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Dorothy “Dolly” Pentreath

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Dorothy “Dolly” Pentreath

Birth
Cornwall, England
Death
26 Dec 1777 (aged 85)
Cornwall, England
Burial
Paul, Cornwall Unitary Authority, Cornwall, England Add to Map
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Here lieth interred
Dorothy Pentreath
who died in 1777.
Said to have been the
last person who conversed
in the ancient Cornish
the peculiar language of
this county from the
earliest records
till it expired in the
eighteenth century
in this parish of
Saint Paul
This stone is erected by
The Prince
Louis Lucien Bonaparte
in union with
the Revd. John Garrett
Vicar of St. Paul
June 1860.
Honour thy father and thy mother
that thy days may be long upon
the land which the Lord thy God
giveth thee.
Exod. xx. 12.
Gwra perthi de taz ha de mam
mal de dythiow bethenz hyr war
an try neb an arleth de dew
ryes dees.
Exod. xx. 12.
Here lieth interred
Dorothy Pentreath
who died in 1777.
Said to have been the
last person who conversed
in the ancient Cornish
the peculiar language of
this county from the
earliest records
till it expired in the
eighteenth century
in this parish of
Saint Paul
This stone is erected by
The Prince
Louis Lucien Bonaparte
in union with
the Revd. John Garrett
Vicar of St. Paul
June 1860.
Honour thy father and thy mother
that thy days may be long upon
the land which the Lord thy God
giveth thee.
Exod. xx. 12.
Gwra perthi de taz ha de mam
mal de dythiow bethenz hyr war
an try neb an arleth de dew
ryes dees.
Exod. xx. 12.

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