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Cornish Family Names (Paperback)
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Cornish Family Names (Paperback)
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The Cornish have for a long time long considered themselves a race
apart from the English and their origins are indeed more related to
those of the Welsh, Scottish and Breton peoples than to most others
east of the River Tamar. Almost every town and village in Cornwall
has been used as a surname, and the traditional Cornish trades of
fishing and mining have also provided inspiration for family names.
Features of the landscape such as hills and rivers have had a huge
effect, with many of these containing elements of some names which
can be tracked back to the old Celtic language, for example the
prefixes Pen (headland) and Pol (pool). A lot of names are tied to
a particular area of Cornwall: Rodda and Bottrell are seldom found
east of Penzance, whilst names like Odgers, Opie and Wearne are
most common in mid-Cornwall around the mining areas of Redruth and
Gwennap. Surnames can reveal a lot about family history, but their
origins can be difficult to trace. This handy lexicon, drawn
together from an exhaustive research, serves as an ideal starting
point for tracing ancestry. Packed with information about notable
families and migration, this is also an ideal book for anyone
interested in the story of Cornish people.
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