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second half of the nineteenth century, almost twenty five per cent of the
population of Cornwall emigrated. As well as those who crossed the Tamar
to England, the Cornish left in large numbers for the United States of
America, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Central and South America and
later to South Africa. As a result, there are some 6 million people
world-wide who proudly claim Cornish ancestry. Cornwall Family History
Society website. During the mid to late 1800's my ancestors migrated from the Cornwall to Australia find a better life. Life expectancy for a Cornish miner was 40 years. Children began working in the mines as young as 8 years old. By 1880 two-thirds of Cornish miners had emigrated to the mines of the Americas, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. South Australia was the only Australian state founded by immigrants and not convicts. The following familes came from Cornwall: SANDOE (SANDO), BURNARD, ARGALL, BEAUCHAMP, RICHOWE, BONITHON, TUBB, WESTLAKE, JENKIN, STODDEN, NANCARROW, EDWARDS, CHAPMAN, MILLIONICK, RALPH, JAMES
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