Patronymica Cornu-Britannica: Or, The Etymology of Cornish SurnamesLongmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1870 - 160 pages |
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Patronymica Cornu-Britannica: Or, The Etymology of Cornish Surnames Richard Stephen Charnock Affichage du livre entier - 1870 |
Patronymica Cornu-Britannica, Or, The Etymology of Cornish Surnames Richard Stephen Charnock Affichage du livre entier - 1870 |
Patronymica Cornu-Britannica: Or, The Etymology of Cornish Surnames Richard Stephen Charnock Affichage du livre entier - 1870 |
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Alternun ancient Austell barton Blisland Bochym Bodmin C. S. Gilbert Carew castle CHENHALLS church COODE Cornish Cornish form Cornish name Cornish origin Cornish Surnames Cornwall corruption creek Crowan Cury derived Devon Domesday East hundred enclosure etymology extinct family of gentlemen formerly Gilbert says Gorran green grove Gwennap Hals renders Hals says head or promontory Hence perhaps Hence the names hill Illogan Issey Kerrier hundred KESTLE Ladock land Lanivet LANYON Lelant Lower Ludgvan Madron manor marsh Mawgan meadow Meneage mentioned by C. S. mill MITHIAN moor Mulfra name of places parish of St PENHALURICK Penkevil place called place named Polwhele pool probably Pryce gives Pryce renders Pryce translates represented Bodmin river rock rocky root signifies stone temp Tencreek Tonkin Tonkin says town or dwelling Tregeare TREGEW TREGIAN TREGONING TRELOWETH TRENEAR Treveal TREVENER valley village VOSE West hundred Wheal wood woody
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Page vii - In process of time each lordship was separated into various farms, by strong and permanent enclosures ; and the farms borrowed their respective names from their site on high or low ground — their relative situations — their vicinity to rivers and the sea — from the forma loci and its qualities — from woods, and particular trees and other vegetable productions — from their pasture and corn — from native animals — from tame or domestic animals, and from various circumstances which it...
Page xiii - Rambles in Western Cornwall, by the Footsteps of the Giants ; with Notes on the Celtic Remains of the Land's End District and the Isles of Scilly.
Page 59 - Lanher, ie templer; so called, for that long before that time was extant upon that place a chapel or temple dedicated to God in the name of St. Martin of Tours, the memory of which is still preserved in the names of St. Martin's fields and woods, heretofore perhaps the indowments of that chapel or temple; this Laner is still the voke lands or capital messuage of the Bishop of Exeter's manor of...
Page xiv - Cornu-Britannica, or an Essay to preserve the ancient Cornish language — containing the rudiments of that dialect in a Cornish grammar and Cornish-English vocabulary...
Page 116 - Tregagle is provided simply with a limpet shell, having a hole bored through it, and with this he is said to labour without intermission; in dry seasons, flattering himself that he has made some progress towards the end of his work; but when rain commences and the omnis effusus labor becomes apparent, he is believed to roar so loudly, in utter despair, as to be heard from Dartmoor Forest to the Land's End'.
Page 91 - Here it is said was born Sir Robert Tresulion, or Tresilian, Lord Chief Justice of England under Richard the Second, though some say he was born at another place. It certainly however belonged to a family of that name, till it went, or rather...
Page 23 - It may here be worthy of remark, that, as the miners impute the discovery of tin to St Perran, so they ascribe its reduction from the ore, in a large way, to an imaginary person, St Chiwidden ; but chi-wadden is white house, and must, therefore, mean a smelting or blowing house, where the black ore of tin is converted into a white metal.
Page 42 - God-ol-fyn, it, in like manner as the former, admits of no other etymology or construction than that it was a place that was altogether a wood, fountain, well, or spring of water, or altogether God's fountain or spring of water.
Page vii - Pohvhele,* who, speaking of the tracts of land around the castles of the ancient captains and princes of Cornwall, says : — " These little territories, the demesne lands of their several lords, were not divided into regular farms till the Romans. But before the Romans they probably gave name to their possessors. And the first Cornish families, deducing their names from their places, seem to have been distinguished by the appellations pen and tre.\ The pens, it is likely, were the more remarkable...
Page xiii - Antiquities, Historical and Monumental of the County of Cornwall, with a VOCABULARY of the CORNU-BRITISH LANGUAGE, engravings, 1769 ; 2 vols, folio, old sprinkled calf, gilt.