Cornish Crier, Volume 13, Number 1 Meurth/March 2007
Newsletter of the Cornish Heritage Society East for the Cornish of New England, New York and New Jersey

President's Message
Ann Dalrymple
On March 3, Cornish people around the
world will be honoring St Piran as the
patron saint to tin miners. Piran, the most
famous of Cornish saints is said to have
come from Ireland in the 6th century.
There are many legends about him. He
was supposed to have discovered tinsmelting
by setting his black hearthstone
on fire. The slab contained tin which rose
to the top in the form of a white cross.
This is where the white cross on a black field came to be the St Piran's
flag of Cornwall.
St Piran's Day (March 5) is a popular holiday in Cornwall.
The most interesting event is when the people who are dressed in black,
white, and gold carry the St Piran's cross across the dunes to an oratory
buried under the sand near the town called Perranporth. This oratory is
sometimes called the “Lost Church.” Daffodils are brought to the altar
by thousand of participants who also carry St Piran flags.
As members of CHSE, we will honor St Piran on March 3.
We have decided to have a cream tea as well as order pasties for those
who wish to have them. A cream tea is typically Cornish and I am sure
that many of you have eaten it in Cornwall. A “cream tea' consists of
delicious thick clotted cream made in Cornwall, home baked scones, or
sometimes splits or plain white rolls, and fresh jam of your preference.
Clotted cream is made in Devonshire as well as Cornwall.
Here in America, we usually can only buy cream made in Devon. The
Cornish don't think this is as good as their cream. Now, cream is more
often made commercially but there are still some local farmers in
Cornwall that make it. We all admit that clotted cream is not that
healthy for anyone as it is the fat from the heavy cream but for a special
treat it is heavenly!
Won't you join us for a celebration of St Piran's Day on
March 3? We will look forward to seeing you.
'Far From Home' Gathering
of the Cornish Cousins
During the week of July 25-29, descendants
of Cornish immigrants will join together in a
celebration of the immigrant experience in Calumet,
Michigan. Many of our ancestors traveled to the
Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan to work in the
mines. They traveled by ship and railroad.
There are many activities planned to help us
understand that immigrant experience at the
Gathering. There will be activities for children as
well as adults. The Holman-Climax Choir will
entertain. If you wish to go to the Gathering you
may download a registration form at
http://www.Keweenawkernerwek.org/index or http://
www.cousinjack.org. I know you will enjoy the
comradeship. Ann

The Wherry Mine
by Fred Varker
This is story of
an obscure formation of
rocks in Mounts Bay,
which is just west of St.
Michaels Mount on the
southern coast of
Cornwall. It is about 830
yards off shore, and is
today mark by only a
buoy to warn navigation.
In the early 1700s, it
became known that these
rocks contained copper,
cobalt and tin. Early
efforts to mine the ore
were very challenging,
and for the most part were
unsuccessful, due to the
vagaries of the tides and
weather. It became know
as the WHERRY
ELEVAN and later the
WHERRY MINE,
because access to the mine was by boat, and wherry means
boat.
About the year 1778, Thomas Curtis, a miner from
Breage, aged 57, conceived the bold idea of working it as a
land mine. In the summer months of 1778, he sunk a shaft 2
ft. by 2 ft. square, when the the weather allowed. A square
tower of wood planks was constructed and caulked with pitch
to make it water tight to a height of 19 feet as high tide reached
this level. (Suppose that we would call this a 'caisson' today.)
The mined ore was transported to shore with a flat bottom boat
called a wherry. In 1792, a bridge was built to connect the
mine shaft tower to the shore. Despite incredible odds of
working against wind, tides, waves and cold weather, he
managed to successfully work the mine for a 12 year period.
Thomas Curtis died in 1791, at the age of 70, while the mine
was steadily increasing in prosperity. It is reported that years
later, a house that had been constructed of stone from the mine
was dismantled to recover the previously unrecognized value of
the ore in the stone of the house!
About 1798, after a nearly twenty year life span of The
Wherry Mine, a boat broke loose from its moorings in a storm,
and destroyed the tower and bridge and all machinery on it thus
bringing a close to this extraordinary venture, and the
unrecovered ore. Later attempts to open the mine were
unsuccessful. Today, there is only a buoy marking the site of
the mine.
Thomas Curtis, although not seeing the mine at its
peak, is reported to have said before his death, “There is more
tin in The Wherry Mine than would purchase all the land round
Penzance.” This statement has a familiar ring to me. Philip
Varker, my grandfather, said before his death in 1948, “There is
more coal wasted at the Alden Mine that has been mined”. My
grandfather immigrated from Cornwall in 1887 to the Alden
anthracite coal mine is in northeastern Pennsylvania, USA.
Now , all the foregoing is very interesting, but what
does it have to do with my VARKER family? One of our very
earliest traced ancestors is a Robert Varker, born 1716 in
Cornwall. He married Elizabeth Bauden in 1736 in Illogan,
and died 13 years later at the age of 33, leaving Elizabeth with
six young children, the oldest 10 years of age. Keeping in
mind there was no social safety nets, such as Social Security in
those days, widows and widowers remarried shortly after the
death of their spouse. So, a year after Robert's death in 1750,
Elizabeth married Thomas Curtis. All of the Varkers owe a
deep debt of gratitude to Thomas Curtis for assisting Elizabeth
raise the Varker children.
Let's pause and reflect for a moment on this story and
allow our imaginations to wander a bit. Is it possible that this
Wherry Mine was the idea that ultimately resulted in offshore
recovery of petroleum as we know it today? We shall never
know the answer to that question, but I bask in the luxury of
believing it anyway.

Fred VARKER's genealogy
1. Robert (1716-1749)& Elizabeth (BAUDEN)VARKER
| 2. Elizabeth BAUDEN VARKER
| & Thomas CURTIS (1721-1791)
John VARKER 1735-1815
|
William VARKER 1766-1833
|
JohnVARKER 1797
|
Samuel & Sarah (BASHER) VARKER 1840-1893
|
Philip & Jane T.(NINNIS) VARKER
| b. 2 Feb 1865, St Agnes, Cornwall
| d. 1948 Nanticoke, PA
Frederick C & Mary Ellen (DRIESBACH) VARKER
| b. 1897 Newport Twp., PA
| d. 1995 Newport Twp., PA
Fred & ElaineVARKER CHSE members
| b. Newport Twp., Luzerne Co., PA
Reside in Rockaway, NJ
The Wherry Mine, cont.
Portrait of Thomas Curtis
1721-1791
Arrow points to area of shaft Pump Columb visible at low water - 2003
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Cornish Heritage Society East Newsletter Meurth/March 2007
SAMUEL PENHALLOW:
COLONIAL NEW HAMPSHIRE'S CHIEF JUSTICE
By Barry E. TRACY
Continuing our series of Cornish of the colonial northeast, we highlight the life of Samuel Penhallow, who rose to become
one of the most prominent men of colonial New Hampshire. He was from a landed gentry family in Cornwall, born on July 2, 1665
in St. Mabyn, the son of Chamond and Ann (Tamlyn) Penhallow. This family followed the fires of Puritanism that were sweeping
the land and they became connected with one Reverend Charles Morton, occasional rector in Blisland, who was born in Egloshayle
in 1627. Through this Puritan Cornish dissident Penhallow entered a close relationship that led both of them to Massachusetts in
1686. [More about Charles Morton will follow.]
Initially offered a stipend from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel to study the language of the Narragansett
Indians and become their missionary, Penhallow found a better calling as a merchant in Portsmouth, and proved his intelligence by
marrying Mary Cutt, heiress of the wealthiest man in New Hampshire. He earned his fortune in the Indian trade, and soon became
the largest landowner in the colony. Of course, his wife's inheritance certainly helped. By this first wife they had thirteen children
and one son by his second wife. He provided for the increase of the Penhallow name in America, even though it is now scant in
Cornwall.
Under the influence of his father-in-law John Cutt, Samuel Penhallow had a gilded introduction into the elite affairs of
colonial New Hampshire. He steadily climbed the ladder of prominence, from becoming justice of the peace in August 1699, next
month he was Speaker of the General Assembly, and then again in December he added Treasurer of the Province to his duties. This
latter office, except for one year, he served for the remainder of his life. He was Recorder of the Province in 1702, and then again
from 1719-1722. In 1702 he was a member of the council. From Judge of the Superior Court in 1714 to the appointment as Chief
Justice in 1717, Penhallow filled a huge public career. His children and later generations occupied prominent positions and spread
the Penhallow name afar.
Due to his position as Recorder of the Province, Penhallow had the most authoritative details available about the long
Indian Wars in the early 1700s in Maine and New Hampshire. He wrote an invaluable record which was published in 1725 in
Boston titled "History of the Wars of New England with the Eastern Indians." This has long been the definitive source book for this
subject, and facsimile copies have been reprinted. This author owns such an annotated reprint and it is truly fascinating to read of
those troubled times.
A year later Samuel Penhallow died on 2 December 1726, aged 61 years, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He truly made a
name for himself in the annals of colonial America, and is indeed a fine example of the Cornish contribution to American history.
With future articles, we hope to reveal more evidence that the Cornish played a very important role in early America, as they would
later prove again during the great migration of miners to this continent in the nineteenth century.
Sources: "The Cousin Jacks" - Rowse, and "Rambles about Portsmouth" - Brewster
Slate of Officers for 2007
President: Barry Tracy
First Vice President: Gerry De Lazier
Second Vice President: Joan Iva Wheeler
Recording Secretary: Sylvia Stephens Hadowanetz
Treasurer: Fred Varker
Historian: Art Smith
This is the twelfth Annual Meeting. It is time again to vote for new officers.

Great Grandmother TALLON's
Journey
By ANNE STEPHENS
Thomas and Eliza PASCOE of Camborne, Cornwall
started their family with a son, William, born in 1835, followed
by a daughter, Elizabeth, born in 1837. The family moved to
St. Cleer in 1840, following other miners to the new South
Caradon mine which held much promise. Elizabeth, my great
grandmother, grew up in St. Cleer, married Henry TALLON of
Blisland and raised five children there. Then with the promise
of a newer mine in the neighboring parish of St. Ive, they
moved to Pensilva, St. Ive. Five more children were born in
Pensilva, a total of five boys and five girls. Their sixth child,
Kate was my grandmother.
Unfortunately, in 1875, Henry suffered a serious,
debilitating injury, a cervical spinal fracture, leaving him a
quadraplegic. He died in 1878. The family had made plans to
immigrate to Michigan, and soon after Henry's death, Elizabeth
put their plan into action. In 1879, she sent her three oldest
children to Ishpeming, MI. Her two oldest sons, Thomas and
William went to work as miners. Her daughter, Mary went to
keep house. Shortly after their arrival, the three of them
established a boarding house there.
In 1881, Eliza and Kate immigrated to Ishpeming,
leaving Elizabeth and five children still in Pensilva. A few
years later, Elizabeth and her five youngest children immigrated
to Ishpeming. She reached a goal, her family was all together
then.
This was a real mining family, all of the five sons
became miners and the five daughters married Cornish miners.
As adults, Elizabeth's children married and established their own
families. Eight of them scattered throughout the western mining
areas, from Butte, Montana to Globe, Arizona. Elizabeth died
in 1912 while living with her youngest son, Abel in Biwabik
Minnesota.
Mary remained in Ishpeming until 1948 when she
moved to Peapack, New Jersey to be with her daughter and
family. She died at the age of 93, in Peapack.
Kate TALLON married William James
HONEYCHURCH in Ishpeming in 1888.
In 1893 William brought his wife and three
children back to New Jersey, to his family
who were living in the Wharton area. They
had a total of eight children, three of whom
lived all of their lives in Wharton and
attended St. John's Methodist Church in
Wharton.
Effie and Edith remained with their mother, both
became school teachers and worked in the Wharton Public
School system. Edith was a third and fourth grade teacher, but
her career was shortened by rheumatic heart disease, a result of
the childhood disease of rheumatic fever. She died in 1947.
Effie taught fifth grade in the
Potter School in Wharton from 1910 to
1956. When she retired the Borough of
Wharton declared that day, Miss
Honeychurch Day.
Kate, now known as Mrs.
Catherine HONEYCHURCH, died in
1962 at the age of 97.
Fred was born in 1900. Married Alma Jane
OLIVER in 1926. He worked at Picatinny Arsenal,
Rockaway Township for forty years. They had four children,
Frederick Arthur, Vera Jane, Grace Anne and Ruth Minnie.
Fred was very active in St. John's Methodist Church, North
Star Masonic Lodge and the Good Will Industry. He died
in 1986 after living a very full life.
I would have liked to have both
my great grandmother, Elizabeth and my
grandmother, Catherine here now so that
I could talk with them about their lives.
I did not know that my grandmother
was know as Kate until I began my
journey into family history. There I
found a copy of her marriage with the
name, Kate TALLON.
I was very fortunate in that through my Aunt Effie
and my sister, Jane I did inherit a full box-load of pictures,
including many old ones. There are two tintypes, photos
from Cornwall and many of her sisters and brothers in
Michigan and further west. These pictures I treasure dearly.
Kate
Fred
Elizabeth PASCOE TALLON
1837, Camborne to 1912, Biwabik, Minnesota
Effie
Historic tungsten nodule goes on
show
A tungsten 'nodule' set to rock mining history has
been unveiled at the Royal Cornwall Museum.
The pineapple-sized piece of metal, which was
discovered on a farm near St Austell three years ago, was
donated to the museum.
After extensive investigation by the country's top
mineral and metal experts it is thought it may be the key to
proving Cornish
miners and smelters
lead the world in
producing tungsten,
a metal that has
literally brightened
the world.
The
'nodule' was
uncovered by
accident in a field
on Trewhiddle
Farm, St Austell,
by the farm's
owner, Dudley
Coombe.
It was
found in a ditch
under a Cornish
hedge. The field the
hedge surrounds has
not been ploughed
for over 100 years.
“When I
saw it I though it
might have been a meteorite,” said Mr Coombe. “It was
very heavy for its size. Stones this size you can usually lift
with one hand but I couldn't manage this one. I tried to use
two hands and nearly fell on my face!”
Tungsten is an extremely dense metal and this
piece, despite its relatively small size, weighs in at 19 kg
(42lbs).
Local industrial geologist Professor Colin Bristow
said: “This is a highly significant discovery. It suggests
Cornwall was even more at the forefront of discovery than we
previously thought. In industrial and mining history
Cornwall was an intellectual power-house and this is just
further proof of that.”
Until now it was believed two Spanish brothers
named de Elhujar were the first to produce tungsten in 1785.
However, this
piece could
challenge that
date and show
that tungsten
was produced in
Cornwall first.
The most wellknown
use of
tungsten is as a
lamp filament.
Today, the main
use for tungsten
is in the form of
tungsten carbide,
where tungsten
is cemented in a
binder of tough
cobalt metal to
provide a
material of great
strength,
toughness and
hardness. It is
also used for
lamp filaments.
Unfortunately tungsten is no longer produced in
Cornwall.
Reprinted from the Cornish World Issue #49,
Jan/Feb 2007

MORE news bytes from the latest Cornish World, Issue 49
CARADON
Caradon Hill Area Heritage Project has just been awarded £2.8 million to conserve
mining and prehistoric sites, protect wildlife and retain local distinctiveness.
The funding will go towards conserving some of the finest mining heritage in the
Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, including South Caradon Mine.
Also included are the conservation of important wildlife sites and archaeological sites,
and the special landscape features of the area from the Cornish hedges of miners'
smallholdings to granite wayside crosses.
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Cornish Heritage Society East Newsletter Meurth/March 2007
We start the new year with an overview of a few
parishes in eastern Cornwall, Saltash, Landrake, Landulph, and
Botus Fleming. Saltash is now the largest town in this area,
and is the Gateway to Cornwall. Most visitors by land first
cross the Tamar and arrive directly into (or passby) Saltash,
which dates back to medieval times. The Town Council's
brochure states that "Saltash was a borough town when
Plymouth was a furzy down." In earlier years Saltash was a
lively port while the now larger city of Plymouth was just a
sleepy place dreaming of a glorious future. Even though
Plymouth eclipsed Saltash long ago, there is much heritage on
the Cornish side of the Tamar.
A small settlement sprung up around the ferry landing
and about 1175 the lord of nearby Trematon Castle laid out
streets and Saltash became a port and market town. St.
Stephens Church was founded earlier, and part of the building
dates back to the 1200s. Local ships traded and traveled far and
wide in the 1400s: to the the Arctic ports of Norway and the
Spanish pilgrimage shrine of Compostela. Sir Francis Drake
called here often, and today the visitor may see the restored
Mary Newman Cottage, associated with Drake's first wife, and
dating from the 1400s. The name of the town comes from Esse,
the old English word for ash tree; the Salt part was added
around 1300 to indicate its location near the Tamar tidal
estuary. It was also known as Asheborourgh.
Landrake, from the Cornish Lannerch, lies to the
northwest. It is a small pleasing village, and is associated with
the nearby parish of St. Erney, which is older than Landrake.
The local pronunciation is "Larrick." The parish church is
situated on a hill with
a lofty tower
commanding respect
from afar.
Landulph,
north of Saltash along
the Tamar, is another
ancient town. Places
that have the prefix
"Lan-" generally
indicate the location of
a Celtic saint's
monastic settlement. In
this case, the name
may be a corruption of
one Saint Dilich or
Delech. However, this
has been questioned. In
the 1400s the church
was rededicated to St.
Leonard, and both
saints had wall paintings which were destroyed in 1559. The
old Norman church was torn down and rebuilt around 1420.
The port of Landulph was developed in the 1400s by the
Courtenay family, and, like Saltash, was an important
embarkation site for pilgrims going to Santiago de
Compostela in Spain. Landulph also had two Holy Wells for
local pilgrims. The battles of the English Civil War helped
bring about the decline of both Landulph and Saltash.
Another curious monument marks the grave of
Theodore Paleologus, who descended from the brother of the
Byzantine Emperor Constantine Paleologus. This branch of the
family ended up in England around 1600, and Theodore
married one Mary Balls of Suffolk. He died in 1636 and is
interred in the local parish church in Landulph.
Botus Fleming is a tiny parish between Landrake and
Landulph, and seems to be a corruption of the Cornish
Bosflumyes. Its exact meaning is as unclear as its name is
unusual. All of the surrounding area is most pleasing to the
eye, if we can judge by the lovely photos. This part of
Cornwall had more inroads from the Anglo-Saxons, being the
first part of Cornwall to loose its language. But one must
realize that much of Devon was Celtic as well, and that Celtic
language, nearly the same as Cornish, disappeared much
earlier. This far southeastern corner of Corwall is also known
as East Wivelshire, or "Est" in Cornish from the first part of
the name.
I take pleasure in writing about this area of Cornwall,
as this is where my own Cornish ancestors left for Maine in
the 1630s. I descend
on both sides of my
family from one of
these hardy fisherman
named William
Freathy, whose family
could have been from
any of the above
parishes, though more
likely from Landrake,
according to the scant
early parish registers.
Along with other early
Cornish fisherfolk,
this is the home
region for millions of
Americans who can
trace their ancestry in
part to Cornwall in
the colonial times.
By Barry E. TRACY
Aerial view of Landrake
THE CORNISH PARISHES OF
Saltash, Landulph, Landrake, and Botus Fleming:
the Gateway Parishes to Cornwall
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Cornish Heritage Society East Newsletter Meurth/March 2007
West Briton newspaper transcripts at:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad/cornwall/intro.html
Transcribed by:
Julia Symons Mosman, OPC for St Austell and Rita Bone Kopp, OPC for St
Stephen In Brannel, along with Isabel Harris, William Kemp and LaVelda Faull
West Briton,
4 March 1842
continued on page 9
CHURCH RATE SEIZURES On Monday last, the constables
seized the property of several tradesmen in St. Mary's, Truro, who
had refused to pay Church-rates. Three of the parties, whose
property is again seized, are the same persons that were distrained
upon in 1838, on which occasion, at the sale of the goods, the
much talked-of riot took place, for which they were subsequently
tried and sentenced by Baron GURNEY to fine and imprisonment
in Bodmin gaol. The persons alluded to are Messrs. BARRETT,
EDWARDS, and RANDALL. The sum claimed of Mr. Richard
BARRATT, for four years' rates, was £2.5s.0d., and as he did not
appear, he was subjected to some slight additional expenses.
FALMOUTH POLICE On Tuesday last, John PEARCE was
summoned for an assault upon constable BENNETT, committed
on Monday the 23rd ult. The case was not of a serious character,
but it was fully proved and the Bench fined him 1s. and costs. -
On the same day, Charles, Joseph, and Alexander
MACDONALD, three brothers, were brought up, charged with
having committed a violent assault upon a boarding officer, or
extra man, named PADDY, whilst in the discharge of his duty on
board the “Tyrian” packet. The assault was of an aggravated
nature, and after the evidence had been gone into, the Bench
committed the prisoners for trial. They were afterwards liberated
on bail.
DISASTER AT SEA On the 27th ultimo, the “Sea Gull” packet,
on her voyage from the West Indies, in lat. 48.31 N, long,
15.16.W., fell in with the bark [sic] “Emma,” of Newport,
abandoned, with loss of rudder, and all her sails blown out of the
bolt ropes. The ensign was flying union down, and the long boat
was stowed on deck. She had not the appearance of being water
logged; but at the time the “Sea Gull” fell in with her, it was
blowing a fresh gale with a high sea, which prevented them from
boarding her.
ST. IVES On Thursday, the 24th ult., two boys, named William
QUICK and James STEVENS, were committed to Bodmin gaol,
by R. KERNICK and S. HOCKING, Esqrs., for stealing a copper
funnel and other stores from the schooner “Agnes” belonging to
that port.
PROMOTION We understand that Mr. M. T. MOLESWORTH,
mate of the “Queen,” who was in command of the “Mercury” at
the time of her disaster in the Bristol Channel, during the late
gale, has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, for his great
coolness and clever seamanship on that trying occasion
BRANDY FOUND AT SEA Two pipes of white brandy,
No. 58 and 59, scribed across the bung, and marked AE,
482 and 483, containing upwards of one hundred gallons
each, were picked up a few days ago, off St. Agnes, by
Capt. James BUNT, of the “Speedwell”, on her voyage
from Fowey to Swansea. The brandy was landed at the
latter port, and deposited in the Custom-house warehouse.
ASSAULTING A CONSTABLE On Monday last, Wm.
COWLING, of Polbathick, in the parish of Sheviock,
appeared at Port Eliot, before the Right Hon., the Earl of
St. Germans, and the Rev. Tobias FORNEAUX, to answer
a charge preferred against him, for assaulting and
obstructing Mr. Samuel HAWKER, constable of St.
Germans, in the execution of his duty, on Wednesday, the
23rd ultimo. The Noble Earl, after hearing the evidence,
the defendant having pleaded guilty, and expressed his
sorrow , said it was very fortunate for him that he was
prevented from striking the constable by Wm. TOLL, as in
that case, the full penalty of the law would have been two
months' imprisonment, but he would now treat it as a
common assault, and in consideration of the defendant's
penitence, would mitigate the fine to 10s., and expenses,
to be paid within one week. The defendant then thanked
their worships and retired.
THE OXY-HYDROGEN MICROSCOPE On Tuesday
evening last, Messrs. PARTRIDGE & CO., gave their
closing exhibition of the wonders displayed by the
astonishing powers of this instrument at the Assembly
Room, Truro, which, like all the former exhibitions, was
well attended, and appeared to afford much enjoyment to
the company. All the objects shown were highly
interesting, and the action which takes place in the
decomposition of water appeared to be witnessed with
great delight. The frolics of those who inhaled the
laughing gas were truly ludicrous, and excited laughter
enough, at least in the company. We understand Messrs.
Partridge and Co. opened their exhibition at Redruth last
evening, where it will continue open till Monday evening,
and then close. The admirers of nature will do well to
embrace this opportunity of contemplating the adaptation
and skill displayed in her minutest works.
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West Briton,
18 March 1842
QUARTER SESSIONS 1 of 3
TRIAL OF PRISONERS
William HETT, 47, was charged with having stolen, at St.
Austell, a calico shirt, the property of Edmund
RETALLACK. The shirt in question was hung out to dry,
on the 22nd of February last, by the mother of the
prosecutor, and when she came to take her things in, in the
afternoon, the shirt was missing. On the 24th, the prisoner
was apprehended on another charge, when the shirt in
question was found on his person; and Mrs. Retallack having
been sent for, she identified it as her property. The prisoner
said he bought it of a stranger for 9d. GUILTY. One week's
hard labour.
The prisoner pleaded GUILTY to another indictment,
charging him with having stolen a watch, the property of
Mary HORE, of St. Austell. At the end of the first
imprisonment, to be transported for ten years.
Charles OLIVER, 15, pleaded guilty of having stolen a duck,
the property of Matthew ANGOVE, of St. Hilary. Two
months' hard labour.
Samuel HAWKE, 19, pleaded GUILTY of having stolen a
calico shirt, the property of Edward DENEY [or Doney], of
Northill. One months' hard labour.
Elizabeth HONEYHURCH, 23, was charged with having
stolen a cotton handkerchief, the property of the guardians of
the St. Austell Union. The prosecutors in this case were the
guardians; and it is the custom and regulation of the Union
work-house, when a female comes into the house, to strip her
of her clothing, and to dress her in the clothes of the Union.
Any person was at liberty to leave the house on giving three
hours' notice. The prisoner did give notice according to the
regulations, and the Union clothes were taken from her, and
her clothes were given her in exchange. After she had left the
house, however, the handkerchief was found missing, and the
prisoner was sent for and brought back. She was then
searched, and the handkerchief was found between her shift
and her back. The prisoner, in her defence, stated that she
did not know that it was there. The jury, not being able to
agree, were ordered to withdraw; and after an absence of two
hours and ten minutes, the jury found a verdict of NOT
GUILTY.
Mary MARTIN, 19, a respectably dressed servant, was
indicted for having stolen a sovereign, the property of
Samuel HOSKIN, a grocer of Tywardreath, her master. It
appeared that on Wednesday, the 23rd of February, the
prosecutor's wife put eight sovereigns and a half in a piece of
paper; and this she placed in the till in the shop, intending to
give it to the miller when he called. The till was not locked,
and the miller not having called, the money was left in the
till. On the following Saturday, a sovereign was missing
from the paper, and in the course of the day, Mrs. Hoskin
found a new pair of stays hidden under the prisoner's bed;
and knowing that the prisoner was short of money, it led to a
suspicion that she had stolen the money. She was
apprehended, and, on the following Tuesday, taken before the
Rev. Charles LYNN, when she made some confession,
which induced the magistrate to send the constable with her
to the prosecutor's house, and she there took him to the
privy, in the garden, where she put her hand to the ceiling
and took down a glove, containing 16s 1 1/2d. Mr Littleton
SCOTT, another shopkeeper, stated that on Saturday, the
26th, he sold to a person like the prisoner, a pair of stays and
a pair of gloves, the price of which was 4s.10d. The person
purchasing gave a sovereign, but he could not swear that the
prisoner was the person. So much of the prisoner's statement
as was admissible in evidence was read, in which she said -
"All I have told you is false, Sir. I will tell the truth. I
went into the shop, on Thursday morning, and I saw lying
on the floor a sovereign, wrapped in a piece of paper. I took
it up and kept it." Mr. BENALLACK addressed the jury for
the prisoner, and she was found NOT GUILTY.
The bill against Humphry SPILLER, charging him with
having stolen a quantity of turnips, the property of Richard
BLAKE, was ignored.
John TIPPET, 28, was found GUILTY of having stolen a
quantity of barley straw, and a halter, the property of Mr.
Robert KENT, a farmer, in St. Columb Major. One month's
hard labour.
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CORNISH CRIER
ARCHIVES
CHSE now has the first ten years of the
Cornish Crier Vol 1 through Vol 10 on a set
of 2 CDs. They are in the PDF format which
is compatable to most computers. The fee
for the 2 CD set is $5.00.
We now have Vols. 11 and 12, for the
years, 2005 and 2006 now available on a
CD for a fee of $2.00.
Special offer, purchase the first set, Vol
1 through Vol 10 for $5.00 and we will
include the newest CD, Vol 11 and 12 at no
extra cost.
NOTE FROM ANNE STEPHENS
Desk-top publisher.
DECEMBER 2006 CRIER
If you didn't receive your copy of the
December issue, please let me
know. so that I may send you another
one. Some of the Criers must have
gotten caught up in the holiday mail.
Connecting Cornish
Cousins Program
-member's correct street address-
Marilyn Mulliner
1730 W. Stonebridge Dr. #63
St. George, UT
84770
-Correct spelling of members'
name being researched -
ESLICK
Charles & Faith Blethern
4 Memory Lane
Denville, NJ 07834
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FOR CHSE
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Street: _______________________________ E-mail: _____________________________
Town: _________________________________State:_____________Zip: _____________
Cornish ancestors: Names and parishes, if known:
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Send to: Anne Stephens, CHSE, 23 Weldon Road, Lake Hopatcong, NJ 07849
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Amendment to CHSE By-Laws
At our September 9th meeting, the membership in attendance
voted to present a change of by laws to the total membership. Our
present by-law in Article V-Board of Directors states in the last sentence
that “Each officer may serve only two consecutive terms in the same
office”.
Instead we are presenting for change to Article V the following:
Officers may serve more than two consecutive terms if necessary.
This change will enable the group more flexibility in the election
of officers. The vote on this issue will take place at the March meeting
prior to the election of officers.
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Cornish Heritage Society East

Editor
Barry E. Tracy (718) 337-5948
P O Box 1335
New York, NY 10274-1335
Email: cornishdesc@yahoo.com
Co-editor/desktop publisher
Anne Stephens
Editorial Associate
James Little
Meurth/March 2007

Mining Memories
with Ron Mishkin
Ron is a graduate geologist from the University
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underground zinc, iron, and copper mines. He
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