Ancestors


Cornish Family History Research
Ancestors
Every family as a hero, Bob Richards of Cornwall Family Finders helps us uncover the paragon in your family tree.

I have just got back from an excellent weekend event called: One and All. A Festival of Cornishness held at Godolphin House, an elegant manor house near Helston, parts of which date back over 500 years.
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USA/Canada
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Hard rock miners spread across this untamed land, digging anything from coal to mercury - like at the New Almaden quicksilver mine in California.
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South Africa
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The South African gold and diamond
mine drew miners from Cornwall as it did from across the world. The emigration to South Africa took place later than that to America and Australia/New Zealand. It was in the 1880s and 1890s that new mineral discoveries were drawing miners to the Cape. The diamond fields of Kimberley and the gold fields of the Transvaal were a big draw for the miners from Cornwall who had already riddled America and Australia with holes. The difference in South Africa was that
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