Search England, Mining disaster victims
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Discover the names and circumstances of those who died in mining accidents. From these transcripts, you can discover the following information: name, birth year, age, event date, colliery, and incident details. Four counties are represented in the records: Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and Yorkshire. This collection has been obtained from the Alan Beales Database of Fatalities in the Coal Fields. Additional information about the records can we found on the source’s website.
This collection has been obtained from the Alan Beales Database of Fatalities in the Coal Fields. The records cover four counties: Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and Yorkshire. Each transcript will provide all or some of the following details:
Included in these records are the 26 children who lost their lives in the Huskar Pit disaster of 1838 as well as 88 of the men who died in the Cadeby Main pit disaster in 1912. The initial explosion at Cadeby Main killed a total of 38 men; however, when a rescue party was sent in, another explosion occurred, killing 53 of the rescue workers.
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