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From: "Peter Davidson" <>
Subject: Re: [RWY-UK] Robert Towell (1818-1884)
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:31:15 +0100
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Hi Andrew,
I guess you may already be aware of the Cooperative Archive site:
http://archive.co-op.ac.uk/default.htm

There are a lot of union archives at the Modern Records Centre at Warwick:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/

As he was based at Kettering, he presumably worked for the Midland Railway.
Most railway records are in the National Archives at Kew. For further info
on what's there, check out the following:
National Archives research guides
http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/researchguidesindex.asp
National Archives catalogue
http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp

The best book for railway staff records is:
David T Hawkins, Railway Ancestors: A Guide to the Staff Records of the
Railway Companies of England & Wales 1822-1947, (Stroud, 1995). It has
detailed info on what staff records are available for the different
companies.
Two others are:
Cliff Edwards, Railway Records: A Guide to Sources, (PRO, 2001) &
Tom Richards, Was Your Grandfather a Railwayman?, (FFHS, 1995).

I see there is also a Midland Railway Society:
http://webp1.mimas.ac.uk/~zzaascs/mrsoc/

Regards,
Pete Davidson


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Wood" <>
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Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 8:48 AM
Subject: [RWY-UK] Robert Towell (1818-1884)


> Hi List
> Robert Towell was my great grandfather x 2. He was described as railway
> labourer at all three censuses from 1861-1881. He was also a member of
> the eight-man founding committee of the Kettering [in Northamptonshire]
> Industrial Co-operative Society (KICS) in 1866. How can I find out more
> about his record as a railway labourer? Presumably, the railway workers
> union and the local Co-op movement had close links as in 1918 they made
> political history when the Kettering constituency elected railway worker,
> Alfred Waterson, as the first Co-operative M.P.
>
> Andrew Wood
> Stockton on Tees
> (of Stockton & Darlington Railway fame)
>
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