – Market Jew Street, Penzance: Samuel Cook, head, 33, tailor & draper, born
Crofthole [?], wife Rebecca, 35, born Liskeard; with 5 children & house servant Elizabeth
Curnow, 20, born Towednack.
1861 Census – Carfury, Gulval: Andrew Nicholls, head, 32, tin miner, born Madron; Elizabeth,
wife, 29, born Towednack; children (all born Gulval): Sarah Jane, 6; William H., 5; Thomas, 4;
Francis, 3. House servant Ann Warren, 18, born Gulval (niece from marriage of Andrew’s sister
Jane to John Warren in 1841). Son Andrew is with grandparents William & Jane Nicholls – p123.
204
1871 Census – Boskednan Wartha, Gulval: Andrew Nicholls, head, 42, tin miner; wife Elizabeth,
41, born Towednack; children (all born Gulval): Andrew, 17, miner; Sarah Jane, 16; William
Henry, 15, miner; Thomas, 14, miner; Francis, 13, miner; Mary E., 6; Catherine, 4; John, 2;
Minnie Rosetta, 3 months. (Family next door to William & Grace Stevens)
1881 Census – Higher Ninnes, Madron: Elizabeth Nicholls, head, miner’s widow, 50, born
Towednack; children: Frank, unmarried, 22, agricultural labourer, born Gulval; Catherine, 14,
domestic servant, born Gulval; John, 12, scholar, born Gulval; James, 6, scholar, born Gulval;
Charles R. (see below), 1, grandson, born Madron.
1891 Census – Boskednan, Gulval: Elizabeth Nicholls, head, widow, 60, laundress; son John, 22,
stonemason’s labourer; and grandson Charles R. Nicholls, 11, scholar.
Probably Charles was the illegitimate son of Sarah Jane. Charles Nicholls baptised 8/7/1883
Gulval, son of Jane Nicholls.
31/12/1883 – Charles Nicholls, born 13/5/1879, started school, resident of Carfury Moor,
illegitimate [father’s name not mentioned].
18/11/1887 – I find Charlie Nicholls a dull boy.
1901 Census – Gulval: Charles Nicholls, 22, carter.
* 17/1/1876 – Catherine, 7 years, started school, resident of Ninnis. Left January 1876 – cannot
be spared from home.
1877 – Catherine, born September 1869, restarted school, resident of Higher Ninnis, father a
farmer; left for work 1877 aged 10 years & nine months.
** 1 – 5 June 1874 – John Nicholls of Ninnis returned again this week. This makes three times he
has come to be entered. I have not entered his name for he may be taken away again in a month or
five weeks.
1877 - John B., born March 1870 [?], left for work, residence of Higher Ninnis, father a farmer.
*** 15/2/1875 - Minnie Rosella, 4 years, started school, resident of Upper Ninnes, father a miner
[?].
1877 – Minnie, born September 1869, residence Higher Ninnes, father a farmer.
29/8/1879 – One of the most regular of our infants (Minnie Nicholls) died on Wednesday (27th)
after a week’s illness of fever.
**** 20/10/1878 - James Curnow Nicholls, born August 1874, resident of Higher Ninnis, father
deceased, left neighbourhood.
[Gulval Memorial inscription: ‘In Loving Memory of James Nicholls who died in this parish 11th
October 1907 aged 32 years’]
***** Thomas Curnow Nicholls may have come to Australia with his brother William Henry
Nicholls. His marriage certificate does not contain any details, not does his death certificate,
however his daughter rembers that ‘Curnow’ was connected with his name. He also had a gold
watch engraved ‘T. C. N’.
Children of Thomas’s marriage: Miriam Elizabeth (1897), Frederick James, Lily Lavinia & Violet
Emma.
On Violet’s birth certificate (10/3/1897) her father is recorded as Thomas Nicholls, miner,
Penzance, England. He is said to have gone home to visit his mother, then worked as a miner in
South Africa where he joined up for the Boer War (commenced 1899). He was discharged from
the 1st Battalion Railway Pioneer Regiment, Rand Rifles, in 1902. Enlistment details give his age
as 42 and born in the parish of Gulval. Whilst in South Africa he worked for the French Rand
Gold Mining Company. There is a passenger’s contract ticket for the Orient-Pacific Steamship
“Ormuz” dated 26/8/1904 for Thomas Nicholls, 45 years (presumably for Australia).
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m.
Johanna Tregear
4/12/1852 Madron
(William Henry Nicholls, 23, a miner, residence St Hilary, father John Nicholls, miller. Joanna,
20, residence Madron, father Ismael Tregear, a miner. Witnessed by John Nicholls & … [?]
Crago; William signed & Johanna put her mark)
(Tin & copper miner of Morvah 1861, farmer of Madron 1871)
Born 31/10/1827 Ludgvan
c. 25/11/1827 Ludgvan
(Parents: Ishmael/Kezia [Olds])
b. 26/4/1874 Madron
Buried 12/10/1904 Madron
(‘Of Bosullow, aged 44’)
(‘Of Bosollow, aged 76’)
No issue
1861 Census – Chywoon, Morvah: William H. Nicholls, head, 32, tin & copper miner, born
Ludgvan; wife Johanna, 28, born Sancreed; Lavina Tregear, sister-in-law, 9, born Madron.
1871 Census – Bosullow Vean, Madron: William Henry Nicholls, 41, farming 20 acres, born
Ludgvan; and wife Johanna, 39, born Sancreed.
1881 Census – Recevan (Farm House), Sancreed: William Ellis, head, 29, farmer of 25 acres, born
Sancreed; wife Lavinia Ellis [probably nee Lavina Tregear – refer 1861 Census], 28, born
Madron; children: William H., 3, born Sancreed; Johanna, 8, scholar, born Madron; Emily, 6, born
Madron. Also Johanna Nicholls, sister-in-law, widow, charwoman, 48, born Sancreed; Mary J.
Matthews, servant, 16, domestic servant, born Madron; Peter J. Trudgen, agricultural servant, 15,
born Sancreed.
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William Nicholls
m.
Catherine
circa 1853
(Blacksmith of Penzance 1881)
c. 16/4/1826
Born circa 1828 Truro
(Parents: John/Jane – p134)
(Parents?)
b. 1891+
b. 1891+
Alfred
Jane
John
Henry
William
(Truro)
(Truro)
(Truro)
(Truro)
(Truro)
b. 1871+
b. 1871+
b. 1871+
b. 1881+
b. 1891+
1861 Census – Dygey, St Ives: William Nicholls, head, 35, blacksmith, born Gulval; wife
Catherine, 35, born Truro; children (all born Truro): Alfred, 7, scholar; Jane, 4, scholar; John, 2.
1871 Census – Church Street, Liskeard: William Nicholls, 45, blacksmith, born Gulval; wife
Catherine, 45, born Zelah; children: Alfred, 17, born Truro; Jane, 12, born St Just; John, 10, born
Truro; Henry, 7, born Redruth; William, 2, born Redruth.
1881 Census – Market Jew Street, Penzance: William Nicholls, 53, blacksmith, born Gulval; wife
Catharine, 52, born Truro; children: Henry, 18, general labourer, born Truro; William, 11, born
Truro.
1891 Census – 16 Battery Square, Penzance: William, head, 65, blacksmith, born Gulval; wife
Catherine, 65, born Truro; son William, 21, quay labourer, born Penzance.
207
John Nicholls
m.
Elizabeth Williams circa 1853
(Tin miner of St Cleer 1871)
c. 8/6/1832 Breage
(Parents: John/Jane)
b. 1871+
b. 1901+
Joseph Piper William Henry
Born 1854
Born 1859
Elizabeth
Born 1861
Alvina
Born 1864
Esther
Born 1868
(Liskeard)
(St Cleer)
(St Cleer)
(St Cleer)
(St Cleer)
b. 1871+
b. 1871+
b. 1881+
b. 1881+
b. 1881+
1861 Census – Tremar, St Cleer: John Nicholls, head, 32, copper miner, born Ludgvan; wife
Elizabeth, 30, born Breage; Joseph Piper, son-in-law [?], born Liskeard; William H., son, 1, born
St Cleer.
1871 Census – St Cleer: John Nicholls, head, 46, tin miner, born Ludgvan; wife Elizabeth, 40,
born Germoe [ near Breage]. Children: Joseph P., 16, tin miner, born Liskeard; William Henry,
11, tin miner, born St Cleer; Elizabeth, 9, scholar, born St Cleer; Alvina, 6, scholar, born St Cleer;
Esther, 2, born St Cleer. Also Jane Williams, 67, widow, mother-in-law, born Breage.
1881 Census – Chapel Row, St Cleer: Elizabeth Nicholls, head, widow, 49, laundress, born
Germoe; daughter Bessie, 19, servant, born St Cleer; daughter Esther, 12, scholar, born St Cleer;
mother-in-law Jane Williams, 76, parish pay, born Breage.
1881 Census – Jaspers Farm, St Cleer: Alvina Nicholls, 16, servant, born St Cleer; servant for
William Toy.
1891 Census – Tremar Combe, Liskeard: Elizabeth Nicholls, head, 59, widow, born Breage; Jane
Williams, mother, widow, 86, born Breage.
1901 Census – St Cleer: Elizabeth Nicholls, 70, widow, born Breage.
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Richard Nicholls
m.
Mary Pearce Sampson
13/1/1853 Penzance
(Married at Wesley Rock Chapel, Madron along with Thomas Sampson & Phillipa Nicholls, all of
Canon’s Town near Marazion)
c. 23/11/1828 Ludgvan
(Parents: Cyprian/Jane – p124)
(Parents: Samuel/Kezia [Pearce])
b. 9/1/1872
Died 4/7/1904
(Melbourne Hospital,
Victoria, Aust.)
(Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand)
Issue below
Richard & his sister Philippa went to Australia with their spouses aboard “Calliope” and arrived in
Melbourne 18/5/1853. Children of both families were born in Australia.
Children of Richard & Mary Pearce Nicholls:
1.
Mary born 16/6/1854 Sandhurst, Victoria. Married Charles Robert Perks 10/4/1876 Victoria.
2.
Richard born 1855 Brunswick, Victoria. Married Hannah Cheney 1880 N.S.W. Richard died
31/7/1922 N.S.W. Children (all born N.S.W.): Richard 1882, Arthur 1885, Samuel 1889, Annie
1893, Ivy 1896, George 1900, Herbert 1903 & Mary 1905.
3.
Ann born 1857 Brunswick, died 1858 Brunswick.
4.
Jane born 1858 Brunswick. Married Frederick James Gough 1879 Victoria.
5.
Kezia born 21/1/1861 Brunswick. Married Samuel Beebe 15/9/1881 Victoria.
6.
Samuel born 21/1/1861 Brunswick. Married Elizabeth Ann Giles 22/12/1886 Victoria. Children
(all born Victoria): Rose Elizabeth Ann 25/10/1887, Samuel 26/12/1890, Thomas 2/8/1892, Albert
3/9/1897 & George 3/9/1897.
7.
John born 1863 Brunswick.
8.
Phillipa born 3/6/1867 Brunswick. Married William Isaac Ashton 1888 Victoria. Emigrated to
NZ in the 1890’s.
9.
Ann born 1869 Brunswick. Married William Smith 1891 Victoria.
10. Lily born 22/6/1871 Brunswick. Married Richard James Wright 1894 Victoria.
11. Rose born 22/6/1871 Brunswick, died 1872.
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Henry Nicholls
m.
Charity Christopher 11/3/1854 Zennor
(Henry Nicholls, bachelor of Kerrow, father Richard a farmer. Charity Christopher, spinster of
Kerrow, father Nicholas a miner. By Banns, witnessed by Nicholas Christopher and Matthew
Osborne (brother-in-law of Henry).
(Farmer of Kerrow, Zennor 1851 & 1855, agricultural labourer of Zennor 1861, farmer of
Zennor 1871 & 1881 [Living at Kerrow when children baptised])
c. 17/11/1811 Zennor
c. 13/7/1834 Zennor
(Parents: Richard/Elizabeth – p102) (Father: Nicholas/Mary [Osborne])
b. 28/3/1885 Zennor
b. 1/11/1905 Zennor
Elizabeth
Charity**** Richard
c. 26/11/1854 c. 11/5/1856 c. 3/1/1858
Henry***
c. 9/3/1860
Grace
c. 8/2/1862
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
b. 1901+
b. 1877+
b. 1891+
b. 1901+
Died 13/11/1932
(Penzance)
Unmarried
m. 12/12/1877 m. 1890’s
(Zennor)
(?)
Charles
Lena
Osborn (cousin) Matthews
m. Sep qrt 1893 Unmarried
(Penzance ref. 5C 412)
Alice
Chellew
(Of Zennor)
(Of Zennor)
(Of Sennen)
William*
c. 16/1/1864
Nicholas
Mary*****
c. 17/2/1866 c. 10/5/1869
John**
c. 26/11/1873
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
b. 1896+
b. 1904+
Died 3/1/1935 b. 1903+
(‘Of Kerrow’)
m. Dec qrt 1895m. Sep qrt 1903 m. 14/3/1896 m. 13/2/1904
(Ref. 5C 461)
(Ref. 5C 385)
[All Penzance district]
Anne
Thomas
Annie
Thomas
(Zennor)
John
Thomas
(Of Zennor)
(Of Leah)
(Of Carnellow)
(Zennor)
Elizabeth
Thomas
(Of Lanyon)
14/9/1838 ‘Went to Zennor on Mr. Grylls’s business respecting Henry Nicholls.’
1841 Census – Church Village, Zennor: Alexander Stevens, 25, shoemaker journeyman; Mary
Stevens, 45; Thomas Nicholls, 7 [unknown], Henry Nicholls, 30; Thomas Hollow [?], 20,
coastguard, born Ireland.
Will of William Davey, Zennor yeoman, proved 19/11/1846, was witnessed by Henry Nicholls.
1851 Census – Lower Kerrow, Zennor: Henry Nicholls, unmarried, 39, farmer of 26 acres, born
Zennor; Elizabeth, mother, widow, 73, born Zennor. Also Belinda Thomas, servant, unmarried,
21, born Zennor; Elizabeth Wallis, servant, 14, born Zennor; John Thomas, servant, 14, born
Zennor.
1851 Census – Paul: Charity Christopher, 16, house servant, born Zennor; with William
Matthews, farmer, & family.
1855 Post Office Directory, Cornwall: Henry Nicholls, farmer of Kerrow, Zennor.
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1861 Census – Kerrow, Zennor: Henry Nicholls, head, 51, agricultural labourer, born Zennor;
wife Charity, 27, born Zennor: children (all born Zennor): Elizabeth, 7; Charity, 5; Richard, 3,
Henry, 1. Also includes Elizabeth Christopher, general servant, 27, unmarried, born Zennor;
Catharine Christopher, general servant, 13, born Zennor; Thomas Rich, servant, agricultural
labourer, 20, born Madron.
1871 Census – Zennor: Henry Nicholls, head, farmer of 39 acres, 59, born Zennor; wife Charity,
36, born Zennor; John Christopher, farm servant, 15, born Zennor; Nicholls children (all born
Zennor) – Elizabeth, 16; Charity, 15; Richard, 13; Henry, 11, school; Grace, 9, school; William, 7,
school; Nicholas, 5; Mary, 2.
‘A Cornish Farmer’s Diary’ by James Stephens (at Zennor 1877):
10/2/1877: Bought 3 bushells of barley at 11 shillings per bushel of Henry Nicholls.
1881 Census – Kerrow, Zennor: Henry Nicholls, head, 69, farmer of 39 acres employing 3 men,
born Zennor; wife Charity, 47, born Zennor. Children (all born Zennor): Elizabeth, 26, employed
at home; Richard, 21, employed at home; Grace, 19, employed in house; William, 17, employed
on farm; Nicholas, 15, employed on farm; Mary, 12, scholar; John, 7, scholar.
Kelly’s Directory 1883: Henry Nicholls, farmer, Kerrowe, Zennor.
1891 Census – Kerrow, Zennor: Charity Nicholls, head, widow, 56, born Zennor. Children (all
unmarried & born at Zennor): Elizabeth, 36; Richard, 33; Henry, 31; Grace, 30; William, 28;
Nicholas, 25; Mary, 23; John, 18, draper’s assistant.
1901 Census – Zennor: Charity Nicholls, 65, farmer, born Zennor; daughter Elizabeth, 46, born
Zennor; son John, 28, born Zennor. Also son William, 37, farmer, with wife Ann [Thomas], 28,
born Zennor; with children (all born Zennor): Olive, 3; William, 1; Elizabeth, 5 months.
NOTE: Kerrow farm was taken over after the death of Richard Nicholls by his sons: John Nicholls
(who married Hannah Thomas) who farmed 25 acres of it and Henry Nicholls (who married
Charity Christopher) who farmed 26 acres of it. Richard’s widow Elizabeth lived in the
farmhouse with her son Henry who eventually took over the whole of Kerrow when John &
Hannah left Zennor in the early 1850’s for Perranuthnoe
* William took over Kerrow after his father Henry and was known as Billie Nicholls who married
Anne Thomas from Bosporthennis, Zennor. Children of William & Anne were: William [known
as Willie], Beatie, Olive, Fanny, Charity & Janey. Willie Nicholls married Grace Ida Jelbert –
sister of Charlie Jelbert of Carnellow.
** Marriage details: John, 30, of Kerrow; father: Henry, farmer. Elizabeth, 20, of Madron; father:
Benjamin, farmer. Marriage witnessed by Benjamin Thomas & Nicholas Nicholls.
Children of John & Elizabeth: May, John, Benjamin, Henry, Katherine, Richard, William,
Elizabeth, & Lily.
*** 1901 Census – St Just: Henry Nicholls, 41, farmer, born Zennor; wife Allice, 36, born
Ludgvan, daughter Mary, 6, born St Just.
**** Marriage details: Charles Osborn of Trewey, Zennor; father: Matthew, farmer. Charity
Nicholls of Kerrow, Zennor; father: Henry, farmer. Marriage witnessed by Henry Nicholls &
Matthew Osborn.
6/4/1893: Was at Western Hotel to sale of Trewey land that the Osborns live in.
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***** Marriage details: John Thomas, 32, of Carnelloe; father: Matthew, farmer. Mary Nicholls,
29, of Kerrow; father: Henry, farmer. Marriage witnessed by Richard Nicholls & Matthew
Thomas.
12/10/1877: Bought a scuffler of Matthew Thomas in Carnhellow, cost 19s 6d.
Zennor headstones – Grace Nicholls died Penzance 13/11/1932 aged 70; William, husband of
Ann, died Kerrow 3/1/1935 aged 71. Ann, wife of William, died 30/3/1955 aged 81. Charity died
Kerrow Farm 26/8/1955 aged 49; sister Fanny died 29/12/1991; William Nicholls of Kerrow Farm
died 15/1/1985 aged 85 and wife Grace Ida died 13/11/1957 aged 55.
In Loving Memory of
Grace Nicholls
Who died at 71 High St
Penzance
Nov 13th 1932
Aged 70 Years
In Loving Memory of
William Nicholls
The Beloved Husband of
Ann Nicholls
Who passed away at Kerrowe, Zennor
Jan 3rd 1935 Aged 71 Years
Also of the Above
Ann Nicholls
Who passed away March 30th 1955
Aged 81
In Loving Memory of
Our Beloved Sister
Charity Nicholls
Who died 26th August 1955
Aged 49 Years
And Fanny her Sister
Who died 29th Dec 1991
Aged 88
In Loving Memory of
Grace Ida
Dearly beloved wife of William Nicholls
Who died 13th Nov 1957
Aged 55 Years
Also of the Above
William Nicholls
Who died 15th Jan 1985
Aged 85 Years
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Andrew Nicholls
m.
Mary Ann Lawry
14/8/1854 Gulval Chapel
(Marriage registered at Zennor. Andrew, of Ladydowns, father: Andrew, miner. Mary Ann, of
Ladydowns, father: Richard, farmer. Witnessed by Richard Lawry & Mary Ninnis)
(Overseas 1858, tin miner of Zennor 1861; Miner of Try 1868, overseas 1881)
c. 17/6/1831
c. circa 1831 Gulval
(Father: Richard/Ann)
b. 1886+
b. 1886+
Richard*
Mary Ann
Andrew**
Henry***
John
Born 19/12/1854
Born 1858
Born 1862
Born 1862
Born 1865
(Gulval)
(U.S.A.)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 1876+
b. 1881+
b. 1881+
b. 1872+
b. 1881+
m. Circa 1876
(U.S.A.)
Mary
Lawry
Martha ****
William Thomas
Stephen*****
c. 11/7/1868
c. 29/3/1871
c. 1/10/1873
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 1881+
b. 1881+
Died 1941
Born June 1871
(Scranton, PA, USA)
1851 Census – Polminnick, Madron: John Pengilly, head, 42, farmer of 9 acres, born Madron;
wife [indecipherable], 32, born Madron; cousin Harriet Pengilly, 16, born Madron; Mary A.
Lawry, 21, general servant, born Gulval.
1861 Census – Mill Downs, Zennor: Richard Lawrey, head, 60, tin mine steam engine driver, born
Zennor; wife Ann, 59, born Breage; daughter Elizabeth J., unmarried, 20, born Zennor. Also
Andrew Nicholls, son-in-law, 30, tin miner, born Gulval; wife Mary [nee Lawrey/Lawry], 30,
born Towednack; also their children: Mary Ann Nicholls, 3, born North America; & Richard
Nicholls, 2, born North America.
1871 Census – Trye, Gulval: Mary Nicholls, head, 40, charwoman, miner’s wife, born Gulval;
children: Richard, 13, farm worker; Mary A., 12, scholar; Andrew, 8, scholar; Henry, 8, scholar;
John, 5; Martha, 3; William, 1. All children said to be born Gulval although Mary A. was actually
born in USA.
1881 Census – Trye, Gulval: Mary Nicholls [nee Lawry], head, 50, farmer of 4 acres [husband in
USA], born Zennor [?]; children Mary A., unmarried, 23, born America; Andrew, 18, tin miner
out of employment; John, 16, tin miner; Martha, 12, scholar; William 10, scholar; Stephen, 7,
scholar. Household also included Mary Nicholls, mother-in-law, widow, 80, and Henry Lawrey,
brother, married, 60, agricultural labourer, born Towednack [?].
Andrew & Mary Ann [Lawry] Nicholls & family were living in America by 1886.
* Richard married his 1st cousin Mary Lawry, the daughter of John Lawry & wife Honour (nee
Pengelly).
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** 13/3/1871 – Andrew, 7 years 11 months, started school, resident of Lady Downs, father a
miner.
August 1871 – Left for Boys’ School.
20/1/1872 – Came back again.
*** 13/3/1871 – Henry, 7 years 11 months, started school, resident of Lady Downs, father a
miner.
20/1/1872 – Came back again.
**** 2/11/1874 – Martha, 6 years, started school, resident of Lady Downs, father a miner.
6/11/1874 – Left - too far away.
23 - 27 November 1874 – Martha Nicholls of Lady Downs attended one week – now left. Also
John her brother left.
***** 1/9/1884 – Stephen, born June 1871, left neighbourhood, resident of Lady Downs, father a
miner.
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Richard Nicholls
m.
Mary Thomas
19/11/1854 Zennor
(Richard Nicholls, miner of Bosporthennis; father: Stephen, a miner. Mary Thomas of
Bosporthennis; father: John, farmer. Marriage witnessed by John Thomas & Matthew Thomas)
(Police constable of St Enoder 1861, police sergeant of St Austell 1871, police inspector
Tywardreath 1881, police inspector Camelford 1891)
c. 4/8/1833
c. 4/4/1830 Zennor
(Parents: John & Nanny/Nancy [Thomas])
Died 20/7/1909 Truro
b. Died 9/3/1911 Truro
Mary
c. 29/4/1855
John T. (or J.)**
born circa 1859
Jane
c. 30/7/1861
(Bosporthennis) (Bosporthennis)
(Borporthennis)
(St Enoder)
b. 1871+
b. 1919+
b. 1901+
Richard*
born 16/1/1857
Died 1919
m. 1884
(Broomfleet, near Hull)
Sarah Anne Olive
Annie
Born 1872
(Padstow)
b. 1891+
1851 Census – North Street, Penzance: Nansey Thomas, head, widow, 68, dressmaker, born
Sithney; children: Nancey, unmarried, 28, draper’s assistant, born Paul; Mary, 20, dressmaker,
born Paul; & 3 other children.
1861 Census – Mitchell, St Enoder: Richard Nicholls, head, 27, police constable, born Gulval;
wife Mary, 30, born Zennor; children (all born Zennor): Mary, 6, scholar; Richard, 4, scholar;
John, 2.
1871 Census – St Austell: Richard Nicholls, head, 38, police sergeant, born Gulval; wife Mary,
41, born Zennor; children: Mary, 16, born Zennor; Richard, 14, draper’s assistant, born Zennor;
John J. [T?], 12, school, born St Enoder; Jane, 9, school, born St Enoder.
1881 Census – Police Station, Tywardreath: Richard Nicholls, head, 47, inspector of police, born
Gulval; wife Mary, 51, born Zennor; children: Jane, 19, born St Enoder; Annie, 9, scholar, born
Padstow.
1891 Census – High Street, Camelford: Richard Nicholls, 57, police inspector, born Gulval; wife
Mary, 61, born Zennor; children: Jane, 29, unmarried, born St Enoder; Annie, 19, draper’s
assistant, born Padstow.
1901 Census – Kenwyn: Richard Nicholls, 67, retired police constable, born Gulval; wife Mary,
71, born Zennor; daughter Jane, 39, born St Enoder.
Richard served in Police Force 1857-1895 at Zennor, St Enoder, St Austell, Truro, Padstow,
Bodmin, Tywardreath, Camelford & Launceston.
* 1881 Census – 55 Duke Street, Stoke Damerel, Devon: Richard Nicholls, unmarried, 24, teacher
(elementary), born Zennor; boarder with William G. Allen & his wife.
Son Richard, school teacher, married 1884 Sarah Anne Olive at Broomfleet near Hull, and died
there in 1919 – 3 children: Percival Olive born 1885 (died 1965 Ellerker), John Richard born
29/7/1886 (died 1965 Hull) married Mollie at Hull, Mary Olive born 1889 (died 1959) – spinster.
** John living at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex in 1919.
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Edward Nicholls/Gribble
m.
Mary Ann Symons 10/1/1855
(Edward Gribble, 23, miner of Gulval; mother: Susannah Gribble. Mary Ann Symons, 22, of
Gulval (mark); father: James Symons, miner. Marriage was witnessed by Walter Symons & … [?]
Nicholls)
(Miner of Higher Garris 1854, Miner of Trezela 1865, of Chysauster 1867, tin miner of
Towednack 1871, dairyman of Towednack 1881, 1891 & 1901)
c. 6/1/1833 Gulval
c. 1/2/1834 Breage
(Stepson of James – p175)
(Parents: James/Mary [Burkerley])
b. 17/6/1905 Towednack
b. 1901+
(‘Of Cripple’s Ease, aged 62’)
James*
Edward**
Born 1854
(Gulval)
Born 11/9/1855 Born 1/6/1857
(Trezela, Gulval) (Trezela, Gulval)
Born 23/2/1859
(Trezela, Gulval)
c. 2/9/1855
c. 10/1/1865 c. 10/1/1865
c. 10/1/1865
(Penzance Wesleyan)
(Penzance Wesleyan)
(Penzance Wesleyan)
b. 1880+
b. 1880+
Died 29/7/1892 USA
b. 1881+
William Henry
Stephen***
(‘Aged 33’)
m. 4/10/1879
(Ludgvan)
Phillipa
Phillips
Walter
Susanna
m. circa 1880
(?)
Frances
m. 1880’s
(?)
Martha Jane
Nicholls (refer p229)
Richard
Mary Jane
Born 17/5/1862 Born 19/11/1864 Born 2/2/1867
(Trezela, Gulval) (Trezela, Gulval) (Chysauster, Gulval)
Born 1868/9
(Towednack)
c. 10/1/1865
c.
c. 16/1/1865 c. 20/12/1867
(Penzance –
(Penzance Wesleyan)
Wesleyan)
Died 5/4/1891 b. 1891+
(Penzance Wesleyan)
Died 28/6/1887
Towednack
U.S.A
(‘Of Tin Croft Hill, aged 28’)
(‘Aged 20’)
b. 1891+
m. Sep qrt 1890
Mr. Dunstan
25/7/1860 ‘Gave Edward Nicholls for the use of his shop 5/- [5 shillings].’
1851 Census – Trevarrack, Gulval: Mary Ann Symons, 17, general servant, born St Just; with
Anthony Tripcony, miller, & family.
1861 Census – Garris, Gulval: Edward Nicholls, head, 29, miner, born Gulval; wife Mary Ann,
28, born Gulval [?]; children (born Gulval) – Edward, 7; James, 5; William Henry, 3, Stephen, 1.
1871 Census – Chypons, Towednack: Edward Nicholls, head, 38, tin miner, born Gulval; wife
Mary Ann, 38, born Breage. Children (all born Gulval except for Mary Jane) – James, 17, tin
dresser; Edward, 15, tin dresser; William Henry, 13, tin dresser; Stephen, 11, tin dresser; Walter,
9, scholar; Susanna, 7, scholar; Richard, 4, scholar; Mary Jane, 2, born Towednack. Also Mary
Symons, mother-in-law, widow, 68, tailoress, born Gwennap.
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1881 Census – Tin Croft, Towednack: Edward Nicholls, 48, dairyman, born Gulval; wife Mary
Ann, 48, born Sithney [?]; children – Stephen, 21, tin miner; Walter, 18, tin miner; Susanna, 15,
domestic servant; Richard, 14, tin dresser (mines); Mary Jane, 12, scholar, born Towednack. Also
Mary Symons, mother-in-law, widow of miner, born Gwennap.
1891 Census – Tin Croft, Towednack: Edward Nicholls, head, 58, dairyman, born Gulval; wife
Mary Ann, 58, born Breage; daughter Susanna Nicholls, single, 25, born Gulval; daughter Mary J.
Dunston, married, 21, dressmaker, born Towednack; also Annie Morris, visitor, single, 22, born
Towednack.
1901 Census – Towednack: Edward Nicholls, 68, dairyman, born Cornwall; wife Mary, 68, born
Breage. [Note: there may be others in the household.]
* Phillipa Phillips born circa 1860 Ludgvan was the daughter of John & Phillis Phillips.
1881 Census – Necledry, Towednack: James Nicholls, head, 26, tin miner, born Gulval; wife
Phillipa, 21, born Ludgvan; son Edward John, 11 months, born Ludgvan.
** Edward recorded in 1880 US Federal Census – aged 25, single, living in Ishpeming, Marquette,
Michigan.
*** Stephen arrived in Michigan, USA, on 12/4/1884 (recorded in Keweenaw County
Declarations of Intent). He traveled with William L. Nicholls (seemingly William Lawry
Nicholls, brother of Martha Jane Nicholls, c. 6/10/1862 – refer p229) whose date of arrival is also
12/4/1884.
Stephen married a Martha Jane Nicholls. His widow died 15/12/1965 at the age of 101 years at
Stockton, San Joaquin, California. From Social Security Death indexes and California Death
Records it shows that her mother’s maiden name was Eddy, and that Martha was born 21/9/1864.
The matter is still to be resolved.
There was possibly a daughter Ethel born in 1888. A daughter, Flora (or Florence), was born
5/6/1891 at Lead, South Dakota, but died 7/8/1891 of cholera infantum, aged 3 months. Another
daughter, Mary Ann, was born 7/9/1892 at Lead, SD. Mary Ann married Samuel Frederick
Hargraves from Spearfish, SD and died July 1893 in Bellevue, King, Washington, U.S.A.
Stephen Nicholls was killed in the Homestake Gold Mine in Lead, South Dakota, but the accident
occurred on 30th July 1892. He was referred to as Stephen R. Nicholls to distinguish him from
another Stephen Nicholls who owned a nearby ranch. The newspaper Black Hills Daily Times
morning newspaper dated 31/7/1892 confirms the accident. The Report of the State Mine
Inspector – 1892 pp 7-8 describes how and why the accident occurred.
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Nicholls Memorial Inscription – Towednack
IN LOVING MEMORY
OF RICHARD
THE BELOVED SON OF
EDWARD & MARY ANN NICHOLLS
OF TINCROFT HILL
TOWEDNACK
WHO DIED JUNE 28TH 1887
AGED 20 YEARS
ALSO OF THEIR GRANDCHILD
WILLIAM EDWARD
AND THE BELOVED CHILD OF
WILLIAM & FRANCES NICHOLLS
WHO DIED JULY 4TH 1883
AGED 16 MONTHS
SAFE IN THE HANDS OF JESUS
ALSO OF WALTER
BROTHER OF THE ABOVE RICHARD
WHO DIED APRIL 5TH 1891
AGED 28 YEARS
HE FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS
ALSO OF STEPHEN
THEIR BROTHER
WHO WAS KILLED IN BLACKHILLS AMERICA
JUL 29TH 1892
AGED 33 YEARS
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Richard Nicholls
m.
Jane Richards Curnow
21/4/1855
(Richard Nicholls, 21, miner of Gulval, father: Richard, miner. Jane, 20, of Gulval, father:
Nicholas, a miner. Mark of Richard & mark of Jane; witnessed by Richard Nicholls & Henry
Rich (p143).)
(Miner of Gulval 1855)
c. 28/1/1834 Madron
c. 5/7/1835 Zennor
(Father: Nicholas/Catherine [Richards])
b. 1880+
b. 1880+
Richard*
Born circa 1857
Andrew
Born 1862
James
Born 1865
(Australia)
(Vic., Aust)
(Vic., Aust)
Reg. No. 14024 Reg. No. 1939
(Vic., Aust)
Reg. No. 1985
b. 10/7/1944
b.
b.
b.
Martha Matilda
Born 1878
m. 1879
(Australia)
Elizabeth
May
Agnes Edith
Born 1879
Arthur
Born 1880
(Vic., Aust.)
Reg. No. 12124
(Vic., Aust.)
Reg. No. 25220
b.
b.
Richard & Jane Nicholls embarked on 2/5/1855 aboard the ship ‘South Sea’ which arrived at Port
Adelaide, South Australia on 30/7/1855.
* Seemingly a son, Richard, born circa 1857, married Elizabeth May in 1879 (Victoria?). Richard
died Daylesford, Victoria, buried 10/7/1944, Daylesford Cemetery – parents on death certificate:
Richard Nicholls & Jane Curnow. Elizabeth died 1929, buried 28/2/1929, Daylesford Cemetery.
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Joseph Nicholls (below)
m.1
Mary
Dec qrt 1855
(Penzance marriage ref. no. 5C 543)
(Tin miner of Ludgvan 1861, tin miner of Uny Lelant 1881)
c. 10/8/1826
Born circa 1822 Ludgvan
(Parents?)
b. 1881+
b. 1871+
Seemingly no issue
1861 Census – Nancledrea, Ludgvan: Joseph Nicholls, head, 35, tin miner, born Gulval; wife
Mary, 44, born Ludgvan; Thomas Brown, 9, scholar, born Ludgvan.
1871 Census – 19 Burton Row, Penzance: Joseph Nicholls, 46, labourer, born Ludgvan; wife
Mary, 50, born Ludgvan; Thomas Brown, 18, son-in-law [?], blacksmith, born Falmouth.
Joseph Nicholls (above)
m.2
Sarah Pearce
Sept qrt 1876
(Penzance marriage ref. no. 5C 413)
(Tin miner of Uny Lelant 1881)
c. 10/8/1826
Born circa 1822 Crowan
(Parents?)
b. 1881+
b. 1881+
Seemingly no issue
Joseph’s wife Mary would appear to have died between 1871 & 1876. More research required.
1881 Census – Wheal Kitty, Uny Lelant: Joseph Nicholls, head, 53, tin miner, born Gulval; wife
Sarah, 59, born Crowan; Louisa Pearce, stepdaughter, 17, born Crowan.
220
John Nicholls
m.
Mary Ann Hall
14/6/1856
(John, 21, a miner, of Gulval, father: Andrew, a miner. Mary, 20, of Gulval, father: Richard Hall,
a miner. Mark of John & mark of Mary Ann; witnessed by Andrew Nicholls & Richard Hall.)
(Miner of Higher Carne 1857, miner of Trye 1860, 1871, 1873, 1876, 1878, whereabouts
unknown in 1881)
Born circa 1835
c. 8/1/1837 Bible Christian Penzance Circuit
(Father: Andrew/Mary – p132)
(Father: Richard/Ann [Bolitho])
b. 24/11/1888 Zennor
b. 22/6/1900 Zennor
(‘Of Lady Downs, aged 52’)
(‘Of Zennor’)
William John Richard Andrew
Martha*
Born 1858
Francis**
Born 1862
c. 9/8/1857
c.
c. 15/1/1860
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 1901+
b. 1881+
b. 19/1/1876 b. 1871+
James***
Harriet
Margaret Jane (‘Janey’)Henry
Born 1864
Born 1867
Born 1870
Born 1873
c.
c.
c. 17/1/1871
c. 19/11/1873
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 1881+
b. 1881+
b. 1891+
b. 1891+
1851 Census – Trye, Gulval: Richard Hall, head, 44, miner, born Gulval: wife Ann, 41, born
Morvah; daughter Mary Ann, 14, born Gulval; & 10 other children (all born Gulval).
1861 Census – Trye, Gulval: John Nicholls, head, 24, miner, born Gulval, wife M. A., 24, born
Gulval; children (all born Gulval): W. J., 4; Richard A., 3; Martha.
1871 Census – Trye, Gulval: John Nicholls, head, 36, miner; Mary Ann, wife 36; children:
William John, 14, miner; Richard Andrew, 13, miner; Martha, 11; Francis, 9; James, 7; Harriet, 3;
Margaret Jane, 5 months.
William Bolitho Records (CRO Ref. 576/17) – document dated 10/7/1872: Sworn statement of
Honor Trevarthen of Gulval, single woman, that John Nicholls of Gulval [above? - unlikely] is
father of her infant female child.
Harrods Royal County Directory of Cornwall 1878: John Nicholls, Trye.
1881 Census – Lady Downs, Towednack: Mary Ann Nicholls, head, 45, farmer’s wife, born
Gulval; children (all born Gulval): Martha, 20; Francis, 18; James, 16, farmer’s servant (indoors);
Harriet, 12, scholar; Janey, 10, & Henry, 7.
Kelly’s Directory 1883: John Nicholls, Trye.
1891 Census – Zennor: Mary A Nicholls, head, widow, born Gulval; daughter Margaret J., 19,
born Gulval; son Henry, 17, born Gulval.
* 1901 Census – Penzance: Martha Nicholls, 41, laundress, born Gulval.
** Carfury School Registers:
1/5/1871 – Francis, 7 years 10 months, started school, resident of Lady Downs, father a carpenter
[?].
20/1/1872 – Came back.
2 – 6 November 1874 – F. Nicholls passed Standard III. His prize: comforter.
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23 – 27 November 1874 – Francis has gone to Zennor Boys’ School.
24/4/1871 – James, 6 years, started school, resident of Lady Downs, father a carpenter [?].
3/3/1872 – Came back.
2 – 6 November 1874 – James Nicholls passed Standard I. His prize: cap.
23 – 27 November 1874 – James has gome to Zennor Boys’ School.
222
Stephen Nicholls
m.
Catherine Brush
30/6/1857
(Stephen, 26, a miner, of Zennor, father: Stephen, farmer. Catherine, 24, of Bodrifty, father:
Richard, farmer. Mark of Stephen & signature of Catherine; witnessed by Richard Brush & John
Brush.)
(Miner of Zennor 1857; tin miner of Bodrifty 1861, miner of Tredinneck Moor 1862 &
1865; farmer of Tredinneck Moor 1871-1878)
c. 17/4/1831
c. 8/12/1833 (born Bodrifty)
(Parents: Richard/Grace [Nicholls – p96])
b. 10/5/1878 (died 5/5/1878)
b. 10/3/1899
(‘Of Tredinneck aged 47’)
(‘Of Tredinneck aged 65’)
[Gulval Probate mentions his widow Catherine. Goods valued at under £200. Will proved
3/4/1879]
Richard Brush*
Jane**
Born 1858 Bodrifty
Born Aug 1862 Tredinneck Moor Born 16th Oct 1865 Tredinneck
John***
c. 8/11/1857
c. 5/10/1862
c. 2/11/1865 Carfury Chapel
(Penzance Bible Christian Circuit)
b. 25/8/1876 Gulval b. 1/12/1888 Gulval
Died 22/8/1876
Died 28/11/1888
b. 15/1/1953 Madron
Died 12/1/1953
(‘Of Tredinneck Moor
- Aged 18’)
(Miner at Ding Dong)
(Penzance Hospital)
(‘Of Tredinneck Moor
- Aged 26’)
m. 25/12/1895
(Penzance)
Eliza Ann
Jelbert (p252)
1851 Census – Bodrifty, Gulval: Richard Brush, head, 60, farmer of 62 acres, born Gulval; wife
Grace, 47, born Gulval; children (all born Gulval: Henry, 24, unmarried, employed on the farm;
Jane, 22, unmarried, employed at home; Elizabeth, unmarried, 20, employed at home; Cathrine,
17, employed at home. William Nicholls [p132], servant, 17, farm labourer, born Gulval; Jane
Eddy, 10, house servant, born Madron; Stephen Hoskins, lodger, 7, scholar, born Sancreed.
1861 Census – Bodrifty, Gulval: Stephen Nicholls, head, 30, tin miner, born Gulval; wife
Catherine, 27, born Gulval; son Richard B., 3, born Gulval.
1871 Census – Tredinneck Moor, Gulval: Stephen Nicholls, head, 40, farming 10 acres; Catherine,
wife, 37; children: Richard B., 13, working on the farm; Jane, 8; & John, 5.
1881 Census - Tredinneck, Gulval: Catherine Nicholls, head, farmer’s widow, 47, keeps farm;
children: Jane, 18, born Gulval; and John, 15, born Gulval.
1891 Census – Tredinneck, Gulval: Catherine Nicholls, head, widow, 57, keeps farm; John,
unmarried son, 25, works on farm, born Gulval.
* Died of phthisis after an illness of 2 years. His father signed the death certificate with an “X”.
30/1/1871 – Jane, 8 years 6 months, started school, resident of Tredinneck, father a farmer.
14/7/1873 – Jane (Janey) passed in Standard III.
2 – 6 November 1874 – Jane Nicholls passed in Standard IV. Her prize: a workbox.
1877 – Jane left school, resident of Tredinneck, father a farmer.
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Jane died in 1888 when struck by lightning while riding in pony & trap along the road near
Tredinneck. Death certificate states cause of death as shock by lightning & nervouse prostration
collapse. Her brother John was present at the time of the accident.
30/1/1871 – John, 5 years 5 months, commenced school, resident of Tredinneck, father a farmer.
2 – 6 November 1874 – John Nicholls of Tredinneck Moor passed Standard I - prize a cap.
23/2/1877 - John left school for work, resident of Tredinneck, father a farmer.
224
James Nicholls
m.
Mary Jane Love
3/10/1857 Madron
(James Nicholls, 22, a miner, of Penzance, father: Stephen, a miner. Mary, 19, of Penzance,
father: Thomas Love, shipwright. Witnessed by Jane Nicholls & W. [?] A. Cocks)
(Miner of Penzance 1857)
c. 22/11/1835
Born circa 1838 Paul
(Father: Thomas/Alice)
Adeline
Born 1858
James
born 1865
Jane
born 1871
(Madron)
(Cleator, Cumb.) (Cleator)
(Cleator)
b. 1901+
b.
b.
b.
Thomas L
born 1871
m. circa 1880’s
(?)
William
Saunders
1851 Census – Quay Street, Penzance: Thomas Love, head, 55, shipwright, born Ludgvan; wife
Alice, 51, born St Paul; children: Mary, 12, scholar, born Penzance; & five other children.
1861 Census – Factory Row, Tuckingmill, Camborne: James Nicholls, head, 25, tin miner, born
Gulval; wife Mary Jane, 22, born Madron; daughter Adeline, 3, born Madron.
1871 Census – Cleator Village, Cumberland: James Nicholls, 34, iron ore miner, born Cornwall;
wife Mary, 32, born Cornwall; children (all born Cleator): James, 6; Jane, 1 month; Thomas L., 1
month.
1901 Census – 55 Dalziell Street, Egremont, Cumberland: James Nicholls, head, widow, 64,
retired iron ore miner, born Gulval; William Saunders, son-in-law, 31, iron ore miner, born
Cleator; Adelaide Saunders, daughter, 27; Mary J. Saunders, grand-daughter, 1 month, born
Egremont. [John, brother of James, died 1895 at 46 Dalziell Street, Egremont – refer p200]
James Nicholls died 3/7/1914 at Moor Row, Egremont, Cumberland; wife Mary Jane died
16/12/1900 at Moor Row, Egremont, Cumberland - cemetery monument inscriptions at Egremont.
[Note: See notes on James’ brother, John Cock Nicholls – p200]
225
Richard Nicholls
m.
Jane Glasson Giles 8/5/1858 Paul
(Richard, farmer of Paul; father: Richard. Jane, of Paul; father: Henry, farmer.
witnessed by Richard Nicholls & Jane Nicholas)
Marriage
(Dairyman of Paul 1861)
c. 7/7/1833 Madron
born circa 1833 Paul
(Father: Henry)
b. 1865+
b. 1865+
(Remarried to William Harvey 1870*)
Hannah
c. 5/1/1862
Richard H
William Giles
born abt 1864 c. 5/11/1865
(Paul)
(Paul)
(Paul)
b. 1881+
b. 1881+
b. 1881+
1861 Census – Regennis, Paul: Richard Nicholls, 28, dairyman, born Madron; wife Jane, 28, born
Paul; servant Ann Cock, 22, born Madron.
1871 Census – Reginnis, Paul: William Harvey, head, 45, farmer, born Paul; wife Jane [previously
Jane Nicholls], 38, born Paul; Annie Nichols, daughter-in-law, 9, scholar, born Paul; William
Nichols, son-in-law, 5, scholar, born Paul; also Alice Keverne, unmarried, 20, general servant,
born Paul; Abed’ge Harvey, 13, farm servant, born Paul.
1881 Census – Regennis, Paul: William Harvey, head, 54, farmer of 29 acres exploying one man,
born Paul; wife Jane, 49, born Paul; step-daughter Annie Nicholls, 19; stepson Richard H.
Nicholls, 17, born Paul; stepson William G. Nicholls, 15, born Paul; son Richard Harvey, 8,
scholar, born Paul.
* Marriage details: 21/12/1870 Paul - William Harvey, farmer of Ragennis; father: William, a
farmer. Jane Nicholls, of Ragennis; father: Henry, farmer. Marriage witnessed by John Nicholls
& Richard Pengelly.
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Andrew Nicholls
m.
(Miner of Trezela 1862 & 1864)
Ann Pearce Martin 4/9/1858 Ludgvan
(Parents: William/Frances [Pearce])
b. 1871+
b. 1871+
William Andrew*
c. 23/1/1859
John Pearce
c. 24/6/1860
Anne
c. 15/6/1862
Christopher Martins**
c. 13/3/1864
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 1888+
b.
b.
b. 1892+
m. 1880’s
(?)
Janet
Fairbairn
m. 1880’s
(?)
Agnes
Sloan
James
c. 12/5/1867
Mary Frances
c.3/3/1868
Walter
Born 1871
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Dykehead)
b.
b.
b.
1841 Census – Castle Town, Ludgvan: Andrew, 5, with his future stepfather Uncle Thomas
Martin(s) & family – refer p155).
1861 Census – Trezela, Gulval: Andrew Nicholls, head, 25, miner, born Ludgvan; wife Ann, 23,
born Ludgvan; son William Andrew, 2, born Ludgvan; son John Pearce, 10 months, born
Ludgvan. Also includes Eliza Brookhome, house servant, 11, born Towednack.
1871 Census – Dykehead Colliery, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland: Andrew Nicholls, head, 35,
coal miner, born Ludgvan; wife Ann P., 33, born Ludgvan; children (all born Ludgvan except
Walter): William A., 12, coal miner; John P., 10, scholar; Ann, 8, scholar; Christopher, 6; James,
4; Franklin (daughter), 3; Walter, 1 month, born Dykehead; also James Ninnis, 27, boarder, coal
miner, born England; Fannie Martin, 78, grandmother, born Ludgvan.
* A son George born in 1888 to William Andrew & Janet Nicholls.
** A daughter Mary Frances born in 1892 to Christopher Martin & Agnes Nicholls.
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Sampson Pender Nicholls
m.
Elizabeth Ellis
2/6/1859 St Ives
(Sampson Pender Nicholls, 44, bachelor, miner of St Ives, father: Peter, a shoemaker. Elizabeth’s
father: John Ellis, a miner. Witnessed by Christiana Cooke & Thomas Williams)
(Miner of St Ives 1859, miner of Halsetown 1862, miner of Ludgvan 1864 & 1867)
c. 23/4/1815 Madron
(Parents: Peter/Christiana – p113)
(Parents: John/Elizabeth [Taskes])
b. Circa 1868
b. 8/6/1894 Gulval
Sampson Pender
Peter
John Charles
Born circa 1859 St Ives
c. 5/1/1867
(Gulval)
John Pender
born circa 1864 St Ives
c. 19/5/1862
c. 27/8/1864
(Halsetown)
(Ludgvan)
b. 29/11/1893
b. prior to 1871 b. prior to 1867
c. 5/1/1867
(Gulval)
b. 1891+
1861 Census – Halsetown, St Ives: Sampson Pender Nicholls, 44, tin miner, born Madron; wife
Elizabeth, 36, born Gulval; son Sampson Pender Nicholls, 1, born St Ives.
1871 Census – Necledry, Towednack: Elizabeth Nicholls, widow, 44, stamps worker, born
Ludgvan; children: Sampson Pender, miner, 11, born St Ives; John Pender, 7, at school, born St
Ives.
1881 Census – Necledry, Towednack: Elizabeth Nicholls, head, widow, 55, charwoman, born
Ludgvan; son Sampson, 21, tin miner, born St Ives.
1891 Census – Badger’s Cross, Gulval: Elizabeth Nicholls, head, widow, 63, born Ludgvan; son
Sampson, unmarried, 29, mason, born St Ives; son John, unmarried, 27, farm labourer, born St
Ives.
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Hugh Nicholls
m.
Martha Penberthy
22/4/1860 Ludgvan
(Tin miner of Towednack 1861, miner of Higher Garris 1862, miner of Higher Tregarris
1865, miner of Garris 1868, tin miner of Nancledra, Ludgvan 1869, miner of Trenowen,
Ludgvan 1871 & miner of Ludgvan 1881)
c. 13/10/1839 Ludgvan
(Parents: Hugh/Jane – refer p169)
b. Sept qrt 1883 (‘Aged 43’)
(Parents: Isaac/Christian [Martin])
b. 1901+
William Lawry*
Martha Jane
Hugh
Christiana
Born 1860
(Ludgvan)
born abt 1862
(Ludgvan)
born abt 1864
(Gulval)
born May 1865
(Gulval?)
c.?
c. 6/10/1862
c.?
c. 6/9/1865
(Gulval)
Died 19/3/1911
b.
(St Ives)
b. 1871+
(Lead, South Dakota)
b. 4/11/1866
(‘Higher Try aged 17m)
m. 1880’s
(USA?)
Sarah Jane
Perry
m.? 1880’s
(USA?)
Stephen
Nicholls (refer p217)
Elizabeth Mary
Mary Ann
Maud Mary Ann
Edith
Born abt 1869
(Ludgvan)
Born abt 1871
(Ludgvan)
c. 6/8/1866
c. 24/8/1868
c. 22/9/1869
c. 11/10/1871
(Gulval)
b. Prior to 1871?
(Gulval)
(St Ives)
(St Ives)
b. 20/10/1868
b. 1901+
b. 1891+
(‘Died Try
- Aged 1 yr 3 m’)
Georgina
Born abt 1873
(Ludgvan)
c. 28/5/1873
Eveline
born abt 1875
Hugh
Albert John**
(Ludgvan)
born abt 1877
(Ludgvan)
born 11/11/1879
(Ludgvan)
c.
c. 20/7/1877
c. 21/4/1880
(St Ives)
(St Ives)
b. 1891+
Died 22/12/1926
(St Ives)
b. 1891+
b. 1891+
(Towednack ‘aged 47’)
m. circa 1900
(?)
Bessie
1861 Census – Amalebry, Towednack: Hugh Nicholls, 22, tin miner, born Ludgvan; wife Martha,
21, born Towednack; son William Lawrey Nicholls, 10 months, born Ludgvan.
1871 Census – Ludgvan: Hugh Nicholls, 31, tin miner, born Ludgvan; wife Martha, 31, born
Towednack; children: William L., 11, scholar, born Ludgvan; Martha J., 9, born Ludgvan; Hugh,
7, born Gulval & Maud A., 1, born Ludgvan.
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1881 Census – Trenowin Downs, Ludgvan: Hugh Nicholls, 41, tin miner, born Ludgvan; wife
Martha, 41, born Towednack; children (all born Ludgvan): William L., 20, tin miner; Martha J.,
18; Maud A., 11; Edith, 9; Georgina, 8; Eveline, 5; Hugh, 3; & Albert J., 1.
1891 Census – Trenowin Downs, Ludgvan: Martha Nicholls, head, widow, 51, born Towednack;
daughter Eveline, 16, gardener’s assistant, born Ludgvan; son Hugh, 13, farm servant, born
Ludgvan.
1891 Census – Trenowin Downs, Ludgvan: Maud A. Nicholls, head, 22, born Ludgvan; daughter
Eveline M., 2, born Ludgvan; sister Edith, 20, single, domestic servant, born Ludgvan.
1891 Census – Trenowin Downs, Ludgvan: William H. Rowe, head, single, 40, farmer, born
Ludgvan; cousin Hannah Curnow, single, 49, housekeeper, born Ludgvan; Albert Nicholls,
adopted, 11, scholar, born Ludgvan.
1891 Census – 46 Market Jew Street, Penzance: Georgina Nicholls, 28, servant, born Gulval [with
Bray family].
1891 (6th April) Census – 3 Alverton Place, Penzance: Martha Nicholls, 28, servant, born Gulval
[seemingly not Martha Jane as child Florence born 5/6/1891 in Lead, South Dakota, to Stephen &
Martha Jane].
1901 Census – Ludgvan: Martha Nicholls, 56, born Towednack; son Albert, 21, china clay
labourer, born Ludgvan.
1901 Census – Ludgvan: Maude Nicholls, 31, born Ludgvan; daughter Evelyn, 11, born Ludgvan
& son Joseph, 8, born Ludgvan.
* William Lawry Nicholls arrived 12/4/1884 in Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA (contained in
Declarations of Intent). Stephen Nicholls (refer p217) also declared himself the same day.
William L. Nicholls married Sarah Jane Perry, born 7/5/1861 Uny Lelant, daughter of Thomas
Perry & wife Mary Ann Tonkin (nee James). A son, Hugh, was born 16/2/1904, married Hilda,
and died South Dakota 27/12/1947. William Laurie/Lawry Nicholls died 19/3/1911 in Lead,
South Dakota, where he worked as a tin miner, aged 50y 9m & 12d. His wife Sarah Jane also died
in South Dakota.
** Albert & Jessie had two daughters: Evelyn who married Mr. Chard (she died 4/11/1981
Towednack) & Nora Kathleen who married Mr. Parsons (she died 14/6/1962 Towednack).
Jessie died 2/2/1958 Towednack, aged 80.
[Towednack Memorial inscription: ‘To the Sacred Memory of Albert John Nicholls of Tredorwin
Nancledra who entered into rest December 22nd 1926 aged 47 years. Also of Bessie his wife who
died Feb 2nd 1958 aged 80 years. Also of their daughter Evelyn Chard entered into rest 4th
November 1981. Also their daughter Nora Kathleen Parsons died Jun 14th 1962]
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William Nicholls
m.
Nannie Prowse
13/10/1860
(William, 27, a miner of Gulval; father Andrew, farmer. Nanny Prowse, 23, father: John, miner.
Witnessed by Andrew Nicholls & John Prowse)
(Miner of Try, Gulval 1861 & 1871)
c. 20/3/1833 Zennor (see below)
c. 4/6/1837 Madron (‘Nansey’)
(Parents: John/Nansey [Penrose])
b. 2/1/1872
b. 1881+
William
Born 1861
Jessica
Born 1862
John P
Born 1864
Mary A.
Born 1867
Andrew
c. 11/10/1871
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
(Towednack)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 1871+
b. 1871+
b. 1881+
b. 1881+
b. 1881+
William baptised at Trevail, Zennor 20/3/1833 by Penzance Bible Christian Circuit.
1851 Census – Trythal, Gulval: John Prowse, head, 41, farmer & labourer, born Gulval; wife
Nansey, 39, born Gulval; children: John, 17, miner, born Gulval; Nansey, 14, employed at home,
born Gulval; & five other children, all born Gulval.
1861 Census – Trye, Gulval: William Nicholls, head, 28, miner, born Gulval; wife Naney, 25,
born Madron: E. J. Nicholls, sister [?], 13, born Madron; Andrew Nicholls, 63, father, lodger, born
Gulval; Mary Nicholls, 61, mother, lodger, born St Buryan.
1871 Census – Trye, Gulval: William Nicholls, head, 38, miner, born Gulval; wife Nannie, 35,
born Madron; children: William, 9, born Gulval; Jessica, 8, scholar, born Gulval; John, 6, born
Towednack; Mary A., 3, born Gulval; Andrew, 1, born Gulval.
1881 Census – Surrey, Collins Cottage [?]: Nannie Nicholls, widow, 43, born Madron; son John
P., 15. Born Towednack; Mary A., 13, born Gulval, son Andrew, 11, born Gulval; and visitor John
Corin, 24, born Madron.
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Francis Nicholls
m.
Miriam Ellis Floyd 10/12/1860 Perranuthnoe
(Francis, 25, engineer, of Perran, father dead. Miriam, 21, of Perran, father: Richard,
husbandman. Signature of Francis Nicholls and mark of Miriam; witnessed by Richard Floyd &
William Henry Nicholls.)
(Engineman of Perranuthnoe 1861, mine engineer driver 1881)
Born 11/8/1833
c. 8/9/1833 Madron
c. 7/4/1839 Perranuthnoe
Died USA? (Prior to 1891)
(Parents: Richard (husbandman)/Ann [Ellis] ***)
Died 18/12/1915 Perran Downs
Richard Floyd*
John Francis
Born 4/1/1862
(My great-grandfather)
Born 8/8/1863
Elizabeth Ellen**
(‘Nellie’)
c. 27/9/1863
c. 27/9/1863
c. 27/5/1866
(Perranuthnoe)
(Perranuthnoe)
(Germoe)
Died 21/6/1933
Died 7/9/1936
b.?
Born 5/12/1865 Perranuthnoe
(London - Hammersmith (Sydney, Australia)
Hospital)
(U.S.A.?)
Unmarried
m. 2/9/1894
(St Hilary)
Stephen
Pope (miner of St Hilary)
m. 30/7/1893
(Reading, Berk.)
Caroline Ada
Quelch (p254)
Amelia Ann (Annie)
Grace Baynard****
Born 16/3/1869 Perranuthnoe
Born 1/6/1872
c. 10/8/1870
c. 3/8/1873
(Germoe)
(Perranuthnoe)
b. 1953
b. circa 1960
(Camborne)
(Died Falmouth nursing home)
(Camborne)
m. 1916
(Perranuthnoe)
Samuel John
Hitchens (farmer)
m. 25/7/1900
(Perranuthnoe)
Nicholas Trahair
Matthews
No issue
1851 Census – Perran Downs, Perranuthnoe: Richard Floyd, head, 51, agricultural labourer, born
St Hilary; wife Ann, 42, born St Clemence; children (all born Perranuthnoe): Thomas, 16, copper
miner; Richard, 14, agricultural labourer; Miriam, 12, scholar; and Joseph, 6, scholar.
1861 Census – Perran Downs, Perranuthnoe: Richard Floyd, head, 60, agricultural labourer, born
St Hilary; Ann Floyd, wife, 52, born Truro. Richard Floyd, son, unmarried, 22, tin miner, born
Perranuthnoe; Francis Nicholls, son-in-law, married, 26, engineman, born Madron; Miriam Ellis
Micholls, daughter (of Richard Floyd senior), 22, born St Perranuthnoe; Mary Blackwell, visitor,
13, scholar, born Crowan.
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1871 Census – Perran Downs, Perranuthnoe: Richard Floyd, head, 70, farmer, born St Hilary; Ann
Floyd, wife, 63, born Truro; Francis Nicholls, lodger [son-in-law], 37, born Madron; Miriam Ellis
Nicholls, lodger [daughter], 32, born Perran; Richard Floyd Nicholls, lodger, 9, scholar, born
Perran; John Francis Nicholls, lodger, 7, scholar, born Perrran; Elizabeth Ellen Nicholls, lodger, 2,
born Perran.
1881 Census – Perran Downs, Perranuthnoe: Richard Floyd, head, widower, 80, retired farmer;
Miriam Ellis Nicholls, daughter, married, 42, mine engineer driver’s wife, born Perranuthnoe;
Richard Floyd Nicholls, grandson, unmarried, 19, general labourer, born Perranuthnoe; John
Francis Nicholls, grandson, 17, wheelwright’s apprentice, born Perranuthnoe. Elizabeth Ellen
Nicholls, granddaughter, 15, at school, born Perranuthnoe; Amelia Ann Nicholls, grandaughter,
12, at school, born Perranuthnoe; Grace Baynard Nicholls, granddaughter, 8, at school, born
Perranuthnoe.
1891 Census – Perran Downs, Perranuthnoe: Miriam Ellis Nicholls, head, widow, 52, employer,
living on her own means; Elizabeth Ellen Nicholls, daughter, 25, dressmaker; Grace Baynard
Nicholls, daughter, 18, dressmaker’s apprentice.
1901 Census – Perran Downs, Perranuthnoe: Miriam Nicholls, 62, born Perranuthnoe; daughter
Amelia Nicholls, 32, domestic cook, born Perranuthnoe.
1915 – Miriam living at the corner of Red Lane, Goldsithney / Perranuthnoe in a stone cottage.
Neighbours were Skewers and Hitchens.
* Richard sailed to America and was naturalized as an American citizen in Michigan 13th
December 1882, along with father Francis. Richard went to South Africa in 1889. Imprisoned in
1899 for plotting to overthrow Transvaal Government but released after 2 months imprisonment.
He served in the Boer War against Boers. Returned to Cornwall during WWI and enlisted. More
particulars are done separately.
** Marriage details: Stephen Pope, 23, of St Hilary; father: James, miner. Elizabeth Ellen
Nicholls, 28, of Perranuthnoe; father: Francis, engine driver (deceased). Marriage witnessed by
Thomas Ellis Floyd & Kathleen Hughes.
Stephen Pope baptised 5/8/1860 Germoe, son of William Henry & Mary Ann. Stephen & wife
migrated to America late 1890’s.
Possible connection - New York Cornish Arms Hotel Bulletin 1921: ‘Mrs. Pope was returning to
St Hilary’.
*** Will of Thomas Ellis of St Hilary, miner, proved 26/11/1851 – Bonds to John Floyd,
Perranuthnoe miner and Francis Ellis of Phillack, carpenter.
**** Marriage details: Nicholas Trahair Matthews, of Tuckingmill, Camborne, father dead, &
Grace Baynard Nicholls, of Perran Downs. Marriage witnessed by Thomas Ellis Floyd & Edwin
Matthews.
Nicholas Trahair Matthews baptised 28/11/1852 Madron, son of William & Elizabeth - most
probably father of Nicholas who married Grace.
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Henry Nicholls
m.
Maryann Rowe
9/3/1861 Towednack
(Henry, 22, tindresser, residence Ladydowns; father: Henry Nicholls, a miner. Maryann Rowe,
18, residence Ladydowns; father William Rowe, miner. Signed with the marks of Henry &
Maryann; witnessed by Matthew Trewhella & Samson Banfield)
(Miner & tindresser of Trye, Gulval 1861; tindresser 1862; tin miner of Lady Downs,
Zennor 1864)
c. 24/12/1837 Madron
Born circa 1842 Gulval
(Parents: Henry/Mary – p136)
(Father: William)
b. 7/10/1865 Zennor
b. 1904 New Zealand
(Remarried William Hosking 1873)
Henry
Born 1861
Catherine**
Born 28/4/1862
Henry*
Born 18/9/1864
(Gulval)
(Trye, Gulval)
(Ladydowns, Zennor)
b. June qrt 1861
b. 1878+
b. 1881+
(Penzance ref. 5C 215)
1861 Census – Trye, Gulval: Henry Nicholls, 22, miner & tindresser, born Towednack; Maryann,
wife, 19, housekeeper, born Gulval; Henry Nicholls, son, 1 month, born Gulval; Jemima Nicholls,
sister, unmarried, 26, lodger, born Towednack; Edward Henry (Emanuel?), base child (of
Jemima), 2, born Gulval.
Henry Nicholls aged 27, tindresser, died 4/10/1865 at Kerrow, Zennor. Cause of death: bronchitis
& pthisis (12 months). William Nicholls, brother, of Lady Downs, Towednack, was in attendance
(his mark).
1871 Census – Tredinneck Moor, Gulval: Mary Ann Nicholls, 28, widow, born Gulval, attending
Mine Account House – with children Catherine, 8, born Gulval, & Henry, 6, born Zennor.
Mary Ann/Maryann later married William Hosking on 24/9/1873 (St Ives?) - a widower with ten
children. William & Maryann had three children in Cornwall. They migrated to New Zealand on
the ‘Waikato’ in 1878, leaving behind his two eldest children and her son Henry. Two more
children were born in Timaru, New Zealand. In the 1881 Census son Henry Nicholls was living
with his grandmother Betsey Rowe at Trye – he is said to have gone to the U.S.A. in the 1880’s.
Daughter Catherine went with her mother to New Zealand, where she married her stepbrother
James Hosking. Maryann died in 1904.
30/1/1871 - Henry, 7 years, started school, resident of Tredinneck Moor, father deceased.
November 1872 – Henry left school, aged 8 years 11 months. ‘Quite satisfied with his progress
but taken him away on his own wishes’.
1881 Census – Trye, Gulval: Henry Nicholls, 17, agricultural labourer, born Zennor; with
Elizabeth Rowe, head, widow, 60, occupying 8 acres (farmer), born Madron.
** 30/1/1871 – Catherine, 8 years, resident of Tredinneck Moor, father deceased.
June 1872 – Catherine left school, aged 9 years 6 months. Sent to work at the Stamps.
Catherine baptised at Ladydowns, Zennor chapel 22/5/1862 by Penzance Bible Christian Circuit –
father Henry of Gulval a tindresser.
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m.
Mary Roberts
4/5/1862 Madron
(Labourer of Madron 1865, Farmer of Higher Ninnis 1870, general labourer of
Churchtown, Madron 1878 & 1881, labourer 1883, labourer of Hea Moor, Madron 1891)
c. 27/10/1833 Madron
(Parents: William/Jane – p122)
Died 2/6/1900 (‘aged 62’)
(Madron Methodist Cemetery)
(Parents: Joseph/Jane)
Died 25/4/1911 (‘aged 72’)
(Madron Methodist Cemetery)
Mary Jane*
William Henry**
Joseph Thomas***
Born 1863 Madron
Born 1865 Madron
Born 1866 Madron
c. 11/9/1864
c. 26/8/1870
c. 26/8/1870
(Sancreed)
(Gulval)
(Gulval)
b. 1891+
b. 1872+
b. 1874+
Elizabeth Ann****
George Henry
Catherine
Richard James
c. 26/8/1870
c. 1/12/1871
c. 8/8/1875
c. 3/11/1878
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
Died 13/11/1894
b. 30/12/1871
b.
Died 2/2/1949
(‘Aged 25’)
(Madron Methodist)
(‘Of Ninnes, aged 6 months)
Born 1868 Madron
(‘Aged 70’)
(Madron Methodist)
m. circa 1900
(Madron?)
Ellen
Frederick
Born 1880 Madron
c. 23/2/1883
(Madron)
Died 28/5/1911
(‘Aged 31’)
(Madron Methodist)
Age of William Henry Nicholls varies – refer census details.
Madron Methodist Cemetery inscription – ‘In Loving Memory of William H Nicholls who died
2nd June 1900 aged 62 years; also of Elizabeth Ann his daughter who died 13th November 1894
aged 25 years; also of Mary, wife of the above who died April 25th 1911 aged 72 years.’
Madron Methodist Cemetery inscription – ‘In Loving Memory of Frederick Nicholls who died at
Heamoor 28th May 1911 aged 31 years “Peace, Perfect Peace”; also of his brother Richard James
Nicholls who died 2nd Feby 1949 aged 70 years “At Rest”; also of Ellen wife of Richard J Nicholls
who died 10th Octr 1965 aged 81 years.’
1871 Census – Madron: William Nicholls, head, 75, farmer of 16 acres & stone cutter, born
Sancreed [father of William]; William H., 30, born Madron & wife Mary, 31, born Sancreed, with
children (all born Madron) Mary J., 7; W.H., 5; Joseph T., 4, & Elizabeth A., 2.
1881 Census – Churchtown, Madron: William H. Nicholls, head, 45, general labourer, born
Madron; wife Mary, 39, charwoman, born Sancreed; children (all born Madron): Mary J., 16,
apprentice dressmaker; Elizabeth A., 12, scholar; Richard J., 2; Frederick, 1.
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1891 Census – Hea Moor, Madron: William H. Nicholls, head, 50, labourer, born Madron; wife
Mary, 48, born Sancreed; children (all born Madron): Mary, unmarried, 25, dressmaker; James
[Richard James], 12, scholar; Frederick, 10, scholar.
1901 Census – Madron: Mary Nicholls, widow, 60, charwoman, born Sancreed; son Frederick, 21,
gardener not domestic, born Madron; Winifred Nicholls, 4, grand-daughter, born Madron.
* 12/2/1872 – Mary Jane, 7 years, started school, resient of Ninnis, father a quarryman.
August 1871 – Left school
October 1873 – Came back.
** 12/2/1872 – William H., 6 years, started school, resident of Ninnis, father a quarryman.
May 1874 – Left again for Madron Boys School.
[William H. originally baptised as William Henry Nicholas 13/12/1865 at Carfury Chapel by
Penzance Bible Christian Circuit – father a labourer of Madron]
*** 12/2/1872 – Joseph, 4 years, started school, resident of Ninnis, father a quarryman.
May 1874 – Left again for Madron Boys’ School.
**** 12/2/1872 – Bessie, 3 years, started school, resident of Ninnis, father a quarryman.
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William Nicholls
m.
Honor Curnow
Dec qrt 1862
(Penzance district marriage ref. 5C 543)
(Miner of Zennor 1871, miner of New Mill, Madron 1875-1881, of Mulfra 1886)
c. Circa 1830 Madron
c. circa 1835 Towednack
(Parents: Henry/Mary – p136)
(Parents?)
b. 2/5/1886
b. 3/12/1897
(‘Of Mulfra, aged 56’)
(‘Of The Cross Gulval, aged 60’)
William*
Mary
Henry**
Born abt 1862 born abt 1863 born 1865
Isaac***
Annie
born 31/3/1869 born abt 1874
(Towednack)
(Towednack)
(Towednack)
b. 1881+
b. 1891+
b. 1891+
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
Died 15/11/1931 b. 1891+
(Dakota USA)
1871 Census – Higher Kerrow, Zennor: William Nicholls, head, 41, tin miner, born Towednack
[?]; wife Honor, 36, born Towednack; children: William, 8, born Towednack; Mary, 7, born
Towednack; Henry, 5, born Towednack; Isaac, 2, born Zennor.
1881 Census – New Mill, Madron: William Nicholls, head, born Madron; wife Honour; children:
Mary, 20, housekeeper, born Madron; William, 17, agricultural labourer, born Madron; Henry, 15,
agricultural labourer, born Madron; Isaac, 12, scholar, born Gulval; Annie, 6, born Gulval. [Error
in census – wife recorded as Mary, 65, charwoman, born Madron (Honor still alive in 1891)]
1891 Census – Trevarrack, Gulval: Honour Nicholls, head, widow, 54, born Towednack; children:
Mary, 26, unmarried, garden work, born Towednack; Henry, 25, agricultural labourer, born
Towednack; Isaac, 22, agricultural labourer, born Zennor, Annie, 18, domestic servant, born
Zennor.
3/4/1871 – William, 8 years 4 months, started school, resident of Lady Downs, father a miner.
8/5/1871 – Henry (little), 5 years 8 months, started school, resident of Lady Downs, father a
miner. [He] left school – too little to come along, other boys left for Boys’ School.
17/3/1873 – One old scholar came back – H. Nicholls, little boy.
5/7/1875 – Isaac, resident of New Mill, father a miner.
4/2/1876 – Gone to Dames School.
Isaac died 15/11/1931 in South Dakota, USA. Parents names given as William Nicholls & Honor
Curnow.
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Andrew Nicholls
m.
Charlotte Hawke Levers Dec qrt 1863 Bodmin
(Bodmin district marriage ref. no. 5C 137)
c. 4/1/1839 Gulval
born Sept qrt 1843 Bodmin (ref. 9/29)
(Parents: John/Jane – p128)
(Father: William)
b. 1881+
b. March qrt 1889 Bodmin (ref. 5C 55)
(‘Aged 45’)
Mary
Andrew
Hannah
Jane
John
(Bodmin)
(Bodmin)
(Bodmin)
(Bodmin)
(Bodmin)
b.
b.
b.
b.
b.
Elizabeth
Born 1880
(Bodmin)
b.
1871 Census – Rhind Street, Bodmin: Andrew Nicholls, head, 32, tailor, born Penzance; wife
Charlotte, 28, born Bodmin; children (all born Bodmin): Mary, 5, scholar; Andrew, 3, scholar;
Hannah, 1; also William Levers, 69, widower, retired innkeeper, born Bodmin.
1881 census – Rhind Street, Bodmin: Andrew Nicholls, head, 42, tailor, born Gulval; wife
Charlotte, 38, born Bodmin: children (all born Bodmin): Mary, 15, domestic servant; Andrew, 13,
grocer’s errand boy; Hannah, 11, scholar; Jane, 10, scholar; John, 4; Elizabeth 5 months.
238
Hugh Nicholls
m.
Elizabeth Williams
12/11/1864
Hugh, 18, a miner, of Ludgvan, father: Andrew, a miner. Elizabeth, 21, of Gulval, father: John,
farmer. Marriage witnessed by John Williams (mark) & Thomas Williams.
(Miner of Ludgvan 1864, miner of Hellangove 1865, miner of Garris 1868, 1870 & 1877,
overseas 1881)
c. 22/11/1846
c. 26/2/1843
(Father: Andrew/Ann – p156)
(Parents: John/Mary Anne)
(‘Aged 47’)
b. 1881+
Peter*
c. 4/3/1865
Mary Ann** John
Richard Henry
c. 2/8/1868 c. 23/11/1870 c. 22/8/1877
(‘Nicholas’)
(Gulval)
b. 1887+
(Gulval)
b. 1886+
(Gulval)
b. 1881+
(Gulval)
b. 1891+
m. 10/10/1887 m. 27/3/1886
(Madron)
(Gulval)
Annie
Henry
Oliver
Pollard
1851 Census – Polkinhorne, Gulval: John Williams, head, 39, labourer, born Gulval; wife Ann,
42, born St Austell; children (all born Gulval): John, 11, scholar; Elizabeth, 8; Thomas, 5; Samuel
Carbis, 2 months.
1871 Census – Garris, Gulval: Hugh Nicholls, head, miner, 25, born Ludgvan; wife Elizabeth, 28,
born Gulval; children (all born Gulval) – Peter, 6, scholar; Mary Ann, 2, born Gulval; John, 9
months, born Gulval.
1881 Census – Trezela, Gulval: Elizabeth Nicholls, 38, married miner’s wife, husband abroad,
born Gulval; children (all born Gulval): Peter, 16, agricultural labourer; Mary A., 12, scholar;
John, 10, scholar; Richard H., 8, scholar.
1891 Census – Garris, Gulval: Elizabeth Nicholls, 48, widow, charwoman, born Gulval; son
Richard, 18, labourer; daughter Annie [Mary Ann] Pollard, 22; grandson Thomas Pollard, 4.
* 1891 Census – Chyandour, Madron: Annie Nicholls [wife of Peter], 27, born Madron; daughter
Bessie Nicholls, 3, born Madron; Susan Oliver [mother of Annie], head, widow, room cleaner
Penzance Railway Station, born St Hilary; Wilmot Saundry, sister [of Susan], 70, born St Hilary.
** Marriage details: Mary Ann Nicholls, 17, daughter of Hugh, & Henry Pollard, 20, son of John.
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Nicholas Thomas Nicholls m.
Mary Ann Jenkin
26/11/1864 Madron
(Nicholas Nicholls, 24, farmer of Madron; father: William, a farmer. Mary Ann Jenkin, 24, of
Madron; father: William Henry Jenkin, blacksmith. Marriage witnessed by William Henry Jenkin,
Richard Nicholls & B. Bone)
c. 25/10/1840 Madron
c. 21/3/1841 Madron
(Parents: William/Catherine – p163)
(Father: William Henry Jenkin)
b. 31/1/1900 Madron
b. 13/12/1929 Madron
[Madron Methodist Cemetery inscription – ‘In Loving Memory of A Dear Husband and Father
Nicholas Thomas Nicholls who died at Landithy Cottage Madron 28th Jan 1900 aged 59; also of
Henry his son who died 18th Nov 1875 aged 5 months (interred in the old churchyard); also of
Mary Ann beloved wife of the above who died 13th December 1929 aged 90 years.’]
William
c. 5/3/1865
Elizabeth Jane
c. 10/3/1867
John
c. 25/4/1869
Richard
c. 11/1/1871
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 1891+
b. 1891+
b. 1871+
b. 1891+
Thomas Charles
c. 24/5/1874
Henry
c. 11/7/1875
Walter Henry*
born 1877
Edwin James
born 1879
(Madron
(Madron)
(Madron)
(Madron)
b. 1901+
died 18/11/1875died 22/4/1954
b. 1901+
m. circa 1902
(?)
Fanny
Nicholls
1871 Census – Madron: Nicholas T. Nicholls, head, 30, born Madron; wife Mary A., 31, born
Madron; children (all born Madron): William, 6, scholar; Elizabeth J., 4, scholar; John, 2; &
Richard, 6 months.
1881 Census – Church Town, Madron: Nicholas T. Nicholls, head, 40, dairyman, born Madron;
wife Mary A., 41, born Madron; children (all born Madron): William, 16, blacksmith apprentice;
Elizabeth J., 14, scholar; Richard, 10, scholar; Thomas C., 6, scholar; Walter H., 3, scholar; Edwin
J., 1. Also [brother-in-law] William H. Jenkins, boarder, unmarried, 36, blacksmith.
1891 Census – Church Town, Madron: Nicholas T. Nicholls, head, 50, farmer & employer; wife
Mary A., 51; children: William, single, 26, clerk & rate collector; Elizabeth, single, 24; Richard,
20, farmer’s son; Thomas C., 16, farmer’s son; Walter H., 11, scholar; Edwin J., 11, scholar. Also
includes William H. Jenkins, 47, brother-in-law, retired blacksmith.
1901 Census – Madron: Mary Nicholls, 61, farmer, born Madron; sons Thomas Nicholls, 26,
farmer’s son; Walter Nicholls, 23, ironmonger’s assistant; Edwin, 21, clerk to Gas Company.
* Walter Henry, born Landithy, Madron, 28/6/1877, died Penzance 22/4/1954; married Fanny
Nicholls (born Penzance 6/6/1880, died Penzance 22/9/1950) at St Mary’s Church, Penzance
12/2/1907. Walter Henry was part-owner of Wilton & Nicholls hardware store in Market Jew
Street, Penzance. His sons John Douglas (born 3/11/1914 Penzance, died 23/2/1994 Penzance);
Frank Llewellyn (born 26/3/1911 Penzance, died 16/6/1984 Penzance); and Walter Roy (born
15/7/1908 Penzance, died 8/8/1990 Penzance) were all active in the family business until 1975
when the business was sold (went bust in the 1980’s).
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William Sims Nicholls
m.
Sarah Ann Vingoe
31/12/1864 Penzance
(Marriage conducted at Penzance St Mary Church. William, of Gulval, father: Andrew, smith.
Sarah Ann, of Penzance, father: William Henry, naturalist)
(Grocer of Penzance 1871, 1881 & 1891, retired grocer Penzance 1901)
c. 29/6/1842
(Father: William Henry Vingoe)
b. Sept qrt. 1902 (‘Aged 61’)
b. 1914+
No issue
1871 Census – Penzance: William Nicholls, head, 27, grocer, born Gulval; wife Sarah, 29, born
Penzance; Alfred Nicholls, brother, umarried, 22, chemist assistant, born Gulval; Jane Thomas,
unmarried, 23, grocer’s assistant, born St Hilary; Jane Trembath, 17, general servant, born
Ludgvan.
1881 Census – Market Place, Penzance: William Sims Nicholls, head, 37, grocer employing two
assistants & a storekeeper, born Gulval; wife Sarah Ann, 40, born Penzance; Edith Penberthy, 16,
domestic servant, born Gulval.
1891 Census – Market Place, Penzance: William S. Nicholls, head, 48, grocer; wife Sarah A., 50,
born Penzance; Mary A. Nankervis, 18, general servant, born St Just.
1901 Census – Penzance: William Nicholls, 57, retired grocer, born Gulval; wife Sarah, 60, born
Penzance.
1914 Gulval Register of Electors: William Sims Nicholls, of Norwood House, Redinnick,
Penzance, (Qualification for Register: freehold houses at Trevarrack, Gulval).
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Richard Nicholls
m.
Mary Williams
March qrt 1867
(Helston district marriage ref. no. 5C 300)
(Tin miner labourer 1871, farmer of Breage, 1881 & 1891)
c. 6/7/1834 Germoe
Born circa 1831 Breage
(Parents: Richard/Martha – p152)
(Mother: Johanna)
b. 1891+
b. 1891+
Richard Henry
Born May 1869
c.
Richard John Behole
Born 16/3/1870 Breage
c. 23/5/1870
(Marazion Wesleyan Chapel)
b. 26/10/1869
b. 1891+
(‘Of Trewithen, aged 5 months’)
1871 Census – Herland Croft, Breage: Richard Nicholls, head, 36, tin miner labourer (invalid),
born Germoe; wife Mary, 40, born Breage; son Richard J., 1, born Breage.
1881 Census – Herland Croft, Breage: Richard Nicholls, head, 46, farmer, born Germoe; wife
Mary, 52, born Breage; son Richard J., 11, scholar, born Breage; also Laura Williams, niece, 20,
dairymaid, born Germoe.
1891 Census – Herland Croft, Breage: Richard Nicholls, head, 56, farmer, employer, born
Germoe; wife Mary, 62, born Breage; son Richard J., unmarried, 21, carrier, born Breage. Also
includes Annie Kitchen, general domestic servant, 14, born Germoe.
Note: 1871 Census – Breage: Johanna Williams, widow, 70, born Breage; daughter Joan E.
Williams, unmarried, 30, tin dresser, born Breage; and granddaughter Laura Williams [see 1881
Census above], 10, scholar, born Breage.
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John Nicholls
m.1
Eliza Jane Wright
24/11/1869 Paul
(John Nicholls, of Ragginis; father: Richard, a farmer. Eliza Jane Wright, of Church Town,
Madron; father: Samuel, farmer. Marriage witnessed by Josiah Wright & Richard Nicholls)
c. 27/11/1842 Madron
born circa 1844 Paul
(Father: Samuel)
b. 1881+
b. 5/5/1880 Paul
(‘Of Raginnis, aged 36’)
Mary S
Jane
John
Richard
Laura
Born abt 1871
born abt 1873
born abt 1874
born abt 1875
born abt 1877
(Paul)
b. 1891+
(Paul)
b. 1891+
(Paul)
b. 1891+
(Paul)
b. 1901+
(Paul)
b. 1901+
1871 Census – Reginnis, Paul: Richard Nicholls, head, 68, farmer, born Zennor; wife Mary, 68,
born Sancreed; son John, married, 28, born Madron, and wife Eliza J., 27, born Paul; also Mary
Wright, unmarried, 25, domestic servant, born Paul; William Mathews, 16, indoor servant, born
Paul; Grace Edwards [Richard’s sister-in-law], visitor, 70, widow, born Sancreed.
John Nicholls
m.2
c. 27/11/1842 Madron
Jessie R. Hawke
circa 1880
born circa 1845 Madron
(Mother: Rosetta)
b. 1891+
b. 1891+
Clara
Born 1880
(Paul)
b. 1901+
1881 Census – Ragennnis, Paul: John Nicholls, 38, farmer of 60 acres employing 1 man & 2 boys,
born Madron; wife Jessie, 36, born Madron; children [of John] (all born Paul): Mary S., 10;
scholar; Jane, 8, scholar; Richard, 5, scholar; Laura, 4. Household also contains Grace Edwards,
aunt, 83, general servant, born Madron; Eli Trewern, 17, farm servant, born Paul; William Hall,
16, farm servant, born Morvah.
1891 Census – Ragennis, Paul: John Nicholls, head, 48, farmer, born Madron; wife Jessie. R, 44,
born Penzance; children (all born Paul): Mary, 20; Jane, 18; John, 16; Richard, 15; Laura, 13,
scholar; Clara, 11; also Rosetta Hawke, mother-in-law, 81, born Paul; Mary Wright, farm servant,
45, born Paul.
1901 Census – raginnis, Paul: John Nicholls, head, farmer, born Madron; wife Jessie, 55, born
Penzance; children: Richard, 25; Laura, 23; Clara, 21; also Rosetta Hawke, mother-in-law, 91,
living on own means, born Paul; Mary Wright, 56, general domestic servant, born Paul.
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William Nicholls m.1 Charlotte Matthews Andrew* 28/3/1870 Sithney
(William, 23, of Germoe, father: Richard, farmer. Charlotte, 34, widow of Sithney, father:
William Toll, farmer. Witnessed by Richard Matthews, Mary Russell & Thomas Russell)
(Publican & farmer of Germoe 1871, farmer of Germoe 1887)
c. 15/1/1848 Germoe
c. 22/6/1834 Germoe
(Parents; William & Charlotte Toll)
b. 1900+
b. 19/3/1908 Godolphin
(‘Of Releath Crowan, aged 72 - died in Union W/H row 4’)
James Sackville
c. 21/4/1871
Josephine
c. 6/11/1872
(Germoe)
(Germoe)
Died May 1895 (‘Aged 24’)
(South Africa)
b. 1891+
(On Germoe gravestone)
* Charlotte was the daughter of William & Charlotte Toll and the widow of Joseph Andrew with
three children. Lease (CRO RH/1/1621) of land at Herland, Germoe dated 31/5/1844 between
Duke of Leeds & William Toll of Germoe, yeoman. A possible family connection with William
Nicholls & Charlotte Matthews is the baptism of Jane Nicholls Matthews in 1838 at Breage
(parents: William & Jane) or the baptism of Richard Nicholls Matthews in 1826 at Breage
(parents: Henry & Elizabeth) [Breage is near Germoe].
1871 Census – Churchtown, Germoe: William Nicholls, head, 24, publican & farmer of 20 acres,
born Germoe; wife Charlotte, 34, born Germoe; children: James Sackville, 3 months, born
Germoe; children of Charlotte’s first marriage: Samuel Andrew, 8, scholar, born Germoe; Martha
Andrew, 5, scholar, born Germoe; William Andrew, 2, born Germoe. Also Elizabeth Beckerleg,
general servant, unmarried, 18, born Germoe.
1881 Census – Churchtown, Germoe: Charlotte Nicholls, head, 44, innkeeper, born Germoe;
children (all born Germoe): Samuel Andrew, 18, farm labourer; Martha Andrew, 14, scholar;
William Andrew: 12; Josephine Nicholls, 8, scholar.
1881 Census – Trewithen, Germoe: Ann Nicholls, head, widow, grocer shopkeeper, born Germoe;
son William, married, 33, farmer of 8 acres, born Germoe; grandson James Sackville Nicholls, 10,
scholar, born Germoe; also Elizabeth Hampton, 13, servant, born Germoe.
1891 Census – Churchtown, Germoe: Charlotte Nicholls, head, 56, own means, born Germoe; son
Samuel J. Andrew, unmarried, 26, farmer, born Germoe; daughter Josephine Nicholls, 18,
dressmaker, born Germoe; William Rodda, lodger, married, 55, mason, born St Blazey.
1901 Census – Crowan: Charlotte Nicholls, 65, born Germoe.
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William Nicholls (above)
m.2 Elizabeth Piper 14/6/1884
Plymouth
(Publican & farmer of Germoe 1871, farmer of Germoe 1887)
c. 15/1/1848 Germoe
c. 10/2/1861 Germoe
(Parents: William/Isabella [Webb])
b. 1900+
b. 1900+
Emma Jane Piper
Born 1882
Annie Jane Piper
Born 1886
Emma Heamden
Born 1887 Mawgan
b. 15/12/1895 Germoe
(‘Of Camberwell Street’)
(‘Aged 2’)
(‘Of St James Street’)
(‘Aged 4’)
(‘Of Weath, Germoe’)
(‘Aged 8’)
(‘Nicholls alias Piper’)
William Piper
Elizabeth Emma Heamden
Born 23/4/1892 Germoe
c. 5/9/1892
c. 24/1/1897
Hilda May
Born 12/5/1900 Germoe
c. 30/7/1900
(Marazion Wesleyan)
(Marazion Wesleyan)
(Germoe)
(‘Piper alias Nicholls - of Weath,
Father William a farmer’)
b. 15/12/1895 Germoe b.
(‘Of Weath, Germoe’)
(‘Nicholls alias Piper’)
1891 Census – Trewithen, Germoe: William Nicholls, head, 43, farmer, born Germoe; wife
Elizabeth, 30, born Germoe; children: Edith, 5, born Germoe; Emma., 3, born Mawgan.
William Nicholls married Elizabeth Piper at St Andrew’s Church, Plymouth, with both parties
being aware that William’s wife Charlotte was still alive. Some three & one half years later
William Nicholls was indicted for bigamy. The case was reported in The West Briton & Cornwall
Advertiser, dated Monday, 31st January 1887:
‘Curious Bigamy Case – William Nicholls, a farmer, of Germoe, was indicted for bigamy. Mr
Molesworth St Aubyn prosecuted; Mr H. E. Duke defended the prisoner. Evidence was given that
on the 28th March 1870, at Sithney Church, the prisoner married Charlotte Matthews Andrews,
with whom he lived until 1876, keeping a public house and farm. About this time difficulties
arose, and a deed of separation was entered into – the prisoner living at the farm and his wife
living at the public house. On the 14th June 1884 prisoner went through the form of marriage with
Elizabeth Piper at St Andrew’s Church, Plymouth. The astonishing thing, Mr St Aubyn said, was
that both prisoner and Elizabeth Piper were fully aware that the prisoner’s wife was still alive, and
that there was only a deed of separation between them. Superintendent Grant, who produced the
certificates of marriage, in reply to Mr Duke, said prisoner was formerly in the police force, and
bore an excellent character. The deposition of Richard Matthews, merchant, Marazion, formerly
of Sithney, was read. In consequence of Mr Matthews having broken some ribs, and being unable
to travel Mr Martin (of Messrs Grylls, Hill & Hill) was asked if he had anything to do with the
deed of separation. He said he had, and he believed the cause was that the wife had been of guilty
misconduct. The wife admitted it, he believed. Prisoner had consulted his solicitor with regard to
a divorce. Witness had known prisoner twenty years, and believed him to be a man of
irreproachable character. Elizabeth Piper, with whom the prisoner went through the form of
marriage at St Andrew’s Plymouth, was called. She said she had known the prisoner and also his
wife by sight for some years. She had never spoken to the prisoner’s wife. She knew the prisoner
had been married; was, in fact, a distant relation of his (see previous page*). She complained of
no concealment on the prisoner’s part, and since she had been living with him there could not be a
better husband. Mr Duke submitted that the prosecution had not proved knowledge on the part of
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the prisoner since the separation in 1876. His Lordship said he did not think there was any
resisting the charge, and on his counsel’s advice the prisoner withdrew the former charge and
pleaded guilty. Mr Duke then addressed the judge very forcibly in mitigation of punishment. He
urged the prisoner’s irreproachable character; his desire for domestic felicity, which had before
been denied him; the fact that he was allowed to live happily for three years and a half before the
law was made use of against him; and also that Elizabeth Piper was in no sense betrayed. His
Lordship said if there had been any evidence that Elizabeth Piper had been misled the case would
have been serious, but that could not be proven. On the other hand, it had been proved that the
prisoner had been an ill-used man in times past, and that this prosecution had been instituted out of
spite. He (the judge) was not disposed to allow the law to be used for any such purpose. Bearing
in mind, therefore, the prisoner’s high character, he should only sentence him to one day’s
imprisonment, which meant that he would be at once discharged.
Another article in the West Briton & Cornwall Advertiser newspaper dated 10/1/1887 states:
Helston – Alleged Bigamy by a Cornishman – William Nicholls, 39, farmer, was apprehended on
Tuesday at Bojo (?), Mawgan, charged on a warrant with bigamy. Nicholls was married in 1870
to a widow called Andrews, with three (?) children, and several years his senior, and who kept the
public-house at Germoe. After living together about (?) years, during which time two children
were born, they found their tempers were not suited to each other, and a deed of separation was
signed by both. Mrs Nicholls continued to keep the public-house, and Nicholls went farming in
the same parish. The eldest of the two children, a boy, went to live with his father, and the other, a
girl, remained with her mother. In June 1884 Nicholls went to Plymouth, and was married in St
Andrew’s Church – his first wife being still alive – to a young woman called Elizabeth Piper, a
distant relation, and daughter to a blacksmith, also living in the parish of Germoe. After the
wedding they resided at Germoe, but it was not known that they were married until the birth of a
child. Shortly afterwards Nicholls went to America, where he remained nearly 12 months. He
recently came home to go to (?)orrow Farm, belonging to Mr Piper, uncle of the wife. He had
only been there a few days before he was arrested. He was remanded on Wednesday lasy by Rev.
A. A. Vawdrey until Saturday. At the Court-house, Helston, on Saturday, up on remand the above
facts having been testified to he was committed to take his trial at the next assizes, bail being
accepted.
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Henry Nicholls
m.
Nanny Michell
28/11/1872 Ludgvan
born circa 1853 Ludgvan
(Parents?)
b. 1881+
b. 1891+
Elizabeth
Thomas
Annie
Henry
Born abt 1875 born abt 1877 born abt 1879 born abt 1883
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
(Ludgvan)
b.
b.
b.
b.
1881 Census - Canonstown, Ludgvan: Henry Nicholls, head, 28, tin miner, born Ludgvan; wife
Nanny, 28, born Ludgvan; children (all born Ludgvan): Elizabeth, 6; Thomas, 4; Ann, 2.
1891 Census – Ludgvan: Ann Nicholls, head, widow, 45, employer, born Ludgvan; children (all
born Ludgvan): Lilley [Elizabeth], 16; Thomas, 13, market gardener; Annie, 10, scholar; Henry, 7,
scholar.
John Nicholls
m.
Ellen Williams
22/3/1873
(John Nicholls, miner of Gulval, 22, father: Andrew Nicholls, a miner. Ellen Williams, spinster of
Gulval, 22, father: William Williams, a miner. Marriage witnessed by Isaac Williams & Margaret
Kessell. [Ellen is most likely the sister of William James Williams who married Phyllis Nicholls
(p166)]
c. 18/10/1850 Ludgvan
Born 1850 Mousehole
(Parents: William/Ann)
b. 1881+
b. 1891+
Issue ?
1851 Census – Rejennis Hill, Mousehole, Paul: William Williams, head, 59, shipwright, born
Sennen; wife Ann, 36, born Sennen; children: William, 10, scholar, born St Just; Mary, 5, born
Mousehole; Ellen, 5 months, born Mousehole.
1881 Census – Higher Laregon, Market Gardeners Cottage, Madron: John Nicholls, head, 30, born
Ludgvan; wife Ellen, 30, born Gulval.
1891 Census – 2 Poplar Avenue, Willesden, Middlesex: Ellen Nicholas, widow, 40, domestic
servant, born Paul; with Emilie Wekter [Emily Webster?], head, 46, authoress, born London &
daughter Gertrude Wekter, 16, music student, born Kensington.
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Richard Nicholls
m.
Margaret Woolcock Friggens
1/5/1875
(Richard Nicholls, miner of Gulval, 19, father: Andrew, a miner. Margaret, 18, of Trezelah;
father: James, farmer. Witnessed by James Friggens & George Spanner)
c. 20/10/1861 Gulval [4 years old at the time]
(Parents: James/Loveday [Woolcock] )
b. 1901+
b. 1901+
William J*
Born 1875 Ludgvan
c.
Margaret Jane Friggens (Maggie)
c. 28/4/1886
(Marazion Methodist)
b. 1891+
b. 1901+
1881 Census – Trezela, Gulval: Lovedy Friggens, head, widow, 60, farmer of 60 acres, born
Penzance; Lovedy J. Friggens, 25, farmer’s daughter, born Gulval; James C. Friggens, grandson,
7, scholar, born Gulval; Margaret Nicholls, daughter, 23, born Gulval, husband abroad; William J.
Nicholls, grandson, 5, scholar, born Gulval.
1891 Census – Trythogga, Gulval: Margaret Nicholls, head, married, 33, born Gulval; son
William J., 15, apprentice carpenter, born Gulval; daughter My. J. F. [Maggie], 5, born Ludgvan.
1901 Census – Ludgvan: Richard Nicholls, 44, retired gold miner, born Ludgvan; wife Margaret,
43, born Ludgvan; daughter Maggie, 15, born Ludgvan.
9/1/1888 – William J., born 25/12/1875, started school, resident of Chysauster, father a miner.
27/7/1888 – Left school, aged 12 years & 6 months.
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m.1
Emma Jane Gilbert 1/1/1876
(Andrew, 23, a miner, of Gulval, father: Andrew, a miner. Emma, 23, of Gulval, father: Richard
Jelbert, farmer. Witnessed by William Prouse & Rowena Roberts)
c. 14/6/1853
c. 12/11/1854
(Parents: Richard/Sarah [James])
b. 1901+
b. 5/11/1877
(‘Of New Mill, aged 24’)
Jane Jelbart
c. 6/12/1876
(Gulval)
b. 25/5/1877
(‘Of New Mill, aged 8 months’)
Andrew living with grandparents William & Jane Nicholls in 1861 (p123)
m.2
Eliza Gilbert March Qrt 1881
(Penzance district marriage ref. no. 5C 375)
c. 14/6/1853
c. 11/11/1855 [‘Jelbert’] (Sister of Emma, above)
(Parents: Andrew/Elizabeth – p205)(Parents: Richard (husbandman)/Sarah [James] of Crankan)
b. 1901+
b. 1901+
Minnie
Born circa 1883
Richard A
Born circa 1886
(Penzance)
(Penzance)
b. 1901+
b. 1901+
1891 Census – 28 Queen Street, Penzance: Eliza Nicholls, 36, born Gulval; children: Minnie, 7,
scholar, born Penzance; Richard A., 4, born Penzance; also mother-in-law Sarah Gilbert, widow,
56, born Sancreed; sister-in-law Sarah Ann Gilbert, 27, dressmaker, born Gulval.
1901 Census – Penzance: Eliza Nicholls, 45, married, domestic cook, born Gulval; children:
Minnie, 17, dressmaker, born Penzance; Richard, 14, schoolboy, born Penzance; also Sarah
Jelbert, 69, and Sarah Ann Jelbert, 39.
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Samuel Nicholls
m.
Mary Ann Mann
Jun qrt 1881
(Penzance district marriage ref. no. 5C 393)
(Farmer of Zennor 1877, farmer of Trye 1891, farmer of Sancreed 1901)
Born circa 1844 Towednack
b. 7/7/1844 Zennor
(Parents or Grandparents? Henry/ Mary - p136) (Parents: Thomas/Sarah [of Trewey])
Died 6/3/1902 Sancreed
Died 21/11/1922 Sancreed
(Sancreed Memorial inscription: ‘In loving memory of Samuel Nicholls who died at Higher Drift
Sancreed March 6th 1902 aged 58 years. Also of Mary Ann Nicholls, wife of the above, who died
Nov 21st 1922, aged 76 years. HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP.’
Samuel*
Born 1868
Lily**
Born 29/10/1885
Elizabeth***
c. 1/3/1887
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
(Zennor)
Died 4/5/1946
b. 1901+
b. circa 1888
m. circa 1890
(?)
Mary Elizabeth
?
Samuel senior living with Henry & Mary Nicholls in 1851 and with Mary Nicholls in 1861, 1871
& 1881 (variously described as son or grandson) – refer p 136-137.
1891 Census – Trye, Holsworthy, Gulval: Samuel Nicholls, head, 48, farmer, born Towednack;
wife Ann, 43, born Zennor; son Samuel, 21, born Zennor; daughter Lily, 5, born Gulval.
‘A Cornish Farmer’s Diary’ by James Stephens (at Sancreed 1897-1912):
1/9/1898: Pulled in rick of oats with Sam Nicholls’ help.
2/9/1898: Helped S. Nicholls pull corn in at Higher Drift.
3/9/1898: Pulled in dredged corn, S. Nicholls helping.
5/9/1898: James [Stevens junior] helping S. Nicholls pull corn.
4/11/1898: James helping to thresh at S. Nicholls’ at Higher Drift.
1901 Census – Sancreed: Samuel Nicholls, 56, farmer, born Towednack; wife Mary, 53, born
Zennor; son Samuel, 31, farmer’s son, born Zennor; daughter Lily, 15, born Zennor.
4/9/1900: Pulling corn, S Nicholls helping.
9/3/1902: Bearer to S. Nicholls from Higher Drift aged 58.
* William Bolitho Records (CRO Ref. 576/12) – document dated 9/12/1868: Sworn statement of
Ann Mann [usually referred to as Ann rather than Mary Ann] of Zennor, single woman, that
Samuel Nicholls of Towednack is father of her male child [Samuel].
Sancreed Memorial inscription: ‘In loving memory of Samuel Nicholls, died May 4th 1946 aged
71. Also of his beloved wife Mary Elizabeth Nicholls died May 2nd 1956 aged 78.’
21/4/1902: Nicholls gor bull calf.
26/4/1902: Sowed field of grass seed for S. Nicholls.
28/4/1902: Sold Nicholls;s calf at 11 shillings.
7/7/1902: Carried hay, S Nicholls helped with wagon, Mr Clemens pitched.
10/7/1902: Fred [Thomas] helped S. Nicholls carry hay.
11/7/1902: Fred helped S. Nicholls with horse and wain carry hay.
10/9/1902: Fred helped S. Nicholls pull corn in forenoon.
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17/9/1902: Finished pulling corn, S. Nicholls helped with draft.
20/10/1902: Fred helped S. Nicholls thresh.
7/7/1903: Pulled hay, S. Nicholls helped with wagon.
29/6/1904: Carried 2 fields hay, S. Nicholls helped with wagon, E. Thomas & Clemens helped.
7/9/1904: Carried corn, S. Nicholls helped with wagon, Mr Clemens & John helped.
5/7/1905: Carried connuffin hay, S. Nicholls helps with wagon, got fine rick.
29/8/1905: Carried the big rick of corn, S. Nicholls helped with wagon and Mr Clemens with cart.
4/7/1906: Carried hay 3 drafts, S. Nicholls & Jesse helping with wagons.
3/9/1907: Carried the rest of our corn, S. Nicholls helping with wagon, John pitching.
8/9/1908: Willie [Prowse] at S. Nicholls helping to thresh.
** Carfury School registers:
16/5/1892 – Lily, born 29/10/1885, started shool, resident of Lady Downs, Zennor, father a
farmer.
*** Elizabeth baptised 1/3/1887 at Ladydown, Zennor chapel by Penzance Bible Christian Circuit
– father Samuel a farmer of Gulval.
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John Nicholls*
m.
Eliza Ann Jelbert
25/12/1895 Penzance
Marriage witnessed by Jeremiah Jelbert and Stephen Gilbert. Marriage conducted at the High
Chapel, Penzance in accordance to the ceremonies of the Bible Christians.
(Farmer 1896-1906+ Tredinneck Moor)
Born 16/10/1865
Born 3/7/1870 Boskinning, Madron
(Parents: Stephen/Catherine – p223)
(Parents: Charles/Martha Nicholes [Jelbert])
(Died 12/1/1953 Penzance
(Died 10/2/1947 Higher Trye)
- Lately living with daughter Kate at St Ives)
Madron Methodist Cemetery inscription – ‘In Memeory of Eliza Anne Nicholls died 10/2/1947
aged 76 years; John Nicholls died 12/1/1953 aged 88 years.
Stephen*
Annie Jane**
Richard John***
Catherine****
Born 10/10/1896
Born 1897
Born 15/3/1901
Born 16/12/1904
c. 29/11/1896
c. 13/4/1898
c.?
c.?
(Born Tredinneck Moor)
(Born Tredinneck Moor?)
(Born Tredinneck Moor)
(Tredinneck Moor)
Died 1/11/1985
b. St Buryan
Died 19/4/1973
b. Treleigh (Redruth) b. Treleigh
Died 1953+
b. Madron
m. 25/10/1919
Elizabeth Ann
(Bessie) Mann
m. 1920’s
William Richard
Nicholas
m. 1920’s
Joe
Prowse
m. 13/7/1933
Charlotte
Hunt
29th Nov 1896 – Stephen, child of John & Eliza Ann Nicholls of Carfury, Gulval (Farmer) was
baptised at Carfury by J Ninnis of Penzance Bible Christian Circuit.
13th April 1898 – Anne Jane, child of John & Eliza Ann Nicholls of Gulval (Farmer) was baptised
at Carfury Chapel by J Ninnis of Penzance Bible Christian Circuit.
1901 Census – Tredinnick Moor: John Nicholls, head, 35, farmer on own account (not employer
or worker), born Gulval; wife Eliza, 30, born Madron; son Stephen, 4, born Gulval; daughter
Annie, 3, born Madron; son Richard, 2 weeks, born Gulval. Number of rooms occupied = 4.
‘In September 1912 John Nicholls of Tredinneck was working at the Ding-Dong mine, providing
one of five horse-drawn carts to take ore from the dumps to the stamps’ – from a publication (page
69) by William A. Morris.
The Lanhydrock Estate Sale Particulars – sold by auction at the Union Hotel, Chapel Street,
Penzance 14/11/1912:
Lot 19 – A tenement 5 acres, Ninnes, Madron let to John Nicholls. Sold [?] for £210 to Mr J. E.
Wallis.
Lot 20 – A tenement called “Bodrifty” and a 1/6 share of Bodrifty Downs and a half share of
crofts 35 acres, Gulval, let to John Nicholls. Sold [?] for £180 to J. Mann.
1914 Gulval Register of Electors: John Nicholls of Tredinneck – qualification: house & land at
Tredinneck & Bodrifty.
17/3/1902 - Stephen, born 22/10/1896 [?] started school, resident of Ding Dong, father a farmer.
Left school 7/10/1910 aged 14.
Children: Horton 1920 Trye, Betty Mann 1922 Trye (twin), William John Denzil 1922 Trye
(twin), Lylie Rosemary 1923 Trye (married Rex Davy, died 2000), Sylvia Jane 1924 Trye,
Stephen Gerald 1929 Trevedran, St Buryan, Harold Henry 1930, Catherine Molly 1935, Suzette
Eileen 1938 (m. Charles Bryant), Michael 1941 Trevedran.
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1926 - Horton, born 1920, residence Higher Trye, 5 ½ years at admission.
1927 – Denzil, born 6/9/1922, of Higher Trye, removed 10/10/1932.
1927 – Betty, born 6/9/1922, of Higher Trye, attending County School 1/8/1930.
1929 – Lylie, born 1923, of Trye, 5 ½ years at admission.
1930 – Janie (Sylvia Jane?), born 1925, of Trye,
1933 – Denzil, of Lower Trye, father Stephen, previous school St Paul.
(All attended Bible Classes)
22/4/1902 - Annie J., born 1897, started school, resident of Tredinneck, father a farmer.
Left school 21/12/1911, aged 14 - kept at home.
Children: William, Henry, Cecil & Donald.
19/3/1906 - Richard, born 15/3/1901, started school, resident of Tredinneck, father a farmer.
Richard left school 12/3/1915 aged 14 – working at Ding Dong.
Richard moved with family to Higher Trye, New Mill 1929 or 1930.
Married Charlotte 13/7/1933 where they brought up their family of seven girls:
1. Ann Loveday 1934 (living Camborne 2003 [Magor])
2. Angela Jane 1935 (living Sennen 2003 [Rowe]
3. Mary Sylvia 1936 (m. Lloyd Bennett, living Halsetown 2003)
4. Elizabeth Isabella (Isabel) 1937 (living Tehidy 2003 [Williams])
5. Charlotte (Lottie) 1938 (m. Denzil Waters, living St Day 2003)
6. Enid Lily (Lily) 1939 (m. Herbert Lutey, living Tregony 2003)
7. Hilaria Rosemary 1944 (living Redruth 2003, unmarried).
Charlotte was born 16/9/1905, a twin. Charlotte worked for the Bolitho family of Trengwainton
for several years starting as a parlour maid. After the death of Mr. Bolitho his widow went to
London and took along Charlotte who lived there for 5 years. On returning to Cornwall she
married Richard Nicholls.
During the 1939-1945 War Richard served in the Zennor Home Guard.
He then moved to Higher Ninnis, New Mill, in September 1949 where he farmed until his
retirement sale on 22/9/1966, but continued with beef cattle until 1969. This land was inherited
from two of Charlotte’s Jelbert bachelor uncles.
During all his years as a farmer his love of horses never waned and he used them continuously to
advantage until his retirement.
During all the years in the New Mill area he attended Carfury Sunday school and Chapel. From
his attendance since a pupil at the Sunday school he rose to become Sunday school Superintendent
and Chapel Steward.
His final move was to East Park, Redruth, in September 1969 where he spent a happy retirement
with his family around him. In his years at Redruth he attended the United Methodist Church
where he became a choir member until his death on 19th April 1973.
His family will remember him as a hard working, loving, caring Father, Husband, and
Grandfather, with a deep religious faith, which stayed with him throughout his life.
**** Carfury School Registers:
1/6/1909 - Katherine/Catherine, born 16/12/1904, started school, resident of Tredinneck, father a
farmer. Left school 3/12/1918 – age exemption - aged 14.
Children: Kathleen, Gwendoline & Shirley.
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John Francis Nicholls
m. Caroline Ada Quelch 30/7/1893 Tilehurst
(Signature of (John) Francis Nicholls, Carpenter of Tilehurst, Berkshire, and signature of Caroline,
of Tilehurst; witnessed by Thomas Quelch & Louisa Wickham.)
(Wheelwright’s apprentice of Perranuthnoe 1881, carpenter of St Mary, Berkshire 1901,
carpenter & builder 1905+)
Born 8/8/1863
Born 18/10/1866
(Perran Downs, Cornwall)
c. 27/9/1863 Perranuthnoe
(Parents: Francis/Miriam – p232)
Died 7/9/1936 (Sydney)
Buried Rookwood cemetery
(Tilehurst, Berkshire)
c. 25/11/1866 Tilehurst
(Parents: Thomas/Ann [Hunt previous Salter])
Died 19/8/1932 (Sydney, N.S.W. Australia)
Buried Rookwood cemetery
Rhoda Malvina**
Born 6/10/1894
Frances Amelia (Millie)
Born 6/10/1894
Ethel Marion
Born 12/7/1898
(Tilehurst)
(Tilehurst)
(Tilehurst)
Died 2/6/1952
Died 27/6/1953
Died 27/9/1981
(Sydney)
(Sydney)
(Sydney)
m. 16/7/1921
(Sydney)
Claude Douglas
Duff
m. 1925
(Sydney)
Percy Walter James
Nye
m1. 1921
(Sydney)
Charles Oscar
Johnson
m2. 1934
Hume John (Jack)
Nelson
Alexander Edwin Frank*
Born 24/1/1901
Herbert John Reginald (Reg)
Born 7/7/1903
(Reading, Berkshire)
(Reading)
Died 24/11/1904
Died 1980’s
(Reading)
(Sydney)
m. 1928
(Sydney)
Nora Skinner
No issue
1901 Census – St. Mary, Berkshire: John Nicholls, 38, carpenter; wife Caroline, 36, born
Tilehurst, Berkshire; children: Ethel, 2, born Reading; Frances, 6, born Tilehurst; Rhoda, 6, born
Tilehurst; Ethel, 2, born Reading; Alexander Nicholls, 2 months, born Reading. Father of
Caroline, Thomas Quelch, 74, plate layer SW Railway, also seems to be in the same household.
In 1905 recorded as living at “Leyburn” (No. 2) St Andrew’s Road Caversham, Reading. Another
address about this time was “Greylands”, (No. 6) Harrowgate Road, Caversham.
Family emigrated on ship ‘Orontes’ (3rd class) and arrived in Sydney, Australia 30/6/1906.
* Alexander buried Hemdean Road Cemetery, Caversham – grave 2203, row 3OO.
** Children of Claude & Rhoda Duff: Mavis Joyce 1922, Douglas Lindsay 1923, Claude Stanley
1925. Children of Douglas Lindsay & Elsie Duff: Jennifer 1946, Warren 1947 & Susan 1953.
254
Gulval Church Entries unable to fit into Nicholls Family Tree
Marriages (to 1800)
Married
Husband
Wife
1640 Nov 8
Thomas Saundry
Margarita Nicoll
Uncertain lineage
Child baptised Gulval: Thomas 26/2/1643.
A Thomas Saundry married Elizabeth Osborne at Gulval 5/7/1617. Perhaps Thomas is
their child although no baptism found.
1680 Nov 6
Stephen Corno of Gulval
Susannah Nickles of Fellack [Phillack]
Seemingly a daughter of Gelbart Nickolls - Susannah baptised 21/10/1653 Phillack.
Possibly Susannah is related to Gregory Nicholls of Phillack who married Ane
Donithorne in 1673 at Gulval.
1681 Jun 25
Richard Trithiall of Gulval
Grace Nicholls of Ludgvan
? Grace c. 12/1/1653 Ludgvan dau Thomas Nicholl
Children baptised Gulval: Edward 19/2/1682 & Elizabeth 16/3/1684.
1720 Dec 31 John Read
Mary Neckols
John Read, the brother to Mary Reed who married John Nicholls 25/4/1733 at Gulval.
Mary is either a daughter of Steven Nicholls, c. 2/8/1696 Ludgvan, or daughter of John &
Elizabeth Nichols, c. 11/2/1698 Phillack. Mary, a widow, was buried at Gulval 6/1/1765.
John Read/Read was baptised at Madron either 16/8/1738 or 25/11/1741.
1733 Jan 29
William Freythy of Ludgvan Catherine Nicholls
Refer pages 30 & 87 for more details.
Burial of Catherine ‘wife of William Frethy’at Gulval 14/6/1757
1758 Sep 29
Vincent Urin (tinner)
Anne Nicholls
Children baptised Gulval: Vincent 22/7/1759, Henry 29/7/1764 & Mary 13/2/1767
(buried 20/2/1767).
Vincent seemingly baptised 16/9/1733 at Uny Lelant, the son of Vincent and Ann.
Baptisms (to 1811)
Baptised
First Name
Parent/s
1618 Jan 20
Ellenora
Richi Nicchol
A daughter of Richard Nickles/Niccholl who married Elizabeth at Madron 7/7/1605 – not
included in Gulval tree as cannot find continuing links with Gulval
1625 Sep 4
Ursila
Johnis Nicoll
Uncertain – most probably Gulval family of Johis Nicles/Nichlis.
Burial of Ursilla Nickcholas 1660 at Gulval
1798 Oct 14
John
Richard Nichols
Uncertain – considered to be the son of Richard & Joan (Berryman) Nicholas.
1811 Apr 12 John
Richard & Grace Nicholls
Most children baptised at Paul (not a Gulval family)
John (from Bodmin – lunatic) was buried at Gulval 30/6/1847, aged 36)
(Richard & Grace living in Church Lane, Paul in 1841)
255
Burials (to 1800)
Burial
Name
1659 Feb 3
Allse Nichell
Wife of Richard Nichell
? A Richard Nycholl married Alis 25/1/1613 Ludgvan
1751 Nov 6
Mary Nicholls
of St Just
? Page 37
1800 Aug 27 Jane Nicholls
from Madron
? Wife of Benjamin Nicholls who married Jane Ham 1/12/1790 at Madron
256
Place Names in parishes of Gulval & Madron
Gulval (all)
Madron (some)
Barlowenna / Barleyvina
Bodrifty
Boscreege
Boscubba
Boskednan
Boswednan
Bosoljack
Bosoljack Vean
Bosulval
Carfury
Carnaquidden
Chyandour
Chysauster
Crankan
Garris
Glas
Hellangove
Helwyn
Kenegie
Lanisley
Pleming
Polkinhorne
Reswoon
Ridgeo
Rosemorran
Rosveack
Tolver
Tredinneck
Tredinneck Moor
Trescrowan
Trethogga/Trythogga
Trevarrack
Trezelah (now in Madron)
Try / Trye
Trythall
Bosiljack / Bosiliack
Boskinning / Boskenning
Boswarthen
Bosullow
Great Bosullow
Little Bosullow
Heamoor
Landithy
Lanyon
Mulfra
Newmill / New Mill
Ninnes / Ninnis (Higher & Lower)
Tolcarne
Trereife (pronounced ‘Treeve’)
Trevean
Trewren
Venton Gilbert
257
Connection between Freethy & Baynard & Nicholls familes
William Freethy m. Catherine Nicholls 29/1/1733 Gulval (refer page 34)
Born circa 1710
Born circa 1710
Died?
Buried 14/6/1757 Gulval
│
---------------------------------↓
↓
Anne
William Freethy m. Catherine Baynard 10/8/1756 Madron
Born circa 1736
Born circa 1735
Born circa 1735
Died?
Died 1783 Madron
Died 1783+
m. 26/12/1758 Gulval
│
(Brother John Baynard m. Mary Nicholls
Nicholas James of St Hilary)
│
6/1/1758 Madron)
(Anne James a witness to the
│
│
Marriage of Edmund Nicholls p79) │
↓
│
Children: John**, William, Andrew, Grace*
│
* Grace Baynard m John Nicholls (cousin)
│
25/9/1795 Madron (p87)
│
(Witnessed by William Baynard & William Freethy)
│
c. 8/1/1766 Madron
c. 14/2/1768 Gulval
│
b. 3/10/1819 Gulval
b. 31/12/1822 Gulval
│
[** John Baynard m. Joan Freethy (see below]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------↓
↓
↓
↓
↓
John
Elizabeth
↓
↓
↓
Joan Freethy m. John Baynard of Gulval
William Freethy m. Mary Stevens Leggoe
31/3/1787 Madron
28/2/1795 Zennor
c. 31/3/1760 Madron
Born circa 1760
c. 19/12/1758 Madron
Born circa 1775
Died?
Buried 31/3/1824
b. 2/1/1816 Madron
b. 22/10/1856
(Ludgvan)
(‘Of Boskinning, 57’) (‘Of Boskinning, 81’)
│
↓
Children:
Thomas Freethy c. 18/3/1803 (private baptism)
Married Elizabeth Harris Saundry*** 30/6/1835 St Buryan
(Thomas of Madron & Elizabeth of St Buryan; witnessed by
William Harris & George Ellis)
William Freethy c. 19/12/1799 Penzance (private baptism)
Married Joanna Glover Friggens 28/3/1826 Gulval
(Witnessed by Sarah Leggo Friggens & Thomas Freethy)
*** Any relationship to Elizabeth Harris who married John Nicholls
29/4/1824 at Ludgvan (son of John & Grace [Baynard] – see above)
unknown
The Will of William Frethy, gentleman of Madron, dated 3/1/1783 (proved 10/2/1783): To daughters
Elizabeth & Jone £30 each three years after his decease with interest and to live in the house with executor
William Frethy or when married. To nieces Ann Frethy & Jean Frethy one shilling each. Unto son John
Frethy one shilling, ‘I having settled him on or before his marriage’. To grand-daughter Mary Frethy one
shilling. Wife Katherine to live with executor and receive £5 annually during her natural life and receive
the bed and bedding ‘I now lies on’ during her lifetime. Son William, the executor, to receive 2/3rd of
messuages, lands and tenement in Boskednan. Son John to receive 2/3rd tenement of Boskenning upon
deaths of executor William, and sisters Elizabeth & Jone.
258
The Admon of William Frethy, yeoman of Madron, dated 22/5/1816, granted to wife Mary Stevens Frethy.
Admon signed by John Baynard, farmer of Ludgvan, & William Leggo, farmer of Zennor.
Will of John Baynard, dated 27/2/1824 (proved 16/6/1824): To niece Grace Baynard, daughter of William
Baynard, £8 on reaching 21 years of age. To William Leggo & Thomas Leggo, sons of my son-in-law
William Leggo, £5 after my decease. To nephews John Nicholls & Andrew Nicholls, sons of my sister
Grace, £5 after my decease. To William Freethy of Madron & William Friggens the younger of Gulval,
farmers, £5 after my decease. To William Freethy & William Friggens all my freehold and leasehold, etc.,
in Tregarthen, Ludgvan, and also my leaseholds, messuages, dwelling houses, etc, in Penzance. Mention
also of grandson John Baynard Leggo, Joan Leggo, grand-daughter Jane Leggo and Mary Baynard Leggo.
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