Heligan estate

:::"For Helligan, in the civil parish of St Mabyn, North Cornwall see St Mabyn"

The Heligan estate was the ancestral home of the Tremayne family, near Mevagissey in Cornwall. The family also held property at Sydenham in Devon.

The estate was let out and then sold, after the First World War. The garden was not maintained but was rediscovered and rescued in a televised project "Lost Gardens of Heligan" in 1996 ["The Tremaynes and the Gardens at Heligan" in Philip McMillan Browse (Editor) "Heligan survivors: an introduction to some of the historic plantstock discovered in the "Lost gardens of Heligan",Penzance, Alison Hodge (2007) ISBN 978-0-906720-53-0, pp.4-5. and [http://www.heligan.com/flash_index.html Heligan: The story - Timeline on "Lost gardens of Heligan" offical website.] ] .

The estate was originally bought by the Tremaynes in the sixteenth century. The members of the family who developed the garden were:

*Rev. Henry Hawkins Tremayne (15 July 1741-10 February 1829) [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ni4BAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA23-PA1&lpg=RA23-PA1&dq=Burke's+landed+gentry+tremayne&source=web&ots=n4j8UFBpzM&sig=W7aSSo51gFmVnpcxeje-devs0Vs&hl=en#PPA1535,M1 A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain 1863, p.1535: Tremayne descent.] ] .
*John Hearle Tremayne (1780-1851), son of Henry Hawkins
*John Tremayne (1825–1901), son of John Hearle
*John Claude Tremayne (known as "Jack"), son of John Tremayne.

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