Robert‘s story is extremely poignant and illustrates something of the precarious nature of life in mid Victorian England. He was born 25 October 1848 in to a large family of 8 brothers and sisters from his father Henry’s two marriages. In the 1851 Census Robert is living with his father at North Lane, Headingley-cum-Burley –… Continue reading Robert Thorp (1848 – 1913) Coal Miner