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ROSENYTHON
From information given by Mr Austin
Pengilly
to Robert Richards of Chenale, Rosenithon,
July 1971,
and farm title deeds.
The Manor of Rosenython belonged about 1308 A.D.
to the family of Seneschall who settled there and
are mentioned in the Doomsday Book. They were
still there in the reign of Edward V1, 1549. The
name of the present Holding known as Chenale is
derived from "Seneschall", and at that
time their lands included most of the surrounding
farms, Rosenython, Trythance, Trevean Tregellast.
The Seneschalls were installed in order to
administer the estates of Robert of Mortain,
brother of William the Conqueror, which he had
confiscated from Queen Charlotte.
About 1590 the manor passed to Berjeaux from
whom it passed by female heirs to the Veres,
Earls of Oxford and then to Walter Raleigh
Gilbert ( Rev C.of E.) of the priory of Bodmin,
through his wife, sister and heiress of Rev John
Hoskin of Tregowris. The Barton of Tregowris and
Trembraze were the seat of the Hoskins. Trembraze
is also in the Doomsday Book.
The "Seneschalls" coat of arms are on
the right hand side of the Tower door of St
Keverne Church. Those on the left belong to
Trebarvah which belonged temporarily to Richard
II and Edward IV and to the family of the Arch
Deacon, latterly to Antony Williams, vicar,who
lived at Tremenhere House, Penzance. He sold it
to the Lory Family about 1700.
The different spellings of
"Rosenython" and "Rosenithon"
are because the farm name comes from old Cornish
meaning "Nest in the Moors". That is
the name of the farm. When this was explained to
the ordnance survey map-makers, the reply was
that the village (hamlet, settlement,) has been
spelled with an "I" for so long that it
must remain so.
When the Rogers family first came to Rosenython
in 1752, they came as tenants from Rosemorder by
way of Roscorwell, just about two miles
altogether. They remained as tenants of the
Vivian family of Trelowarren until 1923 when the
Trelowarren estate was raising money to pay off
the Bishop of Zululand who was a family member.
Rosenython was one of the farms sold to raise the
money.
My grand father, William, bought it for
£3,900. The original farm was only of
32acres, but my grandfather also bought the
Godrevy,and Treginges tenements, making it up to
around 70 acres. The holding around Rosenithon
village is still bounded by the granite
Trelowarren boundary stones.
Bernard Rogers.
1997.
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