Family: Sir Christopher Hawkins / Mary Hawkins/HAWKINS

6. Christopher Hawkins and Trewinnard 1750-1767 by Cedric Appleby
The Trewinnard coach, now in the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, must have arrived with Christopher Hawkins from London, at least as early as 1750. There is no reason to doubt the family tradition that it was obtained from the Spanish ambassador by Hawkins, who then passed it to the Sheriff of London. It was built about 1700 and it is probably Spanish or Portuguese in origin. It was expensive to maintain with its coach horses and of very limited use, given the state of the roads at the time. There is evidence from the accounts from 1755 that some effort was made to improve or even build a road from the house to the parish church along what is now Green Lane so that Christopher and Mary could arrive for services in some style in that coach. Francis Coad a leather worker of St Erth worked on the massive springs of the coach. Thomas Hampton the local blacksmith shod the coach horses and dealt with the metal parts of the vehicle. Not surprisingly, the wheels of the coach gave a great deal of trouble and Frances Hale of Wall, Gwinear, worked on them in 1755.

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