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Jacob (Jake) GOUNDRY 1904 – 1952 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 2 DEC 1904

Birth Location: Byers Green, Co. Durham

Death Date: 3 DEC 1952

Death Location: Whitworth Park Colliery, Co. Durham

Father: John GOUNDRY

Mother: Jane BARKER

Spouse(s): Ethel JOHNSON

Children(s): John GOUNDRY

Jacob (Jake) GOUNDRY was born in 1904 in Byers Green, Co. Durham, the child of John GOUNDRY and Jane Ann BARKER. Jacob (Jake) GOUNDRY later married Ethel JOHNSON, and together they raised children including John (Jake) GOUNDRY. In 1952, Jacob (Jake) GOUNDRY passed away in Whitworth Park Colliery, Co. Durham.

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Parents

John GOUNDRY
1867 – 1938
Birth Location: Byers Green, Co. Durham
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Jane BARKER
1869 – 1943
Birth Location: Pelton Fell, Co. Durham
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Spouses(s)

Ethel JOHNSON
1905 –
Birth Location: –
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Children(s)

John GOUNDRY
1927 – 1998
Birth Location: Auckland Registration District, Co. Durham
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Sources

    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Year: 2 DEC 1904
    Event Place: Byers Green, Co. Durham

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Baptism
    Event Year: 29 DEC 1904
    Event Place: Byers Green, Co. Durham
    Record Source: and given the name of Jacob

    Genealogy Event 3
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 5 JUN 1935
    Record Source: he was trapped with two other men in a coal mine when the roof of the working, about a mile and a half from the pit mouth, suddenly fell in without warning. About twenty other miners managed to escape the fall and ran to safety. Rescuers worked i

    Genealogy Event 4
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 19 DEC 1952
    Record Source: an inquest recorded a verdict of Accidental Death after hearing that about a hundred tons of stone and rubble fell from the roof after "a Filler said that he and GOUNDRY were going to put extra props under a crossing girder at a curve in the roadwa

    Genealogy Event 5
    Event Type: Death
    Event Year: 3 DEC 1952
    Event Place: Whitworth Park Colliery, Co. Durham
    Record Source: he was killed in a mining accident - he was a Pit Deputy

    Genealogy Event 6
    Event Type: Burial
    Event Year: 6 DEC 1952
    Event Place: Byers Green Churchyard, Co. Durham
    Record Source: where there is a Monumental Inscription
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