My Grandfathers ticket to Cape Town, 1908
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My Grandfathers ticket to Cape Town, 1908

At the age of 21, My Grandfather, like many other Cornish men, was forced to seek work abroad.
100 years later, and we still see young people having to leave their families, homes, and communities in order to make a living.
It seems we have learnt nothing.
Remarkable. My great-grandfather twice travelled from Pendeen parish to South Africa and back in those days but I have no memorabilia. Others from the next generation went around the world and I have a few photographs and letters, but nothing from that time.
Thanks for posting this.
 
My grandfather was born in Pendeen in 1891 and went to work on the Witwatersrand Goldfields around 1910. In 1951 he and my grandmother, who was from St.Just, retired and came back to live in West Penwith.
Before leaving Pendeen our grandfathers must have known each other and after leaving might well have met again at the place where most Cornish miners met at weekends on Cousin Jacks Corner in Randfontein? or Johannesburg
 

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