{"id":236,"date":"2014-12-10T19:46:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T19:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cpaulevans.net\/fodfhtnew\/register-of-freeminers-and-quarrymen\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:33:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:33:40","slug":"register-of-freeminers-and-quarrymen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forest-of-dean.net\/fodfht2023\/data-to-search\/register-of-freeminers-and-quarrymen\/","title":{"rendered":"Register of Freeminers and Quarrymen"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"w-btn-wrapper align_none\"><a class=\"w-btn us-btn-style_2\" title=\"Search Register of Freemen\" href=\"https:\/\/forest-of-dean.net\/fodfht2023\/data-to-search\/register-of-freeminers-and-quarrymen\/search-register-of-freemen\/\"><span class=\"w-btn-label\">Search Register of Freeminers<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h2>About these records<\/h2>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is a transcript of the Register held at Gloucestershire Archives and was completed by May Brace to whom we extend our sincere thanks.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">May writes:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>From 1837 all Births, Deaths and Marriages were supposed to be registered by law, and copies from the local civil registers were sent to the General Record Office quarterly. As there was no penalty for not registering a birth ( until 1870s) not all children were registered but to become eligible as a Freeminer they had to prove that they were born in the Forest. Some of those without birth certificates were able to produce records of their baptism and some could not. In these cases other local people would vouch for them. Thus you may find instances of a persons existence where there is no other evidence of their birth.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>There are some Place Names added into the entries e.g. London or Illinois. This may indicate that these miners moved on to these places but you can only treat the information as a lead until you can prove it from other sources.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>After transcribing about half, I discovered just how useful these records could be when I had the shock of realising that I was typing my own grandfathers name. No-one in our present family had known anything about this time in his life, just after World War 1, and so I would urge everyone to check this database.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Search Register of FreeminersAbout these records This is a transcript of the Register held at Gloucestershire Archives and was completed by May Brace to whom we extend our sincere thanks. May writes: From 1837 all Births, Deaths and Marriages were supposed to be registered by law, and copies from the local civil registers were sent...","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":306,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-236","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forest-of-dean.net\/fodfht2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forest-of-dean.net\/fodfht2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forest-of-dean.net\/fodfht2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forest-of-dean.net\/fodfht2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forest-of-dean.net\/fodfht2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/forest-of-dean.net\/fodfht2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54047,"href":"https:\/\/forest-of-dean.net\/fodfht2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/236\/revisions\/54047"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forest-of-dean.net\/fodfht2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forest-of-dean.net\/fodfht2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}