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The
emphasis is on those who worked at the mines (known
as bal maidens),
clay & slate works, and related
industries (such as the explosives industry, smelters
etc) in Cornwall and West Devon
and includes a searchable database
of more than 24,000 named individuals. (Updated
6th February 2009)
There
are pages about mining women around the world, notably of pit
brow lasses of the north of England, and coal dressers on the
French and Belgian coal
fields. There are also Name Indexes
(which include both males and females) for the 1842
Royal Commission Reports into the Employment of Children and
Young People at the Mines for Cumberland,
Durham,
Northumberland, Cornwall
and West Devon, and
the Forest
of Dean.
Please
also check the page Books &
Articles for further reading.
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| Methods
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