http://www.monklands.co.uk/coatbridge/

painting of the mills fired up at night your ancestor left ..it was described as hell at night ..or no difference bewtene day or night ..so lit up ..

"Gartsherrie by night "

http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/pictur...R_Stanley_c185

they lived rough ..the water was generally contaminated and piped sometimes right ut the mine into a tub and very black ..my grgrda had lung bothers ..his Granda John Douglas traveled with the family so he was probably infirmed too at 70 or so ..in Stirling Bannockburn area ..

there's lots on ..miners ..get lucky you might get name of pit and address shoudl be no bother to check ..we get free geneology stuff at library ..ancestry.com ..line up 1850-1860 name and family and work backward or slide over to parish records ..or births ..

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