Haverigg and Millom, Cumbria, England
Harriett Rosevear, my mother's mother, was born in Millom, Cumbria, England in 1890. Her father, Jacob, worked in the mines there. Both her parents had moved to Cumbria from Cornwall before they were married. The 1881 British census lists Jacob as an iron miner living with his father and mother and siblings at 8 Cobden Street, Dalton on Furness. Emma Jane Pomery, Harriett's mother, was a domestic servant, living at Steel Green House, Millom. She was 15 years old. They were married in 1884 in Kirkby, Ireleth. The family lived in Haverigg on the coast. My grandmother told us that on clear days she could stand at the top of the street where they lived and see the Isle of Man. The house at 7 Concrete Square, listed on Harriett's birth certificate, no longer stands.
Mining in and around Millom was an old enterprise with some evidence that "that ore was smelted in the vicinity ... during the Iron Age by indigenous Celts."The Hodbarrow mine between Millom and Haverigg bore "one of the largest bodies of haematite ever discovered".
see: Industrial History of Cumbria; Iron mining here : http://www.cumbria-industries.org.uk/a-z-of-industries/iron-mining/_
see: Industrial History of Cumbria; Iron mining here : http://www.cumbria-industries.org.uk/a-z-of-industries/iron-mining/_