Female Mining Deaths: 1851 - 1914: Wales |
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Back to Women and the Pits |
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Surname |
First |
Type |
MM |
DD |
YR |
A |
Occ |
Pit |
Owner |
Town |
Description |
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Brecon |
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DAVIS |
Anne |
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6 |
20 |
1866 |
27 |
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Nantyglo (ironstone) |
J and C Bailey |
Beaufort |
Killed by a sudden fall of ground. |
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Cardigan |
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MORGANS |
Mary |
(injured) |
8 |
31 |
1882 |
25 |
Lead ore dresser |
South Darren (metalliferous) |
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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. |
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Denbigh |
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READ |
Sarah |
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12 |
5 |
1855 |
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Bankswoman |
Plas isa |
Samuel Giller |
Ruabon |
Falling down No.20 pit. |
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MILL |
Harriet |
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6 |
4 |
1872 |
13 |
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Hafod |
Ruabon Coal Co |
Ruabon |
By coal trucks under screen. |
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WILLIAMS |
Sarah |
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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. |
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LLOYD |
Martha |
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4 |
13 |
1901 |
25 |
Screener |
Vauxhall |
Vauxhall Colliery Co |
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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. |
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Glamorgan |
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MORRIS |
Sarah |
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11 |
2 |
1853 |
14 |
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Cwmfelin |
Major Phillips |
Swansea |
Dazzled by pit lamp and fell down shaft. |
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DAVIS |
Martha |
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6 |
6 |
1854 |
13 |
Tram Oiler |
Dowlais |
Dowlais Iron Co. |
Methyr |
Fell off tram which passed over her. |
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PRICE |
Mary |
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8 |
25 |
1855 |
7 |
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Gorse |
Richards and Glasbrook |
Swansea |
Tram passed over her on incline. |
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JENKINS |
Jane |
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4 |
17 |
1866 |
14 |
Oil girl |
Dowlais |
Guest and Co |
MerthyrTydfil |
Got entangled with carriage at pit top. |
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BUTLER |
Ann |
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11 |
9 |
1866 |
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Oiler |
Gadlys |
Gadlys Iron Co |
Aberdare |
Fell before trams at surface. |
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DANIEL |
Margaret |
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11 |
11 |
1869 |
17 |
Labourer |
Blaengwawr |
David Davies and Co |
Pontypridd |
Killed by falling down shaft. |
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ROBERTS |
Jane M |
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4 |
2 |
1885 |
11 |
Trespasser |
Abergorkie |
Burnyeat Brown and Co |
Treorky |
Fell under trucks on surface. |
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THOMAS |
Louisa |
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2 |
19 |
1886 |
22 |
Oil girl |
Mardy |
Locketts Merthyr Steam Coal Co Ltd |
Mardy |
Killed by tram running wild down incline. |
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ANDREWS |
Margaret |
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8 |
17 |
1886 |
16 |
Coal loader |
Saron Level |
Mortgagees of the Plymouth Works |
Troedyrhiw |
Crushed between coal trucks on the sidings. |
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REES |
Mary |
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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. |
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JONES |
Charlotte |
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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. |
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BOWEN |
Eleanor |
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8 |
2 |
1892 |
18 |
Oiler |
Werfa |
James Evens and Co Ltd |
Aberdare |
Fell off gangway which was fenced by two wire ropes. |
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RYAN |
Catherine |
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1 |
13 |
1896 |
24 |
Trimmer |
Dowlais South Tunnel |
Dowlais Iron Co |
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Run over by waggons while cleaning the road under the small coal
screens. |
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EVANS |
Mary Jane |
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12 |
1 |
1896 |
20 |
Tram oiler |
Werfa |
James Evens and Co Ltd |
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Run over by waggons on surface incline. |
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STACK |
Elizabeth |
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6 |
10 |
1901 |
44 |
Shackler |
Cwmdu Drift |
Crawshay Bron Ltd |
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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. |
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Monmouth |
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ATKINS |
Margaret |
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10 |
7 |
1857 |
16 |
Banker |
Hope |
Messrs. Campbell and Needham |
Bedwellty |
Crushed between carriage and landing in attempting to decend pit
clothes caught. . |
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LEWIS |
Sarah |
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3 |
14 |
1861 |
14 |
Picker |
Castle Patch (ironstone) |
Rhymney Iron Co |
Rhymney |
Fall of rubbish from side of patch. |
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LEWIS |
Ann |
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5 |
1 |
1863 |
13 |
Driver |
Brynpwllog Patch (Ironstone) |
Rhymney Co |
Rhymney |
Crushed by trams on the surface. |
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REES |
Hannah |
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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. |
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STAGG |
Gwenllian |
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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 |
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EDWARDS |
Margaretta |
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12 |
21 |
1875 |
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Dressing girl |
Wye Valley (metalliferous) |
Wye Valley Mining Co |
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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. |
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PROTHERO |
Elizabeth |
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6 |
17 |
1878 |
17 |
Tip girl |
Ty-Trist |
Tredgar Iron Co |
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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 |
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JONES |
Mary |
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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. . |
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JAMES |
Elizabeth |
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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. |
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JONES |
Mary |
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3 |
26 |
1906 |
64 |
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New Tredegar |
Tredegar Iron and Coal Co Ltd |
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Found
dead on the Rhymney Branch Railway leading to New Tredegar Colliery on the
26th March having been run over during shunting operations. |
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Pembroke |
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BROCK |
Mary |
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11 |
14 |
1852 |
52 |
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Little Milford |
Sir John Pakington |
Milford |
Fell into coal pit. Collier’s wife. |
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JAMES |
Martha |
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10 |
29 |
1855 |
44 |
Winder |
Littlehaven |
Dr. Reed |
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Fell backwards down pit. |
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