My name is Robin Trewartha and I work as a freelance chartered psychologist around the South-east of England and East Anglia. This Web Site is a personal resource for family and any other Trewarthas around on the ’Net who may be wondering which of us pinched this dot.com name.
Although my name labels my Cornish roots, I was born in Devon in 1947. For 18 years I lived in a small village called Ide, close to the City of Exeter, but far enough away for it to be a separate community.
I was the youngest of three, with an older brother, Mark, and a sister, Angela. My father, who died in 1981, was brought up in Newton Abbot, in Devon. My parents met in Chapel Porth, near St Agnes, as my mother, Mary Coleman, lived there with her parents, Thomas and Ada Coleman, close to her maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Beck née Bennett from Yorkshire.
My father is connected to Chapel Porth through his mother’s family – the Lawrences. My great great grandfather, Mark Lawrence, was Captain of the Wheal Lawrence mine not far from Wheal Coates. Our Trewarthas all have Truro-based connections as well with my paternal grandfather being a local trader.
Wheal Coates: home of the Norkins
At the age of 11 I attended Exeter School, in Heavitree, between 1958–1965 and completed undergraduate and graduate studies at Swansea University to become a probation officer (PO). I worked as a PO for ten years in the north of England and as a child protection officer for another six years before moving to Dundee University to teach on their Graduate Social Work programme.
I have lived and worked in London since 1996 having retrained and qualified as a counselling supervisor and chartered psychologist.