SCAWEN FAMILY OF MOLENICK, ST. GERMANS

<span class="wrapper"><p>Vivian's Visitations pages 421-423</p> <p>Collectanea Cornubiensia, 873, 874.</p></span>

The Scawen family seat was from the time of Edward I to 1712 at Molenick in the parish of St. Germans. The family produced two Members of Parliament, a Vice-warden of the Stannaries, and a seventeenth-century antiquarian, William Scawen, who compiled a dissertation on Cornish names. William Scawen, the last of the family to live at Molenick, died there in about 1712. His heir, Thomas, lived in Northampton; he married the heiress of Lord James Russell, and their son, James died in 1801 without issue, bring the male line to an end. James' sister Tryphena was married in 1759 to Henry, second earl of Bathurst.

A branch of the family lived for some time at Trehane in Probus, a Scawen son having married a daughter of John de Trehane who died in the seventeenth century. Another branch lived in Stokeclimsland.

The family owned property scattered over a wide area of the county, including Treveor in Gorran, Halton in St. Dominic, Treluddrow in Newlyn East and Lamborne in St. Agnes, as well as lands in and around St. Germans.

The "manor" of Bodmin Kirland was (according to Lake's Parochial History) not known to have existed as a manor; the manor of Bodmin, which had before the Dissolution belonged to the Priory, later passed to the Bassets of Tehidy. An interesting feature in one of the Bodmin deeds (WH1/5159) is the reference to Thomas Sternolde; he was one of the early translators of the Psalms (Lake, p. 94; also Henderson's "Cornish Essays" pp. 226-228)

The manor and borough of Mitchell was purchased by the Scawen family from the Arundells who had owned the manor for many generations. It was later sold to the Bassets and later transferred to Hawkins of Trewithen.

Treluddrow in Newlyn East and St. Enoder was bought by Wm. Scawen from Borlase; it was later sold to Francis Basset and passed to the Hawkins family.

The manor of Treveor in Gorran was sold by Scawen to Thomas Graham who owned it in the mid-nineteenth century.

Lamborne in St. Agnes and Perranzabuloe by 1870 belonged to the Molesworth family.