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From: judy olsen <>
Subject: Re: [CHS] brunner mond records
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 12:35:07 +0000
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Huge amount in archives on accidents.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=017-
dic&cid=-1#-1



J




On 7 Nov 2010, at 10:01, Ray Gregory wrote:

> Thanks Judy and John for your replies to my Brunner Mond info:
> request.
> Sadly Judy that was not the Joseph Gregory I was after, the dates
> are not
> compatable with those I have for his birth of 1893. John your
> information
> was most interesting and will aid my search I'm sure. However I
> thankyou
> both equally for taking the trouble to reply. Thankyou. Ray
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "judy olsen" <>
> To: "Ray Gregory" <>
> Cc: <>
> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 11:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHS] brunner mond records
>
>
>> PRO has railway records for a Joseph Gregory. RAIL 529/134/486 Folio
>> 161. Name: Joseph Gregory. Occupation: Train Register Boy. Age:
>> 14. Date
>> of Appointment: 14 July 1884. 1884 July 14
>>
>> Seems to have been employed in London.
>>
>> Obviously the name is not that rare but it does raise the point that
>> family stories sometimes get conflated. Could he have worked on the
>> railway and been blinded in an accident, but not at the same time?
>>
>>
>> J
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6 Nov 2010, at 19:59, Ray Gregory wrote:
>>
>>> Dear list. Is there anyone out there with any records relating to
>>> Brunner Mond. I have two birth certificates of relatives, one
>>> 1924 and
>>> the other 1932. The occupation of father as given on these birth
>>> cert's
>>> was: for 1924; labourer at chemical works. the other for 1932
>>> states
>>> occupation as: 'of no occupation, blind pensioner'. I was always
>>> told by
>>> my mother that my grandfather, Joseph Henry Gregory was blinded
>>> in a
>>> railway accident. When and where I have never known but I
>>> suspect that
>>> it may have been while employed at Brunner Mond, that is if he
>>> was ever
>>> employed by Brunner Mond. On my fathers birth cerificate ( born 92
>>> Navigation Rd, Northwich, 1917) it states his fathers occupation as
>>> 'alkali worker'. I am curious to know if my grandfather had an
>>> accident
>>> whilst working in the chemical industry and if this industry was
>>> Brunner
>>> Mond. Any help appreciated.. Ray
>>>
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