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Stephen Comash

Age:   47
Died:   17th Mar 1880
Accident:   17th Mar 1880
Year Born:   abt. 1833
Colliery:   Whitehaven
Company:  
Occupation:   Hewer
Notes:  
crushed by tubs, set ran amain on incline [Inquest: 18 Mar 1880 & 24 Mar 1880]
Buried:   [not known]
Death Certificate

1880 death in the Registration District of Whitehaven, Sub-district of St. Bees, in the County of Cumberland

No When and where died Name and surname Sex Age Occupation Cause of death Signature, description and residence of informant When registered Signature of registrar
342  Seventeenth March 1880, Wellington Coal Pit, Whitehaven  Stephen Comash  Male  47 years  Coal Hewer  Died from injuries received by being accidentally knocked downby a coal tub. Verdict Accidental Death  Certificate received from William Wilkin Lamb, Deputy Coroner for West Cumberland. Inquest held Eighteenth and Twenty Fourth March 1880  Twenty Seventh March 1880  Henry Tyson, Registrar 
Sources
  • 1880 Mines Inspectors Report (C 2903)
  • Copy of Death Certificate kindly provided by Christine Homewood
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