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Victoria

Victoria Report 7 Nov 2004 17:30

hello, my great grandfather and at least one of his sons were killed in mining accidents. I have been to the durham mining history website, but neither of them are listed and I can't seem to find any other useful links to anything that migth help me. Thomas Furnival & Louis Furnival are their names. Not sure on exact dobs but Thomas c1885 and his son Louis c1910. I beleive they worked in the New Herrington pit. But would love to find a way of confirming this, when they died, what happened and what their jobs were. Anyone got any ideas that might help me?! any help is much appreciated, vicky

Unknown

Unknown Report 7 Nov 2004 17:35

Vicky I think you will have to find their death certificates to find out how/when they died, which would mean trawling through the GRO death indexes. If they died in a mining accident it is possible it would be covered by the local newspaper, which has probably been filmed and would be in the local records office, but you would need to know roughly when to find a report. nell

Duncan

Duncan Report 7 Nov 2004 17:53

if they were killed in mining accidents i'm sure tere would have been an investigation by her majesty's inspector of mines and they should have a record

Victoria

Victoria Report 7 Nov 2004 20:09

hi Duncan, thanks for the suggestion - any idea where i might find this information? just been googling and not found anything.

Wendy

Wendy Report 7 Nov 2004 20:32

I haven't tried it but have this reference; www.cmhrc.pwp[.]blueyonder[.]co[.]uk I also think that genuki Durham may have a site covering mining deaths. Wendy

Victoria

Victoria Report 7 Nov 2004 21:03

thanks for that wendy, i'll give both a go!

Christopher

Christopher Report 7 Nov 2004 21:16

Try this site :www.dmm.org.uk go to disaster reports. Seems to have fairly detailed reports including names.

Victoria

Victoria Report 8 Nov 2004 15:02

durham coal mining museum doesnt list my rellies unfortunately

Montmorency

Montmorency Report 8 Nov 2004 17:04

they may have been in a friendly society that would pay compensation to accident victims or their widows. I believe the equivalent in the West Riding has records of all members' work-related deaths, from disasters down to blood poisoning from a splinter in a finger. Most men killed in the mines died in routine accidents with machinery etc, not major explosions