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Pascoe Grenfell[1]

Male 1729 - 1810  (~ 81 years)    Has 9 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Pascoe Grenfell 
    Christening 27 Apr 1729  St Hilary Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 28 May 1810  Marazion, Cornwall, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I492764  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 21 Feb 2007 

    Father Pascoe Grenfell,   c. 29 Mar 1692, St. Just, Penwith, Cornwall, England Find all individuals with events at this locationbur. 7 Feb 1752, Penzance, Cornwall, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 59 years) 
    Mother Mary Maugham   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 1727 
    Family ID F198204  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Tremenheere,   b. 1734   d. 26 Nov 1826 (Age 92 years) 
    Marriage 13 Dec 1758  Madron Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Pascoe Grenfell,   b. 3 Sep 1761   d. 23 Jan 1838, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
    +2. William Grenfell,   b. 1765, Marazion, Cornwall, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1844 (Age 79 years)
    +3. John Maugham Grenfell,   b. 4 Dec 1772, St Hilary Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jun 1816, Plymouth, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years)
     4. Lydia Grenfell,   b. 19 Oct 1775, St Hilary Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1829 (Age 53 years)
    Family ID F198197  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 Nov 2004 

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  • Notes 
    • In both his will and in the diary of his youngest daughter Lydia Grenfell, there is a suggestion of estrangement in the relationship between him and his wife and children.
      In his will dated 1802, he bequeathed the sum of 1/- to his wife and each of his children "while under trouble & sorrow of mind occasioned by the ill treatment of my wife, for which may God forgive my wife, as I do, and my children...."; while in an entry of her diary dated February 3, 1804, Lydia describes a visit to Penzance for the first time in 3 years to see her father (the family home was in Marazion). His eldest son was Pascoe Grenfell MP (1761-1838).
      In his Parochial History of Cornwall (1838) Davies Gilbert writes: "Mr Pascoe Grenfell,
      Commissary to the States of Holland, resided here [Marazion] during a long life, although he was originally of Penzance."
      Davies Gilbert while still calling himself Davies Giddy (he later took his wife's maiden name on their marriage for inheritance purposes) was one of his executors.
      Pascoe Grenfell had married Mary Tremenheere (1734-1826), a solicitor's daughter and niece of the Cornish antiquarian William Borlase (1696-1772) at Madron Church 13 December 1758. He is described as of St Hilary which is the mother church of Marazion, Madron being the mother church of Penzance where Mary was brought up. Pascoe's own father [another Pascoe Grenfell (1692-1752)], who is referred to as "of Penzance" had married secondly Mary Maugham of Marazion in 1727, and the Maugham connection is likely to have been the main factor for Grenfell settling there. That he was already living there at the time of his marriage is borne out by the fact of his being described as "of St Hilary" at the time.
      The deeds to his lease of the family home in Chapel Street, Marazion, of 1765 include mention of a Maugham cousin as one of the three lives on which it is drawn up. While Chapel Street still exists, it is unlikely that the house in question is one of those still extant.
      Pascoe Grenfell served several terms as Mayor of Marazion - in 1763, 1770 (jointly), 1777 & 1782 and is named on Marazion Borough Council regalia.

  • Sources 
    1. [S190] Peter Barns-Graham, British Pedigrees, (Stirnet), Granvile of Bideford, Grenvile of Kilkhampton, Grenvile of Stow, Grenfell of Taplow (Reliability: 2).



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