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Bone Mill Employees Research by Jan Foster-Bartlett

After reading the KL Magazine article which says that not much is known about workers at the bone mill, Jan Foster-Bartlett who is a genealogist, decided to search for information about bone mill workers.

David Turner had searched newspaper archives and come up with several names, so they were the starting point. Jan looked for them on Census records and found out more about them. Jan then searched census records for 'Bone Mill' and managed to find information about several other workers at the mill.

Here are details about the mill workers identified. Click on the names for the full stories.

 

James Waters       Bone Boiler     Trespassed on Farm Land

George Garrett      Bone Boiler and Sawyer

George Gibson     Jailed for stealing Brass and Lead from bone mill

William Scott         Millwright         Fatal accident at bone mill

Robert Jenkinson  Maltster and Coprolite Grinder

William, Thomas & James Coates   Fatal Accident at Maltings

Charles Boughen & David Bates    Fatal Accident at Bone Mill

James Skerry       Machine Minder at Bone Mill