Female Mining Deaths: 1851 - 1914: Wales
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Surname First Type MM DD YR A Occ Pit Owner Town Description
Brecon
DAVIS Anne 6 20 1866 27    Nantyglo (ironstone)  J and C Bailey Beaufort  Killed by a sudden fall of ground.
Cardigan
MORGANS Mary (injured) 8 31 1882 25  Lead ore dresser  South Darren (metalliferous)   Aberystwith  A tram waggon on an incline became unhooked ran down and struck her as she was wheeling ore in a barrow. 10 weeks and 3 days off.
Denbigh
READ Sarah 12 5 1855    Bankswoman  Plas isa  Samuel Giller Ruabon  Falling down No.20 pit.
MILL Harriet 6 4 1872 13    Hafod  Ruabon Coal Co Ruabon  By coal trucks under screen.
WILLIAMS Sarah 11 29 1893 17  Screen girl  Hafod  Ruabon Coal and Coke Co Ltd Ruabon  Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was adjusting the coal on a loaded waggon when five waggons were shunted by the loco and bumped against the waggon she was on throwing her off on to the ground and she received such injuries that she died immediately afterwards. Stop blocks will be used in future.
LLOYD Martha 4 13 1901 25 Screener Vauxhall Vauxhall Colliery Co   Inspection made and inquest attended. She was coming down the colliery siding and appears to watching a passenger train passing when the brakesman was lowering three empty waggons to the screen and could not see the deceased who got run over and fatally injured. Died May 2nd 1901.
Glamorgan
MORRIS Sarah 11 2 1853 14    Cwmfelin  Major Phillips Swansea  Dazzled by pit lamp and fell down shaft.
DAVIS Martha 6 6 1854 13  Tram Oiler  Dowlais  Dowlais Iron Co. Methyr  Fell off tram which passed over her.
PRICE Mary 8 25 1855 7    Gorse  Richards and Glasbrook Swansea  Tram passed over her on incline.
JENKINS Jane 4 17 1866 14  Oil girl  Dowlais  Guest and Co MerthyrTydfil  Got entangled with carriage at pit top.
BUTLER Ann 11 9 1866    Oiler  Gadlys  Gadlys Iron Co Aberdare  Fell before trams at surface.
DANIEL Margaret 11 11 1869 17  Labourer  Blaengwawr  David Davies and Co Pontypridd  Killed by falling down shaft.
ROBERTS Jane M 4 2 1885 11  Trespasser  Abergorkie  Burnyeat Brown and Co Treorky  Fell under trucks on surface.
THOMAS Louisa 2 19 1886 22  Oil girl  Mardy  Locketts Merthyr Steam Coal Co Ltd Mardy  Killed by tram running wild down incline.
ANDREWS Margaret 8 17 1886 16  Coal loader  Saron Level  Mortgagees of the Plymouth Works Troedyrhiw  Crushed between coal trucks on the sidings.
REES Mary 5 21 1887 21  Greaser  Squborwen  Samuel Thomas and Co Aberdare  Run over by trams on surface incline while going to office for her wages.
JONES Charlotte 9 18 1889 23  Screenwoman  Plymouth  Abercanaid Plymouth Works Proprietors Merthyr  Knocked down and run over by empty waggons which were being shunted into the empty line while she was standing on line and speaking to men on the screens.
BOWEN Eleanor 8 2 1892 18  Oiler  Werfa  James Evens and Co Ltd Aberdare  Fell off gangway which was fenced by two wire ropes.
RYAN Catherine 1 13 1896 24  Trimmer  Dowlais South Tunnel Dowlais Iron Co  Run over by waggons while cleaning the road under the small coal screens.
EVANS Mary Jane 12 1 1896 20  Tram oiler  Werfa  James Evens and Co Ltd  Run over by waggons on surface incline.
STACK Elizabeth 6 10 1901 44 Shackler Cwmdu Drift Crawshay Bron Ltd   Deceased uncoupled a tram and seeing the tippers could not move a tram they had went to assist them when the tram she uncoupled ran after and crushed her.
Monmouth
ATKINS Margaret 10 7 1857 16  Banker  Hope  Messrs. Campbell and Needham Bedwellty  Crushed between carriage and landing in attempting to decend pit clothes caught. .
LEWIS Sarah 3 14 1861 14  Picker  Castle Patch (ironstone)  Rhymney Iron Co Rhymney  Fall of rubbish from side of patch.
LEWIS Ann 5 1 1863 13  Driver  Brynpwllog Patch (Ironstone)  Rhymney Co Rhymney  Crushed by trams on the surface.
REES Hannah 4 27 1867 17  Bankswoman  Bedwellty  Tredegar Iron Co Tredegar  Fell from the top of deep pit. This dreadful calamity arose from the custom or habit at that pit of teh banksman or the girl or both getting onto the cage to get the loaded tram off it.
STAGG Gwenllian 10 15 1868 45  Filler  Patch (ironstone) open mine work  Tredegar Iron Co Tredegar  Fall of mine ground as she was filling a tram. There was a slip through the strata and the ground should have been stoped down from above. I object to women taking this employment as they can not jump back as men can.  clothing is not adept for this work
EDWARDS Margaretta 12 21 1875    Dressing girl  Wye Valley (metalliferous)  Wye Valley Mining Co  Crushed in the dressing machinery. It was a windy day and it is supposed that some porrtion of her clothing was blown into the machinery and so she was dragged in.
PROTHERO Elizabeth 6 17 1878 17  Tip girl  Ty-Trist  Tredgar Iron Co  She was cleaning the sidings on the surface and just before the accident was told by the man in charge to move out of the way as he was about to shunt some waggons. She did not do so and was crushed to death by them
JONES Mary 6 1 1888 15  Coal washer  Sirhowy  Ebbw ValeSteel Iron and Coal Co Ltd Sirhowy  Fell from the buffer of an empty railway waggon on which she intended riding to the loading place where she worked. .
JAMES Elizabeth 8 30 1894 18  Coal loader  Whitworth  Tredegar Iron and Coal Co Ltd Tredegar  Run over on the branch line near the coke ovens while on her way her to work in the morning. An engine was pushing an empty colliers carriage in front and it appears to have impeded the outlook.
JONES Mary 3 26 1906 64   New Tredegar Tredegar Iron and Coal Co Ltd   Found dead on the Rhymney Branch Railway leading to New Tredegar Colliery on the 26th March having been run over during shunting operations.
Pembroke
BROCK Mary 11 14 1852 52    Little Milford  Sir John Pakington Milford  Fell into coal pit. Collier’s wife.
JAMES Martha 10 29 1855 44  Winder  Littlehaven  Dr. Reed  Fell backwards down pit.