MEMBERS INFORMATION & RESEARCH SITE

Through here members and our guests may access information, talks, and research findings!


The Association has had a number of people who undertake research, especially Dr John L Symonds whose pages on Byng, Cadia, and Cobar are linked below. Also here you can also access a number of papers / talks by various people on a range of topics - as well as useful links. Click on the links below, where you will either be taken to another site, or will download / view an Acrobat Reader pdf file. Let us know if the links no longer work!

INFORMATION

Get your CANSW Rules of Association in PDF here: RULES

MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL FORM
Download Membership Form
(in pdf) - download and / or print, and post to us.

Get CANSW information flyers here: What do these names have in common?
AND/OR Cornish Recipes of the CANSW?

Get your Sample Newsletter (note - current ones are normally available to members only) in PDF here: View it, send it to your friends / relatives who may be interested in joining the CANSW to show what they will get each 2 months - print them, or email the file! Beware some come as large files.

National Library of Australia - TROVE - CANSW Newsletter 2020-2025 >

Other Cornish Associations in Australia & New Zealand - Cowethasow Kernewek yn Ostrali ha Mordyr Nowydh

Cornish Association of Victoria Inc
Cornish Association of South Australia (est. 1890)
Cornish Associations of New Zealand
The Stories Site covers a wide range of Cornish heritage and history in NSW.
Do take a tour via this link: Stories Site - Welcome page


TALKS, RESEARCH & OTHER PAPERS + MORE LINKS ACCESS HERE:

Click on the link in the boxes below to either: pick up a file, or go to a link on the topic:
33 Papers:
On Being a Cornish Celt - A paper by Dr Bernard Deacon, 2003
The unimportance of being Cornish in Cornwall
- a paper by Dr Bernard Deacon, 2012
'Hill End NSW' Talk 2005 by local historian Brian Hodge
'What is a Pilot Gig?' - A talk by Vivian Prior 1999
'At One With All!' - A paper
by Cllr Bert Biscoe, Truro, 2000
'The Cornish in NSW & Federation' - A talk by
Chris Dunkerley, 2001
'Cornish Language & Names in Family Research' - A short talk!
- by Chris Dunkerley, 2000
'No Looking Back!' - A lecture at the Cornish Constitutional
Convention - by Cllr Bert Biscoe, Chacewater, 2002
'The 2002 Trelawney Lecture'
- 'Finding Cornwall's Place in the World
A lecture by Cllr Bert Biscoe to the London Cornish Assoc, 2002
'The Cornish Are Revolting'
- A talk by Chris Dunkeley - Cornish Day 1997
'Cornwall - Then, Now, And Future' - A talk by Chris Dunkerley,
Newcastle Celtic Festival, 1998
'Celtic Cornwall - Exploring Identity' - A talk by Chris Dunkerley,
Celtic Cultural Experience, Teralba, NSW, 2008
'Some Cornish Experiences in Eastern Australia"
A talk by Chris Dunkerley - 2nd Cornish Cultural Celebration,
Nowra, NSW, 2008
'Governors of NSW with Cornish Connections'
- A talk by Robyn Coates, written by Chris Dunkerley -
Cornish History Seminar, Kadina SA 2023
Cornish Bards, with an Australian perspective" - Talk to
CANSW March 2023
Video talk (prepared for Cobar Mining Museum 2023)-
click on link below to run

- 'Cornish & Mining in NSW'

'Cornish Minority Report No. Two' - Cornish Minority Report 2
- written in 2011
'The Cornish - A UK national minority'
- A lobbying paper written for Cornwall Council in 2024
CANSW - A Taste of our 50 years - Snapshots & Memories
Byng - A Cornish Settlement Under The Australian Sun - Ed2
A Little Book of Cornish Songs - Jim Coyle Music 2006
Cornish Influence in Tasmania by George Stephens 2008
'As is the manner and the custom'
- Cornish Folk Music traditions (Merv Davey, 2011)
'Lowender Peran' - Celebrating Cornish Identity
- [Now just 'Lowender'] (Merv Davey, 2014)
'Cornish Folk Tradition & Identity -
(Merv Davey, Kernewek Lowender Seminar 2017)
Cornwall Festivals
- a space for Festivity, Subversion and Empowerment
- (Dr Jo Buchanan, 2022)
Folklore, Fakelore & Tourism in Cornwall
- (Merv Davey, Gorsedh Kernow Conference 2017)
Cornish Folklore - Context & Opportunity
- (Ronald M. James (undated))
Skoots & Troyls
- The story of Cornish folk dance (Merv Davey, 2014)
Folklore of Cornwall - Oral Tradition
Book Intro only - (Ronald M. James, 2017)
Great_Grinning_Gaukums_Cornish_Guizing
- (Merv Davey, 'Raising Glasney' Lecture, Penryn 2014)
Moving_Forward_Whilst_Looking_Back - Revival & Tradition
- (Helen Kuumbi, 2022 Article for ‘The Dasson’ (Rame projects))
Hengan - Traditional Folk Sings & Dances
- (Merv Davey, 1983 (2nd Ed. 2013 An Daras))

NEW LOADINGS ADDED PROGRESSIVELY

More Links:
Some Cornish & Popular Songs, 1995
Byng and its Chapel - Dr John Symonds Byng Research Site
Cadia and its Enginehouse. Dr John Symonds Cadia Research Site
Cobar - History & Mining Research. John Symonds Cobar Site
60 Years Book NZ Cornish Association (via Google)
Trove (NLA) & NED - (Search: Cornish NSW)
Francis Boutle Publishers
Cornwall Family History Society site
Cornwall Heritage Trust
Cornwall Archeological Society
Cornish Surnames researchers
Cornish First Names for Children
Cornish Assoc of Victoria Inc - Archival Collection & Library
- located at Castlemaine Vic.
Cornish Story - an initiative of Cornish Audio Visual Archive (CAVA)
based at Institute of Cornish Studies
Cornish National Music Archive - a place to find Cornish
music of different traditions
Cornwall Online Parish Clerks site - Family History (Cornwall)
Cornwall Family History Society - - Family History (Cornwall & UK)
NSWACT Association of Family History Societies - Family History
Cornish Food (incl recipes)
Kernewek - the Celtic Cornish language lives!: A
Basic Cornish Dictionary

A Cornish Anthem - Trelawny -
Sung by Carrl Myriad, and Ragged Band

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