Trevithick One Name Study
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Surnames/tags: Trevithick Cornwall
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About the Project
The Trevithick Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Trevithick name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Trevithick name.
As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Trevithick's), by time period (18th Century Trevithick's), or by topic (Trevithick DNA, Trevithick Occupations, Trevithick Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.
Also see the related surnames and surname variants.
How to Join
To join the Trevithick Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!
If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Mark Trevithick for assistance.
Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:
Research Pages
- For more than thirty years, I have endeavored to find the link to the famous Inventor Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) who was the inventor of the high pressure steam engine.
- My grand father John Henry Trevithick emigrated to the US in the late 1800's, but I have not been able to find his Departure Port from Cornwall, nor his Entry Port in North America. John Henry eventually immigrated to Colorado where my Grandfather, Richard Clinton Trevithick was born in Aspen in 1897. My Grandfather was reportedly the last one who knew of the connection to the Inventor Richard Trevithick. I have eliminated all direct paths, but have not discovered the indirect path as yet.
- Trevithicks migrated around the world when the Tin played out. They were world renowned for their hard rock mining skills, so they moved to far away countries such as South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, the United States, and Canada, and locals I am unaware of. I would love to connect with families who are descendant of the migrants.
- In addition to Trevithick, there is the similar Surname, Trevethick. Based on some research, it appears that they are distinct families. Some deviations however are the result of different transcribers spelling the Surname differently.
- My family lived in Colorado for more than 100 years, and all have departed. We are now scattered from Florida to Hawaii and states in between.
- Twenty plus years ago, Phillip Hosken was the editor of "Cornish World" magazine, and I had the privelage of meeting him in Denver when he spoke to the "Colorado Cornish Cousins" group. We communicated for years, but I have lost track of Phil, and after publishing several books on Cornwall and Trevithick, has disappeared. I would love to love to find Phil again if anyone knows his whereabouts.
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Related Surnames and Surname Variants
Trevithic, Trevethick, Trevetheck, Trevidick, Trevedick
- Sources are Family Search, GRO Records, Census Records, and records of families in direct email contact with me.
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Regards Steve Lane
A.L Rouse stated that "to change the pronunciation of a Cornish name was to bustardise the language". Cornish surnames have meanings, and Tre-VI'-thick certainly does though its definite meaning is somewhat ambiguous. Tre can be place of, clan of, or the name of an area or farm.
This came to roost in with my great grandfather, John Henry Trevithick. John Henry was the first of our family to emigrate to the US, and when his eldest son James changed the pronunciation to the Americanized TRE'-vi-thick, he was disowned and John Henry's gold pocket watch was passed to my grandfather, Richard Clinton Trevithick instead. The watch has come down to me through my father John Arthur (Art) Trevithick, to me, and I will pass it on to my son Caleb in the near future.