A private archive

The Trevorrow family

Seven generations, from the tin mines of St Just in Penwith to the gold mines of Grass Valley, California. Forty one people, a hundred and one things they did, and the photographs that survive.

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The Trevorrow family
St Just in Penwith, and Grass Valley

Parents

Samuel. Carte de visite of a bearded man identified as Charles Kelly, studio of William Shew, San Francisco, California, 1860s.
Samuel Trevorrowabout 1866 to 1913
Grace. Studio portrait of a woman identified only as Mrs Wyly, photographer James Beck, Powerhouse Museum collection.
Grace Trevorrow1871 to 1949

Elsie May Trevorrow

1903 to 1918aged 15

Pupil teacher, St Just board school

Born
17 June 1903, St Just in Penwith
Died
29 October 1918, St Just in Penwith

She was fifteen and she was going to be a teacher. She died in the second wave of the 1918 influenza, in the last fortnight of the war, in a house where everyone else got it and everyone else lived. Her mother kept her school slate on the dresser until 1949.

Accomplishments

  • Won the Penwith Sunday School scripture prize1917

    In 1917, aged fourteen.

  • Taken on as a pupil teacher at thirteenabout 1917

    Which almost never happened to a lodging-house keeper daughter. She had fifteen months of it.

Brothers and sisters

Nicholas John. Curtis Stiner, a mountain farmer of East Tennessee, smiling in hat and glasses; part of a 1933 federal survey of families in the Norris Basin ahead of the Tennessee Valley Authority dam project, captioned with his own words that he wanted to stay on his land.
Nicholas John Trevorrow1893 to 1926
Loveday Grace. Mrs. Hilbert Bargo, a coal miner's wife, at the stove of the three-room rented house she and her husband shared; 1946 federal survey of coal miners' housing conditions.
Loveday Grace Trevorrow1896 to 1971
Thomas Vingoe. Construction worker in cap and work shirt, smiling, on the Westmoreland subsistence homestead project, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, July 1935; photographed by Walker Evans for the Resettlement Administration.
Thomas Vingoe Trevorrow1898 to 1969
Arthur Samuel. Photograph by Lewis Hine of a teenage glassworks laborer waiting for the night shift outside the factory, Indiana, August 1908, U.S. National Archives.
Arthur Samuel Trevorrow1901 to 1963
Samuel Trevorrow1907 to 1908
Hedley Vingoe. Coal miner in cap lamp holding a pipe, dinner pail slung at his side, P V & K Coal Company, Clover Mine, Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky; from the 1946 federal survey of coal miners' housing conditions made when the U.S. government operated the mines.
Hedley Vingoe Trevorrow1910 to 1984

An invented family, built to show how this works. The photographs are real public domain archival portraits of real people who are not these people, and each one credits its archive. Freely licensed portrait photography effectively stops around 1946, which is why the earliest generations are rich and the recent ones are empty mounts. On your own archive, those are where your photographs go. What is real and what is not.