Polkinghorne

Honor Polkinghorne Speckman 1806–1884

Fourth Great Grandmother

Honor Polkinghorne was baptized on Dec. 28, 1806 in Phillack, Cornwall, England. Honor married Thomas Tremelling on May 24, 1828 in Phillack. She married James Speckman on Jul. 27, 1852 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She passed away on Mar. 21, 1884 in Meredith, Victoria, Australia. She was buried in the Meredith Cemetery.

Year Name & Age Occupation Residence or Ship F M
1841 Honor Tremellen 30 Camborne, Cornwall, England
1848 Honor Tremelling Tory

Cornwall. Online Parish Clerks. Baptisms. 1806. Web.
Date: December 28
Parish: Phillack
Name: Honor Polkinghorne
Father: Richard
Mother: Grace

Letter. 13 Mar. 1847. Female Convicts Research Centre. Web. This may have been written by Herman Merivale, who was the Recorder of Penzance from 1841 to 1848.
In the matter of Honor Tremelling convicted of larceny and sentenced by me to transportation for seven years at the Quarter Sessions for Penzance last December.
The prisoner pleaded guilty and the only note I have is an abstract of the result of the depositions:
"Five years servant of Mr York. Stole money out of his desk, in his shop, by means of his key, which she took out of the pocket of his coat at his home"
No such statement as that mentioned in her Petition was made by the prisoner or on her behalf at the trial.
It appeared by the deposition that pilfering had been going on for a long time previously at Mr York's.

"The Petition of Honor Tremelling in Millbank Prison." Female Convicts Research Centre. Web. Honor was transferred to Millbank on Jan. 22, 1847.
That your petitioner was a cook and housekeeper to Mr York, Draper, of Penzance and had been in his service nearly six years and was always considered to be trust worthy. Being in want of change one morning to purchase provisions for the family before her Master returned from his dwelling house, and having none of her own, she took six shillings from the till, the shopman being present when she did so. She did not think that her Master on being told by the shopman what she had done would suspect her of dishonesty.
Your Petitioner begs to state that she is a widow and had three children who are now with her aged mother and who are not yet old enough to earn their own bread and that this is her first conviction.
Your Petitioner humbly solicits your kind consideration of the circumstances of her case and that you would be pleased to recommend a mitigation of her sentence and she will ever pray.

Tasmania. LINC. Convicts. Web.
Tremelling Honor
Tried: Cornwall 30 December 1846
Sentence: 7 Years
Offence: Stealing Money
Arrived: 6 August 1848
Trade: Plain Cook
Height: 5/2
Complexion: Sallow
Head: Round
Hair: Brown
Visage: Oval
Forehead: Medium
Eyebrows: Brown
Eyes: Hazel
Nose: Long
Mouth: Small
Chin: Small
Native Place: Cornwall
Marks: None
Period of Probation: 6 months
Station of Gang: Anson
Class: 8 February 1849
Marriage: 27 July 1852 James Speckman
Ticket of Leave: 1 October 1850
Certificate of Freedom: 3 January 1854

Victoria. Deaths. 1884. Web.
Name: Honer Pokenham Speckman
Death Place: Meredith
Age: 76
Spouse: Jas

West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser 20 Nov. 1846. RootsWeb. Ancestry, 8 Oct. 2008. Web.
FELONY - On Monday last, HONOR TREMELLING, who has lived as cook for the last five years at Mr. YORK's, draper, &c., Penzance, was committed for trial at the next borough sessions, for stealing certain monies, the property of her master. A system of robbery is said to have been carried on at Mr. York's for some time past, but every effort to detect the delinquent failed until last Monday forenoon.

Richard Polkinghorne 1780–1814

Fifth Great Grandfather

Richard Polkinghorne was baptized on Jul. 16, 1780 in Phillack, Cornwall, England. Richard married Grace Dunn on Sep. 1, 1804 in Phillack. He was buried on Nov. 7, 1814 in Phillack.

Cornwall. Online Parish Clerks. Baptisms. 1780. Web.
Date: July 16
Parish: Phillack
Name: Richard Polkinghorne
Father: Richard
Mother: Christian

Cornwall. Online Parish Clerks. Burials. 1814. Web.
Date: November 7
Parish: Phillack
Name: Richard Polkinghorne
Age: 34
Residence: Ventonleague

Grace Dunn Trevaskis 1784–1864

Fifth Great Grandmother

Grace Dunn was baptized on Aug. 14, 1784 in Phillack, Cornwall, England. Grace married Richard Polkinghorne on Sep. 1, 1804 in Phillack. She married Gregory Trevaskis on Aug. 7, 1830 in Phillack. She was buried on Jan. 8, 1864 in Phillack.

Year Name & Age Occupation Residence F M
1841 Grace Trevascus 50 Phillack, Cornwall, England
1851 Grace Trevaskes 65 Camborne, Cornwall, England
1861 Grace Trevaskis 78 Servant Camborne, Cornwall, England

Cornwall. Online Parish Clerks. Baptisms. 1784. Web.
Date: August 14
Parish: Phillack
Name: Grace Dunn
Father: Richard
Mother: Sarah

Cornwall. Online Parish Clerks. Burials. 1864. Web.
Date: January 8
Parish: Phillack
Name: Grace Trevaskis
Residence: Riviere

Trevaskis Family

John Polkinghorne married Ann Trevaskis on Aug. 28, 1830 in Phillack, Cornwall, England. They both had mothers named Grace Trevaskis. The husbands of those mothers were brothers. The Trevaskis who lived on Glebe Row and died on Apr. 7, 1861 must have been Grace Blewett.

1842 Grace Blewett's husband James Trevaskus lived on Glebe Row at the time of his death.
1861 The United Kingdom Census was taken on April 7. Grace Dunn Trevaskis was living in Camborne on that day.
1869 Words like "her son" do not appear on John Polkinghorne's part of the headstone.