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My great grandparents James Rolinson and Emma Ball were married in Dudley in 1873. Earlier in 1871 census James and various other members of his family(all miners) were in Old Cumnock in Scotland. By the 1881 census they were at a different address in Cumnock but had several children children born in Tipton and only 1 in Cumnock. This caused me great confusion. Had Emma gone south for the birth of her children? I now think they just changed jobs a lot. In the following decade my grandfather and a younger sister were born in Rotherham in Yorkshire but by 1891 they family had settled in Calderbank in Lanarkshire.
Has anyone else experienced miners who changed jobs a lot?

Hi Kay
yes I think they did they seemed to move to where the jobs were

We will get your lot on BCC soon

Where were these 2 married?
and born?

My family were in the iron Industry and moved to the North East, for work I presume.
Jo

James Rolinson was born in Darlaston in 1852 acc to 1861 census
Emma Ball was born in Tipton in 1856 acc to 1861 census
They were married in Dudley in July 1873
2 children born in Tipton and then back in Ayrshire in 1880 and 1881 in Rotherham in 1883 and 1886 and in Calderbank from 1891 for the rest of their lives!

My Grandfather Edward Davies 1884 moved to Wallsend in 1911.His brother Thomas 1881 moved to Dinnington in Northumberland in 1910.They were both born in Dudley.

As well as James b1851 moving to Cumnock his parents and 2 brothers moved too. His brother Emmanuel Rolinson married Hannah Jones in Dudley and moved back to Cumnock and moved back and forth a lot too, finally settling in Dudley. Hannah's 2 brothers and another adult boarder stayed with them in a small miners cottage along with 4 sons in 1881 Cumnock and next door were James and Emma, brother Matthew, parents John and Jane and 3 daughters. Jane's sister and her family were nearby. They certainly weren't isolated!
The more I research, the more links between families I find!

Surnames: Rolinson, Ball, Holmes, Price, Jones

OK then here is this for a miner who moved. My 3xgreat grandfather moved to the USA in 1886 after his wife died. He was a miner in County Durham. he emigrated to the minefields of Pennsylvania. Talk about moving around. 4000 miles.

Ben

LondonLover1982 wrote:OK then here is this for a miner who moved. My 3xgreat grandfather moved to the USA in 1886 after his wife died. He was a miner in County Durham. he emigrated to the minefields of Pennsylvania. Talk about moving around. 4000 miles.

Ben

That is very impressive!
On the other hand, my husband's miners have stayed in Cumnock, Ayrshire from the 1860s A nephew now works in the open cast mine there!

Yes

I have a direct biological ancestor who emigrated and lived in America.

The more I dig around, the more connected families from Dudley I find turning up in Ayrshire. The earliest are Joseph Price and Mary Ann Holmes, m 1843 in Wolverhampton whose (first) son Joseph is born in 1850 in Dalry. By 1871 her sister Jane and husband John and their 3 sons are in Cumnock. By 1881 2 of sons have married in Dudley but their families are also in Cumnock and nearby towns along with in-laws Jones, Hunt, Yates and Dickens. Some went back, some married local folk. Most seem to have married within their own community.