The Zimapanners

The Zimapanners

Home Background Project Summary Location Grade II description The Tregullow Office Williams Family Residences Scorrier House Tregullow House Mineral Tramway Mexico Zimapan Decline of Cornish mining World Heritage Site History Legal History General 19C Marriage settlements Measurements in early conveyances C19 Deeds 1829 Deed of Partition Two 1889 Indentures 1. Williams Bt--Holmes 2. Holmes--Conybeare 1891 Indenture Conybeare---Luard et al. 1896 Deed of Trust Conybeare---Seligman et al. [Trust] C20 Deeds 1902 Indenture Conybeare---Williams Original 1902 document 1919 Indenture 1921 Indenture Penrose---Parsons Thomas 1930 Conveyance Parsons Thomas---Marshall-Thomas 1932 Conveyance Marshall-Thomas---Fairhurst 1944 Conveyance Fairhurst---Aberdeen 1948 Conveyance Williams Trusts---Barclays 1953 Conveyance Barclays---De L'Arbre (Aberdeen) 1978 Conveyance De L'Arbre---See 1986 Conveyance Tregoning---See 1997 Mining Activity Search C21 Deeds 2008 Conveyance See---Leighs 2009 Conveyance See---Leigh (extra land) 2009 Zimapan's lay-by Interview 2010 Flood Risk Assessment Transcriptions Probate & Wills Table of Wills Social History Greenwich Hospital School The Mocambo Beach Disaster The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Solicitor Seligman banking history Zimapanners Biographies A-E Aberdeen, Maxwell Ernest Clark, Daisy May Clark, Louise Conybeare, Charles A. V. Publications Conybeare, Henry G. M. De L'Arbre de Malander, Joseph Dixon, Jessie Staniland K-O Leigh, Tony Arthur & Karen Vicki Luard, Bixby Garnham Merrall, Pamela Navarro, Julio Punel Osborne, Amelia P-T Pattisson, Jacob Howell Pattisson children Pattisson, Jacob Luard Pattisson, James Jollie Pattisson, William H. Luard See, Tsin Far Brian Seligman, Isaac Banker from Baiersdorf (full version) Sincock, Francis Peter Strauss, Florence Annie Thomas, Charles Marshall Walter Parsons Thomas U-Z Watling, Lena Williams, Charles Rule Williams, William Robert [3rd Bt] Life at Zimapan 1928 The Thomases Life at Zimapan 1955-1956 The Sincocks Life at Zimapan 1950s-1960s The Strakers The Fulfords Life at Zimapan 1978-1989 Occupancy Occupants Renovations (1979-82) Summary (renovations) Renovation work Life at Zimapan 1987-89 The Prentices Zimapan 1994-1999 Travellers at Zimapan 2009 Zimapan revisited 2009 March 2009 October 2009 House For Sale 2010 Family Trees Trees Legend Maps & Photos List of Maps Image Gallery Conybeare Seligman Pattisson Williams Dixon-Swithenbank Thomas De L'Arbre de Malander Prentice Zimapan 2009 Thorringtons 2012 Zimapan Mar 2012 Zimapan Jun 2012 Zimapan Aug 2012 Zimapan Sep 2012 Zimapan Nov 2012 Thorringtons 2013 Zimapan Nov 2013 Thorringtons 2014 Odds & Sods Biblio References Acknowledgements Blog | Misc Blog Newsletters Feedback Links Disclaimer Policy Copyright

Project

Inspiration
The inspiration for this website sprang from a request within my family to discover more about my great grandfather on my mother's side, Walter Parsons Thomas. While piecing together his life history, I discovered he had lived in a house called Zimapan, in Scorrier, Tregullow, Cornwall, in the 1920s.

Coining 'Zimapanners'
During my research it occurred to me that the other people who had lived in the house — or who had had a legal interest in it — might be equally or even more interesting than my great grandfather, and thus the idea of researching their lives and times came about — as did the coining of the word 'Zimapanners'.

Old deeds & documents
Finding the relevant deeds and documents has revealed some of the house's history from 1861 onwards, but there is much searching and sifting still to be done, and so who knows what new nuggets will turn up through further panning or from contributions from visitors to the site. The terms 'indenture' and 'conveyance' are used synonymously. However, indentures drawn up from 1930 onwards are referred to as 'conveyances'.

Connections with Cornish mining
A simultaneous quest also began to find out whether there was a connection between Cornish mining and Zimapan, especially as the house is situated bang in the middle of a once-thriving centre of Cornish copper-, tin- and arsenic mining.

Zimapan and Williams family
A link has been found between the famous Williams mining family of Scorrier/Tregullow and Zimapan. This has led to parallel, spin-off project on the Williams family and to the charting of their family tree, which itself is no mean task, but fascinating nevertheless.

Biographies
Biographies of ex-owners, ex-occupants or of "interested parties" have been carefully researched and compiled, a process that has revealed fresh insights into 19th-century life in England, Ireland and Cornwall, and spans the lives, lifestyles and personalities of the Zimapanners across three centuries. These projects are works in progress and so some of the topics or biographies may not have been started or completed by the time you read this.

Rich resource
The history of the house is also of continuing interest to the Royal Institution of Cornwall because, they say, the website is compiling a "rich resource for researchers" and others interested in Cornwall's mining heritage, and, as a result, have added the website to its list of mining resources.

Invitation to contribute to Zimapan's history
Visitors are invited and encouraged to contribute additional information about Zimapan and its associated biographies, or about other members of the Williams family (sub-project), and to communicate it, as well as any typos or material inaccuracies, to the author using the website's blog, located under the 'Misc' menu.

Continuity of project
Future owners of the house, or their agents, are invited to contact the researcher in order to verify contractual details such as the purchase price, details of the new owners and of any plans for the house. Good-quality photographs of the interior of the house would also be a most welcome addition to the website. This will ensure the continuity of Zimapan's historical record and enable the thousands of returning website visitors and researchers on-going access to the history of this property.

Peter K. Smith BSc, 14 Dec 2010