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Cornwall: history, surnames and society, from Bernard Deacon

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    • 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
    • Maps and data for Cornish surnames
      • New: surname maps C16th/17th
        • Addicoat to Buzza
        • Caddy to Curtis
        • Dabb to Gynn
        • Hain to Julyan
        • Keam to Mutton
        • Nancarrow to Puckey
        • Quick to Swiggs
        • Tabb to Tyzzer
        • Udy to Yeo
      • 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
    • Other identities: British/English
  • 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
    • Cornish Identities
      • Performing Cornishness
      • Cornish nationalist identities: a view from Germany
      • Language and identity in late 17th century Cornwall
      • Mining heritage and Cornish identity
      • The railway and Cornish identity
      • The Cornish gentry’s ‘county’ identity in the 1400s
    • Contemporary social/cultural/political
      • Counter-urbanisation, gentrification and the fragmentation of Cornish communities
      • Life-struggle Cornwall and the Cornish regional assemblage
      • Disciplining care providers in Cornwall
      • St Ives and Tintagel: Contrasts in islandness
      • From fishing to catering: reconstructing identities
      • I saw a crowd, a host of daffodil pickers
      • A walk on the weird side: bewitched at Boscastle
      • 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
      • A run of the mill county? Cornish gentry identity in the 1300s-1500s
    • History/archaeology
      • Cowardly Cornish knights: The Cornish as ‘other’
      • A statistical model of the decline of the Cornish language
      • Profit and power in the late eighteenth-century Cornish mining economy
      • The rise and fall of Cornish wrestling
      • Murder and mayhem in 15th century Cornwall
      • An early Tory propaganda campaign: creating loyalty in Restoration Cornwall
      • A Murderous Midsummer: The Western Rising of 1549
      • 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
      • 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
      • Pricing the chough
      • 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
      • Daphne du Maurier: an incomer in league with the locals?
      • Cornish Gothic and/or Colonialist Gaze
      • Wozzon? The Anglo-Cornish dialect
      • Gothic Kernow: thrilling and threatening
      • 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
  • My publications
    • All publications: a list
    • The Surnames of Cornwall (2nd edition)
    • Cornwall’s First Golden Age: a new edition
    • The Real World of Poldark
    • Industrial Celts
    • From a Cornish Study: Essays on Cornish Studies and Cornwall
    • 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
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    • A tribute to James Whetter
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    • 1922-45
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    • 1964-74
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  • Daphne du Maurier: an incomer in league with the locals?
  • Dash
  • Date
  • Datson
  • Davy
  • Dawe
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  • Deeble
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  • Demography
    • Cornwall's population history before 1750
    • Cornwall's population history: an overview
    • Deindustrialisation and depopulation: the 1860s to the 1950s
    • Industrialisation and population growth, 1750-1860s
    • The Great Emigration
    • The Great In-migration: 1960s to the present day
  • Dennis
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  • Disciplining care providers in Cornwall
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    • Bringing biology into cultural heritage
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  • Falmouth and Camborne 1997-2005
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  • From fishing to catering: reconstructing identities
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    • Cowardly Cornish knights: The Cornish as ‘other’
    • Match-fixing in Cornish wrestling
    • Politics and power in late 17th century Mitchell
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  • Life-struggle Cornwall and the Cornish regional assemblage
  • Literature and language
    • Angels dancing on pins. Or studies in the history of the Cornish language.
    • Cornish, past and planned, placenames and polemics
    • The Cornish language as symbolic icon
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  • Maps and data for Cornish surnames
    • New: surname maps C16th/17th
      • Addicoat to Buzza
      • Caddy to Curtis
      • Dabb to Gynn
      • Hain to Julyan
      • Keam to Mutton
      • Nancarrow to Puckey
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    • Cornish mining: a short history
    • The geography of mining
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    • All publications: a list
    • Cornwall's First Golden Age
    • From a Cornish Study: Essays on Cornish Studies and Cornwall
    • Industrial Celts
    • The Surnames of Cornwall (2nd edition)
    • Cornwall's First Golden Age: a new edition
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    • Attitudes to the promotion of revived Cornish
    • Biodioversity and the ‘sacred sites’ of West Penwith
    • Bronze Age metal mining
    • Cornish beaches top anthropogenic litter league
    • Cornish Identities
    • Cornish nationalist identities: a view from Germany
    • Cornwall and Finnegan's Wake
    • De-territorialisation and Downderry
    • Emily Hobhouse and the limits of agency
    • Environmental concern on the streets of Truro?
    • EU funding and Cornwall
    • Exploiting culture, mining heritage?
    • From Cornwall to Crete? Bronze age trading routes
    • Gothic Kernow: thrilling and threatening
    • Gothic/Mystical Cornwall
    • How inclusive are Cornish tourist sites?
    • Justice and the planning system
    • Litter on north Cornish beaches
    • Nellie Sloggett and North Cornish folklore
    • Pasty appreciation
    • People pressure at Land’s End
    • Performing Cornishness
    • Robert Hunt and early photography
    • Scallop dredging and docks expansion in Falmouth
    • The Anglican Church and Cornwall
    • The Cornish gentry's 'county' identity in the 1400s
    • The drink problem in sixth century Tintagel
    • The names and naming of revived Cornish
    • What can piskey tales tell us about Cornish difference?
    • ‘Where was Middle Cornish spoken?’
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