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My mother remembers a story that when Michael Moran married Margaret Bennett -- the fitst night he went down the pit after getting married he was in an accident and his leg was broken.
I checked out Coal Mining History Resource Centre
database of accidents and found this:
http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/database/cmhrc
action=fetch_by_id&record_id=108864

Mining Accidents - Michael Moran
Name: MORAN Michael (injured)
Age: 29
Date: 15/11/1915
Year: 1915
Occupation: Contractors man
Colliery: Garswood Hall
Owner: Garswood Hall Collieries Co Ltd
Town: Ashton-in-Makerfield
County: Lancashire
Notes: Fall of roof - fractured leg.

Replied: 29th Mar 2009 at 19:37

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