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Colonial Cornish: Cornish immigrants in Victoria, 1865-1880

Colman, Anne ( 1985)

The Victorian Cornish were participants in a mass movement of people in the 19th century from Cornwall to the United States, British colonies and other lands across the seas. While this migration was unprecedented in terms of Cornwall’s history, it was but a part of a much larger migration of Europeans abroad. The Cornish in Victoria, then, were a small segment of those who emigrated from Europe in this enormous migratory movement of the nineteenth century. In particular, they were a component of the mix of British immigrants, and their descendants, who comprised 95 per cent of Victoria’s population in the years 1865-1880.