Longest Cornish Bloodline?

FlammNew · Post by **FlammNew** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:49 am

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 · Post by **Fulub-le-Breton** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:58 pm

Dydh da

Try this site for more help: http://www.cornwallfhs.com/

CJenkin · Post by **CJenkin** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:09 pm

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 · Post by **Tnc_uk** » Tue May 02, 2006 2:40 pm

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 · Post by **FlammNew** » Tue May 23, 2006 2:22 pm

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 · Post by **Kattell** » Fri May 26, 2006 12:15 pm

Oooh Flamm you're such an emmett

FlammNew · Post by **FlammNew** » Fri May 26, 2006 12:23 pm

LOL!

I know, I know...it'll take another 40 generations before I'm accepted as a local...

Angofbew · Post by **Angofbew** » Fri May 26, 2006 7:50 pm

don't kid yourself Flamm, LOL

Coady · Post by **Coady** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:12 pm

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 · Post by **Ellery** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:41 am

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-genealogy.org.uk/england/ ... index.html

Penfound · Post by **Penfound** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:49 pm

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! :-O :-O

Ellery · Post by **Ellery** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:30 pm

Penfound of Penfound p358
http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/england/ ... index.html

edited by: Ellery, Mar 25, 2007 - 11:31 PM

Penfound · Post by **Penfound** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:37 pm

Ooooo cheers Ellery! I'll give it a good read

Nige999 · Post by **Nige999** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:07 am

COAD, 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.

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