I'm an adopted American who recently found my birth family. I also had my DNA done and seems they hail from Redruth and another line from the Midlands and Wales. I'm so excited about it all and hope someday to visit. Thanks for posting your video.
First let me start off with saying thank you for posting this video. I have been doing my ancestry for the past 5 years I just recently had my dna taken. My grandmother would say we were English. Well I found out that my family comes from Cornwall and Devon. We are Cornish.. I have my Family tree on my grandmothers side dating back to the 1500's in Cornwall. . Trying to learn as much as can about Cornwall and the Cornish culture.
Hey same i took a ancestry dna test it come back i was from devon and cornwall. And a tribe area called kerrier cornwall. I'm 42% I'm Australian. And then done my family tree my cornish family go back to the 1500s
I've always known that I was Cornish, it was one of the things that my family would say when we were asked our ethnicity/heritage. I never really understood what it meant and I never looked into it as It's a very small percent but I found myself interested in learning the history of it. Thank you for the video :)
Being Cornish should mean a variety of things.Cornwall is blessed with an influx of talented,educated,well behaved,versatile,creative,loaded immigrants from Anglostan .That is better than what is happening in Sweden or Germany.Surely onen hag oll means everyone.I f you are in Cornwall, want to stay and contribute then consider yourself in someway Cornish and welcome.
I love the Celtic music .I am a Tonkin on my mother's side,We hail from Redruth.I guess the river turned red from all the metall processing done there,My mother originally was born in Mineral Point Wis.
I wonder how distinct a people they've remained over the centuries. Given the fact they've been part of England and Great Britain for so long and their population numbers are pretty small I wonder if most haven't just been mixed into the more general population of English people. What even makes a Cornish person fully Cornish?
www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9336923/Welsh-and-Cornish-are-the-purest-Britons-scientists-claim.html I have traced all of my maternal lines back to @1350 and they didn't move around much at all. Not more than 5 or 6 miles in any direction for all of that time.
Anglo Saxon culture is now thought to have been an insular change as opposed to invasion. Traders and farmers settled in Britain but warriors were constantly repulsed (Battle of Badon etc.) and they never really touched Cornwall. Any changes in naming in Cornwall would have been a lot later. But either way, genetically the British Isles are almost identical. Not Scandinavian, but native and Briton.
I was born in Australia and knew little about Cornwall and heard of it mostly in passing as a "place in England" I always felt I had Celtic blood as I feel the imagery in my racial memory. But I also felt the Irish and Welsh blood in my mother's family tree, while it feels like I can connect never used to feel like it explained the sensation of familiarity and the celtic aspect. Then I found out my father's family came from Penzance so I researched it and found they were Celtic and it clicked straight away. I don't care what anybody says our blood surely contains a good portion still of our Celtic ancestry because I could feel it since I was a child. I feel just as comfortable saying I'm of Cornish ancestry as I do to call myself Australian.
@@daveystayn9284 oh yes, I've learners this as I got older. I see Cornwall has its own flag and language. In glad they are reviving it. Shame it still has a bit of an English accent now but I guess that's to be expected
@@paulnewberry8771 yes Cornish is similar to Welsh and so is the dna - a clear divide over the tamar river (which separates it from Devon) as you can see: www.peopleofthebritishisles.org/ Unfortunately as Cornwall has a great coastline many have moved or bought second homes there from London etc..
@@daveystayn9284 feeling a bit overrun huh? Hopefully you guys keep the culture going strong. I was think of maybe learning the language. Might even get over that way one day
Mae Cernyw yn genedl Geltaidd. Fel Cymro roedd hyn yn ddiddorol dros ben. Cornwall is a Celtic nation. As a Welsh person I found this very interesting.
Hello again,the faces of these Cornish People are truly Cornish.Many Cornish are dark,just like the Dark (DUN)Irish I would have a big problem if you showed Cornish having grey eyes and pale white skin,that would be bogus.Thanks again for showing truly authentic looking Cornish people.
All the British Isles are Celtic, though. The idea of Anglo Saxon invaders has been debunked, it was more likely traders, farmers and other settlers coming over. We know from historical record and archaeological evidence that battlers were sparse and usually resulted in British victory, i.e Battle of Badon. The AS were even relegated to the East and forced to pay a tax to British kingdoms. DNA evidence also shows that we are still Brythonnic and native and that cultural changes "I.e Anglo Saxon " are more likely insular than continental.
No nothing has been 'debunked' for heavens sake look at the genetic evidence!! Cornwall was left relatively isolated whilst Anglo saxons moved into the low lying fertile Midlands and east, the population there absorbing with them. This mixed celtic & Anglo saxon people became the english, Cornwall relatively left alone, hence the look
KERNOW HAG KERNOWYON, Dehwelys yw, bys vykken. Mir orth an folenn Nowodhow rag nowodhow yn kever an pyth a wra hi nessa! Watch out its only been a Thousand Years - We're Back!
Actually it was before that, mate. The Iberian DNA similarities are thought to come from when the British Isles were connected to the continent and the people who would later become native Britons traveled through what is now Iberia to land on what is now Britain. As far as I know, anyway. But I don't think the traders who came for Tin left any DNA behind. Plus there was a LOT of people, from all over the world, who traded for Cornish Tin. There's stories of it as far as the Middle East.
@@TheTaterTotP80 that 2006 theory has been debunked. Genetics moves quickly. Cornwall has higher rates of neothilic, genetic distance with iberia is huge, look at all the latest studies
But we are English politically.England is not a race it is in essence a political ideal mainly specified by Christianity. I would assert that if you are not Christian then so what if you are an Anglo Saxon or British Celt,etc why should you be considered English?
Im a Cornish Celt and I am happy to be called English.You do know the tartan,Druids,kilts are all fakes and nothing to do with the real Celts?Google flag of Joseph of aramathea the real Cornish flag guess what it looks like.
Thomas Graham perhaps you on average have slightly more Celtic Briton blood my only argument is when do you stop the Kingdom of ancient Northumbria should that be independent, Yorkshire,Wessex,Low land Scotland it gets ridiculous we don't live in ancient tribes in the uk with the exception of Northern Ireland.
in the parade scenes you have to wonder if all are actually cornish, as well as some of the individuals, some i know some i do not, as a lot of the time just living in cornwall you are cornish, as rick stein is!
