Kenegie - 2 [Lower gate]

Original lower gate, with early 20th century lodge, and a noticeably large K for the porch support.
Kenegie Owners and Occupiers listed above the picture from around 1400 to 1900.
Kenegie owners and Occupiers



Kenegie itself was originally the Seat of the Kenegie family.
Kenegie Manor eventually passed to the family of Tripcony.
[1] 1451 : In the 29th year of Henry VI : John Beauchamp married Honor Kenegie daughter of Oliver Kenegie of Kenegie;
The Manor and its family therefore date before 1400.
It later must have come into the hands of the Cranken and the Jenkyn family (see below).
[2] Tripcony of St Keverne [arms: argent, three rabbits passant sable].
[a] Nicholas Cranken alias Kenegie (married c1510 to Mary of Polsulsack);
their daughter and co-heiress was Alice Cranken of Kenegie;
she married c1535 John Tripcony of Gulval (he died 14th November 1580);
they had 10 children and the eldest son James [b1540] married Alice Cawsey;
their son John Tripconey of Gulval married Thomasine Barry. no issue.
[b] 3rd June 1546: A Lease of Kenegie from Jenkyn to Tripcony.
John Norden wrote of Kenegie in 1596 that it ‘is the house of Mr Tripwayes’.
[3] 1596: John Tripcony (last named above) must have experienced some alienation from his
St Keverne family for he writes in terms of his natural love for his family in St Keverne...
grants enfeoffments unto James Kessell of Manackan and John Clyes of Pensans the barton of Kenegie
and Restuyarke and Keruckywyn. He then sets out a series of conditional uses;
Sealed and Delivered to W Collyns of Tregrisey 9th March 1596.
[a] The nephew (also John) of Meneage under Deed of Gift 9th October 1596 makes Lease to Arthur Harris;
In the young John Tripcony possessing the barton, he then on 26th July 1598 Conveys the Mansion House in
mortgage from himself and Nicholas Halse of Breage to Arthur Harris.
[b] 1599: John Tripcony of Kenegie, made a Bond to Arthur Harris in £800 17th October .
[4] 1600 The writ of possession upon a recovery suffered on Kenegy lands by F Glanvyle and an extensive
Exemplification of that recovery suffered by John Tripcony of Kenegy land and the recovery to Arthur Harris of Kenegie.
[a] Arthur Harris was born c1559, son of William Harris of Hayne and Mary Grevill; he was Sherrif of Cornwall,
Captain of The Mount, married Margaret Davilles, he died 16th May 1628.
[b] Kenegie passed to John Harris, then to his son SirArthur Harris;
then [in 1651 by Deed of Gift ] to his nephew Christopher Harris (son of Arthur Harris b1620);
then to William Harris MP St Ives died 1709 age 57;
then to son Christopher Harris died 1767 no issue;
it then passed to brother of Christopher, John Harris “Hanover Jack” Master of The Household for George II and III, died without issue;
it then passed to nephew Christopher Harris b 25th March 1737, married Penelope Donnithorne, he died 1775 with no son and heir.
He Willed the house and barton to William Arundell (d1792).
[5] William Arundell m Jane Harris of Hayne and Kenegie d 1784, son of Francis Arundell of Trengwainton;
father of William Arundell d1792, had assumed name of Harris 17th February 1776,
upon the estate of Kenegie passing to him.
He was father of Rev William Arundell Harris, who gave great hospitality at Kenegie – he died age 38, 19th February 1798;
he had married Mary Beard.
[a] their son, also William Arundell Harris b 17 September 1794 enjoyed an extravagant life,
and changed his name back to drop the Harris 11th July 1822, and revoked his interest in Kenegie, reverting to live at Lifton, Devon.
[b] c1795 : George Rodney (eldest son of Admiral Sir George Bridges Rodney b1718) b 25th Dec 1753;
He lived at the house for the benefit of his health, however he died there 2nd January 1802.
[c] In 1813-1817 the house was occupied by (Sir) Rose Price.

Born 1768, after study, travel and a return to Jamaica, from whence his family owned estates.

Returning he married Elizabeth Lambart, and then lived at Trevaylor, then a house at Chun;

he took a liking to Tredavoe, where he commenced building his Seat.

The evidence of this can be seen in his Great Wall, or Price’s Folly,

constructed to offer shelter for the trees that he intended to have planted;

however, the site was insufficient for his plans, and sought elsewhere,

namely Mr Praed’s Trengwainton, where he purchased and then

had his mansion built with lodges, drives, gardens, duck and fish ponds, the carn planted and – an ice house.

He was made Baronet 27th December 1814.
[6] 1822 Kenegie became the property of Mr. Thomas Ellis, a farmer who had occupied and rented the house and property.
[a] John Carne (b1789), son of the banker William Carne, lived at Kenegie for a time,

before moving to Lower Lariggan and then The Abbey, off Chapel Street.

In 1821, he set off to visit The Holy Land and other parts of the East,

during which time he had been taken prisoner by Arabs,

who had nevertheless treated him with great respect and pandered to his penchant for cake and cream.

He wrote on various meaningful experiences, and was much liked in the community of Penzance and Gulval.
[7] 1863 : William Coulson b1801, was a surgeon apprenticed to W Berryman,

well educated, well travelled and well respected, very influential.

He purchased Kenegie in 1863. In his will of 1877 he had left £500 to the Public Dispensary of Penzance.
[8] 1866 : sold in November, 1866, to Thomas Simon Bolitho, Esq., of Penalverne, for the sum of £17,500.
[a] 1875-1885 Kenegie is occupied by the Molesworth family,

including Rev Sir Paul William Molesworth bart. of St Breock, 13th January 1821;

He gave the altar of granite and serpentine to St Mary RC church Penzance at the cost of £350 in 1869.



Raymond Forward