There cannot be a doubt as to Mr. Tonkin’s being the real etymology of
this name.
Mr. Lysons says, the greater part of the manor of Downeckney,
anciently Donnegny, which formerly belonged to the Dinhams and
Cardinhams, by descent from Richard, Steward of the household to
William the Conqueror at the time of the Domesday Survey, is now
vested in fee in William Braddon, esq. of Treglith in this parish, who
is lessee of the remainder; that remainder belonging in equal shares
to the Trefusis family from the Rolles and Walpoles; and to the
representatives of the Gilberts of Tacbear through Cotton and Amy. Mr.
Braddon inherited this property from his father-in-law John Spettigue,
esq. who had purchased it from the family of Symons, who resided at
Treglith.
The church of Treneglos was given by the above-named Richard, so early
as the time of the Conqueror, to the priory of Tywardreth. The great
tithes, with the exception of some endowed on the vicarage, belong to
the Eliot family of St. German’s.
The vicarage is in the gift of the Crown.
Treneglos measures 2362 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 1363 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 129 7 0
Population,――{ in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 196 | 200 | 238 | 183
It is clear from the above figures, that there must have been some
mistake, since such fluctuations never take place in parishes entirely
agricultural.
The present Vicar of Treneglos, with Warbstow, is the Rev. J. H.
Mason, presented in 1804 by the Prince of Wales.