Hi Kris,
Thank you so much for replying. It's a very confusing and difficult family to track and we really are doing a lot of guess work! Sobratta (various spellings!) married Ann Broad at St Neot. They had Marian Trengoffe who I'm fairly certain is my ancestor. They also had a son who didn't survive infancy. The reason why I think he died is because an Ann Trengo remarried at St Neot as a widow in 1802 and a Mary Ann Trengo married Thomas Matthews in 1817 at St Neot. They were the only 'Trengo' entries. I think they may have changed their name perhaps to distinguish themselves from the Trengove/Trengoffe family. There was a Trengove farm/manor at Warleggan and Illogan I think at the time. There is no record for the death of Sobratta in St Neot at all, which made me wonder whether perhaps he was buried in a town where he had come from or that they might have moved back to a town he had lived in....a lot of long shots and guesses at this stage but all I can do is hope to find another piece of the puzzle!! I really appreciate your help so much, you've been so kind to check that for me and it helps a lot to check a town of the huge list!! If you have any suggestions or advice I would really appreciate it, have a great day
Thanks again,
Tamara.
Hi Tamara,
Nice to hear back from you. I am going to post your message here in case anybody else is able to help. Hope you don't mind. You certainly have an interesting ancestor but I can see very hard to get any information on him. I do love that baptism entry. How exciting. (Looking again at the writing in the entry, there is deffinitely no b. With the letter I transcribed as p yesterday, I felt there was a downstroke but I now think that was because the top of the d in Indies curls underneath it making it appear to be more closed in and have a downstroke. I now think the letter is actually an n, so am going to change my mind and make the entry
Sonvratta which is not in your list of possible variants but another one to add and I will change my transcription accordingly)
One would think with the marriage, children's birth and wifes remarriage in St Neot any burial would have been there. As it was not perhaps worth checking the neighbouring parishes such as Warleggan, Cardinham and St Cleer. (Perhaps try Warleggan first as there was a Trengove Manor there) I am certain it was not in Luxulyan under any variant and am unable to help with these parishes.
If there was in fact a burial one thing in your favour is you only have a short time frame to search. Unfortunately there is no general indexing for this period so you will need to check each parish individually. Of course with Sobratta coming from such a different type background and with no idea of when or how he ended up in Cornwall there is the possibility he may have just vanished. (Even returned to his homeland and died there)
Good Luck. I hope you find it.........Kris
