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William Hetherington Corkish
| Age: | 30 |
| Died: | 6th Dec 1920 |
| Accident: | 6th Dec 1920 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1890 |
| Colliery: | Whitehaven, Wellington Pit |
| Company: | Whitehaven Colliery Co., Ltd. |
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| Notes: | explosion of fire damp |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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The text of the report from the Mines Inspector into this accident is available in the Disaster Reports section of this website.
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| Pub. Date | Article (Newspaper) |
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| 08 Dec 1920 | Deplorable Colliery Accident at Whitehaven, Three Men Killed and Two Injured, Sad Fate of D.C.M. (West Cumberland Times) |
| 09 Dec 1920 | Black Day At Whitehaven Pit (Whitehaven News) |
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- 1920 Mines Inspectors Report
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| Researcher | Date | Interest | |
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| Bill Corkish | 08 Jul 2011 |
William Hetherington Corkish was my grandad. I am interested in finding out were he lived in whitehaven, were he served in the 1st world war and any information on his wife Sarah |
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| John Rothery | 16 May 2012 |
William Corkish was my great uncle |
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| Jim Kelly | 20 Aug 2015 |
I am doing family history on Ancestry and have details and photo of William Hetherington Corkish who married into the Hetherington side of my family. I have details of his DCM awarded in WW1 |
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| Geoff Everitt | 09 Jun 2017 |
Williams's wife - Sarah COAN - was my gran's sister. |
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| Bill corkish | 29 Oct 2018 |
Looking for information on William Hetherington corkish |
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