After the positive response to the Guisborough miners graves post, I’ve been able to start on St Germains in Marske, although it will be the last until travel restrictions are eased. Initially it only lists those that mention a mine in the inscription, but I am aware there are many others in this cemetery who died in the local mines.
William Dunn
William son of William and Jane DUNN killed in Upleatham Mines 16 July 1866 aged 13 years and 3 months.
Originally from Corbridge, in 1861 William (senior) and his son Thomas are ironstone miners living at 18 Thomas Street in Hutton Lowcross, while William (junior) is still at school. That mine was owned by the Pease family and closed in 1865, so the Dunn family probably moved to work at the Upleatham Mine (at New Marske) also owned by Pease.
Aged just 13, it’s likely William was a horse driver as this tended to be the first job given to the young boys. It was also a very hazardous one as they were pulling fully loaded tubs of ironstone. This headstone was standing in 1953 when it was transcribed, sadly I was unable to locate it today.
Daniel Dove
Daniel son of William and Hannah DOVE died by accident at Lingdale Mines 17 April 1882 aged 49.
Originally from Pulham St Mary in Norfolk, in 1881 Daniel was lodging at 6 Prospect Place in Lingdale. He is listed as an Incline Man and his foot was cut off by an engine and truck running over it after he fell as he was getting out while shunting into a siding.
The erosion on this stone is remarkable, it’s fortunate the headstone was transcribed in 1953 as the details about Lingdale mine cannot be read now.
Morris Brabham
Morris BRAHAM killed in Upleatham Mines 11 Sep 1893 aged 51, his wife Sarah Jane died 8 Dec 1932 aged 82.
Originally from South Kyme in Lincolnshire, in 1891 Morris Braham lived at 71 Dale Street, New Marske and was a mine Deputy. His accident in 1893 occurred in the 4th hour of his shift, while preparing to set a prop a large stone from the roof fell on him.
This headstone has fallen or been lowered for safety reasons since it was transcribed 1953, it was located by referencing the adjacent ones still standing.
James Alexander
James ALEXANDER killed by fall of stone in Upleatham Mines 27 Sep 1898 aged 64, his wife Elizabeth died 18 May 1919 aged 78.
Originally from Manningford in Wiltshire, in 1891 James Alexander and his family were living at 92 Dale Street, New Marske. The accident report states that he was assisting the man he was working with to fill a tub with ironstone, when a large piece of stone fell from the roof and killed him.
My grandad William Stonehouse buried St Germains. Fought in ww1 had to have a job when demobbed..which he got at Kilton mines. Died at warrenby slag tip .heart attack..
Thank you for the notice of the grave of William Dunn. The suggestion that William was employed as a horse driver is correct, as is the statement that the job was dangerous. My grandfather, Harry Dack (to whom William, had he lived, would have been an uncle), no doubt had the account of William’s death from his (Harry’s) mother, Isabella Dack (William’s older sister) and grandmother, Jane Dunn; he described it in a letter of March, 1937, to my father, William Dunn Dack, as follows: “[…] while he was coupling some wagons in the mine a slight movement on the part of his horse caused the wagons to come together and he was crushed by the neck between the buffers of two wagons […] he bled to death in his Father’s arms in the mine.” There is some inconsistency, yet to be clarified, in the dating of the accident between the date of 16 July, 1866, given above as transcribed from the gravestone, and my grandfather’s statement that “This was in the Spring of 1866”; further, a little book in my possession, inscribed “Presented to / William Dunn / for / general good conduct / at the / Hutton-low-cross Sabbath School / May 1860” has the old pencilled annotation “killed May 1866”.