Re: 18th century tankards


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Apparently Kine is an archaic plural for a cow or ox


For some reason I always thought it referred to pigs...


Don't say that too loud as you cross the Tamar Bridge into
Cornwall. There they have a beast called a coo and the gentleman
who looks after it is a coon, which is why Coon is a Cornish family
name. Genealogists ought to recognise the transliteration from kuh
in German, although they might think the story of German origin is
a load of kuhmisten.

According to an old (1895) grammar book I have, the old English
for cow is cú, plural cy (that should also have the accent over the
'y')
Sc. kye.

There are very strange people living over the other side of the Tamar
Bridge. I thought I'd mention the German myth because it is unusual.
Normal(?) Cornish will link themselves to Bretons or Basques rather
than England. There's even a Cornish Liberation Army which wants to
insist on separateness. Now and again they'll also have a crack at
being Phoenicians, and insist that Jesus visited with the family
tin-traders (presumably as ship's carpenter). They are, of course,
knee-deep in saints no-one else has heard of.

They don't take too kindly to the appliance of science which shows
their alleged separateness is a load of kuhmisten. A long while ago a
bloke called A E Mourant studied minor blood group distribution. One
study involved Devon and Cornwall. He used only people who produced
documents showing they were born in one of the counties of parents
born in that county and at least three of the four grandparents born
in that county. If the distributions of minor blood groups on a large
sample of each county were different then the Cornish would be - to
some degree - genetically separate from the Devonians. In fact the
distributions were identical, which means the two populations were one
genetically. That is, of course, statistically speaking but the stats
were good. I know because I checked them, and because I knew A E
Mourant who was a very meticulous experimenter and analyst.

The people who live in Cornwall do not appreciate facts which show
their myths are nonsense. In the which they are as most peoples.
Including genealogists.

Don




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