He grew up in a mining family and graduated as a chemist for the mining industry.
The mining families seldom mixed socially with the civil service families established at a separate end of the town.
Barnett, from a mining family, worked down the pit at age fifteen.
While still a child herself, she worked caring for the mining family's children, during which time she became a proficient English speaker.
Some claim that some mining families never worked for many decades following the closure of the mines yet always had money to spend.
Savelberg comes from a mining family of five children.
Elizabeth Andrews was born into a mining family at Hirwaun in 1882.
Bostock was born in Ilkeston of a mining family, and was a child when his father died.
This is named after a mining family of Ryans who worked in the pits for hundreds of years.
He came from a mining family with a strong Methodist background.