We are a registered Scottish charity founded in 1995 when the Frances Colliery in Dysart closed down. Our aims are to assist the student of mining history in Fife ...

The Beveridges at Halbeath, Fife. ... Janet was born about 1816 at Burnturk, and in 1837 she married John Anderson, a coal and ironstone miner, ...

Jul 28, 2006· fife eadie/johnman/kilgour/bogie/ellis. ... Coal ..... http ... Thjere was a lot of ironstone mining all around this area. the village of Linwood developed from a ...

Family History; Resource Room ... IRONSTONE: Coal Measures and ... because of the thinner coal seams compared to those in the Lothians and Fife. COAL MINING IN ...

Fife Direct is for everyone who lives, ... The Oakley Colliery Company worked coal and ironstone between Oakley and Saline, ... coal mining began at Kinneddar, ...

Genealogy and Staffordshire, England. ... Genealogy and Heraldry is the family history society ... mining in the area of rich deposits of coal, and ironstone.

Fife was one of Scotland’s main coal mining areas for hundreds ... Local and Family History; ... including a series taken at Fife’s last deep coal mine at ...

Coal, limestone and ironstone abound. The chief employments are connected with coal and ironstone mining, ... by the Fife Family History Society. 2. Saline ...

Nov 23, 2012· hi everyone I am looking for information on any of the following names: 1. Mcleish 2. Penman 3. Strang 4. Robertson these names are associated with coal ...

... impact upon Cowdenbeath and make the name synonymous with coal-mining for almost ... for ironstone but, when this ... Fife Mining School was erected at a ...

Comrie Colliery, sunk 1936-40 by the Fife Coal Co. Brick ... sheet 34), as a group of coal and ironstone ... Comrie Colliery, a modern coal mine which closed in ...

Scottish Mines. Coal has been ... coal miners in Scotland, ... Though the existence of ironstone in the Scottish coal measures was known many years previously, ...

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Coal, limestone and ironstone abound. The chief employments are connected with coal and ironstone mining, ... published by the Fife Family History Society. 2. Saline ...

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Ironstone Mining, West Fife. ... Please note that detailed information on strata, and hence the position of ironstone seams within coal sequences, ...

NT09SW 55.01 NT 051 931 Coal Mine ... The colliery is named 'Steelend Mine' and annotated 'ironstone and coal pits' on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Fife ...

Genealogy for William Young Craig ... was a Scottish mining engineer, ... Fife. He became a mining engineer and a coal and ironstone proprietor in North Staffordshire.

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List of Fife Pits,Memorial book,Places of Interest,Historical Notes on the Pits ... The life of a miner is a dangerous occupation.

Remains of Lethans Colliery Fife. Lethans Colliery sunk by the Wilson Coal Co and worked 1903 to 1916. thr remains have winding gear footings for two shafts and ...

Mar 02, 2016· Fifer, with your mention of Valleyfield, this looks to be one of the 3 coal mines in Perthshire, mentioned in the 1866 report on the Scottish mining site ...

Mar 13, 2009· ... and not that I know much about coal mining, ... (in Fife), also mentioned on ... Wee John !, also a miner, both coal and ironstone, ...

The Industries of Scotland: Their Rise, Progress and Present ... of ironstone miners in Scotland is ... miner differs little from that of the coal-miner, ...

A miner means one who works in a mine – a coal mine, since we are writing about Fife. It is not often that we can discover how miners lived in Fife a hundred years ...

History of the Coalfields: Lanarkshire ... and especially in Fife, the digging of coal as an ancillary to ... An early record of coal mining at Cambuslang concerns ...

Peggie family tree from Wemyss, Fife in Scotland. ... Ochre and ironstone are found, ... 2 James Peggie b. 1830 Wemyss m: 1852 Coal Miner

Mining and Heavy Industry. ... Ironstone Mining in North Derbyshire PDF; ... Early evidence of coal mining activity in Warwickshire; Scotland.

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It could be argued that if you want to research the mines of Scotland ... Inverarrish Ironstone Mine ... Salt and Coal Industries at St Monan’s, Fife in the 18th ...

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Rae - Family History & Genealogy Message Board. ... Occ: coal miner 1855 birth cert. of son Thomas RAE rec., Father William RAE, coal miner, age 40 years, ...

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