A little help please? « Result #2 on Sept 17, 2009, 4:36pm »
I am getting a new tattoo and would like on it in Cornish "made in Cornwall". I have had several translations and think I might be almost there tho the spelling seems to differ. I have Gwrys en Kernow, Gwres yn Kernow and Gwnes en Kernow. I understand en is the newer form of yn but how should the first word be spelt please? I don't want to be tattoed with a typo!
Cornish Websites « Result #3 on Feb 3, 2009, 9:49am »
It is sad that with such an active language community on the ground well aware of the need to make Cornish more relevant and 'cool' websites are not been updated.
Agan Tavas website - offline for more than a year. Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek - updated almost a year ago. Teer ha tavaz - not updated in years and now offline.
We need more online content. I know there is now stuff on youtube, but we also need links, info, and news on the various websites. No cornish language website should be down. It makes the language look dead.
Re: So what do you all want out of this site? « Result #6 on Feb 15, 2008, 9:35am »
Ah yes, it has been little used of late, there are other forums which are quite busy such as cornwall 24 which is very heated and quite nasty at times. Others on kernowak.com are very interesting and well worth checking out. Warlinnen has a forum but it has been used even less than this and not worth a look.
Re: So what do you all want out of this site? « Result #7 on Jan 7, 2008, 1:43pm »
Mitten Da,, Hi just recently joined, as I was thinking that as a Cornishman I should take the time to learn the Cornish Language, and thought I might get some hints and help from this forum,,,,,Hopefully it will be good,,, but some of the posts were put on in 2004, and as its now 2008,,,I take it the forum is not used as much as it could be which is a great shame.
Re: Rowe's of West Penwith « Result #8 on Dec 6, 2007, 6:42pm »
Hi, I have a William Rowe traced back to b.1781-1786 (was aged 55 on the 1841 census, but this age could have been rounded down). Unfortunately he died before the 1851 census so I can't give a more accurate age. I have been trying to find his parents and birthplace for years, but to no avail. William married Grace Bennatts in St Ives, Cornwall. Their children were all born there and their children's names can be accounted for except for Henry Rowe and Charles Rowe, whom I believe must be names related to William Rowe's side of the family.
I can find no baptisms of the right time period for William Rowe in St Ives, so i am assuming that was baptised out of the area. I am at a loss with this one. Does anyone know of any Rowe families in Cornwall where the names William, Henry and Charles are connected?
A Cornish Fairy Tale. « Result #9 on Jun 11, 2007, 1:10pm »
A Cornish Fairytale
Once upon a time there was man named Wella who lived in Cornwall and was a true Cornishman and spoke and wrote true Cornish. This was his mother language and that of his wife as well. He decided that because the language was dying out he would write down some Cornish with a list of words and translations from the bible.
Three hundred years later when Cornish was revived the first book of the language was inspired by his writings and that of his friends. Later however someone decided to change the spelling to that of Wella’s ancestors who lived about two hundred years early and wrote quite differently.
This new spelling was very popular and soon everyone started using it. Then suddenly someone said I’m not happy with it I’ll invent a new spelling quite different from the old one. I’ve got a new computer and I’m not afraid to use it. This new computer Cornish was very different and soon people were using it. Except some decided that the old system was better and kept using that and others preferred old Wella’s spelling and decided to use that.
A little while later the old spelling was changed again and it was good. And some people decided to use that instead.
Then later on men in the big house decide this wasn’t any good, we needed to all be one big happy family and use the same Cornish and they said so.
The computer people said use our spelling it is the best. Everyone else said no it isn’t. So a group of people got together to build a new brighter future with a new brighter Cornish one that everyone could be happy with, except of course the computer people who weren’t happy with anything except their computer Cornish.
This new form looked very much like Wella’s Cornish and it looked very much like his ancestors’ Cornish and it was very good and very Cornish.
Then another group of people decided to change the computer Cornish which had already been changed many many times and they said everyone could use their Cornish.
Except the computer people who didn’t want to.
So there you have it, one language many spellings, and everyone is almost happy, except the computer people.
Trewin Family of Truro or Other « Result #10 on Dec 3, 2006, 2:16pm »
Can anyone give me any info on my family surname or are you related to them? I've just started my family tree & my branch moved to Paignton just before 1900 but hailed from Truro, any help would be greatfully received. Thanks, Jim
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