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Cumbria Mining Disasters
« Reply #9 on: Monday 02 August 04 00:20 BST (UK) »
http://haigpit.wordpress.com/disasters

Links to each disaster with names of those who died.

William Pit Whitehaven 1947 Disaster
http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/eLibrary/Content/Internet/542/795/41379171326.pdf
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Women Workers in the British Industrial Revolution
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 05 September 04 09:15 BST (UK) »
Women Workers in the British Industrial Revolution

Find out just what working life was like for our ancestors.

http://eh.net/?s=woman+workers
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Mining Ancestors
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 09 September 04 21:27 BST (UK) »
This is good for anyone with Mining ancestors in Northumberland and Durham
http://www.dmm.org.uk/lom

List of Mines in Great Britain and the Isle of Man in 1938
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cmhrc/lom38.htm
Clavering, Hudson, Baister, Bloomfield, Duff, Donaldson, Oxendale, Dodds, Lazenby,  Dodsworth, Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: Medical Practitioner Databases
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 14 October 04 10:50 BST (UK) »
I have a link for you, not exactly what you were looking mind.


Royal Navy Medical Officers 1840
http://www.pdavis.nl/Surgeons_1840.htm




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New 'Clergy' database
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 21 October 04 23:22 BST (UK) »
In October 1999 the project team began work on the design of a relational database covering all clerical careers in the Church of England between 1540 and 1835, to be made available in electronic form for public access over the internet.

http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk
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Re: Sharing Useful Links
« Reply #14 on: Saturday 13 November 04 23:47 GMT (UK) »
http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk
All about the lancashire cotton industry.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0wta/
This site has some brilliant archive pictures of manchester, dates vary roughy 1800 to prestent.

Best wishes
Pauline
Atkinson/Mountney/Gardner/Mellor/Finch/Higham-Lancashire
Cooper/Price-Shropshire
Lund/Foster/Wilkinson/Crawforth-Yorkshire
Calvert-Durham


Whoever said seek and ye shall find was NOT a genealogist.

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Re: Mining Ancestors
« Reply #15 on: Friday 19 November 04 12:11 GMT (UK) »
This is an excellent website about mining in Wales.

It has a list of disaters, with the names of the victims, often their address and relationships to other pieople who were killed.

http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/index.html
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Re: Mining Ancestors
« Reply #16 on: Friday 19 November 04 14:04 GMT (UK) »
Mining History in the United Kingdom Victims names from 1840 to 1970 all fully searchable
http://www.cmhrc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/deaths.htm

Mining Accidents from all areas covered.
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LINK: What is that Occupation?
« Reply #17 on: Friday 19 November 04 23:53 GMT (UK) »
Hi All,

I use this site for unusual occupations - seems quite good

http://dictionary.reference.com/

Cheers
Keith
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