President: Joy Dunkerley (0428 617 830 or 02 6699 2967) C.y.C , Bard (Cherya) Email [email protected] Secretary: Chris Dunkerley C.y.C, Bard (Kevrenor) ASSOCIATION POSTAL ADDRESS: c/o 34 CIRCULAR AVE, SAWTELL NSW 2452, Australia Phone Contact: 02 6699 2967 (+Manual Fax) Mobile 0409 393 059 Contact E-mail: [email protected] Web Pages: www.celticcouncil.org.au/cornish/nsw.htm No. 380 Newsleer of the May / June / July 2019 Cornish Associaon ISSN 1321-3199 Circulation: 110 of New South Wales PROGRAMME 2019/2020 SYDNEY BASED EVENTS End of Year Lunch Wed 20th November, 2018 Day at Betty’s City Extra, Circular Quay Betty Bevins again invites you to her At this restaurant in the Sydney Circular Quay home by the sea for a wonderful get area of the CBD - please reserve the date ! together from 11:30am Come for an informal get-together. Chose and pay for what you have. A range of food of varying th Sunday 11 August prices to suit your budget. If you are free and can get to the city, please join us! at 134 Narrabeeen Park Parade Warriewood

Meet at 11.30am For more informaon contact Del Clinton on 02 4658 1925 or email [email protected] THE MEMBERSHIP FEE FOR 2019/2020 IS DUE (ie. From 3/3/18). Always a wonderful day of proper , great company, chat and warm hospitality. If you are recorded as unpaid, there is an 'X' Please bring an item, or story, a song, or below (on printed copies only): question about - or just come for a pasty, a 'bit chat and a nice dish o'tay!' Please bring a plate of food for afternoon tea. Tea & Coffee provided, but bring your own Those receiving by post will have their ‘paid to’ other drinks. A $5 contribution will provide date (eg. having 3-2019 on your envelope you with a pasty and to cover other costs. means it is now due) on the envelope, whilst Bring some extra change for a Raffle, or buy others will be reminded by email if they are leftover pasties. un-financial. A membership renewal form is enclosed, for Bey's home is at 134 Narrabeen Park Parade, your completion, payment, and return asap if near the 'bend' & intersecon with Melbourne needed. See form for direct deposit instructions. Ave. Map online: hps://goo.gl/maps/d432E Let us know if our records are wrong please asap – Joy on 0428 617830, or email [email protected])

Page 1 – 380: May / June / July, 2019 COMMITTEE EVENT PLANNING CONTINUING … IDEAS PLEASE Lyther Nowodhow - Newsletter - of the Cornish Association of NSW - No. 380 - May / June / July, 2019 ______Committee News:. MEMBERS MILESTONES Bank account at 31/05/19 bal: $7,855.17 New Member: Rosalie Shearer of Adamstown This is aer donaons as per last newsleer: Welcome .. great to see you again, at Glen Innes The previously menoned donaon of $1,000 as Our best wishes to all of our members who part of our ongoing commitment for work, by Byng have long term health issues, or recently Church Trust, on the Cornish Selement/Byng reported health problems; or recent medical procedures. Our thoughts are with you. Chapel has been made. A receipt has been received, along with a leer from Will Hawke, “… thank the Congratulations to all those with birthdays Associaon for the most generous donaon of the during May, June and July. $1,000. When the congregaon is advised I know Please let us know of your good news, special the allocaon will be received with grateful thanks events, or of those who are ill. and will be put to good use, as there are areas that need plaster patching and in places repainng. Your QUOTE connued interest in the Church and the valley is “The Cornish miner is generally a man who can very special to all.” do his share of grumbling, and frequently The donaon of $200 to help with building a Celc reckons that he can run a mine ber than the Naons Monument, in the form of Standing Stones, manager! So when Unionism caught on they in Roma Street Parklands, Brisbane, has been made quickly realised that many injusces might have and receipted. “The Cornish Associaon of NSW is now acknowledged as a sponsor.” been remedied yers ago had they organised and pulled together, instead of merely growling as “The month of May was a busy one as we took individuals.” - W.G. Spence, ‘Thirty Years In The part in the Australian Celtic Festival at Glen Life Of An Australian Agitator’, 1909. Innes, and I represented the Cornish as a Guardian of the Stones. Great to meet up with SOME CORNISH SURNAMES – a series 12 members, plus other , and Celtic friends. Sanders / Saunders – A Cornish form of Alexander. Found in mid & SE Cornwall. Then over to South Australia to my 19th , and taking part in the Sawle / Sowell – Probably a personal name Moonta parade, Feast & Famine and Meet the Sawel. Placenames Tresawle, Probus (spelt Cornish dinners, and the 33rd Bardic Assembly. Tresawel 1338). Found in mid & west Cornwall. Great there also to meet up with a few other Sayce – From Saws, Saxon. Rare, but note that CANSW members, including Sheila & Brian placenames like Carsize, Crowan; and Tresaize, Reeves from Kiama, and Judy & Chris Dwyer Roche exist. from Orange. Scaddan – Probably a breakaway from Rosecaddon, Manaccan (spelt Roskadon 1300, Good to see happy faces in the photo at the heath of Cadon (personal name). Pasty Meetup. Coming up is the Pasty day at Betty Bevins in August. Apologies from me as I Scawn / Scown – From scawen, elder tree. will be somewhere on the lower Rhine (as part Placename Penscawn, St. Enoder. of our 3 month Europe trip, including 3 weeks Scobey / Scoble / Scobel – Uncertain, in Cornwall). Please get along if you can. possibly from escop, bishop or eboll, colt. Hoping to see some more members at lunch in Placenames Trescobeas, Budock (spelt Sydney in November”, Joy Dunkerley, Treskybaes (1284), Trezebel, Manaccan (spelt President Tresebel (1284). Scott – not suprisingly, from Scotti (bands of Included for members in this Newsletter is a list of our memberships, as per our Rules. It is prepared with care, but if Scotti adventurers) and found widely in th you see an error or omission please let us know. Cornwall from 14 C. (so your presumed Scottish ancestor may be Cornish after all).

You and your ideas are always welcome Skewes – From skewys, sheltered (place). Placenames Skewes, Cury & Crowan,

Page 2 No. 380 – May / June / July, 2019 Lyther Nowodhow - Newsletter - of the Cornish Association of NSW - No. 380 - May / June / July, 2019 ______Treskewes, Stithians, Skewyt, St. Wenn. Found scarves on, we attended the Thursday night in west Cornwall. Scots Dinner. Lovely singing from Aberdeen Sloggett – Breakaway from placename based Iona Fyfe and haggis, broth and scottish Tresloggett, St. Mabyn (Tresloget, 1331). cakes. Soady / Sawdey - from saw-dy, safe/well Friday’s official opening saw our Cornish built house. numbers down, with Roger Thomas unable to make it this year but it is always great to see Shugg / Chugg – From chogha, chough or Dorothy Kitto from SA, and Don and Barbara jackdaw. Tom from Inverell, as we started the festival. The Guardians lunch had expanded numbers, and we were able to catch up with a few Cornish and others over a meal on Friday night. PREVIOUS FUNCTION – Saturday dawned wet, and it was only just as we started the Parade that it eased. Good crowd Pasty Meetup at Cousin Jacks 22 May considering the rain, but as expected our own Lovely to have some members take the time to numbers were down. We still had 17 Cornish meet up, chat, and enjoy a pasty (or two) and marching, and another 3 or 4 identifiable in the coffee. crowd

Cornish paraders a little damp after the street parade. The weather improved wonderfully as the Festival unfolded at the Standing Stones on Saturday.

Thank you to David Evans for suggesting and organising the outing, and Del’s follow up. FESTIVALS EDITION Australian Celtic Festival – Glen Innes The 27th festival It was the year of Scotland, and weren’t they everywhere – tartan, kilts, bagpipes and drums!

Joy & I channeled our respective Scots sides – Don and Barbara Tom she a lot, me a smidgeon; and McLean tartan

Page 3 No. 380 – May / June / July, 2019 Lyther Nowodhow - Newsletter - of the Cornish Association of NSW - No. 380 - May / June / July, 2019 ______Our Cornish Ceremony on Sunday between the Photo: Cornish Bards Cherya (Joy), Steren Mor (past Cornish and Gorsedh stones went well again for Grand Bard Maureen Fuller), Myrgh an Tir da (Julie the 22nd time with 65 people attending, prior to Wheeler), and Kevrenor (Chris Dunkerley), robed after the ceremony. the massive Scots presentation of the clans above us on Tynwald Hill. Among the events at the Festival every 2 years is the Assembly of the Bards of Cornwall in Australia.

On Friday there is the Fer Kernewek (Cornsh Breton David Renn, with Joy, Barbara, Don, and Chris Fair) in Moonta, with a street parade. Above leading the ceremony you can see many of the Cornish contingent gathering prior. Below are children from the Moonta Area School, dancing a version of a through Moonta.

Joy with new member Rosalie Shearer, and David Wilks (her cousin and CANSW member) Kernewek Lowender, S.A. The 24th Kernewek Lowender (lit. Merry Cornish) – Cornish festival in There are many events and activities over the 6 May was again a great time. days of the festival. One special set are the ‘Dressing of the Graves’ ceremonies. Many changes over the years but it still is centred mainly on Australia’s Little Cornwall and it’s human and built heritage. There are many activities during the week. Don’t expect a decent Cornish pasty though.

Brian and Sheila Reeves at the Moonta dressing

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Families document and celebrate their th ancestor/s buried in Moonta, Kadina, Wallaroo A few days later in (usually the 8 or Green Plains cemetaries, and the graves are May) the focus is on the colourful and joyous ‘dressed’ and visited during a short ceremony at Furry Dance, made famous here by Australian each. Peter Dawson with with Floral dance song. Magnificent as that is, there is another less well known activity going on. Hal an Tow. The meaning of the name of this pageant, and its original words, are lost to time. The ‘modern’ version includes figures such as St George and the Dragon, but it seems the procession ushered in the summer. After the youth have gathered greenery early in the morning Starting at around 8am at St John`s, the revellers make their way around the town to desginated points to perform the ritual. Chris and Kerensa Dunkerley in the Moonta From Robin Hood and Little John, St George & parade the Dragon, St Michael & the Devil to the Spaniards of Mousehole, all re-inact the battles of `good defeating evil`to `drive out the old and welcome in the new`... ancient themes given tamer Victorian English words …. Spring is upon us!

Hughes Pump House remains in the Moonta Mines world heritage area For more information on the Kernewek Lowender go to: www.kernewek.org

Padstow May Day - ‘Obby ‘Oss May is a special time in Cornwall with so many traditions being upheld. The many hundred’s of World Pilot Gig Championship – Isles of years old festivities of the people of on the Camel River take place on May Day. Rightly Scilly a lot of focus is on the magical ‘Obby Osses, as they dance through the streets and pubs.

Page 5 No. 380 – May / June / July, 2019 Lyther Nowodhow - Newsletter - of the Cornish Association of NSW - No. 380 - May / June / July, 2019 ______This is Plas an Tavas = Language Place - The 30th World Pilot Gig Championships on Introducing you to some daily Kernewek, the the Isles of Scilly in May 2019 are now over. ancient Celtic language of Cornwall This year’s competition is likely to have been Pronunciation? Cornish is mainly phonetic the biggest ever with a massive 169 gigs More: https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/leisure- competing, so massive that next year they’re and-culture/the-cornish-language/cornish- limiting the number of boats to around 132. language/ Two Cornish crews have rightly been crowned Speak Cornish Week this year will be Speak the world champions, Falmouth Gig Club for Cornish Fortnight, between the 15th and the 30th the ladies, and Looe Rowing Club for the men’s of June race.

Silly Sayings - Church notices “A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the PLAS AN TAVES church hall. Music will follow”

CANSW Public & Members Web Pages: Please have a look through all the pages on our web site; especially the NSW ‘Sites’ pages developed by our own (late) Dr John Symonds. Tell your friends! Suggested updates or new content are welcome. www.celticcouncil.org.au/cornish/nsw.htm Dates coming up ... Feast day St Petroc 4th June, St Paul Aurelian 12th June, St Samson of Dol 23rd June Editorial note: The content of this newsletter does not necessarily reflect official views of the CANSW, but rather contributors and sources! If someone is sick let me know (get-well message), or other news please! The next Newsletter: No 381 will also cover 3 months Copy Deadline is by 27 September. Note: due to the absence of the Editor for 3 months overseas (incl. 3 weeks in Cornwall). Contributions may be held for future use but more (electronic – emailed preferred) are welcome! Nr. 380 LYTHER NOWODHOW - NSW Editor: c/o 34 Circular Avenue, Sawtell, 2452 Phone: Mobile 0409 393 059 or Ph: 02 6699 2967 - Ring first for manual switch to FAX Email: [email protected]

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