Cornwall Sites of Interest for John (born 1785) and Mary (born 1783, nee Battrall) Goldsworthy and descendants

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Welcome sign when entering from Devon

WESTERN CORNWALL: Goldsworthys are known to have lived and worked in certain parts of western Cornwall from the mid-16th century

Map showing locations of Crowan, Troon and Camborne (relative to Penzance)

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CROWAN area: Goldsworthys were known here from at least the 1500s. They would have used the parish church for baptisms, marriages and burials as well as worship.

Crowan church from front Higher-res image
Crowan church interior In 1666 an earlier John Golserye (ie. Goldsworthy) sat in this area Higher-res image	In 1666 his wife would have sat at right front Higher-res image

HIGH DOWNS FARM: John spent many years living on the farm near Troon that his father leased from the late 1700s to 1822. The farm was leased from the Pendarves Estate for an annual rent of £2 1/6d with 5/- additional to the landlord. The names on the lease were Ralph Goldsworthy and his sons John and Ralph, and the lease could last as long as one of them was alive, after which everything would revert to the landlord. Ralph sr was a miner but would use the farm to help feed his family.

1806 Family farm plan The family farm covered plots 7-15 and 23 Higher-res image	Outline of farm in 2013 virtually unchanged Now used for horse agistment Higher-res image
GoogleMaps 2013 image showing Troon The red arrow points to the laneway, from the main road, leading northward to the farm Higher-res image	View from farm looking north to the sea Higher-res image

CAMBORNE: John and Mary were married in Camborne parish church. John was a tin miner here, possibly at the South Crofty mine, until the family moved further east in about 1820.

Five of their first six children were baptised in this church. Higher-res image	Camborne church interior Higher-res image
Camborne church's famous 10thC altar stone Higher-res image	Camborne church's memorial to the Pendarves Family Higher-res image
South Crofty mine in Camborne Higher-res image	Camborne sign Higher-res image

MID to EASTERN CORNWALL: from about 1820 family members lived and worked in these locations: St Stephen, Penpillick/Lanescot, Tywardreath, Lanlivery, Cardinham (Bodmin) (1820 to about 1850), then St Ive, Merrymeet and Menheniot. After about three years in St Stephen, John moved to work at the Lanescot mine, living for at least some of the time at Penpillick village. The Lanescot mine became part of the large Fowey Consols mine near Tywardreath.

Mid and Eastern Cornwall map showing locations where family lived and/or worked

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LANESCOT, FOWEY and PENPILLICK area

Remains of Austen Engine House at Lanescot mine Higher-res image	Other ruins at Lanescot Higher-res image
1841 map showing Fowey Consols Mine (right lower half) and Penpillick (circled) Higher-res image	Penpillick sign Higher-res image

TYWARDREATH area: The family used the Tywardreath parish church for baptisms, marriages and burials, but most likely would have worshipped at a Methodist chapel. Burial services would have been for John's father Ralph (d.1828), John (d.1843) and Mary (d.1851), all of whom died in Tywardreath parish.

John's son James was married in this church; his wife came from nearby Lanlivery parish. Higher-res image	Tywardreath sign Higher-res image
This snippet from Bodmin Jail may have related to our James. Higher-res image	Lanlivery sign Higher-res image

BODMIN and MENHENIOT areas: John's son Richard and his family lived in Cardinham from 1844 to 1846; John's oldest son John and his family lived in Factory, near Menheniot, in the 1850s; James and family moved to the St Ive area at about the same time, then to Merrymeet; John's son Francis and his family lived in Menheniot village at that time (before moving even further east to Stoke Climsland, near the Devon border).

Cardinham church Higher-res image	Cardinham sign Higher-res image
Terrace housing in Factory near Menheniot John's son John and family are known to have lived in one of these. Higher-res image	Factory sign Higher-res image
Terrace housing in Merrymeet James and family may have lived in one of these. Higher-res image	Merrymeet sign Higher-res image
Historic map in Menheniot Higher-res image	Zoom-in on map in Menheniot Higher-res image
Menheniot sign Higher-res image	Goldsworthy street sign near Wadebridge, northeast from Bodmin Higher-res image

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