Buriton Area 1842

treeve · Mar 16, 2010

The town ended here until 1755 with Alverton Terrace beginning. Then it began opening up in 1815. If you see a red shape, it is a dwelling, a grey shape is commercial or storage, etc. 'Buriton House' dates from 1817. Wellington Terrace had been built, believed built by a Richard Wellington with his mining fortune, in around 1840.

trepolpen · Mar 16, 2010

I see you have gone for a Buriton, Treeve!

treeve · Mar 17, 2010

One promoted myth across the internet is that Buriton was an old name FOR Penzance. Long before the e-age, George Bown Millett writes in 1876. The term “Buriton alias Penzance” has been said by Polwhele to occur in the Valor Ecclesiasticus of Henry VIII., but this is questionable. “Buriton” certainly will be found there, but it refers to a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. 'Buriton alias Penzance' does occur, however, in a comparatively modern document, viz.—the deed of consecration of St. Mary’s chapel, in 1680, subsequently to the town having been constituted a borough, and it has even been suggested that the word is a mere corruption of Borough town; but there is a dash of antiquity and a flavour of romance about the name, to which doubtless it owes much of the vitality it still possesses. To quote one document, with no traceable literary path of the application of Buriton to the area is worrying.
In that context, the name Buriton must have been given to this house, for Courtney (1845) is very specific in stating that since 1825 Park Corner and Buriton Row had not altered. Since house, grounds with land and housing property were all constructed in the year 1817-1818, it all seems to represent a small town for William Berryman, I would have imagined.

treeve · Mar 30, 2010

Buriton House : Tithe Map 1842
At that time, North Parade shown divided, as it was built, before the advent of Morrab Road, eventually to be routed through this gap. Buriton House seen here built before it was named Buriton House on a map. Large garden, with high walls. Two ostler’s cottages, a lane passes down to the coach house and stables, with an access to Buriton Row. Park Cottage and Park Corner all built. The lane stops at the edge of the fields, the route to Alverton Well did originally not come this way. Penlee Park was not the Park of which these houses were named – Penlee Park did not exist [currently investigating just what park that was, though I do have a recollection having read of a very old park in this area]. Courtney does not specifically mention as much in 1845, but in 1878 he is very clear that North Parade, Park Corner and Buriton Row ‘had not altered since 1825’. In 1844 Park Cottage was occupied by William Henry Rodd.

In 1844 The Mary Berryman Boarding School is listed in Pigot. The 1823 Pigot lists William Berryman’s surgery in ‘West Street’ ie Alverton Street (Alverton Lane). Penzance is a Buriton, a Borough Town. So I imagine that he named it for his own ‘town’, after all he was not short of a few pounds. The House was built in 1817 [28 Feb 1817] by William Berryman, using his wife's considerable fortune from her father’s tin mines. (Elizabeth Penberthy d1841 d/o Thomas Penberthy 31st dec 1794), he had also bought into a partnership with John Bingham Borlase (son of George, grandson of the William Borlase) the surgeon of Penzance and mayor, as well as tutor of Sir Humphry Davy.

As they put it then ... It is of no small curiosity to find residing in 1841, in the Census of that year, residing in Clarence Street, the parents of the above William Berryman. Namely William Berryman and his wife Maria, both 75 years of age. With them was their grandson of just 20 years of age. Not unnaturally in the wake of his father's death he was taken into his grandparent's care. By 1851 the school was flourishing. With Mary J Berryman (head) and Eliza (sister and Schoolmistress); There was Eliza Hopkins the Governess. Two neices had inherited the property and Mary E Berryman, together with Maria L Berryman were Landed Proprieters, employing Ellen L Richards in the dealings with the management of the housing and property. As well as 15 Scholars.

William (b1793)) had two sisters, Mary and Elizabeth who, after William's death in 1835 [42 years he was christened 9th August 1793, s/o William and Maria (Pearce) Berryman], ran the boarding school for little girls, training them to be proper, somewhat like the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. The building has two staircases, one grand. the other narrow and enclosed. There is servant's sleeping quarters in the attic, and a capacious basement for kitchen, scullery and washroom. The living rooms are vast with a very high ceiling. Another schoolmistress was Lucinda Cox. Despite its size, the building must have been bursting at the seams.

William Berryman died in 1843 William Berryman' son Arthur was consulting surgeon to the Penzance Public Dispensary and Infirmary. It was a large house to keep going, so it was sold off to Francis Boase (Surgeon) in 1852, to move his surgery from Chapel Street. Francis Boase born 1819, was the son of John Boase of Castle Horneck. He had his portrait painted by Opie 1880. Town Councillor, eight times Mayor, Magistrate, Justice of the Peace, married Margaret Marrack 1852. Francis Boase died in 1888, whereupon the house passed to John Symons, also a Surgeon. The grounds originally were substantial and high walled. There was a coach house with hay loft.

The cottages in Buriton Row were a part of the grounds. John Symons was born Penzance son of John Netherton Symons in 1854. Associate of King's College, a partner of Francis Boase from 1876, Surgeon at West Cornwall Infirmary, still living at Buriton House in 1914, MRCS. It was during that period that the basement was taken over as a surgery.

The building then went to The Rates Office, then Geoffrey Drewitt and Associates/Drewitt and Drewitt, then Ken Furse. It is now The Cornishman Office.

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