Counterpart lease, waste land on the beach, Mylor, 20 Feb 1790. 2
Parties:
1) Robert George William Trefusis esquire of Trefusis
2) William Pearce, carpenter, of Flushing, Mylor.
Lease for 99 years or three lives (Ursula Pearce, wife of lessee, aged 40, and William, 5, and Andrew, 3, sons of the lessee) of a plot of waste land on the beach below Mylor beach and opposite a quay built by Pearce.
Rent: 1 shilling per annum.
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Lease, Coome's tenement, Restronguet, Mylor, 16 Jan 1800. 3
Parties:
1) Sir William Lemon of Carclew, to
2) William Pearce of Mylor, joiner and carpenter.
90 year lease, lessee's children Grace and William; rent 40 shillings. Consideration: £280.
Dwelling house, yard, stable and orchard, with fields [named], in village of Restrongett, called Coome's tenement or Bassett's tenement, late in occupation of Joan Thomas alias Coome, then Richard Bassett, with common of pasture on Gunreeth common not yet enclosed.
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In 1807 William the son of William Pearce became a beneficiary of the will of his paternal grandfather, Andrew Pearce of Camborne, receiving ten shillings sixpence.
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William was a carpenter like his father.
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William Pearce of Penryn died aged 54 years (burial record).
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BOROUGH OF PENRYN.
TO BE SOLD, at the GUILDHALL, in the said Borough, Saturday, the 12th day of May instant, at Six o'clock in the Evening (subject to such conditions as will be then and there produced) the undermentioned PREMISES....
Lot 2.—Also for a term of 75 years (if the interest of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the said Borough shall therein so long continue,) all that DWELLING HOUSE and Plot of Ground thereunto adjoining, containing about one quarter of an Acre, now or late in the occupation of William Pearce....
The Cornwall Royal Gazette, Friday, 4 May 1838, p. 3
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