10th March 2009
Tregoddick House
Tregodek/Tregoddick House, Madron
The family was Tregodek, of Tregodek; it is stated to be in South Petherwin (near Launceston).
In The Calendar of French Rolls Henry VI/48;
Protection was given to Thomas Tregodek of Tregodek who was in the retinue of the Duke of York in 1441.
The Visitation gives Tregodeck; other variants exist.
John Tregodeck, was father of John Tregodeck - who married a daughter of a Roscagan;
they were then parents of Thomas Tregodeck who married Jane Beare;
they were parents of Nicholas Tregadeck of Tregadeck -
he was living in 1573, but died before 1603.
He had married Grace Militon of Pengersick, she was the
widow of Nicholas Trefusis. She died in 1603; there were no children and the other males of the family died before 1620.
Lysons states that the Tregodick family were of Tregavethan Manor originally
and they then sold it on retaining the Barton for themselves for a while and it passed to the Laughernes in around 1620.
The whole estate was later demolished and farms and houses were built in their stead.
The name exists Tregodeck in The Clerks and Clergy of Cornwall and Devon 1307-1326; as well as in the State Papers Domestic 1598-1601.
Why an old and well connected family name became used for a house in Madron,
over 200 years later, is a mystery, since family and seat were extinct.
However, the house name (though not this house) existed around 1510, thanks to information kindly supplied by Penzancemaid.
In 1880-1882, the building is mentioned in birth registers as being occupied by Harold Marshall, Curate of Madron.
Raymond Forward
