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| Name |
Christian BOSCAWEN |
| Gender |
Female |
| _UID |
3167F91FA80B5C4E934EF76FC89DC5F6741F |
| Died |
1553 |
St. Wenn, Cornwall, England  |
| Person ID |
I19484 |
YoungFamily |
| Last Modified |
24 Aug 2021 |
| Family 1 |
Walter BURLACE |
| _UID |
FD484F87D60F184E9CECADF568BC94256DDC |
| Children |
| | 1. Walter BURLACE, b. Abt 1539, Mousehole, Cornwall, England , d. 28 Feb 1601/1602, Sithney, Cornwall, England (Age 63 years) |
| | 2. Margery BURLACE |
| | 3. Edmund BURLACE |
| | 4. Francis BURLACE, bur. 23 Apr 1614, Newlyn East, Cornwall, England |
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| Last Modified |
15 May 2022 |
| Family ID |
F6042 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- BOSCAWEN, Family of.— According to Hals, one of the Cornish historians, the first Boscawen who settled in Cornwall was an Irishman whose name does not appear to be now known; but whatever it may have been, it was soon exchanged for that of the place (which still bears the same name) in the parish of St. Buryan, a few miles from the Land's End, where he took up his abode, viz. at Boscawen Ros — the valley of elder trees. Other branches of the Boscawens settled in later times at Tregameer, in St. Columb Major, and at Trevallock in Creed, or St. Stephen's. All traces of the marriages of the earliest Boscawens seem to be lost until we reach the reign of Edward I, when Henry de Boscawen (about 1292) took to wife Hawise Trewoof. In 1335 John de Boscawen. by marrying an heiress, Joan de Tregothnan, acquired the Tregothnan property on the banks of the river Fal, where the family seat still is; the present building, however, dating only from 1815. John's son likewise married an heiress, Joan de Albalanda, or Blanchlnnd, whose lands were situated on the opposite side of the river to Tregothnan, in the parish of Ken; and other marriages between members of this family and Dangrous of Carclew, the Tolvernes, the Trewartnenicks, and the Tregarricks, extended and consolidated the interests of the Boscawens on and near the banks of the Fal. They also intermarried with other Cornish families, such as the Arundells, the Bassetts, the St. Aubyns, the Lowers, the Godolphins, the Carminows, the Trenowiths, and the Trevanions. At the coronation of Henry VII, Richard Boscawen paid a fine of 5l. in order to escape the trouble and expense of going to court, and of being made a knight of the Bath; and his grandson, Hugh, did the same at the coronation of Queen Mary. All the earlier Boscawens, though wealthy, were unambitious and undistinguished. The first who claims notice is Hugh, the great-grandson of the last-named Hugh Boscawen, who appears to have formed that intimate connection between Truro and his family which has so long subsisted. This Hugh was recorder of the borough, knight of the shire for Cornwall in 1626, and was 'Chief of the Coat Armour' at the herald's visitation of 1620. He married Margaret Rolle, and died in 1641. Of his sons, (1) Edward, a rich Turkey merchant, was M.P. for Truro in each of Charles II's parliaments; married Jael Godolphin, and their son Hugh [q.v.] became the first Viscount Falmouth. Another son, (2) Nicholas, a parliamentarian officer, died unmarried when only twenty-two years of age, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. At the Restoration his remains were flung into a common pit in St. Margaret's churchyard. Of his offspring the most noteworthy were Hugh, the second viscount, who died in 1782, a shrewd electioneerer, but otherwise of no particular ability; Nicholas, a doctor of divinity and dean of Buryan; John, a major-general in the army; George, who was at Dettingen and Fontenoy; and Edward, Pitt's 'Great Admiral' [q. v.] By his marriage with Anne Trevor, General George Boscawen had a son named William [q. v.], of some literary note. George Evelyn, third Viscount Falmouth, youngest son of the admiral (issue having failed through the admiral's two elder brothers), entered the army, was present at Lexington, and in 1787 distinguished himself at Truro by the admirable manner in which he succeeded in pacifying a large and riotous mob of angry miners. He died in 1808. Of his elder brothers, Edward Hugh, who was M.P. for Truro, died abroad in 1774; and William Glanville, an officer in the navy, was drowned at Port Royal, Jamaica, when only eighteen years of age, in 1769. The third viscount's sister, Frances, married the Hon. John Leveson Gower, secretary to the admiralty; her sister Elizabeth's husband was Henry, fifth duke of Beaufort. Edward Boscawen [q. v.], the son of the third viscount, became first earl of Falmouth. His son, George Henry, by his wife Anne Frances Bankes, was the fifth viscount and second (and last) earl. He was a man of considerable ability, taking in 1832 a double first-class at Oxford. He died unmarried in 1852. He was succeeded in the viscounty by his cousin Evelyn, grandson of the third viscount by his second son, John Evelyn, canon of Canterbury.
[Playfair's British Family Antiquity (1809), ii. 11-13; Sir E. Brydges' Collins's Peerage, vol. vi.; Chester's Registers of Westminster Abbey; Vivian's Annotated Visitations of Cornwall, pt.ii. p. 46, &c; Lysons's Magna Britannia (Cornwall); Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall; Tregellas's Cornish Worthies.]
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Early Origins of the Boscawen family
The surname Boscawen was first found in Cornwall where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor of Tregothnan. "Descended from Henry who lived in the reign of King John, and who took the name of Bascawen from the lordship of Boscawen-Rose, still the property of the family. " [1]
So as to confirm this very early claim, another source notes: "that the Boscawens possessed this place so early as the reign of John, and that it was the original seat of that ancient family, who took from thence their name; and that the Boscawens removed to Tregothnan, in consequence of a marriage with an heiress of the Tregothman family, in the reign of Edward III. at which place their descendants still continue to reside." [2]
Another interesting note about the family: "According to Hals, one of the Cornish historians, the first Boscawen who settled in Cornwall was an Irishman whose name does not appear to be now known; but whatever it may have been, it was soon exchanged for that of the place (which still bears the same name) in the parish of St. Buryan, a few miles from the Land's End, where he took up his abode, viz. at Boscawen Ros - the valley of elder trees. Other branches of the Boscawens settled in later times at Tregameer, in St. Columb Major, and at Trevallock in Creed, or St. Stephen's. All traces of the marriages of the earliest Boscawens seem to be lost until we reach the reign of Edward I, when Henry de Boscawen (about 1292) took to wife Hawise Trewoof. In 1335 John de Boscawen. by marrying an heiress, Joan de Tregothnan, acquired the Tregothnan property on the banks of the river Fal, where the family seat still is; the present building, however, dating only from 1815. " [3]
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Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth PC (pronounced "Boscowen")[1] (/bɒsˈkoʊ.ən/ bos-KOH-ən;[2] ca. 1680 – 25 October 1734) was a Cornish Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons for Cornish constituencies from 1702 until 1720 when he was raised to the peerage.[3]
Origins
Boscawen was the eldest son of Edward Boscawen (1628–1685), MP and merchant, by his wife Jael Godolphin, daughter of Sir Francis Godolphin (d.1667). The Boscawens are an ancient Cornish family. His grandfather Hugh Boscawen (fl.1620) of Tregothnan was thirteenth in descent from a certain Henry de Boscawen.[4] He derived a huge income from his copper mines at Chacewater and Gwennap where he was the principal landowner.[5] The Chacewater mine, now known as Wheal Busy, was located in what was known at the time as "the richest square mile on Earth". During its life it produced over 100,000 tons of copper ore, and 27,000 tons of arsenic.[6] His uncles Hugh Boscawen (1625–1701) and Charles Boscawen (1627–1689) were also MPs in Cornwall.
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TREGOTHNAN HOUSE.
NEAR ST. MICHAEL PENKEVIL, CORNWALL.—VISCOUNT FALMOUTH.
In very old times this most beautiful place was the seat of the family of Tregothnan, a Cornish one, we may be sure, for
“ By Pol, and Tre, and Pen,
You may know the Cornish men.”
They held it till the middle of the fourteenth century, when it was conveyed by Johan, the heiress of John de Tregothnan, the last of this ancient house, to John de Boscawen, ancestor of the present noble owner, himself descended from the family of Boscawen, of Boscawen Rose, a manor and lordship possessed by them in the reign of King John.
The park, which is well stocked with deer, extends over a range of fertile hills, rising rather abruptly from the eastern side of the river Fal, and, as may well be supposed, a series of charming views extends from it in all directions.
The house is a very fine one. The great staircase, which is forty-two feet high, occupies the large central tower. Around it are the drawing-room, fifty-four feet long by twenty-eight feet wide, the breakfast room, dining room, billiard room, and study. The library opens to the drawing-room and the last-named.
From the above-named
—Boscawen of Boscawen-Rose, Cornwall, in the reign of King John, descended John de Boscawen, in 1334, who married, as already stated, Johan, daughter and heiress of John de Tregothnan, of Tregothnan, with whom he acquired the estate, and, dying in 1357, was succeeded by his elder son,
John de Boscawen, of Tregothnan, who married Johan, daughter and heiress of Otho de Abalanda. His descendant,
Hugh Boscawen, of Tregothnan, paid a fine of four marks for not attending the coronation of Queen Mary, October 1st., 1553. He married Philippa, daughter and coheiress of Nicholas Carminau, of Carminau, and their third son eventually continued the line, namely,
Nicholas Boscawen, of Tregothnan, who married Alice, daughter and heiress of John Trevanion, Esq., of Trevanion, and dying in 1626, was succeeded by his only son,
Hugh Boscawen, Esq., of Tregothnan, M.P. for the county of Cornwall, married to Margaret, daughter of Robert Rolle, Esq., of Heanton Satchville, Devonshire, and had eleven children, of whom the eldest son,
Nicholas Boscawen, of Tregothnan, a Parliamentarian, died sine prole, and was followed by his next brother,
Hugh Boscawen, Esq., of Tregothnan, who married Margaret, daughter and coheiress of Theophilus Clinton, Earl of Lincoln, and had eight sons, who all died childless, and two daughters, so that the representation of the family thus devolved on the fifth surviving brother,
Edward Boscawen, Esq., of Tregothnan, a Member of the Restoration Parliament. He married Jael, daughter of Sir Francis Godolphin, K.B., and his eldest son was
Hugh Boscawen, Esq., of Tregothnan, Warden of the Stanneries, Comptroller of the Household, and a P.C. in 1714, created, June 9th., 1720, Viscount Falmouth, and Baron of Boscawen-Rose. He married, April 23rd., 1700, Charlotte, elder daughter and coheiress of Charles Godfrey, Esq., and dying October 25th., 1734, their eldest son succeeded,
Hugh Boscawen, second Viscount Falmouth, a General Officer in the Army, and CaptainoftheYeomenoftheGuard. Hemarried,May6th.,1736,HannahCatherine Maria, widow of Richard Russell, Esq., and daughter of Thomas Smith, Esq., of Worplesden, but having no children, was followed, February 4th., 1782, by his nephew,
George Evelyn Boscawen, third Viscount Falmouth, married, in 1784, to Elizabeth Anne, only daughter and heiress of John Crewe, Esq., of Bolesworth Castle, Cheshire, and had, with other issue,
Edward Boscawen, fourth Viscount Falmouth, born May 10th., 1787, created Earl of Falmouth, July 14th., 1821. He married, August 27th., 1810, Frances, elder daughter of Henry Bankes, Esq., of Kingston House, Dorsetshire, and was succeeded at his death, December 29th., 1841, by his son,
George Henry Boscawen, fifth Viscount and second Earl of Falmouth, High Steward of Wallingford, at whose decease, unmarried, August 29th., 1852, the Earldom became extinct, and the other honours went to his cousin,
Evelyn Boscawen, born March 18th., 1819, married, July 29th., 1845, to Mary Frances Elizabeth Stapleton, in her own right Baroness Le Despencer, the eldest of their children being
Evelyn Edward Thomas Boscawen, born July 24th., 1847, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Coldstream Guards, Assistant Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief in Ireland.
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- [S170] visitation of the county of Cornwall, in the year 1620, by Saint-George, Henry, Sir, 1581-1644; Lennard, Samson, d. 1633. cn; John Lambrick Vivien, ed., (London, England: Mitchell and Hughes, Printers, Wardour Street, W., 1874.), pps. 17-21, 1620.
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