Trenerry Name Study
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Surnames/tags: Trenerry Trenery
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How to Participate
Please contact the Study's coordinator Mark Jose or post a comment at the foot of the page. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks!
Goals
This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about one surname and the variants of that name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.
Surname Variants Included
As you will probably know, there are several variations on the surname Trenerry - Trenery, Trenary, Trennery and others. Although the Study is aimed at the Trenerry and Trenery variants, all versions are welcome - they will almost certainly link up at some point!
Notable famous and infamous Trenerrys!
- Gladys Gordon Trenerry (1885-1938) ,Otherwise known as G G Pendarves, author of fictional stories with a somewhat creepy supernatural air to them! Tellers of Weird Tales G G Pendarves
- Horace Hurtle Trenerry, (5 DEC 1899-10 JAN 1958), artist
- Walter N Trenerry, author of "Murder In Minnesota"
Task List
- To set up individual pages for the known areas where we can find Trenerrys - notably England, the United States of America, South Africa and Australia
Please check this page for USA Trenerrys - which is just an idea to start us off https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Known_USA_Trenerrys
- Perhaps pages for the known separate familes? The Newlyn East/Perranzabuloe lot, the Bristol/Oz family and the Isles of Scilly/Penzance area family? Eventually hopefully we can tie these families together but for now, individual pages may be the way.
Resources
Hopefully this will become a useful addition to our research!
- St Newlyn East: A History of the Parish. A copy of this book is held by Mark and it gives a lot of information about the parish - including a few Trenerry mentions.
- Rose: The Story of a Village and its People. Another book in Mark's collection, covering quite a lot of the Perranzabuloe area, with again a number of Trenerry mentions.
- Parish Records Newlyn East and Perranzabuloe. Mark holds records for both parishes and these include many Trenerrys
- England (and Cornwall!) BMD records for the Trenerry and Trenery surnames. I have the records from 1838 (when these were first recorded) up to 1980. They are proving interesting - with a number of new Trenerry families appearing! These are not the full detailed records, just a quarterly report , although the newer ones do give a little more information. Useful for discovering approximate dates for further research for example. Note that I have now linked most of the Trenerry births in these records to their parents, so this makes things a little more useful. Drop me a message if you would like a copy or wish me to look something up.
- Neil's Trenerry Family Tree Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Trenerry-Family-Tree-235559799817910/
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You are most welcome to the study! I look forward to seeing your connection to the Trenerry/Trenery/Trenary etc etc tree! Mark
edited by Madison Trenary
I also have several matches all linking back to Elizabeth Sarah Penrose (1817-1890). So far I've been unable to prove a connection, although Penrose is a common middle name in this Trenary branch.
edited by J Thompson
Just to add more confusion into the mix, William - the father of John and Thomas Marden - married a Mary Trenery! Of course, this may be the wrong Trenerry group, but I am happy to add more details if it is correct
My preliminary (largely unverified) research seems to indicate that William had a sister and a brother both with the middle name of Penrose, and a granddaughter (child of Thomas Mardon Trenery) named Rebecca Penrose Trenery. So the name Penrose has some significance for them.
I have come to the conclusion that there were two separate Thomas Mardon Trenerys getting married in 1845/6. One is a chemist/surgeon and the other a mariner. Several trees seem to combine the two, but even though Thomas Mardon was evidently the black sheep of the family, it seemed unlikely that he would marry different women in successive years. As he subsequently emigrated, leaving his family in London behind and starting a new family in Wisconsin, I am wondering whether he had an illicit liaison with one of my female ancestors who was in London at the same period.
I'm very muddled about the marriages though. Is the marriage between William Trenery and Mary James for a different couple?
"Your" William was a quite well off gentleman - and noted as a "gentleman". There are some family trees online which suggest that William and Mary James were the parents of a mixed group of children - variously born in Redruth and also others in Newlyn East. This mix up with the William and Marys has caused a number of errors to creep in to the tree. I can see the marriage of Thomas Mardon Trenery, mariner, in 1846. I know this particular family already and they will not be your specific line. His father was James and ran a pub in Phillack. Unfortunately, I can't see the other Thomas Mardon Trenery in the OPC database or my own, but I suspect he will be the right one for you - he may have married elsewhere of course. Found him - he married in Kensington in 1845. That explains the London connection.
I found another little cluster of Trenerys in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire on the 1851 census. I suspect my brick wall Thompsons may have had links to that area, so that's another complication.
It's so tantalising to feel that this may be the key to a long-standing gap in my tree and not be able to work out the connection.
Thanks again.