I got "Colliers Across the Sea' thru inter-library loan. Alas,it covers a later time period, and recruitment was for Illinois coal mines. Does anyone have a reference or information about recruitment of miners in Lanark in 1840's ? The company or companies involved? My g-g-grandfather, John Carruthers, and I believe his brother-in-law William Gillespie emigrated to U. S. 1848-1849. I arrived at this time frame by birth of last child in Scotland and first child in Pennyslvania.