• Christened: 4 Apr 1746, St. Columb Major, Cornwall ¹
• Married: 7 Jun 1784, Madron with Penzance, Cornwall ¹
• Buried: 16 Mar 1822, St. Columb Major, Cornwall ¹

  Research Notes:

In 1776 Francis Paynter was co-executor of his father's will.

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Lease, Rosemodres barton, St Buryan, 1 Jan 1788. ²

Parties:

1) James Buller of Shillingham, esquire, to
2) Francis Paynter of Trekenning, St Columb Major, gentleman.

99 year lease, Richard, son of Thomas Edmunds of St Buryan.

Rent £1 and 1 shilling and 6 pence. Consideration: £66.

One fifth part of Rosemodres barton.

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Lease, plot, Alverton Lane, Penzance, 16 Jun 1792. ³

Parties:

1) Francis Paynter of Trekenning, St Columb, gentleman to
2) Richard Pascoe of Penzance, gentleman.

99 year lease, lessee and his brother and sister. Rent 10 shillings.

Consideration: lessee to build dwelling-house

Vacant plot of ground already marked out, in Alverton Lane, for building a dwelling-house, being 25 feet 16 feet, with garden of 62 feet 25 feet behind, adjoining William Noy's dwelling-house.

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Deed to declare uses of a fine, property in Market Jew Street, Penzance, 10 Jun 1793. ⁴

Parties:

1) Francis Paynter of Trekenning, gentleman and wife Margaret, Charles Paynter of Penzance, his brother
2) Thomas Tonkin of Penzance, blacksmith and Nathaniel Paul of Penzance, carpenter

1) to 2): house, blacksmith's shop and linney, with meadow and garden, in Marketjew Street [Market Jew Street]; also house and carpenter's shop adjoining, with garden.

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Appointment, of Francis Paynter of Trekenning, gentleman as steward and common clerk of Mitchell, Oct 1795. ⁵

Appointment by Sir Francis Bassett of Tehidy of Francis Paynter of Trekenning, gentleman as steward and common clerk of Mitchell manor and borough.

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Articles of agreement, Francis Paynter to become undersheriff, 13 Feb 1798. ⁶

Parties:

1) James Buller of Shillingham, esquire, High Sheriff of Cornwall
2) Francis Paynter, gentleman, of Trekenning.

Articles of Agreement for Francis Paynter to become undersheriff.

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Lease, Legareeth in Breage, 1 Aug 1799. ⁷

Parties:

1) James Buller of Shillingham, esquire, to
2) Francis Paynter of Trekenning, gentleman.

Lease for a year, release missing.

Tenement called Legareeth in Breage, late occupation John Pascoe now Henry Jenkin, being 4 fields [about 11 acres].

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Assignment of lease, Treire, St Eval, 15 Apr 1800. ⁸

Parties:

1) Sir John St Aubyn of Clowance, baronet, Thomas Grylls of Helston, gentleman, Lovell Todd of Falmouth, esquire, and John Borlase of Helston, esquire
2) Francis Paynter of Trekenning, St Columb Major, esquire

1) to 2): Treyear [Treire].

Term: 400 years.

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Articles of clerkship, James Paynter of St Columb Major with father Francis Paynter of St Columb, gentleman, 6 Jun 1804. ⁹

Articles of clerkship for 5 years to learn profession of attorney or solicitor, James Paynter of St Columb Major with father Francis Paynter of St Columb, gentleman, attorney of Court of Common Pleas.

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Lease for a year, premises in Alverton Lane, Penzance, 11 Dec 1807. ¹⁰

Parties:

1) Francis Paynter, gentleman, of Trekenning, St Columb Major
2) Ralph Hacker Bodilly and Richard Edwards, merchants, of Penzance.

Property: Inside Higher Field, Outside Higher Field, orchard and lane, all part of the Town Lands in Alverton Lane, now in the possession of Sampson Rodda.

Consideration: 5 shillings for lease for a year. Rent: one peppercorn.

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In January 1819 Francis Paynter was granted Administration of the goods of his late son James Paynter of Trekenning, gent.

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Mortgage, land adjoining river, Truro, 19 Jun 1819. ¹¹

Parties:

1) Joseph Eyre of Kenwyn, merchant, to
2) Francis Paynter and Francis Camborne Paynter, both of St Columb Major, gentleman.

Mortgage for £50, assignment of leasehold.

Piece of ground, part of Roper's Moor in Ryder's tenement adjoining river which runs from late new erected bridge to Truro quay, and on end of which plot Joseph Eyre has built store houses, yards and other conveniences for trade, on other or south end has built two dwelling-houses, stables, outhouses and gardens, with liberty to use quay built opposite premises for loading and unloading vessels.

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Francis Paynter of Trekenning died aged 76 years (burial record).

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Abstract of the Will of Francis Paynter of Trekenning in the (Parish of St. Columb Major and) County of Cornwall, Gentleman, written 9 Jul 1819, proved 20 Aug 1822. ¹²

To be buried close to his wife in the churchyard of St. Columb Major.

Whereas he has already made a liberal provision to his son Francis Camborne Paynter, he gives him an additional 20 guineas. And to Francis' wife, Elizabeth, he gives five guineas, to their son Edward two guineas.

Whereas he has already laid out £2000 to his son Charles Henry Paynter, over and above an annuity of £250 for personal expenses, he gives him an additional £200. And to Charles' wife, Fanny, he gives five guineas.

Give to his sons John Pender Paynter and Thomas Francis Paynter his tin bounds and shares of tin bounds in Whele Vor [Wheal Veor] in the parish of Breage and near Helston, as well as in Redruth and St. Austell.

Gives to his son John Pender Paynter his dwelling house in Trekenning in the parish of St. Columb Major, as well as a moiety of those enclosures called Castulost?.

Gives an annuity or yearly rent charge of £50 to his son Thomas Francis Paynter, a moiety of Dunstan's (Dunkin's?) meadow, currently divided into two fields, the enclosure called Bolitho's fields in St. Columb Major, and his interest in the house and garden in Higher Trekenning now occupied by William Clemence. Also gives Thomas £200.

All the rest of his goods & chattels, rights, credits and effects, he gives to his son John Pender Paynter, whom he appoints sole executor of his last will and testament.

(Signed)

Witnesses: Tho^s Whitford, J Tom, Richard Berryman

In a codicil dated 5 Jan 1820 he revokes the legacy of £200 to his son Charles Henry Paynter, while confirming the legacy of five guineas to Charles' wife Fanny, and giving the further sum of two guineas to their daughter Emily Margaretta Bateman.