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Hi,
I rarely see the name “trewartha”, so I was thrilled to see an entire website of “trewartha” info, people, etc.
I live near Chicago, IL, USA and have lived in the US my entire life.
Terri
Hi there, Terri, great to hear from you. We hope to expand the info here to link up with Trewarthas everywhere – if you have any more info you’d like to volunteer about your family (that you don’t mind being on public record here!) then feel free.
I am glad I found your website. Cheers from Utah. I will visit often. Thanks for the great content and useful links.
Sean
My grandfather, Paul Trewartha, was born in Hazel Green Wisconson. He married Viola Freeman from Walnut Grove, MN. They farmed all their life in the small town of Revere, MN.
All of our family is very proud of the Trewartha name. It is unusual. As children I remember people thinking we were fair haired Native American Indians.
Hi Anon’
We are related 5 generations back to Peter 1754 and Susannah Williams
Dianne in South Australia
Looking at Mike Trewartha’s website of Trewartha geneology, Peter (b. 1818) born in St Agnes, married not far away in Menagissey (also Cornwall) but died in Hazelgreen, Wi. He had 9 children, of them James, William, Francis and Richard all got married in Hazelwood and had families.
Looks like William’s son Paul married Viola here
There were a lot of Trewarthas around St Agnes, including a line of my own family. A cousin still lives in the area even today (2019). Peter must be connected to ‘our’ line over here.
Robin Trewartha
This looks like Sean‘s family. Descended from Samuel who came over from Redrith to CA.
Terri, could have been William (b. 1814 Gwennap, Cornwall) came over and started two Trewartha families around Illinois. Brought his wife and son, William, over too. William dying in the Battle of Chickamuga.
Sorry this isn’t a Trewartha query as such. I wonder if your mother ran the Old Mill Tearooms in Ide. I remeber going there many years ago and having an amazing green jelly preserve with cream – I think it was quince based. I am trying to track down a recipe. Apologies if I am off beam but any help you can offer would be appreciated. Many thanks.
Tony Tudor
Robin’s mother Mary did indeed run the Old Mill in Ide. The building is still there, even if Mary, and indeed Ide, isn’t!
Sadly, Mum (Mary) died in Autumn 2012 and my brother, Mark followed just a couple fof years back. Makes the web site important so the memories remain even if the bodies move on.
Robin Trewartha
Thanks for the great site. I am living in Sydney, Australia with my wife Patricia, children Alexander and Elouise & parents Frank and Janet.
We visited Cornwell a few years ago, and had heard there was a Trewartha farm, could not find anything so it was interesting to see your photo.
I think there are a few small places called Trewartha – there are lots of places named on variations of it.
Here is a small hamlet Trewartha which is within the parish of Veryan
Photo of the sign post to that very same place – around this web site somewhere!!
Robin Trewartha
Another feature that is worth looking out for is Wheal Lawrence at Chapel Porth. The Captain of this mine married into the Trewartha clan as both families were local to the area. Annie Lawrence was my paternal Grandmother. She lived her life out in Newton Abbot in Devon during the first half of the twentieth century.
Hi there,
Just a note to say that there is a group on Facebook called ‘Trewartha Collective’.
We haven’t made and great genealogical contributions, more taken great comfort in meeting other people who have to spell their name out all the time, that sort or thing!
It’s interesting to use to see where Trewarthas are in the rest of the world anyway.
:0)
Site on facebook not there in 2022.
Thanks for your prompt responses, Dianne. I am not registered with Facebook, and the like, so I cannot take up your suggestion. Even so, I appreciate the leads you make available and I am sure other people will as well.
Hi.
Mike Trewartha from Adelaide, South Australia here – im soon to be traveling to Europe (less then 2 months) and would love to get down to Cornwall for a few days.
Can anyone provide some information regarding travel to and from London, cheap accommodation, and site seeing?
Did you manage it, Mike? Sorry its taken so long to say ‘hello’ again but I’m enjoying semi-retirement and do not ‘do’ the internet quite so much.
Robin Trewartha
hey it bridget
i am a trewartha too. i love being one hahaaa it is cool. love bridget XX
hola soy juan carlos beltran trewartha soy de mazatln mexico
I am a trewartha from birmingham uk
Thanks for introducing yourself, Stephen. Have you found out much about your family history?
Robin Trewartha
Hi – Ken from Canberra (Australia) here. Nickname “Mouse” and “Duke”. There is another “Ken Trewartha” getting around so don’t get us mixed up!! I was born in England 1959 and moved to Aust in 1969 father Peter Bryan and Mum Valerie Ann (Staniford). I traced our line to 16th century via this excellent link http://www.miketree.co.uk/trewartha/f173.htm#P638 I have three sons and a daughter and they are so proud to be called Trewartha.
Rip dad, from your daughter Ellie Trewartha.
Thanks for remembering him here, Ellie.
Robin Trewartha
ola soy trewartha de corason de sinaloa los mochis tengo 12 tengo cuatrimoto http://www.metroflog.com/leo_mlverde
me gustan los coridos
qiero saber de donde es el apellido trewartha
I do not think we have replied to your two messages, Leonardo. Sorry I cannot translate or reply to you in your own language. Great to hear from you.
Not sure if my son replied to you, Ken, but here’s a belated acknowledgement, just in case. Thing about the Trewartha name is that it seems relatively unusual and then you find quite a lot of us and a few with the same name.
On our side, my ‘Arthur’ and my brother’s ‘Mark’ have both travelled down the family quite a few generations. Now another generation is starting underneath with my son and my daughter both producing infants in the last twelve months.
Busy times ….. fun times!
I’m the “other” Ken Trewartha. I also lived in Canberra for a while but am now retired and live on the Gold Coast in Queensland. My family arrived here in 1868 from St Day which my wife and I visited some years ago. Over the years I’ve found Trewartha to be a fairly common name, particularly in South Australia, where copper was mined and where Cornish festivals are still held. Good luck with the website and thanks for your work on it.
My great great grandmother was Elizabeth Trewartha, married Stephen Goldsworthy in 1861. I am so glad that I found this site!
Glad you came; keep up the Trewartha hunt.
Robin Trewartha
Hi, I’ve been researching the Andrewartha/Trewartha family for a few years, and since John Smith in Sydney, (who had researched the family for 20 years, he recently passed away).
What happened to Stephen Goldsworthy and Elizabeth Trewatha and their 4 children? her brother Samuel went to California.
Hello robin as i said before good to contact you again just it seems you might not have recived my previous email so this a test message.
Sorry not to make that contact and this is a first visit i ages – back to the web site. No name this time so not sure whoyou are. Even so, you can get me directly via:
robintrewartha@btinternet.com, or
your-nudge.com.
Please note the change in email address. The tiscali address will not, now, reach me.
Hey! Trewartha also from Gold Coast Queensland Australia!
Hi, I’m doing Trewartha Family Tree, my grandfather was Thomas Trewartha from Mannum, South Australia. any held would be appreciated, thanks 😉 Leoni
hope you get lots of information from this site. janet trewartha
Hi leoni – Thomas from Mannum was my uncle , my father was Bill (Sykes)
Hi you Trewartha’s. yes Im one two. Father Norman, Grandfather Percy. Uncle Albert with 7 kids, but they changed names to Williams now in Buderin Qld. Our ancestors here in Australia came from the Copper mines in the Copper Triangle, South Australia. 30 years ago I spent 12 mths living in Melb Aust and there were none in the phone book, and now … holy duly! where did they all come from. Good Luck.
I have a question for all of you my uncle Fredrick Russel Trewartha from Chico, CA died in Sep 19 2002 and I just found out today. He had a son who’s mother had died when he was born. His name is Christpher Trewartha he was born in 1989 I am trying to find him. If anyone knows him please let me know. Thank you.. Tiffany @ therodgers6@yahoo.com
Hello Trewartha’s,
My name is Jenna and i’ve followed my tree back to William b.1797
My family have moved north through England to Scotland and now our branch is in North England again.
This summer we will be heading to trewartha in Cornwall to get some cheesy pic of me and the Trewartha road sign.
If you get to visit Scotland, you’ll find Trewartha’s in Fife – great cricketers!!
Robin Trewartha
Hi there,
My name is Erin and I am an Australian now living in New Zealand. I am studying and one of our tasks was to trace our family origins as far as we could. My Grandfather was a Trewartha. I actually don’t know anything about him, my Mum never spoke much of him.. All I know is he lived and died in South Australia in the 1950s. Anyway, its great to see that this side of my family is so big and has so many connections to their ancestory..even if I dont know anything about it haha
=)
Erin, I hope you have found your family by now, but if I can help, get in touch.
Thanks for keeping the Trewarthas in touch with one another, Dianne. I handed over the website to my son a good few years ago as I am well into retirement.
Our own family have history going back hundreds of years – with Illogen, near Truro, the home of the famous Richard Trevithick, the steam engineer, but just how close a neighbour he was to my forebears, i do not know! See: https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/illogan-cornwall.
Some family moved further north to Chapel Poerth but all our connections there are now broken when the last cousine moved to Bath very recently.
HI, We have researched the family back to before they had a change of name, From originally Andrewartha back in the early 1500’s; thanks to John Smith in Sydney, who had spent 30 years on it, before he passed away a few years ago, the families loss, sadly.
Hello Erin, There are a lot of us spread to the four winds. I think the Cornish skills in engineering took Trewarthas all over the world. I have seen pcitures of the charcteristic Cornish Engine Houses in some strange places. My wife has family in New Zealand and we visited them many years ago when her brother was still alive. We did not get to meet any Trewarthas so its good to hear from you.
Erin, you will possibly find your family in Wikitree if not let me know and I will see if I have anything on him, The SA Tre’s have been pretty thoroughly documented.
Greetings from Springfield, IL USA! Just wanted to add to this already excellent and growing community of Trewarthas from around the world!
My wife and I live in Springfield, but I come from Pontiac, IL originally.
Using Mike Tree’s tree I was able to find my great grandfather, Russel Trewartha (http://www.miketree.co.uk/trewartha/f479.htm). My grandfather was Richard, and his 1st son was John, my dad. Richard also had a daughter, Marylin, and 2 more sons, Robert and David. All of us live here in Illinois still.
We would love to come visit the ‘homeland’ someday!
Also, one last curiosity I’ve had for a long, long time. How does everyone pronounce Trewartha? Is it Tre-WAR-tha, TREE-war-tha, TREW-artha, or do you say it completely different? I’d love to know. Around these parts we say it somewhere between Tree-WAR-tha and Tre-WAR-tha.
oh – we pronounce it Tre-WAR-tha
Indeed, so do we, Ken!!
Robin Trewartha
I tend to Tree-WAR-tha, Dan. Alan, my son, tracked down mike Tree’s website and it was a fount of information I understand. I am sorry to see that it is no longer on the internet.
Hey everyone, my names Annie Trewartha I’m 17 years old, im from Warrnambool in Victoria, Australia. I googled myself and stumbled upon this sight it’s very interesting. If anybody would like to get in further contact with me feel free to add me on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/annie.trewartha
Cheers, 🙂
Looks like we did not get back when you visited a couple of years ago!! Apologies, but I do not to visit the Web Site so much these days..
Keen to reply as my own grandmother, on my father’s side, was an Annie Trewartha and she lived in Chapel Porth, near St Agnes until she married and moved to Devon.
Robin Trewartha
To Erin in New Zealand. If your Trewatha ancesters came from South Australia you are probably related to ex Prime Minister Hawke via Elisha Trewartha
pretty slim –4th cousin 1 time removed, don’t think we made it into the will?? ha ha
Correction needed. Peter 1754 and wife Susannah Williams, married 1776. Data base has his daughter Susan 1785, died in 1785, yet she is mentioned in her father, Peter, will in 1805.
……………each of my Daughters, Mary, Susanna, Ann, Johanna, five pounds each, out of the said premises If then living,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Thanks for your contribution, Dianne and happy searching even if the Wills do not work out!
Robin Trewartha
hello bill, i am leoni,s mother. she is doing the family tree. we are from elisha and elisabeth trewartha.arrived in kapunda 1847. we have been in contact with the kapunda council regarding the trewartha graves. very interesting.
hello again bill, forgot to say that your dad was my uncle bill. we were all together at grandpa trewartha,s bakehouse in the good old days.
Bill Sykes – well my mum Janet and i have got quite a few Trewarthas on our Family Tree now. From Kapunda to mannum to Adelaide. If you want a copy emailed to you contact me on heff15@bigpond.com
Thanks Leoni
to Lyndon – your father is on my tree. could you email me on heff15@bigpond.com
thanks
Leoni
I am researching the gold fields of central Victoria, Australia and I have come across a Captain Trewartha who was active in protest meetings held by the diggers in the mid-1850s. Does anyone know anything about him? He claims to have been a miner in many parts of the world.
The problem here will be the ‘name’. “Captain” was the term used to describe the working man in charge of the mine – not necessarily the owner.
My own great Grandfather was the Captain of Wheal Laurence at Chapel Porth – maybe they will re-open some of the mines now that Lithium has become so valuable.
Hello,
I am unsure if this website is still in use as the entries seem to go quite far back!
It is interesting that there is a website for Trewartha as it seems we are a rare breed. If anyone can shed any light on my family it would be helpful as trying to get anything from my grandad is like trying to get blood from a stone!
Here is a little overview:
Me – Katy Trewartha
My Father – Stuart Trewartha
My Uncle – Simon Trewartha (3 Children)
My Grandad – Colin Trewartha, Sisters Helen & Beryl
Great Grandad- Lloyd Trewartha
My mum’s mum (not a Trewartha!) is really keen on doing her family tree and has gone as far back as the 1700’s with her own family and we have been prying my grandad so she can do our Trewartha tree but he is very uncooperative and a bit of a (insert prefered swear word).
It would be great if anyone could contact me with any info about yourselves or about my tree.
Looks like we may not have got back to you so my apologies for that. I am not very active with the Web Site these days.
I understand the Mike Tree site may not be available now but this was a great source of information and hopefully new ones will emerge. The problem with grandparents is that they have to leave us and all they knew goes with them. Same thing happened with my mum who died in 2012 and I can share the hole this creates. Added to this, my own brother, Mark Trewartha, died a couple of years ago. He wasn’t so keen on the genealogy either!
Hi Robyn, was Mark from Adelaide?
No, Katy. My own family was born and brought up in Cornwall or Devon. There are links with Gwennap going back many generations.
see: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=gwennap+cornwall+map
If you know more about your roots, it may be possible to investigate local records.
We have no contact with Australia-based Trewarthas. There used to be a connections with South Africa but even these fade with the passing years. Good luck with your further researches and thanks for your interest in the Trewartha Website Robin Trewartha
Hello Angela,
No: Mark was born and brought up – like me – near Exeter, in Devon. Even so, here’s another coincidence: I am the youngest of three: my older sister is called Angela and, as you know, my brother is Mark!!
Hi, I’m a South Australian based Trewartha, my grandmother was Susannah 1821, she married John Nankivell PHILLIPS in 1844, and died in Victoria in 1894. I have done a bit of work on the family tree, especially Cornish and Australian sides, If I can help, get in touch
dianneb851@aussiebroadband.com.au
Di
Hi Katy, We have a Facebook page on the Trewartha family you could ask there for info on your relatives, I unfortunately have no record of any of them, but as no dates, or countries mentioned it would be difficult to trace them, and nothing on Wikitree either.
Oh and I forgot to mention I live in Leeds, UK but my dad was born in Reading and moved to Leeds when he was young.
Hi there, can’t see any recent posts here, Robin/Alan, are you still doing Trewartha research??
Not sure if we got back to you two years ago so you can see that we are not doing so much these days – or, at lest, I am not!! Robin Trewartha
Hi Sue – we had a problem with hosting and lost all comments from 2013 – not that we’ve had a great many in 2014/15!
Hi admin.
wondered if you could contact me by my email address at some time when it suits you.
Sue, Ceduna
Only just seen this, Sue – many years too late. I could not have got in touch at your email, as it happened – no details available. Anyway, i hope you are thriving despite our rcent public health crises. Robin Trewartha
Does any one know why the Mike’s Tree website is no longer working?