My GT.Grandparents on Mums side were from Cornwall and Devon and came to Burnley in the early 1870's.
He was from St Agnes, Cornwall, she was from Tavistock, Devon. His family were copper miners and he came to Burnley to work in the coal mines, but had no idea they would be used to break the strike. She appears to have been in a workhouse in Plymouth? and found work as a domestic servant in Burnley.
They married in 1878 and from the marriage cert were living at Cliviger and St James St.
From 1881 Census they lived on Ashworth St, and had two other Cornish people boarding with them.
From 1891 Census they lived on Tentre St,
From 1901 Census they lived on Lyndhurst Rd.
I will keep searching.
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