Cornish Family History
Cornish Name Meaning
English: regional name for someone from the county of Cornwall,
from Middle English corneys, cornysh. Not surprisingly,
the surname is common in adjacent Devon, but it is also well
established as far afield as Essex and Lancashire.Possibly
also an Americanized spelling of German Kornisch, a nickname
for a sickly or weak person, from Sorbian krne ‘weak’, ‘poor’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cornish
Name Distribution of Cornish Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cornish families
 397 - 791  133 - 396 |
 1 - 132  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cornish families
|
10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cornish census records
You can see how Cornish families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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Cornish Family Origin
Cornish Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Cornish families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cornish Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Cornish families immigrated
to Australia.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Cornish Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cornish census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Cornish ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Cornish
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