People   (Re-unions, trace old friends and relatives.)

As far as Chile was concerned, the development of coal mining had to do with the arrival of steamships. Have read several snippets on the internet about this. Here's one:

"As steamships traveled (sic) overseas from the industrialized countries of Europe their need for coal served as a trigger for coal mining to start at various locations across the globe. An example of this is the coal mining in Zona Centro Sur, Chile, that begun as a response to the arrival of steamships to Talcahuano"

These coal mines were apparently mostly managed by Chileans themselves but they also had foreign workers. Shortly before there had been a boom in the copper and silver mines, mostly in the hands of foreigners, and in the 1860s Welsh smelters helped to establish works in Chile.

There are two longer articles about the development of coal mining in Chile from the Journal of Latin American Studies which you can purchase online if you are interested. A pity I'm no longer working as we had access to all these journals free of charge.

But anyway I would never have thought that workers from Wales were going over to Chile to aid industrial progress. So it was not so unusual. You live and learn.

As I said, I couldn't find the birth of daughter Ann on familysearch. Don't really know where to look.

Linda