My Old Guest Book (page 35)
Robert Hicks in Saskatchewan, Canada at 23:21:52 Thursday December 28 2000
Hi,
I'm researching my gr-gr-grandfather, Robert Hicks
who immigrated to Ontario with his wife Hannah, or he married her in Ontario around 1820-30.
Their first born was a son Samuel John born in Northumberland County, Ontario about 1845.
Mervyn Lovelock in Bury Lancashire at 13:23:28 Thursday December 28 2000
Hello Alan I left Cornwall 30 years ago to live in bury I love your site about Cornwall keep up the good work Al when I was a kid I went to Boskenwyn school and lived in Trewenick then at 11 I went to Helston school any old school friends out there please drop me an email my name is Mervyn Lovelock all the best Al Merv
Maureen Keane in Victoria, Australia at 5:9:55 Thursday December 28 2000
Delighted to have found your site
I am researching the family of Mary Knight
who married Richard Grigg in Roche, Cornwall
31 January 1804.
Her Father I believe was Joseph Knight
and Mother Jane ?
Lt. Chet Bowen in USA at 12:5:22 Tuesday December 26 2000
Great webmastering, Charlie. Take care. Was just looking around.
Chet Bowen
United States InternetInvestigators
http://unitedstates.datastar.net
Chris Shephard at 1:29:14 Tuesday December 26 2000
Looking for ancestors. Grandmother Lydia Worth, 1908 - 1992, was born at 3 Chapel Street, Callington Cornwall. Looking for links. Currently go back to Frederick Worth (1867-1932) m. Elizabeth Penaluna (1866 - 1951). Any relatives out there.
Keith Paynter in Fisher A c t Australia at 5:52:6 Saturday December 23 2000
Deciding to do a bit of searching into my family history,while surfing the web I came
across your site and decided to get in touch
with you. Must complment you on your page construction. Kindest regards.
Kim Cannon in Brisbane Australia at 21:57:33 Friday December 22 2000
Checking out where my ancestors came from.
keith hinton in Auckland New Zealand at 8:40:25 Monday December 18 2000
Looking for Richards from Marizion?
Penelope Purchase in Strood, Kent, UK at 23:10:23 Sunday December 17 2000
Very nice site - I hope to get what I am looking for
and that is my grandmother's family. G.Grandfather and G.Granmother
took 2 youngest children for holiday to India. Both G. Grandparents and
gran's brother died and grandmother was left in a convent cause she
couldnt get back. Married out there, but came back home and died in
Southampton, where she is buried. Her name was Caroline, Maud, Augustus
ROWE. I believe there were more brothers and sisters left back in Truro.
She was born in Truro in Cornwall on 26th December 1869 or 1870. Died in
1955 and was buried in St. Mary's church, Pear Tree Ave., Bitterne, Soton.
b j plummeridge in camborne at 17:50:28 Sunday December 17 2000
Looking for stockists of Merritts Carols
Elizabeth in Dallas, Texas at 6:39:49 Sunday December 17 2000
Hello from a woman of Cornish Ancestry in Texas who is trying to reconnect with her Cornish roots. Happy Holidays all and wonderful website, Alan!
Duncan Selby in LA California at 23:31:34 Saturday December 16 2000
Merry Christmas to all ,born St Agnes.Great site Alan.
Jan Satchell in Ashellville NC USA. at 1:25:48 Friday December 15 2000
Borne Leicester England, my sister lives in Nancledra, Penzance. Merry Christmas to you all.
Graham McGrath in St austell at 21:36:6 Thursday December 14 2000
Saw you did not have a list of Parishes in Cornwall
I have a list if you want it.
www.parishofstmewan.free-online.co.uk
ROBERT G TREVENA in Camborne, Cornwall at 18:50:33 Thursday December 14 2000
Just returning and updating, I would like to hear from anyone who may know me. Roskear Infants 1959-1961, Basset Road Junior School 1961-65 Redruth County Grammar School 65 - 69. Pathfinders youth club. Rank TV factory 1969-1981. I worked as a photocopier engineer from 1981 until Poor health caused me to give up work in 1996.
Ronald Smith in Blue Mountains, Australia at 3:32:25 Thursday December 14 2000
It's a good web page Alan !!!
Ex. Illogan Highway and I went to Tolgus
School,Redruth, from 1970 to 1972.
Now in New South Wales,Aust.
Jeffrey Woolhouse in Glen Iris, Vic, Melbourne, Aus at 22:50:6 Wednesday December 13 2000
Thanks for this site I will come back again with more time.
Jan Satchell in Asheville NC USA. at 22:40:0 Wednesday December 13 2000
I was born in Leicester England,I have a sister lives in Nancledra Penzance.Merry christmas to you all.
Alicia Brewer in London at 19:25:21 Wednesday December 13 2000
Looking for ancestors surnames
:BREWER, WARREN,STRATTEN,GRENFELL,POLGLAZ(S)E,STEVENS
Dick Sharp in Basingstoke Hampshire at 9:44:23 Tuesday December 12 2000
id loved to come to cornwall, ive been before but never returned since 1990. hello to Mike Hunt from St Austell, he is my lov...friend!!
gav in truro, cornwall at 11:20:36 Monday December 11 2000
I'm a born and raised cornishman, and i'm proud of it. I would like to now how far my family line to cornwall goes back because no one in my family knows, it is such a long time ago. It is annoying to know that there are few real cornish left in cornwall and I prey for a revival of an all cornish county and hopefully soon to be country.... I appreciate that people want to enjoy this beautiful land but when I walk down the street I see very few people who are cornish and I believe that the cornish culture and way of life is suffering too much due to this, cheers Gavin Roseveare
Turnip in Östersund, SWEDEN at 16:59:43 Sunday December 10 2000
WANTED, DEAD OR ALIVE !!! Hi! Nice homepage! Wounder if anyone know these persons... Jake Pattenden, Bonnie Pattenden, James Hudson, Adam Hudson, John Fisherman or anyone else in Port Isaac, Cornwall. I stayed there in summer -97 and have lost contact. Would be thrilled to hear from them again. Please send me an email, thanks for any information given. And MERRY X-MAS to you all!!!
Brian A Trethowan in nhs at 19:56:40 Saturday December 9 2000
looking for relations of samuel raymond trethowan, born 1918
Julian Richards in Leicestershire at 18:36:29 Saturday December 9 2000
We're going outside and we may be sometime.
Twenty-five years I grew, nurtured on Cornwall and the Cornish manner, the Cornish-ness that is now part of me. I still day-dream, of a 'T' shirt that promulgates "I'm 1OO% Cornish and proud of it..." ...is that all I have to cling to? (I haven't even got this day-dream of mine).
I spent a harboured childhood full of Cornwall’s 'riches, pebbles & sand, fizzy-pop in cans, wind and rain, tunnels, holes, alleys & bunkers, vast sun scorched gorse torched views, I could see both coasts from our bathroom window. Spirits of the sea always whisper to me, the loudest whispers I've ever heard, I've heard it in Long Rock and Leicester, Crewe and Nice, I saw a little red boat barely afloat. I cried at the beauty surrounding me as the holiday-ers screamed & sizzled & laughed. I sat alone at the end of the phone and ran with the gang at low tide across St Ives Bay on new years day. We drank and we sang and played in the band. Gran bought saffron buns at Sunday-school treat, and pasties and pasties and pasties. Slept in the snow on Carn Brea, laughed at what nan & granddad would say (that's not the granddad I never knew, who died in the fishing boat accident). Ate winkles with pins and vinegar picked from Porthleven harbour, got filthy. Held on tight as the storm wind rips so hard it bites. Sat in a haystack in the sun and got covered in mites. I've lay for hours and been soaked up by the whole of Mounts Bay, on the clearest, hottest ever, hottest ever day. Walked home at midnight from Hayle to Camborne, met a girl in Redruth and another in St Just, got drunk in Crantock, earnt a wage in St Ives, saw a dream in St Austell, learnt some verbs in Fowey... grew to man from boy in Cornwall...
...only, they're all memories.
I return and see the most rugged of faces smile and share the day like children returning to play, waves so worn from years of scorn, skies so blue thy seem brand new. A scarred town refuses to frown, yet sings and raises its glasses, everywhere I look I see me and I see pasty smiles, Rugby miles, unique cornwall style saying this is us but we do say we.
I've moved away now, don't know why, but I know I can't go back, jane's not there, craig's gone, david's moved on, so has jon, matthew's in Manchester, lisa's in Suffolk, richard's in Cardiff, kay's in bath, lee is in Luton and mark is in Crewe, and I'm in Leicester 'cos we wanted something new. Cornwall, in essence has everything there, God and the Devil are surely within, but it hasn't got what I'm looking for.... what am I looking for?
I'm going outside and I maybe sometime...
sonja bentley in Bakersfield, CA USA at 5:5:31 Thursday December 7 2000
Nice work
Roger Hurn in London at 15:6:56 Tuesday December 5 2000
A very interesting site. Thanks for posting it.
Alan John Trewartha in Melbourne,Victoria ,Australia at 8:7:8 Tuesday December 5 2000
interested to see something of where our ancestors came from 150 years ago.Keep up the good work.
Alan Cardew in Germany at 19:16:47 Monday December 4 2000
Just surfed in from Tolskithy ´arbour. Cheered me up no end me ansome. Av to go now, got sum treacle mining to finish.
Margaret Ann Fennell in North Carolina at 18:50:15 Saturday December 2 2000
I'm trying to find a friend who is in SCA
Barbara Parker (sometimes she spells it Barbra).
She was in Charlotte, now in or near Hendersonville, NC
I have lost her number and email. She lives with
her mother right now and I know of no way to reach
her but through SCA. Can you help me?
Thanks,
Margaret Fennell
margaretf@mindspring.com
919-755-6633 evenings & weekends
Maxine French in Australia at 3:16:34 Saturday December 2 2000
Started to research family history 2 years ago. I am now back to 1767 with the birth of my gt. gt. gt. grandfather. All of my ancestors originated from St. Agnes. With a surname of HARRIS it is sometimes very difficult to trace.
Michael RICHARDS in Suffolk at 17:30:28 Friday December 1 2000
Merely started to re-establish my Cornish roots - have reached 1837 St Michael's Mount and the marriage of my great-great grandfather Thomas Richards ...
Sandra Perrett in Victoria, Australia at 5:3:17 Friday December 1 2000
Thanks for a great and interesting site. Cornish ancestral names include Abbot, Gainger, Stephens & Vivian.
I C Weiner at 14:32:55 Thursday November 30 2000
Very nice site
Lou W. Chappell in Marquette, Michigan. USA at 2:25:28 Thursday November 30 2000
Interesting. I have never been here before.
You have done well.
Lou W. Chappell in Marquette, Michigan at 2:16:26 Thursday November 30 2000
Tell me more.
barry moyse in luton beds at 23:17:37 Tuesday November 28 2000
i was just looking for moyses on my computer.I originally came from plymouthmany moons ago.the only other Moyse I have found was on a war memorial at Padstow!
Geoff Parle in Now in somerset at 17:41:37 Sunday November 26 2000
I think your site is fabulous. Where do you find the time?
Cheers,
Geoff
RicK Semmens in San Diego, CA USA at 23:41:54 Saturday November 25 2000
My ancestors, John and Mary Semmens, lived in St. Paul's Parish in 1826. They had 2 children, Stephen and William. Stephen and family emigrated to USA in 1864 and settled in Applewold, Pennsylvania. My roots are in beautiful Cornwall.
Colette & Howard Robinson in Little Polgooth, Cornwall at 23:12:30 Friday November 24 2000
Interesting site
Kay Smith in Guernsey, Channel Islands at 21:57:57 Friday November 24 2000
Still enjoying your impressive site. Said I'd be back dreckly and would like to invite you to look at http://freespace.virgin.net/angof.smith/index.htm to see the beginnings of Roy Martin's web-site showing his paintings.
Richard Attenborough in Nottingham at 20:26:20 Friday November 24 2000
lovely to visit and to be able to keep revisting such a wonderful part of the british isles
gail brokenshire nettles in seattle,washington at 20:28:29 Thursday November 23 2000
my family came from st. austel (sp?) in the late 1800's early 1900's. grandpa was a brokenshire and grandma was a chubb. would like to hear if there are any relatives of samson or fannie
Lee Evans in Canada at 18:43:34 Wednesday November 22 2000
I was born in Cornwall ( Ontario ) and grandparents were from Chycoose not far from
Truro in Cornwall.
Kay Smith in Guernsey, Channel Islands at 20:51:45 Tuesday November 21 2000
As my grandfather might have commented, 'sum showy boy'. I was born/raised in St. Austell. Family names, Martin, Harper, Hambly, Chesterfield. My Great grandfather, 'Old Pal' was a wagoner, taking china clay to Charlestown. I have been researching my grandparents time in Butte, Montana, (1911 - 1920), and am working on a web-site for my dad, Roy Martin, a brilliant artist, who lives at Par. Hope to be publishing his site this week. Shall be back to browse your site.
Walter BADGE in Port Macquarie 2444 Australia at 7:55:3 Tuesday November 21 2000
Searching for all occurences of surbname and given name of BADGE - major occ. blacksmiths
Derek in Cornwall at 17:59:10 Saturday November 18 2000
Impressive site!
Peter Fairbairn in Sydney Australia at 8:40:51 Saturday November 18 2000
This site is fantastic. When I saw the photos I was excited yet sad as my late wife was from Cambourne Cornwall. Great to see so many people worldwide interested in their heritage there and it's encouraging to see so many recent entrie to the guest book. Me, my heritage is Englaish and Scottish, oh well... I'll keep checking your great site.
Boyd Richards in Fredericton, NB, Canada at 21:13:9 Thursday November 16 2000
Much of interest here, to one whose great-great-great granparents were born in Cornwall (James Richards in Helston, Susanna Phillips in St. Austell) and emigrated to Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1808, after starting a family in Guernsey. If anyone knows more about James and Susanna's forebears I'd dearly love to hear from you. Alan, are we related?
Boyd Richards
LT Bawden in Ramehead at 21:45:23 Wednesday November 15 2000
It's brave & windy up here, tonight.Lashing down too.
Great site boy.
Proper.
piskey in celtica at 21:1:41 Wednesday November 15 2000
website fendiged! dw i'n hapus!
George Macpherson in Laneast, nr Launceston at 14:46:2 Wednesday November 15 2000
I'm looking for rowing boat prices!
Max Kernick in Helsinki,Finland at 21:58:30 Tuesday November 14 2000
Hi,
My dad Dudley and his ancestors were born in Cornwall. My dad in Boscastle.Myself in B`Ham,with great memories of holidays and visits to granfer We plan to buy a place with the eventual idea to move permanently or semi-permanently.My wife that is and two boys.Our tree goes back to 1659 when our line lived in St.Teath. Anyhow its nice to be back in touch with the Cornish again.
Best to you all,
Max
Tess n Ro in Cambridge at 14:37:49 Tuesday November 14 2000
We thoroughly enjoyed your site, and thought it was refreshing to see someone (Alan) still so keen on a geographical area!
Ken in Worcestershire at 20:10:4 Monday November 13 2000
Just putting together my own website and looking for ideas, I like your site you have really put some thought into it best of luck Ken
Roger Parsons in Hinckley, Leicestershire at 2:7:55 Monday November 13 2000
I am very interested in your patron saint
your flag which bears his name and your connection with Wales and (lesser) with England, I understand your celtic language is actually claimed to be the oldest in the isles.
Any information on this would be welcomed, if not , please tell me what books etc, to find it in.
Susan Bowen in Trevalga, Boscastle. Kernow at 11:40:52 Sunday November 12 2000
I am an independent film maker. My firm "Pelwollok Gernewek" has made a number of Cornish Interst video's
I am researching early Cornish history which is inextricably bound to the histories of Dumnonia, and the celtic kingdoms of southern Britain, with a view to making a Docu-Drama of the real history of our country (Kernow). One that is kept somewhat hidden by mainstream broadcasters.
I would welcome any input.
Richard Pearce in scillies at 13:23:25 Saturday November 11 2000
this is one of my favorite websites
John L Sweetman in Truro at 22:7:28 Thursday November 9 2000
What details do you have on Richard of Cornwall King of Romain? Or was it Richard Earl of Cornwall King of Almayne. "1257"
Said to be a great European?
Where can the Tregellas Tapestry be seen?
Alan Luke in Australia at 7:15:48 Tuesday November 7 2000
I was born in Cornwall, in Cargreen many years ago. I moved out here to the Colonies with my parents back in 1959. I am the Secretary of the Geelong Mens Darts Association, we have some 40 teams competing.
I would like to "converse" with you or any of your members.
Excellent web site.
Regards,
Alan Luke
Tania Knight Nee Nix in SWINDON at 21:53:51 Sunday November 5 2000
I was born and bread in Redruth, now live in Swindon. Enjoy your site Alan. Hi to anyone who remembers me!
Gill Hayhurst in Truro, Cornwall at 20:18:3 Sunday November 5 2000
I have returned to Cornwall after spending most of my life in the South East. It is good to be back.
JOanna Smith in Essex England at 18:41:38 Sunday November 5 2000
This is a really good website! I'm trying to research my family name of Tarbard so if anyone knows any info or good websites to try, I'd appreciate it!
