Tregony Cornwall Family History Guide

Tregony is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Cornwall. St Cuby is a chapelry of Tregony.

Alternative names: St James with Tregony, Tregony St James, Tregony with St Cuby

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: None See St Cuby
Bishop’s Transcripts: None See St Cuby

Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist, Independent/Congregational, and Wesleyan Methodist.

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

TREGONY, a decayed town and a parish in Truro district, Cornwall. The town stands on the river Fal, 4 miles S by E of Grampound-Road r. station, and 6½ E by N of Truro; occupies the site of the Roman Cenio or Voluba; belonged, at Domesday, to the Earl of Mortaigne; passed to the Pomeroys, the Boscawens, the Bassets, and others; acquired, in the time of Richard, a moated castle of the Pomeroys, some vestiges of which still exist; sent two members to parliament from the time of Edward I. till 1832, and was then disfranchised; is a seat of petty sessions; and has a post-office under Grampound, Cornwall, a church, three dissenting chapels, a national school, charities £72, and five annual fairs. The parish comprises 69 acres. Real property, £834. Pop. in 1851, 846; in 1861, 699. Houses, 186. The living is a rectory, united with Cuby, in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £311. Patron, not reported.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Bankrupts

The London Gazette

Thomas Treffry

THIS is to give notice that the Court authorized to act in the prosecution of a Petition for adjudication of Bankruptcy, filed on the 29th day of October 1849, against Thomas Treffry, of the borough of Tregoney, in the county of Cornwall, Seedsman, Corn Merchant, Dealer, and Chapman, did hold a public sitting for the allowance of the Certificate to the said bankrupt, on the 6th of February instant, at the Court of Bankruptcy for the Exeter District, in Queen street, in the city of Exeter, and the said Court did then and there allow the same, and did award unto the said bankrupt a Certificate of the third class.