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Entrance at Keswick which leads to the wheel pit chamber, built c1570
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Keswick's German miners |
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Integration
Entrance to Silver Gill mine at Roughton Gill, built c1570
© Courtesy of Ian Tyler |
Unlike their male counterparts, the female population of Keswick were quite taken with the new arrivals. Within the first year of their residence, 14 of the Germans married local girls. Parish registers for Crossthwaite show that 176 children with German fathers were born between 1565 and 1584. As time elapsed, the Germans fully integrated with the English community. The names of Hindmarch, Stanger, Pepper and many more are still common in the area.
This is there only lasting sign on the area, unless you take a walk high into the fells. Remains of some buildings associated with mining do exist but any examples of their inhabitation of Keswick, Grasmere, Caldbeck and Coniston have long since vanished. Even their homes on Derwent Water have not stood the test of time. However in a positive light, this lack of physical evidence shows the community did integrate well with the locals, albeit after a shaky start!
Take a look at a photo gallery of German mines
Words: Ian Tyler
Your comments
1 Roland Blanz from Germany - 6 February 2004
"Thanks for publishing german miners history in UK.It would be great to get publish all german names having been miners in the past,say in the 15th/16th centuries,supporting ancestor movments from Germany to UK. Thank you for any info."
2 Wendy from USA - 6 January 2004
"Thanks for the info. In doing genealogical research, I was trying to figure out why so many Germans were listed in the old Greystoke Parish lists.
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