• Born: 1659, Paul, Cornwall
• Christened: 24 Sep 1659, Paul, Cornwall ¹
• Married: 16 Apr 1691, Gulval, Cornwall ¹
• Buried: 23 Sep 1743, Paul, Cornwall ¹

  Research Notes:

In 1696 Lydia Tonkin was named as a beneficiary and an overseer of her husband's will.

In 1712 Mrs Lidia Tonken of Newlin was left two gold rings by her sister-in-law Anne Hickes of Camborne, widow*, with which to make a mourning ring.

* her late brother Thomas's widow

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Lease, part of Newman's house, Penzance, 19 Jan 1716. ²

Parties:

1) Lydia Tonkin, Newlyn, Paul, widow, Henry Tonkin, her son
2) John Pellowe, Penzance, merchant.

Lease and release, 1) to 2), part of Newman's house.

Consideration: £70.

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Lease, land at Paul, 29 March 1717/1718. ³

Parties

1) Lydia Tonkin, widow, of Paul
2) Blanch Bunbury, of Paul.

Property; Reeds meadow, bounded: West by road, North by land occupied by Mary Pain, East by land occupied by Alice Relinark, South by land occupied by John Richards.

Term: 99 years or 4 lives. Lives: 2), Alice, William and Mary Thomas.

Consideration: 2) to build house with 2 rooms upstairs, 2 rooms downstairs, each 12 × 12 feet.

23 gold guineas. Rent: 1 shilling 3 pence.

Witnessed: Lydia Tonkin the younger, John Boson.

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Release, property and garden, Gruzelier's premises, Newlyn, Paul, 4 Aug 1724. ⁴

Parties:

1) Lydia Tonkin, widow, of Newlyn, Henry Tonkin, gentleman, her son and heir, Katherine Tanner and Julian Tanner, spinsters, late of Paul but now of Redruth, and daughter, Lydia Tonkin junior
2) William Tonkin, fisherman, of Newlyn.

Release, lease missing, by 1) to 2) of messuage and garden in Newlyn late in the occupation of Andrew Grewzeliers [Gruzelier], cooper, and now in the occupation of 2).

Consideration: £35.

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Deed to lead to the uses of a fine, messauge, Penzance, 21-22 Oct 1729. ⁵

Parties:

1) Lydia Tonkin, Penzance, widow, Henry Tonkin, Paul, gentleman and Susanna, his wife, Henry Tonkin [being the] only son and heir of Lydia Tonkin; Catherine Tanner, Julian Tanner, Paul, spinsters; Lydia Tonkin the younger, spinster, daughter of Lydia Tonkin.
2) George Treweeke, Penzance, gentleman.

Consideration: £52 and 10 shillings.

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Bargain and sale, land at Paul, 29 May 1731. ⁶

Parties

1) Lydia Tonkin, widow, of Penzance, her son Henry, Catherine and Julian Tanner, spinsters, of Newlyn and Lydia Tonkin [her daughter]
2) John Berryman, baker, of Newlyn.

Property: messuage and garden in Reeds meadows.

Consideration: £54 plus 10 shillings to each of party 1).

Witnessed: Thomas Allen, Ann Lanyon, Ann Hammet.

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Mortgage, orchard, land, Rose Hill, shop, Tonkins' Street, Newlyn, Paul, 19-20 Jan 1732/3. ⁷

Parties:

1) Lydia Tonkin, widow, of Penzance, Henry Tonkin, her son and heir, of Paul, Lydia Tonkin, her daughter
2) Humphrey Pascoe, merchant, of St Ives.

Mortgage by lease and release by 1) to 2) of a messuage with an orchard and two stitches of land, of half an acre and a quarter acre, on the brow of Rose Hill, Newlyn, also a shop on the cliff and two messuages in the street anciently called Tonkins' Street, Newlyn.

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Lydia Tonkin, the elder (burial record)