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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [OEL] LEEWELL
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:42:20 +0000
In-Reply-To: <003d01c39c5f$3c3f6680$19b28351@genealogrevlv8>

In message <003d01c39c5f$3c3f6680$>, John Gallon
<> writes
>Dear List,
>
>I hoping that someone could tell me the meaning of the word "Leewell".
>
>It was in a Northumberland Mining Book in 1713. And was used in this context.
>"........the charge of bringing up a Leewell from Stots Pow to Walker
>Pitts......"

Possibly = level - he was paying for a horizontal cutting made through
from the existing pit to a new section where there was coal, or a new
exit for the trucks to be winched through.
--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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