Topic:	Longest Cornish Bloodline?
FlammNew Posts: 1814 Posted: 3.Apr 2006 - 10:49	Hi all, I've been researching my family tree and have managed to get a continuous line back to ~1590. A friend has gone back to ~1500 (and with less certainty, ~1300). I'm curious to know how far back members of the forum have traced their Cornish ancestry?
Fulub-le-Breton Posts: 3482 Posted: 3.Apr 2006 - 16:58	Dydh da Try this site for more help: http://www.cornwallfhs.com/
CJenkin Posts: 645 Posted: 3.Apr 2006 - 21:09	My paternal Jenkin line goes directly back to West Penwith moors in the early 1600s when they were farming at Bosullow - definitely kernewegor! My maternal - paternal line stops at about 1690/1700 in Crowan though the family name comes from a Hamlet in Wendron and there are records of them going back to 1590s in BMD registers and the surname appears in both the 16th century muster rolls - so they could have been at Blackheath and Exeter!
tnc_uk Posts: 1 Posted: 2.May 2006 - 14:40	I can trace my line (the Rails - Also spelled Rayle, Raile, Real depending on the spelling ability of the census taker etc) back to about 1580 in St. Gluvius where a Alexander Rail was born .. he then married a Ann Hobbe and the rest is History I would love to know what happened before 1580 but details and records are sketchy to say the least Chris Rail
FlammNew Posts: 1814 Posted: 23.May 2006 - 14:22	Sadly it's not in Cornwall, but I've now found that one of my lines (potentially) goes right back to William the Conqueror and beyond to Norway in around 788. As it's 40-odd generations back though I think my Norwegian blood is pretty dilute!
Kattell Posts: 259 Posted: 26.May 2006 - 12:15	Oooh Flamm you're such an emmett :wink:
FlammNew Posts: 1814 Posted: 26.May 2006 - 12:23	LOL! I know, I know...it'll take another 40 generations before I'm accepted as a local...
angofbew Posts: 841 Posted: 26.May 2006 - 19:50	don't kid yourself Flamm, LOL
Coady Posts: 1648 Posted: 7.Jun 2006 - 23:12	COAD, Cornish language isn't it? Possibly "old" in Cornish, or "Small wood, copse or spinney" (other SENSIBLE suggestions welcome...) I always hoped it meant something 'romantic' .....bit of a come down to realise its just the Cornish equivalent to "Olds" or "Woods"....ah well.....!! Maternal line is OATEY, with a family legend that they were originally persecuted French Protestants (Huguenots?) Couch's, Richards' and Semmens' also feature, nothing famous to date, (other than being servants at Lanhydrock) Direct ancestors, Semmens' were active in developing copper mining in Malaya, thus hastening the end of Cornish mining! (Black sheep?)
Ellery Posts: 286 Posted: 24.Mar 2007 - 00:41	Ellery Rooks Brewer Bounsell Coombe Williams Martyn Trevarthen Hicks Rundell Truscott Paynter Vivian Davey Glanville Kestell Edwards Hender Tyler Lukye Saer Retallack Beare Antron Bevil Haweis Marke Keigwin Courtenay Devioke Boscowen Trengrove Kendall Trethurth St Aubyn Arundell Le Soor De La Beere Carminnow Dinham Pomeroy Tredigney Trefouis De Roche Lanherne Penthievre Champernowne Bray Hockin Anvelen Chaple Tonkyn Varco Tresidder Osborne I could go into much greater detail! see http://www.uk-g...s/index.html We will make Cornwall see the lies. We will open up their eyes. We Cornish born and bred. We fight on till we all are dead. http://petition...nocide-1549/
Diane Posts: 789 Posted: 25.Mar 2007 - 09:33	My maternal line of Stone has been traced back to a Humphry Stone in the 1600, around the time of the fire of London,[ which fascinated my children]
Penfound Posts: 38 Posted: 25.Mar 2007 - 22:49	Father's paternal grandmother was a Penfound (no surprise) - traced to 1358 at Penfound, Poundstock. This date because that year William de Penfound was murdered in Poundstock church!
Ellery Posts: 286 Posted: 25.Mar 2007 - 23:30	Penfound of Penfound p358 http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/england/Cornwall/visitations/index.html edited by: Ellery, Mar 25, 2007 - 11:31 PM We will make Cornwall see the lies. We will open up their eyes. We Cornish born and bred. We fight on till we all are dead. http://petition...nocide-1549/
Penfound Posts: 38 Posted: 25.Mar 2007 - 23:37	Ooooo cheers Ellery! I'll give it a good read
nige999 Posts: 227 Posted: 26.Mar 2007 - 08:07	QuoteCOAD, Cornish language isn't it? Possibly "old" in Cornish, or "Small wood, copse or spinney" Coed in Welsh means wood, as in a group of trees. Proud to be Cornish !
PengellyITA online Posts: 112 Posted: 26.Mar 2007 - 22:24	Jim Hosking (of St Buryan, People, Places, Past and Present and other great books) has traced my family back to Botrea Farm in the early 1800s. Jim married a cousin of mine who was a Pengelly. I might have to start digging myself but I do have every relative on a family tree from that date onwards. My mother was a Curnow and Bill Curnow, of Florida, is my 17th-removed cousin, and has my family tree among his database of 7,000 Curnows. So that will be my hobby when my hair goes very grey...
Nosdan online Posts: 958 Posted: 27.Mar 2007 - 11:26	I relate back to the Lander's (Circa 1800) but, I think my bloodline is heavily dilluted with Tripps, I think they're D***shire folk. My other side of the family is Irish, But thy go way back in Roscommon. Mar vedhow avel gelvinek (as maazed as a curlew)*
FlammNew Posts: 1814 Posted: 20.Apr 2007 - 16:44	Ah, well, there are Landers in my family too, and I've a record of two of them riding to Truro to meet the explorers John & Richard Lander on their return from Africa in c1831. dukkha-samudaya-nirodha-magga
kernow62 Posts: 2 Posted: 1.Sep 2007 - 18:36	My BERRYMAN/BERRIMAN line goes back in Zennor to the earliest records in about 1518 with certainty. My Martins gang I have traced back to about 1650. Mostly they are in Towednack. Same time period with my HOSKINGs in Lelant. My Phillips tree goes back only to @1700 in Gwinear before I am stumped. The line that has me really at a brick wall is my UREN line which I have only to @1750 at Ludgvan. Incidentally if you want Cornish surname meanings, look at my site. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~kernow/index.htm
srule Posts: 85 Posted: 3.Sep 2007 - 10:37	Kernow62 wrote "The line that has me really at a brick wall is my UREN line which I have only to @1750 at Ludgvan." BLOODY FOREIGNERS!
Nosdan online Posts: 958 Posted: 3.Sep 2007 - 18:40	Ive heard of Uren before... Cant remember why? Mar vedhow avel gelvinek (as maazed as a curlew)
Countrysider Posts: 124 Posted: 25.Mar 2008 - 19:16	I have traced the Grose family back to Philip Grose born in 1596 at St-Just-in-Penwith. One of the strangest names I have in my family tree is Emblem Paskow 1662 also born at St-Just-in-Penwith. Ban the ban
JonFlower Posts: 35 Posted: 28.Apr 2008 - 23:28	FlammNewHi all, I've been researching my family tree and have managed to get a continuous line back to ~1590. A friend has gone back to ~1500 (and with less certainty, ~1300). I'm curious to know how far back members of the forum have traced their Cornish ancestry? Forgive my ignorance but how did you go about this research? I have to admit that I don't even know beyond grand parent level! I have heard there are some companies that specialise in family history research - for a price! I don't mind paying, but can someone recommend a decent one?

Proud to be Cornish !