Hi Jill Thanks for your time and effort. I haven't had chance to do much with the links as yet (pressure of being retired) but certainly I'll have a look at the Rhondda Cynon Taff heritage trail although I know a fair amount about the place from my childhood. When we last visited in 2005 there wasn't one working colliery in the whole of the Rhondda (Fach and Fawr). My cousin told me that many people now worked out of the valley, commuting as far as Bristol each day. I will also check the list archives. I have found the Anglesey list of mines and the R C T collection of photographs too before but I am glad that you jogged my memory. As for census data, I know where they all lived and the names of most if not quite all of their neighbours. And I've either been in their homes at some time or another or in the streets where they lived. I have been able to find my Monmouthshire great grandfather's jobs from when he worked on the railways in the 19th C from an index that has been painstakingly compiled from railway employees records and from census data but have had no luck in finding anything about mineworkers' records. The censuses seem to say 'coal hewer' "underground worker' or some such. Not to worry somewhere out there in ether space there may be something. I'll just have to keep on digging. Regards Ray from a wet and blustery Hazelmere. On 22/09/2013 1:05 AM, Jill Muir wrote: > Dear Mary and Ray, > Good to see you on the list again Ray;-) <snipped>