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The Children’s Employment Commission report published in 1842 includes Charles Barham’s evidence from Cornwall and Devon. John Henry Martin, Samuel Tippet and Martha Williams were interviewed on 6 March 1841 in the Redruth mining district. Their accounts record work alongside food, wages, family arrangements and time away from work. They are individual witnesses from another district, not a workforce list for Mount Wise or a measure of its average worker’s age.
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https://www.cmhrc.co.uk/cms/document/1842_Cornwall.pdf#page=107
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