Pit Disaster Records (General)

by rookancestrybest , United Kingdom, Sunday, October 11, 2009, 20:07 (5596 days ago) @ ajones5440

I was looking into the deaths of some relatives (killed in a pit disaster in South Yorkshire, not the branch connected with the Forest of Dean) and found that the Durham Mining Museum has records of all pit disasters all over England. Wales and Scotland. I found it by "Googling" the name the pit, the date of the disaster and the names of the three people I was looking for. However, the list only had two of the three people named despite all three having definitly died in the same disaster. nevertheless it was a good source of information.