TRANSCRIPTIONS OF THE ORIGINAL
NEWSPAPER, 1836 - 1887
A Project created
by Julia Symons Mosman and Rita Bone Kopp
Transcripts of Births, Marriages,
and Deaths - as well as Fairs, Fishery reports, Court reports, separation
notices, absconded apprentices, Coroner's Inquests, etc., all under "News"
- are available by using our search engine, or accessing the year you
choose, below.
Also ACTUAL SAMPLES, such as poetry, advertisements, and lithiographs,
not to mention difficult pages, which appeared in the newspaper
THESAURUS
- old terminology you'll find in our transcriptions
Also available, Snippets
from various dates and newspapers in several countries, involving Cornwall
and the Cornish, by LaVelda Faull
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Our project was started by Rita Bone Kopp and Julia Symons Mosman in 2003,
as a way to enable people to share a glimpse at the lives their families
led. At first, we started with Rita transcribing 1887 - which had several
issues each week - and Julia transcribing 1836-39. These transcriptions
were posted to the Rootsweb Cornish Lists. We decided to retain the transcriptions
on this website, too. In 2005, Isabel Harris and Bill Kemp joined us in
the work. Isabel transcribed 1850, 1853, and 1854, while Bill took on
6 months of BMDs for each year. Since the completion of the 1887 issues,
we've all been working on the same year. In December, 2007, we asked
for volunteers to help us transcribe more of the news; the generous people
shown as "additional transcribers" responded, and have been
participating enthusiastically ever since.
As we add to our data base
each week, we hope you stop back frequently.
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- You will leave this
site by clicking on the links below - please be sure to stop back.
For
further information on all newspapers of Cornwall, please click here,
then scroll down to ""newspapers and periodicals". While
this site has information on various research resources, some are not
quite up-to-date, nor is the list complete.
Isabel Harris
William Kemp, Jr
Julia Symons Mosman
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additional transcriptions by:
Allison Ashton
Maureen Chambers
Bill Curnow
Bern Currie
Graeme & Sue Dawson
Jennie Towan
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Webmaster, and former Transcriber,
Rita Bone Kopp
We transcribe each newspaper as it is, with mis-spellings, unique
sentence structures, etc. Many of the originals are wrinkled, torn,
or blotted, making it difficult. When we've been forced to "guess"
or paraphrase a word or item, we encase it in [...]. All parentheses
appeared in the original paper.
While we try to be accurate, we know there are errors.
Some corrections have been posted to the searchable Rootsweb archives
by active genealogists, which might help researchers.
We use images from micro-films purchased by the St. Piran Society,
held by the University of St. Thomas, as our source material. We
thank them, for without these resources, we wouln't be able to do
this work..
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The West Briton, a Liberal newspaper, was started in 1810 by 10
gentlemen. Between the years 1836-1855, it was published by Mrs.
Elizabeth Heard, widow, 32 Boscawen-Street, Truro; afterwards, it
was published by her son.
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Each page was 6 columns wide, and each issue included Domestic
News, International News, Parliament, Ireland, Shipping, Mining,
and Poetry, as well as Advertisements. We concentrate on Local Intellegence,
and all Court cases, highlighting 'ordinary people" whenever
possible. We have eliminated long political meetings, pages of Agricultural
Society meetings, etc.
The West Briton maintained an 'edge' on the competition; it had
twice rhe circulation as their next nearest competitor during these
years. It is still published today.
