Johnson Gibson Family History
Francis Edgar LEIGH
1873 - 1912 (39 years)
Generation: 1
1. Francis Edgar LEIGH was born in 1873 in Mirfield Yorkshire; died on 16 Feb 1912 in Shildon Lodge Colliery Shildon Co Durham. Notes:
1911 RG14 29745 504 at 18 Dent Street Shildon 4 rooms head married coal miner hewer aged 38 born Mirfield Named as Frank Also had Mary Pickles mot in law widow aged 52 born Dewsbury
Birth:
1911 Census
Died:
Durham Mining Museum website
Age: 39
Died: 16th Feb 1912
Accident: 16th Feb 1912
Year Born: abt. 1873
Colliery: Shildon Lodge
Company: Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd.
Occupation: Hewer
Notes:
he was kirving at the face of a bord when a large stone fell from a "roll" in the roof and killed him instantly; both he and his marrow were aware of this "roll" and had timbered it as they thought securely, but the stone apparently moved sideways and canted the timber out
Buried: [not known]Francis married Edith PICKLES in 1903. Edith (daughter of Timothy PICKLES and Mary DOWNS) was born on 9 Apr 1878 in Beck Hill Wilsey Yorkshire. [Group Sheet]
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Married:
Children:
FreeBMD Jun 1903 Auckland 10a 375 (Francis named as Edgar Leigh)- Leslie LEIGH was born on 19 Mar 1904 in Dewsbury Yorkshire; died in 1997.
- Edith LEIGH was born in 1907 in Shildon Co Durham.
- Muriel LEIGH was born in 1910 in Shildon Co Durham.