Arrival record for Thomas Trevithick and Elizabeth nee CANDY

A fellow descendant of the Trevithick's sent me a copy of their arrival indent - one of the few records I was missing. I'd always hoped that the record would reveal his parents names and other details (as NSW arrival records do), but the Victorian records are relatively spartan.

The 'Panama' sailed from London on 3 Aug 1854, a ship of 734 ft, carrying 275 migrants, arriving in Portland on the Victorian coast on the 25th October 1854. After they set to sea, Elizabeth gave birth to the first of their ten children, Elizabeth Trevithick.

Their arrival record image:

Their arrival entries in the Victorian PROV site are incorrectly transcribed, and they are listed under 'Assisted British Immigration' arrivals 'Trewithick':
TREWITHICK ----INFANT WITH I OCT 1854 PANAMA
TREWITHICK ELIZH 21 OCT 1854 PANAMA 10
TREWITHICK THOMAS 21 OCT 1854 PANAMA

It's easy to see how the name was mis-stranscribed! Based on articles and even headstones, it appears that that 'th' in TREVITHICK was often heard as a 'hard T' sound, and perhaps the v was softened to the point that it sounded as 'trewitick':

Here it can be seen that Thomas stated his occupation as a blacksmith of Cornwall, listed with his wife Elizabeth and a daughter 'b.o.b.' - born on board (registered in Victoria on arrival, who we know to be Elizabeth).

The arrival record also reveals that family to be 'Church of England' (Wesleyan was an option but they didn't claim it). Both Thomas and Elizabeth claimed that they could read and write, and both were 21.

William Trevithick of Kenwyn, Cornwall - UPDATE

This is an update of a previous entry - significant information is added to I'm re-posting.

My first ancestor in Australia was Thomas Trevithick born 1835 Kenwyn, son of William Trevithick and Ann Watkins Allen, died Hill End NSW 1913. There has always been a suggestion that this line is descended from Richard Trevithick.

There has been a great deal of difficulty establishing Thomas' parentage, however the fundamental facts have been established.

Thomas was born in 1835, baptised in Kenywn, Cornwall.

Source Cornwall online parish clerks site:

Parish: Kenwyn, Date: 08-Mar 1835

Name: Thomas TREVITHICK

Parents: William and Ann

Residence: St Clements

Father's rank/profession: Labourer

Thomas' third marriage certificate in 1900 in Hill End NSW to Mary A GREEN confirms the names of his parents as William and Ann nee ALLEN. Some confusion exists in the records because when Thomas married his first wife Elizabeth Randal CANDY in 1853 in Plymouth, England, his father was stated as Thomas, a Gardner. Thomas and Elizabeth's arrival records on the 'Panama' offer only scant information, and not parentage.

I had a great deal of difficulty finding a marriage for Thomas' parents William TREVITHICK and Ann ALLEN, this is because Ann ALLEN first married William PENGILLY in 1827:

Parish or Registration District: Kenwyn, Date: 25-Oct 1827

GROOM: William PENGILLY

BRIDE: Ann Watkings ALLEN

William PENGILLY died in 1830, Age: 40, Residence: Kenwyn Street, after they'd baptised only one child, William Henry, in 1828 (IGI).

The widowed Ann PENGILLY then married William TREVITHICK in 1834 (From Cornwall Online Parish Clerks site):

Parish or Registration District: Kenwyn

Date: 09-Jun 1834

GROOM: William TREVIDICK (Trevithick)

Groom's condition: Bachelor

BRIDE: Ann PENGILLY

Bride's condition: Widower

Witness 1: Thos Hicks

Witness 2: (mark of)Margaret Courtice

I believe a combination of the incorrect writing/transcription and Ann ALLEN's intervening marriage conspired to make it difficult to uncover them.

William TREVITHICK and Ann ALLEN/PENGILLY had two children that i've found:

Thomas TREVITHICK (1835-1913), and Elizabeth baptised Wesleyan, Truro 1837 and buried aged 4 in 1842. In the meantime, Thomas' father William was buried in 1838 (Cornwall online parish clerks site):

Parish: Kenwyn, Date: 08-Apr 1838

Name: William TREVITHICK

Age: 32

Residence: St Clements

I ordered a copy of the civil registration of William Trevithick's death (the above is the Church burial record), but it gives little more information and throws up some more cunfusion.

Transcript

Registration district Truro

1838 Death in the Sub-district of St Clements in the County of Cornwall

No. 133
When and where died: Fourth of April 1838 at Mitchell Hill, St Clement

Name and surname: William Trevethick

Sex: Male

Age: 32 years

Occupation: Laborer

Cause of death: Typhus fever

Signature, description and residence of informant: The mark of Maryann x Trevethick, present at his death, Pauls Row St Clement.

When registered: Seventh of April 1838

Signature of registrar: John Jennings, Registrar

So where does this leave us? The age of death given in the church burial and the civil death certificate both seem to say 32, meaning he would have been born about 1806 - no baptism for a William TREVITHICK seems to exist around that time in Cornwall. This includes checking www.familysearch.org and www.cornwall-opc.org. The death occured in St Clements (a parish just outside Truro) at Mitchell Hill, a road in the Kenwyn/St Clement area. Finally, the death was reported by Maryann Trevethick, 'present at the death' - I have no way to connect this person to William - mother? sister? Much to learn - so much to work out.

In the 1841 census, the widowed Ann Trevithick is living on Kenwyn St with Thomas and Elizabeth, along with her son William TREVITHICK (previously PENGILLY) from her first marriage.

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So William TREVITHICK (also written TREVIDICK) was born about 1806 according to his age at death, married the widower Ann Watkins PENGILLY nee ALLEN in Kenwyn in 1834 and died in 1838 in Kenwyn, Cornwall. If his age at death is correct he was ten years her junior. He was a labourer according to his sons baptismal transcript.

But who were his parents? And is the age wrong? There don't seem to have been any other Trevithick's in the Kenwyn/Truro/St Clements area - this wasn't an area the Trevithick family were actually from. I hope there's an answer that can connect me back to William.

Elizabeth TREVITHICK nee CANDY coroner's inquest

I've written on Elizabeth TREVITHICK nee CANDY 1832-1871 (http://thehistoryofmatt.blogspot.com/2008/03/elizabeth-candy-and-thomas-trevithick.html). The article below (a transcript was posted previously) describes the inquest into Elizabeth's death. She was heavily pregnant and living with five of her young daughters in a poverty-stricken area of Sydney on Linden lane. The article describes the evidence given by her daughters, and reveals that their father was working the goldfields in Tambaroora (in employment for a mine). It can only be assumed that the elder children (stated as working) were providing for the family along with whatever support their father sent down from the fields. Given their living conditions this was obviously meagre.

While the article states the death was caused by pulmonary consumtion, the headline states 'apoplexy accelerated by intemperance'. Either way it's one of the most tragic stories I've come across.




Sydney Morning Herald
Saturday 22 July 1871CORONER'S INQUEST
DEATH FROM APOPLEXY ACCELERATED BY INTEMPERANCE - Yesterday forenoon, the City Coroner (Mr. Henry Shield) held, at the Australian Inn, Parramatta-street, an inquest touching the death of a woman named Elizabeth Trerethick, who was found dead in her bed on the previous morning. Elizabeth Trerethick, daughter of deceased, deposed that she was in the service of Mr. Abigail, of Goulburn-street ; her mother, who hd resided at 27, Linden-lane, off Parramatta-street, was 39 years of age, and a native of Cornwall (England) ; she had been in the colony nineteen years, and had been seventeen years married ; her husband (witness's father) was alive, and at present at Tambaroora, where he was employed at a crushing-machine ; deceased has left seven children, of which witness was the eldest ; the last time she saw her mother alive was on Monday last at her residence ; she then complained of a pain in the chest, of which she had complained for the last three weeks ; she did not obserce that she was suffering from cold ; her father had not been in Sydney for the lsat eight months, believed that her mother was near her confinement ; occasionally she drank to excess ; for the last three weeks she had taken a little pale brandy for the pain in her chest ; her children were persons living with her ; witness and her eldest brother lived away from hom ; previous to the last three weeks she enjoyed good health ; she had not been under medical treatment ; she was not aware she had taken any medicine ; in consequence of something she heard on Thursday morning, witness went home, and found her mother dead. Emma Trevithick, twelve years of age, deposed that on Monday last her mother took three penny-worth of laudanum for pains in her chest ; a woman in their lane gave deceased a bottle of medicine on Sunday ; her mother had been confined to her bed since Monday last ; she took a shilling's worth of brandy daily ; witness got the brandy, and went twice daily for it ; her other sister also went for brandy for her ; she had had nothing to eat since Monday ; she and her four sisters were the only persons in the house ; witness prepared the meals ; she got some corn flour on Monday for her mother, but she would not take it ; witness had been at home since Monday ; she and her sisters slept in the same room with deceased ; on last Wednesday night deceased would not speak ; she was groaning ; got up on Thursday morning, called her mother, but got no answer ; found she was dead ; sometimes she would  have a glass of ale as well as pale brandy. Adele Fifer also gave evidence , which was corroborative. Dr Schuette deposed that, from his own observation and the evidence given at the inquest, he was of opinion that death had resulted from pulmonary consumption. The jury found that death had resulted as above.

Marriage of Eliza Trevithick to John Durie 1878

I've been communicating with a fellow descendant of Thomas and Elizabeth (nee CANDY) TREVITHICK, however Annette is descended from their fifth child Eliza TREVITHICK, born at Lambing Flat NSW in 1862 (the year after the Lambing Flat riots). Eliza was living with her mother, Elizabeth, in the squalor of 27 Linden Lane in Sydney (on what is now the site of the demonlished brewery at Broadway) almost ten years later in 1871 when Elizabeth died of 'apoplexy of the lungs; accelerated by intempererance' - it was July and winter in Sydney. Her father Thomas was working the Tambaroora mine fields at the time. At the inquest the eldest daughter Elizabeth testified that their father had been away eight months at this stage, and that her mother was shortly to give birth (near confinement), the five youngest children all living in Linden-lane.

While it is assumed the children returned to Hill End/Tambaroora with Thomas Trevithick, the next record of Eliza is her marriage in 1878 (aged 15).





Transcript:

Copy of Certificate of Marriage
I, Bernard Kenny, being a Primitive Methodist Minister do certify that I have this day, at my residence Metcalfe Street, Wallsend duly celebrated Marriage between John Durie, Miner, Minmi, Bachelor and Eliza Trevithick, Minmi, Spinster, after Declaration duly made as by law required.
Dated this 23rd day of March 1878.
Bernard Kenny (signed)
John Durie (signed)
Eliza Trevithick (signed)
signatures of witnesses
William Elliott (signed)
Lavinia Kenny (signed)

As Eliza was below the age of 21, her father had to consent to the marriage:


The Consent of Thomas Trevithick (Father of the Bride) was given to the Marriage of Eliza Trevithick with John Durie the said Eliza Trevithick being under the age of Twenty-one years.
Bernard Kenny, Minister or Registrar.

Millie Edith TREVITHICK (1889-1979)

There seem to be a lot of TREVITHICK's in Australia, descended from Thomas TREVITHICK (1835-1913) and Elizabeth Randall CANDY (1832-1871) who are described elsewhere. Lyn Crawford has written a bio on one of Thomas and Elizabeth's grandchildren, Millie Edith TREVITHICK.

The second of Thomas and Elizabeth's seven children to survive adolescence was Thomas Trevithick, jr. Thomas Jr. was born in 1857 at Mount Ararat, Victoria as the family slowly worked their way towards Hill End in NSW where their father finally settled. On 26 Nov 1877 Thomas Jr. married Sarah TEE at Hill End, NSW - Sarah was born at nearby Tambaroora in 1857 to William TEE, convict, and Eliza HOG. Thomas Jr. and Sarah TEE had at least 10 children while living in Hill End, and Newtown in Sydney.

One of these children was Mille Edith TREVITHICK - the great grandmother of Lyn Crawford, and Lyn has written this biography of her life.

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Millie Edith TREVITHICK

Millie Edith Trevithick (27 Apr 1889 – 24 Apr 1979), the sixth child of Thomas Trevithick and Sarah Tee. By the time their fifth child was born Thomas and Sarah were living in Sydney, where Millie was born on the 27th April 1889 in Maria Street, Newtown.

Thomas and Sarah moved their family back to Hill End between 1889 and 1891, and were still living there in 1903 where Thomas was listed in the electoral roll as a 'miner' and Sarah with the responsibility of 'domestic duties'. Between 1903 and 1907 the family moved on to Tingha in northern NSW where Thomas bought and operated a tin-mine.

It was in Tingha that Millie met Arthur William Falconer. Arthur was born at Lahey’s Creek in Gulgong NSW on 23 August 1885 to parents Joseph (Job) Falconer and Gertrude Albury. Joseph was a pastoralist in the Gulgong region where the family owned a large property at Lahey’s Creek. Millie and Arthur married at her parents home in Tingha on 11 September 1907m Millie's brother Alfred being one of the witnesses. At the time of their marriage Millie who was a dress-maker was 18 years old and already 4 months pregnant; Arthur was 22. Their daughter Elsie Edith was born 3 February 1908 in Tingha.

The marriage was quite difficult and after an argument with Millie’s father over his working habits, Arthur moved back to his family’s property at Gulgong taking Millie and Elsie with him. While Arthur lived on the property, Millie and Elsie were forced to live in a tent on the common outside the property and fend for themselves. Millie and Arthur later moved to Dungog where their son Arthur Ernest was born in 1910. Not long after Arthur was born the family moved to Sydney and moved into a vacant house in Burwood. No sooner had they moved in, Arthur left the home and never came back, only returning to take his baby son to live with his parents who were then living in Bondi. Millie would never see her son again.

Elsie remained with her mother but also spent long periods of time with her maternal grandparents Thomas & Sarah Trevithick at their home in Rouse Hill and later at Concord. To make ends meet Millie would pawn her belongings including jewelry to buy food. She also relied on her sister Alice, whom she was particularly close to and brother Frederick, who had moved into the Burwood home with her. State Archives reveal that in 1917 Millie's application for divorce from Arthur William Falconer was approved, ten years after they were married.

Millie would eventually open a café at Central Railway station where she served breakfast and later a café/cake shop on the North Shore of Sydney – perhaps Roseville. Millie lost the bakery when it was sold behind her back, losing all of her money and once again she relied on her sister Alice. Millie later worked as a dressmaker and in the mid 1920s worked in a men’s store in Newtown making clothing. In the 1930s Millie went to work in the IXL pickle factory at Stanmore where she worked for some time.


Millie Edith Trevithick and her second husband George Edward Fever, in 1952.

Millie befriend George Edward Fever, sometime in the late 1920s early 1930s, who would became her partner. George moved into Millie’s home at 14 Regent Street Newtown, however they did not marry until 14 August 1952 in the Newtown Registry office.

Millie devoted her life to her family and the Salvation Army where she played in their band. She also enjoyed seeing stage shows and going on holidays, which she often did with Alice or her grandchildren. After her father passed away Millie took in her mother Sarah and cared for her until her passing and also cared for her brother Henry and his wife Vera in her home until Henry passed away.

Millie spent the last few years of her life living at Lottie Stewart Hospital at Dundas where she passed away on 24 April 1979. She was cremated at Rookwood on 27 April 1979 on what would have been her 90th birthday.

Written by Lyn Crawford, 2008

John CANDY, 1846-1875

John CANDY 1846-1875

Elizabeth Randall CANDY had two siblings who travelled to Australia - Roger and John. John didn't actually emigrate to Australia, he arrived there as a crew member on a ship, then spent time working in the Australia-New Zealand district. He never returned home, dying in his brothers home in Glebe in 1875.

John Candy was born around 1846 in Truro, Cornwall to John CANDY and Elizabeth Watkins nee ALLEN. When John was born, his uncle William CANDY and family already lived in Australia, and by his tenth birthday his older siblings Elizabeth Randall CANDY (married to Thomas TREVITHICK) and Roger CANDY had also emigrated to Australia. The 1851 census shows John as a 5 year old scholar living with his father Roger, a printer, and mother Elizabeth, a sheet binder, and older brother Roger, a cabinet maker's apprentice, living at 122 Lemon Row in Truro. His sisters were living next door in another of the other family homes.

Parish registers for St. Pauls, Truro reveal that on 27th Aug 1868, aged 23, John married Eliza Jane DENNIS (also 23). In the 1871 Census, John Candy is living at Bosvigo Lane in Kenwyn with Jane, also born in Truro. John's occupation is given as sailor, and this may explain why he has not yet been identifed in the 1861 census.

John Candy sailed for Australia as an Able Bodied crew member of the 'Damascus' departing London and reaching Sydney, New South Wales, on 14 May 1872 aged 25, and listing his home as 'Truro'. While his Uncle William, brother Roger and sister Elizabeth had all emigrated to Australia prior to John's arrival (his sister Elizabeth had died a year before he arrived), it appears that as a mariner, he may only have intended to visit or work in the region of Australia while spending time with the family. Whether he deserted from the 'Damascus' or was able to crew ships is unclear, however he probaby spent time at his brother Roger's home at Parramatta St, Glebe.

During this period in Australia he had left a bride of four years behind in Truro. Including his initial arrival on the 'Damascus', four journey arrivals have been found for John Candy;

Arrived Sydney ex London, 14 May 1872 per 'Damascus'.
Arrived Sydney ex Maryborough, Queensland, 6 January 1873 per 'Forward'.
Arrived Sydney ex Melbourne, 3 August 1873 per 'Wentworth'.
Arrived Sydney ex Port Lyttleton, New Zealand, per 'Zistta' 16 March 1874

Three years after John arrived in Sydney, and with no indication that he ever returned home, John Candy died at his brother Roger's home at 218 Parramatta Rd, Glebe, NSW, on 18 April 1875, aged 28. The medical attendant had seen John a week earlier, and the cause of death was given as 'morbus cordis' - a disease of the heart, though more generally employed to describe an unknown cause of death in younger persons. John's occupation was listed as mariner, and while his brother knew that he was married, surprisingly he could give no details suggesting that perhaps John was truant in Australia from his responsibilities in Cornwall. His funeral was reported in the Sydney Morning Herald:

Sydney Morning Herald.
Monday 9 April 1875.
Funeral Notice.
The friends of Mr Roger Candy, Cabinetmaker, are respectfully invited to attend the Funeral of his deceased BROTHER John; to move from his residence Parramatta Street THIS (Monday) AFTERNOON, AT HALF-PAST 1 O'CLOCK FOR THE Necropolis. SHYING and CO. 719 George-street.

John was buried at Haslem's Creek, now known as Rookwood Cemetery. Lauris Candy-Kidd states in her book on the Candy's that his sister Elizabeth Randal Candy Trevithick is buried in same grave. No headstone exists, and a transcript in Cornwall paper has not been identified.

The fate of John's wife in Cornwall has not been uncovered.

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Matthew D. Hall
This bio was written with reference to work by Betty Candy, NSW and Lauris Candy-Kidd, WA

Elizabeth CANDY and Thomas TREVITHICK

I've put the emphasis on Elizabeth in this bio. As always would love to hear from others. There are details on Thomas TREVITHICK that are not included in this bio. My intention is to expand to incorporate details of Thomas and their children. As with most things posted here, several people have contributed primary sources.

Elizabeth Candy (1832-1871) and Thomas TREVITHICK (1832-1913)

On 1 October 1853 in Plymouth, Thomas TREVITHICK married Elizabeth Randal CANDY (1832 – 1871). Their marriage certificate states that she was born in Truro in 1832, the daughter of John CANDY and Elizabeth Watkins ALLEN. The only evidence of Elizabeth’s life before marriage uncovered thus far is her entry on the 1851 UK Census at age 18, a dressmaker, living with her grandmother Elizabeth CANDY and sister Susan on Lemon Row in Truro, where many of the CANDY family lived – her parents lived on the same street at the time.

Less than a year after marriage, Thomas and Elizabeth sailed from London on 3 Aug 1854, on the ‘Panama’, a ship of 734 ft, carrying 275 migrants, arriving in Portland, Victoria on the 25th October 1854. After they set to sea, Elizabeth gave birth to the first of their ten children, Elizabeth Trevithick.

Their arrival entries in the Victorian PROV site are incorrectly transcribed, and they are listed under 'Assisted British Immigration' arrivals:
TREWITHICK ----INFANT WITH I OCT 1854 PANAMA
TREWITHICK ELIZH 21 OCT 1854 PANAMA 10
TREWITHICK THOMAS 21 OCT 1854 PANAMA
(I am yet to find a way to obtain a copy of their arrival records)

Elizabeth’s certificate was registered in Belfast (now Port Fairy) in Victoria. Thomas and Elizabeth had three more children in the Ararat area of Victoria (undergoing a gold rush at the time): Thomas (b.1857), and the twins Ellen and Emma (b. 1859). They then appear to have followed gold to NSW (though Thomas always gives his occupation as blacksmith in certificates) as their last three registered children were born in Burrangong (Eliza, 1862), Young (Harriet, 1864) and finally Mary Ann (Grenfell, NSW).

Elizabeth died in Sydney three years after the birth Mary Ann, on July 20th 1871. She had moved into Sydney with the children, living in a notorious slum area, Linden Lane (Linden Lane still exists, in Surry Hills). Thomas had remained in the gold field area around Tambaroora and Hill End. Her death received attention in the Sydney Morning Herald, and gives some insight into their life at the time, and the family was clearly poor:

Sydney Morning Herald.
Friday, 21 July 1871.
FOUND DEAD IN BED

"It was yesterday reported to the City Coroner that at about 8 o'clock that morning a woman, named Elizabeth Trevithathick (sic), thirty-nine years of age, residing in Linden Lane, off Parramatta Street, had been found dead in bed by her daughter, Elizabeth, nine years of age. It would appear that the deceased had been drinking for the last week, and complaining of pains in the chest, but had no medical attention. She was married and had a family of young children. Her husband is said to be at the gold-diggings. The City Coroner will hold this forenoon an inquest touching the woman's death."

This article was following by another outlining proceedings of the coronial inquest into the death of Elizabeth Trevithick.

CORONER'S INQUEST
DEATH FROM APOPLEXY, ACCELERATED BY INTEMPERANCE.

"Yesterday forenoon, the City Coroner (Mr Henry Shiell) held at te Australian Inn, Parramatta Street, an Inquest touching the death of a woman named Elizabeth Trevithick, who was found dead in her bed on the previous morning. Elizabeth Trevithick, daughter of deceased, deposed that she was in the service of Mr Abigail of Goulburn –street; her mother, who had resided at 27 Linden-lane, off Parramatta Street, was 39 years of age, and a native of Cornwall (England); she had been in the colony nineteen years, and had been seventeen years married. Her husband (witness’s Father) was alive, and at present at Tambaroora, where he was employed at a crushing machine; deceased has left seven children, of which witness was the eldest; the last time she saw her mother alive was on Monday last at her residence; she ten complained of a pain in the chest, of which she had complained for the last three weeks; she did not observe that she was suffering from cold; her father had not been in Sydney for the last eight months; believed that her mother was near her confinement; occasionally she drank to excess; for the last three weeks she had taken a little pale brandy for the pain in her chest; her children were the only persons living with her; witness and her eldest brother lived away from home; previous to the last three weeks she enjoyed good health; she had not been under medical treatment; she was not aware that she had taken any medicine; in consequence of something she heard on Thursday morning; witness went home and found her mother dead.

Emma Trevithick, twelve years of age, deposed that on Monday last, her mother took three penny worth of laudanum for pains in her chest; a woman in their lane gave deceased a bottle of medicine on Sunday; her mother had been confined to her bed since Monday last; she took a shilling’s worth of brandy daily; witness got the brandy and went twice daily for it; her other sister also went for brandy for her; she had had nothing to eat since Monday; she and her four sisters were the only persons in the house; witness prepared the meals; she got some corn flour on Monday for her mother, but she would not take it; witness had been at home since Monday; on last Wednesday night deceased would not speak; she was groaning; got up on Thursday, called her mother, but got no answer; found she was dead; some times she would have a glass of ale as well as the pale brandy’

Adele Fifer also gave evidence, which was corroborative. Dr Schuette deposed that, from his own observation and the evidence given at the inquest, he was of the opinion that death had resulted from pulmonary consumption. The jury found that death had resulted as above."

Elizabeth’s brother Roger CANDY had also emigrated to Australia before her, and Roger is listed as a witness on her burial at Rookwood Cemetery (he would again be a witness at his brother John’s burial three years later). Her death certificate states her age as 39, and the informant was Henry Thiell, Coroner, Sydney. After her husband arrived in Sydney from Tamabaroora/Hill End, he also was listed as an informant in tiny writing in the small space left on the certificate: ‘Thos Trevithick, Widower of deceased, Parramatta St’. It must have been overwhelming to arrive to collect his children following an inquest into her death, burial and find the death certificate already completed.

Thomas returned to Hill End, presumably with all his children – the Greville Post Office Directory for 1875 lists him as an engineer. Thomas married twice more, to Margaret HOSIER in 1881, and Mary Ann Green in 1900, with no issue. In the 1903 Electoral Roll Thomas is living at Hill End with his wife, and his son Thomas and grandson Thomas William were both married in also living in Hill End. Thomas did not die till 1913 in the Hill End district of NSW, at the age of 81.

Sadly, Lauris Candy-Kidd states in her book ‘A Thin Place - Some History of the Cornish Candy’s’ that the place where Elizabeth was buried is now under roadway. There is no headstone.”

Thomas Trevithick - email

An e-mail about my ancestory Thomas Trevithick - I have ag great deal of info on this guy I need to post:

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So the Trevithick family is indeed interesting, and there has been a little confusion about them, as there were in fact two Trevithick families in Australia around the same time.

There was a Thomas Henry TREVITHICK born in England in 1838, who arrived with his parents Henry TREVITHICK and Elizabeth nee PASCOE at Port Adealide on the Aboukir in 1847. This family stayed at Burra for a time and made their way to Victoria, settling in Avoca. This Thomas Henry TREVITHICK never married, and died in 1899 at Ballarat Hospital. I found this out ultimately by wasting (investing?) a bunch of money on Victorian birth certificates, and scratching my head over why his death certificate stated he never married nor had children. (Anyone reading descending from this family that stayed in Victoria - feel free to e-mail me).

The ‘other’ (and in our case relevant) Thomas Trevithick is just as interesting! And I have collated quite a bit of information, though there are parts to be filled in.

It took me a LONG time to discover that another Trevithick family had arrived in Victoria (from Kenwyn/Truro in Cornwall) in 1854 on the Panama. This is because the PROV search engine for arrivals in Victoria incorrectly had them transcribed as Trewithick. They were Thomas (1832 - 1913) and Elizabeth nee CANDY (1832 - 1871). They married in Plymouth in 1853 prior to departing for Australia.

Thomas was a blacksmith (the certificates always state so though in reality I think he was usually a miner) and their first child was born at sea but registered in Vic, and the next three were also born in Victoria in gold towns such as Mt Ararat, and Armstrongs (you can see how the two families could be confused). One of these was Thomas TREVITHICK, born Mt Ararat in 1857 (I have this certificate too). The family then moved to NSW having children in 16 Mile Flat, Lambing Flat and Grenfell (1868). There they settled for a while, before Elizabeth at least some of the children to Sydney where they lived in squalid conditions – we know this because while heavily pregnant in 1871 she died and there was an inquest held – covered in the Herald at the time.

Thomas came from Tambaroora and collected the children and took them back to the area where they settled ultimately in Hill End (1903 Electoral Roll, for example shows them all).

Six years after his mothers death in 1877, the younger Thomas Trevithick married Sarah TEE (born in Tambaroora) - w they had several children, some born at Hill End and some in Sydney, where the younger Thomas died in 1929. Thomas and his wife are living in Hill End in the 1903 Electoral Roll I have a copy of.

The elder Thomas (from Cornwall) married twice more in Hill End (I’m yet to confirm this with marriage certs) - Margaret HOSIER, a widow, in 1882 (she died in 1892) and Mary Ann GREEN in 1900. He passed away in 1913. I do not know if he had any children to these marriages.

So that’s the summary. I mentioned a few bits and pieces above – mention those you’re interested in and we can go from there. I have few primary sources on your direct ancestor Thomas Trevithick (born 1857 vic, died 1929 nsw) apart from his birth certificate, and electoral roll. I also have him on at least one auriferous lease entry in Hill End - I think he was mining with his father for gold long after others had ceased to do so.