Ancestors
| Cornish World magazine has subscribers in 27 countries worldwide. The vast majority of these people are Jagos and Hoskins, Pengellys and Pascoes, Chellews and Jenkins - they are known as the Cousin Jacks and Jennies. No country, community or region has seen so many of its people leave for elsewhere and yet remain still quintessentially Cornish. Between 1815 and the 1920s as many as 250,000 Cornish people left Cornwall for overseas, with as many more spreading out into the rest of the British Isles. They left for a better life but a love of Cornwall, its culture, heritage and traditions has been kept alive almost religiously. There are large Cornish enclaves in America, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, but there are also communities, or the remains of them, in Cuban, Chile and Peru, Mexico and parts of Asia and Africa. The Cornish overseas are known as the diaspora There are numerous Cornish associations in North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada - and in other very unlikely places too. They organise all kind of events, conferences, gatherings, festivals and lectures to keep the Cornish culture, language and heritage alive in far away lands. No land has lost so many of its best people and kept so much of its heritage. The Cornish conducted a mass emigration from Cornwall, but kept this land of windswept cliffs and fishing coves, moorland and wooded estuaries within their hearts. Cornwall is a hundred mile peninsula at the foot of the British Isles, the Cornish ancestors are a worldwide community who have never relinquished their links with home. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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