Women in South Glos mines
The 1842 report says that women aren't employed in this area. I do however
have a number of names of women in census' described as "miner" (could mean
miners wife/widow though) - several women appear on leases etc as
partners/share holders - usually because the husband had died
Regards
David
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Subject: [MINING-HISTORY] Women at mines
> >in North Wales (I haven't got the information for elsewhere) that there
> were a small number of mines in the Home Office Lists of mines where women
> were shown as the Owner or Operator.
>
> Many thanks for that Dave - what sort of period are you talking about?
>
> Lynn Willies mentioned (at Exeter) that in Derbyshire, during the C20th,
> some women were involved as owners/mangers of fluorspar recovery
> operations.
>
> Mike
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