G'day, Mike, I'ld like to take you up on the newsletter. There is a large plaque on St Agnes Church wall to a John Luke who died on the way back from Gongo Soco in Brazil. I have the will of a Mark Luke who left money for the education of a young girl over there. Was she a daughter? I can't tie any of these into my family. I was born in The Miner's Hospital down Redruth. Thanks for all your very interesting posts. Kind Regards, Doug Luke > On 31 Jan 2014, at 2:19, "Mike Kiernan" <Mike@corn1.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > > Many towns in Cornwall have through formal ceremonies, ‘twinned’ with towns in other countries. Often the reason is that there is a historic family, social and cultural connection between the two towns. Redruth has several twins. One town that Redruth is connected to is Real del Monte in Hidalgo State in Mexico. Several years ago Redruth officially twinned with this ‘Cornish hot spot’. A group of people have now joined together to form the Redruth Real del Monte Twinning Association. > I’m sure that many Cornish, wherever their family may have now settled, had a relationship with the extraordinary Cornwall / Mexico connection that continues with vigour to this day. That group have just issued their first newsletter. If you would like a copy (small file in pdf format), please do email me. > Mike, Redruth > ------------------------------- > Subscribe to digest by sending an email to CORNISH-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line and body text. If you want, MIME digests, email CORNISH-admin@rootsweb.com. > > Unsubscribe from either by sending an email to CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message