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Old 02-03-2020, 18:30   #52
cworswick
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Re: moorfield pit disaster

Thank you so much for posting these photos.

My ancestor Robert Gorton was killed in this disaster, but his name isn’t recorded on the NMRS database, so your photo of his name on the memorial proves it. I’d already sent them the church burial records showing that he was buried on the same day as five of his workmates.

The 1861 Census shows that he was a coal miner at the age of nine. What a miserable life, and death.
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