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5 unusual facts about Cornish people


Austol

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

John Kitto

John Kitto (4 December 1804 – 25 November 1854) was an English biblical scholar of Cornish descent.

Second Cornish Uprising of 1497

The Second Cornish Uprising is the name given to the Cornish uprising of September 1497 when the pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck landed at Whitesand Bay, near Land's End, on 7 September with just 120 men in two ships.

Warbeck had seen the potential of the Cornish unrest in the 1st Cornish Rebellion of 1497 even though the Cornish had been defeated at the Battle of Blackheath on 17 June 1497.

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).


Baden Teague

The Teague family is Cornish, originating in Cornwall, United Kingdom, the name meaning "fair/beautiful" in the Cornish language.

Charles Incledon

Charles Benjamin Incledon (1763–11 February 1826, Worcester) was a Cornish singer, son of a doctor in St Keverne, Cornwall, and educated at Blundell's School and as a choirboy at Exeter, but then went into the navy.

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.

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.

Tregenza

Tregenza is a variation of the Cornish surname Tregenna.

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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