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Searching for my ancestors
Prussia Cove is a place I walked to in 2007 and have come away knowing that I have todo my family tree as I am related to both Captain Harry Carter and his brother John Carter (The King of Prussia) who were local smugglers. My brother has been named John Carter Read and it is from my mother's side of the family Thelma Carter from Par. My mother is now deceased but I shall be happy to go back to Cornwall this year to start the search and look forward to seeing Prussia Cove again where a lot of the Carter smuggling was done. Does anyone know the name of the house there that John Carter had and whether it still ...read more here
Contributed by Clare Brown
Cornwall memories
Searching for my ancestors
Prussia Cove is a place I walked to in 2007 and have come away knowing that I have todo my family tree as I am related to both Captain Harry Carter and his brother John Carter (The King of Prussia) who were local smugglers. My brother has been named John Carter Read and it is from my mother's side of the family Thelma Carter from Par. My mother is now deceased but I shall be happy to go back to Cornwall this year to start the search and look forward to seeing Prussia Cove again where a lot of the Carter smuggling was done. Does anyone know the name of the house there that John Carter had and whether it still ...read more here
A memory of Prussia Cove contributed by Clare Brown
Valerie Frith (Pearce)
The first time I went to Perranuthnoe (Perran) was in 1946 when the Warspite was in trouble and was wrecked at Prussia Cove, only to fine it's final resting place by the side of the Mount.
In 1947 I married Richard Pearce and lived in a cottage in Goldsithney. Between 1948 and 1949 I had my three children (1 son and twin daughters). We spent many happy years playing on Perran beach and the many coves around the Perran area. My children are now scattered between Calgary in Canada, and Lauceston but our love of Perran lives in our hearts and will do for ever.
The beach was their happy playground with their friends. My friends were all ...read more here
A memory of Perranuthnoe contributed by First name Last name
The churchyard at Ludgvan
My father, Joseph Martin and Ruth, my mother, are buried at Ludgvan, together with his parents (Joseph and Sarah). The latter died in 1949/1950 and had lived at Castle Gate (Badgers Cross). My father attended school in Ludgvan and worked as a journalist pre-War and until 1952 on many local papers including The Cornishman, in Penzance, sometimes writing under the pen-name of John Penwith (Leaves from a Cornish Notebook). There are many references to Ludgvan in his writings. As a toddler, I lived at Trezelah and went to school in Gulval.
David Martin.
A memory of Ludgvan contributed by David Martin
Extracts From Prussia Cove & Cornwall books
Mullion takes its name
from St Melaine, the 6th-
century Bishop of
Rennes, who
excommunicated two
British priests who went
to preach on his patch.
St Mellion, at the other
end of the county, is also
named after him.
An extract from from"Helston Photographic Memories".
More correctly known as
the Loe (meaning ‘pool’
in Cornish), this mile-
long freshwater lake was
formed in the 13th
century when the River
Cober became dammed
by a sand and shingle
bar - Loe Bar.
An extract from from"Helston Photographic Memories".
Here we see almost the
same view as picture No
53046, but how things
have changed. Telegraph
poles, road signs and the
car indicate the
communication
revolution. There is also
a plethora of tobacco
advertising - Capstan,
Craven ‘A’, Players and
Senior Service - which
would not be seen today.
An extract from from"Helston Photographic Memories".
Livestock in a Cornish
village is not unusual,
but Gweek now has
some rather unusual
mammalian residents.
Just down the river is the
internationally famous
seal sanctuary, founded
in the 1950s by
midlander Ken Jones to
take care of sick, injured
or orphaned seals.
An extract from from"Helston Photographic Memories".
The water channels
between pavement and
road, so characteristic of
Helston’s streets, are known
as kennels, probably
derived from the Cornish
word ‘gannel’; this in turn is
a corruption of the English
‘channel’. It makes you
wonder why they didn’t just
stick with the original word.
An extract from from"Helston Photographic Memories".