Sue or Suzy's full name was MARY SUZANNE TREBILCOCK.
One winter night in the late 1700s a fearsome storm howled across St Ives bay as a small Cornish Clipper approached The Island, full of Cornish folk on their way to a new life in mining. It smashed against the rocks beneath the coastguard station. All were washed ashore but for a young lady and her baby. Being the protective mum she refused to give up her child, and was about to step from the boat onto the ragged rocks when an enormous wave tore the baby clean out of her grasp, flinging it into the foaming seas.
That night and every night for 20 years after she could be seen by lantern light, mournfully walking around the back of The Island, across 'Meor and up to Mester (Porthminster) Point, where she would sit on Sue's Seat and sob, her anguished cries lost on the wind as they drifted out to sea. They can still be heard today by anyone who sits on that seat, and many claim to have witnessed a strange light moving around The Island and on 'Meor beach, but by the time they get there it has gone. Mary Suzanne Trebilcock is believed to have been laid to rest in an unmarked grave in Barnoon cemetery.
CODA - Since making this in March 2015 the seat is no more, presumably vandalised, but the legend lives on, as true today as it ever was.
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