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Cornwall: history, surnames and society, from Bernard Deacon

  • About
  • The blog
  • Cornish surnames
    • Context
      • Why do surnames matter? An introduction
      • Where surnames come from – a brief history
      • Classifying surnames
    • Surnames and Cornwall
      • What makes a surname ‘Cornish’?
      • Surnames and the Cornish language
    • Data on Cornish surnames
      • Surname maps – 1861
        • Allen to Buzza
        • Caddy to Currah
        • Dabb to Guy
        • Hain to Knuckey
        • Ladner to Oxnam
        • Paddy to Runnalls
        • Sambells to Sweet
        • Tabb to Tyzzer
        • Udy to Yeo
      • 17th century surnames by parish
      • 18th century surnames by parish
    • Case studies
      • How to trace the origin of your family name: an example
      • Hosking: a bit of a Cornish mystery
      • Surnames in Madron: By Nicholls. Mitchell and Roberts you shall know the Cornish
  • Cornish language
    • The history of Cornish
    • Early Cornish to c.1100
    • The loss of the east: 1100-1300s
    • Relative stability: 1300 to the early/mid 1500s
    • Growing pressure: the early 1500s to 1700
    • The final years: 1700-1800
  • Cornish demography
    • Cornwall’s population history: an overview
    • Cornwall’s population history before 1750
    • Industrialisation and population growth, 1750-1860s
    • Deindustrialisation and depopulation: the 1860s to the 1950s
    • The Great Emigration
    • The Great In-migration: 1960s to the present day
  • Cornish Identities
    • Defining identity
    • The Cornish identity
    • English identity in Cornwall
    • British identity in Cornwall
  • Cornish Methodism
    • Cornish Methodism or Methodism in Cornwall?
    • The causes of Methodist growth
    • What was different about Cornish Methodism?
    • The Consequences of Methodism for Cornish society
  • Cornish mining
    • Cornish mining: a short history
    • The geography of mining
  • Cornish politics
    • 1922-45
    • 1950-59
    • 1964-74
    • 1979-92
    • 1997-2005
    • 2010-19
  • Cornish towns
  • Recent academic articles on Cornwall
    • Contemporary social/cultural/political
      • The Anglican Church and Cornwall
      • Cornwall as an ‘almost island’
      • Town councils, Cornwall Council and austerity
      • Skills gaps and stereotypes
      • Legend and history at Tintagel
      • Healthcare and diversification in Cornish fishing
      • Political theatre at St Ives: the second homes ‘ban’
      • Contrasting Padstow’s festivals
      • Rather Westminster than Brussels or Truro. The brexit vote in Cornwall.
      • Pasty appreciation
      • How inclusive are Cornish tourist sites?
      • Exploiting culture, mining heritage?
      • De-territorialisation and Downderry
      • Justice and the planning system
      • EU funding and Cornwall
    • History/archaeology
      • The railway and Cornish identity
      • Travel writers and native responses
      • Match-fixing in Cornish wrestling
      • Politics and power in late 17th century Mitchell
      • From Cornwall to Crete? Bronze age trading routes
      • The Cornish gentry’s ‘county’ identity in the 1400s
      • Emily Hobhouse and the limits of agency
      • The drink problem in sixth century Tintagel
      • Robert Hunt and early photography
      • Nellie Sloggett and North Cornish folklore
      • Bronze Age metal mining
    • Environment
      • Cornish beaches top anthropogenic litter league
      • Bringing biology into cultural heritage
      • What’s going on at Godrevy?
      • People pressure at Land’s End
      • Environmental concern on the streets of Truro?
      • Scallop dredging and docks expansion in Falmouth
      • Litter on north Cornish beaches
    • Literature and language
      • What can piskey tales tell us about Cornish difference?
      • Attitudes to the promotion of revived Cornish
      • Cornish, past and planned, placenames and polemics
      • The Cornish language as symbolic icon
      • Angels dancing on pins. Or studies in the history of the Cornish language.
      • Cornwall and Finnegan’s Wake
      • The names and naming of revived Cornish
      • ‘Where was Middle Cornish spoken?’
      • Gothic/Mystical Cornwall: a review
  • My publications
    • All publications: a list
    • The Real World of Poldark
    • The Surnames of Cornwall
    • Industrial Celts
    • From a Cornish Study
    • Cornwall’s First Golden Age
  • TV and Cornwall
    • Picturing Cornwall: a review
    • Fact and fiction in The Last Kingdom
    • Doc Martin: creating a stereotype
  • The Cornish Victorian lives project
  • Other
    • A tribute to James Whetter
  • Contact

Case studies

How to trace the origin of your family name

Hosking : a bit of a Cornish mystery

Surnames in Madron

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