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Francis Treloar was baptised on November 14th, 1823 at St Gluvias Church, Penryn. He was then seven months old. No father’s name is given in the record. His mother is listed as Jane Bunny and the child is described as base-born i.e. born out of wedlock. Although there is no proof, it is very probable that his father was one Francis Treloar Snr of Penryn; there was a 23-year-old male of the same name living in Penryn at the time. It seems fairly unlikely that the names Francis Treloar would have been selected for the baptism record unless there was some link with that family; moreover, why should the child be given “Francis” as a forename unless there was some particular reason for it? The Francis Treloar who emigrated to South Australia in 1848 never mentioned his parentage to his children, or at least not to our present knowledge. Francis simply told everyone he was an orphan. This is very possibly true since it seems that his mother either died or disappeared when Francis was very young. Perhaps she fled in shame or went elsewhere to earn money to support her child. We know for a fact that he was brought up till he was 8 by the family of Phillis and William Symons.