TRELOAR GENEALOGY Tree of Treloar By ORSON LEE TRELOAR, M.D. Published By PARAGON PRESS, INC. Salt Lake City, Utah Scale of Miles Z10Z46810 Railways Roads ______ Ti 'lid !7,0-- '. =; Courtesy of A. K. Hamilton Jenkin MAP OF CORN\ 'ALL, ENGLAND TRELOAR GENEALOGY IMiiliMfillfill ~ ' . !~~i~:=~!~' ~(4M4i//tt¥:·'~~/ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My first and greatest thanks goes to my wife, Marion Bemnann Treloar, who has spent untold hours working with me in this endeavor. I feel she should be co-author but she rules against this. I am grateful to everyone who has written me a letter with Treloar information in it. This material will be as valuable to future generations as the old Cornish church records are to us today. Many people have given valuable help. I have endeavored to men­ tion this in connection with their names in the text. Here I wish to ack­ nowledge a few who have been outstanding in their expenditure of time and money. Heading the list is the late W. G. Treloar, 79 Charterhouse Road, Orphington Kent, England, who copied all the births, deaths and mar­ riage records from 1837 to 1900 for the name Treloar from the General Register Office, Somerset House, London. This was an enormous task, both physical and mental, considering he was over 80 years old at the time · T. J. Treloar of Sithney Green, Cornwall, has contnouted valuable personal knowledge about the land holdings of my branch of the family and also this knowledge proves the family land holdings of about 1880 to be those mentioned in the will of Bennett 1i62. His word of mouth genealogical information of i0-i5 years ago has been extremely helpful in putting this puzzling family together. He has been very faithful about writing and sending in material requested. Mr. and Mrs. William John Nicholls Treloar of 12 Wmifred Road, London, have helped me immensely in constructing the family of Sir William Purdie Treloar, of which they are a part. We visited them while in England and have corresponded with them frequently since that time Sir William Purdie Treloar is mentioned here because he has given our name that which a name needs to be interesting genealogically - a famous person or at least a person of note. Practically all Treloars claim relationship to Sir William, but very few are directly related. Rev. F. G. Smith of Wendron Parish, Cornwall has been so patient and kind during the ten years of this book's preparation. He has allowed us to have all the Treloar records from his parish books and even from his parish strong box. We have bothered him untold t:mes with requests for rechecks and he has always responded. When we were in Cornwall he graciously served us a delicious tea. He died 16 March 1961. J. P. Rogers, Esq., of Helston, Cornwall is interested in _Cornish rec­ ords and possessed many pertaining to Wendon Parish which he allowed me to use freely. Also his profession of Solicitor gave him access to rec­ ords showing descendants that would have been difficult to prove other­ wise V PREFACE In my youth and early adult life I often pondered the question of whence came the name Treloar. In my home community of Ogden, Iowa there were many families of the same name, such as Smith, that were not related, but the Treloars .Jf the community were all related. I had never met a person with the name Treloar who did not belong to our close family group. During my years in college the same was true. As the years went on I thought about the name less frequently and yet in the back of my mind was always the desire to know more about it. After moving to Afton, Wyoming and having a family grow up until the oldest daugh­ ter was about fifteen, a start was finally made on tracing the name. The incentive for the start was furnished by seeing a fly leaf of an old family Bible in the possession of my oldest uncle. The Bible record was from around 1820. It gave informatio:i about the family of that date. A picture of that fly leaf appears here. The records seem to have been written all at the same time by the same person in the same fashion. This was probably done after the family was complete. The old Bible was brought from Cornwall, England to the United States. More enthusiasm was added to the search by my daughter who was studying genealogy in her Sunday School class at the Mormon Church. It did not take much more urging and the investigation was in full swing. The additional urg­ ing was furnished by my wife, Marion, who also has an inquiring mind. The old Bible gave the information that ''Bennet Treloar and Ann Tremaine, were joined in Holy wedlock 1810." By consulting reference books at Genealogy Library in Salt Lake City it was found that all the marriages before 1812 in England and Wales had been published. This publication shows that the marriage took place at Wendon, Cornwall, England. Mr. S. H. Sunderland of Howden, East Yorkshire, England, a genealogist, was hired to get the records from Wendron Parish. He went to Wendron to do this and copied all the births, deaths, and marriages of the name Treloar from 1575 to 1800. We had always coruadered the name Treloar a .very rare name and you can imagine our ama::ement when we received a list of 400 baptisms between 1575 and 1800, and 295 mar­ riages for the na"l.e Treloar between the years 1575 and 1855. Also you can ima,,,oine our consternation at f'mding five Bennet Treloars born within a time range so that any one of them could have been the Bennet who married Ann Tremaine July 23, 1810. It didn't take us long to realize that our approach to the problem depended upon wor'..:ing out all the family groups from the birth, death, and marriage records that we had. It was here that we learned what e,.."Perienced genealogists know, that the family group is the building stone of genealogy. We forthwith started the task and worked many a night until two or three o'clock in the morning putting the families together as we thought they should be. In the early records from 1500 to 1722 baptisms were given as per the father's name only; no mother was mentioned. After 1722 the task was somewhat easier as the name of the v.ife was also given. This help alone did not completely solve the difficulties, as in the records the fathers' given names are so common and the mother's vii surname is not given. Often we had two or three families such as Bennet and Ann having children at the same time. With the discovery of this difficulty we learned another lesson early in our genealogical career - that there is always a certain amount of deduction connected with gen­ ealogy when one gets back two or three hundred years with a pedigree. With all .the information available and very exacting study one may be out on a limb and forced to resort to deductions with the result that a wrong branch is taken. In case of doubt mark it clearly and work out all the branches. Some day the deduction may be removed by a wonder­ ful genealogical find. If this find doesn't materialize the searcher may be fortunate enough to have a name such as Treloar which is derived from a place name so that even if a wrong branch in the tree is taken the end point will be the same - a place from which all of that name originated. In our fam­ ily that place was Trelowarth, Cornwall, England. After the family groups for the Parish of Wendron had been com­ pleted we found that we were not much nearer a solution than we were in the beginning. Often there were several ways in which a certain Bennet could be traced back through this maze of Benne~ names. To do this we felt we would have to find out all we could about all of the five Bennets in order to know which one belonged to our family. By getting information from my aunts and uncles we were helped greatly in reconstructing the family that appeared in the old Bible. We started writing to all persons of the name Treloar that we could fmd in telephone books of London, West Britain, that is Cornwall, and many cities of the United States. It wasn't long before we had an enormous correspondence with Treloars going on, and the list grew and grew. We found that Treloar was not an uncommon name even in our day and outside of Cornwall, Engand. By sending some old pictures found in the possession of aunts and uncles in this country to Treloars at Wendron, Cornwall, we were able to find second cousins still living there. Their information about the name Treloar was as vague as ours. However, they knew that their folks had corresponded with relatives in the United States. By contacting more and more distant relatives we were able to reconstruct the family of Bennet Treloar and Ann Tremaine and to work out their progeny. Of the 13 children in the family, 5 boys and 3 girls came to the United States; the 5 boys spread out and between 1850, when most of them arrived in this country, and 1900 they had lost track of each other and their families no longer communicated.