Has anyone any idea where I can get a copy or information about the notices that agents used to entice Black Country miners to move to other parts of the country. Yorkie
[email protected] wrote: > > Has anyone any idea where I can get a copy or information about the notices > that agents used to entice Black Country miners to move to other parts of the > country. > > Yorkie Hi, Just wondering if you found anything further about this? My Black Country Pace family of Shareshill, Laney Green http://www.pacefamilyhistory.info/pitt.htm Church of St.Mary & St.Luke PACE PITT CORBETT DUDLEY GOSLING and other surnames show up in coal mining areas where people of these surnames went. Over here in CANADA I have come across historical accounts that said miners from STAFFORDSHIRE had been involved in mining at CROWS NEST PASS, Alberta' some were killed in the mountain collapse burying the nearby town of FRANK, Alberta April 29 1903 and are remembered in a historical museum along highway #3 to the memory of many Staffordshire coal miners. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Slide http://www.frankslide.com/ - shows a map of area; rich history of the Crowsnest Pass amid the breathtaking beauty of the Canadian Rockies. http://www.canadasmountains.com/turtle_mountain_frank_slide.htm Turtle Mountain, the site of the legendary Frank Slide April 29 1903. My own grandfather was buried in 1926 at nearby LETHBRIDGE, Alberta where some streets also have Staffordshire names. I have been to CAPE BRETON, Nova Scotia where the museum at NORTH SYDNEY shows deaths of STAFFORDSHIRE coal miners, the name ASPINAL, PITT, CORBETT. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005798 At SYDNEY, two main streets are named PITT Street and STAFFORD Street so we know rather definitely that Staffordshire coal miners had come there to work the mines. The same street naming of STAFFORDSHIRE practice also found at WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania, (Luzerne County) a coal mining area, where a main street off highway I-81 is called STAFFORD Street. and, no doubt, many other places where coal mining was carried on. Cheers, Gord Pace in Ontario