President: Joy Dunkerley (0428 617 830 or 02 6699 2967) Bard (Cherya) Email [email protected] Secretary: Chris Dunkerley CyC 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. 374 Newsleer of the May / June 2018 Cornish Associaon ISSN 1321-3199 Circulation: 110 of New South Wales For more details contact: Sonia Reuter, Events Co-ordinator, and her phone number is PROGRAMME 2018 02 4421 8187 Her email address is: SYDNEY [email protected] PPasty Day at Betty’s THE MEMBERSHIP FEE FOR Betty Bevins invites you to her home by 2018/2019 IS DUE the sea for a wonderful get together, (ie. From 5/3/18). from 11:30am If you are recorded as unpaid, there is an 'X' Sunday 12th August below (on printed copies only): 134 Narrabeeen Park Parade, Warriewood

Those receiving by post will have their ‘paid to’ date (eg. having 3-2018 on your envelope means it is now due) on the envelope, whilst others will be reminded by email if they are un-financial. Always a wonderful day of proper Pasties, great A membership renewal form is enclosed, for company, chat and warm hospitality. your completion, payment, and return asap if needed. See form for direct deposit End of Year Lunch instructions. Circular Quay Let us know if our records are wrong please – Joy st on 0428 617830, or email 21 November, 2018 [email protected]) ( Please save the date to your diaries or calenders. Details to come in later newsletters and email news ) Committee News:. Bank account at 31/05/18 bal: FESTIVALS $ 8,895.29 “It was great thrill for us both to be able to get away to Clans on the Coast - Celtic Glen Innes for the Celc Fesval. Though it was a low Festival key year for the Cornish, I met up with some great “DICK BURWELL OVAL" Cornish friends, and of course many other Celc friends; TOMAREE SPORTS COMPLEX. and supported our Breton cousins. We remembered all NELSON BAY ROAD, NELSON BAY those who have passed on, during our Cornish 9am SATURDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER 2018 ceremony. I was proud to represent you in Glen as President and the Cornish Guardian of the Stones. [email protected] http://clansonthecoast.com.au/ I hope those who met up for a pasty in Bondi Juncon had a nice day. Thanks to all those who have renewed WIDER COMING EVENTS their memberships so far.” Joy Dunkerley, President Southern Sons of Inc You and your ideas are always welcome

Page 1 – 374: May / June, 2018 COMMITTEE EVENT PLANNING CONTINUING … IDEAS PLEASE Lyther Nowodhow - Newsletter - of the Cornish Association of NSW - No. 374 - May / June, 2018 ______Our Lending & Research Library

The full listing of books has been on the CANSW web site for some time, and is still available.

Following divestment of quite some material to the CAV and their Ballarat Branch in March a revised list has been published. The direct page link to view is: Above: Chris, Joy, Don & Barbara Tom, Dorothy Kitto (SA) http://members.optusnet.com.au/~kevrenor/ canswlib5_alpha.xls This can also be posted to you on request, It has Catalogue Id order & in alphabetical order on the members’ web. To borrow books or other items please contact Eddie and Eileen on 02 9349 1491 Email: [email protected] Eddie Lyon, Librarian Past Events Australian Celtic Festival, Glen Innes Again the 26th festival was a wonderful event, with great sunny weather, and friendly atmosphere.

We had 8 CANSW members there, but we missed some regulars.

Some of the Cornish met up before the Official opening on the Friday, and at the Guardians Lunch, then with others for an informal meal that night at a hotel. Probably our smallest contingent in the parade on Saturday morning (with a couple not able to take part due to their health) but still made our presence felt. Above: The first part of the Cornish paraders ‐ William Hughes, Kerensa Dunkerley, and Joy ‐ with our Breton Wonderful weather for both days at the stones. friend David Renn. Below: Roger & Sue Thomas, and Joy at Our Cornish ceremony was a bit modified due to Guardians lunch lack of our numbers and Chris’s health (as leader), but we still attracted a good number of the public to gather around the Gorsedd stone to celebrate and to hear about our heritage.

In all a great weekend. Don’t forget, the year of Cornwall is in two years ‐ 2020!

Page 2 No. 374 – May / June, 2018 Lyther Nowodhow - Newsletter - of the Cornish Association of NSW - No. 374 - May / June, 2018 ______Polmear / Pelmear – Possibly from pol- mur, big pool. Or as placename Polmear, (Porth muer in 1403 big beach/cover) Penaluna – From pen-lynnow, end or head of pools. Found in W. Cornwall. Penberthy / Penberth – From pen-berthy, end of bushes. Placenames Penberth, St Buryan; Penperth, St Just in Roseland. In W. Cornwall. Pencavel / Penkivel – Uncertain derivation. Possibly from pen-kevil, horse head, or pen-kevelek, woodcock’s head. Parish name t Michael Penkevil. Pendarves / Pendarvis – From pen- derow or pen-dar, end/head of oak trees. Placename Pendarves, [Property name in Byng NSW (aka Cornish Settlement)] Kerensa, Joy and Chris ‐ leading the Cornish ceremony Paynter / Pender / Penter – From pen- dyr, end of land. Name found in W Cornwall, MEMBERS MILESTONES close to Land’s End. [former Grand Bard of ‘New’ member – rejoined after quite some Cornwall, Mick Paynter from St Ives]. time away is Dr Pamela O’Neill Welcome Pendry / Pendray – From pen-dre, end of back. homestead, or the head(chief) homestead. Placename Pendrea, St Buryan and Gulval. Best wishes to a number of members who Penellum – From pen-ylyn, clean or bright have had reported health problems or medical head. Placename Penalym, Jacobstow. procedures recently. Penfound – Possibly Possibly from pen- Congratulations to all those with birthdays fawen; end of beech gtrees. Placename during May and June. Penfound, Otterham. Please let us know of your good news, special Pengelly / Pengilley – From pen-kelly, head/end of the grove/copse of trees. events, or of those who are ill. Placename Pengelly in 13 parishes. Found QUOTE widely throughout Cornwall. “There is in the Cornish character, smouldering SOME NOTED FOLK OF CORNWALL – a beneath the surface, ever ready to ignite, a firey series independence, a stubborn pride” - Daphne Du Michael Joseph also known as Michael An Maurier, ‘Vanishing Cornwall’, 1967 Gof - co-leader of Cornish uprising of 1497 SOME CORNISH SURNAMES Michael Joseph '' - 'An Gof' being – a series Cornish for blacksmith and , a Pearn / Pearne – Probably from placename landowner's son and London lawyer, Trespearne in Lanest and Sheviock parishes. led the Cornish Rebellion of 1497. Tre-Spernen, homestead of thorns. Pellow / Pellew – Possibly from pell Michael Joseph was born in the village of Saint (distant/far off) or from pelyow, balls (maybe Keverne on , where he grew up to nickname for round figure or head). W. become the village blacksmith. Virtually Cornwall nothing apart from that seems to be known Polmounter / Pellymounter – From pol- about him. Indeed why and why the mun-tyr, pool by the mineral land. Placename local blacksmith ended up as being the ones Pollamounter, Newlyn East. that started the uprising, are not clear. Angove is still a common surname in Cornwall.

Page 3 No. 374 – May / June, 2018 Lyther Nowodhow - Newsletter - of the Cornish Association of NSW - No. 374 - May / June, 2018 ______The reported rebellion was over King Henry quartered at . Their heads were VII's levying of a tax to fund his Scottish War. displayed on pike-staffs on London Bridge. The Cornish believed that this war was nothing to do with them, and under the leadership of 'An Gof' is recorded as saying, on the way to his Michael Joseph and Thomas Flamank, death, that he would have 'a name perpetual, thousands marched from Cornwall to London to and a fame permanent and immortal'. air their grievances to the king. To this day, the 27th June is celebrated 'An Gof' The unpopular tax was collected by day, with annual events in Bodmin, St Keverne, Commissioners. The Commissioner appointed and London. to collect the tax on on the Lizard was one Sir On its 500th anniversary, the Cornish uprising John Oby, Provost of Glasney College, Penryn. was marked by the unveiling of a statue, Although the very poor were meant to be depicting An Gof and Flamank, at An Gof's exempt from the tax, some collectors were home town of St. Keverne in Cornwall. A March severe, and Sir John Oby was particularly so. to London over several days (below) also took This zealousness by him may have been a reason place to commemorate this historic event. that those in St. Keverne rose first. 'Angof' and Flamank led an ill-armed army to march to London. Camped at Blackheath which was then outside London. They were armed

[It is this uprising and the commemorative march that is remembered each year in our Cornish Stone Ceemony at Glen Innes].

NSW Cornish Stories web site

continued from last newsletter .... Cornish Selement (Byng) [Above: Statue to An Gof and Flamank in St Keverne] George Hawke Marries in Cornwall only with with staves, pitchforks and It is no wonder that George cleared Customs homemade weapons. quickly and hurried to Bedruthan at St Columb, to find that Jane was at his father's house. They On June 17th 1497 they were surrounded by the were married there on 3 March 1835. They King's army of ten thousand men. The Battle of departed for Sydney on the Florentine on 4 Bridge was brief, 200 Cornishmen April 1835, having a very pleasant trip and died. 'An Gof' fled to Greenwich after the battle, arriving on 4 August. George observed that but was captured and sent to the Tower of there were bush fires burning and he knew this London. meant drought was on the land and this condition lasted until May 1839. For us in this Flamank and Joseph being executed at Tyburn present year of 1996, we know the meaning of 10 days later. They were hanged, drawn and five years or more of drought. What a contrast for Jane from the green fields of Cornwall! So

Page 4 No. 374 – May / June, 2018 Lyther Nowodhow - Newsletter - of the Cornish Association of NSW - No. 374 - May / June, 2018 ______bad was it by then, that the Government from Tasmania by steamship to Sydney and by appointed a day of fasting and prayer but this railroads into the country. Nevertheless, he was had been pre-empted by families at Cornish still able to say that he had the best selection of Settlement setting their day for the same fruits of anyone in the Western District, having purpose a week before that of the Government. imported some from England, some from George wrote in the letter to his nephew, "... we Tasmania and good plants from other parts of carried it out, and it may be thought a strange the Colony. That foresight now sees the Blue circumstance that on that very day, a most Mountains and western slopes with beautiful delightful rain fell on us, but it did not extend apple and cherry orchards and with peaches, beyond seven miles in any direction." General apricots and other fruit. A wonderful legacy to rain fell after the public fast, signalling the us in our present day! breakup of the drought. He added, "Who will As you must realise, the story is far from presume to say that God does not hear and complete yet. There was copper in the hills answer the prayers of his people when they around these Cornish folk. And there was gold. humble themselves, and ask favours of Him." Yes! they were involved in that find too. But Thus was it seen that these Cornish folk were underlying all their community activities was not only good and reliable husbandmen but their firm religious faith, based on strict strong in their Wesleyan faith. Wesleyan Methodist principles, encouraged by The Fruit Garden of the Western District the work of 'Pastor' William Tom as their local lay-preacher. His first services were held at the Before going to Cornwall, George Hawke was top of a ridge known as Bethel Rock. It was he convinced that horticulture was going to have a who held services of worship in his house as future in the Western District from his soon as it was completed, until a small observation of the country, its soil and the Wesleyan Chapel was constructed and opened location of their Cornish Settlement. To this in 1842, the first west of Bathurst. The present end, he purchased over two thousand trees and day Chapel was opened in 1873. There is more plants which were suitably packaged for their to tell of this place, down to the present day return to Australia. The long sea journey when the Cornish Association of New South followed by delay at the wharf and six weeks Wales undertook to assist in its repair and going by dray to Pendarves reduced the cuttings upkeep from time to time. And George Hawke's to almost dried up sticks. The few that seemed descendants still live in the beautifully restored to have sap in them all died too. He had also Pendarves. Another of George Hawke's brought a cask full of haws so that he could descendants lives at Bookannon, built by John introduce the hawthorn fence extensively. Like Glasson in 1840. the trees, they all died, too. More of The story can be followed further from these John George's difficult problems! He imported some Symonds Menu Items at the web site: from Tasmania and they did grow as miles of Bethel Rock and 'Parson' Tom (Byng Two) - A Visit fencing - and still do. He says he sold many to the Orange & District Historical Museum - thousands of plants at 10 pounds per 1000 - and William Tom's Pipe Organ, A Tribute to William & that is believable when one sees them in the Ann Tom - Wesleyan Baptisms at Byng - Wesleyan local area. Cemetery Records at Byng - The First Australian Payable Gold Discovery (Gold from Ophir). Three years elapsed before he was able to buy twenty apple trees having one year's growth, For more stories, please go to our web site: plus a lot of apple, cherry and plum suckers. In http://www.celticcouncil.org.au/cornish/ns a few years, he saw his first two apples, then w/Towns%20A-C/CANSWWelcome.html twenty six the next, and so on until, as he wrote, "the return from my fruit garden was very considerable. The most I ever made was sold for 620 pounds 10 shillings." By that time, there Australian School of Celtic Learning - Founded in were several large and productive fruit gardens December 2017 by Dr Pamela O’Neill, is a in the district and almost every settler had some community-oriented educational venture. Our vision: fruit trees, many selling fruit. By 1872 when he everyone has affordable and accessible opportunities was writing his letter, much more was coming

Page 5 No. 374 – May / June, 2018 Lyther Nowodhow - Newsletter - of the Cornish Association of NSW - No. 374 - May / June, 2018 ______to learn about the Celtic cultures. We present the Kas yw genev gwav - re yeyn yw. I hate winter - it’s too latest and best research in the field of Celtic cold. learning to all of our students, whether their interest A gerydh ta/A gerowgh hwi ilow klassek? is genealogical, spiritual, historical or linguistic. Do you like classical music? (one person/more than Programmes are arranged in 4 terms each year, one) each beginning on one of the Celtic festivals of Imbolc, Bealtaine, Lughnasadh and Samhain. We This is Plas an Tavas = Language Place - offer study days, evening courses, residential Introducing you to some daily Kernewek, the immersion schools and overseas study tours. ancient Celtic language of Cornwall today, to Topics for our programmes range widely over topics practice. of Celtic interest, with a particular focus on the early Pronunciation? Cornish is mainly phonetic medieval period, and on medieval and modern More: https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/leisure- Celtic languages. and-culture/the-cornish-language/cornish- www.celticlearning.com.au language/

Angeline Emery has advised that she is going to Silly Sayings - Church notices Falmouth in June for the International Sea Shanty “At the evening service tonight, the sermon Festival. “Very much looking forward to it!” [You topic will be 'What Is Hell?' Come early and can be jealous, I am, Editor] listen to our choir practice”. https://www.falmouthseashanty.co.uk/friday-22nd- june-sunday-24th-june-2018 A Cornish mystery : “I am attempting to solve a mystery for a friend (Bob is 93!), who owns a farm CANSW Public & Members Web Pages: on the Mole river west of Tenterfield. The name of Please have a look through all the pages on our web the property is TRENAYR, and it is thought that it site; especially the NSW ‘Sites’ pages developed by was chosen by a migrant to reflect a Cornish place our own Dr John Symonds. Tell your friends! Suggested updates or new content are welcome. (or farm) name. I have done a “Google” search www.celticcouncil.org.au/cornish/nsw.htm without success, and would be pleased to hear from anyone who has come across Trenayr during time spent in Cornwall, or from family history. With thanks for any help available”. William Hughes Box 834 Armidale 2350, email [email protected].

PLAS AN TAVES – Everyday Cornish (7) http://www.learncornishnow.com/06- everyday-cornish.html Dates coming up ... Like and Dislikes St Petroc’s Feast 4th June, St Paul Aurelian 12th June, Winter Solstice (Southern Hemisphere) Pyth yw da genes/genowgh? What do you like? (one person/more than one) Editorial note: The content of this newsletter does Da yw genev gwari pel droos ha da yw genev rugbi not necessarily reflect official views of the CANSW, but rather contributors and sources! If someone is sick let ynwedh. I like playing football and I like rugby too. me know (get-well message), or other news please! Tennis yw ow sport an gwella. Tennis is my favourite sport. The next Newsletter no. 375 is for July / August 2018 Pyth yw gwell genes - neuvya po kerdhes war an treth? Copy Deadline is 10 July, 2018 What do you prefer - swimming or walking on the Contributions may be held for future use but more beach? (electronic – emailed preferred) are welcome! My a gar korev gwir. I like/love real ale. Ny garav gwin vytholl. I don’t like wine at all. Nr. 374 LYTHER NOWODHOW - NSW Py seson yw da genes? Which season do you like? Editor: c/o 34 Circular Avenue, Sawtell, 2452 Phone: Gwell yw genev kynnyav - seson klor ha teg yw. Mobile 0409 393 059 or Ph: 02 6699 2967 - Ring first for I prefer autumn - it’s a mild, beauful season. manual switch to FAX Email: [email protected]

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