My thanks, Mel for the interesting explanation. And I would like to also thank those that wrote me at home.....explaining where this was. It is so hard to visualize a town you have never seen......(G) Heather > Hi Heather, > The Ginns is a district on the south side of Whitehaven. There were at > least three potteries there and also a copperas works. It was the site > of some of the earliest coal mining activity in the Whitehaven area. I > takes its name from the water ginn that Sir John Lowther established > circa 1663 to convey water from the Bannock coal seam into Pow Beck. > The "Newhouses" built by the Earl of Lonsdale to house his miners stood > on the high ground above the Ginns. > > Mel > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Heather Figueroa" <heatherfig@rogers.com> > To: <ENG-CUL-COPELAND-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 7:07 AM > Subject: [CUL-COP] 'Nuggets' from Whitehaven > > > cut.............. > > > > Where is 'Ginns'? It > > was the 'abode' of Thomas Bowness and wife Mary. > cut........... > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >