Basically, all ARGALLs worldwide are related to
each other!
OBJECTIVES
This site is offered as a definitive history of the
Argall Families worldwide. In it, you will find a global family tree since almost 40 years of research has
shown that most people who are born with the ARGALL surname are related to each
other. It is estimated that over 97% of persons with the ARGALL name have
been collected and they are all listed here.
There are also a great many non–Argall
surnames on this site; these are largely confined to those who married into the Argall families. There are some details of parents and their own ancestries,
and sometimes of other related children, where this has served to confirm
(by family reconstruction) the families, and so help to ensure the accuracy of those
included. However, non–Argall descendants are not normally followed – that is too big
a task! Nevertheless, I have used the technique of
family recreation extensively in many of the non–Argall families contained in this study; this
has enabled me to strengthen the understanding of how the many families
had developed. This family reconstruction has revealed just how much the Cornish
families stuck together, both inside and outside of Cornwall, by several inter-marrying into the same
families.
INFORMATION DISPLAYED
Events occurring in the UK before 1837
come from a number of different sources including Parish and family records;
those occurring since 1837 are largely supported by publicly–available civil
information (E.g. Birth, Marriage and Death certificates of which I have several
hundred). Census information and Will transcriptions support these in turn.
Events occurring outside the UK are sourced from numerous family members, and
public authorities, who have provided the information and to whom I am
greatly indebted. Where such information is not yet known, the
search will return a statement "Unknown; please tell us
"
for an
event,
or "Unknown, Give us details
" for a person, to
invite
unknown values to be advised and incorporated in our common family history database.
Work on
researching these families continues at all times, so the detail being displayed will
be updated frequently as more information comes to light or situations are clarified; please, therefore, check back
often.
As a general rule, the older the record the less accurate it
could be. This will be especially true of Cornish 15th and 16th
century records because of the varied spelling of names and the paucity of some
records. Whilst, in general, parish recording began around 1536,
early records were often kept on loose-leaved paper; as a result much of these early
records were lost. It was only in the reign of Queen Elizabeth
1, that regulations were introduced to record on parchment in a bound book.
Even then many of the records have been subsequently damaged beyond repair.
Unfortunately this problem has affected the confirmation
of events, and so some detail is based upon my interpretation from the
best possible evidence.
RESTRICTIONS ON INFORMATION DISPLAYED.
Birth, Marriages and Personal
Information. For reasons of privacy, birth
and marriage dates of those less than 100 years old (from actual or estimated
birth years) are not normally contained here because those persons might still be alive. In these instances, you will
not find any related personal information (such as census, parish register
detail) here for those who are in that restricted category.
Where this is the case, the search will return a statement "Data
Withheld "; again, the reasons are to protect the privacy of those who may still
be alive.
Death Dates and related Personal
Information. If a death date (actual or estimated) is known,
then the restrictions on dates
and personal information will be removed for those instances where a period of 50
years has elapsed since the death occurred. If such
suppressed information is required for your immediate family, please ask me.
The database is maintained for the benefit
of the entire ARGALL families worldwide. Members of these families or descendants
of these ARGALL families may request additional information from this database, as
necessary, by contacting me. Similarly,
any comment or corrections noted should be
sent to me through the Contacts facility on the site; these will then be included in
the next update.
CONCLUSIONS
This One–name Study
of the ARGALL family has revealed a worldwide family approximately some 1000 strong today, which
is wholly Cornish and celtic in its origins. There are a number of non–related
ARGALL names, mostly in the United States, which come from the adoption of english forms of latin and middle–european
names.
Like the rest of the people in Cornwall, the
ARGALLs have had their trials and tribulations; their successes and
disappointments. One thing is for certain though: the relative rarity of
the surname, coupled with a great deal of documentary evidence, has
been sufficient to allow the gathering of a great many references. The outcome
has shown that that, with a very few exceptions, all ARGALLs who were
born with the name are related to each other; their origins are proved
to lie in Madron, Cornwall and almost certainly with their forebears coming from
the Mabe/Budock area (near modern Falmouth) and the late Iron Age Celtic settlements
on the banks of the Helford River which appeared from the mass-migration
of celtic tribes along the Atlantic seaboard of (what is now) continental Europe.
All the ARGALLs worldwide
are truly a Cornish family related!
Ian Argall © 2006 - 2009
