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From: "MaryMc" <>
Subject: Re: [Derry] Re: NIR-DERRY-D Digest V03 #97
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:48:21 +1200
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Hi Ann,
I found the following coal mines operating in 1880 in Ulster...don't know if
they will help!
_______________________________________________________________
ULSTER COAL FIELD. Counties Antrim And Tyrone.
1 Annagher, Coal Island, Dungannon, Robert Sommerville and
Co.
2 Ballycastle, Ballycastle Ballymoney, Godden and McDonald.
3 Coal Island, Duugannon, J. McNally and Co.
4 Congo, Edinidork, Tyone Coal Mining Co., Limited.
5 Derry, Coal Island, F. McKenna and Co.
6 Derry, Coal Island, Neile, William and Co.
7 Derry, Coal Island, McNally and Donnelly.
8 Drumrea, Coal Island, McKenna, Devlin, and McNally.
9 Gortnaska Fire Clay (not working), Coal Island, Sloan, Andrew
and Co.
10 10 Mountjoy Trial, Coal Island, Devlin, Daniel.
11 Ulster Fire Clay, Coal Island, Devlin, Daniel.

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The list gives :
Name of colliery, Where situated and the owners name.

This is the page I got it from:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cmhrc/list80.htm

Hope this helps!
regards
Mary McCorkell

> > Just returned from a month in France and reading old E mails - one
> > from Alison Causton about her serach for a PRoNI guide to landed
> > estates.
> >
> > I am interested to know about the Londonderry estates in IRL as I
> > have
> some
> > HARPERs who arrived in the NE England c 1850 from IRL - they came, I
> > would think to work at the Londonderry coal mines so it is a
> > reasonable
> supposition that
> > they came from Londonderry estates in IRL , possibly a mining area.
> >
> > I have no idea where coal mines were to be found in N IRL
> > particularly any owned by the Londonderrys - so would be very
> > grateful if anyone you can
> tell me
> > anything useful ...............I do find Irish genealogy v difficult
> > -
> the
> > records where they exist appear to be very closely guarded and
> > mostly only accessible via professional genealogists or personal
> > visit!
> >
> > So - where were the coal mines to be found and which ones were owned
> > by
> the
> > Londonderrys? Which townships were closest to these mines - or
> > am I in
> the
> > completely wrong county? Help please !!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > Ann Lavery

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