Arthur Samuel Trevorrow
1901 to 1963aged 62
Merchant seaman; from 1936, boat builder
- Born
- 4 April 1901, St Just in Penwith
- Died
- 19 August 1963, Fremantle, Western Australia
He went to sea out of Cardiff at seventeen and rounded Cape Horn as an apprentice in a sailing barque in 1919, at the very end of commercial sail. The last letter his mother had from him was posted in Valparaiso in 1927. Nothing came for twenty one years. On 14 March 1948 a letter arrived at 7 Cape Cornwall Street from Fremantle, Western Australia, saying he had a wife, a son and a boatyard, and asking after his mother, who had been dead nine months. He never came home and nobody in Cornwall ever found out what the twenty one years were about. There is no photograph of him after 1927 in the family's hands, and the absence is the record.
Accomplishments
- Rounded Cape Horn under sail in 19191919
As an apprentice in a sailing barque, one of the last cohort of British apprentices to do it at the very end of commercial sail.
- Built forty one working boats on the Swan River1936
He ran a boatyard at Fremantle from 1936.
- Wrote the 1948 letter1948
It took him twenty one years and it is the reason the Australian branch is on this tree at all. It arrived at 7 Cape Cornwall Street on 14 March 1948, nine months after the mother he asked after had died.
