Rhian, Yesterday I was on Gathering the Jewels web page listing all the accidents at the quarries and I saw a Margaret Williams. It's written in Welsh so I don't know what happened to her. I didn't have time to do a translation with my dictionary. Arlene I don't know about the quarries in the Bethesda area but in the earlier > years in Ffestiniog, some women (farmers I think) worked as carters for > the > quarries. In a Gwynedd Archives exhibition I saw recently there was an > entry > in a ledger in > 1828 for a payment of £28-5-12 [sic] to Jane Evans of Cwmbowydd for > carting/carrying slate. > > Rhian > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wendy Jones" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 9:14 PM > Subject: RE: [CAE] Re: debate on strikes at Penrhyn and other quarries > > > >> Re: employment of women in the quarries, I'm not sure if women did any > jobs >> in the quarry. I'll ask my father! With the exception of quarrying, > shipping >> and fishing, this part of Wales was and still is extremely rural, women >> primarily managed small holdings, kept a pig, chickens, grew vegetables, >> susbsistence economy. People kept small holdings and quarried. It is a >> sparsely populated area. Were it not for the slate quarries perhaps like > the >> agricultural economy in Ireland and the Llyn peninsula, the industrial >> revolution may almost have passed us by! >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Barbara Williams [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: 10 September 2004 09:52 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [CAE] Re: debate on strikes at Penrhyn and other quarries >> >> >> I hear what you are saying about the factories and such like in > Lancashire, >> but find it strange that no women were employed in the quarries. I have >> read many books on the social conditions of the "good old days" and find >> women and children being employed in various factories, mills - even >> coal >> mines and yet there appear to be no women employed in the slate >> quarries. > I >> wonder why that was? >> >> Regards >> Barbara >> >> >> > Women usually worked in service, there wasn't a lot of >> > opportunities for women in an otherwise rural area..not like >> > Lancashire >> with >> > the mills. I think it's held the women's movement back in Wales. > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Barbara Williams [mailto:[email protected]] >> > Sent: 09 September 2004 20:28 >> > To: [email protected] >> > Subject: Re: [CAE] Re: debate on strikes at Penrhyn and other quarries >> > >> > Hi Arlene, Wendy and all, >> > >> > My g.g. >> > grandfather was a Slate Waggon (sic) Driver in 1864, do you know what >> > this kind of job would have entailed? Well obviously driving a Slate >> > Wagon >> (!!), >> > but how was it powered etc? Was it just some kind of cart or more >> > like a rail train? >> > >>>> > >> > Thanks and Regards >> > Barbara > >> > ==== WLS-CAERNARFONSHIRE Mailing List ==== Gwynedd Family History >> > Society www.gwynedd.fsbusiness.co.uk/ >> > >> > =============================> > 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 >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > ==== WLS-CAERNARFONSHIRE Mailing List ===> > >> http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/inst/uwbangor.shtml >> > Bangor University Archives >> > >> > =============================> > 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 >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> ==== WLS-CAERNARFONSHIRE Mailing List ==== Gwynedd Family History >> Society >> www.gwynedd.fsbusiness.co.uk/ >> >> =============================> You can manage your RootsWeb-Review >> subscription from >> http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ >> >> >> >> ==== WLS-CAERNARFONSHIRE Mailing List ===> Rhagorol - online Gwynedd >> Archive >> > http://www.gwynedd.gov.uk/adrannau/addysg/archifau/Rhagorol/cgi-bin/browse_archive.pl >> >> =============================> 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 >> >> > > > > ==== 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 > > >