About Cornish Ancestry
Tracing your Ancestry in Cornwall. A Genealogical research company in Cornwall dedicated to tracing origins and family trees for Cornish families worldwide
Cornish Ancestry Description
We are a Genealogical research company, based in St Day, the heartland of the old Cornish Mining Industry and now a World Heritage Site.
We have unrivalled access to local research facilities including the Cornish Records Office. as well as being within easy reach of anywhere in Cornwall.
As such we can not only research your Ancestry in Cornwall but can also provide a flavour of what life would have been like, with photographs, copies of maps and other records, if available.
We can locate where your ancestors were born, married and even where they were buried, and provide documents and, in many cases, photographs.
With the large number of Cornish men and women who left their homeland to seek their fortune in places like Australia, Canada, the United States, Africa, Mexico and many others, we can be your direct link to your Cornish roots.
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Once again, wishing all my family, friends and clients (old and new) a very happy Canada Day!
This week it has been announced that:
Rick Rescorla , a Cornishman from Hayle, and one of the heroes of 9/11 is to be honoured.
Both Rick Rescorla together with the crew of the Solomon Browne (the Penless Lifeboat on which all hands were lost) will be honoured by having inter-city trains named after them.
... https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/…/1752 0978.rick-rescorla-…/
https://www.gwr.com/…/gwr-celebrates-ne arly-170-years-of-co…
http://www.rnli-penleelifeboat.org.uk/Abo ut%…/PenleeDisaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLIE5tQwt EI
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A St Piran's Day Poem for all those Jacks and Jennies.
Gool Peran Lowen!! (Happy St Piran's Day) to all my family, friends and clients both old and new.
I have included the St Piran Concert held at St Just last Saturday to get you in the mood...
https://www.facebook.com/375673819882855/ videos/2076071622474026/
Wishing all my friends, family and clients, past present and future a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.
Wishing all my clients Past, Present and Future a very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year.
Marilyn
GENEALOGY NEVER FORGETS:
Laurence Binyon composed his poem For the Fallen whilst sitting on a Cornish cliff-top looking out to sea in mid-September 1914, a few weeks after the outbreak of WWI. He said the 4th verse (below) came to him first and is best remembered.
Wishing all my Canadian family, friends and clients (old, new and future) a wonderful Thanksgiving today.
Well, I am pleased to say that we have been very busy for the past few months delving into the lives of some very interesting and exciting ancestors. Such wonderful, colourful characters. It has just been magical lately. It has been so intense I seem to have missed our glorious summer.
However, I did take a day out to visit our long awaited Kresen Kernow (Cornish for Cornwall Centre) which will open (so the builders tell us....) in Summer 2019. Kresen Kernow will be appro...ximately 2 miles from where Cornish Ancestry is located - so really close! With 14 miles of archive shelving there will be plenty documents to explore!.
I have attached some photos of inside and outside the building taken on my tour, along with a "before" photo.
As can be seen, great care has been taken to preserve many of the features of the old Redruth Brewery founded in 1742 - including the original chimney which rises up through the building and has been photographed through a viewing "skylight". Granite walls/floors have all been preserved along with some of the original pillars. It will be truly stunning when finished. Can't wait!
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I love this job!
Just helped a lady find her biological father. So satisfying.
A Huge thanks to Marilyn O'Neill at Cornish Ancestry. With her help I have traced my dad after 57years.... Recommend 100%. Janet. 👌
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https://www.facebook.com/KresenKernow/vid eos/1476444432478655/
Just to remind everyone that the Cornwall Record Office will be closed from the autumn 2018 and the Cornish Studies Library will be closed from 10 September 2018 in order for them to prepare for the move to their new premises in Redruth (approx. 2.5 miles from Cornish Ancestry Ltd).
In 2019 their new premises will open as Kresen Kernow (Cornish Centre) on the site of the historic Redruth Brewery building at the heart of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site.
The Redruth ...Brewery site had been used as a brewery as far back as 1742 when it was founded by William Davey and operated right up until 2004 when the company went into liquidation.
Thanks to a £1.7m ERDF funding grant together with £600,00 from the owners of the site a new lease of life will be breathed into the old Redruth Brewery.
Housed within Kresen Kernow will be the world's largest collection of manuscripts, books and documents related to Cornwall as well as the Cornwall Record Office, the Cornish Studies Library and the Cornwall and Scilly Historic Environment Record.
We can't wait!!
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For all you Cornishmen and women far and wide - on 5th March all across Cornwall we will be having a "Shout".
To see more, and maybe join in singing Trelawny on this special day - wherever you are in the world.
https://www.facebook.com/trelawnyshout/