Samuel Trevorrow
about 1866 to 1913aged 47
Tin miner, Botallack then Levant. Tributer
- Born
- about 1866, St Just in Penwith
- Died
- 3 March 1913, St Just in Penwith
Twenty two years underground, most of it at Levant, working on tribute, which meant he was paid a share of the value of the ore he broke rather than a wage, so a good pitch made him and a bad one ruined him. He coughed for the last six years of it. He died at forty six of miners phthisis, leaving Grace with four children still at home and the youngest two years old. The register gives only his baptism and the census returns of 1871, 1881 and 1891 disagree by two years, so his birth is a range and is recorded as one.
Accomplishments
- Took the best tribute pitch in the Levant count house books1901
At the 190-fathom level in 1901. On tribute a man was paid a share of the value of the ore he broke rather than a wage. He told the story for twelve years.
- Paid off the mortgage two years before he died1911
In 1911, with the money his brother had been sending home from the Rand since 1896.
