Fwd from the Glamlist for those who don't subscribe to it. Gareth List Administrator for Dyfed, CGN & PEM. Lookup Exchange http://www.johngareth.freeserve.co.uk/lookup.html Help Page http://www.johngareth.freeserve.co.uk/hicks.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Keates" <steve@s-ckeates.fsnet.co.uk> To: <GLAMORGAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 7:16 PM Subject: The Pembrokeshire collier. > The Pembrokeshire Collier > This one for the much respected Taff Tony > > Sanitary Condition of Pembrokeshire from State of Mines Reports by Sir > Hubert Mackworth. > > In this county the seams of coal are thin, exceedingly contorted and > uncertain, consisting for the most part of culme. For this reason the coal > has been usually worked only by very shallow and temporary pits, affording > occasional employment to the collier, who therefore often applies himself to > agricultural and other labour. The number of hands at these pits is usually > small, sometimes consisting of members of a family, of whom the women wind > up and unload the coal, whilst man and boys are at work underground. The > result of these circumstances is, that the Pembrokeshire collier differs but > little in any respect from the agricultural labourer, and his gains but > little exceed the payment for work on the surface off the ground. He is too > poor to move to other localities, such as the valleys of Glamorganshire, > where wages are much higher; and he has frequently a freehold or other > interest in his cottage or hovel...thus keeping him tied.. > > From the Sir Herbert Mackworth Reports on conditions in mines. 31 January > 1854 > PRO POWE7/1 > > Mackworth's opinions may have been the exception rather than the rule. And > people from Pembroke came into Glamorgan industries just as they did from > other surounding counties. > As an example to show how many people from Pembrokshire there were in the > industrial areas the 1851 Census for Merthyr Tydfil shows that the > percentages of Pembrokeshire born individuals in the following districts > were as follows > N. Georgetown 13.2%. Those born Glam. & Mon. 14.8% > Dowlas, New South Wales 13.9%. Those born Glam. & Mon. 8.7% > Pentrebach 7.0%. Those born Glam. & Mon. 14.1% > > Steve > > > > ==== GLAMORGAN Mailing List ==== > Visit the Glamorgan page of the Online Family History Fair at > http://www.genfair.com > This Mailing List is Independent of all Family History Societies > >