Entities

Bodinar (William)

  • fl. 18th century
  • Bodener (William)
  • Mousehole
  • (agents)
William Bodinar (previously misread as Bodener), a fisherman of Mousehole, known today for a (partially) bilingual English-Cornish letter, dated 1776, which he wrote to the lawyer and antiquary Daines Barrington and bears witness to a remnant of the Cornish language.


See also: Barrington (Daines)
Barrington (Daines)
(d. 1800)
English lawyer, antiquary and naturalist.

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Mousehole
Mousehole
Village and fishing port in Cornwall.

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Pentreath (Dolly)
Pentreath (Dolly)
(d. 26 December 1777)
A speaker of Cornish as late as the 18th century, who was later claimed to have been among the last native speakers to have been fluent in Cornish.

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