Cornish miners Archives - Cousin Jacks World

Cerro Rico, Potosí, Bolivia

The Mountain that Eats Men: A Visit to John Penberthy’s Potosí

Sharron Schwartz
3 Comments
24 min read
30/06/202405/07/2024

Migrating Cornish miners

Migration: Crown of Cornish Achievement, or Architect of its Decline? A Throwback in Verse

Sharron Schwartz
3 min read
24/06/202424/06/2024

Third of three films Celebrating 200 Years of the Cornish in Real del Monte-Pachuca, Mexico

Sharron Schwartz
1 Comment
2 min read
18/06/202419/06/2024

First of three films Celebrating 200 Years of the Cornish in Real del Monte-Pachuca, Mexico

Sharron Schwartz
2 Comments
2 min read
20/04/202409/07/2024

Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) courtesy of the Science Museum

Portrait of Richard Trevithick by John Linnell, courtesy of the Science Museum, London

Happy Birthday to Richard Trevithick, a ‘Professor’ in Peru

Sharron Schwartz
4 min read
13/04/202404/07/2024

Sao Domingos engine

‘Roman’ through Kresen Kernow to a mine in South West Portugal

Sharron Schwartz
3 min read
10/04/202430/06/2024

Americans, William Sachtleben and Thomas Allen about to go underground at the Lidjessy Mine in 1891

The Lidjessy silver-lead mines in Turkey

Sharron Schwartz
3 min read
15/03/202430/06/2024

Hotel de los banos, Pachuca

Two Hundred Years of the Cornish in Mexico

Sharron Schwartz
1 Comment
12 min read
20/02/202424/11/2024

Cornish steam engine, O'Okiep, Namaqualand, south Africa

Cornish mineworkers in South Africa

Sharron Schwartz
13 min read
14/02/202410/04/2024

Specialist in Cornish Mining Migration - Sharron P Schwartz

Welcome to my new website

Sharron Schwartz
1 min read
02/03/202118/08/2021