There is a fundamental difference between the Cornwall Registers and the Expatriate Registers. When CIP surveys a region located outside of the home county of the Cornish then not only are all memorials traced and recorded but many written records are also consulted. The CIP Expatriate Register for a country or region may therefore contain extracts from civil immigration records, military records, birth, marriage and death records of the area under study. There may also be extracts from census records, British Consulate records, in fact extracts from all documents that may help to trace the movements of the much travelled Cornish. These miscellaneous records are entered in the CIP database as “Index” entries. Space & complexity does not let us place our full indexes on this web site.
An important record of the Cornish overseas is found on memorials located IN Cornwall. Families whose sons and daughters had travelled overseas and wives whose husbands had left to seek a fortune overseas were sometimes devastated to learn of their loved ones death in a distant place. Such deaths were occasionally recorded on family memorials in Cornwall. A characteristic of Cornish churchyards is the diversity of places mentioned on the headstones. These “Cornish Expatriates” are entered in the appropriate Parish Register and they are also entered in the appropriate Expatriate Register as ”Duplicate” entries.
