Dolly Pentreath: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Dolly Pentreath (died December 1777) is considered by many to be the last native speaker of the Cornish language (that is, the last person who spoke only or predominantly Cornish). Her death essentially marked the death of Cornish as a living language.

Pentreath lived in the parish of Paul, next to Mousehole, where she was also buried; a monument in her honour was established in the churchyard wall in 1860 by Louis Lucien Bonaparte, a descendant of Napoleon.