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- The Marske parish burial record states "He came out of Netherdale (now called Nidderdale) some months before with a wife and 3 sons and a daughter where he had been a smelter. Pauper."There was a 'Manor of Netherdale' which was located at Ramsgill which is about 20 miles south of Leyburn. There was even a 'Netherdale Mining Company' there.Here is a quote from a book about the effects on the men who worked in the lead smelters."... He spoke of the ill effects of the lead fumes on the smelters, many of whom died in their early forties due to contracting a lung disease. A miner himself, he said that the higher wages did not tempt him to work in the mill." - The Lead Smelting Mills of the Yorkshire Dales and Northern Pennines. R. T. Clough, 2nd Ed. 1979
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