The Call of Home

Well the book has been published! Almost ten years of research has gone into it. In the end I had to decide what to put into the book and what to leave out. I'm amazed at how much information there is out there on the internet, and because the Cornish Diaspora spread all across the world, how much is available for free. I'm especially indebted to Peter Lane and Tom Cory for their help in following tenuous links for me.
Last September I thought that the book was complete but then Tom turned up a distant relative in Adelaide who had a number of family photographs dating back to the 1850s. She kindly let me use them in the book.

The book is a hardback, list price £20 and is available from my publisher 3PPublishing or by contacting me directly. You can also order it from any bookshop in the UK. Alternatively you can download the Kindle version.

https://bookshop.3ppublishing.co.uk/the-call-of-home-by-dave-clemo

Pulling it all together

I have spent the last year or so working on a book about my Cornish family. I though that it was finished but then I heard from one of my contacts Tom. He has been researching his Pellow family also from St Erth and had heard from a distant relative in Adelaide who was descended from James Hayes eldest sister Sarah Ann.
Rachel James sent through a lot of photos from her family's collection. They are incredible, images I never dreamed I would see and full in a lot of gaps in the story.

These are my great great great grandparents James and Betsy Hayes, born in 1800 and 1801 and photographed in the late 1850s.

 The manuscript is with the publisher and the book will be available in Spring 2019. Any further discoveries will have to wait for a second edition.

Comments welcome