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FRANK B. NANCARROW, QMC HOIST ENGINEER

Photocopied July 1978. (LGK) FRANK B. NANCARROW, QMC HOIST ENGINEER, AT THE CONTROLS OF THE 1920 NO. 2 NORDBERG HOIST. C. 1925.

According to Polk's 1916-17 dirctory for Hancock there was a Nancarrow, Frank B (Elizabeth), engr, res 245 L Pewabic loc.

Nancarrow is Cornish: habitational name from places in the parishes of St. Allen and St. Michael Penkivel, so named from Cornish nans ‘valley’ + carow ‘deer’, ‘stag’ or garow ‘rough’.

A reasonable assumption I think that Frank B. was a descendant of one of the many Cornish miners (possibly a family) that emmigrated to Michigan to work the copper mines.

Courtesy Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HAER, Reproduction HAER MICH,31-HANC,1-57

This photograph is by carnkie and was uploaded February 16th 2010. © carnkie please do not copy or distribute without prior express permission.

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