Our Heritage...
We are offering a new service, where individuals can post inquiries about their Cornish heritage. We are also endeavoring to place links to online resources for genealogy. If you have a query or a link to suggest for inclusion, please contact us.
To respond to a posted query, click the e-mail address listed with the posting. And please remember, the CAHS does not guarantee the accuracy of information or the links provided on this page.
Postings
Hello there! Glad to find this site. I am doing research on my family and trying to reconnect with my heritage as a cornish man. thank you.
David Carnish
Chattanooga, TN
E-mail: badvali2000@yahoo.com
posted 5/7/06
Hello, I recently participated in the National Geographic Genome project which indicated my paternal lineage as Celtish. This was a surprise to me. However I have found information linking my name Trull to the Cornwall somerset area in England. Since the Cornish people also are of Direct Celtic heritage, I am eager and hopeful to discover if I descend from or am related in some way to the Cornish people.
Any advise or information you can provide would be greatly appreciated. I plan to use your website to continue my research. Thank You so much.
Steven Trull
Jacksonville, FL
E-mail: strull1@bellsouth.net
posted 5/7/06
I sing in a group called Rum and Shrub (a popular medicine for Cornish singers). We are a group of 8 and specialise in shanties, sea songs and Cornish folk song. We are coming to New York in September, 2006 and would be interested in meeting up with any Cousin Jacks in the area that could help us find singing venues.
Colin Hawke
Newquay, Cornwall, UK
E-mail: colin.hawke@virgin.net
posted 5/7/06
As a Cornishman, I'm exceptionally proud of my heritage and I am delighted that there is a movement in the USA to promote and cultivate the Cornish connection. Well done.
Robert Parkyn
York, FN, UK
E-mail: rgparkyn@hotmail.com
posted 5/7/06
I've recently been looking further into my family's history. Previously I had only know that my great-great grandfather William H. Toy came to this country from England sometime before 1881. Through some research, I found that he came from Camborne, Cornwall and that he was a Copper miner ( big suprise there, huh? ).
His father was Nicholas Toy , married to Mary Hockin. Nicholas's father was Robert Toy, born in 1771? in Illogen, married to Ann Davey.
This is as far back as I have been able to find. It's possible that this Robert Toy's father was also named Robert Toy, born in 1730 in Breage and married to Mary Tregonnen, but I have not been able to confirm this with the information that I have. There were quite a few Toy families in Cornwall. I've found several dozen listed in the 1841 Census.
I know that William H Toy moved here to Western North Carolina and went into Metallurgy. His brother also came over to the USA on the same ship, and went to Pennsylvania, but then he lost track of him and it's possible that he went back to England.
Anyway, I'm still digging around for more info. If you have anyone that you think may be of help, please let me know.
Robert Toy
Waynesville, NC
E-mail: robert.t@digitech-intl.com
posted 5/7/06
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