After that it continues having a lot of time passages authored in order to echo Cornish dialect, associated the latest appointment of miner ‘Cousin Jack/Jacky’ together with his housemaid, Mary, in addition to their subsequent talk and you may deeds. Interestingly, an equivalent pamphlet has the benefit of proof for ‘Cousin Jan’ and perhaps Jenny-both Jan and you will Jenny exists to other letters from the text of your own poem, suggesting it too had been named traditional brands getting Cornish letters, and ‘Cousin phlets that will be stated on the rear off A great Cornish Ghost Story, namely Brand new Bal, otherwise, ‘Tes an effective Bra’ Keenly Lode, Relative Jan’s Tale (earliest had written at the Helston in the 1850) and its own sequel Cousin Jan’s Courtship and you may Relationship (earliest had written during the Truro inside 1859), each other by the William Bentinck Forfar. The first of them, authored 3 years up until the earliest reference regarding OED resource in order to Cousin The month of january (that is, in reality, taken from a magazine advertisement for it pamphlet off 1853, even though the OED cannot discuss which), has next passing:
In the event the you can listen to me personally if you will, you shallHear all about seeking and dealing an excellent Bal;The Lode was discover because of the a small hazel twig,Carried across the floor of the specific once you understand old prig. ,’Tes brand new keenliest gozan thee actually ded’st pick. (13)
Relative ple of the ore to help you a head Polglaze, ‘a Purser, well known, Which easily, by the exploration, a rich son had grown’. He declares that they have to go to London to boost fund (‘The ran up to Bristol because of the a steamer off Hayle, And you can proceeded regarding Bristol in order to London by the rail’), in addition to their thrill will be recounted when you look at the Cornish dialect from the Relative Jan. Then, the design ‘Cousin Jan’ is situated in a small number of Cornish magazine content on the 1860s with the 1890s once the term out of a good Cornish ‘everyman’ or as an over-all identity to have Cornishmen/Cornish miner, i.elizabeth. it seems having performed once the a variation kind of ‘Cousin Jack’/’Cousin Jacky’. This is supported by the point that ‘Cozen Jan’ first appears within the Forfar’s poem included in a term one seems fundamentally just like Christopher Children’s antique Cornish miner’s keywords “Com’se collectively Cousin Jacky”.
Naturally, so it passing seems to provide proof for a Cornish utilize of ‘Cousin Jack/Jacky’ getting an effective miner still-living for the Cornwall sometime about 1850s otherwise very 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 become ‘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. Inactive is actually well known throughout the neighborhood by nickname out of “Cousin Jack Cobbler.”(15)