Library, Cornish Diaspora

Links to Genealogical and Historical Sites

Western Mining History: History of mines in the western USA, featuring beautiful colorized historical photos of mining camps.

Cornish Emigrants in the American Civil War

Bal Maidens: Women & Mines

Newspaper Archives

Library of Congress: Chronicling America (Free)

Elephind (Free)

National Library of Australia: Trove (Free)

Old Fulton New York Post Cards (Free)

Advantage Archive Collection links (Free)

The Ancestor Hunt: Newspaper Links (Free)

Google News Archive (Free)

Paper of Record (Paid): Primarily Canada, Mexico, USA.

Find My Past (Paid): Membership includes British, Irish, US & World newspapers, and includes access to The British Newspaper Archive

The British Newspaper Archive (Paid)

Ancestry (Paid)

Ancestry’s “All Access” membership includes the “Basic” subscription to newspapers.com, which does not give you access to all the newspapers in the database. To upgrade to “Publisher Extra” you may pay the difference through newspapers.com.

Newspapers.com (Paid)

“Basic” subscription grants access to most newspapers in the public domain. “Publisher Extra” subscription includes access to all newspapers in the database, as recent as the current year.

Books concerning Cornwall and the Cornish Diaspora

America

Rowse, A L. The Cornish in America. London: Macmillan, 1969. Print. WorldCat (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/742073712)

Australia

Payton, Philip. The Cornish Farmer in Australia: Cornish Colonists and the Expansion of Adelaide and the South Australian Agricultural Frontier. Redruth, England: Dyllansow Truran, 1987. Print. WorldCat (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/866278084)

Faull, J F. The Cornish in Australia. Melbourne: AE Press, 1983. Print. WorldCat (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14098600)

Lay, Patricia. Cornish Immigrants: Assisted Arrivals in New South Wales 1837-1877. Queanbeyan, N.S.W: P. Lay, 1995. Print. WorldCat (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38397023)

Cornwall

Polwhele, Richard. Biographical Sketches in Cornwall: In Three Volumes, vol. 1. Truro, Cornwall: Printed by W. Polyblank, 1831. Digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/biographicalsket01polw)

Polwhele, Richard. Biographical Sketches in Cornwall: In Three Volumes, vol. 2. Truro, Cornwall: Printed by W. Polyblank, 1831. Digital images, HathiTrust (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.aa0002385532)

Polwhele, Richard. Biographical Sketches in Cornwall: In Three Volumes, vol. 3. Truro, Cornwall: Printed by W. Polyblank, 1831. Digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/biographicalsket03polwiala)

Rowe, John. Cornish Methodists and Emigrants. Place of publication not identified: The Cornish Methodist Historical Association Occasional Publication No. 11, 1967. Digital images, Family Search (https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007942633?cat=282676); Film no. 007942633, images 418-432

Davies, Gilbert. The Parochial History of Cornwall: founded on the manuscript histories of Mr. Hals and Mr. Tonkin, with additions and various appendices, in four volumes, vol. 1. London: J. B. Nichols and son, 1838. Digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/parochialhistory01gilb)

Davies, Gilbert. The Parochial History of Cornwall: founded on the manuscript histories of Mr. Hals and Mr. Tonkin, with additions and various appendices, in four volumes, vol. 2. London: J. B. Nichols and son, 1838. Digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/parochialhistory02gilb)

Davies, Gilbert. The Parochial History of Cornwall: founded on the manuscript histories of Mr. Hals and Mr. Tonkin, with additions and various appendices, in four volumes, vol. 3. London: J. B. Nichols and son, 1838. Digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/parochialhistory03gilb)

Davies, Gilbert. The Parochial History of Cornwall: founded on the manuscript histories of Mr. Hals and Mr. Tonkin, with additions and various appendices, in four volumes, vol. 4. London: J. B. Nichols and son, 1838. Digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/parochialhistory04gilbuoft)

PEZRON, Paul Yves, and JONES, D.. The Antiquities of Nations, More Particularly of the Celtæ Or Gauls, Taken to be Originally the Same People as Our Ancient Britains … Englished by Mr. Jones. United Kingdom, n.p, 1706. Digital images, Google Books. (https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/pypYAAAAcAAJ?hl=en)

Folklore

Bottrell, William. Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, vol. 1. Penzance: W. Cornish, 1870. Digital images, Google Books. (https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/r9FLAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0). Reset by Frank Graham, 1970. Transcription. (https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/swc1/index.htm)

Bottrell, William. Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, vol. 2. 1873. Transcription. (https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/swc2/index.htm)

Courtney, Miss M. A. Cornish Feasts and Folk-Lore. Penzance: Beare and Son, 1890. Digital images, Internet Archive. (https://archive.org/details/cu31924029890575/)

Tregarthen, Enys. The Piskey-Purse: Legends and Tales of North Cornwall. London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd., 1905. Transcription, Project Gutenberg. (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37245/37245-h/37245-h.htm)

Cornish Language Resources

Cornish Dictionary – Gerlyver Kernewek

Facebook Group: I pledge to become more fluent in Cornish

Kernowek Bew Audio Courses (Late Cornish)

Say Something in Cornish Audio Courses (Middle Cornish)

Kesva an Taves Kernewek KDL Online Courses

Yeth an Werin Warlinen – Online meet-up for Cornish speakers and learners

Memrise: Language learning app: Cornish courses

Learn Late Cornish Bit by Bit (Jan Lobb’s blog)

Kernowek en Chei: At Home With Cornish (Jan Lobb’s blog for teaching children)

Te ha Tesednow (Neil Kennedy’s blog)

Cornish studies resources (Bernard Deacon’s blog)

Kanow yn Kernewek: Songs in Cornish