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The picture is of Nanjizal Cove, Trevilley which is to the south of the Lands End at Sennen, Cornwall, in the U.K.
Originally a black and white print I have digitally enhanced it using Corel Photo paint.
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Welcome to the Vingoe Family web site for 2009. Since the site first went on line in March 2001, we have made contact with many other people with connections to the family and we feel that it is time that we all got together so we are planning a reunion here in Cornwall in September 2010. If you find you are related to the family and would like to join in then please make contact by clicking at the top of the page. We have spent some time redesigning the site based on comments made by people in the past and moved it to this ads free website rather than the 5 different site we had before. To all those researchers who have sent us information we say a big thank you and if you have stories, poems pictures indeed anything about the ancestors that you would like to share then please send them to us and we will endeavor to find a place for them on the site. Many situations have brought a lump to the throat as we have read the faint written words on some old tattered document. A little comprehension of their struggle to survive is passed down to us; sitting in comfort before a blazing fire and living in more secure times. You can almost feel their presence willing you to discover more so that their story can be told, even though they had been denied the opportunity to contribute to the writing of their own history. In tracing Sandra's family tree we have collected a lot of information on Sennen and other parishes. But this site is about the people who lived and worked in these parishes, which in the case of Sennen includes the Lands End. The families tended to be multi-skilled: farmer fishermen, with a touch of mining thrown in. If you had visited the far west of Cornwall in the 1600's you would have found sheep and goats by the thousands grazing the land. However, one thing is certain it was a hard life and the frequent harvest failures on land or sea meant that smuggling and free trading was also part of their trade. The family were closely connected by marriage and social connections to those we have found in the lists of both free trader and privateer and in the opposite occupations of Revenue Officer and Coast Guard. They sailed very close to the wind indeed. Many have blank records where they disappear from the scene for years. Many of them paid the ultimate penalty and with others their death go unrecorded. Mystery abounds! In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries many sort new lives across the seas and some of their history is recorded here. There have been heroes amongst the family members including a winner of the Victoria Cross and Military Medal, a George Cross winner and two Lifeboat Coxswains, there are those who paid the supreme sacrifice in time of war and others who lost their lives in shipwrecks. All this and more you will find within these pages so please browse the site and we hope you enjoy your visit. Please keep coming back as we will be updating the site all the time. You will find other Web Sites with a Cornish or Genealogy interest on the Links Page and we will endeavor to provide a number of resources here to help those of you who are doing research connected with Cornwall whilst at the same time hoping that you will share your knowledge with others through the site. We also welcome constructive comment and suggestions on how we can improve its content. We would welcome any info on the remaining relatives that you may know of.......... We try to collect the female lines as well as in the early days their offspring often married back into the various lines. Cousins in reality as well as Law were often joined in complicated patterns of kinship. So if you find a connection and want further information then please get in touch as we cannot put all the information we hold on to the web. Below are just some of the Vingoe lines which we have researched. We will be adding more in the future so if you cannot find your particular line then contact us giving as much information as possible and we will try to answer your query. Also if you have information you wish to add or have any corrections to the data on the site then let us know. It is important that all data on this site is checked with the original source that we quote. We are only human and mistakes can be made even though we do our best not to make them. George & Sandra Pritchard (nee Vingoe).
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Descendants
of Jenkin
VINGOE 
Descendants of
John
VINGOE 
Descendants
of William
VINGOE
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Quaker Branch
West Penwith Dwelling 1660 Surnames associated with the Jenkyn VINGOE Line BULLEY - BRADRIDGE - BUTLAND - BEARE - BALDACHINO - CARLYON - COLE - CLARKE - CADWELL - CROSSLAND - DAVEY - Dennis - EVANS - FORD - GREBY HUMPHREYS - HOPKINS - HURT - HARVEY - HODGE - Hayhurst - JAGO - LUKE LADD - MITCHELL - NINNES - PITT - PERKIN - Reed - REMPHREY - Rogers - STEPHENS - THOMAS - WIDDICOMB The Tree of Jenkin VINGOE b. 1640 & Mary Reed
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Line of John & Joan VINGOE
of
Sennen, Cornwall
The Common Ancestors of all Lines found so far.
I give the lines down from John & Joan Vingoe's sons, John and William VINGOE, who were known to have produced children. In John's will of 1656 their 5 sons are mentioned; William, John, Jenkyn, Martin & Peter. In his Will John VINGOE decided that his property would go to their eldest son, William VINGOE on the death of his widow, Joan. In a will dated 1662 Edmund Nicholas names his daughter his three married daughters; as Joan Vingoe, Jane Bottrell and Charity Harry.
In the will of Joan Vingoe, widow, in 1685, only 4 grandchildren are referred to by name.. Her grandson WILLIAM VINGOE JNR., who stood to inherit under his own father's will, did not receive any bequest from Joan and was therefore allowed to sign her Will as a witness. He also appears to have written the name of Joan Vingoe against her mark.
The Will of Joan Vingoe dated 1684/5
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The last Will and Testament of Jono Vingo Widow of John Vingo. Proved at Sennen 20th July 1685. Will dated 28th February 1684,5. In the name of god amen: Acording to the compullation of the Church of England I Jone: Vingo of the parish of Sennen widow in the County of Cornwall being all this time sick in body but of sound perfect memory praise be given to you our maker this my last will and testtomen in manor and form followorth. I do give and bequeath my soule unto almighty god my maker and my body to a christian burial. I give and bequeath unto Petter Vingo my son my little pan and my little croake (crock)and my old cupboard. I give and bequeath unto my son Jenkin Vingo my best board (table) and my cupboard. I give and bequeath unto my son Jenkin Vingo one cow called by the name of "Bloganian". I give and bequeath unto my son Petter Vingo one heiffer of two years. I give and bequeath unto my grandchildren two pounds cash money and to my grandson John Vingo the son of John Vingo one silver spoon. I give and bequeath unto Henery my grandson the son of William Vingo one ewe. I give and bequeath onto Richard Bottrell the older one ewe. I give and bequeath unto Gzard Harry six pence. I give and bequeath unto Polly Hicks the daughter of Isreal Hicks of the Island of Scilly two shillings and six pence. I give and bequeath unto the parish of Ludgvan two pounds to the poor. I give unto the poor of Sennen parish two pounds. I give unto my sister Jane Bottrell six pounds. I give unto Richard Bottrell the older six pounds. I give unto Jane the daughter of John Vingo my son my best chest. All the rest of my goods movable and unmovable do I bequeath and give to William Vingo and John Vingo my sons whom I do make and appoint my true and lawful executors for to see that all this my Will may be fulfilled wittness my hand and seale the day and year find above written
Jono X Vingo (seal) The sign of John Williams The sign of Elizabeth Nicholas Ref. DSB 441/1 Cornwall County Records Office.
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William's other son, HENRY VINGOE is left a small bequest, as are JOHN VINGOE and JANE VINGOE, children of her other son John VINGOE. There are other grandchildren mentioned but they are not named. It does not help that records for Sennen only start in 1695.
Joan's grandson William and his wife Agnes had only one son, William VINGOE c 1693. This was probably the William who married c1721 to a Ann ?, who bore him children named John, Elizabeth, Ann & Joan [1722-1730] He may also have been the William who in 1730 in Sennen married Mary Daniel of Sancreed. If so Mary bore him further children named William, Henry & Richard [1730-36.] The birth dates would appear to be contiguous, with no repetitions in their Christian names. Also the various land holdings of the children would appear to confirm this is the same William.
WILLIAM VINGOE [c1693] holds land around Trevilley, Trevescan & Churchtown in Sennen. There is no record of his death or burial , nor that of his two sons William and Henry by his second wife Mary. Eldest son John [c1722] by first wife Ann , inherits land in Trevescan in Sennen. His youngest son Richard [c1736] by wife Mary, inherits Trevilley and property in Sennen Churchtown. According to old deeds in the possession of descendants of this Lands End line, this consisted of a parcel of land on which stood the First and Last Inn as well as various stables and barns. Next door to these Richard built the Dower House for his widowed mother, Mary.
The Dower house, Sennen Church Town.
A Hutchens family will dated & proved in 1747 shows that a 'William Vingoe of Trevilley' was still alive then. He is mentioned as a beneficiary and as partner in the fishing boats and seines etc Perhaps William and his two elder sons perished at sea around 1747/48, leaving Richard as sole heir. He married Mary Penberthy in 1763 so must have built the Dower House for his mother's occupation around that date.
Richard's wife bore him two sons and two daughters between 1764 & 1773 but died herself by 1777. I can only find evidence that their eldest son, William VINGOE [c1767], married Mary HUTCHENS in 1797 and had two daughters, Mary & Margaret, before he himself died of consumption at Trevilley in 1800 . Richard's youngest son, Richard VINGOE [c1773], appears never to have married and is not mentioned in his father's will of 1817. There is a burial in Sennen of a Richard Vingoe in 1781 which might be him. Father Richard married again in 1780 to a Mary Williams of St Buryan. She was only 30 years old when they married but she bore him no children. She was buried in her home parish of St Buryan in 1815. Her husband Richard was buried in Sennen in 1817.
There are a number of illegitimate children with the first names of Richard Vingoe baptized to various girls in and around Sennen over the years. One was to a Jane Tregear in 1789 and the paternity was surely Richard Vingoe the elder. Jane married another branch of the Vingoe line some nine years later. There is also another Richard VINGOE c 1807 who was settled in Scilly by 1841 census. I can find no Bastardy Bonds in Sennen Parish so Richard must have supported any children willingly.
At the time of writing this I have just discovered that Richard VINGOE, [1736] on his death in 1817 left a will naming his granddaughter, Mary VINGOE [1798], as sole heir to all his lands and possessions: her sister Margaret [1800] had died age 13. As Mary was still a minor with no father I presume some male relative acted as guardian until she reached majority. She married Henry Hodge TRUDGEN in 1826 at Sennen.
For the record, I have split the various branches into the separate trees after the grandchildren appear on John and Joan Vingoe's Tree.
Generation Colour Code
........1 2 3 .........4 ........5 ........6 .........7. ..........8 .........9 ........10 .........11 .........12
.........13
Marriage + 2]
To go back through the generations on a tree, click on the coloured bar next to the name and you will be taken back to the father of that person and so on.
.................(see notes as to estimated birth/death dates)
.. ...........+ Joan NICHOLLS. c 1625 - d: 1685 Sennen. [poss. 2nd or 3rd wife?]
......................see Will written February 28,1683/84).
2 Martin VINGOE . c1656 - c1685?
..................mentioned only in the Will of his father, John VINGOE c1656.
.................Not mentioned in his mother Joan's Will of 1685.
2 Peter VINGOE before c1656 - bur. 1707 Sennen
..................mentioned in the Will of his father, John Vingoe c1657 &
.................also in the will of his mother, Joan Vingoe 1685.
2 Jenkin VINGOE before c1656 - c1685/ 1695
..................mentioned 1657 in Will of his father, John VINGOE.
.................also in the will of his mother, Joan Vingoe 1685, but no burial record.
........... 2 John VINGOE before c 1656 - bur. 1709 Sennen
..................mentioned 1657 in Will of his father, John VINGOE
.................also in the will of his mother, Joan Vingoe 1685.
2 William VINGOE c 1635 -died before 1695 Sennen.
................Mentioned in Will of his father, John VINGOE 1657, and in the Will of his mother, Joan Vingoe 1685. His son, William Vingoe Jnr. c1664, was a witness to his grandmother's will & presumably at least 21 on that date in order to legally witness the signature I have assumed a birth date of 1635 for William Senior and therefore a birth date of c1625 for his mother Joan. William Snr. was the eldest son and also inherited under his father John's Will of 1657.
...............+ Grace ? [Grace VINGOE widow buried 1727 Sennen]
................married circa 1660
3 William VINGOE c 1663 - bur.1730 Sennen [Will]
..................+ Agnes ? c 1673 - buried 1747 Sennen.
....................married c 1694 Sennen
4 William VINGOE c1694 Sennen - died c1748
........................+ 1] Ann ?
................... married c1721 ?
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Branch No. 1
The Lands End Bruce - Bottrell - Badcock - Boase - Barnes - Bennett - Bolitho - Courtney - Chellew - Carnpezack - Cardel - Chellew - Cardew - Dennis - Glasson - Guy - Hutchins - Harvey - Harry - Humphreys - Humphry - Hicks - Hollow - Head - Jacka - James - Johns - LAMBERT - Maddran - Mann - Mitchell - McCarthy - Mathews - Nicholls - Oliver - Pearce - Permewan - Pentreath - Pascoe - Paul - Proves - Reed - Roiffignac - Rawling - Robinson - Schollar - Stewart - Thomas - Trevaskis - Tregarthen - Tonkin - Vingoe - Williams - White - Tree of William Vingoe 1694 & Ann?
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+ 2] Mary DANIEL [b1705 Sancreed - d 1794 Sennen]
...................married 1730 Sennen.
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Branch No.2
The First & Last Inn cowper -Daniel - Head - Hutchins - Neave-Hill - Mitchie - Nicholls - Newsom - Penberthy - Reed - Trudgen - Toman - Trahair Tree of William Vingoe 1694 & Mary Daniel?
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Branch No.2b
FANCETT - ELLIS - LEGG - MURLEY
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........................+ Joseph HEAD 1724 Sennen..
.........................5 Joseph HEAD 1725 Sennen
.........................5 Abraham HEAD 1726
.........................5 Ann HEAD 1728
.........................5 Eliz HEAD 1732
.........................+ John ADDECOTE
..........................Married 1735 St Buryan.
.......................5 Eliz ADDECOTE 30 April 1739: St Bur.
5 Rebecca ADDECOTE: 28 Dec 1741 St Bur.
5 Phillis ADDECOTE: 24 Nov 1744 St Bur.
.......................5 Mary ADDECOTE 17 May 1746 St Bur.
. 3 Henry VINGOE 1665 - 1725
............+ Eleanor ? b ? - bur 1737
..............marriage c 1687
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Branch No.3
Botallack Mine, St Just in Penwith NAMES IN THIS BRANCH Arnold - Armstrong - Beames - Brierly - Bridgeman - Blight - Branwell - Blunsum - Bottrell - Carne - Courtney - Clemence - Champen - Chappel - Casley - Clements - Cardew - Crocker - Daniell - Eva - Edwards - Ellis - Eggleston - Fleming - Fry - Foss - Friend - George - Goodman - Grenfell - Harvey - Honeychurch - Hill - Hocking - Holla - Hancock - Jenkin - Luke - Lawry - Lynch - Mills - MCKnight - Mitchell - Maddern - Murley - Merryfield - Mayne - Nicholls - Nicholas - Noy - Nankervis - Oats - Pears - Polglaze - Perrow - Pascoe - Premuen - Robbins - Russell - Rowe - Spice - Semmens - Spencer - Santo - Trezise - Thomas - Trembath - Tregear - Taylor - Tremewan - Trudgen - Uren - Vingoe - Watson - White - Wall - Williams - Woolcock - Warren. 0-0-0-0-0-0 Click to go to the tree of Henry Vingoe 1665 & Eleanor
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2 John VINGOE c1640 Sennen - buried 1709 Sennen
.................married c 1670 ?
3 Jane VINGOE b.c1672 Sennen
....................+ Edwin Hutchins of Paul:
....................married 30 Nov 1700 Sennen
3 John VINGOE b c1673
..................+ c1693 ?
...............4 John VINGOE c1695 - 1760 buried Sennen. [Will 1760 Paul]
...................+ Margaret REED c 1700 - 1750 Sennen
......................married 1729 Sennen
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Branch No.1
Mousehole Harbour This tree includes the line of William Bottrel the Cornish Folklorist who was known as OLD CELT. NAMES IN THIS TREE Bottrell - Dennis - Hodder - Hutchens - Mann - Pentreath - Reed - Stevens - Willis - Tree of John VINGOE b. 1695 & Margaret Reed
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..............3 Richard VINGOE b c 1675
....................+ Sarah Paul
.....................married 1701 St Levan
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Seed Drill invented by William Henry VINGOE in 1847 A tree which includes Farmers, Inventors, Musicians, Artists and Builders NAMES ON THIS TREE Altschwager - Argolls - Arthur - Aubrey -Arbuckle - Beckmeyer - Bernard - Biney - Bosence - Buspidnick - Bolitho - Bennet - Bennetts - Boase - Bradfoot - Brown - Burgess - Cardew - Chapman - Christophers - Clow - Cook - Curnow - Caldwell - Courtney - Cotton - Danne - Dennis - Davey - Durban - Daniell -Dobbin - Eddy - Eady - Elsworth - Ellis - Freeman - Fry - Fulton - Galley - Gill - Guy - Goodman - George - Handsworth - Harris - Hutchins - Hicks - Hisgrove - Humphreys - Hunter - Hosking - Hall - Harding - Jenkin - James - Johns - John - Joyce - Keegan - Kelynack - Keogh - Kenny - Lanyon - Lowry - Lean - Maddern - Majorie - Mattner - Matters - McConchie - McDonough - McKay - Milburn - Miller - Mitchell - Mathews - Mann - Morrison - Nicholls - Nicholas - Oats - Paul - Phillips - Quance - Reardon - Reseigh -Robert - Roberts - Rodda - Ruberry - Rule - Shillabeer - Slee - Stevens - Stone - Smith - Seymoor - Stewart - Thomas - Tonkin - Trahair - Trewavas - Victor - Ward - Warren - White - Webster - Whenan - Williams - Wallis - Woods - Weymouth Tree of Richard Vingoe 1675 & SARAH
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3 Julian VINGOE circa 1677 - died 1703 St Just
....................+ John HICKS
.....................married 1702 St Just
4 John HICKS b1703- died1703
....................+ Mary PROVES
.....................married 2 Dec 1711 Sennen.
4 Jane VINGOE 19 Oct 1712 Sennen
......................+ William HILL: 14 Jan 1744 Sennen [off St Hilary]
......................5 Jennyfair HILL 15 Oct 1746: Saint Hilary
......................5 Mary HILL 02 Nov 1748: Saint Hilary
......................5 Eliz HILL 26 May 1750: Saint Hilary
......................5 William HILL 21 Jan 1752: Saint Hilary
4 Mary VINGOE 27 Dec 1714 Sennen
4 Eliz VINGOE 5 Jul 1721 Sennen
4 Eleanor VINGOE 2 Jun 1725 Sennen
..................+ John GEORGE 13 Jun 1761 Sennen
...................No Issued found
4 Israel VINGOE 31 Dec 1730 Sennen:
No Marriage found No burial found.
End of this line
3 Jane VINGOE c 1685- d 22 Mar 1749
.................+ Mathew WILLIAMS - d 6 Feb 1748
.................married Oct 1711: Sennen
3 Grace VINGOE c 1690 - ?
................+ Simon HEAD ? - died 1720
..................married 1712 Sennen
4 Eleanor HEAD b 1714
4 John HEAD 24 Jun 1716
4 Simon HEAD b 1720
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Branch No.
Tree of John VINGOE 1807
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