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I'm not home right now but want to thank you so so so much for contacting John SMith and giving me this information.  I will write more tomorrow. 

big hugs and a thanks - you made my day

Linda Trestrail. 

Elizabeth Ann would be the blind sister, yes?  If my great grandmother, Eliza Emily Jenkin was widowed and living on Bodriggy Street with her 5 children in 1911, and her sister, Elizabeth Ann, was living with them, too, if we step it up to 1929, is Mount Pleasant a cemetery?  Could it be a street, a nursing home, a private home?   

Thank you for this information on Mount Pleasant.  I do believe that there was a strong connection to my great grandmother and great gt. aunt.

Grandfather was Percival Powning Trestrail born Feb. 26th 1886 married to Bessie Knight born March 29th 1893.  They lived at 5 Clifton Terrace in Hayle - row housing  My grandfather was a mariner and worked with the British Navy for 20 years.  They had one son, my father, William Percival Trestrail - born Jan. 7 1924.  They sailed to New York around 1928.

I THOUGHT my grandfather, Percival Trestrail's parents were Albert Trestrail (born around 1860) and Minnie (Jenkin) Trestrail. They lived on Bodriggy Rd. in Hayle.   It's like my grandfather's parents just vanished with no records.  It also seems he lived with his grandfather and grandmother at age 15.  Maybe while he was on the naval ships at a young age, something happened to his parents.  But why no record.  I will have to find or purchase his birth certificate.

UPDATE:  MY GRANDFATHER'S MOTHER WAS ELIZA EMILY (MINNIE) TRESTRAIL - NO FATHER LISTED.  HE LIVED WITH HIS MOTHER & HIS GRANDPARENTS UNTIL ELIZA GOT MARRIED TO A WILLIAM HENRY JENKIN IN 1893 AND MY GRANDFATHER CONTINUTED TO LIVE WITH HIS GRANDPARENTS - WILLIAM AND ELIZA TRESTRAIL. 

I was told my great grandparents are buried in the  Hayle church graveyard, but I could not find their tombstone in 1990 when I visited the church. 

Bessie (Knight) Trestrail's father was John Thomas Knight of Hayle.  I didn't have a record of Bessie Knight Trestrail's mother, but thanks to this great site, I found out today that her name was Bessie (Tremlett) Knight.   

Percival and Bessie Trestrail were married in

Parash Phillack of Hayle
S. Elwyn Vicarage
Wesleyian
P.E. & Berry - Pastor
on Feb. 3rd 1923   

My grandfather, Percival Powning Trestrail, was in the Royal Navy.  He sailed out of St. Ives either to come to America or with the Navy.  We were told he was only SEVEN when he boarded the Naval ships, trained,  and took off to sea.  I think that is incorrect.  They made laws to protect young children, except under odd circumstances or pauper laws. 

Once in New York, my father went to New York City public schools, and he met my Mother whose family was from Cambourne, Cornwall.  My mother's name was Elizabeth Joan Gill.  That will be under another subject title.  Mother's grandfather's surname was Uren.  Mother's mother, Rubina Uren married Horace Gill of Cambourne.

My parents William and Elizabeth (Gill) Trestrail had two children, my Brother James William Trestrail, and myself, Linda Joan Trestrail.  

I had lots of family documents and gave them to my two sons inside two leather bound family tree books and both of them misplaced or tossed out the books. I'm devastated over their loss.

In August 1990, I had been to Cornwall, Cambourne, Hayle and visited Phillack, and the minister took me to a Trestrail family who lived on the sea.  Ken and Rachael Trestrail lived at 82 Gwithian Towans in Hayle. They were not related to my family. 

Trestrail - from tre-strayl:  homestead of mat or carpet (maker).  Place name Trestrail,  Probus, spelt Trestrael 1278   

Anyone related to me?   

Linda Joan Trestrail

May 28 2012 -  Searching for the Burial Site of my great grandmother, Eliza Emily (Minnie) Trestrail Jenkin.

It's 2 years later, and I've requested a birth certificate for my grandfather, Percy Powning Trestrail  DOB  February 26, 1886.  His mother was Eliza Emily (Minnie) Trestrail and father is unknown.  The search is over and now I know that I will never know who my great grandfather is. 

My great grandmother, Eliza Emily (Minnie) Trestrail married William Henry Jenkin in March 1893 when my grandfather was 7 years old.  It looks like my grandfather stayed and lived with his grandparents after his mother married. And my grandfather, Percy Powning Trestrail went into the military service at a very young age.  His grandparents were William and Eliza Powning Trestrail of  Hayle.   

Eliza Emily Minnie Trestrail Jenkin and her husband William Henry Jenkin  had 5 children which I was shocked to discover my grandfather had half brothers and sisters. 

William Arthur Jenkin
Charles Garnett Jenkin  DOB June 15 1897  Bapt Sept 30 1897  Bodriggy St. Hayle
Eliza Minnie Jenkin  DOB July 18 1898  Bapt May 4 1899  Copperhouse Hill
Walter Perry Jenkin
Elizabeth M Jenkin

According to the Phillack PR:

William Henry Jenkin was buried 29 Nov 1908 – my great grandmother’s husband.

Elizabeth (Eliza Powning Trestrail ) was buried 28 Nov 1900  - my great gt grandmother

William Trestrail was buried 19 March 1904 – my great gt grandfather

 Elizabeth Trestrail was buried 15 Jan 1929.(Blind daughter of William & Eliza Trestrail)

If Minnie was still living in Phillack at the time of her death she also might be buried there with her parents, William & Eliza Powning Trestrail, her sister, Elizabeth, and her husband, William Henry Jenkin.  It is possible that there are no Headstones for their graves.

Perhaps Minnie & William married in a non conformist church or chapel & that Elizabeth M & Walter Perry were bapt in a non conformist church or chapel.

On the Genuki website the online burials only go up to 1929. The Online Parish Clerk for the parish is John Smith. I emailed him last week.  (Genuki, Cornwall, Phillack webpage or from the Online Parish Clerk, Cornwall, webpage.)  I have not heard from him, yet.  I hope I had the correct email address. 

I want to note that my other computer that has all the Family Tree Maker’s information has a monitor down and I can not access it.  It’s very maddening for me that I cannot access it for more detailed information.  I must make hard copies of everything as soon as I get a monitor working. 

What happened to my great grandmother, Eliza Emily Minnie Trestrail Jenkin. She was widowed at age 44 and she had 5 young children.  Perhaps she re-married.  It took all these years to confirm who she was and now I cannot follow her life to her burial.

I'm readng a page I wrote on in August 1990 when I was in Hayle looking for my great grandparents.  It says that my grandfather was in the Royal Navy from age 16 in 1902 - 1922.  He was married to Bessie Knight, of Hayle at age 36 at Parash Phillack of Hayle, S. Elwyn Vicarage, Wesleyian on Feb. 3, 1923.  They sailed to America and are buried in Brooklyn, NY. 

I’m not clear on what Phillack really means.  Is it a church?  A village run by a church?  Is it a village? 

Also, in August 1990, I knocked on the door of 21 Bodriggy Ct. and made a statement that my grandfather and great grandmother may have lived there and did the name Minnie Jenkin Trestrail ring a bell.  The young lad was Roger Jenkin and he said, "I'm a Jenkin" and I said what a coincidence, but I'm looking for information on my great grandmother and grandfather Minnie and Albert Trestrail.   DUH....I had no idea Minnie was a Trestrail and married a Jenkin.  Maybe this man was a descendent of my great grandmother.  I don't know how I got that exact address.  It must have been on the documents that my sons lost.   sigh.

Thank you for anyone that can enlighten me.

Linda Trestrail
Long Island
New York.