Great Cornish Families

Gill chooses the following families: • The Arundells of Lanherne, Arundells of Trerice • Bassets of Tehidy • Merchant princes, the Bolithos • Boscawens, the Earls of Falmouth, Cornwall • Carew Poles of Anthony • Edgcumbes of Mount Edgcumbe House • The Eliots, Earls of St Germans • Godolphins of Godolphin • The Grenvilles • The Killigrews • Molesworth St Aubyns of Pencarrow • Prideauxs of Padstow • Rashleighs of Menabilly, The Rashleigh baronets • Agar-Robarteses of Lanhydrock • St Aubyns of St Michael's Mount • Treffrys of Fowey • Trelawny of Pelynt • Trevanions • Vivians of Glynn • Vyvyans of Trelowarren • The Mining Williamses • The Penroses of Killiow ==Additional families==

Gill's list of important families not included above In the introduction to Great families . . . , • Fortescue family of Boconnoc • Harvey family of Hayle • Hawkins family of Trewithen • Kendall of Pelyn • Lemon family of Carclew • Roscarrock family of St Endellion • Smith-Dorrien-Smith family of Tresco • Tangye family • Tregoning family of Landue, Lezant • Tremayne family of Heligan • Trevelyan family Other • Trefusis of Trefusis Manor, Flushing, near Falmouth, see Baron Clinton Deacon's list of important families Bernard Deacon in his History of Cornwall (2007) suggests the following family names ("merchant bourgeois" who joined the "gentry" from the latter part of the 18th century): Williams, Bolitho, Fox, Davey of Redruth, Daniell of Truro, Harvey of Gwennap, Foster of Lostwithiel. ==Landowners==

Table of Principal Cornish Landowners, mid-nineteenth century (ranked) • Lord Falmouth • Lord Robartes • G. M. Fortescue • G. L. Basset • Earl of Mount Edgcumbe • C. H. T. Hawkins • Sir R. R. Vyvyan • Col. A. Tremayne • Augustus Coryton • F. Rodd • J. M. Williams • J. J. Rogers • Earl of St Germans • Revd A. Molesworth-St Aubyn • Sir J. Trelawney • C. P. Brune • Edward Coode • Col. S. M. Grylls Source: Returns of owners of land in England & Wales – House of Commons Sessional papers 1872-3: paper No. 1874 lixxii, quoted in Edwin Jaggard Cornwall politics in the age of reform 1790–1855, (1999). *(Source: Who owns Britain ? by Kevin Cahill) (Based on Return of Owners of Land, 1873) ==See also==