Try Pennsylvania. That's where mine went, those who didn't stay in Shropshire or Cannock. Good luck, Ann Margaret Grundy wrote: > Hi Paul > > Just read your mail and see at the bottom is a mention of a Gordon Pace and > his interest in coal mining in the Staffs area. > > I have a missing man Morgan connolley .He was a coal miner in one of the > Cannock mines in 1871 but no-one can find him after that date. not even his > death. > > I just wondered if your friend Gordon Pace? had an index of men working in > the mines in his area of the USA that came from Staffs. > > It's just an outside chance but may be worth while. > > regards > > Margaret > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Apache" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 8:02 PM > Subject: Re: [ENG-SHROP] Move to Cannock > > > >> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:35:00 +1200, Paul wrote >> >>> Thank you Margaret for the answer to my poser - didn't realise that >>> > Cannock > >>> was 'blessed' with coal mines. Seems our ancestors went from one mining >>> district to another - out of the frying pan into the fire, as it were. >>> >>> Regards >>> Paul >>> >>> My grand parents moved to live in Cannock from Shropshire to be able >>> to work in the mines . >>> >>> Margaret >>> >> ---------- >> >> Yes, My PACE-SQUIRE folks were into coal, locks and came to southern >> > Alberta > >> when the Canadian Pacific Rly. was completed in Nov. 1885. Coal was found >> > at > >> Lethbridge and Crows Nest Pass, in demand for railways and copper smelters >> > in > >> the 'Boundary Country' (southen BC, Washington state, Montana) >> > STAFFORDSHIRE > >> COAL MINERS showed up in southern ALBERTA, even in Nova Scotia's CAPE >> > BRETON > >> Island at Sidney Mines. Guess what? The main Streets in Sidney Mines are >> STAFFORD Street, PITT Street, Also many CORBETT folk in the phone book >> > today. > >> WILKES BARRE, Pennsylvania also has a STAFFORD Street. I have a web page >> > for > >> SHARESHILL-CANNOCK where you can see many of the coal-mining surnames that >> connected & connected again over the years, PITT PACE CORBETT and others. >> Wishing this may be a help: >> http://www.pacefamilyhistory.info/pitt.htm >> Gord Pace Brighton/Colborne Ontario >> >> REMEMBER - The question you are asking may have already been answered. >> Threaded Archives at - >> >> > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS/Archives > >> Searchable Archives at - >> http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.6.19/1661 - Release Date: 9/9/2008 > 4:58 AM > > > REMEMBER - The question you are asking may have already been answered. > Threaded Archives at - > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS/Archives > > Searchable Archives at - > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >