Hi Denis, There are no Tregellas family members on this list of those who perished in the '06 Quake. http://www.sfmuseum.org/perished/who49.html  Were Sam and Thomas miners?  If so, that might give you a direction in which to look.  South of San Francisco was the big New Almaden Quicksilver Mine with a large Cornish population and that is in Santa Clara County, which has a big data base.  Another area popular with miners was Nevada County and its towns of Grass Valley and Nevada City, also having large Cornish populations. Good luck! Kitty, in California's Gold Country --- On Thu, 5/10/12, Denis Edwards <djedwds@bigpond.com> wrote: From: Denis Edwards <djedwds@bigpond.com> Subject: [CORNISH] TREGELLAS.. To: cornish@rootsweb.com Date: Thursday, May 10, 2012, 11:50 PM Hi All, I need some advise re Californian records etc looking for SAMUEL TREGELLAS b not known  and his wife SUSAN Tregellas b1838  [ nee Edwards ]  they married in Victoria Australia 1857 and went to America sometime after 1863. I think Sam and his son Thomas Henry Tregellas travelling FROM New York to Melbourne ,there is an entry for them comming into australia in 1873 from New York. I can find Susan as a widow in San francisco in the 1880's and her son Thomas uptil  1906, again in San Fran.  married to Imogene Stanley what i would love to locate is the death records of Sam, Susan and their son Thomas perhaps Thomas died in the big earth quake If anyone can point me in the correct direction I would be very greatful cheers denis edwards sydney NSW ------------------------------- Subscribe to digest by sending an email to CORNISH-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line and body text.  If you want, MIME digests, email CORNISH-admin@rootsweb.com. Unsubscribe from either by sending an email to CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

hi Kitty and listers, thanks for your reply Kitty i spent some hours looking at records from California, yesterday. more of the story of this couple emerged but i still can't find what happened to them. Samuel Tregellas certainly went to America[ PA] sometime about 1850 as he is in that years census aged 20 occupation- blacksmith.He then heads to Melbourne Victoria Australia in the 1850's but before 1857 as he marries my relative Susan Edwards in 1857 and his son Thomas Henry Tregellas is born same yr 1857. 2 more sons are born between 1860 and 1862 neither survive 7 september 1862 sees them arrive in North America Sam takes American Citizenship in 1867 1870 census California Samuel Tregellas with wife Susan Son Thomas and Daughter Nellie born 1870 aged 3 months living at Township 3 Contra Costa California - where is this place 1880 census Susan is in San Francisco but has disappeared by 1890 Thomas is a Liquor Dealer and barman and married to Imogene Stanley -Born in California they have a daughter Alma Tregellas ,he disappears before 1906 I wonder if the daughter was named after the almaden mine LOL She marries James Cokely [ who works for the dollar trading company out of the phillipines ]but no children so if anyone can help fill in some blanks etc i will be so greatful what records are available re CONTR COSTA and where was township three cheers denis edwards