Hrello Ann,
There is an old jingle which goes thus - " Nary bring your cattle home
across the sands of Dee ". It is proble that at low tide people would walk
across the sands and mud flats and then take a row boat ferry across the
main channels, evn these days people walk across Morecan Bay from Grange
Over Sands to Silverdale with guides who know the vagaries of the tides and
shifting sands.
Coal mining was a common occupation , one of my ancestoras was a collier in
the Hawarden area.
Rgards
Peter Webb
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Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 4:31 PM
Subject: [FLN] Re: Hawarden Record office
I will be able to spend a day or two at the Record Office at the end
of
January, and will be looking at the DAVIES, GRIFFTHS and UPTON families
of
Flint.
Can SKS tell me how many churches/ chapels there were in Flint 1750 -
1900,
and have all of the registers been filmed.
I would also be interested to know how Flint people got to Neston on the
Wirral - by boat, walking, -
and what sort of mining did the miners work at, 1800 - 90 .
Thanks -
Ann Lavery
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