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Trevadlock Manor, Lewannick
Name most probably means 'church site of Guenoc'; a Breton saint. This parish is five miles south-west of Launceston. The small hilltop village of Lewannick is centred around a crossroads, which is unusual for Cornwall, where the villages tend to stretch along sheltered valleys. There are commanding views across Bodmin Moor to Fox Tor.In a cave nearby lived a dragon which had devastated two pagos of land and any human who ventured into them were killed. When St Samson was in the area he heard of the dragon and walked right up to its cave. He dragged out the dragon using his linen belt and threw the creature into the River Inny.The 13th century church of St Martin, was rebuilt after a fire in 1890. When Methodism arrived in 18th century the local parson, George Parsons, successfully used all his influence to prevent meetings taking place, and it was only after his death the Methodists were able to build their own chapel.
Population
| 1841 | 1991 |
| 733 | 714 |
Statistics: 4039 acres
of land
Maps
Lewannick is south west of Launceston
1. The whole of Cornwall
2. Here is a map
to get you to Lewannick - you can change the scale as well as get the
local weather and cinema listings!
Family 0: Anastasius and Elizabeth
Anastasius was born about 1550. He lived here in the latter part of the 16th century, dying in 1614. His will mentions his wife, Elizabeth and four(?) children - to each of my daughters, son Thomas, Elizabeth (still under 21 in 1614):
- 2 daughters
- son Thomas born before 1593
- daughter Elizabeth born after 1593 - possibly marries John Way in Exeter
Family 1: Thomas and Mary Guy
Thomas 1765 is the son of John and Grace Wells, born in Jacobstow. He has a wandering nature - when he marries Mary Guy in Poundstock in 1784, he is described as a farm worker from Lewannick, some distance away. Their witnesses are not family - Henry Stacey and John Jeffrey.
Their first child is born in Poundstock later that year but they return to Lewannick where their two daughters are born.
Thomas also seems to have a wandering eye as he is the likely father of 2 illegitimate children: in 1787, there is a bastardy order in Altarnun, Cornwall for a child, John Prout, mother Elizabeth Prout and father Thomas Uglow, labourer of Lewannick (Cornwall Record Office). And there's another in 1791 for a child, John Honeychurch born in Phillack, mother Mary Honeychurch agwin with father Thomas Uglow
One explanation is that Mary probably dies young as daughter Elizabeth is on the Apprentices' Index 12/4/1796 suggesting that she is an orphan. Perhaps Thomas abandons the family and that accounts for his presence (if it is in fact him) in Phillack in west Cornwall.
Their children are:
- anon son 1784 born in Poundstock
- daughter Mary 1787 born in Lewannick - she marries Thomas Shaddock in Hartland in 1810.
- daughter Elizabeth 1790 born in Lewannick but lives in Altarnun .
- back to the Uglow homepage
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