evening, is anyone around with time to check the 1911 for me please?

[dotty.]

This is a tree I did 3 years ago but the woman i did it for has 'lost' it and she's asked for a copy , anyway, it's Richard Ball Houghton born 1890 Bickerstaffe. I don't think he was married before 1911. Thanks x

[craft1948]

54 Lily Lane Bamfurlong Near Wigan

HOUGHTON, Thomas Head Married M 46 1865 Coal Miner Hewer Lancashire Upholland
HOUGHTON, Jane Wife Married 21 years F 39 1872 Lancashire Rainford
HOUGHTON, Richard Ball Son Single M 20 1891 Haulier Below Ground Lancashire Rainford
HOUGHTON, Oswald Thomas Son Single M 19 1892 Haulier Below Ground Lancashire Rainford
HOUGHTON, Ann Daughter Single F 16 1895 Pit Brow Girl Lancashire Rainford
HOUGHTON, William Son Single M 14 1897 Haulier Below Ground Lancashire Rainford
HOUGHTON, Thomas Son Single M 13 1898 Haulier Below Ground Lancashire Rainford
HOUGHTON, Elizabeth Isabella Daughter F 11 1900 School Lancashire Rainford
HOUGHTON, Jane Daughter F 9 1902 School Lancashire Rainford
BALL, Richard Nephew Single M 15 1896 Haulier Below Ground Lancashire Rainford
BALL, Catherine Niece F 6 1905 School Lancashire Coppull

[dotty.]

thanks for that craft, spot on, x

[craft1948]

Makes you think doesn't it dotty when Thomas is aged 13 and is a Haulier Underground..

[carolegif]

Imagine the washing for all the family working down the pit!

[dotty.]

all kids were allowed to do half time working at 13, he will have attended school in the mornin then gone to the pit in the afternoon, the local authority provided a half-time certificate and you can still look up the records for them in the LA archives in most industrial towns. The girls would work half-time in the mills, or some worked the pit-brow, the hauliers pushed the coal carts out of the mines that were too low for pit-ponies,