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Migrations

Many people have migrated to and from Bagillt over the centurys. In the Dark ages Bagillt was at times in the Saxon Kingdom of Mercia but it is probable that most of the local population would have been Welsh. The biggest changes in population and population movement occured in the nineteenth century industrial expansion.

The expansion of coal working, (there were 11 known coal pits in Bagillt) drew in workers from other parts of North East Wales and particularly, from Staffordshire, England.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many emigrations from Wales took place, particularly to the colony of Cambria in Western Pennsylvania, in what is now the United States of America (see the article by R.Cadwalader .
The first notable movements from Bagillt took place in the later half of the nineteenth century. Many left Bagillt to seek their fortune in the Australian goldfields,( see C.E. Meese, 1993, Bagillt History Club) while the emergence of a new nationalist ideal of a free welsh homeland, led to the Migration to Patagonia, Argentina, (see the article by F.Coronato ) Fernando Coronato tells of a lake in the Andes near the town of Trefelin, that is named Llyn Bagillt, so it is likely that settlers from Bagillt arrived there.

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