Talk:Cornish surnames

Page created June 2009
I have started this page as it would be nice to bring together a lot of the acattered information on wikipedia regarding surnames, in this case, Cornish surnames, into a more "academic" union. Please add to this article! Brythonek (talk) 19:43, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

June 25th edits
Brythonek (talk) 11:12, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Tidied up article
 * Corrected typos/spellings/grammar errors
 * Added links

Appeal for contributions
It would be nice to balance this article with typical surnames from Cornwall, tre-, pol- and pen- are already well known and included. I have added some more information for nan(s)-, this also leaves ros-, car, Saint names and a few spaces for other names deriving from trades, nicknames or animals. It is not possible to include every last Cornish surname on this page! So please contribute only to the vacant "spaces" or categories that have few examples!
 * ) Meur ras!

Brythonek (talk) 11:12, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Lets not add any English language surnames to the Cornish especially in the East where the Anglo Saxon had colonized and gave more than a few placenames. Theories are not facts. Lets stay with what is known. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hammettan (talk • contribs) 05:58, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

In the book "Saxon Place-Names in East Cornwall" (Lund Studies in English #77, Lund University Press, 1987) Svensson lists over 400 Saxon place-names found in East Cornwall. Hammett is not one of them. Interestingly enough, in his preface he identifies by name two British scholars to whom he is indebted for help with his research in compiling his doctoral dissertation, on which the book is based: J.E.B. Gover and Oliver Padel. Both Padel and Gover identify Hammett as a Cornish place-name (see specialist bibliography).

Please do not summarily delete text merely because you disagree with it. "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability” - which has been met. Let readers of Wikipedia make up their own minds; do not limit their choices by deleting the Cornish perspective. Effernan

Right. I fully agree that one should not be biased and preport to be scholarly. I am one and the same as Hammettan. We have only Padfield and his imaginative followers and an Wiki page to support the Cornish origin of the Surname Hammett.

Hammett and Hammettan are recorded in the Charters in the 900s. This being only one of hundreds one might with ease discover on the net.

The contributer might best mark his contribution as Historical Romance or Fantacy. Humbug!!! Shame on you!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hammettan1 (talk • contribs) 00:27, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Mark Twain
I want to add Samuel Langhorn Clemens. Clemens is a family from the Looe area. It is a distinctive Cornish spelling, presumably of Clements. I do not know which came first, but it is a name of Cornish origin. Stevebritgimp (talk) 19:25, 25 May 2017 (UTC)