William Trewartha Bray (1794 - 1868)

Born 1 Jun 1794 in Twelveheads, Cornwall, England

Ancestors

Husband of Joanna Bray — married 16 Jul 1821 in Kea, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 25 May 1868 at age 73 in Twelveheads, Cornwall, England

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Cornwall 1794

Biography

OPC List : Baptism : ^[1]
22-Aug Year 1794 | Parish Or Reg District Gwennap
Forename William Trewartha Surname Bray | Sex son
Father Forename Wm. | Mother Forename Ann
Transcriber Meg Amor

OPC List : Burial : ^[1]
29-May Year 1868 | Parish Or Reg District Baldhu
Forename William Surname Bray | Age 74
Residence Twelveheads
Transcriber Kay Woodhouse

Baldhu, Cornwall Genealogy. ^[2]

The church is now disused isolated from any settlement after the decline of it's previous mining community. In the churchyard is the grave of "Billy" Bray.
William Trewartha Bray (1 June 1794 – 25 May 1868) was a 19th century Cornish preacher born at Twelveheads, a village in the parish of Kea, near Truro, Cornwall.

His grandfather and father were pious Methodists, but his father died when his children were young. In early adulthood Billy Bray lived a drunken life; he was converted through reading John Bunyan's "Visions of Heaven; and Visions of Hell". He then became attached to a group of Methodists known as the Bible Christians and became a well known but unconventional preacher.

In 1821 he married Joanna, who was a lapsed Methodist, and
they eventually had seven children.

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OPC List : Parents Marriage : ^[1]
27-Jan Year 1794 | Parish Or Reg District Kea
Groom Fn William Groom Sn Bray
Bride Fn Ann Bride Sn Trewartha
Transcriber M.Topham

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} List : cornwall-opc-database [1]
2. ↑ familysearch.org [2]