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William Smales

Age:   33
Died:   5th Dec 1876
Accident:   4th Dec 1876
Year Born:   abt. 1843
Colliery:   Shotton
Company:   Haswell, Shotton, and Easington Coal and Coke Co., Ltd.
Occupation:  
Notes:  
foot and leg severely crushed by slipping between counterbalance, drum, and wall, while oiling the main shaft in motion
Buried:   St. Saviour's Churchyard, Shotton Colliery
Category:  

Shotton Colliery Memorial

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Tombstone

Shotton Colliery — St. Saviour's Churchyard

Location: OS Map 88, Grid Ref NZ394411




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Names on this tombstone
NameDiedAgeBorn
William SMALES  5th Dec 1876  33  1843 

Sources
  • 1876 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1734), Durham by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 289, Accident Number: 68 Where to find this report
  • Church/Cemetery photograph (T-03073-06-0002) © Kev Duncan
  • Headstone(s) in St. Saviour's Churchyard, Shotton
  • Tombstone photograph (T-03084-06-0002) © Kev Duncan

Researchers

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Bernard Hope   13 Jan 2019 

Found this page by accident. My maternal grandmother's maiden name was Smales and she was born in Shotton Colliery. I know she had a brother called William Smales who was killed in the last fortnight of the Great War and a nephew called William Smales who was badly injured in Shotton Colliery in the late 1940s and died a year later. I am unsure whether this person is also a family member. Smales is not really a common name. Do you have any further unpublished information?

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