Latest Additions to A Cornish Sourcebook

PDF Book Downloads

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:09:50 GMT

A page featuring links to hundreds of freely downloadable pdf books relating to Cornwall, archives, history, mining, genealogy, topography etc. The pdfs are all hosted on either Google Books or the Internet Archive, though I may add a few of my own later on.

Public Domain Photographs

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:08:43 GMT

As Yahoo Photos has not closed down I am slowly transferring my public domain photos to A Cornish Sourcebook. As there are almost 600 of these it may take me some time to complete the transfer.

An Index to the Historical Place Names of Cornwall

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:34:07 GMT

The following have recently been added to the index:

Carte de la Manche faitepar ordre du Roy pour le service de ses Armées de la Mer by Hubert Jaillot, 1692
Plan of the Manor of Trebarwith in Tentagell by William Doidge, 1735 (Sheffield Archives - Wh M/Maps/68)
Particulars of the Tenement of Roscarnon, St Keverne, 1766 (Cornwall Record Office - AD1807/5)
Sale Poster, various parishes, 1799 (Royal Institution of Cornwall - HB/18/7)
Poor Rate, Mawnan, 1802 (Cornwall Record Office - V/BO/32/2)
Tithe Apportionment, Saint Just in Roseland, 1842 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/96)
Map and Reference to Lands in Tintagel and Lanteglos by Camelford, 1871 (Sheffield Archives - Wh M/Maps/52)

Postcards of Cornwall

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:32:18 GMT

Postcards added to pages for Isles of Scilly, West Penwith, Penzance Area, St Ives and Lelant and North East Cornwall.

The Bounds of the Parish of Calstock, early 17th century

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:54:10 GMT

The Bounds of the Parish of Launcells, 1613

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:53:44 GMT

The Bounds of the Parish of Warleggan, 1613

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:53:15 GMT

An Index to the Historical Place Names of Cornwall

Sat, 26 May 2007 15:38:33 GMT

The following have recently been added to the index:

Tithe Apportionment, Saint Blazey, 1846 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/10)
Tithe Apportionment, Lawhitton, 1842 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/119)
Tithe Apportionment, Merther, 1844 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/146)
Tithe Apportionment, Mevagissey, 1842 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/147)
Tithe Apportionment, Saint Mewan, 1841 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/148)
Enys Estate sales, tenements and tin bounds, various parishes, 1853 (Royal Institution of Cornwall - HB/18/10)

Minster Church, 1873

Mon, 14 May 2007 20:51:55 GMT

Lithograph and plan of Minster Church in North Cornwall and taken from The Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor by Sir John Maclean, Part VI, Forrabury and Minster, published by Liddell & Son, Bodmin and Nichols & Sons, London, 1873.

Forrabury Church, 1873

Mon, 14 May 2007 20:50:52 GMT

Lithograph and plan of Forrabury Church in North Cornwall and taken from The Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor by Sir John Maclean, Part VI, Forrabury and Minster, published by Liddell & Son, Bodmin and Nichols & Sons, London, 1873.

An Index to the Historical Place Names of Cornwall

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:29:51 GMT

The following have recently been added to the index:

Particulars of the Manors of Pengersick and Trezela Mulfra, Breage, Germoe, Gulval and Madron, 1830 (Cornwall Record Office - WH/1/3766)
Tithe Apportionment, Forrabury, 1844 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/65)
Tithe Apportionment, Saint Juliott, 1843 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/94)
Tithe Apportionment, Saint Keyne, 1843 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/101)
Tithe Apportionment, Kilkhampton, 1842 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/102)
Tithe Apportionment, Lamorran, 1841 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/104)
Tithe Apportionment, St Martin's otherwise St Kaynne near Looe, 1840 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/138)
Tithe Apportionment, Michaelstow, 1843 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/151)
Tithe Apportionment, Roche, 1841 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/198)
Tithe Apportionment, Ruan Lanyhorne, 1842 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/199)
Tithe Apportionment, Golant otherwise Saint Sampsons, 1844 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/204)
Tithe Apportionment, Talland, 1843 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/218)
Tithe Apportionment, Temple, 1841 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/220)
Tithe Apportionment, Tremayne, 1840 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/229)
Tithe Apportionment, Tresmeer, 1842 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/232)
Tithe Apportionment, Trevalga, 1842 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/233)
Tithe Apportionment, Warleggan, 1840 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/247)

The First Cornish Methodists by Mark Guy Pearse, 1899

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:09:50 GMT

An account of the early history of Methodism in Cornwall, and, in particular, of The Reverend George Thomson of St. Gennys.

Cornwall A Thousand Years Ago by The Reverend W S Lach Szyrma, 1899

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:51:03 GMT

The transcript of a lecture given to the London Cornish Association.

English Changes of Celtic Cornish Names by Frederick W P Jago, 1885

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:55:39 GMT

A list of anglicised field names in Cornwall with Jago's interpretation of their original Cornish meanings.

Map of Cornwall by George Cole and John Roper, 1840

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:06:04 GMT

Showing tin, copper, cobalt, antimony, lead and silver mines, also adits, cross-courses and the Stannary Towns.

Taken from Curiosities of Great Britain, England and Wales Delineated, Historical, Entertaining & Commercial, Alphabetically Arranged by Thomas Dugdale, published by J Tallis, 1840.

An Index to the Historical Place Names of Cornwall

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:53:30 GMT

The following have recently been added to the index:

Tithe Apportionment, South Petherwin, 1843 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/211)
Tithe Apportionment, Quethiock, 1842 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/195)
Tithe Apportionment, Trewen, 1844 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/235)
Tithe Apportionment, Werrington, 1844 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/251)

Map of Cornwall by John Cary, 1787

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:15:49 GMT

Taken from Cary's New and Correct English Atlas. Published by J Cary, Arundell Street, Strand, London, September 1st 1787.

Ancient Latin Crosses in the West of Cornwall by J T Blight, 1872

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:13:14 GMT

The third section to be uploaded from John Thomas Blight's Ancient Crosses of Cornwall of 1872, featuring the Latin Crosses of the West of Cornwall. The rest of the engravings from the book will be uploaded over the following weeks.

Map of Cornwall by Thomas Badeslade, 1741

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:03:46 GMT

Taken from Chorographica Britanniæ, or, A Set of Maps of all the Counties of England and Wales, engraved and published by W H Toms, 1741 (Third impression 1742).

Maps of Cornwall and Devon by Louis Stanislas d'Arcy de la Rochette, 1784

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:03:09 GMT

Taken from Walpoole's New and Complete British Traveller, published by Alexander Hogg at the King's Arms, Paternoster Row, London, 1784.

Parliamentary Map of Cornwall by Robert Creighton, 1835

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:02:19 GMT

Taken from A Topographical Dictionary by Samuel Lewis, published by Samuel Lewis, 1835, and engraved by J & C Walker.

Ancient Transitional Crosses in the West of Cornwall by J T Blight, 1872

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:12:46 GMT

The second section to be uploaded from John Thomas Blight's Ancient Crosses of Cornwall of 1872, featuring the Transitional Crosses of the West of Cornwall. The rest of the engravings from the book will be uploaded over the following weeks.

Ancient Greek Crosses in the West of Cornwall by J T Blight, 1872

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:04:54 GMT

The first section to be uploaded from John Thomas Blight's Ancient Crosses of Cornwall of 1872, featuring the Greek Crosses of the West of Cornwall. The rest of the engravings from the book will be uploaded over the following weeks.

Rol Byrth Gorseth Kernow, 1947

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:21:23 GMT

The Roll of the Bards of the Gorsedd of Cornwall for 1947, and listing all bards initiated in previous years. Gives bardic names and the English translations for these.

The Three Bad Men of Dry Tree by Charles Henderson, 1931

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:53:17 GMT

Charles Henderson's account of the true story behind Cornwall's legendary tale of The Three Bad Men of Dry Tree.

The Eddystone Lighthouse by H B S Woodhouse, 1889

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 04:51:08 GMT

A further essay from The Western Antiquary periodical relating to the origins and historical variations of the name Eddystone.

A Vestal Festival by John Alt Porter, 1886

Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:15:20 GMT

An account of John Knill, his monument near St Ives, and of the peculiar custom attached to it.

Cornwall Extract from Map of England and Wales by Samuel John Neele, 1799

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:13:16 GMT

Engraved by Samuel John Neele and taken from the Atlas to the Reverend Clement Cruttwell's New Universal Gazetteer, or Geographical Dictionary, published by G G & J Robinson, Paternoster Row, London, March 1st 1799.

Map of Cornwall by Henry Cooper, 1808

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:12:26 GMT

Taken from A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom, compiled from Parliamentary, and other authentic documents and authorities, containing geographical, topographical, & statistical accounts of every district, object, and place in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the various small islands dependant on the British Empire. Accompanied by forty-six maps, drawn purposely for this work, on an original plan by Benjamin Pitts Capper, published by Richard Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.

Engravings and Illustrations of Cornwall

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:44:22 GMT

This is a new section devoted to historical engravings and illustrations of Cornwall. With engravings of the Merry Maidens stone circle, Lanyon Cromlech and the Cheesewring, Plan of Truro Castle, Chun, Lanyon and Zennor cromlechs, St Ives Board Schools and Cardinham Cross.