Cousin Jack

Cornwall

Tin mines

The Cornish have mined tin for at least 2,500 years from the time of the Bronze Age. In modern times, the technology developed by the Cornish was at the forefront of the industrial revolution. They were expert in designing and…
Cornwall

St Just in Penwith

I’ve traced my paternal ancestry to 1705 with discernable roots back to 1555. Some were farmers, some were miners. Many were both. They mined tin around St Just in Penwith, near Lands End in the far South West of Cornwall.…
Cornwall

Why Cousin Jack?

"Where there's a mine or a hole in the ground That's what I'm heading for that's where I'm bound So look for me under the lode and inside the vain Where the copper, the clay, the arsenic and tin Run…

I was born a stranger in a land down under Downunder, a descendant of generations of Cornish miners and thousands of years of Celtic culture.
This history was lost to me until recently and has become something of an obsession. I’ve been delving into matters ancestral for a while now, researching both ends of the mystery of how I came to be born and raised at the far end of the antipodes.

It’s not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.
As I research, I come across all kinds of interesting snippets, thoughts and ideas. One of which is to make a page to share some of them with a broader audience.

I’m a Cousin Jack.