Further to this thread may I point those who do not know about it to the excellent website called Gathering the Jewels www.gtj.org which is self explanatory ( and time absorbing) when you enter it. The site contains a number of interesting themes etc about Wales and has a lot about the Quarries etc of N Wales. Of particular interest to this thread of casualties etc will be the List of Accidents which lists ( with addresses etc in many cases) the many hundreds who died in Dinorwig and in Penrhyn from 1822 to 1878. To find it. Select " Slate Industry" in Topics. then select " Penrhyn Quarry etc" Go to page 2 It's the top right entry- select it then select "this item has pages" And you will get all the pages of this book to print or save etc. The book is in Welsh but I'm sure that list members will translate for those who recognise a name or address. Hywyn Williams

Let me just say that the book is an amazing read if you had ancestors working in quarries. In the instance of the Penrhyn Quarry, the men built their own cottages, but Lord Penrhyn owned the land and rented it to them for 9 pounds a month! Also, the English owned the quarries. Arlene Small part of the preface: On a Saturday morning in November 1865, between 1, 200 and 1,500 men gathered on the slopes of Mynydd y Cefn above the small town of Bethesda in CAE to launch a society which they called Cymdeithas Undebol Chwarelwyr Cymru (United Society of Welsh Quarrymen). Although there had been earlier revolts of quarrymen this ws the first recorded attempt to organise a trade union fo rthe quarrymen who worked in the small but important slate industry of north-west Wales. The society failed almost as soon as it was started but an idea had been planted and, despite the most strenuous efforts of its opponents, it was not to be uprooted. This book is about the struggle of quarryment to organise and 'combine' in the slate quarries and mines of north Wales, and particularly in the giant Perhyn quarries. It was often a battle for survival fought in very distinctive communities, but the struggle witnessed some of the most bitter and dramatic disputes in the history of the British working clas n Sep 9, 2004, at 1:54 PM, Mymailbox wrote: > Further to this thread may I point those who do not know about it to > the > excellent website called Gathering the Jewels www.gtj.org which is > self > explanatory ( and time absorbing) when you enter it. > The site contains a number of interesting themes etc about Wales and > has a > lot about the Quarries etc of N Wales. > Of particular interest to this thread of casualties etc will be the > List of > Accidents which lists ( with addresses etc in many cases) the many > hundreds > who died in Dinorwig and in Penrhyn from 1822 to 1878. > To find it. > Select " Slate Industry" in Topics. > then select " Penrhyn Quarry etc" > Go to page 2 > It's the top right entry- select it > then select "this item has pages" > And you will get all the pages of this book to print or save etc. > > The book is in Welsh but I'm sure that list members will translate for > those who recognise a name or address. > > Hywyn Williams > > > > ==== WLS-CAERNARFONSHIRE Mailing List ==== > Cewch ddanfon negeseuon Cymraeg neu Saesneg i'r rhestr hon > This list covers a bilingual area, in which messages in both Welsh and > English are welcome > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >