I am working on my masters thesis about miners who came from the
Allenheads/Allendale region of Northumberland to the Galena lead district of
Illinois and Wisconsin in 1849. I know there was a lead miner strike at
Allenheads, and I know that my great grandfather and many others were
blacklisted and effectively banished to the United States. I have the names
of all of the people, but I am having a very difficult time finding any
solid information about the strike. I find a sentence here and a sentence
there, usually referring to it while writing about something else. I am in
the United States, so this adds an extra dimension of difficulty to my
research. Does anyone know where I might find information on this strike?
Thank you.
Wendy Ward
Northwestern University
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program
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