Hart buck spirit merchant 1833. My last post on this blog was 11 months ago! I have been busy elsewhere, organising the Wyong District Pioneers Association. But still, I am quite surprised I have not been able to find the time or energy to write about my own family history in nearly a year. To rectify the situation, I am posting this snippet which raises more questions than answers.

Welcome to the Cleveland, North Yorkshire and South Durham Family History Society. Was adopted for a new county which survived for only 22 years from 1974, having been created from its predecessor, Teesside. Your visit to our website suggests that you may be researching your family history in the Cleveland FHS. Was set up in 1980 to provide a service for family histo.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009. Saturday, October 18, 2008. Your tombstone stands among the rest. The name and date are chiselled out. It reaches out to all who care. It is too late to mourn. You did not know that I exist. You died and I was born. Yet each of us are cells of you. In flesh and blood and bone. Our blood contracts and beats a pulse. Dear Ancestor, the place you filled.

The Background to the Nine Men of Madeley Project. The Accident and its Aftermath. Madeley Parish in the 19th Century. The Grave of the Nine Men. EDWARD WALLETT JOHN TRANTER BENJAMIN DAVIES WILLIAM JARRATT JOSEPH MAIDEN. JOHN FARR JOHN JONES FRANCIS COOKSON WILLIAM ONIONS. Tuesday 27th September 1864, at 5. 40pm - nine Madeley miners, most of them boys, began their ascent to the surface at the end of their shift in the Brick Kiln Leasow Crawstone Pit.