I'm trying hard still to find what happened to a James Anderson, Dearham, Cumberland born (c.1842) miner, he was in the Flint area in 1867, when his son was born.(Don't think he was actually married to the mother). But I have a lot more on him now.
In 1870 he made the local papers, in June, as the victim of theft (5 shillings and some "wearing apparel"), and apparently was working at Flint Marsh Colliery.
He was in the 1871 census, in Feather Street, Flint. I've seen the half of the street that's there still, and noted the area's generous provision of Public Houses for thirsty miners!
He does not seem to appear on any later censuses, so I am speculating that he died between 1871 and 1881, and especially as, from what I've read in the local records office there, the Flint Marsh Colliery didn't seem to have a brilliant safety record, probably in a mine accident. I'd some idea he may have died about '78.
I've "got" him from birth, in Whitehaven, then Dearham, in 1851 and 1861 censuses, no idea why he moved to Wales - except his mother seems to have died in that period.
I may have asked a question on this board before, about him in general terms - I can't find it, so there's no point trying to link to it, and please forgive me if I have, I once before inadvertently incurred the wrath of a moderator that way -but really:
All I want is help to come up with a new idea of where I may be able to find a record if he died in an accident at the Flint Marsh Mine in that time-scale. I can't seem to find anything online.
