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Offline AmandaW

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Coal reeve
« on: Thursday 16 June 05 16:38 BST (UK) »
Does anyone know what a 'coal reeve' is? Circa. 1700s.

Offline Jane Eden

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Re: Coal reeve
« Reply #1 on: Friday 08 July 05 23:07 BST (UK) »
Could it be a

Coal Heaver: A person employed to move coal e.g. from boat to shore or from shore to boat.

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Notts: Burrows, Comery, Foster, Beeson.
Derbys: Burrows, Comery, Smith  Lincs: King. 

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Re: Coal reeve
« Reply #2 on: Monday 18 July 05 16:56 BST (UK) »
Hi. Thanks for your suggestion. I read that a 'reeve' was a sort of town official or someone who held some sort of role on an estate. My ancestor in question was a yeoman farmer a few years later. Perhaps he oversaw the delivery/ordering of coal to a large estate in the area (Dodleston in Cheshire).
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