Trevelan

The name Trevelyan is a local type of surname and the Trevelyan family lived in Cornwall, at the manor of Trevelyan, in the parish of St. Veep. The surname Trevelyan was first found in Cornwall where this "Cornish family traced to Nicholas de Trevelyan living in the reign of Edward I, whose ancestors were of Trevelyan, in the parish of St. Velap, near Fowey, [in Cornwall] at a still earlier period. THis Family is related to the Royal Tribe of Lyonesse.