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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Derbyshire => Topic started by: Pat on Thursday 27 August 09 11:50 BST (UK)
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This address is given on a 1935 marriage Certificate. Can anyone tell me what this address refers to. The person who it refers to was a coal miner. Would this be accommodation at a mine?
Pat.
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I've just done a place search on 1911 census. It lists both Barrack and Barracks Yard, Killamarsh near Shefield. No other details though without looking at a family.
Skewy
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Thanks Skewy.
Hard to know what it refers to. I think it may refer to accommodation for miners, as he was one.
Cheers,
Pat.
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Hi Pat, I don't know the area at all, but did find this on a search, that might mean something to others.
Further east is the colliery settlement of Kiveton Park, including Kiveton Park Collieries, the railway (incl part of the Killamarsh Branch, Kiveton Rows and The Barracks.
it's on this website.
I can't see anything on old-maps.co.uk though.
Skewy
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Thanks Skewy
Pat.
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Hi Pat I've just come across your inquiry on "Roots" about Barracks Yard I don't know if you found the answers you were looking for,but when researching about my ancestors the Paulucci's I found that my Great Grandma's sister Ellen Batty(nee Paulucci) was living in Barracks Yard with her husband and children on the 1891 census and her husband was also a coal miner,but I don't know if the houses were specifally for coal miners families, but Great Grandma's other sister Eliza Wallis (nee Paulucci) and her husband who was a Blacksmith Striker presumably at the pit also lived in Barracks Yard, so I have been asking some of my older relatives who were brought up in that area if they knew where it was,they all say it was at the bottom of Lock Hill, Nethergreen, Killamarsh.
I hope this info has been of some help.
Claypit
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Hi Claypit,
Thanks for your help. I thought it may have been accommodation for single men, but you have knocked that idea on the head with the information about your family.
It was obviously called that for a long time,
as I have it on a marriage cert. from 1935.
Cheers,
Pat.
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Hi Pat,yes it was there along time in fact there are still some old houses standing and being lived in at what was the entrance to Barracks Yard we took my uncle who is 84 years old, with us to show us where it was yesterday, so we took a photo of the remaining houses,I am attaching the photo that we took.
I'm glad we have been of some help.
Claypit.
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Hello Claypit.
Thank you so much for the pic. It was very kind of you to take the trouble.
It's great to get an idea on what some of these place may have looked like.
I hope to see it all for myself one of these days.
I find Roots Chat makes it so easy to share some of this info.
Best wishes,
Pat.
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Hi Pat are you from Killamarsh originally or is it that you just found that address on the marriage certificate,if you look at the photo that green fence on it was where my grandad used to live,there has now been a new house built there.
Claypit
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Hi Claypit,
No, I'm not from the Killamarsh area. My husband's Grandparents lived there, although he never knew them.
This makes researching rather difficult. I've had a lot of help from people such as yourself which makes things easier.
Add to that, the fact that my husbands mother was fostered by someone in Sheffield, doesn't make the task any easier.
We don't know if she ever knew her real family, as she never spoke of them.
We have also found she had numerous siblings.
The really sad part is that we have found some of her aunts came to Australia, as she did, and lived quite close.
She was born in the Rose Villas, Loch Hill, Killamarsh.
Her father was Samuel Johnson, a coal miner.
Cheers,
Pat.
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Hello Pat,
I know it's been a good while since we have been in touch, but as you were interested in Barraks Yard at Killamarsh, and we sent you the photo as it is now, we thought you might be interested in the photo we have found today on the Killamarsh Heritage web site, of Barracks Yard as it was when they were celebrating the end of WW1 in 1918.
Best Regards Claypit.
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Thank you so much for the pic. I can't remember having looked at the Killamarsh Heritage web site you have mentioned, so that may be helpful too.
It was very nice of you to remember me.
Kind regards,
Pat.
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Hi Pat,
I don't think the site has been going that long, but I hope the photo is of some help to you.
All the besy Claypit.