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Northumberland / Re: John Common,blacksmith married Mary Rankin 1849/What do colliery blacksmiths do?
« on: Monday 05 October 15 21:11 BST (UK)  »
It is amazing how one site leads to another.  Durham Mining museum a top tip. Many thanks.  It seems alot of the coal seams at Killingworth were abandoned between 1876 and 1884, so I wonder if that is why the family leave the area (assuming they were there!)  for the booming river banks. Its a lovely theory, but is it credible???

Off to follow up the blacksmith links above.

Thanks again
 

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Northumberland / Re: John Common,blacksmith married Mary Rankin 1849/What do colliery blacksmiths do?
« on: Sunday 04 October 15 09:13 BST (UK)  »
This is my theory.  He vanishes after giving up his business in 1872 and reappears on the Jarrow census in 1881.  In between his daughter Margaret is living at Killingworth colliery when her illegitimate daughter is baptised in 1875; another daughter Mary Jane says she is living at Killingworth Colliery when she marries a colliery joiner in 1878; and his son Edward married a miner's daughter, Annie,  from Killingworth in 1883 (they are also both witnesses at Mary Jane's wedding in 1878).  The family have left Jarrow a couple of years before Isabella marries in 1887 when she says she is living at New Seaham.  My Aunt is adamant that her grandma Isabella and her sisters all stayed at home until they were married, so I am assuming that John is living and working at Killingworth Colliery and New Seaham.  He is not listed in the trade directories for either place so i am assuming that he is employed in the colleries.

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Northumberland / John Common,blacksmith married Mary Rankin 1849/What do colliery blacksmiths do?
« on: Saturday 03 October 15 22:01 BST (UK)  »
Hi.
John Common ran his own blacksmith's shop at GuidePost in the 1860s.  He closed the business in 1872 and I think then goes to work as a colliery blacksmith in the Killingworth/ Earsdon/ New seaham areas (with a brief stop at jarrow in the 1880s).   Help needed to prove this theory!  If anyone can tell me what a colliery blacksmith did, then that would be fascinating too.
Many thanks
DurhamStatts

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