Hello!
I would dearly love any photographs or information on the Manor that you may have. I have an old exterior photograph of it before it was demolished and that is all. An interior photograph would be amazing!
My ancestors story is an interesting one, and I haven't finished digging around yet so I hope to find out more about his life eventually. His name was Subrata and he was from India. He came out to England with George Gooch, who was apparently a Captain for the East India Trading Company according to family notes made in the 1920's but I haven't found any evidence yet of this. (There was a George Gooch who was a Captain in the records but he lived longer than this George, so perhaps he operated privately with them..)
George was travelling to visit an Uncle when he died suddenly at Wakefield in 1788. Not too long after this Subrata shows up being baptised at the Church by Mary Gooch's second husband Francis Cole in 1789.
Subrata took on the surname of 'Trengoffe' and very likely was sent to George's sister Mary after George's death, living at Trengoffe Manor. Subrata ended up marrying a Cornish lady and having two children. Only one of them survived infancy, my ancestor Mary Ann, who later changed her surname to 'Trengo' as did her mother who remarried in Cornwall in 1802. Subrata disappears from the records after Mary Ann's baptism in 1795. I have no idea if he died or if he left and went back to India.
Any photographs or information on Trengoffe would be wonderful, it featured so significantly in the life of Subrata, it would be very special to know more about the place that would have been his home for a while.
Thank you,
Tamara