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THE TONKIN FAMILY

John Tonkyn married Dyana Gye (Guise) on 21 JUL 1617 in St Minver
(In 1641 John Tonkyn Snr signed the Protestation Return in St Agnes)
(John died on 6 JAN 1642)

I have identified four children

Name	Date and place of Christening	Any other information
Thomas Tonkin	Around 1618	Married Elyne Bawden in 1638
John Tonkin	Around 1620	John Tonkyn jnr signed the Protestation Return in St Agnes)
Humphry Tonkin	Around 1625	Married Mary Stuckey on 4 SEP 1650 in St Agnes On the 1664 Hearth Tax Return, a Mary Tonkyn wid was recorded as having 4, now Thos Tonkyn
Jane Tonkin	Around 1629	None

Thomas Tonkin married Elyne Bawden on 16 APR 1638 in St Agnes
(Thomas supported the Royalist cause during the Civil War and was imprisoned in Pendennis Castle in 1646 until he paid a fine of 200 marks. On the restoration he was made a Commissioner of the Peace and made Vice Admiral of the North)
(In the 1664 Hearth Tax Return Thomas was recorded as having 9)
(Thomas died on 6 JUL 1672)
(Elyne died in 1687)

I have identified eight children

Name	Date and place of Christening	Any other information
Elizabeth Tonkin	Around 1638	Married Hugh Leye
John Tonkin	Around 1642	Died in 1663
Thomas Tonkin	Around 1648	Died in 1654
Hugh Tonkin	Around 1651	Studied at Exeter College in Oxford. Was a Justice of the Peace, Sheriff of Cornwall and Vice Warden of the Stannaries Married Frances Vincent in 1673
James Tonkin	14 JAN 1654 in St Agnes [Source = IGI]	Died in 1658
Juliana Tonkin	Around 1655	Married John Jago
Diana Tonkin	2 AUG 1657 in St Agnes [Source = IGI]	Married Robert Wilton
Jane Tonkin	28 NOV 1658 in St Agnes [Source = IGI]	Married William Cornish

Trevauance House

Hugh Tonkin Esq married Frances Vincent on 3 JUN 1673 in Mevagissey
(Hugh built the front of Trevauance House which his son Thomas claims if it were finished according to the design would equal any of the second rank in the county.
Thomas states that many of his father's undertakings involved the family in large debts which he attributes to the misfortune of his second marriage)
(Frances the wife of Hugh Tonkin Esq was buried on 13 FEB 1690 in St Agnes)
Hugh Tonken Esqr married Anne Upcot on 25 JAN 1691 in St Clement
(Hugh Tonkin Esq was buried on 9 JUN 1711 in St Agnes)
(A Mrs Anne Tonken, widow, was buried on 10 DEC 1714 in St Marys, Truro)

I have identified six children

Name	Date and place of Christening	Any other information
Thomas Tonkin	26 SEP 1678 in St Agnes [Source = IGI]	Attended Queen's College in Oxford. Was a Commissioner of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant in the reign of Queen Anne and represented the Borough of Helston in her last Parliament Married Elizabeth Kemp on 29 JUN 1699 in St Gluvias Inherited the Estate of Trevauance on the death of his father in 1711
Jane Tonkin	3 FEB 1680 in St Agnes [Source = IGI]	None
Hugh Tonkin	7 NOV 1687 in St Agnes [Source = IGI]	Died in 1706
WalterTonkyn	20 JAN 1682 in St Mary, Truro [Source = opc database]	None
Frances Tonkin	11 JAN 1684 in St Agnes [Source = IGI]	Died in 1720
John Tonkin	23 APR 1689 St Agnes [Source = IGI]	Married Elizabeth Harris in 1716

Mr Thomas Tonkin married Elizabeth Kemp on 29 JUN 1699 in St Gluvias
(Elizabeth was buried on 26 JUN 1739 in Gorran)
(Thomas Tonkyn Esq was buried on 4 JAN 1741 in Gorran)

On his father’s death in 1711, Thomas inherited estates that had been mortgaged to Samuel Enys. An attempt was made to foreclose on him in 1713. Thomas took an active part in the politics of the County and in the Convocation of Tinners. He also advocated that copper should be smelted in Cornwall, and brought under Stannary Laws. Thomas stood for parliament for the Borough of Helston at the by-election of April 1714, and defeated Samuel Enys. On 30th April Enys petitioned against the return, alleging that Tonkin was without qualification when elected; Trevaunance having passed out of his possession. Enys also complained that Tonkin, since his election had insisted upon parliamentary privilege. Thomas was classified as a Tory, but had no real parliamentary record in the one year he served as Helston’s MP; however he was a voice deploring the demise of Cornish parliaments under George 1. Thomas got himself deeper into debt by continuing with the harbour and quay, and was financially ruined by law suits brought against him by Enys, ‘carried on by him with the greatest cruelty and oppression both to myself and tenants’. He also asserted that in 1718 Enys, ‘like a dog in a manger not being able to procure a new lease of which he strenuously endeavoured, forced me to suffer my cousin Vincents to take it over my head so that I am forced to trust to their courtesy of it.’ At the conclusion of the Chancery Case, 1719, the debt to Enys was Ł9104. 12s. 6d, and on 28th December Enys took possession of Trevaunance. From 1720 Thomas lived at Trelevan, Mevagissey until the death of his cousin Nicholas Vincent (MP for Fowey) in 1726. He moved to Polgorran in the parish of Gorran, a small estate he held by right of his wife. His wife, Elizabeth, died on 24th June 1739. Thomas daughter Elizabeth looked after him; she had come to live nearby upon the death of her husband James.

I have identified eight children

Name	Date and place of Christening	Any other information
Frances Tonkin	7 JUL 1700 in Perranzabuloe [Source = opc database]	Married Charles Foss on 10 NOV 1726 in Mevagissey
Hugh Tonkin	10 AUG 1701 in Perranzabuloe [Source = opc database]	Died of Consumption on 23 APR 1717
Joanna Tonkin	Around 1703	Died in 1749
Elizabeth Tonkin	Around 1704	Married the Revd James Doucett on 31 MAY 1734 in Gorran
James Tonkin	21 DEC 1706 in Perranzabuloe [Source = opc database]	Married Eliz, Lewis on 7 DEC 1725 in Fleet, London
Mary Tonkin	2 MAY 1708 in Perranzabuloe [Source = opc database]	None
Thomas Tonkin	15 JAN 1709 in Perranzabuloe [Source = opc database]	Thomas Tonkyn Esq was buried on 8 NOV 1745 in St Agnes
Walter Tonkin	25 DEC 1711 in Perranzabuloe [Source = opc database]	Died from small pox in 1714