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19-01-10, 15:15
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Where did they go?
Sorry if this seems long but I want to give you everything I know.
Richard NORTHEY the 8th child of John NORTHEY and Agness née COX/COCKS was born c1840 in the St Austell District, Cornwall. No birth found in the indexes. He was baptised at Holy Trinity Church, St Austell 9th August 1840, the family were living at Boscundle. Richard is with his parents in 1841 Tregrehan Mills HO7/146 Folio 17 pg 26 1851 Family listed as NORTHY Charlestown HO107; Piece: 1907; Folio: 86; Page: 7 1861 Richard is with his widowed mother in Tavistock,Devon, she was born there. RG9; Piece: 1462; Folio: 68; Page: 27 On 15th September 1864 a Richard Cox NORTHEY a miner son of John NORTHEY married an Eliza Ann THOMAS daughter of William THOMAS a mariner at St Paul's Church, Charlestown, Cornwall Witnesses were Thomas HARRIS and George NORTHEY Richard has a younger brother George and one of his sisters married a Thomas HARRIS. My problem is, after the marriage Richard and Eliza seem to disappear. I've tried census in Wales, Scotland, Isle of Man, Channel Islands as well immigration/Emigration but nothing seems to be coming up for them. Has anyone any other ideas please?
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19-01-10, 15:40
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The trouble is, the passenger lists on Findmypast for people leaving the UK don't go back as far as the 1860's, so they could well have emigrated.
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19-01-10, 15:48
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Mmm Kite, that's one of the problems, I've checked the lists on Ancestry but they are very hit and miss at the best of times. None of my folk who went to America in the 1880's apear on them.
Oh orgot to say I didn't see them on the US census lists either. Not ignoring anyone but better go show willing to make a meal. 
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19-01-10, 15:50
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I googled for Richard Cox Northey and there was one match, about a miner age 35 with his wife and children; it looks as if it's part of a report about mining in Pennsylvania in the 1880's, but every time I try to view the page it freezes my laptop up! Maybe someone else can load it? (Think it's something to do with the DjVu viewer?)
Update - can't load it on my main computer either, but this is the bit that came up on Google: Full text of "Report of the Inspectors of Mines of the anthracite..." Richard Cox Northey, a miner, aged thirty-five years, wife and three children; at the Coal Run colliery of the Suffolk Coal Company. . and the URL includes reportsofinspect1881penn
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19-01-10, 15:55
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Ooh, well, looking at the 1880 US census on FamilySearch, there is at Mahanoy City, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania a Richard Northy age 35, miner, born England, with wife Mary Jane 28 born Wales, and children Wm Jno 12, James 10 and Richard 4, all born Pennsylvania. So it looks as though Mary Jane was his second wife.
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19-01-10, 16:53
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1870 US census in Mahanoy East Ward, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania:
Northey Richard 25 Miner England Northey William J 2 Penn Northey Mary 19 Wales
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19-01-10, 17:01
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Oh thanks for that Kite, wonder if I can find a death for Eliza. I'll get onto my Rellie in Texas, Richard is part of her family too, to see if she has access to anything we don't over here.
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19-01-10, 17:02
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Then on the 1910 census Mary J is a widow, not found her in 1900 yet to see if Richard was still alive then or not.
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19-01-10, 17:06
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Yes, Richard was still alive in 1900 but the page is quite faint so I'll have to have another look later to make it out properly (got to go and do washing up now). They're listed as North instead of Northey on ancestry's transcription and it has Richard North 56 at Mahanoy City, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania if you have access to look it up in the meantime.
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19-01-10, 18:03
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Reports of the Inspectors of Mines.
No. 8. — November 29. Richard Cox Northey, a miner, aged thirty-five years, wife and three children; at the Coal Run colliery of the Suffolk Coal Company. At this colliery a branch of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad, con- necting Ellangowan and Knickerbocker collieries with the main line, crosses the mine car track leading from the slope to the breaker. Northey was on his way from the blacksmith shop, where he had been for his tools, to the was standing on the mine car track, waiting for a train of railroad cars to pass, so as to get across to the slope. While standing and watching the passing train, an empty mine car was being run down the track from the rock l)ank to the slope, which is down grade to the crossing. The man in charge of this car permitted it to run away, and being unable to follow it, cried out, but the noise of the passing train prevented Northe}' from hear- ing him. With his back turned towards the runawa}^ car, he did not see it until it run him down, driving him against the railroad cars, and inflicting injuries from which he died on reaching his home in Mahanoy City, two miles distant.
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Wendy Last edited by WendyPusey; 19-01-10 at 18:06.
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