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"Old Cornwall"

Index to Volume 5

(April 1951 - October 1961)

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Index to Illustrations   -   Index to Contributors   -   Index to Book Reviews   -   

Contributions in Cornish   -   Cornish Crosses   -   Cornish Language 

Cornish Reminiscences   -   Cornish Saints   -   Dialect & Brevities   -  Folk-Lore 

 Mining   -   Old Cornwall Societies   -   Persons   -   Place Names   

Places   -   Poetry   -   Sayings   -  Stones  -  Words

Index to Illustrations

Cornish Slate Memorials

 

       Blisland

545

       Madron

544

      Talland

543

Dark Age Pottery

460

Godolphin

facing 89

Hayle Inscribed Stone

173

Maps

 

       Keverando Area

334

       West Cornwall Ogam Inscription & Grass Marked     Pottery Sites 

453

Music

311, 347, 348, 534

Pendrea Cross, St Buryan

477

Pengersick

facing 89

Tredinnick Cross

538

Zennor Cross Sites

407

 

Index to Contributors

Author Title Page Number

Arthur, Marshel,

A "Burning",

465

Arthur, Marshel,

Old Timers, by an Old Timer,

319

Arthur, Marshel,

Piper's Pit,

5

Arthur, Marshel,

St Stephen - in  Brannel

536

Attwater, Donald

The Saints of Cornwall,

362

Bainsmith, B. F. 

The Fuggin Pit at Little Wheal Speed,

463

Bartlett, M. M.

A Century beneath the Thatch,

56

Bartlett, M. M.

A Century of Life in a Cornish Kitchen,

32

Batchelor, K. M. 

Notes on a Royalist Family, the Darts of Pentuan,

433

Bath, A. L. 

A Cornish Countrywoman,

237

Bath, A. L. 

A helping hand,

355

Bath, A. L. 

Conversation Piece

329

Beckerlegge, John J.

The Ancient memorial inscription on the Stone at Hayle,

173

Best, W. Stuart,

Gleanings from the Dark Ages Map of Britain,

436

Bond, E. T. 

"Good-Night"

71

Bond, E. T. 

Pilchards (A Memory)

534

Bond, E. T. 

Ropehawn,

170

Butland, B. D.

John Polmear,

402

Carter, C. S. 

Lingering History in Newlyn,

295

Chirgwin, Edwin

Environmental Education,

16

Chirgwin, Edwin

Lyver Jonah (with Nance, R. M.)

520

Chirgwin, Edwin

The Immortals of our Place-Names,

72

Cowls, P.

John James's Experience,

523

Cowls, P.

Our little cove in Bygone Days

45

Doble, J. M. 

Some Comparisons

290

Doble, J. M.

Way-Leave for Lightning,

238

Exelby, M. (see George, M.

 

 

Faull, E. M. Borlase,

Our Publications Fund

12

Gendall, R.

Hunros Dyvres,

40

George, M. & Exelby, M.

Old Mullion People,

461

Girling, The Rev. C. A. W. 

Lanreath Church, (Footnote),

491

Grylla, Rosalie G.

A Note on the Helston Monument,

135

Harris, T. R. 

Some Chapters in the History of Camborne,

10, 51

Hawke, Kathleen

The Bird in Hand,

350

Hawke, Kathleen

"The Lil' Ole Mill",

306

Hirst, F. C.

The Ancient crosses and Cross-sites of Zennor,

408

Hobbs, Alberta

Coastguard's Daughter,

389

Hooper, E. G. R.

A Query on Authorship,

535

Hooper, E. G. R.

Cornish Dwellings

70

Hooper, E. G. R.

Curnow,

474

Hooper, E. G. R.

Darnel,

476

Hooper, E. G. R.

Gorseth Kernow,

459

Hooper, E. G. R.

The Celtic Gospels

431

Hooper, E. G. R.

The last Cornish Sermon,

539

Hooper, W. T.

Cornish Wrestling

13

Hunkin, Gladys

Ancient Tomb,

9

Hunkin, Gladys

Godolphin Hill,

475

Hunkin, Gladys

Twelve o'clock Rock,

215

James, C. C. 

Early Tin Smelting in Cornwall,

269

James, C. C. 

Some Notes on Buryan,

343

James, C. C. 

A New Year's Eve Gathering in a Rural Parish of 50 years ago,

42

James, C. C. 

Some Notes on Cornish Miners in Brazil,

228

James, C. C. 

The Cornish Copper Miners in Australia,

139

James, C. C. 

Visitors to Botallack,

61

Jenkin, R. G. 

A Lullaby,

465

Jenner, H.

A Dead Language,

159

Jenner, H.

Gwaynten yn Kernow,

305

Jerram, C. F.

Beach Bonfires,

259

Jolly, Edith M.

Lady Brannel's Brass,

73

Kaye, G. Percival

Mystery Plays in the Middle Ages,

291

Kaye, G. Percival

Vowesses and Lady Faste,

337

Keast, J.

An Old Cornish Friendly Society,

75

Keast, J.

Cornish Ports in the Time of Charles II,

1

Keast, J.

Smuggling Days,

182

Kelynack, J.

Christmas Customs at Newlyn,

417

Kelynack, J.

Looking Backwards,

216

Kelynack, J.

Newlyn Christmas Plays

156

Kelynack, J.

Things Said,

462

Laws, Peter

Gleanings from an Old Cornish Guide,

94

Ledbury, F. J. 

The Mounts Bay Trade in Fumados during 1636 - 1638,

525

Longden, Preb. A.

Cornwall and England,

50

Longden, Preb. A.

Old Prices and Wages,

15

Martyn, Stuart

Changing Times,

473

Michell, F.

A Redruth Journal,

79, 101, 230, 298, 356.

Michell, J. 

Granny Joan,

150

Miners, Tom

In Trevithicks Cottage,

227

Moir, L. R.

A Morbid Tonic,

398

Moir, L. R. 

"Cappen Charley",

354

Moir, L. R. 

"Cuntelleugh an Brewyon..."

346

Moir, L. R..

The Old Time Mines,

401

Mortimer, M.

Scillonian Forbears,

119

Mortimer, M.

Scillonian Literature,

208

Mortimer, M.

Scillonian Sprites,

157

Mortimer, M.

The Scilly Pilots

316

Murrish, C. S.

The Oldest house in St Ives,

38

Nance, R. M.

A Comeback for "Kitareen",

276

Nance, R. M.

A Saint Ives Endearment,

163

Nance, R. M.

A Tapnett of Reason,

273

Nance, R. M.

An Aval Ruth,

321

Nance, R. M.

An Den y'n Lor, 

214

Nance, R. M.

An Kenyas ha'n Lugh,

37

Nance, R. M.

An Pystryor,

488

Nance, R. M.

An Tregher a-Dorras y Benys,

65

Nance, R. M.

Bulorn and its Congeners,

311

Nance, R. M.

Cobbles and Bobbles,

361

Nance, R. M.

Cornish Beginnings,

368

Nance, R. M.

Cornish for Cul-de-sac,

339

Nance, R. M.

Costislost,

353

Nance, R. M.

"Creature and Quaker",

100

Nance, R. M.

Dillue,

36

Nance, R. M.

Dres an Glaw a-berth y'n Chy,

380

Nance, R. M.

Gwytha'n Gwaneth Gwyn,

134

Nance, R. M.

Gwythas an Dremenysy,

426

Nance, R. M.

Hammer and Apron Strings,

468

Nance, R. M.

Hunros Perys Tollor,

250

Nance, R. M.

Killigrew,

41

Nance, R. M.

Lobcock,

68

Nance, R. M.

Lyver Jonah, (with Chigwin, E.),

520

Nance, R. M.

Mermaids in Cornwall,

218

Nance, R. M.

Metheklan,

294

Nance, R. M.

More New - found Cornish,

374

Nance, R. M.

Nebes Rymys Coth us Noweth Kernewekhes,

349

Nance, R. M.

New Light on Cornish,

374

Nance, R. M.

Note on Cornish Spelling,

315

Nance, R. M.

Painted Windows and Miracle Plays,

244

Nance, R. M.

Queer Old Words,

158

Nance, R. M.

Rose-Nobles,

379

Nance, R. M.

Scawen on Carols in Cornish,

352

Nance, R. M.

Skentoleth Prenys,

152

Nance, R. M.

Snail Lore,

347

Nance, R. M.

Some Cornish Schools of Long Ago,

405

Nance, R. M.

The Pengersick Panels,

89

Nance, R. M.

The Three Advices, 

257

Nance, R. M.

Why Gowna?

164

Nettleinghame, F.

Horse Patrols,

446

Noall Cyril

Folk-Lore from West Cornwall,

480

Noall Cyril

New Cornish Papers Discovered in Lincolnshire,

505

Noall Cyril

Old Documents on Falmouth Parish Church,

443

Noall Cyril

The Tinners' Riot of 1729,

396, 418

Noall, R. J. 

Traditions of Old St Ives

528

North, William

At the Sign of the Green Dolphin

53

North, William

More from the "Dolphin",

122

North, William

The Stranger at the Golden Lion,

179

O'Hagan, Kathleen

Another Garibaldi at Penquite,

226

O'Halloran, C.

Midsummer Bonfires at Pentewan,

248

Palmer, J. L. 

Nyns-yu Marow Morden,

450

Pascoe, W. Arthur

Cornish Mining Adventure,

108

Pascoe, W. Arthur

Fragments,

286

Pascoe, W. Arthur

Some References to Cornwall and the Cornish,

261

Payne, H. M. C. 

Charles Lee at St. Mawgan-in-Pydar and "Pascoe's Song,"

326

Payne, H. M. C.

Cornish Methodism in Fiction,

381, 422

Pearce, H. L.

The Hurling Game at St Columb Major,

384

Perry, F. B. 

A Scotch Gaelic "Jowan Chy an Horth",

254

Picken, W. M. N. 

The Place Names of Morval,

131, 143,186

Pool, P. A. S.

A Practical Joke at Delebole,

449

Pool, P. A. S.

A Tall Story,

249

Pool, P. A. S.

The Penheleg Manuscript,

278

Pool, P. A. S.

The Topography of the Penheleg Manuscript,

330

Pool, P. A. S.

William Borlase

198

Rowe, Ashley

An Exeter Printer and the Cornish Language,

31

Rowe, Ashley

Gorsedd of Cornwall: Barth Mur - Talek,

479

Saundry, A. J.

The Tucking Mill,

471

Sowden, L. C. 

Some Observations on King Arthur,

43

Shearme, J. A.

St Petroc's Casket Comes Home,

378

Spooner, Barbara C.

A Little "Ramble beyond Railways", 

502

Stephens, M. C. V. 

The Place Names of Tywardreath,

509

Stevens, Mary

Teetotal Street,

172

Thomas, A. C.

Camborne Words and more Camborne Saying,

239

Thomas, A. C.

People and Pottery in Dark Age Cornwall,

452

Thomas, A. C.

Some Cornwall Sayings,

138

Thomas, A. C.

The Carnsew Inscriptions,

125

Tiddy, E. J.

Notes on Scilly,

304

Trevorrow, W. J. 

Language,

87

Watson, W. D. 

How Cornish Came to Me,

340

Westlake, I. T.

Cury Churchwardens' Accounts 1735 - 40,

154

White, G. G. 

Rules for Farm-workers at Bochym,

435

Willis, F. M. 

A Great Day for Par,

370

Willis, F. M.

Luxulyan Valley,

28

Ynywl,

To a Celtic Cross,

39

A.L.B.

A Helping Hand,

353

A.L.B.

Conversation Piece,

329

P.C.

Cutting the Neck and Maying,

20

R.R.M.G.

A Little - Known Part of Cornwall,

414

L.H.

A Cornish Story,

169

C.F.J.

F.N. on Cobbles and Bobbles,

442

E.M.J.

The St Austell Riots 1801,

495

M.S.J.

A Musical Controversy,

4

M.S.J.

Cornish Gems,

180

M.S.J.

Fresh an' Fresh,

31

F.N.

Cobbles or Bobbles

361

O.J.O.

Mother's Will,

399

M.E.S.

Midsummer Eve,

392

T.S.

An Account of a Strange Occurrence,

178

B.T.

The Old Language Recalled

353

 

Index to Book Reviews

Book Reviews Page number

A History of Cornwall ( F. E. Halliday)

478

A Short history of St. Buryan, (C.B. Crofts),

310

Around Helston in the Old Days, (A.S. Oates)

40

Beloved St Ives, (Cyril Noall)

398

Chantry Certificates of Cornwall, (L.S. Snell)

310

Col. J. Whitehead Peard, "Garibaldi's Englishman", (Mrs F.M. Willis)

398

Cornish Banks & Bankers, ( A.J. Shearme),

181

Cornish Crystal, (Gladys Hunkin)

64

Cornish in Song and Ceremony,

181

Cornish Song Book, (Ralph Dunstan)

391

Cornish Yarns, (Frank Baron)

118, 197

Down Beach long o' Me, (Mrs. C.N. Henwood)

421

Edwardian Inventories of Church Goods for Cornwall, (L. S. Snell)

310

Ma'tha Madder, (Frank Baron)

118, 197

Netherton's Cornish Tales,

421

New Help,

217

News from Cornwall, (A.K. Hamilton Jenkin)

64

One Thousand Place Names of Cornwall, (Edwin Chirgwin)

64

Primitive Physics by John Wesley, (W.H. Paynter)

421

Some Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Camborne District, A.C. Thomas)

40

The Cornish Chough through the Ages, (Jas. L. Palmer)

181

The Mines of Cornwall - Spargo, 1865, (D.B. Barton)

524

The Redruth & Chasewater Railway 1824, (D.B. Barton)

524

The Sacrifice, (A.C. Thomas)

64

Tintagel in Fact and Fiction, (H. and S.C. Caple)

542

Trystan Hag Ysolt,

107

 

Contributions in Cornish

Title Page number

An Aval Ruth

321

An Den y'n Lor

214

An Kenyas ha'n Lugh

37

An Lor ha'n Logas

177

An Prysner y'n Lor

253

An Pystryor

488

An Tabel Men,

277

An Tregher a-Dorras y Benys,

65

Cosel ha Tek,

133

De-Gwener and Grows,

285

Dhe'n Glaw

207

Dres an Glaw a-berth y'n Chy,

380

Gorseth Kernow,

459

Gwaynten yn Kernow,

305

Gwttha'n Gwaneth Gwyn,

134

Gwythas an Dremenysy,

426

Hunros Dyvres,

40

Hunros Perys Tollor,

250

Lull ha Lay

465

Lyver Jonah,

520

Nebes Rymys Coth us Noweth Kernewekhes,

349

Nep a-Dawo ny-vyth Dampnys,

153

Skentoleth Prenys,

152

Whethel mar got kynth Yua whath Byth na-Dheweth,

348

 

 

Cornish Crosses

Title Page Number

Buryan Pendrea

477

Halsetown,

391

In General,

437

St. Clement,

437

St. Columb Major,

437

Tredinnick,

538

Zennor Crosses and Cross Sites

408

 

Cornish Language

Title Page Number

An Exeter Printer and the Cornish Language,

31

Cornish Beginnings,

368

Cornish Spellings

315

Gramophone Recordings in Cornish,

217

How Cornish Came to Me,

340

More New Found Cornish

374

New Light on Cornish,

59

Scawen on Carols in Cornish,

352

The Old Language Recalled,

353

 

Cornish Reminiscences

Title Page Number

A Century Beneath the Thatch,

56

A Century of Life in a Cornish Kitchen,

32

A Cornish Countrywoman,

237

A New Year's Eve Gatherine,

42

An Exile Remembers,

377

At the Sign of the Green Dolphin,

53, 122

Coastguard's Daughter,

389

Fragments,

286

Our Little Cove in bygone Days,

45

The Stranger at the Golden Lion,

179

 

Dialect & Brevities

Title Page Numbers

A Cornish Jury Story,

515

A Cornish Story,

169

A Helping Hand,

355

A Morbid Tonic,

398

Brush up your Dialect,

532

Conversation Piece,

329

Dialect,

118

Good Measure

541

Loss of Dialect,

466

Mothers Will,

399

Not on Doctor's Orders,

448

Old Time Bonus,

540

Only Confirmation Wanted,

320

Things Said,

462

Way Leave For Lightning,

238

Why?

429

Diary of Thomas Nicoll of Redruth, The

79, 101, 230, 298, 356.

 

Folk-Lore

Title Page Number

A Scotch Gaelic - "Jowan Chy an Horth",

254

Folk-Lore from West Cornwall,

480

Hammers and Apron Strings,

468

 

Mining

Title

Page Number

Cornish Mining Adventure,

108

Some Notes on Cornish Miners in Brazil,

228

The Cornish Copper Mines in Australia,

228

 

Old Cornwall Societies

Title Page Number

Federation,

346, 479

Landewednack,

401

Officers 1959 - 1960

496

Penzance,

478

Perranzabuloe,

401

St. Ives,

391

St. Just,

514

 

Persons

Name

Page Number

Anthony, J.

529

Arthur, King,

43

Bevill, john

543

Borlase, W.

198

Brannel, LaDY

73

Cock, T.

544

Dart of Pentuan,

433

Garibaldi,

226, 370, 398.

Hooper, E.G.R.

479

James, C.C.

391

Jenkin, A.K.H.

479

Kempe, H.

545

Lee, Charles

326

Miners, Jim

541

Michell, Joan

150

Nance, R. M.

368, 450

Nicholl, T

79, 101, 230, 298, 356

Polmear, John

402

Price, Sir R.

243

Thomas, "Cappen Charley"

354

Trevisa, John

535

Uncle Tommy

531

 

Place Names

The Immortals in our,

72

Morval,

131, 143, 186.

Newlyn,

295

Tywardreath,

509

Places

Blisland,

545

Bochym,

435

Botallack,

61

Buryan,

9, 343, 477

Camborne,

10, 51, 138, 239

Carn Brea,

77

Cury.

154

Delabole,

449

Goran,

73

Gwennap,

42

Halsetown,

391

Hayle, Inscribed Stone

125,  173

Hellesveor

530

Helston,

135

Landewednack,

539

Landreath

491

Lizard

325

Ludgvan,

238

Luxulyan

28

Madron

544

Morval

131,  143,  186

Mullion

69,  461

Newlyn,

 

       Christmas

156,  417

       History

216,  542

       Place-Names

295

Par

370

Pengersick

89

Penquite

226,   370

Pentewan

248,  433

Porthleven

45

Porthmeor

528

Redruth

 

       Journal

79, 101,  230,  298,  356.

       Tablet

395

St Austell Riots

495

St Columb Major

384

St. Day

42

St. Ives

 

         Borough accounts

273,  294

        Fuggan Pit

463

        Oldest House

38

        Teetotal Street

172

        Tinners' Riot

396,  418

        Traditions

528

St Just

178

St. Mawgan - in - Pydar

326

St. Piran's Oratory

495

Sancreed, Bird - in - Hand

350

Talland

543

Tintagel

542

Towednack

481

Wadebridge

473

West Penwith

243,  249

Zennor, Crosses

408

 

Poetry

Title Page Number

A Dead Language,

159

A Lullaby,

466

An Lor ha'n Logas,

177

An Prysner y'n Lor,

253

An Tabel Men,

277

Ancient Tomb,

9

De-Gewner an Grows,

285

Dhe'n Glaw,

207

Godolphin Hill,

475

Good-Night,

71

Gwaynten yn Kernow,

305

Gwytha'n Gwaneth Gwyn,

134

Hunros Dyvres,

40

In Trevithick's Cottage,

227

Pilchard ( A Memory),

534

Ropehawn,

170

The Launders,

449

The Old Time Miner,

401

To a Celtic Cross,

39

Twelve o'clock Rock

215

Verses from Cornish Samplers,

425,  467,  541

 

Sayings

A St. Ives Endearment,

163

Cornish Gems,

180

Some Camborne Sayings,

138,  239

Some Comparisons

290

 

Stones

Fowey,

439

Hayle,

126,  173,  438

Redruth,

395

St. Just

439

 

Words

Avon and Dowr,

274

Bulorn,

311

Cobbles and Bobbles,

361,  442

Cornish for Cul-de-sac,

339

Costislost,

353

Creature and Quaker,

100

Curnow,

474

Darnel,

476

Dillue,

36

High-de-glee,

318

Killigrew,

41

Kitareen,

276

Lasking,

309

Lobcock,

68

Metheklan,

294

Nowell,

352

Peat,

68

Queer Old Words,

158

Tapnett,

273

Why Gownat?

164

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