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Cornwall: history, surnames and society, from Bernard Deacon

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  • Cornish surnames
    • 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
  • 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
    • 2010-17
  • Recent articles on Cornwall
    • From Cornwall to Crete? Bronze age trading routes
    • Cornwall and Finnegan’s Wake
    • Exploiting culture, mining heritage?
    • The Cornish gentry’s ‘county’ identity in the 1400s
    • De-territorialisation and Downderry
    • Emily Hobhouse and the limits of agency
    • Justice and the planning system
    • The drink problem in sixth century Tintagel
    • Robert Hunt and early photography
    • Scallop dredging and docks expansion in Falmouth
    • The names and naming of revived Cornish
    • Litter on north Cornish beaches
    • Nellie Sloggett and North Cornish folklore
    • Bronze Age metal mining
    • EU funding and Cornwall
    • ‘Where was Middle Cornish spoken?’
    • Gothic/Mystical Cornwall: a review
  • My publications
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    • 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
    • Proper Poldark
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    • A tribute to James Whetter
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Paddy to Runnalls

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.

Paddy

Painter

Pappin

Parkyn

Parnall

Parsons

Pascoe

Paull

Pearce

Pearn

Pedlar

Pellow

Pelmear/Polmear

Penaluna

Penberthy

Pender

Pengelly

Penglaze

Penhale

Penhaligon

Penhallurick

Penna

Penpraze

Penrose

Pentecost

Pentreath

Penwarden

Perkin

Perrow

Perry

Perryman

Peters

Petherick/Pethick

Phillips

Philp

Pidwell

Pill

Pinch

Piper

Plint

Poad

Polglase

Polgrean

Polkinghorne

Pollard

Polsue

Pomeroy

Pooley

Pope

Powning

Praed

Prater

Prideaux

Prisk

Prophet

Prout

Provis

Prowse

Prynn

Pryor/Prior

Puckey

Quick

Quiller

Quintrell

Rabey

Rail

Ralph

Randall/Randle

Rapson

Rashleigh

Rawe

Rawling

Read

Remfry/Renfree

Renowden

Rescorl/a

Reseigh

Retallack

Reynolds

Richards

Rickard

Ripper

Roach

Roberts

Robins

Rodd

Rodda

Rogers

Rolling

Roose

Rosevear

Rosewall

Rosewarne

Roskelly

Roskruge

Rounsevell

Rowe

Rowett

Rowling

Rowse

Rule

Rundle

Runnalls

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