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Y Wladfa is a successful Welsh settlement in Argentina, which began in 1865. It occurred mainly along the coast of Chubut Province in Patagonia. In 1865 the first settlers travelled from Liverpool on the clipper ship Mimosa.
Certain characters, both in Wales and in the United States, had the idea of creating a Welsh colony. The movement had its origins in the United States, but the outbreak of the Civil War lost its initial momentum in the early 1860s. From then on, the entire weight of the project fell on a society made up of Welsh people who met in Liverpool. The Liverpool Emigration Society had to cope with a shortage of funds and a lack of public support. Negotiations with the Argentine government were arduous and last minute difficulties spoiled the preparations. However, the first group of Welsh settlers began their long journey to Patagonia on May 28, 1865 on the sailing ship Mimosa
- 1848 - October: The first letter from Michael D. Jones in favor of the establishment of a Welsh colony is published in the Y Cenhadwr Americanaidd
- 1856 - January: A society is created in Camptonville, California, with the objective of promoting the creation of a Welsh colony and Patagonia is proposed as a possible location.
- - August: Michael D. Jones organizes a public meeting in Bala to raise the idea of the Welsh colony. The "Society for the Emigration of Bala" was created then.
- - December: The public meeting organized by Hugh Hughes and Lewis Jones leads to the creation of a society for emigration in Caernarfon.
- 1857-8 - Michael D. Jones visits the United States to promote the cause and gain support for creating a corporation to fund the movement. The response was disappointing, and for a year Jones played little part in the movement.
- 1860 - After the first impulse in the United States, one of its main promoters, Edwin Roberts, travels to Wales in order to find other people who shared his ideas.
- 1861 - July: Creation of the Liverpool Emigration Society.
- 1862 - November: Lewis Jones travels to Buenos Aires on behalf of the Liverpool Emigration Society in order to begin negotiations with the Argentine government. About a month later, he is joined by Captain Love Jones-Parry.
- 1863 - January : Lewis Jones and Captain Love Jones-Parry embark for Patagonia to survey the terrain.
- - March 25: An agreement is signed between the representatives of the Liverpool Emigration Society, Lewis Jones and Captain Love Jones-Parry, and the Argentine Minister of the Interior, Dr. Guillermo Rawson.
- 1864 - April: The Argentine consul, Samuel R. Phibbs, travels to Buenos Aires to negotiate on behalf of the Emigration Commission.
- - October: The Liverpool Commission receives a letter from Dr. Guillermo Rawson offering lands in Patagonia under the same conditions as those offered to other immigrants. The offer is accepted.
Further reading
- Rather than go into enormous detail of the Welsh colonisation of the Chubut Valley, these are a number of references.
- Y Wladfa on Wikipedia
- Welsh colonization in Argentina on Wikipedia
- BBC Wales History site The Welsh in Patagonia
- Preparations for the Arrival of the Mimosa
- The Clipper Mimosa
- The Welsh Colony in Patagonia
- Patagonia BMD
- Companion to the Welsh Settlement in Patagonia
- Berwyn's Register, 1865 to 1875 - Deaths in the Welsh Colony, Patagonia
- Project Hiraeth
- Wikidata: Item Q478236
- History of the Welsh Chapels in Patagonia
1865 settlers who travelled on the Mimosa
Name | Assembly point | Given age | Note |
---|---|---|---|
Austin, Thomas | Mountain Ash | 17 | |
Austin, William | Mountain Ash | 18 | |
Davies, Evan | Aberdare | 25 | |
Davies, Ann | Aberdare | 24 | wife of Evan Davies |
Davies, Margaret Ann | Aberdare | 1 | daughter of Evan & Ann Davies |
Davies, James (Iago Dafydd) | Brynmawr | 18 | |
Davies, John (Ioan Dafydd) | Mountain Ash | 18 | |
Davies, Lewis | Aberystwyth | 24 | |
Davies, Rachel | Aberystwyth | 28 | wife of Lewis Davies |
Davies, Thomas G. | Aberystwyth | 3 | son of Rachel and Lewis Davies |
Davies, Robert | Llandrillo | 40 | |
Davies, Catherine | Llandrillo | 38 | wife of Robert Davies |
Davies, William | Llandrillo | 8 | son of Robert & Catherine Davies |
Davies, Henry | Llandrillo | 7 | son of Robert & Catherine Davies |
Davies, John | Llandrillo | 1 | son of Robert & Catherine Davies, died on board |
Davies, John E. | Mountain Ash | 30 | |
Davies, Selia | Mountain Ash | 26 | wife of John E. Davies |
Davies, John | Mountain Ash | infant | son of John E. & Selia Davies |
Davies, Thomas | Aberdare | 40 | |
Davies, Eleanor | Aberdare | 38 | (second) wife of Thomas Davies |
Davies, David | Aberdare | 18 | son of Thomas Davies (1st marriage) |
Davies, Hannah | Aberdare | 16 | daughter of Thomas Davies (1st marriage) |
Davies, Elizabeth | Aberdare | 11 | daughter of Thomas Davies (1st marriage) |
Davies, Ann | Aberdare | 7 | daughter of Thomas Davies (1st marriage) |
Davies, William | Liverpool, England | 36 | |
Ellis, John | Liverpool, England | 38 | |
Ellis, Thomas | Liverpool, England | 36 | |
Ellis, Richard | Llanfyllin | 27 | |
Ellis, Frances | Llanfyllin | 27 | |
Evans, Daniel | Mountain Ash | 27 | |
Evans, Mary | Mountain Ash | 23 | wife of Daniel Evans |
Evans, Elizabeth | Mountain Ash | 5 | daughter of Daniel & Mary Evans |
Evans, John Daniel | Mountain Ash | 3 | son of Daniel & Mary Evans |
Evans, Thomas Pennant (Twmi Dimol) | Manchester, England | 29 | crew |
Greene, Dr. Thomas William Nassau | Liverpool, England | 21 | crew (ships' doctor) |
Harris, Thomas | Mountain Ash | 31 | |
Harris, Sara | Mountain Ash | 31 | wife of Thomas Harris |
Harris, William | Mountain Ash | 11 | son of Thomas & Sara Harris |
Harris, John | Mountain Ash | 6 | son of Thomas & Sara Harris |
Harris, Thomas | Mountain Ash | 5 | son of Thomas & Sara Harris |
Harris, Daniel | Mountain Ash | infant | son of Thomas & Sara Harris |
Hughes, Catherine | Birkenhead, England | 24 | |
Hughes, Griffith | Rhosllannerchrugog | 36 | |
Hughes, Mary | Rhosllannerchrugog | 32 | wife of Griffith Hughes |
Hughes, Jane | Rhosllannerchrugog | 11 | daughter of Griffith & Mary Hughes |
Hughes, Griffith | Rhosllannerchrugog | 9 | son of Griffith & Mary Hughes |
Hughes, David | Rhosllannerchrugog | 6 | son of Griffith & Mary Hughes |
Hughes, John | Rhosllannerchrugog | 30 | |
Hughes, Elizabeth | Rhosllannerchrugog | 39 | wife of John Hughes |
Hughes, William John | Rhosllannerchrugog | 10 | son of John & Elizabeth Hughes |
Hughes, Myfanwy Mary | Rhosllannerchrugog | 4 | son of John & Elizabeth Hughes |
Hughes, John Samuel | Rhosllannerchrugog | 2 | son of John & Elizabeth Hughes |
Hughes, Henry | Rhosllannerchrugog | 1 | son of John & Elizabeth Hughes |
Hughes (Cadfan), Hugh J. | Liverpool, England | 41 | |
Hughes, Elizabeth | Liverpool, England | 40 | wife of Hugh Hughes |
Hughes, Jane | Liverpool, England | 20 | daughter of Hugh & Elizabeth Hughes |
Hughes, David | Liverpool, England | 6 | son of Hugh & Elizabeth Hughes |
Hughes, Llewelyn | Liverpool, England | 4 | son of Hugh & Elizabeth Hughes |
Hughes, Richard | Caernarfon | 20 | |
Hughes, William | Anglesey | 32 | |
Hughes, Jane | Anglesey | 32 | wife of William Hughes |
Hughes, Jane | Anglesey | infant | daughter of William & Jane Hughes |
Hughes, William | Abergynolwyn | 33 | widower, married Ann Lewis on board |
Humphreys, Morris | Ganllwyd | 27 | |
Humphreys, Elizabeth Harriet | Ganllwyd | 21 | wife of Maurice Humphreys |
Humphreys, Lewis | Ganllwyd | 27 | |
Humphreys, John | Ganllwyd | 22 | |
Huws, Rhydderch | Manchester, England | 33 | |
Huws, Sara | Manchester, England | 37 | wife of Rhydderch Huws |
Huws, Meurig | Manchester, England | 4 | son of Rhydderch & Sara Huws |
Jenkins, Aaron | Mountain Ash | 35 | |
Jenkins, Rachel | Mountain Ash | 32 | née Evans |
Jenkins, James | Mountain Ash | 2 | son of Aaron & Rachel Jenkins, died on board |
Jenkins, Richard | Mountain Ash | 1 | son of Aaron & Rachel Jenkins |
Jenkins, Rachel | daughter of Aaron & Rachel Jenkins, born on board | ||
Jenkins, Thomas | Mountain Ash | 23 | |
Jenkins, William | Mountain Ash | 18 | |
John, David | Mountain Ash | 31 | |
John, Mary Ann | Aberdare | 24 | |
Jones, Evan | Aberdare | 19 | son of Eleanor Davies (1st marriage) |
Jones, Thomas | Aberdare | 15 | son of Eleanor Davies (1st marriage) |
Jones, David | Aberdare | 13 | son of Eleanor Davies (1st marriage) |
Jones, Elizabeth | Aberdare | 12 | daughter of Eleanor Davies (1st marriage) |
Jones, Elizabeth | Mountain Ash | ||
Jones, Anne | Bethesda | 23 | |
Jones, George | Liverpool, England | 16 | |
Jones, David | Liverpool, England | 18 | |
Jones, James | Mountain Ash | 27 | |
Jones, Sarah | Mountain Ash | 24 | wife of James Jones |
Jones, Mary Anne | Mountain Ash | 3 | daughter of James & Sarah Jones |
Jones, James | Mountain Ash | 1 | son of James & Sarah Jones |
Jones, John | Mountain Ash | 61 | |
Jones, Elizabeth | Mountain Ash | 53 | wife of John Jones |
Jones, Richard (Berwyn) | New York, United States | 27 | crew (purser) |
Jones, Richard | Mountain Ash | 21 | son of John & Elizabeth Jones |
Jones, Ann | Mountain Ash | 18 | daughter of John & Elizabeth Jones |
Jones, Margaret | Mountain Ash | 14 | daughter of John & Elizabeth Jones |
Jones, John (jnr) | Mountain Ashh | 28 | |
Jones, Mary | Mountain Ash | 27 | née Morgan, wife of John Jones (jnr) |
Jones, Morgan | son of John & Mary Jones, born on board Mimosa | ||
Jones, Thomas Harries | Mountain Ash | 16 | |
Jones, Joseph Seth | Denbigh | 20 | |
Jones, Joshua | Cwmaman, Aberdare | 22 | |
Jones, Lewis | Liverpool, England | 28 | advance party |
Jones, Ellen | Liverpool, England | 25 | wife of Lewis Jones, advance party |
Jones, Mary | Mountain Ash | 22 | |
Jones, Stephen | Caernarfon | 18 | |
Jones (Bedol), William R. | Bala | 31 | |
Jones, Catherine | Bala | 31 | wife of William R. Jones |
Jones, Mary Ann | Bala | 4 | daughter of William R. & Catherine Jones |
Jones, Jane | Bala | 1 | daughter of William R. & Catherine Jones |
Lewis, Anne | Abergynolwyn | 35 | née Pugh, widow, married William Hughes on board |
Lewis, Mary | Mountain Ash | ||
Matthews, Abraham | Aberdare | 32 | |
Matthews, Gwenllian | Aberdare | 23 | wife of Abraham Matthews |
Matthews, Mary Annie | Aberdare | 1 | |
Morgan, John | Pen-y-Garn, Aberystwyth | 29 | |
Nagle, Robert | Birkenhead, England, | 22 | crew (passenger steward) |
Owen, Ann | Liverpool, England | ||
Price, Edward | Liverpool, England | 41 | |
Price, Martha | Liverpool, England | 38 | wife of Edward Price |
Price, Edward | Liverpool, England | 16 | son of Edward & Martha Price |
Price, Martha | Liverpool, England | 2 | daughter of Edward & Martha Price |
Price, Griffith | Ffestiniog | 27 | |
Pritchard, Elizabeth | Holyhead | 20 | |
Rhys, James Berry | Ffestiniog | 23 | |
Rhys, William Thomas | Trevethin | 25 | |
Richards, William | Mountain Ash | 19 | |
Roberts, Edwyn Cynrig | Nannerch & Wigan, England | 27 | advance party |
Roberts, Elizabeth | Bangor | 19 | |
Roberts, Grace | Bethesda | 25 | |
Roberts, John Moelwyn | Ffestiniog | 20 | |
Roberts, John, | Ffestiniog | 27 | |
Roberts, Mary | Ffestiniog | 27 | wife of John Roberts |
Roberts, Mary | Ffestiniog | daughter of John & Mary Roberts (?) | |
Roberts, Thomas | Ffestiniog | 2 | son of John & Mary Roberts |
Roberts, John | Ffestiniog | infant | son of John & Mary Roberts |
Roberts, William | Seacombe, Liverpool, England | 17 | |
Solomon, Griffith | Ffestiniog | 33 | |
Solomon, Elizabeth | Ffestiniog | 30 | wife of Griffith Solomon |
Solomon, Elizabeth | Ffestiniog | 1 | daughter of Griffith & Elizabeth Solomon, died on board |
Thomas, John Murray | Bridgend | 17 | |
Thomas, Robert | Bangor | 29 | |
Thomas, Mary | Bangor | 30 | wife of Robert Thomas |
Thomas, Mary | Bangor | 5 | daughter of Robert & Mary Thomas |
Thomas, Catherine Jane | Bangor | 2 | daughter of Robert & Mary Thomas, died on board |
Thomas, Thomas | Mountain Ash | 26 | |
Williams, Amos | Bangor | 25 | crew (passenger cook) |
Williams, Eleanor | Bangor | 24 | wife of Amos Williams |
Williams, Elizabeth | Bangor | daughter of Amos & Eleanor Williams | |
Williams, Dafydd | Aberystwyth | ||
Williams, Jane | Liverpool, England | 24 | |
Williams, John | Birkenhead, England | 36 | |
Williams, Elizabeth | Birkenhead, England | 31 | wife of John Williams |
Williams, John | Birkenhead, England | 4 | son of John & Elizabeth Williams |
Williams, Elizabeth | Birkenhead, England | 2 | daughter of John & Elizabeth Williams |
Williams, Watkin W. Pritchard | Birkenhead, England | 33 | |
Williams, Elizabeth Louisa | Birkenhead, England | 30 | |
Williams, Watkin Wesley | Birkenhead, England | 27 | |
Williams, Catherine | Birkenhead, England | ||
Williams, Robert Meirion | Llanfairfechan | 51 | |
Williams, Richard Howell | Llanfairfechan | 18 | son of Robert Meirion Williams |
Williams, Thomas | Mountain Ash | 60 | |
Williams, Mary, | Mountain Ash | 55 | |
Williams, William | Liverpool, England | 20 | |
Wood, Elizabeth | Liverpool, England | 11 |
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