.jpg)
 |
| Beauchamp of Trevince |
Very
little is known about the earlier generations of the family to live at
Trevince because of the loss of the Gwennap parish registers before 1658
and the fact that the family papers either do not survive or have not
been deposited in a public institution. John Beauchamp (1612-93), the
son of the younger William Beauchamp, was the right age to be active in
the Civil War but seems to have left no trace in the public records. He
appears to have outlived his son, John Beauchamp (c.1640-85), for their
wills make it clear that it was John junior who died in 1685 and John
senior whose will was proved in 1694; they have been confused in the
past. In 1693 the Trevince estate passed to William Beauchamp
(1670-1729), the eldest son of the younger John. He had two surviving
sons, of whom the elder, John Beauchamp (1700-49) inherited Trevince,
while the younger, Francis Beauchamp (1702-74) built a new house for
himself at Pengreep, south of Gwennap village. However, when John died unmarried in 1749, the two estates were reunited once more. It would seem to have been Francis rather than his brother who on one occasion interrupted John Wesley when he was preaching at Gwennap Pit and attempt to arrest or pressgang him.
Francis
evidently decided to stay at Pengreep, which he enlarged after his
brother's death, but when he died he divided his properties between his
two surviving sons, with John Beauchamp (1737-79) receiving Trevince and
his brother Joseph Beauchamp (1741-1818) receiving Pengreep. Joseph
died without surviving issue, and so both estates came to John's
daughter, Anne Cranmer Beauchamp (1779-1839), the wife of Edward James
Nagle (c.1770-1802) and later of the Rev. James Blencowe. She divided
the estates between her two surviving daughters, with Jane Frances Nagle
(1799-1893), the wife of the Rev. James Ford, receiving Pengreep and
Anne Cranmer Miller Nagle (1801-40), the wife of the Rev. Marwood
Tucker, receiving Trevince, but both houses were let in the mid 19th
century. Through the former marriage, Pengreep passed to the Fords and
later the Meads, who offered it for sale in 2021. Trevince descended to
Marwood Tucker's eldest son, Edward Beauchamp Tucker (1833-1921), who
took the name Beauchamp in lieu of Tucker in 1874. He returned to live
at Trevince in about 1860, and was responsible for the rebuilding of the
main part of the house in its current form to the designs of the
Cornish architect, J.P. St. Aubyn.
