It then continues which have much time passages authored to help you echo Cornish dialect, linked brand new fulfilling of your miner ‘Relative Jack/Jacky’ with his housemaid, Mary, and their after that talk and you can deeds. Amazingly, a similar pamphlet has the benefit of research getting ‘Cousin Jan’ and possibly Jenny-one another The month of january and Jenny are present to other emails on text of your own poem, recommending it also was seen as traditional labels to own Cornish letters, and you will ‘Cousin phlets that will be claimed on the rear out of An effective Cornish Ghost Facts, specifically The newest Bal, otherwise, ‘Tes good Bra’ Keenly Lode, Cousin Jan’s Facts (very first published on Helston in the 1850) as well as follow up Relative Jan’s Courtship and Relationships (very first blogged from the Truro inside the 1859), both because of the William Bentinck Forfar. The first of these, blogged 3 years through to the basic site about OED site to Cousin The month of january (that’s, indeed, extracted from a newspaper advert for this pamphlet regarding 1853, while the OED will not explore that it), comes with next passage:
In the event the it is possible to tune in to me for a moment, you shallHear all about looking to and dealing an effective Bal;How the Lode is discovered of the a little hazel twig,Transmitted along side crushed because of the specific knowing dated prig. 
,’Tes the fresh keenliest gozan thee previously ded’st select. (13)
Cousin ple of ore to a chief Polglaze, ‘a Purser, infamous, Which quickly, because of the exploration, a rich son had grown’. He announces that they need to visit London area to increase financing (‘The went as much as Bristol because of the a beneficial steamer regarding Hayle, And you will proceeded regarding Bristol in order to London by the rail’), and their thrill will be recounted in the Cornish dialect from the Cousin Jan. Subsequently, the shape ‘Cousin Jan’ is located in a small number of Cornish magazine posts on 1860s towards the 1890s just like the label out of a great Cornish ‘everyman’ otherwise due to the fact a broad name having Cornishmen/Cornish miner, we.age. it looks to own performed since a variation types of ‘Cousin Jack’/’Cousin Jacky’. This really is supported by the fact that ‘Cozen Jan’ very first seems inside the Forfar’s poem within a term you to definitely looks fundamentally same as Christopher Child’s traditional Cornish miner’s statement «Com’se together Relative Jacky».
Obviously, it passageway seems to include facts to own a good Cornish incorporate of ‘Cousin Jack/Jacky’ to own a good miner still living from inside the Cornwall sometime in the 1850s or early 1860s
The second publication that further illustrates an early usage of ‘Cousin Jack’ and similar in Britain, without obvious reference to Cornish emigrants, is a report in The Cornish Telegraph for 27 September 1854. This briefly recounted the exhumation of a miner who fell down the shaft of Pednandrea Mine, Redruth in the 1820s. The rediscovery of his remains apparently prompted ‘great excitement’ and his funeral procession on Sunday, 17 September 1854, was attended by four thousand people, equal to around half of the population of Redruth at that time. What is particularly striking is that, although his real name is given as John Stephens, the newspaper notes that in life he was ‘better known as «Cousin Jack Cobbler,»‘(14) something that obviously suggests the use of the nickname ‘Cousin Jack’ in Cornwall as far back as the 1820s. The status of Stephens’ alternative name as a nickname is confirmed by the report on the inquest published the previous week in the Royal Cornwall Gazette:
Cozen Jan, d’ee started ‘long wi’ me personally
On Saturday the 16th instant, an inquest was held. on the body of John Stephens, aged 25 years. According to the evidence of William Thomas, miner, it appeared that as long ago as the 9th of August, 1828, the deceased and his brother were employed in stripping the shaft, and drawing up the materials in the Pednandrea Mine, near Redruth. The deceased and witness both fell into the shaft together. Dead is actually infamous in the neighborhood from the moniker regarding «Relative Jack Cobbler.»(15)
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