General Discussion

I'd be interested in connecting with possible Odgers cousins of my sweetheart, Holly Odgers, whose heritage in Cornwall mining reaches back to at least 1788. We both live in New Jersey, near where Holly's 2nd great-grandfather Anthony Hosking Odgers, worked as a miner. He was killed in a mining accident in Hibernia, N.J., and was buried in a potter's field, along with other miners of little means. I've attached the list of miners buried, with Anthony, in a marginal section of the Rockaway Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Despite lacking grave markers, an old map indicates the location of each person interred there. We visited the cemetery in 2021.