Ernest Rutherford was born on August 30, 1871
Germain Sommeiller died in 1871.
Baldy Wittman was born in 1871.
Frederick A. Britten was born in 1871.
Eugène Varlin died in 1871.
The noun 'navvies' doesn't have its own collective noun. Since navvies were the workmen who built the railroads, a collective noun suitable for workmen will work; a gang of navvies, a crew of navvies, etc.
A lot of navvies
The Irish labours who built the canal system in England were called navigators, shortened to navvies.
They dug canals.
Irish navvies
Navvie is short for navigator Navvie is short for navigator
To find work as there was more work in Britain than in Ireland.
The term, 'navvie', is short for 'navigator' -the name that, at one time, was given to labourers who dug trenches.
Alun Francis has written: 'Contexture in paralax 2' -- subject(s): Wind quintets (Bassoon, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe) 'The Navvies' Union and the building of the Manchester Ship Canal' -- subject(s): Navvies' Bricklayers' Labourers' and General Labourers' Union
1948 - 1871 = 77
Don't worry about it(: Explosives, bricks, ballast, steel rails, concrete, navvies and lots of beer
the six provinces that existed in 1871