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Cornwall: history, surnames and society, from Bernard Deacon

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    • Why do surnames matter? An introduction
    • Where surnames come from – a brief history
    • Classifying surnames
    • Surnames and the Cornish language
    • What makes a surname ‘Cornish’?
    • Surname maps – 1861
    • 18th century surnames by parish
    • 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
  • The Surnames of Cornwall
    • 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
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    • 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
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    • What was different about Cornish Methodism?
    • The Consequences of Methodism for Cornish society
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    • Cornish mining: a short history
    • The geography of mining
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    • From Cornwall to Crete? Bronze age trading routes
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    • De-territorialisation and Downderry
    • Emily Hobhouse and the limits of agency
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    • The drink problem in sixth century Tintagel
    • Robert Hunt and early photography
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    • The names and naming of revived Cornish
    • Litter on north Cornish beaches
    • Nellie Sloggett and North Cornish folklore
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Hain to Knuckey

Scroll down to your name and click on it to see a distribution map of heads of household in 1861.
You can find more details on your surname in The Surnames of Cornwall.

Hain/Hayne/s

Haley

Hall

Ham

Hambly

Hammer

Hammill

Hampton

Hancock

Harfoot

Harper

Harris

Harry

Harvey

Hattam

Hawke

Hawken

Hawkey

Hawton

Heard

Hearle

Hellings

Hellyar

Hendra

Hendy

Henwood

Hicks

Higman

Hill

Hingston

Hitchens/Hichens

Hoar/Hore

Hobba

Hoblyn

Hocken/ing

Hodge

Hollow

Holman

Honey

Honeychurch

Hooper

Hornabrook

Horrell

Hosken/ing

Hotten

Huddy

Hugo

Humphries

Hunkin

Husband

Hutchens

Inch

Ivey

Jacka

Jackett

Jago

James

Jane

Jasper

Jeffery

Jelbart

Jenkin

Jennings

Jewell

Job

Johns

Joll

Jolliffe/Jolly

Jones

Jope

Jory

Jose

Juleff

Julian/yan

Keam

Keast

Keat

Kellow

Kelynack

Kemp

Kempthorne

Kendall

Kent

Kerkin

Kernick

Kessell/Kestle

Kevern/e

Kinsman

Kitt

Kitto

Kneebone

Knight

Knuckey

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