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- Mounsteven Pedigree:
Rev. Joseph Bennett of Skisdon, Rector of Great Wigborough
MacLean's Deanery of Trigg Minor:
"Skisdon Lodge"
A pleasantly situated house. It was afterwards the property of Edward Grigg who married Mary, a daughter of John Nation, and resided here,whosedaughter Jane (Grigg) married the Rev, Joseph Bennett, sometime curate in charge of the parish; and where the Rev. Joseph Pomery, the Vicar,cameinto residence, Mr Bennett removed from the Vicarage into the house at Skisdon with his father-in-law. Mr Bennett added a wing to the cottage,builtthe garden walls, increased the land by purchase, and otherwise improved the property. Mr Grigg died 27th April 1789, and Mr Bennett verysoonafterwards, having devised Skisdon, inter alia, to trustees for his son John Bennett then a minor. It was soon afterwards sold.
Monument on the wall of the church at St Kew:
Sacred to the memory of Reverend Joseph Bennett LLB Late of Skisdon in the County who died 17th May 17.. Aged ..
"Parochial History of the County of Cornwall", 1876.
Skisdon Lodge, which may now be considered one of the chief residences in this parish, was formerly the property of the Rev, Joseph Bennett,rectorof Great Wigborough, Essex, who resided in it for many years. It afterwards belonged to the family of Grigg
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AIGS/FHC Member's - Family Trees
- 1789