The Fox family of Falmouth
(A presentation to the Toronto Cornish Association in February 2018, by Ann Crichton-Harris) The Foxes were Quakers. They had been so since the seventeenth century
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Fairmaids and Mahogany by Pat Robins in 1996
If you were offered fairmaids or mahogany would you have any idea of what you were getting? Even in Cornwall, where these delicacies were once
Wycliffe and his creator by Chris Simons
This article was first published in Cornwall Today in1996.W.J. Burley sadly died 15 November 2002 in Holywell, Cornwall (aged 88) Television has brought an added dimension
Mining Can Be Fun By Allen Buckley in 1995
A problem “up-country” settlers have with the Cornish is knowing when to take them seriously. No race on earth is as dedicated to the “wind-up”
Bob Fitzsimmons by Andrew Croucher – The bigger they come, the harder they fail…”
It was a match that had been five long years in the making. Four thousand lucky boxing fans managed to descend on Carson City, Nevada
The Stormbringers by Craig Weatherhill in 1996
We are sorry to say that Craig has died during July 2020, after a long illness. He was a ferocious protector of Cornwall and a
D.H. Lawrence and Cornwall by Tom Salmon in 1995
The tortuous, tormented, ambivalent life of D.H. Lawrence – best known for Lady Chatterley’s Lover, nowhere near his best book but by far the most
A Cousin Jack in the Wild West by Michael Tangye
There are hardly any of the indigenous Cornish, residing in the mining areas of Cornwall, who have not been raised with stories of forebears who
‘A Quaker Saint of Cornwall’ by Barry West
Barry West is a Cornish Researcher Based in Cornwall Loveday Hambly of Tregongeeves between St Mewan and Polgooth appears in a book called ‘A Quaker
Of Bassets and Men by Martin E Searle
Pro Rege et Populo – For King and People – such is the motto of the family whose ancestors had “come over with the Conqueror”.