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Breage Cornwall
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Breage Genealogy
Before you get too frustrated trying to find those elusive ancestors, take at voyage in time back to Breage. Those folks you have been searching for just may be lurking here amongst the ancient records!
‘For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow: Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee?’
Job chapter 8 verses 8-10
If you could see your ancestors all standing in a row
Would you be proud of them or not,
Or don’t you really know?
Some strange discoveries are made in climbing family trees.
But some of them you know do not particularly please.
If you could see your ancestors all standing in a row
There may be some of them perhaps,
You wouldn’t care to know.
But there’s another question which requires a different view
If you could see your ancestors,
Would they be proud of you?
Image courtesy of cornovia.org.uk
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So sit down and relax
Help yourself to a 'dish a tay and a cornish pasty'
Click on the above picture to start your ancestor hunt
or
Scroll below to find out why this kiwi-down-under is taking a virtual ramble through Cornwall
My name is Hazel Persson and I live in New Zealand - way down under, just about as far as one can get from Breage Cornwall!
I first became interested in the County of Cornwall when an aunty and uncle showed me a HUTHNANCE family tree which traced my family back to Cornwall in the 1600's. Wow!!!!! However did they manage to find all that!!!!! Over the years since early genealogy has been added to and corrected by a group of keen HUTHNANCE descendants.
There were members of the HUTHNANCE family in Breage in the early 1400's and in Gwinear at the end of the next century.
My great, great grandfather John HUTHNANCE was born in Wendron in 1842, married Alice Ann GAY from Mawgan in Meneage, at Helston and had their family in Wendron, Helston, Sithney and St Erth. The family emigrated to New Zealand in 1878.
The HUTHNANCE family left their footprints in Breage in the 1400 - 1600's, but have been found elsewhere in Cornwall up to the present day. It is possible that the surname may have been derived from the place named Huthnance (meaning a shady or sheltered valley) which still exists near Breage today.
Genealogy for me, was put on the top shelf until our six chicks had flown the nest, but over the last few years we have enjoyed our virtual rambles throughout Cornwall and in 2008 my husband and I were able to visit the UK and walk the streets and lanes of Cornwall, visiting the various places my family had been associated with.
One of the highlights of our HUTHNANCE family genealogy occured a few years ago when a group of us met in New Zealand - three different branches of the family were represented and these branches tied together over 200 years before in 18th century Cornwall and further back to the 14th century in Breage. Family resemblances were remarked upon at this time.
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Huthnance family in New Zealand about 1923
The elderly man in the centre is John Huthnance who , with his wife and family immigrated to New Zealand
He knoweth our frame:
He remembereth that we are dust.
As for man, his days are as grass:
As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
For the wind passeth over it, and is gone;
And the place thereof shall know it no more.
But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting
Upon them that fear Him,
And His righteousness unto children’s children:
Psalm 140 verses 14 – 17
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This page was last updated: March 3, 2010
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Some family trees have beautiful leaves, and some have just a bunch of nuts.
Remember, it is the nuts that make the tree worth shaking.
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