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The Employment Commission report of 1842 on Children in Mines and Factories

• Some of the evidence is given by adults
• The listing for a child will give their age.
• Where given, colliery employment numbers are included.
• In some cases these are only an abstract.

DINAS COLLIERY, parish of Yshadgvodog (sic) [Ystradyfodwg]. Glamorganshire.

Walter Coffin, Esq. Proprietor.

Water and steam power

Males employed:-

• Adults; 301
• Under 18 years; 32
• Under 13 years; 81

• David Morgan, aged 13, collier.
• Thomas Slaththethral, aged11, collier.
• Philip Davies, aged 10, haulier.
• Philip Jones, aged 13, coal-cutter.
• John Roland, aged 12, coal-cutter.
• James Rogers, aged 13, coal-cutter.
• William Thomas, aged 14, coal-cutter.
• William Morgan, aged 10, door-keeper
• William Isaac, aged 11 years, air-door keeper.
• Llewellyn Powell, aged 14, collier.
• Mathew Lewis, aged 11, collier.
• David Watkins, aged 15, collier.

CWNRHONDDA COLLIERY, parish of Llantrissant, Glamorganshire.

Messrs. D. W. Davies and Co. Occupiers.

Male persons employed:-

• Adults; 35
• Under 18;  7
• Under 13;  5

• William David, Forman
• David Davies, aged 13, haulier.
• William Maggs, aged 11, haulier.
• Edwin John, aged 12, collier.
• William Richards, aged 12, coal-cutter.
• John Richards (father of William), collier.

IRW (sic) [EIRW] COLLIERY, parish of Llantwert (sic) [Llanwonno],Glamorganshire.

William Crawshay, Esq., Proprietor.

Males employed:-

• Adults; 25
• Under 18;   5

• Forman, Henry Thomas from Treforest.
• Arnold Butler, Colliery Smith
• William Evans, aged 10, air-boy.

FOREST FACH COLLIERY, parish of Llantwitfardre, Galmorganshire..

Mr John Edmunds Proprietor, Newbridge.

Males employed :-

• Adults; 22
• Between 13 and 18 years of age

No children listed here but evidence is given by

• William Williams agent,
• William Macfarlane, schoolmaster.

GELLIGAER COLLIERY, parish of Gelligear, Glamorganshire.

Messrs Powell and Co., Occupiers.

Number of persons employed:-

• Adults; 127
• Under 18 years of age; 13
• Under 13 years of age; 10

Winding-engine of 12-horse power for pumping water; coal brought from workings to level by horses, 16 in number; boys employed as horse-drivers, and air-door keepers, and filling coal; main-roads six feet high, present working-seam five feet thick.

• William Jenkins, clerk and under agent to Gelligear Colliery.
• William Rees, aged 15, coal-cutter.
• Rees Stephens, aged 15 haulier.
• James Tudor, aged 9, air-door boy
• Thomas Jones, schoolmaster, Gelligear.
• Mrs Hannah Jenkins [mother of David, a boy in the pit aged nine]
• The Rev. Thomas Stacey, rector, parish of Gelligear.

GILFACH FARGOED COLLIERY, parish of Gelligear, Glamorganshire.

Joshua Fletcher Hanson, Esq. Proprietor; David Davies, Contractor.

Number of persons employed :-

• Adults; 50
• Under 18 years of age; 7
• Under 13 years of age; 12

• Jabez Williams, aged 15, hitcher.
• Ellis Loydd, aged 7 collier.
• Morgan Kenneth, aged 8, collier.
• Edward William, aged 11, collier,
• William Davies, aged 12, collier.
• Joseph Neath and John Neath twin brothers aged 11, assisting their father,
• Eleazor Phlips, aged 17, collier.
• Michael Maccarthy, aged 16, haulier.
• Daniel Edwards, aged 16, haulier.
• William Richards, aged 9 collier.
• Edward Rowland, aged 16, collier.
• Edmund Williams, Esq., magistrate of Maes-y-Ryddo, in the parish of Bedwelty. Monmouthshire.
• Evan Edwards Esq., M.D., Caerphilly.

I am amazed at the huge quantity of names in this report and I am only sorry to pass on such a limited number.

Steve Keates Oct 2000

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