Book/s Cornwall Tin miners

[trish251]

i have a book

Tales of the Cornish Miners by John Vivian

Many thanks Toni

Trish

[toni*]

Let me know if you want to know anything in particular i will look it up. 

[trish251]

Let me know if you want to know anything in particular i will look it up. 

Thank you again - at the minute I am just looking at general stories of the way these folks lived - I am realising why many left and came to Australia.

Trish

[toni*]

the book i have tells tales of events rather then how life was back then

[KernishKim]

This website is very useful ...it explains about the *Bal Maidens* women who worked in the mines of Cornwall in Victorian times.

The website is also searchable by name and I managed to find my GtGt Grandmother and her sisters on there!

http://www.balmaiden.co.uk/DatabaseSearch.htm

Kim x

[trish251]

Thanks Kim - very interesting - my ggrandmother is there - they seem to have used census information to track her - probably some of her sisters/sister-in-laws as well

Trish

[maryanne]

I have just found some of my Osborne's on the Balmaiden site