[Illustration] The name sufficiently implies that this is a Cornish
family, traced to Nicholas de Trevelyan living in the reign of
Edward I., whose ancestors were of Trevelyan, in the parish of St.
Vehap, near Fowey, at a still earlier period. Nettlecomb was
inherited from the heiress of Whalesborough towards the end of the
fifteenth century. The Trevelyans suffered for their loyalty during
the Usurpation, and were rewarded by the baronetcy on the
Restoration. The estate of Wallington, in the county of
Northumberland, came from the heiress of Calverley of Calverley in
the last century.
Younger Branch, Trevelyan of Nether-Witton in the county of
Northumberland.
See Westcote's Devonshire Pedigrees, p. 558; Collinson's
Somersetshire, iii. p. 539; Gilbert's Cornwall, i. 564; Hodgson's
History of Northumberland, vol. i. pt. 2. p. 262; and Wotton's
Baronetage, iii. p. 353.
ARMS.--_Gules, a land-horse argent, armed or, coming out of the sea
party per fess wavy azure and of the second_. This coat is
traditionally derived from one of the family swimming on horseback
from the rocks called Seven Stones to the Land's End, at the time of
an inundation. The more ancient arms are said to have been _a lion
rampant holding a baton_.
Present Representative, Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, 6th
Baronet.