This is an indexed collection of records from Argentina that documents the presence of thousands of British and other English-speaking residents there.
Records include baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials from the Anglican and Scots Presbyterian churches, transcripts from the National Archives in Buenos Aires and London, Argentine census returns and contemporary publications.
"Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, or any other tongue, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of the great reckoning before the Most High Judge, answer for this corner of the earth": The Old Man of Pencader to Henry II
Michael John Geraghty, who went to Argentina as a missionary in 1966, wrote an article "Irish Power in Argentina" for the Southern Cross Centenary Special Edition. Click here to read the complete, unpublished, version in which he mentions that the biggest landowners in Argentina were Irish as were the biggest mart operators.