(19 September) Today we moved again, leaving Cornwall and heading east and north toward London again. We will stop on the way for three nights in Lyme Regis. We planned a few stops along the way to visit places associated with Sue's ancestors.
Sue's g-g-g-grandparents were Edward and Elizabeth Tregenza ("Edward the First" and "Elizabeth the First", say). According to census information, Edward the First was born in Lelant (in 1814) where we had lunch today at the railway station.
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| Lunch at Lelant Station. |
The Lelant Station is a quiet secluded place, with a nice view over the estuary, so it was actually not a bad place to have lunch.
Edward and Elizabeth probably met in Barripper, which we also passed through. The 1841 census records Edward as being a copper miner, living in Barripper next door to Elizabeth Collins, a "mine girl". Elizabeth was living with the Thomas family along with her sister Maryann.
Sarah Jane Lukey (Sue's g-g grandmother) lived with her parents (Joseph and Sarah) in Liskeard around 1860 in one of the Trevecca cottages which still stand today.
Sarah Lukey emigrated to New Zealand in the "Tiptree" arriving in Lyttelton in 1864, and later married Edward Tregenza (Sue's g-g-grandfather, Edward II), son of the Edward I mentioned above, after he emigrated to New Zealand, via Adelaide (in the "Electric") in 1865.
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| Trevecca cottages circa 1918 (the Lukey house is no 11, third from left). |
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| Trevecca cottages in 2017, and Sue. |
We found more or less the same viewpoint as the old photo above and took this photo. Where those cows stood is now a construction site, so from next year this view will be gone forever as the foreground will be blocked by new houses!
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| The cottages up close. |
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| Sue in front of number 11. |
We chatted to a woman gardening outside Trevecca Cottage Number 1, and when we came back from taking photos from across the road, she hurried out again to show us a book, "The Life and Work of Henry Rice: Liskeard's Foremost Architect". He apparently designed the Trevecca Cottages, which were built in 1847. The cottages were therefore quite new when the Lukeys lived there.
We also had this old photo of the fountain in Liskeard (on the right), also designed by Henry Rice, so took the same photo again just because we were there:
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| Liskeard Fountain circa 1914-19 |
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| Liskeard Fountain 2017 (on the right) |
Edward II and Sarah's daughter, Elizabeth II, travelled to England in 1891 as a nursemaid for the Hamlyn family, and was able to visit her grandmother (Elizabeth I) in Callington. Her diary reports they went for a walk which took in "Doublepools", and nearby Hangman's Lane. Edward and Elizabeth were living in Callington in the Doublepools cottages at the time of the 1851 census.
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| Doublepools cottages 2017. |
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| Hangman's Lane 2017. |
On another day we walked to Land's End from Sennen Cove, a distance of a couple of kilometers. Marion's photos include this one of Sennen Cove from the past:
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| Sennen Cove near Lands End. |
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| Sennen Cove today (Google image) - many of the same houses are still there. |
