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 Dolly Pentreath, who was arguably the last native speaker of traditional Cornish but, unlike Marchant, could also speak English. Nobody knows when she was born but her age was given as 164 years by William Borlase in his Antiquities, 1754.
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- 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 Dolly Pentreath, who was arguably the last native speaker of traditional Cornish but, unlike Marchant, could also speak English. Nobody knows when she was born but her age was given as 164 years by William Borlase in his Antiquities, 1754. William Scawen, writing in the 1680s, states that she had a slight understanding of English and had been married twice.
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- 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 Dolly Pentreath, who was arguably the last native speaker of traditional Cornish but, unlike Marchant, could also speak English. Nobody knows when she was born but her age was given as 164 years by William Borlase in his Antiquities, 1754.
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