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ARGALL emigration to the United States largely followed the outflow of other
Cornish people in the 19th Century. Many individuals and some family
groups emigrated there; the majority went to mining areas in Wisconsin,
Michigan, Montana and Pennsylvania; others went further west to the gold mines
of Nevada and California. Some moved from one mining area to
another, each searching out the promise of a fortune. Whilst 20th
Century mobility has dispersed the family further, the majority still seem to be
resident in the States of Michigan and Wisconsin with overflows to neighbouring
States.
The main areas in which 19th Century ARGALLs settled are:
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Arizona |
One William Jones
Argall was born in Perranzabuloe parish on 3rd May 1847 to William Bennet Argall and Maria (Jones) Argall. His mother
died in May 1864 and his father took a new wife (Ann Trewartha) in 1865. This
event seems to have been the catalyst for the family to emigrate to the United
States; the were living in Morris County, New Jersey by 1870.
William left the family and went west; by the 1880 US Census, he was living in
Colorado where met married Elizabeth (or
Bessie) Pearce
in
Denver in 1880. He and his family moved firstly to New Mexico where their
eldest child was born in 1884, and then on to Arizona where the second child was
born in 1886. After moving briefly back to New Mexico, the family
stayed in Phoenix where several more children were born. William
died in Phoenix on the 18th April 1910.
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California |
A great number of Argall individuals and families
settled in California during the 19th Century; some having migrated from other
US States and Canada. In common with other reasons for Cornish movement, t
he mining settlements seem to have been the main attraction which brought the
Argall families into the State. There is a now very large Argall
community throughout California. Although mining had drawn many of
them, most had arrived singly or some arriving in family groups.
Some descendants have overflowed the state boundary into neighbouring States, or
moved on elsewhere.
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Colorado | Several Argall
families immigrated into the State of Colorado. One Philip Henry Argall
, was born in Ireland, the son of a
Cornishman; he became a noted mining engineer working in all parts of the world
(including a spell back in Cornwall). He settled in Colorado,
where he became the manager of the La Planta Smelter in Leadville.
He was naturalised as an American citizen in 1889, and honoured on 8th September
1996, by the US National Mining Hall of Fame, which recognised Philip for
induction into their Hall of Fame at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas,
Nevada. He developed many new methods of treating mineral ore, and
eventually became honoured as a notable American in the US National Biographical
Dictionary.
Other Argall families with mining interests moved around the USA before also
settling in Colorado; subsequent internal migration in the USA has also affected the current disposition
within this state.
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Connecticut | Joseph Rouse Argall was born in Montreal, Canada in
1858 to where his parents had emigrated in 1856. Unfortunately, the
family did not settle and so moved back to Cornwall in 1859 at which time Joseph was
baptised in Redruth. Nevertheless, in the mid–1870s, Joseph
emigrated afresh to the USA in his own right, and appeared in the US 1880 Census
as living in Michigan. Finally he moved to Connecticut where he married in
1882. His descendants still live there.
Members of other Argall families emigrated from St Agnes
and Newlyn East in Cornwall and then settled in Connecticut - mainly but
not entirely in Hartford..
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Illinois |
The State of Illinois contained an important staging post at Galen for the
Cornish who arrived via the Mississippi river; several Argall families stayed in
the region before moving on to Wisconsin and elsewhere. Others arrived in Chicago and made their homes
in that City, raising their families there.
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Michigan |
Those in
Michigan are based in the Upper Peninsular around Ishpeming and Negaunee; mining
was the attraction which caused them to settle here. The family
which has had the most influence in forming the Argall families of today in
Michigan was that of John and Elizabeth Ann (Reynolds)
Argall who migrated from Redruth in Cornwall around 1870.
Their descendants still live in Michigan, in a relative large
number. However there were several other Argall families which moved
to Michigan amongst the influx of the Cornish. They would have all
been related although they may not have realised that at the time.
There are now quite a sizeable clan of Argalls, mainly in the Upper
Peninsular.
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Montana | Again the mining
around Silver Bow and Lewis and Clarke counties and, particularly in Butte City,
drew Argall families to Montana. One Samuel Argall had married Mary Ann May
in Redruth,
Cornwall in 1866. Almost immediately, the couple emigrated to the
USA and their first child was born in Morris County, New Jersey in
1867. Several more children followed but, by 1875, the family
had moved west to Nevada, where another child was born, and then onto California
where more children were born. The family then moved to Butte City
in Montana where the remaining children were born. Descendants still
live in that State.
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New York | One William Argall had emigrated to New York
around 1812, and the family who developed there established a strong retail
clothes business in the city; it is not known yet how this William Argall links
into the main family. He may have come from the remaining East
of England stock, but equally he may have come from Cornwall. There
is much research yet to be done on his origins. This family seemed
to have relocated to Connecticut and then Wisconsin, where they were living at
the end of the 19th century.
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Pennsylvania | Thomas Argall was born in St Agnes, Cornwall
on the 21st October 1819; he married Jane
Jeffery
there on 5th July 1840. The
couple had four children in Cornwall before they emigrated to Pennsylvania in
1848/49. The family settled in Pottsville in Schuylkill County, where five
more children were born. The numerous descendants of this family
still live in Pennsylvania. There are currently a number of other ARGALL families within
this state but these largely stem from internal 20th century
migration within the USA.
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Wisconsin | A large group
have established themselves around the Cornish enclave at Mineral Point, in
Wisconsin; these mainly descend from Richard
Argall who was born in St Agnes, Cornwall in 1791 and first married Ann Tonkin in Cornwall in 1823.
He emigrated to the USA from Cornwall around 1841, when his first wife
disappears from records, then married twice further: Mary Woolcock in Illinois (in
1850), and Elizabeth (Brewer)
Ellery
, in Wisconsin (in
1859). Numerous descendants overflowed into Iowa, North Dakota
and Minnesota, as well as remaining in Wisconsin, centering on Mineral
Point.
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