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Canada / Crowsnest Pass / Hillcrest Colliery
« on: Monday 17 August 15 13:56 BST (UK)  »
I am looking for the grave of Abraham Dodd, who died of exposure in 1926 at Crowsnest Pass in Alberta.  The United Mine Workers of America  immediately stepped in and paid out $213.40 for his burial.  He may also have been employed at the Hillcrest Colliery on June 19th 1914 when 189 men were killed.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Glamorganshire / Re: Tynewydd Disaster
« on: Saturday 15 August 15 09:16 BST (UK)  »
Yes, timber boss sounds like a supervisor who would order the wood and see that the pit props were erected properly, a bit of an easier ob for someone of his age.

To me its seems like Abraham Dodd travelled to Alberta where he might have worked in a coal mine at Macloed and when he was settled he sent for his wife and daughter.  They might have lived there for a while, where is daughter married Lanclot A. Barnes.  At some period around the turn of the century they got lured by newspaper adverts to the little village of Belt, Cascade, in Montana in the USA, but after a while the whole family returned to Alberta, where Abraham spent the later years of his life as a widower working as a Timber Boss.

I have searched the buriel records for Macloed and Alberta, but have not discovered where he was buried yet.

Many thanks

gareth 

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Glamorganshire / Re: Tynewydd Disaster
« on: Friday 14 August 15 22:35 BST (UK)  »
Cheers  Ray

Have you a link to the 1821 census please?  You say he was a timberman, remarkable occupation for someone 65/66 years of age.

The last news I had of him was a year before, in September 1883: -  At Pontypridd Police Court on Wednesday a collier, well known in the district as “Happy Dodd," one of the heroes of Tynewydd, was brought up in custody, charged with waylaying and assaulting Acting-Sergeant Row, Ynyshir. 

Thanks for all the help you have given me.

Gareth

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Glamorganshire / Re: Tynewydd Disaster
« on: Friday 14 August 15 17:17 BST (UK)  »
Hello Ray

Have gone through the census returns links you gave me.  Thanks very much.  The things I really need if you can provide them are 1.  The name of the boat he sailed on and the date.  2.  His date and place of death.

Any help you can get with these would be greatly appreciated.

Gareth

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Glamorganshire / Re: Tynewydd Disaster
« on: Friday 14 August 15 14:09 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Ray.  Your reply is fantastic.  I have just finished writing a book about the Tynewydd disaster and the last piece in the book was to be about Abraham Dodd, but I could not find out where he had gone.  I have the newspaper report that is said to have stopped him having a medal, but there is nothing critical said about any management. Perhaps he was vocally critical?  A few weeks after the 'inundation' he was working in the Ynyshir Colliery, where he got severely burnt underground.  He was also before that arrested for assaulting a policeman at Pontypridd.

Your reply has made my day, thanks once again Ray.

gareth

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Glamorganshire / Tynewydd Disaster
« on: Thursday 13 August 15 18:05 BST (UK)  »
One of the rescuers named Abraham Dodd, was unlucky not to be one who received an Albert medal.  He appears on the 1881 census, but disappears completely after that.  Can any find what happened to him?

Taking about the water unduntation at Porth, Rhondda, in 1877.

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Glamorganshire / Re: Jimmy Wilde (the famous boxer), any info on family connection?
« on: Thursday 08 December 11 22:15 GMT (UK)  »
 :)I have written a book 'JImmy Wild - Tylorstown legend' available to order from any good bookshop or by contacting the author on (*)

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Glamorganshire Resources & Offers / Resource: Albion Colliery Disaster 1894
« on: Saturday 27 August 11 01:38 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Bethan

Gareth Harris.  I have also written another book about the Albion Colliery disaster in 1894, that has gone down well.  Available from the Pontypridd Museum.

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Glamorganshire Lookup Requests / Re: Trealaw cemetery
« on: Thursday 27 January 11 14:54 GMT (UK)  »
They have a GFHS disc in the Pontypridd Library of all the buriels 1881-1990 for the Trealaw Cemetery.  The original register is at the Treorchy Library.  Just got to work my was through them now.  All in alphabetical order.

Gareth

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