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, 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.
1 RICHARD CORYN (1622-?), baptized at St. Enoder on 24 July 1622.
2 THOMAS CORYN (1623-?), baptized at St. Enoder on 3 November 1623.
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.)
4 JOAN CORYN (1628-??), baptized on 9 March 1628 at St. Enoder.
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.
It is possible that William Coryn by his first wife was the father of:
1 SAMUEL CORYN (1667-?), baptized at Kenwyn on 22 October 1667.
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).
3 CHARITY CORIN (16??-17??), who was still unmarried in 1734.
4 Possibly ANN CORYN (1683-?), baptized at Kenwyn on 28 October 1683.
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.
6 SOPHIA CORYN (1690-??), baptized at Richmond on 5 January 1690.
7 HENRY CORYN (1692-??), baptized at Richmond on 14 March 1692.
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 or, in another account, Jane Thomas. In 1797 he was appointed 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 ANN POWNE GULLY (1786-1852?), baptized at Gorran on 12 September 1786, who married Samuel James Fletcher, and is said to have undertaken 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. In 1832 she was at Trevillis House, Cheltenham "afterward numbered 1 Pittville Villas, her own freehold."
1.1.1.2 WILLIAM SLADE-GULLY (1788-1869), 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. 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 Trevenen, in Gerrans. One account says that William died on 27 November 1853. Marie Josephine died at Cheltenham on 23 January 1865. Their children included:
1.1.1.2.1 Possibly W.A. SLADE-GULLY (18??-??) of Trevennen in Gorran, alive in 1868. (But this may have been the major, above, or William Algernon, the son of the Rev. Samuel?)
1.1.1.2.2 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. The Cregoes moved to Cheltenham at some stage. Cornelia was widowed and 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. She died on 18 January 1887. The Cregoes had issue:
1.1.1.2.2.1 CAROLINE ANNE CREGOE (1843-1935), known as Carrie, who married John Agnew Shaw, 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.
1.1.1.2.2.2 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 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.
1.1.1.2.2.3 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.
1.1.1.2.2.4 CLARA CREGOE (18??-?), who married John S.U. Birch 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).
1.1.1.2.2.5 EDWARD GARLAND CREGOE (18??-?), who married Charlotte Elizabeth Webster in the first quarter of 1874 and died without issue.
1.1.1.2.2.6 WINSTANLEY CARLYON (1852?-?), born at St Just in Roseland Rectory. In 1881 he was a master mariner.
1.1.1.2.3 CHARLOTTE ANNE GULLY (18??-1883), who married St John Gillis St Leger at St Austell at the end of 1848. She died on 17 August 1883 at her residence, Rathmines House in Dublin(31).
1.1.1.3 PETER THOMAS GULLY (1793-183?), born in 1793, who married Jane Bottrell on 10 February 1820 at Crowan. 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 GULLY (1788-18??), born in 1788. He became Rector of Berrynorbar. He married Anne Hunt-Grubbe of Bath, and they had two sons and three daughters, including:
1.1.1.4.1 WILLIAM ALGERNON GULLY (1827-??), baptized on 15 September 1827 at St Austell, who died falling out of a window at Trevennen and is buried in the family vault at Gorran.
1.1.1.4.2 EMMELINE GULLY (18??-??), who married first W. Walton, and secondly George Sweet.
1.1.1.4.3 FRANCIS SLADE GULLY (18??-1864), commissioned in India. He married a Miss Knatchbull and had a son, Francis, and two daughters. Francis died in Calcutta on 12 November 1864. The son died at Dublin Castle of typhoid, and the property then went to one of the daughter's children, who married a Dr. Taylor.
1.1.1.4.4 GORGINIA GULLY (18??-?).
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 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 lf Lutcott in the Borough of Bodmin and of Chywoute, or Chywoon, in St Keverne. They had a daughter:
2.1 SUSANNA JEWEL (172?-?), who is implausibly said to have been born in 1718 and to have married Rawling Ferris of Kenwyn at Truro in August 1738. They had three children:
2.1.1 JOSEPH JEWEL FERRIS (1739-1814), who was a grocer in King Street, Truro. In 1770, he married Hannah Thomas at Truro. They had five children:
2.1.1.1 GRACE FERRIS (1770-1835), who appears to have been a semi-invalid, looked after by her sister Hannah. On her father's death in 1814, she and Hannah inherited Treworder Estate and Penventineowe.
2.1.1.2 ELIZABETH FERRIS (1771-18??), who married John Ferris Bennallack in 1811.
2.1.1.3 RICHARD JEWEL FERRIS (1773-18??), who married Frediswed Symons in 1799. They had a son:
2.1.1.3.1 RICHARD JEWEL FERRIS (18??-1841), who died in 1841.
2.1.1.4 HANNAH FERRIS (1781-18??), whose account book is preserved in the Sitwell collection in the Royal Institution of Cornwall(32). In it are preserved the household accounts of Treworder between March 1819 and 1833. At this time, the Ferris family held property at Treworder, Penventineowe, Gimlett's Tenement, Parkenstrife, Chapple House, Maiden Green Tenement, Ivy Cottage, a warehouse on the quay, John Carne's house and houses in Princes, Kenwyn, Pydar and Calenick Streets in Truro.
2.1.1.5 JOSEPH FERRIS (1784-1812), who went to Calcutta and died there shortly after arriving, in 1812.
2.1.2 ELIZABETH FERRIS (1741-?), born in 1741, who married William Rowden.
2.1.3 JAMES FERRIS (1749-?), who may have become vicar of Probus. He had a son:
2.1.3.1 JAMES FERRIS (1781-1847), born in 1781. He was a surgeon. He married Mary Ancell. In 1831 he was mayor of Truro. He died in 1847.