I read the story and then made a copy for my mom and sent a copy to our family email list and have had many responses. We are still trying to find the details of our Robert Nesbit's death in the coal mine in Ayr in 1857. Thank you, Sandy "Annie, Bill and Liam Stuart" wrote: > Hello Robert, > I hope everyone else on the list reads this. > I am proud to say that I come from a long long list of Scottish coalminers > and your father's story moved me to tears. > Thank you for sharing it with us. > Best wishes > Annie Stuart. > [email protected] > > > For a view of the article my Dad wrote about a mining accident in the > early > > 1900s please got to: > > http://www.bodhrandrums.com/MacDaid%2C%20Blood%20to%20Burn.htm > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ==== SCOTTISH-MINING Mailing List ==== > Visit Scottish Mining website > http://www.mcpitz.com > <================================================> > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

Hi Jim May I register an interest in the Tranent/Dalkieth area. My 2x great grandfather was John Leitch and various certificates give him as a miner around 1800s. I'd like toi find out more about the industry there. Best wishes, Doug & Kit Leitch Solihull UK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Rouse" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 10:09 PM Subject: [McPitz] News Re: Support Pages > Hi all, > > I've finally made a start on the Sottish-Mining (McMines) webpages. > They're far from finished, but you can view them as they are at www.mcpitz.com > I'm working on the maps right now, so only 1-10 are currently available, but there should be twice > that amount later today (24th Jan). > > Those of you who have mailed me your Research Interests might notice the database isn't up to date, > but I'll fix that later on this week, it seems that Microsoft's products don't seem to transfer into > HTML very well, as sorting the list of email addresses out has stuffed them up, but I'll find a > solution. :-) So please be patient, your details will appear very soon! > Any comments or contributions are most welcome, any stories, or photos or if you have any resources > with which you can assist other researchers with. > > Cheers > > Jim Rouse > Tasmania > <==============================<>=============================> > A man cannae bear a' his ain kin aboot on his ain back. > Genealogy Hamepage: http://homepages.go.com/~seimi/genes.html > <===============================================================> > <==============================<>================================> > > > > ==== SCOTTISH-MINING Mailing List ==== > Visit the GENUKI Midlothian website > http://www.btinternet.com/~mmgene/genuki/mln/ > <================================================> > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >

For a view of the article my Dad wrote about a mining accident in the early 1900s please got to: http://www.bodhrandrums.com/MacDaid%2C%20Blood%20to%20Burn.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Robert Davidson 3049 Preddy Creek Road Charlottesville, VA 22911 [email protected] 804-975-1608 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MacDaid Bodhrans http://www.bodhrandrums.com

Greetings from Virginia, USA My father was born in 1902, Mossend, Lanarkshire. Lived at Clydesdale House. He left about 1925. He wrote a short emotional piece about a mine disaster. The accident occurred at night in his writing. Can anyone provide more information of a mine incident between 1902-1925 at Mossend area? Thank you, Robert ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nancy and Robert Davidson 3049 Preddy Creek Road Charlottesville, VA 22911 [email protected] 804-975-1608 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MacDaid Bodhrans http://www.bodhrandrums.com

>To: Larry <[email protected]> >From: John Turner <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [McPitz] McMINES Web pages > >Hello there: > >The Polmaise Collieries are in the Fallin - Bannockburn area (southeast of >Stirling). There are no Galloways mentioned in pit accidents there. I do >not have information on the Old Monkland mines. >At 03:30 PM 1/25/01 -0800, you wrote: > >>Journal "Accidents". Listed are Peter Stewart,1915, Ellis McDonald 1933, >>Francis Smith 1936. I am interested if there is accounts for James, >>Charles, or >>David Downs Galloway in any of your mining information? > >Sorry, but the answer is no. The newspaper accounts of the accidents often >mention the names of family members and their addresses. No Galloways appear. > >Helen Turner

Hi Jim: You are doing a wonderful job at your McMINES site. Congratulations! You asked if anyone had access to materials they'd like to share with the list. I'd like to see if there are any other folk out there with an interest in the Polmaise 3 & 4 collieries in Lanarkshire. To that end, I am willing to do lookups in a booklet put together by Archie Bone a retired miner. In it, he has reprinted articles about fatalities in the pits, as well as showing pictures of some of the miners and some mine history. Quote: "The pages in the book are all taken from newspaper cuttings from "The Stirling Observer and the "Stirling Journal" who gave great coverage to all of the mining accidents." Here are the names of men recorded to have been in an accident: 1906 Hugh JACKSON 1907 George DAVIDSON William SMITH 1908 Richard BROWN 1909 William MOONEY John McVICAR John HILLEY 1910 Archibald KERR John ANDERSON Patrick KANEY 1913 William MALCOLMSON 1913 David LIVINGSTONE John MARSHALL 1915 Peter STEWART 1918 William McNAUGHTON Thomas CLYDE 1919 John McCONNELL 1920 Michael KETTERICK 1922 John MOORE 1923 Thomas McEWEN Robert ORR 1924 David PERRY 1925 Alexander MORTON William JOHNSTONE 1926 Charles ROBB 1928 Andrew McGOOGAN.....................My Grandfather Robert SOMERVILLE 1931 William HUTTON 1932 Joseph REILLY 1933 Ellis McDONALD 1934 John SAMSON William QUINN George FORBES Samuel HAMILTON Walter AGNEW George KERR 1936 Francis SMITH Alexander FERGUSON William ROBERTSON 1938 William WIER 1941 William KERR 1942 Thomas RODGER Francis ROONEY 1943 Alexander RENNIE James DAWSON 1946 James MUIR 1947 David ALLAN 1948 Henry LYNCH 1949 Peter Den KAAT 1953 William MASON 1955 James MORRISON 1956 Robert BROWN 1958 Alexander EWING 1960 John FORSYTH 1965 John BURNS Looking forward to hearing from you, Helen Turner (A Canadian Snowbird in Florida)

Bit of a Freudian slip there folks! Scottish I may be, but I think I fall a wee bit short of being "Sottish" :-) Jim <==============================<>=============================> A man cannae bear a' his ain kin aboot on his ain back. Genealogy Hamepage: http://homepages.go.com/~seimi/genes.html <===============================================================> <==============================<>================================>

Hi all, I've finally made a start on the Sottish-Mining (McMines) webpages. They're far from finished, but you can view them as they are at www.mcpitz.com I'm working on the maps right now, so only 1-10 are currently available, but there should be twice that amount later today (24th Jan). Those of you who have mailed me your Research Interests might notice the database isn't up to date, but I'll fix that later on this week, it seems that Microsoft's products don't seem to transfer into HTML very well, as sorting the list of email addresses out has stuffed them up, but I'll find a solution. :-) So please be patient, your details will appear very soon! Any comments or contributions are most welcome, any stories, or photos or if you have any resources with which you can assist other researchers with. Cheers Jim Rouse Tasmania <==============================<>=============================> A man cannae bear a' his ain kin aboot on his ain back. Genealogy Hamepage: http://homepages.go.com/~seimi/genes.html <===============================================================> <==============================<>================================>

I found a good source of coal mining information for the Bo'ness region of Scotland in West Lothian. You'll find it here: http://www.bo-ness.org.uk/html/history/coal.htm Paul North [email protected]

Rootsweb have informed me that one of their list servers has crashed, & as luck would have it, this list was on it. This has resulted in a minor loss of data & the repeated posting of several messages. Hopefully "normal service will be resumed as soon as possble" ! If you're missing mail from other lists over the past few days, it might be attributable to this. Cheers Jim Rouse

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Looking for information on a Robert RONALDS who was killed in an ore mining accident in 1864 or 1865. Was told the accident was in Govan. Looked in the database on miners who died in accidents. Only found a Robert Reynolds in the 1860-1864 list. Can anyone help me. Jackie Sutek

Dear List My coalmining AITKENs were living at Hillhead, Riccarton, Ayrshire in 1871. This is just south of Kilmarnock. I can't find any Hillhead on my old map of the area but there are several coal pits. Lois Sparling Calgary, Alberta

I had request information on Blackcraig Lead Mining when I joined the list. I didn't get any response. I recently found this site that has info, if anyone is interested. <http://www.scotland-creetown.com/quarries/leadmine.html> Bob Bartleson San Jose, California

I have previously asked for help in getting more info on my Friend Dave Ewarts Grandfather DAVID EWART. I have since found out that his full name was DAVID EWART. He was born possibly in New Stevenson, Strathclyde. Scotland. He was a miner. He married a Sarah Clark or Clarke prior to emigrating to South Africa (SA). He had four children Nellie born 1898, Paul Alexander born in Springs South Africa 1901. William David born Springs SA and Margaret who was born in New Stevenson Scotland in 1908. Sarah returned home for the birth. David died in Germaston SA sometime in the 1930's. Sarah died in Durban SA in 1945/46. Unfortunately I have no exact date of birth or place for either Sarah or David Ewart. I guess he must have emigrated to SA sometime in the 1890's. Any help with above will be greatly appreciated by myself and Dave. Bob Blackwell Howick South Africa e-mail [email protected]

Hi Jim I am looking for William Pringle, Coal Miner at West Brunston on the 1881 census he lived in Penicuik Scotland. Also James Farquhar from Penicuik coal miner decd before 1873. Please add this to your data base. Jim Rouse wrote: > Hullo & Happy New Year to you all. > > I'm about to start putting together some support pages for this list & thought I'd include a > database of subscribers' interests. So if you'd like your names/areas/dates included please mail me > at [email protected] > > If you're concerned about posting your email address online then please let me know & we'll work > around that problem. > > Mail your interests to me with: > a. Names of mining families you're researching. > b. Areas where they were located (including name of pit(s) if known > c. Dates of research. > > I have a few photos of mining interest I intend posting also, so if you'd like your photos posted > then once again please let me know. > > Regards > > Jim Rouse > List Administrator of your Scottish-Mining List > > <==============================<>=============================> > I had seen mair than I hae eaten, else ye widnae hae been there. > Genealogy Hamepage: http://homepages.go.com/~seimi/genes.html > <============================================================> > <==============================<>================================> > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library

My grandfather also came from a coal mining family in Lanarkshire who immigrated to Birmingham, Alabama. Where did your grandfather settle in the USA? Walter Kirkwood in Alabama [email protected]

Hullo & Happy New Year to you all. I'm about to start putting together some support pages for this list & thought I'd include a database of subscribers' interests. So if you'd like your names/areas/dates included please mail me at [email protected] If you're concerned about posting your email address online then please let me know & we'll work around that problem. Mail your interests to me with: a. Names of mining families you're researching. b. Areas where they were located (including name of pit(s) if known c. Dates of research. I have a few photos of mining interest I intend posting also, so if you'd like your photos posted then once again please let me know. Regards Jim Rouse List Administrator of your Scottish-Mining List <==============================<>=============================> I had seen mair than I hae eaten, else ye widnae hae been there. Genealogy Hamepage: http://homepages.go.com/~seimi/genes.html <============================================================> <==============================<>================================>

Does your friend have any information on his grandfather already? An area of Scotland where he lived before immigrating? A birthdate etc.? As you probably already know there was a significant portion of Scots who were miners in the late 19th century and few records generated regarding specifically miners as far as I know. Has he searched for his grandfather in census records? That would be the first place I would look. One can generally make an informed assumption on a miner's employer from his place of residence. Also is your friend aware that miners in Scotland moved quite frequently? I would also suggest searching for birth, and marriage certificates if he doesn't have those to help construct a family background. I have researched my own grandfather, a coalminer, an immigrant to America from Scotland, and would be happy to share what I have learned about researching if it would help but would need to know more specifically what he knows and what he wants to find out about his grandfather.

HI I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN CONTACTING ANYONE WITH INFORMATION REGARDING COALMINES IN THE CARMICHAEL/DOUGLAS AREA OF LANARKSHIRE IN THE 19TH CENTURY. SIMON CLARKSON