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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Further from Canada: "Best I can do, with the very limited information I can assemble, is that our Grandfather's name was Sam Straw. He was living in Cotmanhay, Ilkeston area, and he was a working miner at the Shipley Coal Mine when he was killed in a mining accident sometime in the early 1900's time period. He was the father of 13 or 14 children! My family's father was George Leslie Willgoose and our mother's name, prior to her marriage, was Martha Straw, the youngest member of their family."[/quote]
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Shipley Mining Accident - Straw
replied on: 4/7/2008 7:36:03 AM

Further from Canada:

"Best I can do, with the very limited information I can assemble, is that our Grandfather's name was Sam Straw. He was living in Cotmanhay, Ilkeston area, and he was a working miner at the Shipley Coal Mine when he was killed in a mining accident sometime in the early 1900's time period. He was the father of 13 or 14 children!

My family's father was George Leslie Willgoose and our mother's name, prior to her marriage, was Martha Straw, the youngest member of their family."

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