When you think of someone being a miner, particularly in the Derbyshire/Leicestershire border area, you might automatically think of coal. But for at least one of Annette’s mining ancestors, the substance they mined was not coal but clay.
From Farmer to Miner
Matthew Lee worked as a farm labourer on his uncle John Lee’s farm, then had his own farm (albeit a smaller one) but then was the first of the family line to go down the Ironstone mines of North Skelton, in Yorkshire.
The Miners of Derbyshire
Annette’s great great grandfather began a mining tradition in the Clamp family – but in the nineteenth century, mining was hard work and deadly dangerous.
Nineteenth Century Baker
Our great-great-grandfather, Joseph Guyer Beard, was a baker – and a successful one at that – putting him in a pivotal position in society.
The Lead Miners of Alston
The Irwins, Tatters and Trathans Three branches of our family tree lived in the area around Nenthead and Alston in what was then Cumberland (now […]