For those members of the list that are not familiar with it, Mick Atkinson's thesis is the best general history of iron mining in Britain in the nineteenth century that has ever been produced. It is a great shame that it has never been published.
Roger
Dr. Roger Burt
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School of Humanities and Social Studies
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From: mining-history [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Atkinsons [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 16 May 2010 09:52
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Subject: Re: re Mick Atkinson's Phd thesis
I remember Pearl in Lyme Regis and vaguely the story of her grandfather but
I am afraid there is nothing in my thesis about Joseph Wills
Mick Atkinson
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From: "Tony Oldham" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: re Mick Atkinson's Phd thesis
Dear Anne
Sorry, I cannot help. I have forwarded you emial to the Mining History
list. There are other mining websites you can try like Aditnow and Mine
Explorer
> Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 18:55:25 +1000
> From: [log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: re Mick Atkinson's Phd thesis
>
> Dear Tony,
> I am researching my husbands family tree and his Gr Gr Grandfather is a
> man called Joseph Wills (DOB 1858 in Helston, Cornwall) who was a tin
> miner in Cornwall and who later went to Africa to fight in the Boer War.
> According to my Mother-In-Law, his Gr Daughter Pearl Waggett (nee Wills)
> Joseph was involved in Mining tin in Africa and when Mick Atkinson was
> writing his thesis he contacted her for information about Joseph's
> story. This is a pretty vague question, but I am hoping you will be able
> to direct me to an online copy of Mick Atkinson's thesis and that I will
> find some reference there to Joseph Wills.
> Anne Coulter
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