Probate record

[syrah]

Is there anyone willing to swap a search for a search?
I have subs to FMP, but unfortunately the record I would like to view is on ancestry uk.
on the probates records for a John James Evans death 1938 Wales.
thank you, S

 

[p.risboy]

Was Sarah Arianwen Evans his spouse. Did he die in Carmarthenshire.

If so, the address is 2, Brick Row, Hendy Pontardulais, Carmartanshire. Effects - £77- 6 shillings - 0 pence.

 

[syrah]

Thanks but, unfortunately not. He died in nine mile point pit accident in monmouthshire wales nov 1938, his wife was Alice.

 

[davelambert271]

Hi Syrah

sorry, I don't seem to be able to find the record. there is the death record on BMD

dave

 

[davelambert271]

are you certain about the date> this is the brief history of the mine
Nine Mile Point Colliery

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nine Mile Point colliery was a coal mine at Cwmfelinfach in the South Wales Valleys, originally known as "Coronation Colliery", and constructed between 1902 and 1905. The deepest shaft was 1,176 feet deep. Seven men were killed on 13th August 1904 during the establishment of the mine.

It was renamed Nine Mile Point as that was the distance of the tramroad from the edge of Lord Tredegar's boundary in Newport to the colliery.

At its peak it employed 2,105 men, who lived mainly in the surrounding villages of Wattsville and Cwmfelinfach. In 1935, 164 men "stayed down" in a "sit in" protest, the first ever in the South Wales coalfield, over the use of scab labour.

In 1929 riots broke out at the colliery. The reasons for the riot were to be found in the employment of blackleg labour, with more than 700 villagers and miners rioting at the time, taking several days for police to disperse and maintain control.