Loveday Grace Trevorrow
1896 to 1971aged 75
Post office counter clerk, St Just, 1913 to 1954
- Born
- 3 February 1896, St Just in Penwith
- Died
- 11 November 1971, St Just in Penwith
She was engaged in 1915 to a St Just man who was killed on the Somme in 1916, and she never married. She stood behind the same post office counter for forty one years and she knew every household in the parish and what was in their telegrams, and she never once repeated it. She took in her widowed sister-in-law and her nephew in 1926 and raised the boy. In 1932, aged thirty six, she registered a daughter at St Just with the father's name left blank, and she never told anyone who he was, including the daughter. Asked once, in 1968, she said he was a good man and he is not yours to have.
Accomplishments
- Forty one years behind the same post office counter1913
St Just, 1913 to 1954. She knew every household in the parish and what was in their telegrams, and she never once repeated it.
- Ran the St Just parcel scheme for evacuated children1940
From 1940 to 1945, for the children billeted around the parish.
- Her saffron cake is in the chapel cookery book under her own name1938
The 1938 St Just Wesleyan chapel cookery book, which is the only thing with her name printed on it anywhere.
