BARRACKS YARD, KILLAMARSH

[Pat]

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.

[skewbald]

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

[Pat]

Thanks Skewy.
Hard to know what it refers to.  I think it may refer to accommodation for miners, as he was one.

Cheers,

Pat.

[skewbald]

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

[Pat]

Thanks Skewy

Pat.

[claypit]

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

[Pat]

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.
 

[claypit]

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.

[Pat]

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.