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PENNANCE

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Stu states: "We spoke to the neighbour at Higher Pennance and he said it has been empty
for about 2 years but it is not going to be buried under the clay tip".



And continues: "It must have been a very successful farm as up on.....



.....the beams in one of the barns were a load of prize certificates from shows in the 1960's".





The 1838 Apportionment List gives John Charles Trevanion as the landowner of Pennance
and John Crowle as the occupier.



This list also gives the names of the fields and acreage - just over one acre: Pennance Farm
House, yards and roads; a meadow just under 1 acre named: The Little Meadow; just over 6 acres
named: Hender's Meadow; 4 acres named: Higher Church Close; just over 3 acres named: Lower
Church Close; a pasture just over 2 acres called: The Moores; just over 1 acre named: The Two
Plots; 6 acres called: The Horse Parks; just over 6 acres named: Well Close; 5 acres called:
Long Close; and just over 6 acres named: Bush Park.



[XIV 321 (Henderson)] Rental of the Manor of Tolgarrack from a survey of the Trevarian estates 1757.
Free Tenants. Pennance - Sir John Arudell (sic) [?] since Richd Bellery, 1 acre Cornish - 1d note
this was formerly Barber's now lost. Conventionary Tenants: Pennans
in St Stephens once held by Edward Arundell". ₃



(Henderson B.M. and MSS 3(or 2?)2958) AD 1540-7, Rental of Trevanion Manor: Pennans -
John Arundell de Lawerne hold here 1 acre Cornish in socage 1d" ₃



"A rate made by the consent of the minister & Twe[?] & Mathias Tubb & James Geach churchwardens -
for repairing the church & other necessaryes & incident charges [?] belonging from 28 March (Easterday)
1714 to 17 April (Easter) 1715." Among others listed was: Tenements: Tolgarrock; Oweners
or Occupiers: Mr Henry Hawkins; Yearly Value GBP 30 ₃





This picture is a close up of the previous photo. It depicts a cob wall on the barn where the certificates
were. Stu comments, "I think these were made from straw, cow dung and stones amongst other things!
They were OK provided they were kept dry but once the rendering cracked or came off they soon
deteriorated. You will see on the previous 2 photos to these that the old cob has been replaced with
modern blocks. Cob walls were built on top of stone walls to keep them clear of rising damp."

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3 - LDS Family History Center Microfilm Number 0254238, item 3; "Henderson History of Parish St. Stephen Including Pedigrees", unpaged.

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