| The database below is a modified version of that compiled during the course of my PhD that was intended primarily to determine the year of migration, place of departure and destination. The details for each entry have been nominally linked where possible to ensure accuracy and the resulting genealogical details included make it useful for family historians. The records have been compiled from a variety of different sources including newspaper reports, obituaries, birth, marriage and death registers, company work records, census returns, contemporary works, diaries, letters, genealogical details, shipping lists and monumental inscriptions. This database includes perhaps only an eighth of those Cornish who went to Latin America, so if your ancestor is not included or you have information to add to an existing record you may, if you wish, submit the details using the electronic form provided.
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| Surname | THOMAS | | Forname(s) | Arthur | | Gender | M | | Date of Birth | 1867 | | Place of Birth | Camborne | | Country of Birth | Cornwall | | Date of Death | 1936 | | Age at Death | 69 | | Country of Death | England? | | Married (Y/N) | Y | | Year of Migration | 1893 | | From Which Parish | Camborne | | Migration Country | Spain | | Year of 2nd Migration | 1894 | | 2nd Migration Country | Canada | | 2nd Migration Area | Nova Scotia | | 2nd Migration Departure Country | England? | | Year of 3rd Migration | About 1895 | | 3rd Migration Country | USA | | 3rd Migration Area | California | | 3rd Migration Departure Country | Canada | | Occupation at Migration | Mining Engineer | | Year of 1st Return to Cornwall | 1900 | | Year of 2nd Return to Cornwall | 1909 | | Year of 3rd Return to Cornwall | 1913 | | Additional Information | Educated at Camborne School of Mines and Penzance School of Mines. After graduating he worked in Cornwall from 1891-3, then left for a mine in Spain. In 1893 he joined his brother in a mine in Nova Scotia, moving from there to California where he managed the Mammoth Gold Mine. From 1896-9 he managed mines at El Oro in Mexico, being manager of British Gold Mines, Mexico Ltd., & Mexico Venture Sydicate. At El Carmen Mine, El Oro, his wife gave birth to a daughter in 1898. He then went to the Dutch East Indies examining mines on behalf of Bainbridge Seymour & Co. In 1900 he returned home, but soon left again to take up employment as manager of Spanish Development Minerals of Huelva, a post he held for 3 years. In 1903 he went to the Sudan for John Taylor & Sons, and in 1905 took employment with the Fatima Development Corporation Ltd. in Argentina. In 1909 he returned to Cornwall to become a consulting engineer on his own account, and he examined and reported on mines in Spain, Newfoundland and Cornwall. In 1911 he ceased to practise and became instead the manager of the Consolidated Mines of El Oro Ltd. in Mexico. This contract ended in 1913 and he retured to Cornwall to superintend rock drilling tests for Holman Bros. for 2 years. Between 1915 and 1919 he was in Russia in charge of the British Engineering Co. of Russia based in the Urals. In 1920 he was back in Mexico as an engineer attached to the Anglo-Mexican Trading Co. In 1924 he returned to Russia to examine deposits of iron and manganese, and in 1925 was in Spain reporting on cobalt mines. 1926-7 saw him in private practice in London before he once more returned to Mexico to examine mines on the west coast. In 1929 he went back to the Urals for Lena Goldfields Ltd. and the following year was invited by the Russia Trust to become chief engineer for a subsidary trust seeking a variety of rare metals. He finally returned to Britain in 1931.
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