Title
Family Portrait
Description
Family Portrait
Robert Barker,Sam and Annie Nankervis outside Tinners Arms
Additional Information provided by Jean Nankervis, 2026:
William Nankervis married Elizabeth Ann Christopher in 1862 and they had ten children. The youngest were Sam and Annie. The eldest was Grace who married Robert Barker in the Penzance Registry Office.
Ten months later her son Robert Wood Barker was born on October 8th 1893 at Trewey Cottage which her father owned. She died of childbed fever six days later.
Three women died of childbed fever between Zennor and St Ives and they had all been visited by the doctor so people thought he might have carried the infection.
The baby was brought up by Grace's parents in the Tinners Arms. Their youngest was Annie who was ten. Young Robert Barker was sent to school at Hayle. This must have been a boarding school as he had a wooden trunk with his name on. We still have the trunk. I think his father might have paid for his education. When he grew up he emigrated to Canada.
William Nankervis, born 1840, applied for the lease of the Tinners' Arms in 1875. With it he acquired the stables, a shed, pigsties and meadow but he kept on his mining as well. He bought Higher Trewey in the 1890s.
He died on November 9th 1911, aged 71. He left Trewey to his two youngest sons Johnny and Sam. This included the farm, the mine, Trewey Cottage and Trewey Bungalow.
Aunt Annie was not married and he left her six heifers as a dowry. She married James Paynter, a seaman. All her life she never answered the question that she had received the heifers so the will could not be finalised until she died in the spring of 1962.
Robert Barker,Sam and Annie Nankervis outside Tinners Arms
Additional Information provided by Jean Nankervis, 2026:
William Nankervis married Elizabeth Ann Christopher in 1862 and they had ten children. The youngest were Sam and Annie. The eldest was Grace who married Robert Barker in the Penzance Registry Office.
Ten months later her son Robert Wood Barker was born on October 8th 1893 at Trewey Cottage which her father owned. She died of childbed fever six days later.
Three women died of childbed fever between Zennor and St Ives and they had all been visited by the doctor so people thought he might have carried the infection.
The baby was brought up by Grace's parents in the Tinners Arms. Their youngest was Annie who was ten. Young Robert Barker was sent to school at Hayle. This must have been a boarding school as he had a wooden trunk with his name on. We still have the trunk. I think his father might have paid for his education. When he grew up he emigrated to Canada.
William Nankervis, born 1840, applied for the lease of the Tinners' Arms in 1875. With it he acquired the stables, a shed, pigsties and meadow but he kept on his mining as well. He bought Higher Trewey in the 1890s.
He died on November 9th 1911, aged 71. He left Trewey to his two youngest sons Johnny and Sam. This included the farm, the mine, Trewey Cottage and Trewey Bungalow.
Aunt Annie was not married and he left her six heifers as a dowry. She married James Paynter, a seaman. All her life she never answered the question that she had received the heifers so the will could not be finalised until she died in the spring of 1962.
Publisher
Morrab Library
Date
1900
Rights
Morrab Library
Format
Print
Identifier
ZWM 132
Coverage
Zennor
Physical Dimensions
8 x 5.5