Colliers migration, West Derby to Wrexham

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exspelio
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11 years ago

Hi all, doing a bit of research into family connection with colliers in the Wrexham area, (Brymbo, Broughton etc.)
Keep coming across links to West Derby, Prescot area of Merseyside, anyone know if there was a direct connection, or was it just miners drifting in search of work?

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Phil Ford
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11 years ago

A lot of the Cunnagh family moved to this area from Mold area when the pits around Mold closed not long after the First World War. Cronton Colliery was taking on men at the time, being newly opened it needed colliers and a lot came from North Wales. They had a Welsh chapel at Huyton Quarry that was still open in the 1970s.

grahami
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11 years ago

I can't comment on Merseyside, I'm afraid, but in the 1920s when my father was living at Lowton, near Leigh his cousin's family moved to work at the new colliery at Llay Main, which was a fair distance to move in those days considering just how many pits there were at the time around Leigh, Golborne, Atherton, Tyldesley not to mention Wigan. He also went to work there for a short time as a compensation clerk.

Grahami

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Phil Ford
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11 years ago

My wifes family moved from Wigan pits to Englefield Colliery near Holywell Flintshire in the 1920s. Englefield was being developed towards the River Dee then.

Graigfawr
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11 years ago

Maybe search sample Clwyd coalfield communities in the 1911 and earlier Censuses for English birthplaces?

exspelio
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11 years ago

Thanks for this guys, just the kind of info. I'm interested in, I think there are a few Wigan connections in my research.
I wonder if the Flint/ Denbighshire developers had a recruitment drive in Lancashire to get some experienced blokes in?

Cue; newspaper research when I get the time 😮

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