The first name David was borrowed from the Hebrew Old Testament. In Old French the vernacular form was Davy and this entered Middle English with the Norman invasion of 1066. The name David was popular earlier than that in Wales (where the cult of St David was centred) and Brittany. Therefore, we might presume that … Continue reading 16. Davy/Davies
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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
Humphry Davy
The statue of Penzance’s most famous son looks east down Market Jew Street, where he was born on this day in 1778. But it also looks further east, past St Michael’s Mount, across the Tamar and upcountry, where he made his name, and then across the sea to where he ended his days. His parents … Continue reading Humphry Davy
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