Bodmin, Cornwall

BROWNE OF BODMIN AND TREWARDALE

This family has occupied a position of credit in the county for just three centuries, during
two of which it has been located in Bhsland and Bodmin. The first member of it of whom we
have certain record is Bennet Browne of Gwinear, whose son and heir Vernon was baptized
there in 1610. This Vernon, who is believed to have been an attorney-at-law, resided sometime
in Ladock,* ha\ing married Ann, daughter of Henry Bennallecke of that parish, gent., in 1632,
by whom he had tliree sons, William, Vernon, and Michael. William, the eldest son, married
Honour, daughter of George Spry of BHsland, Esq., and was residing in Blisland in 1671, when
his father enfeoffed him, as his eldest son and heir,^f in the manors of Denis Eia Porthia in St.
Ives, Argansawth, Respletha, and Penzance, in the county of Cornwall. A few years afterwards
he purchased Trewardale and settled there, adding to his property in that neighbour-hood Tre-

genna, in Blisland, still called " Browne's Tregenna," Dunnaton, and Merrifield, in Temple,

part of Penrose in St. Breward, and Tremaddick and other lands in St. Neot.   Hals, writing
of Blisland, says " In this parish at ( ) dwelleth William Browne, gent, attorney-at-law,
who hath gott a considerable estate by the practice of his profession, who married [ ] Spry
of this parish ; his father [ ], his grandfather [ ] ; and giveth for
his arms J .   .    .    .    .   .
            William Browne (son of this William) had two sons, William and George. The former

succeeding to a property involved by his father sold it in 1762 to William Mackworth Praed, of

• Bond in the possession of the Rev. C. M. Edward Collins of Trewardale (date 1G35).
^f Deed dated 9 Jan. 1671, in the possession of the Rev. C. M. Edward Collins.
J This passage is not in Hals, as printed by himself or by Davies Gilbert, but it is found in Hals's original MSS. in

the possession of H. S. Stokes, Esq. of Bodmin. These MSS. were, in 1790, in the custody of Mr. George Browne, from

whom they passed to Dr. Whitaker, by whose daughter, the widow of the late Dr. Taunton of Truro, they were bequeathed

to Mr. Stokes

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