Notes & links potentially of interest

• The Haltwhistle Register contains many names of putative fathers of illegitimate children

• The miners and associated pit workers of the Northeast lived in closeknit communities and aften moved in extended family groups. Find one family, and there will more often than not be other relatives living close by.

• Familiarise yourself with boundaries, County, District, Parish etc. Familysearch England Jurisdictions 1851 is a helpful online resource www.familysearch.org/mapp/

• Full list of the 40 or so collieries within 5 miles of Black Shields Bog together with a host of other information about mining in the North East at the Durham Mining Museum Website: www.dmm.org.uk/collnear/b123.htm

• An article dated 1894 sheds light on the social conditions and peculiarities of the North East Miner: www.dmm.org.uk/history/htdd10.htm