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In common with what was happening elsewhere, many Cornish were prized for
their expertise in hard-rock mining skills. There were Cornish in
every part of the world, especially where mining operations were being
undertaken. The Argall families became involved in these activities.
Bolivia.
One William Argall, aged 37, died in New York
in 1897 on his way back from Bolivia where he had been to report on a gold
mining region. He was a son of Philip
Argall who had married Sarah McCullum
in
Ireland in 1853. William’s body was transported to Denver,
Colorado in the USA for burial. William had never married.
Chile.
Around 1849, one John
Argall from Bolingey, near to St Agnes, migrated to Chile where he married
twice and produced offspring, which have led to the ARGALLs currently living
there. He first married Venancia
Maria Mateo Del Pino on the 28th August 1850 in Nuble Bulnes Santisimi Crux,
and then he married Phillipa Monales
on 25th January 1863 in Carrizal, Norte Chico,
Copiapo. His children seem to have come from his first marriage, and
his descendants are still in Chile. Very little is known
about the development of this family.
On the night of 10th of November 1922, a strong
earthquake of approximately
8 degrees on the Richter scale affected Vallenar. This earthquake caused hundreds of victims
and destroyed part of the city. Many Argalls who were living
in Vallenar died in this earthquake.
There are about 15 people with the Argall surname now in
Chile. One part of this extended family had moved to Australia
where they are now established.
Guatemala.
Another William
Henry Argall was born in Elizabeth, Illinois, USA in 1852.
He was the only child of William Argall,
an immigrant who was born in St Agnes, Cornwall and had migrated with his
parents and family to Mineral Point in Wisconsin. Father William had
married Ann Holland in Illinois in 1851,
but had drowned off California in a shipwreck in 1853 . Their
son, William Henry, who became known as Henry, was a miner in
Bodie, Mono County, California, in the 1880 US Census by which time he had married
a Julia (surname unknown). In 1892, Julia died and, soon after,
Henry was in Guatemala where he lived for the rest of
his life, working on an Estancia as a Watchman for an American owner. He married for
a second time, one Maria Guadalupe del Carmen Ruano in Guatemala City in 1897,
by whom he had two children but very little is known about the extent of this marriage. By 1913 Henry was
living with a native woman, who was looking after his two
children – it is not clear as to the extent of this relationship and
there is no evidence that a third marriage had ever taken
place. Henry had been crippled by gunshot wounds during his early days in
the country and he walked with a limp for the rest
of his life. He died at El Pique, La Gomera, in Guatemala in 1924.
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