Bank Holiday weekend in west Cornwall. Still not much sign of the sun. For the first time for ages walk around the graveyard at Crowan. In our I Packed This Myself workshops, we have often mentioned the fact that the Cornish are no strangers to migration - and all its challenges. Thousands of Cornish people left Cornwall for California, South Africa and Australia when the tin and copper mining industry collapsed in the 19th century.
And these long dead relatives of mine very far from home . Thomas Roberts aged 40 in California and his son, aged 21, on his passage to New Granada in 1853. New Granada, where there were important silver mines, subsequently became modern day Colombia.
