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Individual Notes

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Note for:   William Bagnall,   ABT Jul 1825 -          Index

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Christening:   
     Date:   31 Jul 1825
     Place:   Holywell, Flintshire

Occupation:   
     Date:   1841
     Place:   Copper Worker

Occupation:   
     Date:   1871
     Place:   Blacksmith

Residence:   
     Date:   1841
     Place:   16 Batry Row, Holywell

Residence:   
     Date:   1871
     Place:   6 Furlong Terrace, Flint

Census:   
     Date:   1841
     Place:   Holywell, Flintshire

Census:   
     Date:   1871
     Place:   Flint

Individual Note:
     The 1841 Census appears to confirm that both Samuel and WilliamBagnall were employed as Copper Workers. The copper industry, begun atHolywell in Flintshire around 1750 using Welsh ore mined at ParysMountain. Huge copper works were built first at Holywell in the Northof Walesand then at Swansea in the South (by Thomas Williams), leadingto an industry that controlled half the world's production by the endof the century.

The Parys Mine Co. 's Rolling Mill produced copper sheets and boltsfor more than half a century until it closed in 1847. The site waslater cleared and is now a car park. Near Abbey Farm is the site ofthe former Abbey Wire Mill, also formerly operated by the Parys MineCo. Here, brass and copper wire was produced for use in themanufacture of nails and pins. This ended in 1901 and the site hassince been transformed into a pleasant garden. Further up the valleyis the site of the Meadow Mills, built in 1787 to manufacture coppergoods and later, lead, tinplate and brass.

Alongside the route of the old railway to Holywell is the site of theBattery Works, the largest works in the Valley. Between 1766 and 1894,this works produced enormous quantities of brass and copper goods andutensils, many of which were shipped out to the west coast of Africaby Liverpool merchants who traded them for slaves for the West Indiesand America. Pans, bowls and kettles were especially in demand as wellas brass and copper rods, which could be made into both rings andornaments or used as a form of currency. Following closure in 1894,parts of the site were used for a variety of purposes such as seaweedprocessing and warehousing. In 1912 the Gwalia Hosiery Company tookover several buildings, manufacturing clothes here until a firedestroyed the works in the 1950's.

The area was apparently afflicted with a condition known as AnginaMaligna (a disease that was raging in both Greenfield and Halkyn in1794, with a fatality rate of up to 70% in children between the agesof 3 and 5). Angina Maligna may have been connected with the poorliving conditions of that period or related to the local mining orsmelting industries.

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Individual Notes

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Note for:   Edward Barnabus,   27 Apr 1833 -          Index

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Christening:   
     Date:   2 May 1833
     Place:   Old or John Wynne's Chapel, Newmarket, Flintshire

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Individual Notes

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Note for:   Isaac Barnabus,   ABT 1840 -          Index

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Occupation:   
     Date:   1851
     Place:   Labourer in flannel factory

Census:   
     Date:   1851
     Place:   Holywell, Flintshire

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Individual Notes

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Note for:   John Barnabus,   25 Jun 1836 -          Index

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Christening:   
     Date:   27 Jul 1836
     Place:   Chester Road Chapel, Holywell

Occupation:   
     Date:   1851
     Place:   At home

Census:   
     Date:   1851
     Place:   Holywell, Flintshire

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