Doc Martin: working hard to reproduce stereotypes of Cornwall and sell second homes Ask people what they know about the village of Port Isaac on Cornwall’s north coast in Endellion parish and they’re likely to respond with ‘Doc Martin’. This apparently endless series about a lugubrious doctor in a ‘sleepy’ Cornish fishing village is a … Continue reading Port Isaac: of medical men and myths
Month: January 2022
Memories of former times: Egloskerry
Egloskerry provides us with a fine example of the small rural parishes that lie to the west and north of Launceston in north Cornwall. In the nineteenth century heavily dependent on farming, nonetheless its children were not inevitably rooted to the soil. Quite the opposite in fact as, of the five Egloskerry children in the … Continue reading Memories of former times: Egloskerry
Egloshayle – born in the workhouse
Egloshayle in the nineteenth century was a predominantly rural parish although including the bit of Wadebridge that spilled over the bridge from St Breock. Nevertheless, the 14 children from Egloshayle who appear in our database could claim rather more diverse family backgrounds than the bog-standard rural parish. There were a couple whose fathers were the … Continue reading Egloshayle – born in the workhouse
Looe’s migrating fishing families
Arriving at East Looe, we meet the first substantial community of fishing families on our long trek through the Cornish parishes of Victorian times. In fact, according to the 1851 census fewer than one in ten of the adult men in East Looe got their living from fishing. Full-time fishermen (there may have been many … Continue reading Looe’s migrating fishing families
Cornish studies resources 