Samuel Nicholas Trevorrow
1917 to 1996aged 79
Sergeant, Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry, 1940 to 1946; miner, Empire Mine, 1949 to 1956; then building contractor, Nevada County
- Born
- 8 March 1917, St Just in Penwith
- Died
- 15 May 1996, Grass Valley, California
His father came home from the war a cripple and died when he was nine, and he was raised between his mother, his grandmother Grace and his aunt Loveday in a house on Cape Cornwall Street with no man in it. He joined the county regiment in 1940, served in North Africa and Italy, came back in 1946 and married a Curnow at Newlyn in the October. In March 1949 he took his wife and their first child to Grass Valley, where his uncle Thomas had already been for twenty eight years, and went into the Empire behind him. He lost the Empire in 1956 like every other man on that hill and spent the next twenty six years building houses in Nevada County. He is buried at Grass Valley. His wife and their three children are recorded but are out of scope as nodes for this demonstration.
Accomplishments
- Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry, North Africa and Italy1940
From 1940 to 1946, finishing as a sergeant. The Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry was the county regiment from 1881 to 1959 and recruited out of the Cornish mining and rural districts.
- Seven years underground at the Empire Mine, Grass Valley1949
From 1949 to 1956, the second man of his name to work it. He arrived twenty eight years after his uncle Thomas and lost the mine on the same day as everybody else.
- Built houses across Nevada County for twenty six years1957
From 1957 to 1982, about sixty of them.