i was recently researching my maternal family history when i came across a relative (my GGGrandfather) who was a miner hewer at a pit in Osmondthorpe. I don`t know which pit it would have been exactly, i know there were a few in operation around that area (this was about 1881. His name was Amos Fletcher and it looks like the male relatives in the house ended up working pit jobs too according to the census. They lived at what i`m guessing would have been the very bottom of what was the old Osmondthorpe lane (probably around where it joins newmarket lane somewhere at the top)
He was born in eccleshall bierlow which i believe was an old parish in Sheffield in 1848 and it looks like further back his relatives were concentrated around markham, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire, mostly in mining and steel.
I found loads of entries in our family tree concentrated mostly around york road which i guess speaks much about how mining influenced rural workers to move to where the work was when the industrial revolution kicked in...
just wondered if anyone had any info about anything related??
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