Names starting with these old Celtic Cornish words are certainly common in Cornwall,
but there are many other names which you may bear that can be Cornish also!
Perhaps you are Cornish too!
Ahearn Andrewartha Angove Anning Annear Arthur Baragwaneth Bastian Bell Berryman Blamey Boden Bolitho Bonython Bosanko Bray Brock Burrows Cass Causley Collis Chegwidden Chynoweth Climo Clews Colenso Colley Connor Couch Craddick Crago Crocker Curnow/Kerno Deane Dobell Drew |
Eddy Endean Ellery Ellis Elliott Evans Faull Fenton Frayne Fry Gay Geake Gee Glasson Godden Goldsworthy Goninan Goss Grose Grigg Gundry Hain/Haines Hale Hancock Hannaford Hart Hannah Harvey Hawke Hellyer Hendry/Hendy Hocking Hosking Hoskins Hutchens Inch Isbel |
Jago/Jacka James Jewell Johns Joliffe Jolly Jory/Jose Julian Keast Keen Kemp Kent Kersey Kinsey Kirby Kitto Laity Lander Lawry/Lowry Lean Leggo Lock Lyon May Mayne Menadue Moon Moyle Mundey Nance Nankervis Negus Nicholls/Nicholas Odgers Otes/Oates Olver |
Pascoe Pawley Perrin Phillips Prowse Quick Richards/Rickard Roach Roberts Rogers/Rodgers Rodda Ruse/Rouse Sara Sanders Skewes Symons/Simmons Stevens/Stephens Tangye Teague Terrill Thorne Tonkin/Tink Truscott Tyack Uren Veale/Vial Vivian Vosper Voss Warren Warne/Wearne |
Tre = Homestead, Pol = Pool, Pen = Head, Ros = Heath, Car = Camp, Lan = Churchyard
A good reference book is G. Pawley White's classic "A Handbook of Cornish Surnames"
1972 (Ed 2. 1981) from Dyllansow Truran"
Modern Cornish first names for your children
Cornwall Family History Society
Cornish Surnames at Rootsweb
The Cornish Association of NSW
34 Circular Avenue, Sawtell 2452 Australia
(02) 6699 2967
Email: Chris Dunkerley
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