I don't have any in my tree (probably because I'm a Southerner ;)) - I was wondering how many of you do...
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Where do I start lol
My paternal ggrandfather was a coal miner, as was at least one of his sons (Killed in a mining accident age 14)
My maternal gggrandfather was an iron miner
OH's father, great grandfather and great great grandfather were coal miners - which goes right back to the local pits opening in the late 1800's, and is a tradition still continuing today
As to the areas: Northumberland, Nottinghamshire and DerbyshireBarbara
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my great grandfather b. 1865 who was a career soldier started off down the coal mines in Northumberland, as had his father & grandfather & most of his uncles. All the other brothers were also coal miners, as were most of their sons and grandsons. They are spread out over Northumberland, especially around Cramlington, and Durham (Shildon & Bishop Auckland).
My dad told me that my gt uncle had traced this line back to Swaledale, and I was told they were farmers. Probably my dad's attempts to disown a humble background - he never mentioned the mining at all. Its almost certain that the Swaledale folk were lead miners, and they would have followed this occupation for generations back - the surname is mentioned in old documents from the 16th century.
A lot of OH's ancestors were also miners from the Wigan/Leigh area, and we also have a couple of iron workers from that area.Vicky
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Yes, long this of miners on my side, all ending up in the North East.
My great great grandfather's story of being orphaned at the age of 8, but rising to being a colliery manager & JP, is quite an inspiring one.
My OH's line I've followed from an illegitimate son from Workington, working in the Iron Works, then following the work round the country to Wales, then Middlesbrough, then Sunderland, is also interesting.
Mind you as a result I haven't got a single hit on the 1911 census yet!!~ Louise ~
Researching Dalzell, Highmore & Sumpton in Cumbria, also Braidford & Chevalier
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Despite considering myself to be a Londoner, my maternal grandmother was from Northumberland and all her family had been miners for several generations. My uncles from her first marriage were all miners up until they retired/died in the 1950/60s.
On the other side of my mothers family a gt grandmothers family originated in Weardale where they were farmers and lead miners. Some of them later working and living in the Elswick Lead Works in Newcastle that I used to visit on business a century later.Robert
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*suspects Velma of fishing for magazine articles*
I have a clump of iron-ore miners in what is now West Cumbria. One upped sticks to Nottinghamshire to dig for coal instead.
I was brought up in South Yorkshire, so many of my schoolmates had fathers working in the pits or steelworks. My father worked for a firm that built rolling mills. He spent some time in Romania managing the building of the steelworks at Galati that Mr Mittal bought not long ago.Uncle John - Passed away March 2020
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Miners on mums side of the family, g.g.grandpa emigrated to west yorkshire from Lancashire to work in the pits round Leeds, g.grandpa did too, he moved around more but finally settled in Swillington near Leeds. G.Aunty married a miner as well. Most of the rest of mums ancestors seem to have been weavers.
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I have almost nothing but miners of coal tin and copper for the males in my tree from my parents generation going back to the 1600's. Some of the females from Cornwall also worked at the copper and tin mines as Bal Maidens.
It made a change to research my OH's family and find teachers, drapers, engineers and gun makers with not a miner among them.
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*suspects Velma of fishing for magazine articles*Daphne
Looking for Northey, Goodfellow, Jobes, Heal, Lilburn, Curry, Gay, Carpenter, Johns, Harris, Vigus from Cornwall, Somerset, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, USA, Australia.
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I have a few coal miners and iron workers from the Black Country - they moved north to the new town of Barrow to work in the iron & steel industry.
I also have one who was the son of a butcher from Kendal - he seems to have worked around the Durham/Northumberland border, but died in an accident near Workington.
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Hi,
My gg grandad was a miner and died at the Dare Pit, killed by a runaway tram.
One treasure/heirloom (sort of) is a quote, taken from a family bible (not in my possession) which always makes me sad when describing my gg granddad-
“a lovely man – who had been killed in a pit accident, was brought home, his body slung, like a “sack of coal”, over the back of a horse“.
Brings a tear to my eye every time I read it.
Another branch were all steelmen and managers of iron and steel works in the 1850's in Scotland, although they originated in Staffordshire.
Many were also ordinary steel workers in Lanarkshire.
Hubby's side has quite a few miners, also Lanarkshire.
herkyherky
Researching - Trimmer (Farringdon), Noble & Taylor (Ross and Cromarty), Norris (Glasgow), McGilvray (Glasgow and Australia), Leck & Efford (Glasgow), Ferrett (Hampshire), Jenkins & Williams (Aberystwyth), Morton (Motherwell and Tipton), Barrowman (Glasgow), Lilley (Bromsgrove and Glasgow), Cresswell (England and Lanarkshire). Simpson, Morrow and Norris in Ireland. Thomas Price b c 1844 Scotland.
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