The voluntary examination and deposition of Celia Coren, wife of William Coren, late of the parish of Maddern in the said county, carrier, but now as she believes serving on board one of His Majestyes Ships of War, taken upon oath this 28th day of March 1763 - before William Veale Esq. and John Penneck, clerk, two of His Majestyes Justices of the Peace for the said county.
This examinant being sworn saith that about nine years since she intermarried with the said William Coren who then resided, and for several years before had resided with, Ralph Coren, his ffather, on a large estate called Trenear in the said parish of Madden which the said Ralph Coren the ffather, then and for many years before, had resided on and rented at upwards, as she believes, of forty pounds a year rent; and this examinant and her husband after they were married lived with the said Ralph Coren their ffather at Trenear aforesaid nine or ten months and had a child born whilst they lived there, and from Trenear they removed to and rented a house and some land called the Mill Tenement, part of the same estate called Trenear, where they resided about a year and a half or two years and then removed to another house in the same parish belonging to John Carnarthen and there resided untill on or about the 22nd May 1758 when her said husband William Coren ran away and left her and his family; and this examinant further saith that from Lady Day on 25th March preceding the said 22nd May 1758 her said husband had taken at rent a tenement called the Carn Tenement in the parish of Gulval in the said county at the rent of ten pounds a year; and the said 22nd day of May, her husband, when he went away, ordered this examinant to remove with her children and go to live in Gulval in the house belonging to the said Carn Tenement telling her he would be back again the 24th - that accordingly the next day she removed there and lived in the said house from the 23rd May to about a week before Midsummer Day when she quitted the said house and, at Midsummer, she gave up the land also and her brother-in-law, James Coren, paid the quarterly rent for this examinant, her husband not being retuned - and this deponent saith that, after she quitted the said house belonging to the said farm tenement about a week before midsummer as afd, she took a little house at Chyandour in the said parish of Gulval at twenty five shillings a year and lived there about seven or eight months and then was taken with her children into the family of, and lived with, her said ffather-in-law, Ralph Coren, who then resided in the said parish of Gulval with whom she lived some time and there had a male child and then went into service in the parish of St Just in this county where she now is a servant and resides, that she has three children, two of whom now live in the parish of Gulval and one with this examinant's ffather in St Just aforesaid and more saith not.
X The mark of Celia Coren
Sworn at Gulval Vicarage the day
and year aforesaid by us.
Wm Veale
John Penneck