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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 updated Vingoe Family web site. Since the site first went on line in March 2001 we have made contact with many other people with connections to the family. We have recently spent some time redesigning and updating the records and have moved to this 'ads free' site. To all those who have sent us information we say a big 'thank you' and if you have any interesting stories, poems or pictures or indeed anything about the forbears that is not recorded here then please get in touch with us. We will endeavor to find room for them on the site. As we have read the faint written words on some old tattered document their trials and tribulations have brought a lump to the throat. Sitting in comfort before a blazing fire, and living in more secure times, we have little comprehension of their struggle to survive against the odds. You can almost feel their presence willing you to discover more so that their story can be told. In tracing my family tree we have collected much information on Sennen and the surrounding parishes. The people who lived and worked in the Lands End district tended to be multi-skilled: farmers and 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 a small population but 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 both land or sea meant that smuggling and free trading was also part of their trade. My family appear to have been closely connected by to the trades of free trader and privateer, and in the opposing maritime occupations of Revenue Officer and Coast Guard. They apparently sailed very close to the wind indeed. Many have blank church records: they disappear from the scene for years to reappear in neigbouring parishes. Some may have paid the ultimate penalty and were drowned at sea, their deaths going unrecorded. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries many sought new lives overseas and some of their history is recorded here. There have been heroes: family members include holders of the Victoria Cross and Military Medal; also a George Cross winner and two Lifeboat Coxswains. There are also those who in time of war paid the supreme sacrifice. 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 update pages 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 anonymous relatives that you may know of.........We try to collect the female lines as well, although difficult with the change of surname. Offspring of these females often married back into the various lines to ensure the continuing landholdings were kept 'in the family'. They were cousins in reality as well as in law and were often joined in complicated patterns of kinship. So if you find a connection and want more information then please get in touch. 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
NAMES IN THIS BRANCH 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 - NINNIS - PITT - PERKIN - Reed - REMPHREY Rogers - STEPHENS - THOMAS - WIDDICOMBE
Tree of Jenkin Vingoe c1640 & 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 computtation 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 Israel 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.He is mentioned in a newspaper advert for a 'Sale of Land' in 1803. 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. In his will his sole heir "to all his lands and possessions" was his granddaughter Mary VINGOE [b1798]. Her sister Margaret [b1800] had died age 13. This also identifies that his son Richard must also be deceased as there is no mention of him at all. 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. With her marriage the name of Vingoe was extinct in this line
I have split the various branches of the Vingoe line into the separate trees after the grandchildren of John and Joan Vingoe as recorded in both wills [ + certain assumptions un-provable as no written Sennen records extant.]
There are also a couple of base born children baptised to two Sennen girls with the name of Richard Vingoe.
The first was Richard Vingoe 1789 son of Jane TREGEAR. The father may have been a Richard Vingoe above but unlikely. Jane married Stephen Vingoe nine years later. Son Richard was brought up by Stephen as his own and when Richard married he named his first-born son Stephen. It is possible that Stephen was the natural father, although Richard was not a name much used by this branch. I have placed this Richard in the Henry VINGOE & Eleanor line Their son James had a son Stephen who married Jane TREGEAR, the mother of Richard Vingoe 1789.
There is also Richard
Vingoe
bt 17 Aug
1807 Sennen: base son of
Christiana MURLEY.
This Richard Vingoe settled in
Scilly with Ursula LEGG by the time of 1841 census. He was a sea captain,
in the Navy and later a pilot, a favorite occupation among several
branches of the Vingoe line. His children's names were- males:
Richard & John Legg. females: Ann Elizabeth : Sarah Jane: &
Sarah Francis. Clues as to his ancestry in the pattern of the names
again points to the line of Henry Vingoe
& Eleanor
of St Just and
his son James 1734 -1810 who married Amey
Courtney c1736-1797 James was a
fisherman:
Christiana/Catherine
had another child:
14 Mar 1814
Christian d/o Catharine Murley of Sennen base child, She married a
Thomas Harvey on 25 SEP 1824 at St Buryan. Christiana
Murley bt 27 Dec 1794 St Buryan was the dau of William &
Margaret Murley. Her sister Julia Murley - bt 15 Aug 1806 married
John Vingoe in 1826.
I can find no Bastardy Bonds in Sennen Parish for these children so both Richards' mothers must have had support for any illegitimate children. Base children of Vingoe females usually had family support without recourse to parish relief.
There is one other base born Vingoe male child: John Vingoe -bt 03 Oct Ludgvan, mother Jane Vingoe [name entered as Vinjoe]. Jane was a sister of Stephen and Israel. Her son was the John Vingoe who married Julia Murley in St Buryan 16 Sep 1826.One of the witnesses was Thomas Harvey, Julia's sister Christiana's husband.
I have also divided off a later section of the line of grandson Henry Vingoe [1665- 1725] & Eleanor, as I can find no written records of the parentage of my 4x grandfather Henry VINGOE c1771 who married Grace MANN in Paul in 1797.
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.
...................+ Joan NICHOLLS : c1615 - died 1685 Sennen
...........................................[Father Edmund NICHOLLS: b Ludgvan - died Sennen]
......................... Joan's Will written 28 Feb 1683/4 - proved 1685
2 Martin VINGOE: c1656 - before c1684
.....................[mentioned in the Will of his father, John VINGOE 1656 but not mentioned in his mother Joan's Will, written 1684.
2 Peter VINGOE: born before c1656 - bur. 1707 Sennen
.....................[mentioned in the Will of his father, John VINGOE 1656 & also in his mother Joan's Will, written 1684]
2 Jenkin VINGOE: born before c1656 -died ?
.....................[1.mentioned 1657 in Will of his father, John VINGOE 1656]
.....................[2 mentioned in his mother Joan's Will, written 1684: no burial record found in Sennen]
2 John VINGOE: born before c1656 - bur. 1709 Sennen
......................[mentioned in the Will of his father, John VINGOE 1656:also in his mother Joan's Will, written 1684]
2 William VINGOE: c 1635 - died before 1695 Sennen.
..................+ Grace ? [Grace VINGOE widow buried 1727 Sennen]
.....................married c 1660 ?
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William c1635 was referred to in the very brief Will of his father John VINGOE in 1657 . He was also referred to
in the
1684 Will of his mother Joan, but he was not named as a
beneficiary. His son William Vingoe jnr. c1662 was a witness to
his grandmother Joan's will, but was also not mentioned as a
beneficiary. He was presumably at least 21 years old on that
date in order to legally witness his grandmother's signature I
have therefore assumed a birth date of c1662 for William jnr.
and a birth date of c1635 for William snr. When he attained the
age of 21 the eldest surviving son, William, inherited under
his father John's Will. Therefore his son William Jnr. c1662
would inherit from him.
He was thus not a beneficiary under his grandmother's will,
satisfying yet another legal requirement entitling him to
witness his grandmother Joan's signature. I have provisionally
given Joan a birth date of c1615 which would make her about 70
years old when she died in Sennen 1685. She was probably the
third wife of John Vingoe who had married twice before in
Mawgan-in-Meneague.
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3 William VINGOE: c1662-bur.1730 Sennen [Will]
..................+ Agnes ? c1673 - buried 1747 Sennen.
.......................marr: c1694 Sennen
4 William VINGOE: c1694 Sennen - died c1748
........................+ 1] Ann ?
...............................married c1721
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Branch No. 1
The Lands End
NAMES IN THIS BRANCH 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/Maddern/Madron/ - Mann - Mitchell - McCarthy - Matthews - Nicholls - Oliver Pearce - Permewan - Pentreath - Pascoe - Paul - Proves - Reed - Rouffignac - Rawling Robinson - Schollar - Stewart - Thomas - Trevaskis - Tregarthen - Tonkin - Vingoe -Williams - White Tree of William Vingoe 1694 & Ann [Unknown]
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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
NAMES IN THIS BRANCH Cowper - Daniel - Head - Hutchins - Neave-Hill - Michie - Nicholl Newsom - Penberthy - Reed - Trudgen - Toman - Trahair
Tree of William Vingoe 1694 & Mary Daniel
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Branch No.2b
Isles of Scilly from the air
NAMES IN THIS BRANCH BROOKS - NORRIS - FANCETT - ELLIS - LEGG - MURLEY
Tree of Richard Vingoe 1807 - Isles of Scilly
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............................+ Joseph HEAD:
...............................marr: 1724 Sennen
.........................5 Joseph HEAD: 1725 Sennen
.........................5 Abraham HEAD: 1726
.........................5 Ann HEAD: 1728
.........................5 Eliz HEAD: 1732
...........................+ John ADDECOTE:
............................marr: 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: c1665 - 1725
..................+ Eleanor ? b ? - bur 1737
.....................marriage c1687
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Branch No.3
Botallack Mine, St Just in Penwith NAMES IN THIS BRANCH Armstrong - Arnold - Beames - Blight - Blunsum - Bottrell - Branwell - Brierly Bridgeman -Cardew -Carne -Casley - Champen -Chappel - Clemence -Clements Courtney - Crocker - Daniel - Edwards - Ellis -Eggleston - Eva - Fleming - Foss - Friend Fry - George - Goodman - Grenfell - Hancock - Harvey - Hill - Hocking - Holla Honeychurch -Jenkin -Lawry - Luke -Lynch -Madder - Mayne -McKnight Merryfield - Mills - Mitchell - Murley - Nankervis - Nicholls - Nicholas - Noy - Oats Pascoe - Pears - Perrow - Polglaze - Permuen/Permewan - Robbins - Rowe - Russell Spice - Santo - Semmens - Spencer - Taylor - Tregear - Trembath -Tremewan -Trezise -Thomas Trudgen - Uren - Vingoe - Wall - Warren - Watson - Williams - Woolcock - White Tree of Henry Vingoe 1665 & Eleanor
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Branch No. 3c St Buryan & Breage [work in progress]
James Vingoe & Amey Courtney daughter Jane VINGOE: bt: 07 June 1785 Sennen base son John VINGOE: bt: 03 Oct 1804 Ludgvan
While Jane Vingoe was pregnant she was probably living in Ludgvan
with her married sister, Sarah [BLIGHT]
Sarah was closest to her in age, being only some three years older.
Their mother, Amey [nee Courtney] had
died 6 years before. Her widowed father, James, was probably
living with his eldest daughter, Anne [ELLIS]
in the Brane area of Sancreed. Jane named her son John, which is
very interesting, as before this there were
no male members in her immediate family tree named John. Almost
hree years after her son was baptised
Jane married Thomas SEMMENS: 28 Jan 1807 at Sancreed. There is a
baptism record in St Just in Penwith
on 07 Jun 1807 of Thomas SEMMENS, with parents named as Thomas &
Jane. No other further children of
this couple recorded baptised in St Just and so far I haven't
found any records of any children born elsewhere.
Husband Thomas was a son of Thomas and Ann [nee MARTIN] who were
married on 03 Feb 1778 Ludgvan.
All their children were baptised in Ludgvan Sarah SEMMENS - 25 OCT 1778 Ludgvan
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2 John VINGOE: c1640 Sennen - buried 1709 Sennen
.................married c1670
3 Jane VINGOE: .c1672 Sennen
....................+ Edwin Hutchins of Paul:
.........................married 30 Nov 1700 Sennen
3 John VINGOE: c1673
..................+ marr: c1693
...............4 John VINGOE : c1695 - bur 1760 Sennen. Will proved 1760 Paul.
......................+ Margaret REED: c1700 - 1750 Sennen
.........................married 1729 Sennen
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Branch No.1
Mousehole Harbour
NAMES IN THIS BRANCH Bottrell - Dennis - Hodder - Hutchens - Mann - Pentreath - Reed - Stevens -Willis includes William Bottrell, a Cornish Folklorist known as 'OLD CELT'.
Tree of John VINGOE [c1695] & Margaret Reed
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..............3 Richard VINGOE: c1675
.....................+ Sarah Paul
........................married 1701 St Levan
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Seed Drill invented in 1847 by William Henry VINGOE
NAMES IN THIS BRANCH Altschwager - Argolls - Arthur - Aubrey -Arbuckle - Beckmeyer - Bernard - Biney -Bosence Buspidnick - Bolitho - Bennett - Bennetts - Boase - Bradfoot - Brown - Burgess - Cardew Chapman - Christophers - Clow - Cook - Curnow - Caldwell - Courtney - Cotton - Danne Dennis Davey - Durban - Daniel - Dobbin - Eddy - Eady - Elsworth -- Ellis - Freeman - Fry - Fulton Gill - Guy - Keogh - Galley - Goodman - George - Handsworth - Harris - Hutchins - Hicks Hisgrove - Humphreys - Hunter - Hosking - Hall - Harding - Jenkin - James - Johns - John Joyce - Keegan - Kelynack - Kenny - Lanyon - Lowry - Lean - Maddern - Marjorie - Mattner Matters - McConachie - 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 - Seymour - 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 : c1677 - died 1703 St Just
....................+ John HICKS :
.....................married 1702 St Just
4 John HICKS b1703- died1703
....................+ Mary PROVES:
.....................married 02 Dec 1711 Sennen.
4 Jane VINGOE: bt 19 Oct 1712 Sennen
...........................+ William HILL:
..............................marr: 14 Jan 1744 Sennen [off St Hilary]
......................5 Jennifer HILL: bt 15 Oct 1746: Saint Hilary
......................5 Mary HILL: bt 02 Nov 1748: Saint Hilary
......................5 Eliz HILL: bt 26 May 1750: Saint Hilary
......................5 William HILL: bt 21 Jan 1752: Saint Hilary
4 Mary VINGOE: bt 27 Dec 1714 Sennen
4 Eliz VINGOE: bt 05 Jul 1721 Sennen
4 Eleanor VINGOE: bt 02 Jun 1725 Sennen
.....................+ John GEORGE: 13 Jun 1761 Sennen
........................No Issued found
4 Israel VINGOE: bt 31 Dec 1730 Sennen:
No Marriage found - No burial found.
End of this line
3 Jane VINGOE: c1685- d 22 Mar 1749
.................+ Matthew WILLIAMS: - bur 06 Feb 1748 Sennen
.....................married - Oct 1711: Sennen
3 Grace VINGOE: c1689 - ?
....................+ Simon HEAD c? - died 1720
.......................married 1712 Sennen
4 Eleanor HEAD: bt 1714
4 John HEAD: bt 24 Jun 1716
4 Simon HEAD: bt 1720
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