In message <003401c1c315$7c8e13a0$0214a8c0@oemcomputer>, Catherine
Walker <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Hello,
>
>I am new to list and hope I am doing this correctly. I am researching WALTON,
>JACKSON, RAPER surnames. My WALTON ancestors are listed in Long Marton Parish
>and lived in Appleby, and the JACKSONS lived in Dufton and Brampton. Their
>occupation was lead miners. Thomas Jackson along with his brother migrated to
>Virginia in 1793 and later persuaded members of the Waltons, Raper and PARKIN
>families to migrate to Virginia, too, and they took up lead mining there.
>
>I am trying to gather some information about lead mining during that time frame
>around 1800. I have learned, so far, that there were two companies, the London
>Lead Company and the Blackett-Beaumont Company (although I think they were in
>Northumberland). I am trying to figure out which lead mines my ancestors might
>have worked, having lived in Appleby, Dufton and Brampton.
>
procuring a copy of Sir Kingsley Dunham's
Geology of the Northern Pennine Orefield Volume 1 Tyne to Stainmore HMSO
1990 would answer in great detail. It should still be in print.
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fiona and robert forsythe
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