Trewan Hall

He was the brother of Prior Vivian of Bodmin

Purchased Trenoweth manor from the Denzell family. He married Alice Tresaster.

Lived at Trenoweth at the time John Norden wrote his 'Survey of Cornwall'. He was married to Anne Lower. He was buried in the North isle of St Columb Church, where there is a mural tablet in memory of Thomas Vivian and Ann, for forty years his wife. He died 18 May 1616. She died 25 March 1635.[8]

Moved the family seat from the Trenworth manor house to the Trewan manor house. He firstly married Frances Buller, daughter of Francis Buller of Tregarrick in Pelynt. He married secondly Mary Cavell, the daughter of William Cavell of St Kew. They had 10 sons.

• John (below)
• Thomas Vivian of St Martin's in the Fields, Middlesex. He married Ann Povey dau of Justinian Povey, widow of William Blathwaite of Detham. Ancestor of the Vivian & Sons of Swansea and Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian[9]

He married three times; firstly Anne, daughter of Sir John Trelawny; she died 17 March 1638, and there is a memorial to her in St Columb's church. Next, he married Mary, daughter of Sir John Glanville of Kilsworthy in Devon; they had four children, Thomas, John, Francis, Anne and Jane.

Finally, he married Amy Speccott (1629–1686), widow of Anthony Nicholl (1611–1658), MP for Cornwall, 1654 to 1658, and Sheriff of Cornwall.

John served as Sheriff of Cornwall from 1667 to 1668,[10] and he was also a magistrate in Cornwall.[11]

He was the eldest son of the above married Frances Blaythwayte of Dyrham Park in the County of Gloucester. Her brother was William Blathwayt, Secretary of War to James II of England and William III of England. Frances died 1707 and her memorial is in St Columb church. He married secondly Sarah Dodson, but no issue. His heir was his brother John Vivian (below).

Son of John and Mary, above. Was a Barrister in Law, married Ann, daughter of Matthew Hals of Efford near Plymouth, by whom he no issue. He married secondly Mary, Daughter of Joseph Sawle of Penrice, by whom he had 3 children; John, Thomas and Mary. He was set upon and killed after 'speaking somewhat in favour of the tinners' outside the houses of Parliament.

Son of John above. A captain in the Army and third son of John Vivian (IV) above. He married Ann, daughter of Henry Myners, Gent and sole heiress to her mother Bridget, the only surviving daughter of Sir Samuel Coswarth, by whom she had only one daughter Mary. In 1689 he was member of parliament for Mitchell, Cornwall.[5]

An only-child, she inherited all her paternal Vivian estates and maternal Coswarth and Myners estates. She married her distant cousin, Sir Richard Vyvyan, 3rd Baronet and heir of the Vyvyan family's Trelowarren Estate, bringing the Vyvyan spelling to the Trewan Hall line. Mary and Richard were imprisoned in the Tower of London for some time for supporting James Francis Edward, Prince of Wales' claim to the throne, participating in the unsuccessful Jacobite uprising in Cornwall of 1715. While there, Mary gave birth to daughter Anne.[12]

They had 6 sons.

• Francis, succeeded his father as 4th Baronet and inherited the Trelowarren Estate
• Richard Vyvyan was born 1701 and married Philippa Piper. They are the progenitors of the Vyvyans of Withiel, many of whom became rectors there.
• Charles
• Thomas (inherited the Trewan Hall Estate, see below)
• John
• James

Also 4 daughters;

• Loveday
• Bridget
• Anne (born in the Tower of London)
• Frances

4th son of Sir Richard Vyvyan and Mary Vivian, inherited Trewan. Married Loveday, daughter of Nicholas Bogan. They had three sons

• Thomas (below)
• Nicholas
• Robert

and three daughters

• Loveday
• Prudence
• Bridget

Was Sheriff of Cornwall in 1779. Lived at Trewan. he married a daughter of Peters, but no issue,. Left estate to nephew, Richard Vivian

Nephew of Thomas above. He married Anne Downe, daughter of John Downe of Borough house. He was Vicar Lamerton.

He married Jane Ballard. He was Lieutenant-Colonel. Married 2nd Margaret Anne, daughter of Hugh Edwards, He was Justice of the Peace (J.P.). He was Deputy Lieutenant. He lived at Trewan.

Born on 3 December 1832, the son of Richard Vyvyan and Jane Ballard. He died at Little St James Street, St James's Square, London, on 20 October 1881 without issue.[13] He was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant and his residence, Trewan, was left to his cousin the Rev. Sir Vyell Donnithorne Vyvyan of Trelowarren, 9th Baronet, along with adjacent farms and lands of about 1,800 acres (730 ha).[14]

Son of Rev Vyell Francis Vyvyan. Born 1826 and lived at Trewan. Matriculated from St John's College, Cambridge, 1845. He was Curate of Churchstoke, Montgomeryshire, 1854–1855.[15] Rector of Winterborne Monkton, Dorset, 1855–1866. Vicar of Broad Hinton, Wilts, 1866–1877, and Withiel, Cornwall, 1877–1879.[16] He married Louisa Bourchier of Brook Lodge, Dorset. On his death in 1917 his second son Richard, who was a major in the army, inherited Trewan.

Richard Walter Comyn Vyvyan was born on 16 September 1859, at Monkton in Dorset. He was married Mary Foster, daughter of Edward Foster of Dowsby, Lincolnshire. He died on 10 September 1931 at age 71 and was buried at St Columb church. He was Justice of the Peace in Cornwall. He was Lt-Col In the Welch Regiment. Children of Richard Walter Comyn Vyvyan and Mary Foster were as follows:

• Walter Drummond Vyvyan b. 20 Mar 1887. He was killed in World War I.[17]
• Muriel Alice Vyvyan b. 1890, d. 1891
• Sir Richard Philip Vyvyan, 11th Bart. b. 21 Nov 1891, d. 15 May 1978

In 1920 Major Richard Vyvyan sold Trewan to a Mr. Hawkey and this was the end of its connection with the Vyvyan family of nearly three hundred years.