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From: "Tom Hill" <>
Subject: Re: [CORNISH] The Cornish & Slavery.
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:07:59 +0100
References: <C119F257.72A6%buryan@bigpond.net.au>


Jamaica is divided up into three provinces or counties one of which is
Cornwall its provincial capital being Falmouth. Kingston of course is in
Surrey.
Tom Hill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Corinne Thompson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 4:32 AM
Subject: [CORNISH] The Cornish & Slavery.


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>
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> Hello Roslyn,
>
> I think that you are right. Perhaps, with the odd exception, the Cornish
> weren't wealthy enough to have been too involved ...... except perhaps as
> crew on the ships, or workers who went out to the plantations.
>
> And that is probably why, although I have been working on this for years,
> I
> haven't found much re any Cornish involvement.
>
> The fact that one of my reputed ancestors was transported to the West
> Indies
> after the Civil War, but lived to return to Cornwall makes me think that
> there were other Cornish there who helped him ...... or perhaps they were
> just Royalist sympathisers.
>
> There is a town in Jamaica named Falmouth, but I do not know when it was
> named.
>
> Kindest Regards ...... Corinne in Melbourne, Australia.
> OPC for St. Buryan.
>
>
>
>
>> Corinne,
>>
>> I am mindful of Yvonne's reminder, but at the same time I think this is
>> perhaps more than simply peripheral to Cornish interests.
>>
>> I don't know how wealthy the Cornish were before the migrations. From
>> the
>> history they were the remnant Celtic populations along with the Welsh,
>> but
>> possibly only the tin mine owners were wealthy.
>>
>> I found your item most interesting myself.
>>
>> Thanks for the information.
>>
>>
>> Roslyn
>> in Victoria (Riddells Creek)
>>
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