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The second largest national grouping of ARGALLs can be found in Australia –
estimated at around 380 of them in 1990. Most ARGALL immigration
into Australia took place between 1840 and 1900; again mining activities in the
second half of the 19th Century played a part in where they settled, although
the earliest emigrants included those who had been working in farming.
Most sailed to the three main ports of Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.
However, on arrival, whilst some went into the mining industries, a large number
followed farming – especially those descending from Richard Nancarrow Argall
from St Columb Minor, in Cornwall, who had emigrated in 1878 at the age of 18 in
charge of horses on a ship and eventually became a successful
farmer.
No ARGALL can be traced to the convicts who were transported as a punishment
for crimes committed in England; although at least one migrated abandoning his
wife in Cornwall and (bigamously) marrying again in Australia. No
doubt he relied on distance to assert he was a Batchelor on his second marriage
declaration. His abandoned wife remarried in England, but her
second husband died, so she migrated to Victoria, Australia to be with her son
(Richard Nancarrow Argall). She married there for a third time, not
knowing how close she was living to her first husband. There is no
evidence that they ever met again in Australia, although I am not sure whether
Richard knew where his father was!.
Most ARGALLs are now found in the States of Victoria, New South Wales and
South Australia.
What is clear from all the evidence is that the early ARGALL families, both
in the east and west, were relatively wealthy (by medieval standards) because of
the numbers of Wills, litigation and Church documents that survive which include
the ARGALL name. The earliest linked pedigree in London originates with
one John Argall whose family owned property in St Keverne in the 15th
Century.
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