Advice - fatal accident

[specialkg]

Rumour has it that a member of my family was killed in a quarry explosion in the early 1900s.

I have him in the 1901 census in the Glasgow area.  His wife died in Elgin in 1915.  There is no mention of the husband.

I was wondering if there would have been a register back in the early 1900s that would have registered fatal accidents. 

He may have left his wife and children and gone abroad or died in England.

Would I be correct in thinking  that as  I can't find his death on Scotland's People  he did not die in Scotland.

I am not mentioning a name at the moment as I am still trying to piece things together.

I am trying to get the last known time that he was around.

Any advice would be much appreciated

Betty

[eilthireach]

Rumour has it that a member of my family was killed in a quarry explosion in the early 1900s.

I have him in the 1901 census in the Glasgow area.  His wife died in Elgin in 1915.  There is no mention of the husband.

I was wondering if there would have been a register back in the early 1900s that would have registered fatal accidents. 

He may have left his wife and children and gone abroad or died in England.

Would I be correct in thinking  that as  I can't find his death on Scotland's People  he did not die in Scotland.

I am not mentioning a name at the moment as I am still trying to piece things together.

I am trying to get the last known time that he was around.

Any advice would be much appreciated

Betty

We need "names, ranks and serial numbers" 
No, it doesn't mean that he died elsewhere, just because you haven't found this person in Scotland. You don't give us the information we need in order to help you and so we don't know how well you have searched, how well you have used the system.
There is no separate national register recording the results of fatal accident inquiries. If someone dies in a fatal accident, that person's death is recorded in the same system of civil registration as all other natural life events. There are, of course, other possible resources - legal records, newspaper reports, etc. Have you looked amongst these records?

[specialkg]

Thanks for your reply.

I have tried looking at the newspapers but only for the Elgin area.

I am really just looking for advice at the moment.

I have a few things to check to get a more realistic time span as to when he could have died.

Thank you for your time,  I may come back with his name at a later date, depending on how I get on.

Betty

[maclennan25]

just a thought...

have you checked local newspapers around the time for a mention of a fatal accident?

a couple of examples in the elgin area:

NM071245 HARRY HALL Occ:  QUARRY WORKER
DoB:c.1880  DoD: 19 JUN 1920 Place of Death: LOSSIEMOUTH QUARRY
Father: CLEMENT HALL 
Mother: JOHANNA WATSON 
Biography: BROTHER OF CLEMENT & NANCY HALL
Spouse's Name:  MARY FLOOD CLIFTON ROAD LOSSIEMOUTH
Headstone Ref:  Lo472
Banffshire Advertiser: report of fatal accident 24/06/1920  5/6 
Northern Scot: death 26/06/1920  3/1 



NM031698 George Cameron Occ: QUARRYMAN, LIVED AT 26 REIDHAVEN SQUARE KEITH
DoB:c.1862  DoD: 28 DEC 1922
Place of Death:  MAISLEY QUARRY
Banffshire Advertiser:  report of fatal accident 05/01/1922  6/6 



NM121092 William Wilson Occ:QUARRYMAN, WORKED AT BLACKHILLOCK LIME WORKS KEITH
DoB: c.1850 DoD: 17 JUL 1902 Age:  52 
Place of Death:  BLACKHILLOCK LIME WORKS KEITH
COURANT  death 18/07/1902  5/2 
Banffshire Herald  death 19/07/1902  1/1 
Banffshire Herald  death 19/07/1902  1/1 
Banffshire Herald  report of fatal accident 19/07/1902  5/5 
Banffshire Herald  report of fatal accident 19/07/1902  5/5 
Banffshire Herald  fatal accident inquiry 23/08/1902  4/4 
Banffshire Herald  fatal accident inquiry 23/08/1902  4/4 

[Isabel H]

If he was in Glasgow in 1901, could he have died there and his wife moved to Elgin afterwards?

Have you searched SP using wild cards and different spellings?

Search the National Archives of Scotland catalogue for his name, or for "quarry" and "accident". The latter brings up 6 results between 1901-1915.http://www.nas.gov.uk/

If you have access to the British Library newspaper database, try searching there.

[specialkg]

Sorry to both replies for delay in thanking you.

Thanks for the advice.

For S.P I had someone at a Family History Fair have a look for him without success but I am going to S.P myself in a couple of months so I will give it a good go then.

If he did die in a quarry accident I would think it would have been reported somewhere so I will keep exploring that side of things as well.

It might just have been a story and he just disappeared!

Thanks again for your time.

Betty