Scown Family
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Scown Family
| Daphne Richards (Bethune) (View posts) | Posted: 11 May 1999 5:08AM GMT |
THE SCAWEN FAMILY HISTORY
There has been talk that the Family name of Scown was changed by Deed Poll from LeScown. and SCAWEN. I have heard that the name may well have been Scown De Melenick, and may be of Welsh origins. But this only serves to make an already muddy pool much cloudier. Lets all try to get more information on our family trees. That way we can hopefully trace the missing link.
Melenick was anciently the dwelling of the SCAWEN family. Edward 1, was carried by a heiress in marriage to one of the Scawens. William SCAWEN Esq., of this place was an M.P. for St Germans. He was well versed in antiquarian matters and left some MSS., Only a fragment remains, an imperfect dissertation on Cornish names. After the restoration he was appointed Vice Warden of the Stanneries by Charles 11. He died in 1689, and was succeeded by Sir William SCAWEN knight who was M.P. for Truro. William 111 in his 13th year 1701 having sat for the borough of Grampound in two proceeding parliaments. William SCAWEN the last of the family who resided in Mernick, died there about the year of 1712. He settled by deed on the church of St. Germans, a dwelling for the incuberant. Thomas SCAWEN Esq. heir of the last SCAWEN resided chiefly in the country of North Hampton, and by his marriage with the sole heiress of Lord James Russell, had issue James SCAWEN Esq. (he died in 1801) without issue, and a daughter Tryphena who married June 14 1759 to Henry, the second Earl of Bathurst. His second wife and by him was mother of Henry, the third Earl, another son, and four daughters. A branch of this family was for sometime at Trehane, in Probus, one of the Scawens having married on of these co heiresses of John de Trehane, who died about the middle of the 17th century.
We are always interested in any members of the SCAWEN, Scown familie contacting us with information or in regard to any help we can offer in tracing their ancestory. We are all trying to find our heritage together.
There has been talk that the Family name of Scown was changed by Deed Poll from LeScown. and SCAWEN. I have heard that the name may well have been Scown De Melenick, and may be of Welsh origins. But this only serves to make an already muddy pool much cloudier. Lets all try to get more information on our family trees. That way we can hopefully trace the missing link.
Melenick was anciently the dwelling of the SCAWEN family. Edward 1, was carried by a heiress in marriage to one of the Scawens. William SCAWEN Esq., of this place was an M.P. for St Germans. He was well versed in antiquarian matters and left some MSS., Only a fragment remains, an imperfect dissertation on Cornish names. After the restoration he was appointed Vice Warden of the Stanneries by Charles 11. He died in 1689, and was succeeded by Sir William SCAWEN knight who was M.P. for Truro. William 111 in his 13th year 1701 having sat for the borough of Grampound in two proceeding parliaments. William SCAWEN the last of the family who resided in Mernick, died there about the year of 1712. He settled by deed on the church of St. Germans, a dwelling for the incuberant. Thomas SCAWEN Esq. heir of the last SCAWEN resided chiefly in the country of North Hampton, and by his marriage with the sole heiress of Lord James Russell, had issue James SCAWEN Esq. (he died in 1801) without issue, and a daughter Tryphena who married June 14 1759 to Henry, the second Earl of Bathurst. His second wife and by him was mother of Henry, the third Earl, another son, and four daughters. A branch of this family was for sometime at Trehane, in Probus, one of the Scawens having married on of these co heiresses of John de Trehane, who died about the middle of the 17th century.
We are always interested in any members of the SCAWEN, Scown familie contacting us with information or in regard to any help we can offer in tracing their ancestory. We are all trying to find our heritage together.