Re: Richard Carew died (6/11/1620)

On 2024-11-06 09:30:36 +0000, Ross Clark said:

Cornish translator and antiquary, born 1555 at East Antony.
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I didn't find anything about whether Carew himself actually spoke Cornish, or wrote anything in it.

Neither can I find anything much. However, I think it's very unlikely that he spoke Cornish. My great^14 grandfather Alexander Carew died in Antony in 1492, and was probably a relative of Richard Carew. However, he was born in Haccombe, Devon, and his ancestors were also from Devon, as far as the weak evidence goes. Notice, moreover, that Antony is on the Rame Peninsula, the most English part of Cornwall, and indeed part of Devon until the boundary reforms of 1889.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carew_(antiquary)

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