László Diószegi:
" A moldvai csángók története és jelene" (The history and the present of the Moldva Csangos)

The settlement lays to the south-east of Bako (Bacau). According to the census of 1992, 1,325 of the inhabitants are Catholic out of the total of 1,337, and 1,300 of them speaking Hungarian.

The inhabitants of the settlement were believed to move to this area at the end of the XVIII century. At the time of the peak of the getaway wave in Transylvania, at the end of the XVIII century, a large mass of people started to move towards the east, and these groups more or less stuck together in Moldva too. This was the time when the biggest, ethnically and religiously homogeneous settlements of Moldva Szekely came into existence in these uninhabited or sparsely inhabited areas (Pusztina, Frumosza, Leszped, Szolohegy and its region, MAGYARFALU, Labnik, Kalugaren, etc). As the best lands were already occupied at this time, those who arrived later had to make do with the narrow valleys of smaller rivers and streams. Thus, even the comparatively bigger Moldva Szekely settlements are characterized by some highland features.

But why did these people, families and children set off through the Carpathians at the end of the XVIII century?

The reasons obviously changed from people to people, from families to families. But it is worth knowing about the most significant event that moved the largest mass of people.

Maria Theresa enacted the setting up of the Szekely border guards in 1762. The downright purpose of this was to protect the eastern borders from invasion, to suppress smuggling and to impede the spreading of the plague.
The unvoiced purpose was the sortie of the Szekely military into wars of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Due to the protest of the Szekelys the setting up of the border guards was jammed up. They disapproved service abroad, the German command, and not getting back their previous freedom for their service.

General Buccow and General Siskovics, who were in charge of setting up the border guards, tried to force Szekely people to obedience.
In spite of this, they did not get far with Udvarhelyszek, and the majority of Csik confronted with the autocracy.
At Christmas of 1763 the men of Madekfalva went to the woods of Palos and Szalonka in Szepviz to demonstrate against the disregard for Szekely's right to freedom.
On January 5, 1764, the delegates of Haromszek arrived to negotiate and to demonstrate. On January 7, at dawn, 1,350 Austrian soldiers surrounded the settlement and opened fire with two cannons on the sleeping village. The soldiers then attacked the undefended inhabitants and massacred them. The slaughter ended at 9 o'clock in the morning. The operation was led by General Siskovics, Maria Theresa's mercenary leader, and it was carried out by Lieutenant Colonel Carato. The deceased was estimated at 200 by the official reports; however, by the punishing board of enquiry that was sent out after the rebellion had been beaten down, it was estimated at 400.

One of the leaders of the uprising was Peter Zold, parish priest of Csikszentlelek, who had to run away after the massacre. Jozsef Zold from Madekfalva guided him to Komanfava, Moldva. The stone statue made in his memory can be seen in the churchyard of Csikrakos.

After the hard times, thousands of Szekelys ran away to Moldva; however, according to some reports it could have been as much as the entire communities of five settlements. The refugees of Medekfalva increased the number of Gyimes and Moldva Csangos, and later they founded the five Szekely settlements in Bukovina (Hadikfalva, Andrasfalva, Istensegits, Fogadjisten, and Jozseffalva). The Szekelys who melted into the Moldva Csangos stayed on the outer side of the Carpathians for good.

This was the time when Magyarfalu was most likely to develop too.