Sometimes such moves could have related to shared management, but I don't think there was any such link between Lady Bertha & Wheal Uny. There are records of Lady Bertha in the Stannary Court records at Cornwall CRO - was this one of the sources you used? - & that mine was regularly reported in the Mining Journal, so there is a possibility there might be a clue in one of those sources. One could think of all sorts of scenarios for such moves, but whether any sort of documented link is to be found is perhaps unlikely.
Alasdair neill.
Lynne Mayers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Some of the NAMHO folk know that I have been trying to unravel a mistery as to why about a dozen bal maidens should move backwards and forwards between Lady Bertha Mine (Buckland Monachorum) and Wheal Uny (Redruth) in the late 1850s.
I have now found out that one of them was a daughter of a lead smelter at Weir Quay. I am wondering if their movements were connected ot the fate of the lead smelting industry. However, so far I have not found any information about smelters in a relevant area, near enough to Redruth. Point is probably too far away for the women and girls to be travelling to Wheal Uny. Does anyone have any alternative suggestions?
Thanks.
Lynne Mayers
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