Cornwall Team
Location: Cornwall, England
Surnames/tags: Cornwall Isles_of_Scilly
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Welcome to the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Counties Team Page!
Here, we focus on all things Cornwall - from One Place and Name Studies, Cornish Orphans, Historical Events (mining incidents, war service, the Cornish Diaspora), and everything in between.
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Members
Team Leader: Ros Haywood
Team members:
- Carol Baldwin
- Lawrie Bingham
- Sue Boutle
- Terry Conroy
- Brad Cunningham
- Roger Davey
- Jerry Ellis
- Jo Fitz-Henry
- Hilary Gadsby
- Darren Gladman
- Chris Goff
- Melissa Gridley
- Lizzie Griffiths
- Sarah Grimaldi
- Ros Haywood
- Noa-Charles Heermans
- Vicki Heneker
- Martin Hobbs-Watson
- Jean Hollis
- Karyn Homburg
- Nan Lambert
- Heather Lawn
- Marian MacLeod
- Susie MacLeod
- Irene Marlborough
- Ken McEvoy
- Duane Merritt
- Alison Moulden
- Andrea Pack
- Susan Pearson
- Neil Perry
- Terry Poole
- Dave Roberts
- Frank Rosch
- M Rosewarne
- Malcolm Rowlands
- Kai Schenck
- Pip Sheppard
- Ian Speed
- Gillian Thomas
- Amelia Utting
- Elizabeth Viney
- Doug Warren
- Fran Weidman
- Sandra Williamson
Goals
The Cornwall and Scilly Isles Team covers the county of Cornwall, England and the Scilly Isles. Our goal is to ensure that all Cornwall & Scilly Isles profiles are high quality, in line with the formatting and sourcing requirements of the England Project, as complete as possible with requisite detail, and connected to the global tree.
Additionally, all profiles where the person was born in Cornwall should have an England Sticker at the beginning of their profile, with Cornwall set as the county.
- The formatting for this is as follows:{{England Sticker|Cornwall}}
Topics
If you have a particular interest, or find that your skills best suit a certain area, like sorting out our Unconnected Cornish profiles, finding sources for the Unsourced, resolving suggestions, or cleaning up GEDCOM Data, there are plenty of topics for you to select from and aim your contributions towards. Feel free to click & choose one to work on as your time and interest permits - every contribution helps!
General
- Cornwall Unsourced Profiles
- Cornwall Unconnected Profiles
- Cornwall database suggestions
- Cornwall Emigrants
- Cornwall Notables
- Quakers in Cornwall
One Name Studies
- The Jolliffe Name Study includes the spelling Juleff. It begins in Cornwall (notably Cuby) and spreads out to Australia and Canada.
- The Pellyne Name Study, which originally focussed on Pellynes in Lanreath, has expanded its horizons to the rest of Cornwall as well.
- The Stanton Name Study has many Cornish Stantons; a page covering their migration within the county and out can be found here.
- The Tonkin Name Study covers the Tonkins throughout Cornwall, spear-headed by Karyn Homburg.
- The Treloar Name Study is worldwide, starting from Wendron.
Team Member Specific Interests
- Lawrie Bingham - Conflation: two profiles for Walter Tresize being Tresize-45 and Tresize-22 both showing Margaret Old as the spouse; need to identify correct Walter Tresize and the relation between them, as both show weak DNA Links. PM Lawrie with questions. Note: Although not shown on the profile, a Baptism may be viewed at: [Cornwall OPC].
- Brad Cunningham - Maternal ancestors in Ladock, Truro, Probus, Redruth. Mother's family name is Juleff (Jolliffe).
- Roger Davey - Davey family around Perranarworthal & Ponsanooth.
- Lizzie Griffiths - Sloggett Family of Bodmin.
- Sarah Grimaldi - St Just in Penwith and the surrounding parishes.
- Ros Haywood - family surnames Haywood, Dunstone, Avery, Ley; family origins Maker, Rame, Millbrook, Cawsand, Kingsand, Mevagissey.
- Karyn Homburg - Tonkin One Name Study
- Nan Lambert - One Place Study for the Parish of Landulph.
- Ken McEvoy - Treloar, Carkeek, and Isbell families, from Redruth and Wendron.
- Terry Poole - Cornish miners that emigrated in the 1800’s to California, USA to work in the gold mines.
- Dave Roberts - Hockridge (Kilkhampton), Chenoweth (Camelford).
- Pip Sheppard - The Parish of Gulval.
- Gillian Thomas - Cornish immigrants to Australia. Surnames: Thomas, Bray, Hawke, and Vivian.
- Elizabeth Viney - Greet One Name Study, families in the Roseland Peninsular.
- Doug Warren - Primary surnames: Warren, Paull, Noake, Common(s), James, Savage, Bullock, Oats; Secondary surnames: Arundel, Curnow, Williams, Shakerley, Tonkin, Tresize, Michell, Treeves, Nicholas, Ellis, Matthew, Bennet, Pears, Cock, Langdon, Trethewy, Hender, Durant, Trevathion, Pellour, Plises, Wrotham, Bohun, Godolphin. Beauchamp, Killigrew, Trenouth, Tregarthen, Thomas; Main places: Pendeen, Trewellard, Boscaswell, St Just in Penwith, St Column Major, Newlyn, Sennen, St Agnes, Towednack, Gulval.
- Fran Weidman - Cornwall mining disasters and the St. Just area mining families.
Team Challenges
We have one main challenge team connected to the England Project, the Mighty Oaks (which is occasionally subdivided down depending on participation levels).
Members of the England Counties teams are encouraged to join and participate from time to time in WikiTree challenges for England.
- Mighty Oaks The England Project team for the various "Thons" run by WikiTree.
The England Project itself will run internal challenges regularly, in which we focus our collective brain power on a specific area, name, or suggestions list. These are announced through the England Project Newsletter that is sent out via email.
Resources & Statistics
This page contains a variety of Cornish resources to assist you in your work:
Here, you can access a breakdown of the impact we are having on Cornish Profiles, as well as the work that remains, with the county statistics page.
The latest statistics for England and all other counties are located here for your perusal.
Categorization is an important part of the profile-building process; please look over the relevant categories, and add them as you go.
Joining Up
If you are interested in helping with Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, please feel free to look at the England Project page and sign up via the G2G post.
If you have any questions about Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly, please contact the team leader above.
- Login to request to the join the Trusted List so that you can edit and add images.
- Private Messages: Send a private message to the Profile Manager. (Best when privacy is an issue.)
- Public Comments: Login to post. (Best for messages specifically directed to those editing this profile. Limit 20 per day.)
- Public Q&A: These will appear above and in the Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum. (Best for anything directed to the wider genealogy community.)
Just wanted to touch base about a question regarding Cornwall’s categories. An individual outside of the EP has created multiple superfluous locality categories that are subdivided by time frame. The Categorizations PC and I are in discussion about what to do with them, namely removing them or not. If you could shoot me a PM, or respond here, any feedback would be appreciated! To be clear, we are for removing the extraneous categories.
I’ve attached an example here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Breage1600
Best, Sarah Grimaldi, Cornwall TL
1. John Harvey -1759 Founded Harvey and Co of Hayle which was the largest Foundry and Engineering Works in the world they designed and built and supplied Beam Engines and Pumps throughout the world where there were mines and damns.
He was Richard Trevithick's father-in-law
2 .Henry Harvey-1700 John Harvey's son who took over Harvey and Co and improved and developed the business he played a large part in making Hayle in Cornwall as the largest Mining Port.as well as increasing exports of the various mining products
3. Arthur Woolf-901 Famous Cornish Engineer for inventing a high-pressure steam engine which was used all over the world where there was a mine
Its common knowledge that he invented the first low pressure Steam Engine and also the worlds first Steam Locomotive but he also was an inventor as follows little known facts about him
1801 His Steam Powered Puffin Devil climbed a hill in Camborne making this the first successful steam locomotive
1803 He built and drove a Steam Bus in London carrying passengers
1804 He demonstrated a steam locomotive at Penydarren in Wales which reached eight and a half miles pulling 10 tonnes of iron with 70 passengers
He also designed a steam powered threshing machine which seperated grain from the stalks.
His high pressure boiler was used to improve James Watt's engines in factory's and ships and his Cornish engines was used all over the world to pump water from mines
1816 Whilst in Peru he joined the rebel of Simon Bolivar fighting for independence from Spain he invented a gun for Bolivar.
He also invented a indoor heater
He also planned to build a tower in London 300 meters high to celebrate the Reform Act this tower would have been as high as the Eiffel Tower but sadly he did not live long enough to begin the project
And he allegedly could throw a sledgehammer over the top of a Cornish Engine House
He died in Dartford, Kent whilst designing a refrigerator and was buried there.
There is a stain glass window in Westminster Abbey with him appearing as St Piran with a Cornish Flag
Truly a remarkable man
I just wanted to let you know that Roger Davey will be stepping down as Team Leader of Cornwall for the England Project. He has been an amazing TL and we are all very grateful for his enthusiasm for Cornwall and Cornish genealogy. A new TL will be appointed as soon as possible. Thank you Roger and all the best. Elizabeth :-)
The English Civil War 1642-1651
The resistance of some churches in allowing their records to be transcribed and it still happens in some parishes for the earlier records
edited by Roger Churm
Also estimated to be six million people worldwide with Cornish Ancestry
I have been a member of the Cornwall team for a number of years, but have not exactly been proactive. Largely my fault, but I have not been inactive! My main interests are the Rashleigh family. This impacts also on notables, aristocracy and medieval. There are many less notable Rashleighs as well involved in mining, agriculture and fishing. There are spin off families as well, Bray, Jose and Trethowan.
Just wanted to pop by and say I'm quite pleased to be a member of this team! My specific area of research has been St Just in Penwith, focusing on the Tresise, Trewren, and Tonkin surnames (so many T's!). Please let me know if I can be of assistance for anyone stuck there =)
Best, Sarah
Regards to all
Roger Davey - Cornwall Team Leader
Could I have a little help I am working on a family group that appear to originate in a place call Polgrean in Cornwall I am not finding any links to the place, it is not in the category list for Cornwall and without place details reluctant to create a new category. Appreciate any assistance.
On another note the England challenge is now one team the Might Oaks see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Mighty_Oaks
Also this link on your team page is non-functioning Cornwall Place Categories
Regards Janet
The record has it listed as Polgrean, Cornwall, England so could be a transcription error thanks for the suggestion. It comes up as a surname in searches I have run so far. Birth place is only given as Cornwall in the 1841 census. Back to the research :)
Also a Polgrean Farm South of Helston
Suggest you create one yourself - https://www.wikitree.com/contact/category/ OR contact the Categorization Project - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Categorization
Looks like this is maybe an error - I have put a question on G2G https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1029233/lanteglos-by-fowey-category
For others reading this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanteglos-by-Fowey
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Lanteglos-by-Fowey,_Cornwall_Genealogy
https://www.opc-cornwall.org/Par_new/l_m/lanteglos_by_fowey.php
Regarding Polruan - you will find birth, baptism, marriage, death sources will state a registration district name rather than a village/town/parish name - exceptions in some cases
edited by Roger Davey
See the answer here - https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1029233/lanteglos-by-fowey-category?show=1030542#a1030542
Cheers to all
Roger Davey, Cornwall Team Leader
We welcome to the team Susie Macleod - many of you will know she stepped down as Leader of the England Project & will concentrate on her Cornwall connections. Cheers to all Roger Davey Cornwall Team Leader
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Game-159 Richard Game of Gulval and Penzance, Cornwall. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Game-165 John Game of Penzance, Cornwall.
The only other persons of this surname that I can find in Cornwall in the late-1500s/early-1600s is a Christopher Game (only one source, his marriage in Penzance, and Christopher may be a brother to the two above listed profiles).
Just looking for some guidance on how to proceed. THANKS!
New Zealand born - Maxx completed the Orphan Trail with flying colours. Welcome Maxx. Roger Davey Team leader
14/6/1791 From what I can see this is the correct one. The Walter Tresise probably married Ann Thomas in St Keverne 8/10/1795. Will check further and confirm As my great grandmothers is a Trezise I have had many problems with this family's surname
Roger
Under "Topics" are Cornwall profiles that are Unsourced, Unconnected or have 'suggestions/errors'
The County Statistics Page gives a weekly update on the 'improved' figures
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Cornwall_Emigrants
Feel free to add your ancestors who emigrated to whatever country. If you are not comfortable making entries please put the Wiki ID in the public comment space.
The table is sortable on Surname or country
Kind Regards
Roger Davey Team Captain
Sharryn Nankervis - enjoy the ride Sharryn.
Lawrie Bingham needs fresh eyes research assistance.
I note William Bickford has a profile which needs some improvement with URL sources & a bio tidy up before we add him
But I noticed there are some with the wrong Cornwall eg US etc When the list is next issued could they ensure its Cornwall England Thanks