Bonallack

Bonallack is an estate and former barton in the civil parish of Constantine, Cornwall. The estate is named after the Banethlek family and is on the northern bank of the Helford River. Bonallack passed into the Jerveys family through marriage in the early 14th-century and to the Grylls family in 1671, again through marriage.

The Barton of Bonallack

The estate is named after the Banethlek family and passed to the Gerveys family when Nichola, the daughter and heiress of John Banethlek, married John Gerveis, of Helston, sometime in the early 14th-century. Three of the Jerveys represented Helston in Parliament. They were,

The family were benefactors to the grade 1 listed, parish church and there is a brass monument to Richard Geyreys and his wife Jane (nee Trefusis), who were both buried on 2 October 1574. They had sixteen children.[2] The last male heir to own Bonallack was Richard Gerveys, who died in 1658. His daughter and heiress, Elizabeth married Mr Charles Grylls, of Court, Lanreath in 1671.

In 1884 the owner, Lieut-Col S M Grylls put the barton up for auction. At that time the estate consisted of a ″modern-built genteel residence″, 107 acres (43 ha) of arable land, bailiff's cottage, dairy and carpenter's shop. The farm was under the occupation of a yearly tenant, at an annual rent of £105 and was under notice to quit by Michaelmas, 1885. The advertisement stated that the estate was good for freshwater and sea-fishing and excellent wildfowl shooting and especially woodcock.[3]

References
  1. "The Barton of Bonallack". The Cornishman (324). 2 October 1884. p. 4.
  2. Historic England & 1142141
  3. "Very Desirable Freehold Barton, Farm and Woods for Sale". The Cornishman. (324). 2 October 1884. p. 1.

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