I have been researching all branches of my family since 1975 and have made contact with other Arnalls in Australia, Canada and the USA. I know that the records of the Arnalls from whom I am descended go back to the year 1586 when a series of land title documents were consulted. The Arnalls of those days were yeomen farmers in the parish of Mawgan in Pydar and some five generations were in that parish until 1735. Farming then continued in the parish of Advent, North Cornwall and many of the descendants of Christopher Arnall moved into the nearby town of Camelford. My oown branch of the family moved west down to Truro and Redruth Areas of Cornwall.I have records of them being in business there until the end of the 19th century but my Grandfather James Arnall migrated to Liverpool circa 1859. From there he was in the business of Tea Merchant with his brother.James then moved to Preston in Lancashire and it was there that my father and I were both born.

I myself spent time in the Royal Navy at the end of World Ward 2 and in 1953 at the age of 26 I joined the Kenya Police. I was to serve in Kenya for the next eleven years during which time I was married to my wife Margaret and we had two daughters and a son, all born in Kenya. Since returning to the UK in 1984 I have been in the motor industry but retired in 1968. Sadly my wife died at the age of 51 years in 1983 since when I have been living alone. My son Graham is a solicitor in Bristol dealing in Criminal Defence work and he and his wife have three children, a son and two daughters living a few miles from my present home. My elder daughte Julie is an accountant working in the Cayman Islands whilst her sister Sue is living close to me in Bristol.

Deryck Jackson Arnall
4 Lynton Close
Portishead, BS20 6YS
United Kingdom
01275-849668
arnallposset@aol.com

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