The G7 summit that took place in Cornwall looks like it was a superspreader event, with areas in the region seeing an alarming increase in Covid cases.
Cornwall lies at the southwestern tip of Great Britain. Though it’s administered as a county of England today, the indigenous Cornish people are a Celtic nation like the Irish and the Scottish with their own distinct identity, language, and culture.
Merv Davey
The surname Angove is derived from an gof, meaning the smith
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Barragwaneth? Cornish Bard and historian Merv Davey takes us on a tour of Cornish names
The story of Cornish surnames is a fascinating one and far from limited to the old saying that by Tre, Pol and Pen, you shall know the Cornishmen . In actual fact you will only know about one in 20 as Cornish scholar Dr Bernard Deacon points out in his new book The Surnames of Cornwall.
Today we take our family names for granted but bynaming is a relatively recent practice in western Europe. It probably had its origins in southern France in the 10th Century and slowly spread to northern Europe over the next few centuries.