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Note: Find A Grave Memorial# 26532417 ------ Gertrude Sherry's "Our Ancestors": About 1864 the production of both tin and copper from the mines was diminishing seriously, so William Henry with his older brother, John, and nephews William Henry and John Tregear (sons of their sister, Annie) left Cornwall for America in 1866. Upon arriving in Michigan, the men worked briefly in the Copper Country, but soon left there with four companions, William, James, & John Tribilcock and William Perry. The men walked about eighty miles to Ishpeming and found work in the iron mines. Soon after, William Henry sent for his family. ----- Willie's Story, by William John Tregemba, printed circa 1974 -- The Tregembo family owned 5 acres on Tregoning Hill, about 1 1/2 mi. from the seashore, near Germoe, Cornwall, England. This land most likely was handed down through many generations. No one knew how they got title to their small plot of land for none of their neighbors owned their homes. The Tregembas received word from former neighbors, who had gone to America, that it was truly a land of opportunity. There was freedom for everyone, better wages, and an unlimited supply of wild game to eat. With this information, they began their plans to go to America. John, his brother Willam and John and William H. Tregear immigrated in 1866, the rest of the family followed shortly. At first they worked in the copper mines near Lake Superior. In a few months they moved to Ishpeming, Michigan, and John worked the nearby iron mines for four years. His wife, Christiana, ran a boarding house there for four years. John always dreamed of owning a farm. The life of a farmer working in the wide open spaces above ground seemed to be the best kind of life for them. He read land promotions of free or cheap land in the midwest and of the glorious opportunities of farming. Word reached them that the Sante Fe railroad had been built to Carbondale, Kansas and there was plenty of work in the coal mines there. So they decided that that was the place to go. At the peak of coal production, there were fifteen hundred people in Carbondale. It was a wild town, boasting thirteen saloons. Most of the coal was strip mined with a team of horses until it got too deep. Then the miners put down a shaft or strip in the side of the hill to mine the remaining coal. A trainload of cal was hauled each day by Sante Fe railroad to Lawrence, KS. The Sante Fe Trail went through near by Overbrook, KS. John Henry was 9 to 10 years old at the time he remembered the most traffic. There were places to camp every few miles, where there was water and sometimes a rooming house. John and Christiana bought an eighty acre farm soon after reaching Carbondale. This is 2 miles S. and 5 miles W. of Carbondale. They lived on this farm the rest of their lives. He built a one room cabin on his farm of one foot wide boards with batten strips nailed over the cracks between the boards. When winter came, it brought one blizzard after another, they could hardly keep warm. The prairie land gradually became fields and fenced pastures. John planted several acres of orchard including apples, peaches, plums, cherries, pears, and twenty chestnut trees. He later added grapes, blackberries, raspberries, and gooseberries to his orchard. Wild game was free and food was plentiful if a person worked hard in their gardens. Grandpa's dream of owning a farm had come true. The land was fertile and he prospered. He built a house, barn, and outbuildings. ----- Overbrook Citizen, Feb. 27, 1908, pg. 3. Overbrook, Osage Co., KS John Tregemba. ---- John Tregemba was born in Cornwall county, England, November 29, 1830. He came to America in 1865. He lived in Michigan until 1870, when he came to Osage county, Kansas, and settled on the farm where, on Sunday, February 23, 1908, he died, aged 77 years, 2 months and 25 days. He was married January 2, 1858, to Christina Hosking. To them were born five children - one girl and four boys. The girl died in infancy. The four sons, James, J.H. and O. Tregemba of this vicinity, and T.E. Tregemba, of Kansas City, Mo., survive him. He was a true Christian, belonging to the Wesleyan Methodist church in England, joining the Methodist Episcopal church in Michigan. He helped to organize what is now the Overbrook M.E. Church. The funeral services were held at the M.E. Church on Tuesday, at two p.m., under charge of Rev. E.O. Raymond, and were attended by a large number of friends, who thus testified to the high esteem in which Mr. Tregemba was held in this community. ----- John Frederic Tregembo, obbyoss@btconnect.com: Tregembo in Cornwall is pronounced very much with an "o" at the end! There is a Tregembo Manor near St Hilary, Cornwall, is now a country hotel owned by a Mr. and Mrs. David Berkeley. The information given from them to me is: We think the name Tregemba is of "Cornish stock as Tre means home or farmstead and Gembo means where the 2 rivers meet, apparently. The house in its current form has been here since the early 1600's and we believe it has been called Tregembri and Tregember in that time, and there has been a settlement here since 1083 - sounds as if you should be coming to stay..........Regards David Berkeley" ----- Serena Moody Bradshaw: Tregembo in England had a line drawn through the "O" was pronounced like it ended in "A" so eventually the last letter was changed to an "A" to reduce the confusion. ----- 1875 Agriculture Census KS, Osage Co., Ridgeway Twp., Roll #15, pg.9 (150): 80 acres, not fenced; present cash value of farm is $275 and of farm machinery is $18. Was paid $60 wages during the year. Number of acres sown or planted in 1875: corn, 12, Irish potatoes, 1. ----- 1880 Agricultural census, KS, Osage Co., Ridgeway twp., pg. 16D, line 1 (all total for crops for 1879) John Tregamba; owner; 35 acres tilled, 2 acres permanent meadows or orchard; 43 acres of other improved including fields; value of farm land, fences and buildings -- $1200; value of farming implements and machinery-- $60; value of livestock -- $560; cost of building and repairing in 1879 -- $20; est. value of all farm productions in 1879 -- $200; 5 horses; 6 milch cows; 11 other cattle; 6 calves dropped in 1879; 275 lbs. butter made in 1879; 12 swine; 24 barnyard poultry; 350 eggs produced in 1879; 20 acres of Indian corn, crop of 800 bushels; 3 acres of rye, crop of 35 bushels; 1 acre molasses, crop 25 gallons; 2 acres potatoes, crop 115 bushels; 1 acre peach orchard, crop 70 bushels. ----- LDS: Cornwall, England Records; Germoe Church Records; Breage Church records. All on file in Family Hist. Center, 7001 E. 13th. St., Wichita, KS. Germoe, England, Rolls #235, 236, & 341 St. Germoe Church records, Germoe, England; Methodist Church Banns of marriage bet. Dec-13 - 27-1857; Jan. 2, 1858 marriage solemnied at the Parish of St. Germoe, Cornwall, England; John Tregembo, age 27, miner, of Tresowas; father's name: Thomas Tregembo, miner. Christiana Hosking, age 23, of Godolphin, married in the presence of James & Edward Hosking. ------ Joyce Harris, # = records checked: Christiana Hosking -- Bapt. 9th Mar 1834 d/o Edward & Christiana HOSKING, Poladras, Miner # On 2nd January 1858 at Germoe Parish Church, Christianna HOSKING (23), spinster of Germoe, married John TREGEMBO (27) bachelor and miner of Tresowas, son of Thos TREGEMBO, a miner. He signed, she made her mark. They were married in the presence of James and Edward HOSKING. ----- Virginia (Dawson)Tregemba: John's bible, the "Tregemba Family Bible", was handed down to his oldest son, John Henry, then Willie Tregemba, then to Willie's son Robert. ENTRIES FROM JOHN & CHRISTIANA TREGEMBO'S BIBLE, as written (copy is quite faded and some is hard to read): Births -- John Tregemba b. November 29, 1830 Christiana Tregemba b. February 16, 1835 Elizabeth Tregemba b. March 10th, 1859 John Henry Tregemba b. March 9th, 1861 Thomas Edward Tregemba b. August 12, 1869 James Hosking (or fancy old style "s" instead of "g") born April 18th, 1872Obadiah Tregemba on August 13th, 1873 ----- See photos Tregoning Hill_monument_near Germoe, Eng_1 and Tregoning Hill_monument_near Germoe, Eng_2 http://www.germoeparishcouncil.org.uk/ A profile of Germoe Germoe and Tregoning Hill have a history which dates back to the Bronze Age. On the top of Tregoning Hill are the remains of a Celtic stronghold, Castle Pencaire, dating from c.250 BC. In 1746 William Cookworthy discovered china clay on the hill, an event which marked the beginning of the great Cornish china clay industry. In the Napoleonic Wars, the Signal House was an important communications station. After the Great War the Parish Council erected the War Memorial on the summit of the hill: a memorial service in recognition of the sacrifice of those men from the Parish who gave their lives in the two World Wars is held here every year on Armistice Day . Christianity came to Germoe and the surrounding area in 460 AD with the arrival from Ireland of Saint Germochus. This event is now recognized both in the name of the village and in the dedication of the church (parts of which date from the twelfth century) to St. Germoe. In times gone by, probably even in prehistoric times, mining was a very important aspect of the local economy. The exploitation of minerals in the area was the source of the wealth of several important Cornish families who, in their day, influenced the history of England itself. The community from in and around Germoe was visited on several occasions by John Wesley, and a Methodist Church was established at Balwest in the mid-eighteenth century. It is believed that Wesley may have preached on more than one occasion in the pit on Tregoning Hill where an ecumenical service is held annually on Whit Sunday.
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