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Hi there.. I am have just started doing my family tree for PETHERICK. I live in New Zealand so therefore our name is quite uncommon here. I have so far gone back approximately 500years and have traced my 10th Great Grandfather which is so exciting and it seems most of us have derived from Cornwall.I have lived in NZ all my life of 55 years. I am interested in what you may know about the name PETHERICK.
Kindest regards
Denise Clevis nee Petherick
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Your Blog looks like it is loaded with Cornish Information. Great Work.
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Interested to read your blog on Cornish names before the Conquest. My mother’s maiden name was Lewarne and I noticed the close alignment to Iarnwallon as mentioned in your blog. We have always believed that the name came from the Brittany region but maybe it is a corruption of the earlier Cornish? I know that there are a few place names called Lewarne.
Richard Curnow
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Very many place names in Brittany are used as surnames in Cornwall, with almost the same spelling.
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Re: Anglo Cornish dialect – I think it is a conscious attempt by many of us who grew up at a time when distinct dialect words and phrases were in constant everyday use, to maintain the distinctiveness of locality and resist the flattening of Cornish identity under the influx of standard media English and also continuing settlement by those from other parts of the UK. Dialect – especially very local – has a powerful emotional hold on us from early childhood.
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