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John Halliday
| Age: | 29 |
| Died: | 17th Feb 1843 |
| Accident: | 17th Feb 1843 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1814 |
| Colliery: | Waldridge |
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| Notes: | Halliday and another man had got in the loop to descend Waldrige Pit, but he did not wait for the engineman to draw them up and lower them into the shaft. This caused the rope to drop about three feet into the staple, causing him to be jerked off, and he fell to the bottom of the shaft. He was recovered, but only lived about 15 minutes |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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| jill macgregor | 07 Dec 2016 |
Halliday family. Trying to find details of John Halliday, wife Elizabeth Halliday .John Halliday, born 1814/16 who was on census for 1841 but was deceased by 1851. Also looking for details of son Thomas Halliday born 1843 die 1867 approx. Married Ann Irwin in 1865 and was deceased by 1870, when Ann Irwin married William Walker |
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| Cathy Naborowski | 13 Jul 2023 |
I believe this John Halliday is my 3rd great-grandfather. He was married to Elizabeth Gardiner who remarried in 1852 to William Elliott. |
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