Hm thanks very much Julia. "King Charles" (Rashliegh) and "King Edward" (Coode) were moving towards the height of their powers at this time - Rashleigh was about to build Charlestown and needed money. Rashleigh and later Coode were agents for Tewington, which was the bulk of St Austell, on behalf of the Duchy, and Coode operated a fair bit of the land later on I'm still having trouble working out exactly how Coode went about accumulating all his property - particularly the mass buying of five manors in 1813 "from Arundell" - making him and his descendants one of the largest resident landowners; so if anyone has any information on this it would be greatly appreciated. JF ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Mosman" <jwmos99@msn.com> To: <cornish@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2013 9:06 PM Subject: [CORNISH] Edw. Coode, Chas Rashleigh,N Norway- Free holders of Tewington Manor > > Hello All - > I'm posting this as it may be of interest to some folks, and it can act as > a sample of what is contained in many Manorial Court Rolls. The writer > didn't add punctuation, so this is all one sentence! I've added the > "paragraph" markers, just because the Rootsweb servers will add them at > random places elsewise. > Currently, I'm adding Manorial records from Tewington to the St. Austell > website. They refer to fishermen and tinners, as well as gentlemen, so > they may prove of interest to everyone who has relatives in the > parish[es]. > The records came directly from the Cornwall Record Office archives; Ken > Ozanne, a historian from Australia, spent quite a bit of time filming them > this past year, so I could transcribe them and put them online. As far as > we know, these records haven't been published elsewhere. > There are also quite descriptive Manorial records for some of the other > manors in the parish, from quite a long time ago. (the early 1600's, and > 1591) complete with descriptions of the houses and "outbuildings". Even if > your family isn't singled out, they might have had similar homes. > Hope some of you visit the site, and have fun looking at the Manorial > records (which will be added to quite a bit over the coming months!) > Cheers, > > Julia M. > West Briton Transcriptions, 1836-1856 at > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad > St. Austell Area History and Genealogy at > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~staustell > ........................................... > The Manor of Tewington - 1 November 1794 CRO reference no. CF/3134 > . >