Thomas Trevarthen
From Graces Guide
Thomas Trevarthen, son of Thomas and Martha was baptised at Camborne in 1767.
In 1791 he is noted as mining in Breage and became a Mine Captain resident at Carn Tremayne in Crowan Parish in 1814.
On the 1st September, 1814, Uville, Henry Vivian, Thomas Trevarthen, and William Bull (of Chacewater, in Gwennap) sailed from Portsmouth for Lima in the Wildman, taking with them four pumping engines.
William Bull, his fellow traveller to Peru, was a witness to his will made on 24th July 1814.
Trevarthen died in Peru around the 4th August 1815 and the will was proved on 12 May 1816.
Note: The four pumping engines were those designed by Richard Trevithick for installation at the Cerro de Pasco Mines, Peru.[1]
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Sources of Information
- A Professor in Peru