DARELL, DARELL STEPHENS AND STEPHENS OF TREWORNAN St Minver

Most of the deeds relate to the tenements constituting the manor of Trewornan. Of special interest are those relating to Tredrizzick, in which place Nicholas Roscarrock (Lives of the British Saints, MS in Cambridge University Library; copy in Cornwall County Record Office) wrote there was a chapel and well dedicated to St. Minver herself. There is no mention of the well in these deeds, but considerable evidence for the existence of a Chapel in Tredrizzick of which later writers (e.g. A Lane-Davies, Holy Wells of Cornwall (1970) have found no trace. In DS/245-312 are to be found the details: a house called the Chapel in Tredrizzick in 1610 surrounded by 'the Chapple Heye' (DS/245), the Chapel still in existence for example, in 1703 (DS/265), and again in 1740 (where it appears as the moiety of a house or piece of ground called 'the Chappell' (DS/272). The Chapel is still called a house in 1781 (DS/283), but 'a house or piece of ground in 1791 (DS/286) and, six years later in 1797, 'a house built on a piece of land called the Chappell' (DS/290). The last certain mention of the Chapel is in 1803 (DS/292).

TITLE DEEDS AND LEASES etc.

Manor of Trewornan in St. Minver with settlements and whole estate 1557-1619

CIVIL WAR

Royal pardon to John Roe of Trewornan, esq. 1643

TITLE DEEDS AND LEASES etc.

Manor of Trewornan in St. Minver with settlements and whole estate, including estate etc. 1663-1885

LEGAL

Order of County Court (boundaries at Trewiston, St. Minver). 1895

TITLE DEEDS AND LEASES

Trewornan and St. Minver and St. Keverne (whole estate) 1703; 1887-1888

TITLE DEEDS

Earlier deeds of Trengayor, St. Gennys (cf. DS/25,/26,/41 etc.) 1620-1680

'Remainders' to be added 1819

Miscellaneous, Trereed in Lanteglos by Fowey. 1548

CONSTITUENT PARTS OF THE DARRELL AND DARRELL STEPHENS ESTATE

(Properties marked Sandys with a date refer to those which were acquired by the Revd. William Sandys). Some stated to be parts of the manor of Trewornan.

TITLE DEEDS AND LEASES

Bospilloes in St. Minver 1621-1816

Carlumb in St. Minver (Sandys 1796) 1617; 1774-1803

Keiro in St. Minver 1581-1865

Mesmear in St. Minver 1695; 1725; 1793-1811.

Porthkillick in St. Minver 1609-1843

Trebetherick in St. Minver 1641-1835

Tredrizzick in St. Minver 1610-1861

Trenant in St. Minver 1621-1836

Treswebyn and Dinham in St. Minver 1604-1837

Trevanger in St. Minver. 1597-1848

Treverra in St. Minver. 1615-1797

Trewiston and Dingleys in St. Minver 1601-1782

• <famname>Darell family of Trewornan, Cornwall</famname>
• <famname>Stephens family of Trewornan, Cornwall</famname>

Presented to Cornwall County Record Office by Mrs. G. W. Saunders (via Dorset and Devon County Record Offices) Accession No. 2027

This collection, the Darell Stephens muniments, was presented to Cornwall County Record Office by Mrs. G. W. Saunders of Bridport, Dorset,through the courtesy of the County Archivists of Dorset and Devon. (A few items relating to Devon were retained at Devon Record Office and some deeds relating to Woolcombe in Dorset were given by Mrs. Saunders to Mrs. Woolcombe). Mrs. Saunder's father, Robert Darell Smythe, was a Stephens but took the name Darell by deed poll in 1901. The collection during Mr. Darell Smythe's lifetime was at his home, Hillfield House, W. Dartmouth, and on his death went to a bank in Plymouth where they remained for forty years. A sister of Mrs. Saunders passed them to her from the bank (Mrs. Saunder's eldest sister and her two brothers were then deceased). Mrs. Saunders said her grandfather was Edward Stephens, a solicitor: (But see Maclean, Trigg Minor iii, 83 where her grandfather would appear to have been Edward's brother, Robert Stephens of Plympton). Mrs. Saunder's father was born in 1851.

Sir John Maclean records the pedigree of the Darell and Stephens family of Trewornan in St. Minver in Trigg Minor iii (1879), 81-83, which shows, inter alia, that John Roe of Trewornan, esq. left Trewornan to his nephew Thomas Darell by his will proved 12 May 1658. Maclean traces the whole history of Trewornan (Trigg Minor iii, 52-55) including the history covered by these deeds. Henry Darell, Maclean shows,died intestate in 1705 and after an Act of Parliament of 1706,the manor of Trewornan was sold to his nephew Charles Trelawny of Coldrenick, Menheniot, in trust.

Henry Darell, son of the above Henry, as Maclean shows, (p.55) left two sisters: Francis who married John Crabb of Plymouth and Ann who became the wife of the Revd. Edward Stephens, vicar of St. Kew, Trewornan after Henry Darell's (jun.) death in 1731 passed to the Crabb family and Darell Crabb inherited Coldrenick from Henry St. George Darell Trelawny (see Maclean's pedigree, op. cit., 83) and himself assumed the name and arms of Trelawny on inheriting the Coldrenick estate (Charles Trelawny died unmarried in 1764). Darell Crabb Trelawny died in 1795 without issue and under his will, Darell Stephens (grandson of the Revd. Edwd. Stephens and Ann Darell) inherited the Trewornan estate, his son being Edward Stephens. (The Coldrenick estates passed to Darell Stephen's elder brother Edward Stephens who assumed the name of Trelawny and died 11 April 1807).