Rowland VOYCE 1868 - 1930 Mill Hill Bream. (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Monday, October 17, 2011, 13:54 (4790 days ago) @ hawdon

Good afternoon Olwyn,
You may have seen this excellent website re the History of Coalmining. Among many interesting features they have a searchable database of over 160,000 records of mining accidents across the UK. Sadly in this instance the name Voyce doesn't show a direct hit, presumably as Rowland wasn't the actual casualty reported. The only Voyce/Voice mentioned is this one who I guess could be in your tree ?.

Name: VOYCE Martin (injured)
Age: 27
Date: 06/04/1925
Year: 1925
Occupation: Asst. repairer
Colliery: Llwynypia
Owner: Glamorgan Coal Co Ltd
Town:
County: Glamorgan
Notes: Acting as rider and missed taking chain off - crushed between post and journey.

see http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/disasters/index.html

IMPORTANT NOTE !
I find great care is needed when using this site's search engine. Don't enter too much info into a search, as it will give many irrelevant hits, or, alternately, may miss some. Why I don't know...
I suggest enter say "Bream" to give a list of accidents including that word. The right hand coloums of the list include dates and often area, so you can scan the page visually for the likely hits to click on for further details.
Repeat this process for perhaps "Princess Royal" or "Flour Mill".
Sounds time consuming perhaps but its far more effective this way and of course more rewarding if you succeed.
Some of the hits will have an asterix against the individual's name. If you find out what this means I'd like to know !

Hope this is of some interest, good luck !

ps please also see my email to you.
Thanks Jeff

pps if you contact the local Newspapers they may well be able to help you, if only by printing your letter and receiving feedback from readers; The Forester(ex Citizen/Mercury) and the DF Review. Also if you search the FoD Forum you'll find means to research old newspapers which will have undoubtedly covered the subject in 1915.