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John Dyer was the fourth of six children born to Robert and Catherine Cocks Dyer in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, five miles from Grongar Hill.His exact birth date is unknown, but the earliest existing record of John Dyer dates his baptism on 13 August 1699 [2] – within fourteen days after his birth as was the tradition of the time – in Llanfynnydd parish.
Great Cornish Families: A History of the People and Their Houses is a book by Crispin Gill, published in 1995. [1] A second edition was published in 2011 ( ISBN 978-0-85704-083-1 ). Crispin Gill, at the time of the book's publication, lived in Plymouth and was assistant editor of the Western Morning News .
The tribal name is therefore likely to be the origin of Kernow or later Curnow used for Cornwall in the Cornish language. John Morris suggested that a contingent of the Shropshire Cornovii was sent to South West Britain at the end of the Roman era, to rule the land there and keep out the invading Irish, but this theory was dismissed by ...
Falmouth Art Gallery is a publicly funded art gallery in Cornwall, with one of the leading art collections in Cornwall and southwest England, [1] which features work by old masters, major Victorian artists, British and French Impressionists, leading surrealists and maritime artists, children's book illustrators, automata, contemporary painters and printmakers.
General Hussey Vivian was created a Baronet of Truro in the County of Cornwall in 1827, [3] and Baron Vivian, of Glynn and of Truro in the County of Cornwall, in 1841. [4] After John Henry Vivian's death in 1855, his sons Henry, Arthur and Glynn continued to run the family business and sit as Members of Parliament for Swansea.
The Normans themselves employed Bretons in the administration of Cornwall and thus "imported" Breton names in Cornwall are not unusual. Arundell – the name of an aristocratic family in Cornwall. Arscott – possibly from Breton "harscoet" meaning "iron shield" Briton, Brittan etc. – from "Breton", a name given to a Breton resident in Cornwall
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The presence of Arundell's family in England is dated back to the eleventh century, at the time of William the Conqueror. [2] A very early member of the family, Roger, was marshal of England; and according to the Exeter Cathedral 'Martyrologium,' William de Arundell, who died in 1246, was a canon of that cathedral; about the same time a Roger ...