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Furness Mining Employees 1847-48
Industrial records have long since been available in
Record Offices everywhere, but are little used in our search for our forebears.
Indeed, Barrow Record Office holds an enormous archive of such material,
especially for Vickers. Instead of the more usual lists of employees, however,
the examples given below identify not only the employee, but also his children
of school age. The data was supplied to John Cranke, the Steward to his Grace,
the Duke of Buccleuch around the year end of 1847 in order to answer questions
raised by Rev James Morgan, the curate of Dalton. Morgan, in a letter to the
Duke of Buccleuch. Rev Morgan complained that “the fatal practice of drinking
has also ruinous effect on the labouring classes [of Dalton]. Indeed to so great
an extent is the practice of intemperance carried as to form, I may almost say a
characteristic note of the Country [district].”
This view was refuted, of course, by the mine owners.
Neil Hudson
November 2007
In the employment of Messrs Harrison, Ainslie & Co at Lindal Moor mines
December 1848
|
Name of Labourer |
Character |
Age of children |
Children’s Education |
|
Richard Chamney |
Steady and obedient |
15, 14, 13, 11, 9, 1 |
All but one at school |
|
John Clarke |
Steady and obedient |
8, 6, 4 |
2 go to school |
|
John Stephenson |
Steady and obedient |
18 |
- |
|
William Robinson |
Steady and obedient |
4, 2, 1 month |
- |
|
Thomas Ashburner |
Steady and obedient |
14, 12, 8 |
All at school |
|
John Boadle |
Heady man |
None |
- |
|
William Long |
Steady and obedient |
4, 5 |
One at school |
|
Richard Long |
Steady and obedient |
10, 8, 6 |
All at school |
|
Thomas Fawcett |
Steady and obedient |
14, 10, 8, 6, 3 |
One goes to school |
|
Thomas Tyson |
Steady and obedient |
None |
- |
|
William Hughes |
Steady and obedient |
8, 5, 2, 1 month |
2 go to school |
|
Henry Spencer |
Steady and obedient |
4, 6 months |
- |
|
Thomas Hughes |
steady |
3, 2, 1 |
- |
|
James Dixon |
steady |
7, 6, 3, 1 |
2 go to school |
|
James Winder |
steady |
8, 4, 1 week |
- |
|
Robert Dalzell |
steady |
16, 20 |
- |
|
William Leece |
steady |
8, 6, 4, 1 |
2 go to school |
|
James Massicks |
steady |
2, 1 week |
- |
|
Geoffrey Nealy |
steady |
None |
- |
|
Jos Nealy |
steady |
None |
- |
|
John Sandhorn |
steady |
16, 10, 5 |
2 go to school |
|
William Sandhorn |
steady |
8, 7 |
all go to school |
|
Thomas Livesey |
steady |
10, 7, 4, 2, 1 |
2 go to school |
|
Thomas Heaton |
steady |
8 |
At school |
|
Henry Bond |
Not so good |
None |
- |
|
Henry Harrison |
steady |
None |
- |
|
Isaac Harrison |
Not always steady |
4, 6 |
- |
Data provided by Richard Roper on 20th December
1847 to John Cranke, Steward to his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch.
BD/BUC 52/10/4
Men working at the mines having children requiring
instruction
|
Name |
Where living |
No of
children |
Children
Requiring
Education |
No attending & where |
|
Thomas Sumpton |
Ulverston |
1 |
1 |
1 in Ulverston |
|
Henry Jackson |
Ulverston |
7 |
4 |
2 in Ulverston |
|
Edward Truscott |
Ulverston |
8 |
3 |
2 in Ulverston |
|
Thomas Lawn |
Ulverston |
2 |
1 |
none |
|
James Harris |
Ulverston |
3 |
2 |
2 in Ulverston |
|
Thomas Newshom |
Ulverston |
2 |
2 |
None |
|
Thomas O’Day |
Ulverston |
3 |
2 |
2 in Ulverston |
|
J Lewthwaite |
Bardsea |
5 |
2 |
1 in Ulverston, 1 in Bardsea |
|
John Preston |
Dalton |
3 |
2 |
1 in Dalton |
|
J Backhouse |
Dalton |
4 |
2 |
2 in Dalton |
|
Miles Walmesley |
Billingcote |
6 |
4 |
3 in Newton |
|
Samuel Smith |
Dalton |
7 |
3 |
3 in Dalton Free school |
|
Miles Gardner |
Dalton |
5 |
5 |
3 in Dalton |
|
John Ainsworth |
Dalton |
3 |
3 |
2 in Dalton |
|
John Clark |
Dalton |
2 |
2 |
1 in Dalton |
|
Henry Quail |
Dalton |
4 |
4 |
2 in Dalton |
|
James Briggs |
Dalton |
2 |
2 |
1 in Dalton |
|
John Jackson |
Dalton |
5 |
4 |
2 in Dalton |
|
Thomas Wilson |
Pennington |
2 |
2 |
None |
|
Josh Foxcroft |
Pennington |
6 |
4 |
None |
|
Thomas Hoskings |
Pennington |
3 |
3 |
None |
|
Thomas Wilson |
Pennington |
1 |
1 |
None |
|
Richard Kitchen |
Bardsea |
6 |
1 |
1 in Urswick |
|
William Simpson |
Leece |
4 |
4 |
2 in Dendron |
|
William Smith |
Urswick |
3 |
3 |
None |
|
N Ward |
Urswick |
4 |
3 |
1 at Urswick |
|
William Cartmel |
Urswick |
4 |
4 |
None |
|
James Hall |
Urswick |
7 |
7 |
1 at Urswick, 1 at Aldingham |
|
James Duke |
Powka |
4 |
3 |
1 at Martin |
|
James Mathews |
Powka |
3 |
3 |
1 at Martin |
|
T Stainton |
Powka |
4 |
4 |
3 at Martin |
|
H Watson |
Martin |
3 |
1 |
None |
|
Jos James |
Tarn Flat |
1 |
1 |
None |
|
Jonathan Gardner |
Tarn Flat |
2 |
2 |
1 at Holmes Green |
|
David Fawcett |
Tarn Flat |
3 |
3 |
None |
|
Thomas Quaile |
Martin |
1 |
1 |
None |
|
Thomas Threlfall |
Lindal |
1 |
1 |
None |
|
M Phizacklea |
Ireleth |
7 |
6 |
3 at Ireleth |
|
John Coward |
Ireleth |
5 |
4 |
2 at Ireleth |
|
John Quaile |
Ireleth |
4 |
4 |
2 at Ireleth |
|
John Myers |
Ireleth |
2 |
2 |
none |
Information supplied by James Davis, Furness Mining Co
office at Orgrave Mill to John Cranke, Steward to his Grace the Duke of
Buccleuch,
dated 13 January 1848 (BD/BUC 52/10/4).
This was kindly sent in by
Neil, and you can
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