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4 unusual facts about Cornish


Alan M. Kent

He is the author of a number of works on Cornish and Anglo-Cornish literature.

Celtic Christianity

The histories of the Irish, Welsh, Scots, Breton, Cornish, and Manx Churches diverge significantly after the eighth century (resulting in a great difference between even rival Irish traditions).

Cornish, Maine

Here converged three major Abenaki Indian paths—the Sokokis Trail (Route 5), the Ossipee Trail (Route 25) and the Pequawket Trail (Route 113), making it a central location for conducting with Native Americans the lucrative fur trade.

John Maxwell Edmonds

His father was a schoolmaster and later the vicar of Great Gransden, while his mother was the daughter of a self-made Cornish cloth manufacturer.


Angels We Have Heard on High

The carol quickly became popular in the West Country, where it was described as 'Cornish' by R.R. Chope, and featured in Pickard-Cambridge's Collection of Dorset Carols.

Austol

Saint Austol (or Austolus) was a 6th-century Cornish holy man who lived for much of his life in Brittany.

Battle of Ellandun

Ecgberht had devastated Cornish territory in 815 and in the autumn of 825 he was again campaigning against the Britons, at Gafulford.

Bernard Deacon

“Cornish or Klingon?: the standardization of the Cornish language”; Exeter, The University of Exeter Press; Cornish studies edited by Philip Payton, New series, No.

Bisbee Riot

The town had "rules" prohibiting Mexican men from working underground in the mines, instead the work was reserved for Welsh and Cornish miners.

Blunderbore

A giant named Blunderbore appears in the similar Cornish fairy tale "Tom the Tinkeard" (or "Tom the Tinkard"), a local variant of the more famous "Tom Hickathrift".

Bournonite

Later, still better crystals were found in another Cornish mine, namely, Herodsfoot mine near Liskeard, which was worked for argentiferous galena.

Cornish literature

Additionally, writers such as Nick Darke and Alan M. Kent have incorporated a Cornish background into English writing.

Cornish Pasty Association

Despite the resolution of the 2012 "Pasty tax" matter, the BBC has reported that some Cornish Pasty Association members are still unsure whether Value Added Tax applies to their baked goods.

Cornish Place

The first phase of the works were a U shaped series of buildings which fronted onto Cornish Street and the River Don and consisted of workshops, casting shops and offices.

Cornish Rebellion of 1497

The Crown decided to take the offensive and test the strength and resolve of the Cornish forces.

The Cornish Rebellion of 1497 is the main inspiration for the name of Cornwall's Rugby League team, The Cornish Rebels

Cornish Riviera Express

The Cornish Riviera Express is a British express passenger train that has run between London and Penzance in Cornwall since 1904.

Crowle

Alfred C. Crowle, the Cornish manager of the Mexican football team.

Cushendun

Cushendun village, was designed for Ronald McNeill, the Conservative MP and author later Lord Cushendun in the style of a Cornish village by the architect Clough Williams-Ellis.

David Treffry

David Treffry, a member of the old Cornish family of Treffry, was born at Porthpean in 1926.

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Surfing Tommies is a 2009 play by the Cornish author Alan M. Kent which follows the lives of three members of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry on a journey from the mines of Cornwall to the fields of Flanders, where they learned to surf with South African troops.

Francis Evans Cornish

Although he was re-elected to London's municipal council in 1871, Cornish had little interest in the city.

Frank Hutchens

Scholarships in composition are awarded annually in his name to students under 25, and his portrait, by Cornish painter Stanhope Forbes, is held by the Sydney Conservatorium to which he devoted so much of his working life.

Fred Cornish

Despite a large influx of new caps, Cornish was now playing in a Wales squad dominated with his Cardiff team mates; including captain Selwyn Biggs at centre and a threequarters trio of Jones, Nicholls and Huzzey.

Hangable Auto Bulb

The records are influenced by the early EPs of fellow Cornish producer Plug (Luke Vibert), as well as other Drum and bass movements of the day.

International Festival of Animated Objects

Past programming has included Canadian marionette superstar Ronnie Burkett, BC spectacle artists Three on the Tree, Tsimphisan carver Victor Reece, Cirque du Soleil artist Mooky Cornish, Phillip Huber (of "Being John Malkovich" marionette fame), Frank Meschkuleit ("Bride of Chucky", "The Left Hand of Frank"), Calgary's The Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Red Smarteez, and Czech group Buchty a Loutky, amongst others.

Jeff Haslam

He has worked at most of Edmonton's theatres, including the Citadel Theatre (Burn This, Hello Dolly and Little Shop of Horrors - for which he won his third Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award), Theatre Network (Habitat), Shadow Theatre (Almost Maine), Edmonton Opera (South Pacific and HMS Pinafore) as well as with playwrights Marty Chan, Conni Massing, Lyle Victor Albert, Raymond Storey, Doug Curtis, Jocelyn Ahlf, Cathleen Rootsaert and Belinda Cornish.

Jim Wearne

In spring 2002 at Castel Pendynas, Pendennis, Falmouth in Cornwall, Wearne was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd for services to Cornish Music in America (in Cornish: Rag gonys dhe Ylow Kernewek yn Ameryky) with the bardic name Canor Gwanethtyr - Singer of the Prairie.

John Bodvel

In 1657 his wife arranged a marriage between their second daughter Sarah and Robert Robartes son of John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor, a wealthy Cornish Presbyterian and former Parliamentarian field-marshal.

Johnston Cornish

Cornish was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1893 to March 3, 1895.

Jon Cornish

In addition, Cornish's 5.8 yards per carry is the highest single-season mark in school history by a back with more than 200 carries, higher than that of former Kansas greats Gale Sayers and John Riggins.

Julyan Holmes

Born in 1948, Holmes has worked on such topics as Cornish placenames, the Prophecy of Merlin of John of Cornwall, and the writings of the Penwith School.

Kernewek Kemmyn

In 1987 Kesva an Taves Kernewek (Cornish Language Board) voted to adopt the Kernewek Kemmyn form of Cornish as its standard.

King of the Britons

The Britons or Brythons were the Brythonic-Celtic-speaking people of what is now England, Wales and southern Scotland, whose ethnic identity is today maintained by the Welsh, Cornish and Bretons.

Launceston Castle

In 1646 the castle was used as the base for the Cornish Royalist defence of Cornwall.

Luke Cornish

In 2012, Cornish became the first stencil artist to become a finalist in the prestigious Archibald Prize, the largest portrait award in Australia.

Madron

The word Modron appears in Cornish and Welsh literature, Modron being the mother goddess, mother of Mabon (after whom the parish and village of St Mabyn is named).

Marazion

The book is a personal study of recruits into the Coldstream Guards in the early years of World War II; a Cornish recruit is said to have a Jewish appearance, and the author makes the link.

Marika Hanbury-Tenison

In 1959, at the age of twenty, she married the Cornish explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison, and lived with him in a fourteenth-century farmhouse on Bodmin Moor.

Marjorie Blamey

Marjorie Blamey lives with her husband Philip at their home in the Cornish village of St Germans.

Matthew Montagu, 4th Baron Rokeby

He represented the Cornish constituencies of Bossiney (1786–90), Tregony (1790–95) and St Germans (1806–12) in the British Parliament and succeeded his brother as 4th Baron Rokeby in 1829.

Newlyn

Daines Barrington, Georg Sauerwein, and Henry Jenner who all collected Cornish writings or sayings, and the latter two became proficient in its use.

Newlyn RFC

Newlyn, like many Cornish towns and villages, was hit by the migration of its young men and shortly after, the club disbanded only to restart in 1904 as a Senior Club.

Ricatus

The sixteenth-century Cornish language drama Beunans Meriasek ('The Life of St Meriasek') at lines 2463-65 mentions four Cornish kings.

Richard Nancekivell

Nancekivell started his rugby career with Launceston Rugby Football Club (The Cornish All Blacks) along with his two brothers Roly and Eddie.

Richard Parkyn

"Parkyn, a friend of the Cornish hero James Polkinghorne died at Parkyn Shop where he and his ancestors resided during 170 years on 28 May 1853, aged 81 years."

Sheryll Murray

Born Sheryll Hickman at Millbrook, Cornwall, to Cornish parents, her mother's family lived at Millbrook and her father's family originated from Calstock.

T. J. Trevelyan

Thomas Jordan Trevelyan (born March 6, 1984 in Mississauga, Ontario) is a Canadian, of Cornish descent, professional ice hockey player for the Augsburger Panther of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).

The Judge Charles J. Vallone School

Prior to becoming the Judge Vallone School, it was the Humphry Davy School, named after the Cornish scientist.

Transport in Cornwall

Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick (who was developing high pressure stationary steam engines for Cornwall's industries) produced the world's first locomotive in 1802 by mounting an engine on wheels to run on rails.

Tregenza

Tregenza is a variation of the Cornish surname Tregenna.

Trethurgy

Carne Farm, Trethurgy is the birth place of Silvanus Trevail, a president of the Society of Architects and the architect of many well known Cornish hotels such as the Headland Hotel, Newquay and the Carbis Bay Hotel, Carbis Bay.

Vanessa Beeman

When visiting Cornwall she stayed with her paternal grandfather, Sidney Hocking, who was Cornish and had Henry Jenner's A Handbook of the Cornish Language among his Cornish book collection.


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