Hi Mary, My husband's gg.grandmother is Mary Ann HOLMES, who lived at Bilsdale/Hawnby/Snilesworth. Not miners, but I am not sure if this family is connected to those HOLMES who were in Bilsdale 50 years earlier, - Mary Ann's father was born in Nesfield, in the parish of Ilkley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was a gamekeeper, back in Ilkley and in Snilesworth, so it is most likely to have been work that took him there, but he may have gone there because of family. If you find any connection, I would be interested. Regards, Janice Wood www.btinternet.com/~jansfamily/ www.yorkshireancestors.com www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org in North Yorkshire Researching: BANKS, BEALL, BULMER, CALVERT, COCKERILL, FISHER, FOX, FOXTON, GARBUT, HARRISON, HAWKINS, HOLYDAY, HURD, KIRK, LOWTHER, MATTISON, NAWTON, PATTISON, PICKARD, PICKERING, POTTER, SCAIFE, SHOUT, SIMPSON, SKILBECK, STAINTHORPE, STONEHOUSE, THOMPSON, TRENHOLM(E), WARRINER, WEATHERILL, WEDGEWOOD, WILSON, and WOOD. > Hi > Many people have coal miners on the North Yorkshire Moors in their tree > and I wondered if anybody could help me. William Holmes m Jane Hornby in > Helmsley 20 Feb 1808. He was a collier in Bilsdale. I can go no further. > Many Holmes lived & worked a Coal miners but I cannot connect them all > together. > Any Ideas > Mary Lamport >