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ST. .STEPHEN'S· BY·} DIRECTORY.] CORNWALL. { L.A.UNCESTON. 1019 Keast Eli, shoe maker, Terras Phillips Thomas, farmer, Mineral court Trethewey Richard, farmer, Carloggas Keast Zachariah, farmer, Trelion Poad Xicholas, farmer, Curyan Trudgian Elisha & Samuel, farmers, Kent Richard, grocer, Newgate Richards Mary Jane (.Mrs.), shopkeeper, Nanjeth Kent William, shopkeeper, Nanpean Coombe Trudgan Elisha, farmer, Crugwallance Martyn John, farmer, Whitemoor Richards Humphrey,farmer,Spring frm Truscott Edward, blacksmith, Hay Martyn Samuel, farmer, Kernick Richards Grenville, shopkeeper, Tre- Truscott Elias, blacksmith, Nanpean Martyn Waiter, miller (water), Kernick thosa Moor Truscott Catherine (l\Irs.), farmr. Court l\lartyn Ann (Mrs.), shopkeepr. Foxhole Rickard John, shoe maker, Nanjeth Truscott George, farmer, Trelion Michell David, farmer, Horwick Richards Thomas, farmer, Coombe Truscott Hy. miller (water),:Meledor ml Michell Henry, farmer, Trethellan Roberts Edw.Harvey., farmer, Bodinnick Truscott James, shoe maker, Gwindre Michell William, Newgate Rowse John, miller (water), Tolgarrick Truscott Simeon, farmer, Brennall Mitchell Anthony,.farmer, Treviscoe Searle James, shopkeeper Truscott Thomas, farmer, Tregascoe Morcom Albert, jeweller, Nanpean Skidmore Silas, farmer, Trewray Truscott \\.illiam, farl]ler, Creeka,·ose Morcom James, carrier, Gonnamares Smith George Williams, farmer, Ven- Truscott ·william, millwright, Coombe New Terrace Tin .~.Wining Co. (Messrs. tonwyn Truscott William, farmer, Trevithen James & Co) Smith John, farmer, Terras Varcoe Caleb, carrier & farmer, Hallew Nicholls Edw~rd, farmer, Dowgas Smith John, farmer, Penhale Varcoe Robert, farmer, Resugga Olver George, farmer & clerk to the Smith Thomas, farmer, Carpalia Varcoe Thomas, cooper, High street Burial Board & registrar of births & Snell John, farmer, Goverseth Vivian Peter, tailor, High street deaths for Grampound sub-district Snell Thomas, farmer, Dubbers Ward John, farmer, Penance Olver Jacob, china clay merchant & Snell \\"illiam,farmer&carrier,Nanpean Ward Thomas, farmer, Tregargus stone grinder, Trevear South Terrace Tin llfining Co. (James Williams Thos. Broad, frmr. Tolgarrick Olver Jacob, farmer, Treneague & Co) Williams Frank, farmer, High street Olver Thomas, capt. clay wrks. Meledor Soper Peter, farmer, Penance Yelland Charles, miller, Court mill Oh·er William, Queen's Head, & grocer Stephens George, farmer, Carloggos Yelland George, farmer & shopkeeper, & draper, Church town Teague James, farmer, Downderry High street Osborne J('hn, farmer, Whitford Teague Francis, shoe maker, Nanjeth Yelland James,relieving officer,Western Pearce Roberts Edward,farmer,Nanjeth Tellam Richard, blacksmith & farmer, district, St. Austell union, Coombe Peters Hugh, farmer, Burgotha Trethosa Yelland John, butcher, N anpean Phillips Jas. (.Mrs.), carpenter, Nanpean Thomas Edwin, King's Arms, & grocer, Yelland Richard,carrier, Little Treviscoe Phillips John, farmer, Mineral court Church town Yelland Thomas, farmer, & capt. clay Phillips John, shopkeeper, Nanpean Thomas Willia:q~, Grenville Arms, & works, Gondbarn Phillips Samuel, clay mer. Mineral et farmer & carrier, Nanpean 1 Yelland William, beer retailer, High st Phillips Samuel, clay agent, Mineral crt Treloar Henry, sawyer, Church town Yelland William, farmer, Carpalia ST. STEPHEN'S-BY-LAUNCESTON is a village Rev. Edward Syngc Townsend Daunt M.A. of Trinity College, and parish, included in the parliamentary borough of Dublin. The old collegiate church was consecrated by Launceston, but not within the municipal limits, and is Bishop Bronescombe, 23rd October, 1259, and it was once situated about half a mile north from that town, on the proposed that it should be the seat of the bishop, but Robert road to Stratton, in the Eastern division of the county, Warlewast, Bishop of Exeter ( nso-9 ), suppressed the college L1mnceston union and county court district, northern divi- and in its stead founded a priory in Elt. Thomas. The sion of the hundred of East, rural deanery of Trigg Major, ancient town hall of Newport, still existing, is an octagonal arch deaconry of Bodmin, and diocese of Truro ; it is bordered em battled structure, pierced on every side by tall pointed on the east by the river Tamar, on the south by the Kensey, arches. The town or church lands produce £73 yearly. which separates it from St. Thomas', Launceston, and on There is an ancient bequest left in this parish that 12 penny the north by Devonshire. The ancient borough of NEw- loaves should be given away every Sunday to as many poor PORT, which forms part of this parish and sent members to persons; and 10s. yearly is paid to the clergyman for Parliament from 1552 till its disfranchisement in 1832, was preaching a sermon on the IIth of March. John Charles never incorporated, and is now consolidated with the Williams esq. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. parliamentary borough of Laul).ceston. The church of St. The soil is clay and loam; subsoil, shelfy slate. The chief Stephen, the mother church of Launceston and the sur- crops are wheat, barley and corn. The area is ~,852 acres; rqunding parishes, is a spacious building of granite in the rateable value, £5.317; and the population in x88r was Early Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south , 959· aisle, north transept! sout~ porch with parv~s~ and a lofty Letters through Launceston. WALL Box (near the church) embattled tower with PI.nnacles and cont~mmg 6 bells, cleared at 4.50 p.m. The nearest money order otlice is at dated 177r:?: the c~urch IS now (18~3) ~emg thoroughly Launceston restored: m removmg a modern gramte wmdow at the e~st WALL LETTER Box near the railway station, St. Thomas, end of the chance~, a ~arge sculptur~d stone ~a~ found! with cleared at 10.8 a. m. for north mail & 4.45 p.m. for London a seated fi~re, hfe Size, representmg Christ m MaJes_ty: mail sundays excepted on the exterwr of the same wall, at the north end, there Is a ' . similar stone much mutilated, apparently representing the Great Wtstern . Razlway (Launceston) Statwn, Richard Virgin and child, forming the tympanum of a blocked-up Sampson, statiOn master . doorway, at the opposite end are the remains of another Collector of Assessed Ta:xes tJ AsstStant Overseer, John Dew, doorway, and beyond the chancel wall, eastward, are the Duke terrace foundations of what was either a sacristy or (more probably) ScHOOLS:- a lady chapel, into which the two east doorways opened; it A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1875 ; E. P. is probable that the sculpture of " Christ in Majesty " Nicolls, clerk to the board occupied a place above the south doorway, corresponding Board, built in x88o, at a cost of £1,000, for 180 with that of" Christ in Humility,"' above the north doorway, children; average attendance, 100; Richard Lewellyn and it is intended to refix the recovered panel accordingly; Thomas, master ; Miss Kate Cowl, assistant mistress;. other interesting remains have also been brought to light Miss Mary Sheers Peake, infants' mistress and will be carefully preserved: there are monuments to There is an endowed school here founded by John Horwell Christopher Horwell, of Lawhitton, 1628; Marie Pomeroy, esq. a native of this parish in 1707; six scholarships of the 1630; Margaret (Escott), wife of Digory Prowt, 1631; Anne annual value of £1o are attached to this foundati0n,tcnable (Nuby), wife of John Roe, 1635; Elizabeth, wife successively from the age of 8, or the date of entrance to the age of 14, of George Porter, gent. and John Roe, gent. 1644; John Roe, & awarded by competition to boys whose parents have gent. 1645; .Margaret Prowt, 1674; John Bewes, of Colacott, resided for at least five years in the parish of St. Stephen; 1675, and Anne, his wife, 1675, with uthers of later date: the there are other scholarships open to the whole school, the cost of restoring the church is estimated at about £2,000. value of which is dependent on surplus foundation income: The register dates from the year 1569; many valuable deeds , the governing body consists of nine local residents, one and registers, together with a terrier of the parish, were being ex-officio, three representative & fi,·e cooptative; stolen many years since, but some were afterwards recovered. Charles Gurney esq. J.P. of Trebursye, is chairman; the The living is a vicarage, net year1y value £150, in the gift school furnishes a good middle-class education on moder- of the ratepayers and feoffees, and held since 1853 by the ate terms: boarders are received by the head master PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Burt LamhCTt, St. Stephen's hill Hender Thomas Brooks, Newport; Aplin George, St. Stephen's hill Daunt Rev. Edward Synge Townsend Horswell Jame<~, 2 Ridgegrove Badcock Robert Leigh M.A. [vicar], St. Stephen's hill Langdon Rev. Charles Baskerville, Ken- Burt Henry, Newport Derry Mrs. Newport cottage sey cottage .