Mining accidents - widows compensation !

[Ayashi]

I apologise if I seemed to be patronising. I just thought to be down a mine from early teens right through into the seventies isn't something I would liked to have done.

I have miners on one side and labourers and farmers on the other. I don't know what the miners were like (unfortunately I have names and dates only) but I'm getting the death notice of the 70 year old through the post soon I hope, so the wording on it (news article?) might tell me more about what people thought of him.

[JenB]

Slightly off the topic, but I think it's a nice story so please bear with me:

My uncle, who died recently, was a Methodist Minister. When he moved to a circuit in the Durham Coalfield in the 1960's he was informed that one of his duties was to be chaplain at the Morrison Busty Colliery. His predecessor had gone there once a week and sat in an office, waiting for people to come to see him if they wished.

My uncle decided that this wasn't really quite the thing, so he went on a training course at Vane Tempest Colliery which qualified him to go underground.

Thereafter, accompanied by an official from the pit, he went to the coal face every week without fail. The seams were so narrow he often had to crawl to get there. My aunt still has his safety helmet, and the lamp he was presented with by the miners when he moved to another church.

He once said that it was most amusing to hear how the miners' language improved as he got closer to them and worsened as he departed 


Jennifer

[tomkin]

  http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,272049.0.html

    Nowt to do wi' owt but click on the link. It should

    make people appreciate what they have today

     but I doubt it.

                  Tomkin
    

      

[Gadget]

think the comma should be a fullstop - just trying to get the link up.

thanks for that, Tomkin

No that doesn't work for me either 

[tomkin]

the miners' language improved as he got closer to them and worsened as he departed  

                 I've always found miners to be very polite and

   eloquent. In fact I was down the Pit one day when a large

    stone the size of a football fell from the roof on to a miners foot.

    " Oh dear", he said, "I think that my toes are crushed. I may have

    to leave and go to the hospital."  

        Tomkin

[tomkin]

 http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,272049.0.html

   Strange that. I copied and pasted it just like this one,

    and this works.

            Sorry about that .

         Tomkin

    Now it's gone again

[Gadget]

My great grandfather:



his father , James, died of natural causes but his father-

My 3 x great grandfather:

Thomas MATES
b.c. 1799
d. June 1824, Chirk - in a mining accident

[tomkin]

   http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,272049.0.html

[tomkin]

b.c. 1799
d. June 1824, Chirk - in a mining accident

    One of my ancestors suffered exactly the same fate in the

    mid 1800's.    A few months earlier and Tomkin would not

     have existed

             Tomkin