Posted by Peter Roche on April 16, 2007 at 07:29:03 from 86.31.194.143 user PeterR.
In Reply to: Charcoal burners' wives? posted by Peter Hyland on April 15, 2007 at 21:15:58:
Where are their wives?
Perhaps they never married! As you say Peter charcoal burning was itinerant so perhaps they sowed their seed where they worked - though the accomodation must have left a lot to be desired - and moved on? Must have been very difficult to trace anybody in the pre computer age.