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Mexican Australians (Australian Diaspora)?
Hi,
I recently learned that my maternal grandfather is actually a Mexican born Australian. I was a little surprised at first. My grandfather has the thickest spanish accent that I have ever heard (when he speaks English). He never alluded to the fact that his family wasn’t even from Mexico originally. I was under the impression that only my great grandfather was born there, but apparently our genealogy reaches a lot further back.
I know that Australian Diasporas are rare, but have any of you ever heard of Australian immigration trends to Mexico, South America, etc.?
I’m quite eager to learn about my family genealogy, and apparently Australia has played a big role in my ethnic makeup.
Gracias.
There are many surprising things in South America. This particular case from Australia may be unique, but not too surprising.
In Colombia there is Irish, Scottish, English and German blood, and many others. I originally thought that I was just a mix of Spanish and American Indian, per generally accepted notions.
I did a DNA trace to look further back. I am actually mostly European (80%) and Native American (20%). But among the European part, along with the expected Spanish and Portuguese (also pulling more ancient matches in Italy and Greece), I found out there is Irish/Highland Scot.
When investigating the reasons for this surprise, it turns out that after the Highland clearances in 1746 not all Highlanders went to Canada or the US. Many went to the Caribbean, and some ended up in Colombia. There were also many Scots who went to the Darien area to investigate in the early 1700s a way to make a canal in Panama. It was a failed enterprise mostly due to the harsh conditions in that area for which they were unprepared. But some probably stayed and resettled in the colonial areas.
Additionally, there were British troops who arrived in Colombia to fight Spain in our War of Independence in the 1820′s. These were troops who had originally defeated Napoleon at Waterloo but who were subsequently unemployeed. Simon Bolivar mustered some of them to come to South America, and some of them stayed and left us some ancestry.
There were also many German arrivals in South America, as well as Eastern Europeans after WWII. Many came to Colombia, but there are more in Argentina and Brazil.
Mexico had a good amount of Irish blood either coming directly from Ireland or indirectly from soldiers who had fought in the Civil War and some resettled in Mexico.
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