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Bal Maidens Home Page
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- We hope that you find this website useful to you in your research. We would welcome your comments as well as any additional information which you can provide. In particular we want to hear about bal maidens not already recorded in the database, before their history is lost forever. Please use the contact button, which is located in the top left corner of each page, to email us your questions, comments or information.
Welcome to this Bal Maidens and Mining Women website, exploring the many different roles which women and girls have undertaken at mines around the world.
The emphasis is on those who worked at the mines (known as bal maidens), clay & slate works, and related industries (such as the explosives industry, smelters etc) in Cornwall and West Devon and includes a searchable database of more than 24,000 named individuals. (Updated 6th November 2008)
There are pages about mining women around the world, notably of pit brow lasses of the north of England, and coal dressers on the French and Belgian coal fields. There are also Name Indexes (which include both males and females) for the 1842 Royal Commission Reports into the Employment of Children and Young People at the Mines for Cumberland, Durham, Northumberland, Cornwall and West Devon, and the Forest of Dean.
