William Edge, miner, d 1853 in accident

[Douce]

Thank you all - I have the paper clipping. This says "a pit at Hart's Hill colliery, the property of Lord Ward". I don't know how to reconcile the "Wallace pit" note on the death cert, however!

Andrew

[philipsearching]

Thank you all - I have the paper clipping. This says "a pit at Hart's Hill colliery, the property of Lord Ward". I don't know how to reconcile the "Wallace pit" note on the death cert, however!

Andrew

You would need to confirm this with somebody who has more expertise than me, but as far as I understand, "pit" is not exactly equivalent to "mine" (leaving aside "colliery") - there could be several mine shafts in one group.

Philip

[Douce]

Hello Philip

Thank you for the reply. William was killed by the collapse of a heap of coal, so could be any of the pit/mine/colliery descriptions. I and my two Australian relations have done a lot of research from a distance (although they have both visited the area) and we rely on stalwarts like you to fill in the gaps!

We will continue to look into what happened and, should we find anything else, will update the thread

Andrew