The Cornish Diaspora: 1815-1914

Philip Payton

The Cornish Diaspora: 1815-1914

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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Abstract

'Cornwall was probably an emigration region comparable with any in Europe.’¹ This was the considered opinion of emigration historian Dudley Baines, who demonstrated that between 1861 and 1900 Cornwall lost no less than 10.5 per cent of its male population overseas and a further 7 per cent to other counties (far and away the greatest percentage loss of any English or Welsh county), with a corresponding loss of 5.3 per cent of the female population overseas and 7.1 per cent to other counties. This amounted, Baines concluded, to some 118,500 people.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	British and Irish Diasporas
Subtitle of host publication	Societies, Cultures and Ideologies
Editors	Donald M. MacRaild, Tanja Bueltmann, J.C.D. Clark
Publisher	Manchester University Press
Chapter	8
Pages	280-313
Number of pages	34
ISBN (Electronic)	9781526127860
ISBN (Print)	9781526127853
Publication status	Published - 2019

Keywords

diaspora
Cornwall
Cornish
migration

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