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Historical Cornwall History of the County of Cornwall - England Image right - Arms of the Duke of Cornwall: Sable, fifteen bezants. Bezants, adopted at an early period as a symbol of Cornwall, appearing frequently in Cornish heraldry. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wiki Commons Please join the project and add information if you can.
Cornwall Historic County of England. Image right - St.Piran's Flag of Cornwall - Created by Jon Harald Søby - Own work; Public Domain, Wiki Commons Related Projects Cornish People People Connected to Cornwall Cornwall Famous People Cornish History Historical Cornwall Historic Buildings of Cornwall Cornish Resources Cornwall - Bastardy Bonds and Inmates
Historic Buildings of Cornwall England Image right - Trerice, Newquay Image Geograph © Copyright Andrew Longton and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence. The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Cornwall, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with those e...
ENGLAND, United Kingdom - Place Projects This is a sub-project of International Places Project Index Every person is born somewhere, marries, lives, works and dies somewhere. Places are a key component to family history research. This project aims to be the starting point in your search for a place in ENGLAND on Geni to discover more about your ancestors. If a place you are looking for in E...
If you find in our tree a child/ancestor who was born without a reference to a father please add the profile here and list the link on the about page. In Cornwall mothers were often encouraged to name the child as the father, to assist in identity. Having a child out of wedlock at one stage was punishable with incarceration for a period of some months. Please see Cornwall - Bastardy Bonds and...
Cornish Americans - Amerikanek kernewek Cornish Americans ( Cornish : Amerikanek kernewek ) are Americans who describe themselves as having Cornish ancestry, an ethnic group native to Cornwall, a county in England. Although Cornish ancestry is not recognised on the United States Census, it is estimated that there are approximately 2 million people of Cornish descent in the U.S., which is fo...
The right to choose High Sheriffs each year is vested in the Duchy of Cornwall, rather than the Privy Council, chaired by the Sovereign, which chooses the Sheriffs of all other English counties, other than those in the Duchy of Lancaster. This right came from the Earldom of Cornwall. In the time of Earls Richard and Edmund, the steward or seneschal of Cornwall was often also the sheriff. This...
Descendants of William Mutton and Mary Parsons of St Clether Cornwall settled in South Australia and this project, over time will confirm this or not via DNA testing. Many went to NSW and there are also many in Canada and a few in South Africa. Please add profiles of the ancestors and decedents that have been proven by DNA testing. This usually requires a few results and some are not able t...
Cornish people or Cornish (Cornish: Kernowyon) are an ethnic group associated with Cornwall, in the south west of Great Britain, administered as part of England, and a recognised national minority in the United Kingdom. The Cornish thus represent a distinct ethnic group within the UK, which can trace its roots to the ancient Britons who inhabited southern and central Great Britain before the Ro...
This project will gather information about Cornishmen who mined metals and minerals like copper, kaolinite, and tin. Young Cornishwomen who worked at the mine surface may be added to the Bal Maidens project. Featured Profiles William Carbines 1893–1912 Second Class Passenger on the RMS Titanic Richard Trevithick 1771–1833 Developer of the First High-Pressure Steam Engine James Webber ...
This project deals with the Ancient Silurians of Cornwall, England, and Wales. Summary Ethnology Notables references, resources and links
Bastardy Bonds and InmatesBastardy Bonds were paid for children conceived and delivered out of wedlock, often the mother was incarcerated for having a baby out of wedlock. This project may assist in matching parents with children.Example of such an incarseration:* Institution Bodmin, Bridewell* Date Of Admission 27-Apr* Year Of Admission 1826* Register No 5007* Forename Ann* Surname AUNGER* Occ...
Tullimaar House, Cornwall, England Pictured Right: A front view of Tullimaar House, Perranarworthal, Cornwall, the former home of Nobel prize-winning novelist William Golding. Photograph: Jim Wileman Tullimaar House is a mansion just east of Perranarworthal in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom; it is not visible from the main A39 Falmouth to Truro road, and stands in private grounds. H...
Trewithen House, Cornwall, England One of the most elegant examples of 18th century architecture in Cornwall Trewithen House is an architectural gem that hasn’t significantly changed its outward appearance since 1715 when Philip Hawkins first bought it. Since then, ten generations of the same family have lived there. First mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086 when it was owned by the ...
Tresillian House, Cornwall, England Tresillian House is a country house in the parish of Summercourt, Cornwall, to the northeast of St Newlyn East, off the A3058 road, northeast of Newquay, Cornwall, England. It became a Grade II listed building on 30 May 1967. It is most associated with the Bennet family historically; John Bennet, Curate of Antony was once owner of the house and in 1837 it w...
Penhallam, Cornwall, England Penhallam (Cornish: Maner Pennalyn/Plas Pennalyn[1]) is the site of a medieval manor house surrounded by a protective moat. It was designated as a Scheduled Monument in 1996 and is now in the guardianship of English Heritage. Details The site is situated in the civil parish of Jacobstow in northeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, one mile west of Week St M...
Pentillie Castle, Cornwall, England Pentillie Castle is a grade II* listed[1] country house and estate, located on the banks of the River Tamar in Pillaton, near to St Mellion, in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. The nearby village of St Dominick at one time belonged to the estate. History From a poor background, Sir James Tillie (16 November 1645 – 15 November 1713) rose through...
Port Eliot, Cornwall, England Port Eliot in the parish of St Germans, Cornwall, England, UK, is the ancestral seat of the Eliot family, whose present head is Peregrine Eliot, 10th Earl of St Germans. Port Eliot comprises a stately home with its own church, which serves as the parish church of St Germans. An earlier church building was Cornwall's principal cathedral. The house is within an e...
Prideux Place, Cornwall, England= Prideaux Place is a grade I listed[2] Elizabethan country house in the parish of Padstow, Cornwall, England. It has been the home of the Prideaux family for over 400 years. The house was built in 1592 by Sir Nicholas Prideaux (1550–1627), a distinguished lawyer,[3] and was enlarged and modified by successive generations, most notably by his great-great-grandson...
The Rose in Vale Country House Hotel, Cornwall, England The Rose in Vale Country House Hotel , started as a Cornish Long house that consisted of two cottages. Mr Thomas Nankivell bought the property and in 1761 added the Iconic Georgian frontage. When Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nankivell lived there, John Opie, the renowned local painter, visited them, his sister being in service there. Ada Earlan...
Castles of Cornwall, England pictured right: St. Mawes Castle, Cornwall See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page See also Historic Buildings of Cornwall Project
Trelissick House, Cornwall, England Picture credit: © Copyright Chris J Dixon and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. Creative Commons The current house started life in the 1750's and has has seen many changes, both physical and in ownership. Ida Copeland gave the house along with the entire Trelissick estate to the National Trust in 1955 with the family retaining the ho...
Trelowth Manor, Cornwall, England= Trelowth (also Trelowith, or Trelowthe, or Trelowthes; meaning, "the town place of trees")[1][2] is a hamlet in Cornwall, England, UK. It lies 2.3 miles (3.7 km) by road southwest of central St Austell,[3] and is situated immediately to the northwest of Polgooth. The hamlet is part of the parish of St Mewan.===History===Trelowth was mentioned in Domesday Book ...
Lanyhydrock House, Cornwall, England Lanhydrock (Cornish: Lannhedrek,[1] meaning "church enclosure of St Hydrock") is a civil parish centred on a country estate and mansion in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish lies south of the town of Bodmin[2] and is bounded to the north by Bodmin parish, to the south by Lanlivery parish and to the west by Lanivet parish. The population was 171 in the 20...
Manor of Alverton, Cornwall, Engalnd= The Manor of Alverton was a former manorial estate located in the hundred of Penwith, west Cornwall, England, UK.===History===The first historical details of the manor were recorded in the Domesday book which stated that before the Norman conquest the manor was owned by a Saxon lord known as Alward.[1] There were 3 hides of land but Alward had paid tax only...
Heligan Estate, Cornwall, England Heligan (meaning "willows" in Cornish) is first recorded in the 12th century.[1] The estate was bought by Sampson Tremayne in 1659.[2] Heligan House was built by William Tremayne in 1603 in Jacobean style,[2] but only the basement of that house remains. The house was substantially rebuilt in 1692 by Sir John Tremayne (1647–1694) in William and Mary style [2] ...
Launceston Castle, Cornwall, England Launceston Castle (Cornish: Kastell Lannstefan) is located in the town of Launceston, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Early history The castle is a Norman motte and bailey castle raised by Robert, Count of Mortain, half-brother of William the Conqueror shortly after the Norman conquest, possibly as early as 1067. Others attribute its foundation to B...
Restormel Castle, Cornwall, England Restormel Castle (Cornish: Kastel Rostorrmel)[1] lies by the River Fowey near Lostwithiel in Cornwall, England, UK. It is one of the four chief Norman castles of Cornwall, the others being Launceston, Tintagel and Trematon. The castle is notable for its perfectly circular design. Although once a luxurious residence to the Earl of Cornwall, the castle became...
Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, England Tintagel Castle ( Cornish: Dintagel, meaning "fort of the constriction") is a medieval fortification located on the peninsula of Tintagel Island, adjacent to the village of Tintagel in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. The site was possibly occupied in the Romano-British period, as an array of artefacts dating to this period have been found on the pe...
Antony House, Cornwall, England= Antony House is the name given to an early 18th-century house, which today is in the ownership of the National Trust. It is located between the towns of Torpoint and the village of Antony in the county of Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is a Grade I listed building.The house is faced in silvery-grey Pentewan stone, flanked by colonnaded wings of mellow brick and ov...
Carclew House, Cornwall, England Carclew House , one of Britain's lost houses, was a large Palladian country house near Mylor in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It was situated at grid reference SW 787 380 approximately three miles north of Falmouth.[1] Carclew House was rebuilt in the 18th century and again in the early 19th century but was destroyed by fire in 1934.[2] Design and con...
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