As I understand it. England changed the ways that people inherited land.
They split up all the small farms among the decedents instead of giving the
land to the oldest, the money to the second oldest and so forth. The farms
and land in most of Cornwall and Wales became so small they could not support
a family and this caused the economy to dump. There were tin sources being
developed in the rest of the world and tin was being replaced by other
coatings such as galvanizing. The demand for the expensive Cornish tin
slipped as placer sources in the rest of the world were being exploited.
I hope this thread will develop or challenge this concept as I am afraid that
it is something that I gained from my Welsh grandmother who left the green of
Wales for the Brown of Arizona well before the turn of the last century.
Mason
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