John Smith, Free Settler “Abel Gower” 1836

John Smith (1811-1895), sheepbreeder, was born on 25 May 1811 at Trelanvean, St Keverne, Cornwall, England, son of John Smith, farmer, and his wife Elizabeth, née Cock. He reached Sydney in the Abel Gower on 22 April 1836, became station superintendent for John Maxwell at Narroogal in the Wellington District and in 1839 for John Betts, based on the Molong run.

Biography:

• Bertha Mac. Smith, 'Smith, John (1811–1895)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University

• Burke, Bernard, Sir, 1814-1892. cn; Burke, Ashworth Peter, 1864-1919. A genealogical and heraldic history of the colonial gentry, Vol. I; London, Harrison; 1891; page 341

2 books written about him

• The Life and Times of John Smith by David A. Rutherford, 1990
• Quench Not The Spirit by Bertha Mac. Smith, Hawthorn Press 1972

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Farmhouse

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1678748

John Smith was from Trelan vean, St Keverne Records such as Quench Not the Spirit have it recorded as one word "Trelanvean" where it is in fact 2 words. In 1884 Trelan vean was recorded as having 3 farms of 320 acres

From Wiki

St Keverne (Cornish: Lannaghevran) is a civil parish and village on The Lizard in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.[1]

In addition to the parish an electoral ward exists titled St Keverne and Meneage. This stretches to the western Lizard coast at Gunwalloe. The population of the ward at the 2011 election was 5,220.[2]

The Cornish Rebellion of 1497 started in St Keverne. The leader of the rebellion Michael An Gof ("the smith" in Cornish) was a blacksmith from St Keverne and is commemorated by a statue in the village. Before his execution, An Gof said that he should have "a name perpetual and a fame permanent and immortal". In 1997 a 500th anniversary march, "Keskerdh Kernow 500", celebrating the An Gof uprising, retraced the route of the original march from St Keverne, via Guildford to London.

Cornish language Wiki naturally has it reversed.

Lannaghevran (yn sowsnek, St Keverne) yw tre vyghan orth konna-tir an Lysardh yn Howlsedhes Kernow, Breten Veur. Omma y tallethas Rebellyans Kernewek 1497. Goen Hyli usi y'n kyrghyn.

Trelanvean uses the common Tre Cornish prefix for family settlement.

Lannaghevran St Keverne local history society has a detailed topography paper on their website

THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE PARISH OF ST.KEVERNE. (From the original documents and personal investigations by CHARLES HENDERSON, M.A. (Fellow of Corpus Christ! College,Oxford). Part One.

Extracts -

Thirty seven place names contain the word Tre(v), "a family settlement". The older of these are probably those containing personal names such as Tregellest or Tregonan. The others, like Trevean ("little town"),Trenance ("valley town"),Trenoweth ("new town") seem to date from a later time when the Trev had lost its personal or tribal significance.

BAHOW, now a field in Trelanvean (Le Bahow and Baehow 1250,Baghow 1318,Park an Bahoe (1625). In this field, once a separate holding, were many prehistoric graves, suggesting that the name is derived from Bedhow='graves'.In one of these was found the Celtic bronze mirror now in the British Museum. (Baghow means 'dungeons'.Grave pits may have suggested the name. R.M.N.)

TRELAN VEAN pron. Trellanvean (Trelanbighan 1250,1300,Trelangyghan 1350).i.e. Little Trelan. Fields In a survey of 1620 Park an Jefferye,Park an Bahowe(see Bahow),Parek and Pras(13),Parke Vean (12),Parke an Skeber(7),Parke an Dreant^ thorn f), Parke and Vorn (3)),Goone Vean (14),Goonenoweth(='New Down'). To these the Tithe Award of 1840 adds. Carrabones (v),P Pyas,The Warren,P Studies,Yewherns garden,? an Drea (3),P Skilly,Longstone and Crowsath. Trelan vean was separated from Trelan as early as 1278 when Thomas de Trelan byghan was Lord of it. In 1285 he was building a mill in the valley near Roscrowgey (q.v) In 1659 Trelanvean was owned or occupied by a well to do farmer, John Hayme. In 1800 it belonged to the Harrises of Camborne and so came to the Hartleys.