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Pentreath was buried at Paul, where in 1860 a monument in her honour was set into the churchyard wall of the church of St Paul Aurelian by Louis Lucien Bonaparte, a nephew of Napoleon, and by the Vicar of Paul of the time.
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Dolly Pentreath, or Dorothy Pentreath ( baptised 1692, died December 1777 ) was probably the last fluent native speaker of the Cornish language, prior to its revival in 1904 and the subsequent small number of children brought up as bilingual native speakers of revived Cornish.
Baptised 16 May 1692, Pentreath was probably the second of the six children of Nicholas Pentreath, a fisherman, by his second wife, Jone Pentreath.
Barrington reported that " the hut in which she lived was in a narrow lane ", and that in two rather better cottages just opposite it he had found two other women, some ten or twelve years younger than Pentreath, who could not speak Cornish readily, but who understood it.
Five years later, Pentreath was said to be in her 87th year and was " poor and maintained mostly by the parish, and partly by fortune telling and gabbling Cornish ".
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In 1768, Daines Barrington searched Cornwall for speakers of the language and at Mousehole found Pentreath, then a fish seller said to be aged about 82, who " could speak Cornish very fluently ".
Pentreath has passed into legend for cursing at people in a long stream of fierce Cornish whenever she became angry.
Surfers at Pentreath Beach
Chesten Marchant or Cheston Marchant, who died in 1676 at Gwithian, Cornwall is believed to have been the last monoglot Cornish speaker, as opposed to other speakers such as Dolly Pentreath who could also speak English.
Chesten Marchant, who died in 1676 at Gwithian, is believed to have been the last monoglot Cornish speaker ( as opposed to Dolly Pentreath of Paul who could speak English as well )
Pentreath and Paul
Dolly Pentreath, the last recorded speaker came from Paul in Penwith.
Dolly Pentreath, known as the last recorded speaker ( but arguably not the very last ) came from Paul in Penwith.
Pentreath and her
In the last years of her life, Pentreath became a local celebrity for her knowledge of Cornish.
No burial of Dorothy Pentreath is recorded, but it has been argued that this appears in the parish register under the name of Dolly Jeffery, which is suggested to be the surname of her son's father.
Dolly Pentreath, the last recorded speaker ( but arguably not the very last ) is often reported as being from Mousehole and there is a memorial to her in the village.
Pentreath and churchyard
Within the village churchyard there is a memorial to Dolly Pentreath, reputedly and disputedly the last native speaker of Cornish.
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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 Bodinar stating that he knew of five people who could speak Cornish in that village alone.
A year following the death of Dolly Pentreath in 1777 Daines Barrington received a letter, written in Cornish and accompanied by an English translation, from a fisherman in Mousehole named William Bodinar stating that he knew of five people who could speak Cornish in that village alone.
" However, the erroneous idea that Pentreath had lived to be 102 is believed to originate in a Cornish language epitaph which had been written by December 1789 and published in 1806 by a man named Tomson.
A year after Dolly Pentreath died in 1777, Daines Barrington received a letter, written in Cornish and accompanied by an English translation, from a fisherman in Mousehole named William Bodinar stating that he knew of five people who could speak Cornish in that village alone.
Pentreath and .
Barrington met the Cornish speaker Dolly Pentreath and published a report of the encounter.
Perhaps due to poverty, Pentreath never married, but in 1729 she gave birth to a son, John Pentreath, who lived until 1778.
Pêr-Jakez Helias, the Breton writer, has dedicated a poem to Dolly Pentreath.
As with many other " last native speakers ", there is controversy over Pentreath ’ s status.
Vivien Pentreath: An aloof, somewhat cold artist who is a friend of Lord Jack's and Deirdre.
From left: Pentreath building, Old School House, chapel, Memorial Hall, Oval House and sports centre.
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