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I can trace my family back to the William Basset born 1301 at Tehidy (in the parish of Illogan, Cornwall) who, in 1330, obtained a licence to 'crenelate his dwelling at Tehidy & to maintain it firm with stone & chalk'. I am not sure of his parents.
My father has a letter written to his grandfather in 1928 in which the writer states: "The early pedigree of the Bassetts (sic) of Ipsden and Tehidy is worked out in an early number of 'The Ancestor'." I have yet to find this magazine.
"The council (of the Devon & Cornwall Record Society) has in its possession in MS form a very exhaustive record of the Basset family in four folio volumes, compiled by Mr Reginald Metcalfe" according to The West Briton of April 19, 1928. "... corrects the inaccurate genealogies of the Basset family found in the usual books of reference. It shows that the original head of the family was Osmund Basset who, in the reign of Henry the First, lived at Ippesden, in Oxfordshire, and includes a full investigation of the difficult problems surrounding the acquisition by the Bassets in 1241 of the Manor of Tehidy from the De Dunstanville family." So far as I am aware the Society was never able to afford to publish this work, and I do not know what has become of the manuscript.
According to Michael Tangye, in his book "Tehidy and the Bassets" (now out of print), the Bassets obtained the manor of Tehidy by marriage of William Basset with Cecilia, heiress of the great house of de Dunstanville. I am also still searching for a copy of this book.
The mansion of Tehidy as it appears in 18th and 19th century prints was begun in 1734 by John Pendarves Basset, who died of smallpox in 1739. Arthur Francis Basset had to sell Tehidy in 1915 because of his gambling debts, and it became a TB hospital - which burnt down on February 24, 1919.
The writer of the letter quoted above (I cannot read his signature) also wrote that "Arthur Basset after he sold Tehidy went to the Estate Offices took the deeds out into the garden & set fire to them, an act of vandalism that deserves the severest censure".
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