We have now created a website entitled 'Bal Maidens and Women at the Mines' which may be found at http://www.balmaiden.co.uk. While the emphasis is on women and girls who worked at the mines in Devon and Cornwall, there are also sections on other mining areas of the UK, plus worldwide.
There is a searchable database of 21,000 females employed at the mines in Cornwall and Devon. Records date from the 14th century and include census records, mine cost books and employment returns, accident and newspaper reports etc. The majority of entries are for the 1840 to 1890 period.
Other sections include picture galleries of Pit Brow Lasses in northern England, and female coal workers in France and Belgium. There are also Name Indexes for some of the UK 1842 Royal Commission of Employment of Children and Young People at the Mines Reports.
This may be of interest to some of the list members.
Lynne Mayers
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