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Husband: Alfred Anderton
Living at Moss Road, Bickerstaffe, Lancashire in 1881
Occ. Colliery Engine Man
born: abt. 1839                 place: Billinge, Lancashire
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died: 4th December 1888 as a result of an accident at Bromilow Foster
and Co Ltd, Skelmersdale, Lancashire
The Mines Inspectors Report reads:
"Inspection made and inquest attended. They were fixing a pipe in
the pumping shaft when one of the planks forming the scaffold on which
they stood broke with their weight and they both fell down the pit. On
inspection the plank proved to be quite rotten. Anderton was in charge 
of this shaft and it was his duty to examine the scaffold. 2 killed."   
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Wife: Ellen ?
born: abt. 1846                 place: Latham, Lancashire
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CHILDREN
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#1 Ruth Anderton
born: abt. 1863                 place: Skelmersdale, Lancashire
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#2 Mary J. Anderton
born: abt. 1866                 place: Skelmersdale, Lancashire
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#3 Samuel Anderton
born: abt. 1869                 place: Skelmersdale, Lancashire
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#4 Alfred Anderton     
born: abt. 1872                 place: Bickerstaffe, Lancashire
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#5 Johnson Anderton
born: abt. 1876                 place: Bickerstaffe, Lancashire
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#6 Ellen Anderton
born: abt. 1878                 place: Bickerstaffe, Lancashire
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