St Juster

plural St Justers

1. A native or inhabitant of St Just.

   The seines have been shot before we come up. There are two of them, one owned by a company of St Justers, and worked by men “at wages;” the other, the original “covers’” or poor men’s seine.

   1874 September, “Pilchards and Pilchard-Catchers; or, How We Live in West Penwith”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CXVI, number DCCVII, Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 306, column 1

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   Disillusionment among emigrants was common, and homesickness inspired many jaundiced accounts about conditions in the New World. Nevertheless the complaints the St Justers made of being swindled out of their wages, of dishonest mine management, and other similar criticisms were so frequent that they must be considered in any appraisal of the progress of mining settlements in Idaho and other western states and territories.

   1974, John Rowe, “Gold in them thar hills—perhaps”, in The Hard-Rock Men: Cornish Immigrants and the North American Mining Frontier, Liverpool, Merseyside: Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, page 233

   Both Ben and Karl had to climb down sheer cliffs when they worked as auxiliary coastguards. They relied on local men to hold the rope. They were accepted because they stayed and contributed to the community. It was the same for everyone. If you were friends with the St Justers, you were firm friends.

   2016, Gavin Knight, chapter 6, in The Swordfish and the Star: Life on Cornwall’s Most Treacherous Stretch of Coast, London: Vintage, published 2017, →ISBN, page 190