This is just to cast a possible spanner in the works. A lot of Welshmen went to South America and settled in Patagonia. I believe they still speak a form of Welsh there. Is it worth looking at their records. I think mining was involved. Google might help. Audrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Tomkinson" <don.tomkinson@lineone.net> To: "OLD ENGLISH MESSAGE" <OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 4:29 PM Subject: [OEL] RECRUITMENT OF MINERS FOR THE U.S.A. > My great grandfather, William Davis, a coal miner of St. Martins, > Shropshire, left his family in about 1869, to go to the U.S.A. to "look > for > gold, I was told." I don't believe that there were any of the great gold > rushes at that time, but wonder if there was then any recruitment of > British > miners for the States which induced him to go and probably provided an > assisted passage for which he would have been unlikely to have had the > means > himself? > > I would be grateful for any information. > > I know that William settled in America, but have never been able to locate > him there in the records, amongst the myriads of William Davies's. > > Don Tomkinson > > > > ==================================== > WEB PAGE: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ > ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=OLD-ENGLISH > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OLD-ENGLISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: - Release Date: <unknown> > >