Agreement to lease, Polmeor Banks, St Ives, 28 Sep 1839. 3
Parties:
1) Edward Harry and William Hambly, both of St Ives, ropemakers
2) Robert Hichens Bamfield of St Ives, gentleman.
Whereas in and by virtue of certain articles of agreement entered into on the 21st of November 1827 between Eldred Roberts, the agent and steward of the late Sir Christopher Hawkins, Baronet, the then Lord of the freehold, and the said 1), the said 1) are entitled to and possessed of certain pieces or parcels of ground situate on Polmeor Banks within the said Borough of St Ives for a term of 99 years, with a power for the said 1) on the death of either of the said lives to put up a fourth life, but no lease of the said premises has yet been granted to the said 1) in pursuance of the said agreement, now it is witnessed that 1) shall lease to 2), within six months of the aforementioned lease being granted, all that piece of ground lying to the westward of the house lately used by the said 1) as a rope house, and bounded on the east by a straight line to be drawn from the eastern extremity of the eastern wall of a fish cellar, lately erected by the said 2), to the road leading to the quay, on the west by a straight line to be drawn from the western extremity of the western wall of the said cellar to the said quay road, on the north by the ground on lease to the said 2), and on the south by the said quay road.
Term: the remainder of the said term of 99 years and for such further and other term as specified; Consideration: £12; Rent: 10 shillings.
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Release, several plots of land in Penryn, 6 Dec 1849. 4
Parties:
1) Reverend Walter Oke Croggan of Dublin, superintendent of the Irish Wesleyan Missions and schools and wife Lucy and Samuel Bamfield of Falmouth, gentleman
2) Robert Hichens Bamfield of Budock, gentleman
1) to 2): several plots of land in Penryn.
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Mortgage, Truro Lane Penryn, Vineyard meadow, St Gluvias, 7 Nov 1850. 5
Parties:
1) John Richard Baker, gentleman, Islington, Middlesex, Samuel Bamfield, gentleman, Falmouth and Robert Hichens Bamfield, gentleman, St Ives
2) John Carne, carpenter, Penryn
3) Charles Henry Baker, navel commander, Penryn.
Mortgage (demise for 80 year term) and assignment of insurance policy by 1) and 2) to 3) of plot of garden in Truro Lane Penryn, plot part of Vineyard meadow in St Gluvias, with dwelling-houses built there.
Consideration: £47. 13 shillings
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In 1851 Robert Hichens Bamfield, aged 37, born in St. Ives Cornwall, unmarried, solicitor, was living in Terrace, St. Ives.
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Agreement for reversionary lease, Shute Street, St Ives, 2 Jun 1855. 6
Parties:
1) Nathaniel Pyne of St Ives, gentleman, acting for and on behalf of the Honorable William Richard Arthur Pole Tylney Long Wellesley, commonly called Lord Viscount Wellesley
2) Robert Hichens Bamfield of St Ives, gentleman.
That 1) agrees to lease to 2), within six months, all that small messuage or dwelling house situate, lying and being in Shute Street in the Borough of St Ives aforesaid, late in the occupation of James Bryant, but now of [blank] Merrifield.
Term: 99 years to commence from and immediately after the decease of Francis Jenkyn, late of the said Borough of St Ives, merchant, son of Francis Jenkyn, late of St Ives aforesaid, deceased; Consideration: £10; Rent: 5 shillings.
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Conveyance, The Park, the Lays, Lamanva, Budock and Treleiver tenement, Mabe, 20 May 1856. 7
Parties:
1) Mary Ann Bamfield of St Ives, spinster, Samuel Bamfield of Falmouth, gentleman, Robert Hichens Bamfield of St Ives, gentleman
2) Nicholas Spargo of Budock, yeoman
3) James Spargo of Mabe, yeoman, Grace Spargo of Penryn, widow
4) William Potter Taylder of Penryn, tailor
5) Said Robert Hichens Bamfield
6) Charles Jenkyns of Tuckingmill, clerk.
Recites: mortgages and titles to property.
Consideration: £992 11 shillings to 1), £70 to 3).
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ST. IVES.—On the ninth inst., Robert H. Bamfield, Esq., was elected Mayor of the Borough for the ensuing year.
Royal Cornwall Gazette, Friday, 16 Nov 1860, p. 4
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Building agreement, The Terrace, St Ives, 25 May 1861. 8
Parties:
1) Nathaniel Pyne of St Ives, gentleman, acting for and on behalf of the Honorable William Richard Arthur, Earl of Mornington
2) Robert Hichens Bamfield of St Ives, gentleman.
That 1) agrees to lease to 2) all that piece or parcel of land now marked out and allotted to him, the said 2), situate, lying and being at or near the South Terrace in the Borough of St Ives aforesaid, being part and parcel of the Warren Land, containing 50 feet in length from north to south, and is bounded on the east by the new road or highway, called the Terrace, leading from the town of St Ives aforesaid towards Lelant, on the west by the old road or highway leading from St Ives aforesaid to Lelant aforesaid, on the north by another piece or parcel of land now in lease to William Hichens the younger, together with half boundary wall dividing the same from the premises intended to be leased to him, the said 2), and on the south by another piece or parcel of land, the property of the said Earl.
Term: 99 years; Consideration: that the said 2) hath proposed and agreed to build with stone, and cover in with slate, a good and substantial messuage or dwelling house, within 2 years, at his own costs of not less than £300; Rent: £2 and 10 shillings; with plan.
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In July 1868 R. H. Bamfield was present at the marriage of his niece Blanch Bamfield Jenkyns to Henry Fitzherbert Buckland in Tuckingmill Cornwall.
In 1871 Robert Hichens Bamfield, aged 58, born in St. Ives, solicitor, ship owner . . . . , and wife Ada Bamfield, aged 42, born in Liskeard Cornwall, were living in South Terrace, St. Ives. With them were son Robert Glubb (2) of St. Ives, and sister Mary Ann Bamfield (68) of St. Ives, unmarried.
In 1881 Robert H Bamfield, aged 67, born in St. Ives, solicitor, and wife Ada Bamfield, aged 52, born in Liskeard, were living in Terrace, St. Ives. Present was son Robert G. (12) of St. Ives, scholar.
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Robert Hichens Bamfield of The Terrace died aged 80 years (burial record).
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DEATH OF MR. ROBERT HICHENS BAMFIELD, OF ST. IVES
We regret to have to announce the death of Mr. Robert Hichens Bamfield, of St. Ives, solicitor, which occurred on Sunday evening last. Mr. Bamfield, who was a member of an old St. Ives family, had been in failing health for many months, but about a week since had an attack of paralysis, which ended fatally at a ripe old age. Mr. Bamfield was born at St. Ives on 1st January, 1813, educated at a public school at Bodmin, served his articles with his brother, the late Mr. Samuel Bamfield, at Falmouth, was admitted a solicitor in Hilary term, 1836, and up to a recent date practised at St. Ives, where he was much beloved and respected. On the death of Mr. Samuel Hocking, in April, 1855, Mr. Bamfield was elected Mayor, and re-elected in November of that year, and again in 1860 and 1863. In June, 1884, Mr. Bamfield was appointed deputy-town clerk of the borough during the absence of Mr. R. Pender Tyacke, whose health necessitated his going on a voyage to Australia and New Zealand. On Mr. Tyacke's death in New Zealand early in 1885, Mr. Bamfield, in February of that year, was appointed town clerk, and held the office until March, 1889, when, on account of his failing health and the additional duties imposed by the Local Government Act, 1888, he resigned the appointment to the regret of many of the constituency. For many years Mr. Bamfield was largely interested in shipping, and also in Cornish mining, in which he was a bold and persistent adventurer ; but on the stopping of the mines in the immediate neighbourhood of St. Ives devoted himself principally to his profession. Mr. Bamfield four times served the office of Mayor of the borough. In politics Mr. Bamfield was a staunch Conservative. His familiar figure and his kind and genial manner will be long remembered by all who knew him.
Royal Cornwall Gazette, 12 Oct 1893, p. 8
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Robert Hichens Bamfield of St. Ives Cornwall, solicitor, died 8 October 1893. Administration Bodmin 8 May to Ada Bamfield, widow. Effects £146 14s. 8d. 2
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