Hi Mo, the Coalmining History Resource Centre website www.cmhrc.co.uk includes a searchable database of mining accidents and records a 164,000 named fatalities from the 1700s onwards. I had a quick look but couldn't see a Joseph Allsop listed, unless it was under a different spelling. If the period of Joseph's death could be narrowed down with a bit more certainty, a seach of local newspaper reports on mining accidents and obituaries, such as those in the Wolverhampton Chronicle which covered Bilston, might be worth a shot. Hope this helps Carl Higgs ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 12:32 PM Subject: [Black Country] Mining acciddents in the mid 1870's > > Help please, > This is my first posting to this group. > > Could someone please tell me if there is a list of mines that had > fatalities in the late 1860's to early 1970's. > I am looking for a death of a Joseph Allsop (various spellings.) > Information passed down through the family was that his daughter Hannah > (born Nov. 1855 in Bilston), stood at the pit head holding the hand of her > younger brother, waiting for news of their father. Unfortunately no idea > of > time span. > I have the family in 1861 living in Hall St., Bilston (RG9 2002-5/145). > Joseph's wife Hannah dies November 1867 of Hall Fold, Bilston, on the > death > certificate says she is the wife of Joseph Allsop. > Therefor I am presuming that the accident occurs after Nov 1867. > I cannot find the family on the 1871 census. > Hannah's eldest brother by 1871 is living in Lancashire, no trace of > Hannah > there. > > I know that if a body was not found a death certificate could not be > issued. > Tried Wolverhampton for the one 1867 but not the correct one. > As yet I have to try for the one at Dudley Dec qtr 1868. > > Thank you for reading this. > Mo > ------------------------------------- > The only List that specifically covers the whole of the Black Country. Run > by Black Country folk who were born and still live in the area. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >