Barnsley Pit - EDIT Anyone recognise a relative ?

[Redroger]

They may have been underground workers, fresh out of the pit head baths, specially spruced up for whateverf was going to happen.

[Ebch]

Local paper 25 August 1894:
MULHERNE - August 16 at Strafford Colliery Dodworth, John Mulherne, colliery labourer of 1 Park row Barnsley aged 24 years.
He was my great uncle but I cannot find out anything about the accident - it is not on the Raley's site.  And if anyone local reads this, would Strafford Colliery have been down Rob Royd?  Thanks.

[Redroger]

There are holdings in Sheffield archives which strongly suggest from the headings that Strafford Colliery and Rob Royd were part and parcel of each other, as also do some of the entries for Strafford on Raley's site.

[Ebch]

Thanks for that Redroger - yes Rob Royd was a branch of Stafford and I found the accident on Raleys site by using alternative spelling of surname, Mulhearn,  it was a fall of coal.

[Redroger]

Nice to solve one!!

[roytonlad]

Hi,

Colliers from my family in Lancashire went over to work in pits in the Barnsley area in the 1860s and 70s (Edmund and Henry Brierley) living in Ardsley and Worsbrough at the time . Is there any way I can find at which pit they were at?

John

[Redroger]

An H Brierley was killed at Saville Colliery Dewsbury in 1880. Raleys website shows several Brierleys killed and injured in the coal fields, mainly in Lancashire. Hope that's useful.