Welsh Chileans
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Chile | |
| Languages | |
| Spanish, English, Welsh | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholicism, Methodism, Presbyterianism Anglicanism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Welsh people |
Welsh Chileans are Chileans of Welsh descent whose family roots came from Wales. The Welsh did not settle in Chile. Generally were identified with the other British groups in Chile. In the Patagonia region, about 30,000 residents have Welsh surnames, descendants of Welsh settlers who may have crossed the once disputed Argentine border and established farms or ranches in the late 19th century.
Notable Welsh Chileans
- George Edwards Brown (1780-1848), British doctor and businessman, founder of the family in Chile
- Agustín Edwards Ossandón (1815-1878), businessman
- Agustín Edwards Ross (1852-1897), businessman and politician, purchased the Valparaiso edition of El Mercurio newspaper in 1880
- Agustín Edwards Mac Clure (1878-1941), businessman, diplomat and politician, President of the League of Nations and founder of the Santiago edition of El Mercurio newspaper
- Raul Edwards Mac Clure (?-1927), businessman and politician
- Joaquín Edwards Bello (1887-1968), writer and journalist
- María Edwards Mac Clure (1893-1972), Righteous Among the Nations
- Agustín Edwards Budge (1899-?), businessman
- Agustín Edwards Eastman (1928), businessman
- Jorge Edwards Valdés, (1931) novelist, winner of the 1999 Cervantes Prize
- Cristian Edwards del Río, businessman and kidnapping victim
Watkins - Jones - Davies families
- Watkin Watkins (Cardiff, Wales) He was a politician in Wales and personal friend of David Lloyd-George. He moved to the Welsh colony in the Vesta ship and settled in Dolavon, Chubut. Later, he moved to Chile and obtained some lands in Nueva Imperial where he died. He left a wife (Ellen Jones) and three small children (Robert, Griffith and other).
- Robert Watkins Jones (1881, Trelew, Argentine - 19??, Parral, Chile) He is the eldest son of Watkin Watkins and Ellen Jones. He worked in Sewell, Rancangua. He left three children from his marriage with Rosa Urrutia (Megan, Robert and Ellen)
- Megan Watkins Urrutia (1912, Victoria, British Colony, Chile -1988, Santiago, Chile), School Teacher.
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