Hi All Happy New Year & I hope you all had a good Christmas. Those with coalmining ancestors may be interested in the site below: http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/literature/royalcommissionreports/index.html I have found a report from my husband’s 3g grandfather, a ground bailiff in Moira, who gave a report to the Royal Commission on the employment of children in the mines etc. There are lots of names of those questioned in the index of each report (by area). You may be lucky to spot one of yours. Even if not, they give an insight into the lives led by the miners of the day (1842). There is also a searchable database of the victims of mining disasters, a list of mining terms etc. Geraldine Researching in Leics: ADAMS, BANCROFT, BEET, COOK, GOWTAGE/GOWTRIDGE, MEASURES, MORTIMER, NEAL, ROSE, SHARP(E), STATHAM, YEOMANS