The phrase "red headed Dane"abot a ginger haired person was /is still used in Mousehole. Kath. ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:07:43 -0700 From: Elizabeth Marcheschi <[email protected]> Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] Question about Danes in Cornwall To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]om> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello everyone, It has been a long time since I posted but that is along story and I am back, hopefully for a bit. To get to the point, I was reading a book, "Foundation: The History of England from its Earliest Beginnings" by Peter Ackroyd and found something I had never heard before: "In Cornwall, at the end of the same century, (i.e., 19th) s colony of red-haired people were called 'Danes' with whom the local population would not marry." Danes is familiar, probably smackingly-so, but the story is new.Does anyone know anything about it? Thank you in advance, Beth Marcheschi Colorado ------------------------------ To contact the CORNISH-GEN list administrator, send an email to [email protected] To post a message to the CORNISH-GEN mailing list, send an email to [email protected] __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of CORNISH-GEN Digest, Vol 7, Issue 322 *******************************************