HAYNES, shoemaker researches, FoD Resources etc (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Friday, January 09, 2015, 02:53 (3607 days ago) @ Danhaynes03uk

Hi Dan,
thanks for your too-kind words, but all I've done is apply a few "skills" that I learnt from the other members of this forum, and this site's owners, they are the people you should thank, I'm just the messenger !

Sounds like we have a lot in common, I grewup in Cinderford but had to leave in the mid 80s for work, my family still there and Coalway too. Spent a lot of pocketmoney before that at Haines bike shop in Cinderford, a distant relation of your perhaps ?. These last few days I've seen a few more Haines blacksmiths etc in the Trade Directories in your old Coleford area, do you know if they were your relatives, probably not I thought ?. It was only after moving away that I started learning England's industrial heritage, but only abt 6 years ago, when I first found this great site, that I realised just HOW important the Forest was at the start of it all, shame it wasn't mentioned in school at Five Acres. I now know far more abt the Forest than I did when I lived there, terrible really but better late than never !

I THINK I see from this site's records your father maybe registered as a freeminer about the same as mine retired, mine was the son of generations of Lydbrook miners. This was just months after I'd started my engineering Apprenticeship at Ranks. I hope you've seen what looks like your father's freeminer record on this site, again the Resources section, altho I'm sure you knew the details anyway !
http://www.minersadvice.co.uk/monument_pit.htm

Finally, if you want to search the local newspapers for your family, the old DF Mercurys are accessible at Cinderford library, the Citizen is online at the British Newspaper Archives as are other local papers (this is the subscription site Mike has searched for you) and also the free Welsh Newspapers site sometimes helps; these prior threads will guide you.
http://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=34654
http://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=40632
http://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=34751

Again, good luck with your searches, but be warned it can become very addictive !

Please keep coming back to visit and share, thanks again,
Jeff and the whole forum.