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"Old Cornwall" Journal Index to Volume 4

(April 1943 - October 1951)

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

Contributions in Cornish   -   Cornish Crosses   -   Cornish Language 

  Dialect & Brevities   -   Old Cornwall Societies   -   Persons 

Places   -   Poetry   -   Sayings   -  Songs  -  Words

Index to Illustrations

Deadwood Dick

facing page 1

Fowey, Election Handbill

facing page 437

Francis Peter Sandry,

facing page 217

Samuel John Wills,

facing page 129

Newlyn Thatched Cottages,

facing page 113

 

Index to Contributors

Author Title Page Number

ADAMS, Rev. J.H.

Some Cornish Places of Pilgrimage,

305

ALLERTON, Daphne

Cudhlen Demedhyans an Bensevyges Wothys,

411

ALLSOP, Jane J.

November, Cornwall,

352

ANDREW, C.K.C.

Cottage Furnishings 110 years ago,

126

ARTHUR, M.

Beacon Hill,

381

BATH, A.L.

They Iern Gaates,

100

BECKERLEGGE, John J.

Thatched Cottages of Newlyn

114

BECKERLEGGE, John J.

Words heard at Mousehole,

417

BEST, W. Stuart

Notes on the Celtic Church in Cornwall,

323

BEST, W. Stuart

Lands in the Domesday Survey of Cornwall,

148

BOND, E.T.

The Haven of Polmear,

142

BOND, E.T.

The Road to Menagwins,

127

BROOKE, M.M.

The Old Breton Seafarers,

9

BULLOCK, Fred

"Deadwood Dick," A Famous Cornishman,

18

CATLING, R.M.

Canon Doble and his Work,

234

CHIRGWIN, Edwin

Brother John,

314

CHIRGWIN, Edwin

"Foot" in Cornish Place-Names,

435

CHIRGWIN, Edwin

Nancy's River,

254

CHIRGWIN, Edwin

Nanquidno Chapel,

388

COWLS, P.

The spallers,

173

COWLS, P.

How the Brandy came safe to Sithney,

290

DOBLE, Canon G.M.

Sources used by Polwhele,

436

DOPSON, Lawrence

The Train Whistle.

95

DUDLEY, Dorothy

Archaeological Notes,

416

GARDNER, Michael

Sennen,

424

GEEN, Susan M.

An Drokspyrys Foj,

467

GLUBB, A. de Castro

Mister John Bunt

22

GRYLLS, A.C. Glynn

Cornish Mathematicians,

252

GRYLLS, A.C. Glynn

Cornishmen at Oxford (1500 - 1700)

81, 97, 121, 134

GRYLLS, A.C. Glynn

Cornish Royal Delinquents,

191

GRYLLS, A.C. Glynn

Sir John Trelawny,

454

GRYLLS, A.C. Glynn

Some Ancient Cornish Law-Suits,

261

GYLES, Stephen

Lark Ascending,

409

GYLES, Stephen

Nostalgia,

336

HARRIS, R.T.

Some Chapters in the History of Camborne 1. Enclosure,

471

HOBLYN, W.T.

Ancestry of Richard Carew,

43

HOOPER, J.E.

Nicknames,

124

HOOPER, J.E.

Old Preaching Places,

108

HOOPER, G. Retallack

Cornwall and the Ordnance Survey, 

360

HUNKIN, Gladys

An Alphabet of Cornish Saints,

383

HUNKIN, Gladys

China Clay Burrows,

17

HUNKIN, Gladys

Cornish Wrestlers in the Field of the Cloth of Gold,

93

HUNKIN, Gladys

Pressing Stones Prophets,

198

HUNKIN, Gladys

The Poet of Morwenstow

160

HUNKIN, Gladys

The Sea,

60

HUNKIN, Gladys

Tryst,

283

HUNT, S.S. see MOORE,

 

 

JAMES, C.C.

Cornwall and Mexico,

349

JAMES, C.C.

Flints in West Cornwall,

425

JAMES, C.C.

Richard Trevithick's visit to Peru,

463

JAMES, C.C.

The Dating of the Earlies Copper Production in Cornwall, etc.,

199

JAMES, M.S.

Quite Enough,

479

JENKIN, A. K. Hamilton

Some Old Names,

442

JENKIN, A. K. Hamilton

Trial and Error,

331

JENNINGS, Canon H. R. 

The Jennings Family in Cornwall,

248, 316

JOHNS, S. W.

A Vicar of St. Gluvias,

115

JOHNS, S. W.

"The Cornish Magazine"

104

JOHNS, S. W.

Travellers in the Duchy :

i. Rev. Francis Kilvert,

ii. Celia Fiennes,

iii. Daniel Defoe

i. = 256, 

ii. = 327,

iii. = 361

JOLLY, Rev. L. V.

The Wrestling Truscotts, 1800 - 1814,

320

KEAST, John

Fowey During the French Wars, 1778 - 1815,

357

KEAST, John

Humours of a Cornish Election in the Early 19th Century,

456

KELYNACK, J.

The Ghost Story, a Sketch,

39

KELYNACK, J.

A Local Rhyme,

461

LAWS, Peter

A Cornish Family, Blewett of Colan,

384

LOVELL, NAORMA  E.

The Washing Pool,

480

MAC DOWELL, F. J. B.

The Field Names of Redruth Parish,

161

MAC DOWELL, F. J. B.

Naming the Baby,

437

MAC DOWELL, F. J. B.

Dyharas Mylweth es Despyt,

340

McKIE, Dougles

John Mayow  (1641 - 79),

89

MARTIN, Olive, 

Thomas Holloway of Penzance,

28

MAYNE, W. BOXER

Stray Notes on Paul Parish,

45

MAYNE, W. BOXER

St. Rumon's Cross,

103

MAYNE, W. BOXER

Old Inventories,

159, 353

MOORE, Bernard,

Come Sing a Song for Cornwall,

462

MOORE, Bernard,

The Menhir, 

410

MOORE, Bernard,

The Song of the Quay Stones, 

356

MORTIMER, M. 

Damnonian Husbandry,

460

MORTIMER, M. 

Social Survey in Scilly,

32

MORTIMER, M. 

Sea Wrack,

185

MORTIMER, M. 

The Governance of Scilly,

393

MORTIMER, M. 

The Seven lights of Scilly,

293, 324

MOYLE, W. L. 

The Wendron God,

302, 315

MURRISH, C. S. 

Dog Watch,

274

NANCE, R. MORTON

A New-Old appeal,

387

NANCE, R. MORTON

A Tradition Concerning John Wesley,

140, 205

NANCE, R. MORTON

An Managh a-Synsys dhe'n Gwyryoneth,

288

NANCE, R. MORTON

An Canjeon,

182

NANCE, R. MORTON

An Mayl war an Forth

237

NANCE, R. MORTON

An Pysk Ryal,

152

NANCE, R. MORTON

An Stryfores,

472

NANCE, R. MORTON

Bewnans Sen Florent,

23

NANCE, R. MORTON

"Blind Horse,"

398

NANCE, R. MORTON

Brockets,

476

NANCE, R. MORTON

Can An Yar,

423

NANCE, R. MORTON

Capstans and Caunses,

38

NANCE, R. MORTON

"Caradar" (A. S. D. SMITH)

477

NANCE, R. MORTON

Celtic Personal Names of Cornwall,

10, 61

NANCE, R. MORTON

Christian Names from Registers,

439

NANCE, R. MORTON

Collin's cow,

434

NANCE, R. MORTON

Cornish Proverbs and Maxims,

36

NANCE, R. MORTON

Cornish Poem Restored,

368

NANCE, R. MORTON

Cornish Prophecies,

443

NANCE, R. MORTON

Edwin Chirgwin's Cornish Song,

210

NANCE, R. MORTON

Flemints,

35

NANCE, R. MORTON

From Adit back to Aqueduct,

158

NANCE, R. MORTON

Hawker and the Cornish Lanquage,

415

NANCE, R. MORTON

Landiok,

480

NANCE, R. MORTON

John Boson's Message,

106

NANCE, R. MORTON

Malotta,

164

NANCE, R. MORTON

Melyn-Dreth

164

NANCE, R. MORTON

Morask Russches

346

NANCE, R. MORTON

New Light on Cornish,

156,  214,  273

NANCE, R. MORTON

Newquay and the Sea,

21

NANCE, R. MORTON

"Normans,"

107

NANCE, R. MORTON

Oan, etc., in Field-Names,

251

NANCE, R. MORTON

Only the Moon,

478,

NANCE, R. MORTON

Pomster and Palmistry,

228

NANCE, R. MORTON

Sagh Dom Jowan

332

NANCE, R. MORTON

Sugal dhe'n Velyn,

102

NANCE, R. MORTON

Synt Galdwyn ha'n Trethor-yon,

72

NANCE, R. MORTON

The Cornish Rhymes of James Jenkins of Alverton,

268

NANCE, R. MORTON

The Havest Flower,

453

NANCE, R. MORTON

The Hour but not the Man,

259

NANCE, R. MORTON

The Tregear Manuscript,

429

NANCE, R. MORTON

Thornpellas and Whirlepools,

44

NANCE, R. MORTON

William Allen's Cornish Rhyme,

325

NOALL, R. J. 

Resolute Home-Makers,

85

OATS, A. S. 

"Peter",

217

PASCOE. Stanley

A Makeshift,

375

PASCOE, W. Arthur

Foweymoor,

165

PASCOE, W. Arthur

The Fowey River and its Tributaries

341,  371

PAYNE, H. M. Creswell

Cornish Pounds,

143

Pearson, A. E.

Autumn in Cornwall,

287,  

Pearson, A. E.

The Estuary, 

404

PERRY, E. J.  

Memories of Samuel John Wills,

129

PETCHEY, Joan

Rattling Chains

469

PICKEN, Rev. W. M. M. 

Landiok,

418

POOL, Ann,

Church Platr in St. Uny, Lelant,

94

POOL, Ann,

Federation Report,

24

POOL, Ann,

History of Kenegie in Gulval,

303

POOL, Ann,

The Manor of Roscarrock,

337

POUNDS, N. J. G.

Parish and the Hundred in Medieval Cornwall,

109

ROBERTS, G. 

More about "Peter",

299

ROGERS Lilly,

Jaames 'Enry's 'Oliday,

413

ROGERS Lilly,

The Natives and the Foreigner,

68

ROGERS, M. W.

Enjoying Bad Health,

7

ROUND, Dorothy,

Lands End,

106

ROUND Dorothy,

On Hearing a Cornish Choir on the Radio,

6

ROUND Dorothy,

Waves at Scilly,

230

ROUND, Ernest

A Marazion Inventory of 1793,

31

ROUND, Ernest

"Boy Peter",

77

ROUND, Ernest

Goods, Chattels and Credits,

96

ROUND, Ernest

Mayoral rights at Marazion,

30

Rowe, Ashley,

A Great Funeral,

41

Rowe, Ashley,

An Guntelles Keltek,

473

Rowe, Ashley,

The Cornish Language during the Civil War, 

87

Rowe, Ashley,

Joseph Pryor of Lanner,

79

Rowe, Ashley,

Thomas Freeman,

171

SHAW, Rev. Thomas,

The Menhennick family,

398

SHEARME, J. A.

Cornwall's Royal Borough,

248

SHEARME, J. A.

Liskeard Mayor - Choosing Tradition,

455

SHEARME, J. A.

Polruan,

347

SHEARME, J. A.

The Curfew Bell,

397

SHEARME, J. A.

Two ancient Cornish Clocks,

365

STANLEY, Jeanne,

The Church of St. Crida, Grampound,

378

STANLEY, Jeanne M.

Probus,

405

THOMAS, Joyce M.

Penitent Game,

233

THOMAS, Joyce M.

Witchcraft at Port Quin,

289

THOMAS, Joyce M.

A Corn Dressing Charm,

292

TREDINNICK, L. S.

The Dyed Dress,

366

TREDINNICK, L. S.

Victory Sketches,

231

TRENEER ANNE

To Furze-Bushes Hurt in Swaling Time,

157

TRENGOVE, D. M. 

Rinding,

319

TWYCROSS, M.

Old Tracks Around Looe, 

1.  54

WALLACE Bessie,

A Brooch with a Mystery,

265

WALLACE Bessie,

Hangman's Burrow,

133

WALLACE Bessie,

"Lizzie Poor Dick",

75

WALLACE Bessie,

Three Grandmother's Stories,

208

WARMINGTON, T. N. 

A Misunderstanding,

190

WATSON, WM. C. Daniel,

A Wesley Tradition in St. Hilary,

118

WATSON, WM. C. Daniel,

Bob Fitzsimmons,

213

B.V.T.,

Self Reliance,

462

L.

The I-diddle-dee-dee!,

227

 

Index to Book Reviews

Book Reviews Page number

A Cornish Gleaning, (Bernard Moore)

255

Cathedral spires, (Ashley Rowe)

236

Cornish For All, ( R. Morton Nance) 

412

Cornish Crowsheaf, (Bernard Moore)

391

Cornish Sketches, (Belle Cooper)

160

Cornwall, (Claude Berry)

355

Gilbert Hunter Doble, (R.M.Catling & J.P.Rogers)

391

History of Gwennap, (C.C.James)

355

La Langue Bretonne et sas Combats, (Roparz Hemon)

255

Notes on the history of Redruth, ( Frank Mitchell)

297

Old Cornwall Index, ( S.W.Johns)

297

Poems of Cormwall, (Gladys Hunkin)

108

Poems from Celtic and Latin Countries, (M. Gardner)

428

School house in the Wind, (Anne Treneer)

112

The Story of the Parish of Roache, (H.M.Cresswell Payne)

297

The Story of the Corinsh Language, Nebes Wethlow Ber, How to Learn Cornish, (A.S.D. Smith)

236

Wethlow an seyth Den Fur a Rom, (A.S.D. Smith)

322

 

Contributions in Cornish

Title Page number

An Canjeon,

182

An Drokspyrys Foj,

467

An Managh a-synsys dhe'n Gwyryoneth,

288

An Mayl war an forth,

237

An Pader nag-o Dewwdhys,

376

An Pysk Ryal,

152

An Stryfores,

472

Bewnans Sen Florent,

25

Can an Yar,

423

Cudhlen-demedhyans an Bensevygges Wothys,

411

Demedhyans Bryntyn, 

239

Dyharas Mylweth es Despyt,

340

Lamentacio marie,

369

melyn-dreth,

119

Sajh Dom Jowan,

332

Sugal dhe'n Velyn,

102

Synt Gladwyn ha'n Trethoryon,

72

 

Cornish Crosses

Title Page Number

St. Rumon's

103

The Wendron God

302, 315

 

Cornish Language

Cornish language during the Civil War,

87

Cornwish Words occurring in the Tregear MS.,

431

Edward Chirgwin's Song,

210

Hawker and the Cornish Language,

415

John Boson's Message,

106

Landiock,

418, 480

Morask Russches,

346

New Light on Cornish Language,

156, 214, 273

Onan, etc., in Field Names,

251

Proverbs and Maxims,

36

Rhymes of James Jenkins of Alverton,

268

William Allen's Cornish Rhyme,

325

 

Dialect & Brevities

Title Page Numbers

A Good Second Guess,

345

A Makeshift,

375

A Misunderstanding,

190

Enjoying Bad Health,

7

Frighted with Owls,

356

Heard in a Bus,

386

Jaames 'Enry's Oliday,

413

No Enthusiast,

388

Quite Enough,

479

The Dyed Dress,

366

Ghost Story. a Sketch, 

39

The Natives and the Foreigner,

68

The Wooden Horse,

177

They Iern Gaates,

100

Trial and Error,

331

Victory Sketches

231

 

Old Cornwall Societies

Title Page Number

Bodmin,

241

Liskeard,

241

Looe,

243

Newquay,

21, 243

Penzance,

244

St. Ives,

246

Truro,

247

Wadebridge,

247

"Something Done" A Record of All the Societies Work,

241

 

Persons

Name

Page Number

Basset, Francis, lord de Dunstanville,

41

"Betsy Gunner"

85

Boson John,

106

"Boy Peter"

77

Carew Richard,

43

Chirgwin Edward, 

210

"Deadwood Dick",

18

Defoe Daniel,

361

Doble, Canon G. H., 

128, 234

Fitzsimmons, Bob,

213

Freeman, Thomas,

171

Harris of Kenegie,

224

Holloway, thomas,

28

Hosking, John,

314

Jenkins, James, of Alverton,

268

Jennings Family, The,

284, 316

Johns, Mr. S. W.,

428

"Lizzie Poor Dick",

75

Martin, Peter,

140, 205

Mayow, John,

89

Menhenick Family, The,

398

Pool, Mrs. Anne,

392

Pryor, Joseph, of Lanner,

79

Roberts, Mr. Trelawny,

155

Rowe, Mrs Ashley,

428

Sandry, Peter,

217, 299

Smith, Mr. A. S. D. 

477

Trelawney, Sir John,

455

Trevithick, Richard,

463

Truscott, John, George and Diggory,

320

Wesley, John,

140, 205

Wills, Samuel John, 

129

 

Places

Bodmin, Curfew,

397

Comprigney, (Truro)

469

Camborne,

471

Connor Downs,

461

Constantine,

159

Cornwall, (Polwhele's History)

436

Dunheved, (Launceston),

248

"Foot" in Cornish Place Names,

435

Fowey, 1778 - 1815

357

Fowey, Parliamentary Election,

456

Fowey Moor,

165

Fowey River, 

341, 371

Grampound, Church of St. Crida,

378

Gulval, History of Kenegie,

303

Gwallon, Menhir,

410

Gwennap,

355

Hangman's Burrow,

133

Hayle, John Wesley at, 

140

Hayle, "Lizzie Poor Dick"

75

Helston, "Peter",

217

Kenegie, in Gulval,

303

Kenegie, Harris of,

224

King Harry's Passage,

404

Lanner, Joseph Pryor,

79

Launceston, Ancient Clock,

365

Launceston, Curfew,

397

Lelant Church Plate,

94

Liskeard, Mayor-Choosing,

455

Looe, Old Tracks Around, 

54

Menheer, Roman Milestone,

80

Marazion, "Boy Peter",

77

Marazion, Goods, Chattels and Credits,

96

Marazion, Inventory of 1793,

31

Marazion, Mayoral Rights, 

30

Mexico, Cornwall and Mousehole,

350

Mousehole,

356

Newlyn, Thatched Cottages,

114

Newlyn, Three Grandmother's Stories,

208

Newquay, Shipbuilding,

88

Padstow,

355

Paul, Stray Notes,

45

Penitent Gate,

233

Penzance, Nancy's River,

254

Polruan,

347

Port Isaac, Corn-Dressing Charm,

292

Port Isaac, Washing Pool,

480

Port Quinn,

289,

Probus,

405

Redruth Field-Names

161

Roscarrock, Manor of,

337

St Austell, Ancient Clock,

365

St Breock, Rinding,

319

St. Cleer, Cottage Furnishings,

126

St. Gluvias, A Vicar of,

115

St. Hilary, John Wesley Tradition,

118

St. Ives, Sayings,

227

St. Minver, Penitent Grave,

233

St. Stephen, Beacon,

381

Sancreed,

356

Scilly Isles, Social Survey,

32

Scilly Isles, Governance of,

393

Scilly Isles, Nicknames,

124

Scilly Isles, Poem,

230

Scilly, Seven Lights of,

293, 324

Scilly, Wrecks,

185

Sennen,

424

Sithney,

290

Towednack, "Betsy Gunner",

85

 

Poetry

Title Page Number

Autumn in Cornwall,

287

China-Clay Burrows,

17

Come, Sing a Song for Cornwall,

462

Cornish Wrestlers at the Field of the Cloth of Gold,

93

Encomion Cornubiae,

171

King Harry Passage,

404

Lands End,

106

Lark Ascending,

409

Nanquidno Chapel,

388

Nostalgia,

336

November, Cornwall,

352

On hearing a Cornish Choir on the Radio,

6

Pressing Stone Prophets,

198

Sennen,

424

The Haven at Polmear,

142

The Menhir,

410

The Poet of Morwenstow,

160,

The Road to Menagwins,

127

The Sea,

60

The Song of the Quay Stones,

356

To Furze-Bushes Hurt in Swaling Time,

157

Tryst,

283

Waves at Scilly,

230

 

Sayings

Collin's Cow,

434

Heard in a Bus,

386

The I-diddle-dee-dee!,

227

Two Old Sayings,

410

 

Songs

Cornwall,

170

Mister John Bunt,

22

 

Words

Adit, back to Aqueduct,

158

Clee and Key,

125

Malotta,

164

Normans, 

107

Pomster and Palmistry,

228

 

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