Hello I'm really hoping that someone can help me, this is a copy of the email I sent to [email protected], although he couldn't help he suggested I ask you.
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I wonder if you could help me at all. Would you have records from that particular incident in particular the names and addresses of the miners ect, I am really only interested in one and that is a Mr James Simcock whom I believe to be an ancestor of mine.

My James Simcock was born 1838(making him in his early to mid forties when the explosion happened), was married to Harriet Hancock and was a "coal miner and farmer of 23 acres", they had several children.

The job which "James" did was as a dataler which I believe to be someone who was paid on a daily basis,which would fit with "my James" also being a farmer of 23 acres, did he do mining to supplement his farming

James died 10th March 1890 and I wondered that if he was the James Simcock involved in the explosion was he injured in some way.

I have my fingers crossed in the hope someone out there will be able to help.

Thank you 🙂

Is that at Hanley staffs? That was 7th feb

http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/cms/document/1880_81.pdf 

Have just found this Would that be him?

Name: SIMCOCK J.
Age: 0
Date: 07/10/1881
Year: 1881
Occupation: Collier
Colliery: Whitfield
Owner: Chatterley Co
Town: Tunstall
County: Stafford
Notes: Fall of coal.

Thank you for taking the time to look for me it certainly sounds as if it could be him.
The article I found on the explosion talked of a fire and I expect that could cause "fall of coal" is that a possibility?, also is it feasible that he would be a collier and a farmer doing one to supplement the other, would that be common practice in the 1800's.

Please excuse me for "babbling" its just that you learn so much about your ancestors and the hardships they had to endure just to survive it also helps understand why your parents went into the professions they did my father was a miner at the Hem-heath Colliery

Its a pos that we have two events here 7/2 and the roof fall later in the year In West Wales at least it was common for local farmers to also work in the South Wales pits. Sometimes spliting the week. This was still commong in the 1930s
The mine reports from the 1820s and 40s make interesting reading when it comes to hardship in the mines but farming and mills were just as bad can send you some links if you like