Grace Trevorrow
born Vingoe
1871 to 1949aged 78
Bal maiden to sixteen; then miners lodging-house keeper
- Born
- 12 September 1871, Pendeen
- Died
- 2 February 1949, 7 Cape Cornwall Street, St Just
She was five months pregnant with her first child when her father came up out of Wheal Owles and her mother did not know for four hours whether he was alive. She had seven children and buried three of them. She ran a lodging house for single miners at 7 Cape Cornwall Street for thirty one years, which is how the family kept the roof after her husband died at forty six. Everyone below the second generation on this tree, in Cornwall, in California and in Western Australia, descends from her.
Accomplishments
- Ran 7 Cape Cornwall Street as a miners lodging house for thirty one years1913
From 1913 to 1944. She started it in the year her husband died, with four children still at home.
- Served on the St Just relief committee after the Levant disaster1919
From 1919 to 1922, in the three years after thirty one men were killed on the man-engine.
- Raised her orphaned grandson in her own house1926
From 1926, when his father died of the chest he brought back from France. She lived to see him sail for California.
