Line in Record @I2040@ (RIN 284361) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
CAUS miner's diseaseLine in Record @I2040@ (RIN 284361) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
OCCU a miner
Thomas was a miner and family tradition recounts that he was a Methodist and that "... when the shifts changed at the minehead, hundreds of men emerging and entering could be heard singing hymns. When he was sick with miners' disease his occupation was to make leather washers for the pumps. Cornish folk are very superstitious and when returning home one day in their horse and carriage Mary, Thomas' wife, noticed black crows in the road; in this case Mary forecast that an accident had occured. When they arrived home they found that William had cut off three fingers from his right hand."Extracted from a letter from Marion McNicoll 2nd March 1998.
Line in Record @I2040@ (RIN 284361) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
CAUS miner's diseaseLine in Record @I2040@ (RIN 284361) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
OCCU a miner
Thomas was a miner and family tradition recounts that he was a Methodist and that "... when the shifts changed at the minehead, hundreds of men emerging and entering could be heard singing hymns. When he was sick with miners' disease his occupation was to make leather washers for the pumps. Cornish folk are very superstitious and when returning home one day in their horse and carriage Mary, Thomas' wife, noticed black crows in the road; in this case Mary forecast that an accident had occured. When they arrived home they found that William had cut off three fingers from his right hand."Extracted from a letter from Marion McNicoll 2nd March 1998.
After Thomas' death around 1877, Mary and family emigrated to Adelaide where some relatives were already living.
"Mary and family boarded at Falmouth but the ship met heavy storms in the Bay of Biscay and was forced to return to Plymouth. The passengers supplied their own furniture and food, the male children were in the single men's quarters and the girls were in the female quarters. At Moonta (near Adelaide) the children appeared quaint with their Cornish dialect. Bill went down the mines here but the children were too small. Mary died there of influenza, diphtheria or pneumonia. The rest of the family now moved to NZ to be with Josephine."
Extracted from a letter from Marion McNicoll 2nd March 1998.