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	Cornish Saints and Sinners: Dolly Pentreath of Paul
		Dolly Pentreath died poor, and was buried in the parish churchyard of Paul, where people came in shoals to see her monument and read the inscription.
		Dolly Pentreath was a fine woman, with a voice you could hear as far away as Newlyn.
		Dolly lived in an old house over-looking the quay, the walls of which were thick, and in the chimney was a cavity in which a man could stand upright.
	www.britannia.com /history/legend/cornish/cornss03.html (791 words)

	Dolly Pentreath - St. Ives Pleasure Boat Association - Take a trip in a little piece of history. Cornwall, UK
		DOLLY PENTREATH was reputedly one of the last people to speak the Cornish Language as her native tongue and is a ancestor of the vessel owner and family.
		Dolly was from the parish of Paul, next to Mousehole, pronounced "Mowzel", was married to a fisherman, and had an unenviable reputation.
		The Dolly Pentreath is a traditional Cornish fishing lugger and was built in St. Ives, Cornwall in 1993 from plans housed at The British Science Museum of a 100 year old Lug Rig called "The Godrevy".
	www.stivesboats.co.uk /stives_boat_trips_cornwall_dolly_pentreath.htm (573 words)

	Mousehole Cottage
		Dolly Pentreath, some say, was the last person to speak the Cornish Language as her native tongue.
		There still exists the very room in the Keigwin Arms in which Dolly was wont to take her pint and her pipe at her ease, and the window out of which she would thrust her hard old face and shout to the fishermen when they came to their landing-place.
		Dolly lived to one hundred and two, carrying with her the most complete vocabulary of the Cornish language.
	www.kernowcottages.co.uk /mousehole/mouseholehistory.php (1063 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Cornish language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is often claimed that the last native speaker of Cornish was the Mousehole resident Dolly Pentreath[?], who died in 1777.
		Since she spoke at least some English, Pentreath was certainly not the last monoglot Cornish speaker; that is believed to be Chesten Marchant[?], who died in 1676 at Gwithian[?].
		It does, however, appear to be true that Dolly Pentreath spoke Cornish fluently and was probably the last to do so prior to the 20th century revival of the language.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/co/Cornish_language?title=Millennium_Commission (1530 words)

	Dolly Pentreath, the last monoglot Cornish Language speaker. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Dolly Pentreath lived in the parish of Paul, near Mousehole.
		William Bodener was 65 in 1776 and died 1789 (Dolly Pentreath having died in 1777).
		There is a Memorial to Dolly Pentreath in the wall of the church yard at Paul Church.
	www.cornwall-calling.co.uk /cornish-language/dolly-pentreath.htm (565 words)

	Dolly Pentreath - The last native speaker of the Cornish Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Dolly Pentreath - The last native speaker of the Cornish Language
		The regular language of this county from the earliest records till it expired in the eighteenth century in this Parish of Saint Paul.
		The Cornish language was already believed to have died out when Daines Barrington visited Mousehole and discovered Dolly and others conversing in the language.
	www.cornwalls.co.uk /history/people/dolly_pentreath.htm (226 words)

	Dolly Pentreaths Grave
		Dolly Pentreath was a resident of Mousehole who became famous as the person who spoke Cornish as her main language.
		She was brought up as a Cornish speaker and learnt only to speak English as an adult.
		Her famed was secured by a visitor to Cornwall called Daines Barrington who discovered Dolly and some other Cornish speakers in Mousehole at a time when it was believed the language had died.
	www.geocities.com /teammanley/Cornwall/DollyGrave.htm (334 words)

	Industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In an article based on extensive research Dr Jan Pentreath, writing in Cornish World, suggests Dolly was in fact one Doartye Pentreath who died aged 85.
		Suffice it to say that Dolly, or Doartye, definitely existed and remains a flag carrier for Kernewek, the language of Cornwall.
		The language nearly died with the death of Dolly, but this strong, poetic, lilting language, alien to English tongues, is undergoing a resurgence led by people across Cornwall and the world who refuse to let it slip into extinction.
	www.cornishworldmagazine.co.uk /language/language.htm (350 words)

	BBC - Voices - Multilingual Nation
		Dolly Pentreath understood English, and would say 'Ni vinav cowz Sawzwek' meaning 'I will not speak English' when addressed in English.
		Regardless of the history of Cornish language, hilary again flawed as a letter from William Bodner was written in cornish after Dolly Pentreath's death, It is here to stay.
		Comparisons with Hebrew are completely misleading: Hebrew genuinely has been brought back from the grave, and is now spoken as a native language by many thousands of people in all areas of life, while Cornish is spoken as a hobby or a patriotic statement by a handful of people.
	www.bbc.co.uk /voices/multilingual/cornish.shtml (2984 words)

	Dolly Pentreath Francis Boutle Publishers Cornish poetry and language teaching aids
		To explore the famous figure of Dolly Pentreath of Mousehole.
		Allow students to examine and explore these extracts and the depiction given of Dolly Pentreath.
		An impressive video entitled 'The Last Words of Dolly Pentreath' is available from Wild West Films (Bill Scott, Miracle Theatre).
	www.francisboutle.co.uk /teaching/key2&3/pentreath.htm (155 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Pentreath lived in the parish of Paul, next to Mousehole, where she was also buried; a monument in her honour was established in the churchyard wall in 1860 by Louis Lucien Bonaparte, a nephew of Napoleon.
		She was said to often curse people, including calling them a "fl frog", and was even said to have been a witch.
		A year following the death of Dolly Pentreath, Barrington received a letter, written in Cornish and accompanied by an English translation, from a fisherman in Mousehole named William Bodener stating that he knew of five people who could speak Cornish in that village alone.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Dolly_Pentreath (449 words)

	Dolly Pentreath Memorial - Paul - Cornwall :: Photos of Cornwall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Memorial stone of Dolly Pentreath set into the wall of Paul churchyard.
		The Mousehole resident is said to have been the last native speaker of the Cornish language.
		This memorial was erected by Prince Louis Lucien Bonepart, an antiquarian linguist, in honour of Dolly who died in 1777
	www.cornwalls.co.uk /photos/img264.htm (72 words)

	Mousehole Travel Tips - Mousehole Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
		As you wander you should come across a plaque on the wall marking the house of Dolly Pentreath who, it is claimed, was the last person to speak Cornish as her mother tongue.
		According to a second local legend Dolly was a fishwife with a raucous voice that could be heard as far as Newlyn.
		Dolly died a pauper in 1777 at the age of 102.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Cornwall/Mousehole-308185/General_Tips-Mousehole-R-1.html (639 words)

	July 3rd
		Our doubts are, however, settled by the detailed account of Dorothy Pentreath, alias Jeffries, who, born in 1681, lived at Mouse-hole, near Penzance, and conversed most fluently in the Cornish tongue.
		Daines Barrington, who travelled in Cornwall in 1768, had an interview with her, which is described in the Archceologia, vol.
		We also learn that the language was not entirely lost by her death; for a fisherman of Mouse-hole, in 1797, informed Mr.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/july/3.htm (1860 words)

	Dorothy Pentreath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As for Mrs Dolly whataname, supposedly the last Cornish speaker, evidently her totality of Cornish speech consisted of saying her prayers therein.
		But let's get this straight: WS[J] does not say, great authority that it is, that "Dolly Pentraeth's last words, in Cornish, were: "I will not speak English — you ugly fl toad!" but that "In her last days … she gave vent to a few well-chosen words of Cornish …'" blah blah blah.
		By the late seventeenth century, the language was spoken only in the western parts of the duchy, and few children could speak it.
	www.avramdavidson.org /cornish.htm (436 words)

	The Cornish language in The AnswerBank: Phrases & Sayings
		After her death in December 1777 her reputation of being the last speaker of Cornish endured, but the truth is that, while she may have been the last person to be raised to speak only Cornish, others continued to use the language in addition to English after she died.
		It is a tragedy that Barrington never returned to record all that Dolly knew, and all her valuable knowledge of Cornish died with her, irretrievably lost.
		It should be mentioned, however, that unlike Dolly, Bodinar had learnt Cornish as a second language later in his childhood.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /article1654.html (842 words)

	Encyklopedi :: Dolly Pentreath
		Dolly Pentreath (død desember 1777) regnes av mange som den siste som hadde kornisk som eneste språk.
		International Herald Tribune 11-18-2005 No one knows for sure who the last native speaker of Cornish was, although some point to Dolly Pentreath, a resident of the village of Mousehole who died in 1777, apocryphally uttering the Cornish phrase for ''I don't want to
		Dolly Pentreath, the last Cornish monoglot, died in 1777, and at its lowest ebb the language was spoken by only a single person.
	www.encyklopedi.com /topic/Dolly_Pentreath.html (309 words)

	Dolly Pentreath . Napoleon I of France . 1860 . Cornish language . 1777 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Pentreath lived in the parish of Paul, Cornwall Paul, next to Mousehole, where she was also buried; a monument in her honour was established in the churchyard wall in 1860 by Louis Lucien Bonaparte, a descendant of Napoleon I of France Napoleon.
		Currently some young children speak neo-Cornish es as native speakers.
		[http:www.mlaity.freeserve.co.ukpage2.html A short account of Dolly Pentreath] [http:www.geocities.
	www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Dolly_Pentreath (458 words)

	Amazon.com: "Dolly Pentreath": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		See all pages with references to Dolly Pentreath.
		" It is gener- ally supposed that the last person who spoke Cornish was Dolly Pentreath, who died in 1778, and to whose memory Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte has lately erected a monument in the churchyard...
		Smarting, drove to a pub called the Dolly Pentreath.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Dolly-Pentreath (521 words)

	West Penwith Resources - Paul (Lake 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		She was buried in this churchyard, but no stone marks her grave, although there is a fabulous story of one, which embodies a supposed epitaph in the Cornish language.
		Her death is thus entered in the parish register under the year 1777:—“Dorothy Jeffery was buried December 27.
		This is the famous Dolly Pentreath (her maiden name) spoken of by Daines Barrington in the Archæologia.”
	www.west-penwith.org.uk /paul3.htm (2016 words)

	Cornish language at AllExperts
		The last known monoglot Cornish speaker is believed to have been Chesten Marchant, who died in 1676 at Gwithian.
		It does, however, appear to be true that Dolly Pentreath spoke Cornish fluently and may have been one of the last to do so before the revival of the language in the 20th century.
		There is also, however, evidence that Cornish continued, albeit in limited usage by a handful of speakers, throughout the 19th century and into the early 20th century.
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/co/cornish_language.htm (2808 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Dolly Pentreath was certainly NOT the last native speaker of Cornish.
		Dolly was bilingual, though some that survived her were monolingual Cornish speakers.
		Regarding the "new words created from Welsh and Breton" mentioned by Donna, when the English find a word for spaghetti, I'll worry about loan words in Cornish.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/languages/welsh/welsh-l/1994/Jun/Re:-Kernewek-Curnoack-1 (110 words)

	Language Log: And now to revive Cornish?
		To suggest otherwise would be to utterly trivialize the issue of language endangerment.
		But by about 1970 someone had persuaded Guinness Superlatives to drop the reference to Dolly's death completely and instead to mention gratuitously that "A movement exists to revive the use of Cornish." Suspicious: where did Dolly go?
		I would have gone to see Dolly Pentreath too.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/001783.html (897 words)

	Cranstar Leisure Group - Cornwall Cornish Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The monument to Dolly Pentreath (d.1777) in Paul Churchyard, near Newlyn, is said to mark the resting place of the last person to speak the Cornish language as a native.
		The locals thought that the noble Prince had been fooled too, by the long dead
		Constructed from traditional Cornish cob, each is unique and a delightful sight to the passerby.
	www.cranstar.co.uk /oddball.htm (830 words)

	Jeff Lindqvist's Celtic Languages
		century, in fact in 1777, when Mrs Dolly Pentreath died.
		Breton (Brezhoneg) is the Celtic language of Brittany, and is perhaps a Gaul rudiment, but has, according to some linguists, too many similarities with Cornish to show any Gaul influences.
		Unfortunately Cornish is supressed even today by the English government, it is not taught in schools etc. but I have faith in the Cornish spirit that it will rise again!!
	www.fortunecity.com /bally/carlow/122/lingo/celt_lang.html (2194 words)

	Cornwall County Council - Sources of Cornish History - Dolly Pentreath
		Cornwall County Council - Sources of Cornish History - Dolly Pentreath
		Archives of Cornish Newspapers held in Cornish libraries
		An illustrated itinerary of the County of Cornwall (How and Parsons, 1842
	www.cornwall.gov.uk /index.cfm?articleid=6950 (56 words)

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