John Coryn (1601-16??)

JOHN CORYN (1601/2 -??) was aged eighteen at the time of the Heralds' Visitation in 1620, a year after his father's death. The next year, on 16 January 1621, he married Christobel Jolly, sister of his brother-in-law.

He signed the Protestation Return, affirming his loyalty to the King and constitution in 1641, first among the citizens of Kenwyn (his surname is recorded as Corin), and he is known to have been a Royalist supporter. Because of this he was summoned by the 'Commission for Compounding Imperfect Cases' on a charge of 'delinquency in adhering to the King's forces in the first war'. The case was heard on 31 May 1650, and John was fined £78 on 16 July 1650. The fines were only exacted from major landowners, and £78 was a large sum⁽²³⁾. His name in the Composition Returns is spelt Corwinne⁽²⁴⁾. It seems possible that the house at Treworder was sequestrated at this time, and possibly given to Richard Lobb of Mylor, a Presbyterian who became High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1652. However, Richard Lobb's attempts to retain the property after the restoration (by claiming that he had lost the title deeds) failed, and John Coryn returned to live there⁽²⁵⁾.

In 1662 the house at Treworder was assessed for the Hearth Tax at '6 blockt up 2', so perhaps he was drawing in his horns, or perhaps it was a result of reorganization following his mother's death in 1648. We do not know when John Coryn, jnr., died.

John and Christobel had four children, with whom our trail through Coryn history goes cold.

3 JOHN CORYN (1626-?1685), baptized at St. Enoder on 19 November 1626. One hypothesis is that he died in March or April of 1685. If this is so, then his wife's name was Margaret, and his will, dated 1678, was proved in 1685. At the time of his death he was described as 'gent. of Treworder'. The inventory of his effects totalled only £25/4/10. It is possible that he was the father of William Coryn below, but unlikely if John was indeed born in 1626 and William in 1640. His son was 'William Coryn, gent.' (It is quite possible that the John born in 1602 lived until 1685, which would be a more satisfactory possibility.)

WILLIAM CORYN (1639/40-?). It is not clear how William Coryn came to inherit Treworder. We know nothing about his descent, and little about his early life save that he married and was widowed. It is possible that his first wife was named Elizabeth.

In the 1662 Hearth Tax returns, John Coryn is shown as having six hearths ("blockt up two"), and William Coryn had four, so there may have been two families living in Kenwyn at this time.

In 1677, William Coryn of Kenwyn, William Jolley of St Enoder (presumably his cousin) and Robert Trethewye of St Stephens in Brannel, gent., granted a bond to Ann Borlase, daughter of Nicholas Borlase, esq., of Treluddro to secure £50.⁽²⁶⁾.

Assignments of 1681 and 1683 show William as owner of numerous tinbounds in Kenwyn, Gwennap, St Agnes, Madron, St Just in Penwith and Morvah, and a stamping mill in Paul. Some of these tinbounds have delightful names, such as Wheal-an-catch-him-napping and Marke-what-comes-after (unless the scrivener was having a joke at his clients' expense!)

In 1682, however, William was in London, and married Anne Brown, of 'Wilton' (?Williton), Somerset, a spinster of 'about 22', by Archbishop's Licence dated 14 June 1682. The wedding was to take place at St. Dunstan's in the West or the Temple Church.

Anne Brown was one of the four daughters of George Brown of Sherford, Somerset, who had died intestate in January 1678, leaving a widow, Ann, and (two? - sic) daughters, Elizabeth Anne Mary Katherine and Jane.

The marriage settlement led to litigation in Chancery⁽²⁷⁾. One Gilbert Keymer refused to hand over land at Corscombe in Dorset, on the grounds that it had been mortgaged to him.

The couple lived for a time, at least between 1688 and 1692, at Richmond in Surrey, but it is not clear what William's work was.⁽²⁸⁾ His seat was always given as Treworder (or 'Trevarder', as the Richmond clerk transcribed it.)

Anne Coryn may possibly have been the Mrs Anne Coryn, widow, who was buried at Truro on 24 October 1735, and the 'mother-in-law' referred to in John Coryn's will of 1732.

2 JOHN CORYN (1671?-1732), baptized at Mylor on 10 November 1671. His wife was Ann, and from him are descended the Coryn Gully family.

William and Anne Corin had three children baptized at Richmond, Surrey. The whole list below is speculative, as is the identification of Ann with the wife of John Hoar⁽²⁹⁾.

5 ANN CORYN (1688-17??), baptized at Richmond on 15 May 1688. She married John Hoar, or Hore, on 4 or 21 November 1722 at Kenwyn. Their son was:

5.1 HENRY CORYN HORE (172?-1785), who died in 1785.

JOHN CORYN (?1671-1732) may have been born in 1671 and baptized at Mylor on 10 November. It seems probable that his first wife was Margaret Roberts of Bodmin. His second wife was Ann Huddy of Probus, whom he married at St Erme in 1721. John had two daughters, so the Coryn of Treworder line died out, Treworder coming into the hands of the Ferris and Gully families.

John died in 1732. In his will, dated 19 April 1732 during his illness, and proved at Bodmin in 1732, he gave two guineas to his sister, Charity, and four guineas each to William Gribble and his wife and to John Hoare and his wife (presumably his sister, Ann). He left a guinea each to his daughters, Elizabeth Jewell and Susanna Gully, and to his baby grandsons Samuel and John Gully, as well as five guineas to his 'mother-in-law, Mrs Ann Coryn' (who may well have been Ann, née Brown). 'Mrs Ann Coryn' also inherited a life interest in the tenement of Listriott. In 1732 he had an 'apprentice' (probably merely the housemaid), Amy Nichollas (also mentioned in his wife's will two years later). He left her a guinea.

His widow, Ann, survived him by only two years. Her will was proved on 30 March 1734 (which makes it impossible to identify her with the Mrs. Anne Coryn, widow, buried at Truro on 24 October 1735). In it, she made bequests to:

Elizabeth, wife of John Tree of Newlyn
Anne Gully, spinster
Mary Anneare, wife of Simon Anneare of Probus
'my sister in law' Charity Coryn
my sister in law Anne Hoar, wife of John Hoar
Katherine Buckingham, wife of Peter Buckingham of Ladock
Richard Jewell of Truro and his wife
John Gully (to whom she gave her stock and cattle)
'my grandson' Samuel Gully
my beloved sister Joan Collins and my grandsons John Gully
and Francis Gully

1 SUSANNA CORYN (170?-??) married John Gully of Tresilian in Newlyn in 1729⁽³⁰⁾. He was the son of John and Lydia Gully, and his father had died at Probus in 1713 and been buried on 7 November. John and Susanna Gully had three children:

1.1 SAMUEL CORYN GULLY (1729-1764), who was baptized at Kenwyn on 16 December 1729. He married Mary (or Grace) Slade on 29 November 1753 at St. Gorran. (She was baptized on 8 December 1730 at Lansallos, the daughter of Edward Slade, who had connections with the Vivyan family. Her elder brother, William, heir to Trevennen, died in 1783 without heir, and the Coryn Gully family became the Slade-Gully family). Samuel lived in Cornelly. He died when only thirty-five, in 1765. In his will, written during illness on 16 August 1763, he left £100 each to his two young daughters, and his estates 'in the parish of Kenwyn and elsewhere' to his son, William. He appointed his brother-in-law William Slade of Gorran, his uncle Richard Jewell of Truro and Mathew Vivian of Kea as trustees until William came of age. His will was proved on 11 January 1765.

1.1.1 WILLIAM SLADE GULLY (1754-1816) was born on Christmas Eve in Chapel House, Kenwyn, and baptized at Kenwyn on 26 December 1754. He inherited Trevennen after his uncle's death in 1783. He married Jennefir Powne, the daughter of Francis Powne M.D. of Tregony. In 1797 he was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall. He died in on 16 November 1816 and was buried a week later 'in the vault at Goran', and she in 1853, aged 93. William and Jennifer had issue:

1.1.1.1 ANNE POWNE GULLY (1786-1848), baptized at Gorran on 12 September 1786, who married Samuel James Fletcher on 1 January 1828 at Newport, Isle of Wight. In 1832 she was at Trevillis House, Cheltenham "afterward numbered 1 Pittville Villas, her own freehold." (She and her brothers also inherited Trevennen, in Gorran.) In December 1836, Samuel left Anne and went to live in Hollymount, County Mayo. He later emigrated to Baltimore, Maryland, and on 10 March 1842, he and Anne were divorced by Act of the Maryland Senate.

Anne achieved notoriety for threatening litigation against the Crown to claim that the Gully family, through "Sir John Coryn", were the rightful heirs to the estates of the Duchy of Cornwall. She died, aged 62, in January 1848 at 39 Brewer Street, Golden Square, London and was buried on t January at Kensal Green.

1.1.1.2 WILLIAM SLADE-GULLY (1788-1853), born on 27 December 1788 (or possibly 1786). He joined the 87th Royal Irish Regiment (Foot) and on 10 December 1806 was made a lieutenant. He rose to become Captain on 9 March 1809, and a Major on 6 June 1825. According to his death notice, he "gallantly served in Monte Video, the Isle of France, Nepaul and Ava, and for the latter received a medal and two clasps." While his regiment was occupying Mauritius, which had been taken from the French, he met and married Marie Josephine Furteaux in 1811. His arms incorporated in the third and fourth quarters references to the Powne and Coryn family arms. The Gullys lived at Trevennen, in Gerrans. William died on 27 November 1853 at the house of his daughter and son-in-law, the St Legers, in Dublin. He was possibly there for the birth of his grandson Richard. A death notice appeared in the Royal Cornwall Gazette (Falmouth Packet and General Advertiser) of 9 December. Marie Josephine died at Cheltenham on 23 January 1865. Their children included:

1.1.1.2.1 CORNELIA POWNE GULLY (1813-1887), born in Mauritius on 10 May 1813. She married John Garland Cregoe in the second quarter of 1841. He was a Cambridge graduate, and the son of Matthew Garland Cregoe of Tresillian. In 1851 they were at St Anthony in Roseland. The Cregoes moved to Cheltenham, where John died at the end of 1854. Cornelia and the children were at Cheltenham in 1861. The widowed Cornelia married the Revd. Clement Winstanley Carlyon, Rector of Philleigh, at St George's, Hanover Square, on 12 February 1868. In 1881, Clement was rector of St Just in Roseland. Cornelia died on 18 January 1887. The Cregoes had issue:

1.1.1.2.1.1 CAROLINE ANNE CREGOE (1843-1935), known as Carrie, who married John Agnew Shaw, at Cheltenham in 1863. John was a gold digger and wool trader who moved to Kalgoorlie, where he became borough treasurer. They were the great grandparents of Colin G. Shaw of 29 Lancaster Street, Kyabram, Victoria, 3620.

1.1.1.2.1.2 EDWARD GARLAND COLMORE CREGOE (1845-1912), who married Charlotte Elizabeth Webster in the first quarter of 1874 and died at Portsmouth without issue.

1.1.1.2.1.3 MARIE JOSEPHINE CREGOE (1846-1932), born at St Gorran on 17 October 1846. In the third quarter of 1873, she married the Revd. William Fookes, Vicar of Philleigh from 1868 to 1913. Hw was some four years older than her. It was said that they moved to Canada and had two sons and two daughters. However, their great-great-granddaughter, Debbie McDonald of Pace, Florida reports that they had ten children, and that the youngest daughter, Cornelia and her husband, Harry Percy Calvert were married in the first quarter of 1902, while William Fookes was still in Philleigh. Their issue recorded in the 1881 census were John, aged 4, Edward C, aged 3, Alfred W and Mary J, both aged 2, and Frederick G, aged 11 months. Three of the children died in childhood, and are buried at Philleigh. Maria Josephine died on 19 August 1932, aged 85.

1.1.1.2.1.4 HARRIET JACQUELINE CREGOE (1848-1915), born at St Gorran on 1 April 1848 and aged 33 in 1881. She married John Stroud Short in the second quarter of 1876, but was widowed before 1881, when she was living with her mother and stepfather at St Just in Roseland rectory. She went to America with George James Caple, former editor of the Clevedon Mercury. With him she had two daughters, one of whom survived (Mary Mamie Capel - note the changed spelling - supposedly born in San Francisco in 1887/88). (She is said to have married George in New York, but he was already married with six children.) About 1895 the family emigrated to Australia. George died in 1911 and Harriet died on 27 August 1915 and is buried in South Brisbane Cemetery.

1.1.1.2.1.5 CLARA MARY CREGOE (18??-?), who married John Edward Octavius Birch at Cheltenham in 1864, and had issue: Guy (not married), Eleanor (married George Hud, issue Drumonde (Ormonde??) married Begg (issue Josephine 1865-1922 unmarried (??)) and Clara married Carrol (no issue)), Arthur (not married, died 1949), Drumonde (Ormonde?) (married Amy Shoobridge of Tasmania, no issue) and Francis (known as Frank - unmarried).

Cornelia and Clement Carlyon had issue:

1.1.1.2.1.6 WINSTANLEY CARLYON (1852?-?), born at St Just in Roseland Rectory. In 1881 he was a master mariner.

1.1.1.2.2 CHARLOTTE ANNE GULLY (18??-1883), who married John Gillis St Leger at St Austell on 12 October 1848. He was a major in the 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers, serving in Montevideo, the Isle of France, Nepaul and Ava (for which he received a medal and two clasps). She died on 17 August 1883 at her residence, Rathmines House in Dublin⁽³¹⁾. Charlotte and John St Leger had issue:

1.1.1.2.2.1 JOSEPHINE ELIZA ST LEGER (??-1931), who died in November 1931.

1.1.1.2.2.2 RICHARD WILLIAM ST LEGER (1852-1925), born in Dublin on 9 January 1852. He married Matilda. They were living at 386 Rathmines Park in 1901 with their son, St John, aged 15, and daughter, Hazel, aged 8. Richard died on 20 March 1925.

1.1.1.2.2.3 WILLIAM FAGAN ST LEGER (1853-1916), born in Dublin on 18 November 1853. He became a solicitor, and his wife's first names were Anne Leslie, from County Cork. In 1901 they were at Ratheally, Co. Cork. William died on 18 March 1916.

1.1.1.2.2.4 ST JOHN JAMES ST LEGER (1856-1916), born on 11 July 1856, who died on 22 December 1916. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the 2nd Battalion, Leinster Regiment.

1.1.1.3 PETER THOMAS GULLY (1793-1832), born in 1793, who married Jane Bottrell on 10 February 1820 at Crowan. He died in May 1832. In his will, dated in 1831 and proved in 1832, he left his estate to his wife, Jenefer Jane Gully for life, and after her death, to his brother, William Slade Gully. He is said to have had three children:

1.1.1.3.1 WILLIAM SLADE-GULLY (1820-??), baptized on 19 December 1820 at Creed.

1.1.1.3.2 JENNIFER AMELIA GULLY (1823-??), baptized on 16 February 1823 at Gorran.

1.1.1.3.3 ANN WOOLCOCK GULLY (1826-??), born on 9 November 1825 and baptized on 23 April 1826 at Luxulyan Bible Christian Church. (Her parents, though, are given as Peter Gulley and Ann Woolcock.)

1.1.1.4 SAMUEL THOMAS SLADE GULLY (1788-1860), born in 1788. He was ordained, and served briefly as curate of Gorran, his home parish. He became Rector of Berrynarbor in Devon. He adopted the surname Slade-Gully on 9 March 1854. He married Anne Hunt-Grubbe of Bath, and they had two sons and three daughters:

1.1.1.4.1 WILLIAM ALGERNON GULLY (1827-1870), born on 8 July 1827 and baptized on 15 September at St Austell, who was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1847 and graduated in 1851. He was a keen cricketer (a bowler and all-rounder), playing for the Quidnuncs and for Cambridge University. He was admitted to the Inner Temple, and called to the bar in 1855, practising on the Western Circuit. A family legend claims that he died falling out of a window at Trevennen, but this related to the death in 1917 of Stephen Henry Dickerson. He died on 10 July 1870, and is buried in the family vault at Gorran. The inscription reads: In Memory of William Algernon Slade Gulley MA of Trevennen in this Parish who took a warm interest in the restoration of this Church but did not live to see the work completed.

1.1.1.4.2 ANNE EMILY GULLY (1833?-??), also known as Emmeline, who married first W. Walton, and secondly George Sweet.

1.1.1.4.3 FRANCIS SLADE GULLY (18??-1864), commissioned in India. He married Eleanor Knatchbull, the daughter of a clergyman, probably at Cholderton, Wiltshire, on 3 October 1861, and had a son and two daughters. Francis died in Calcutta on 12 November 1864.

1.1.1.4.3.1 FRANCIS SLADE GULLY (1863-1891) was born on 25 November 1863 at Saugor, Bengal. He gained the rank of Lieutenant in the Derbyshire Regiment, and later in the Third King's Own Hussars at Dublin Castle. In 1890 he was living at Trevennen. He died at the Curragh of typhoid, and the property then passed to his sister.

1.1.1.4.3.2 ELEANOR LOUISA SLADE-GULLY (1863?-1891) was born around 1863 at Tanjore, Bengal. She married Frederick Hawes Elliott on 9 March 1887 at Pewsey, Wiltshire. Frederick died at the beginning of 1891, and Eleanor remarried, to James Taylor in 1893 at Fulham. From 14 July 1911, she changed her name back to Slade-Gully.

1.1.1.4.3.2.1 MADELINE ALICE F. TAYLOR (1896-19??), born in the Andover registration district.

1.1.1.4.3.2.2 JOHN NORTON TAYLOR (1897-1957), born at Boscombe, Hampshire. He married Lady Muriel Marjorie Dalzell, daughter of Arthur Edward Dalzell, 13th Earl of Carnwath, on 18 January 1927. He became a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Indian Army. On 18 January 1927 his name was legally changed to John Norton Dalzell by Royal Licence.

1.1.1.4.4 GEORGIANA SARAH SLADE-GULLY (1835-1889), born at Berrynarbor. She married Alexander Codrington on 31 August 1869 at Sampford Arundel, Somerset. She died on 10 November 1889 at Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia.

1.1.1.4.5 ELEANOR MARIA GULLY (18??-?).

1.1.2 MARY GULLY (1756-??), baptized in July 1756 at Kenwyn, who died while young.

1.1.3 ELIZABETH GULLY (1758-??), baptized on 14 March 1758 at Kenwyn who also died young.

1.2 JOHN GULLY (1731-1758), baptized at Kenwyn in April 1731. He married Clarinda Vivian on 23 February 1754. Clarinda had been baptized at Cornelly on 15 October 1732, the daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Vivian. John and Clarinda Gully had two daughters, one of whom became a Mrs Hambly. The elder daughter was:

1.2.1 SUSANNAH GULLY (1755-??), baptized at Probus on 19 August 1755. She married Joseph Rowe on 25 April 1775. He was a maltster, of St Columb and subsequently of Lostwithiel, the son of John and Elizabeth Rowe. Their issue included:

1.2.1.1 JOHN ROWE (1783-18??), baptized at Lostwithiel on 7 July 1783, who married Nancy Parsons at Stoke Damerel on 27 May 1812. His daughter, Mary Ann Rowe married William Thomas Bavinton at Deptford in 1845, and emigrated to Australia on the McNaughten in 1851. From her is descended Pauline Markwell, née Bavinton, who supplied information about John Gully's descendants.

1.3 FRANCIS GULLY (1734-??), baptized at Kenwyn on 2 December 1734.

2 ELIZABETH CORYN (1707-17??), John and Ann's younger daughter, was baptized at Kenwyn on 13 June 1707. She was 'of Kenwyn' when she married Richard Jewel at Truro on 11 December 1723. Richard Jewel was a grocer, and in 1742 acquired a moiety of Treworder, Treworder Waste, Polmouth, Polmouth Mills, Polmouth Blowing House, Penhaldarva, Kaverthen, Penventineow, Pencoose, Killiwithick, Parkan Strike, Enys Waste and two houses in Carvedres Street, all in Kenwyn, as well as a quarter of Trewar (alias Treor) and Tregassa in Gerrans, and a moiety of Lutcott in the Borough of Bodmin and of Chywoute, or Chywoon, in St Keverne. They had a daughter: