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William Linsley

Age:   16
Died:   22nd Jul 1881
Accident:   22nd Jul 1881
Year Born:   abt. 1865
Colliery:   Waterhouses
Company:   Joseph Pease & Partners
Occupation:   Landing Boy
Notes:  
fracture of skull from the winch handle at landing, another boy rapped set away before he got clear
Buried:   Esh Winning Cemetery

Census Data

1881 Census

Address: 14 West Terrace, Peases W Brandon, Brandon & Byshottles
(Ref: RG11 / 4951 / 81 / 7)

Name Age  Rel  Mar Occupation Where Born Year
LINSLEY, Thomas 45HeadMarCoal Miner DUR: West Auckland 1836
LINSLEY, Jane 40WifeMar DUR: Wingate 1841
LINSLEY, George 20SonUnnCoal Miner DUR: Evenwood 1861
LINSLEY, Thomas 18SonUnnCoal Miner DUR: Fyling Bridge 1863
LINSLEY, William 16SonUnnCoal Miner DUR: Waterhouses 1865
LINSLEY, Edward 12SonUnnScholar DUR: Waterhouses 1869
COLLING, Jane 10DauUnnScholar DUR: Cornsay 1871
JAMES, Matthew 69RelativeWidCoal Miner NBL 1812
WILKINSON, Rebecca 18ServantUnnHouse Servant (Dom) DUR: Sunnybrow 1863

Please note: the census extracts shown here are our 'best guess match' to the fatality shown on this page and is not intended to be definitive — only knowledge of the family would allow this.


Tombstone

Esh Winning — Cemetery

Location: OS Map 88, Grid Ref NZ187415




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Names on this tombstone
NameDiedAgeBorn
William LINSLEY  22nd Jul 1881  16  1865 

Sources
  • 1881 Census — taken 3rd April, 1881
  • 1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
  • Church/Cemetery photograph (T-03146-06-0064) © Bob Dunn
  • Tombstone photograph (T-03130-06-0064) © Bob Dunn
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