{"id":3349,"date":"2025-01-01T16:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T16:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:02:25","slug":"1869-george-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3349","title":{"rendered":"1869 &#8211; George West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">George West was born in 1842 in Glasshoughton Castleford to Peter &amp; Elizabeth West. He was baptised at Castleford Parish Church on the 29th May 1842.<br>On the 1851 census he is 9 years old and living in Kemp Building Castleford.<br>George was injured at the Carter &amp; Co. Allerton Bywater Colliery after being run over by a waggon. He died from his injuries on the 24th August 1869.<br>He was burried at Allerton Church on the 26th August 1869.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-West-Baptism-723x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-West-Baptism-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-West-Baptism-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-West-Baptism-768x1087.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-West-Baptism-1085x1536.jpg 1085w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-West-Baptism-1447x2048.jpg 1447w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-West-Baptism-scaled.jpg 1809w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" 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He was baptised at Castleford Parish Church on the 29th May 1842.On the 1851 census he is 9 years old and living in Kemp Building Castleford.George was injured at the Carter &amp; Co. Allerton Bywater Colliery after being run over by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[127,126,121],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[117,108],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allerton-bywater-colliery-carter-co","category-carter-co","category-colliery-deaths","author-shep76","author-mick"],"authors":[{"term_id":117,"user_id":12,"is_guest":0,"slug":"shep76","display_name":"Neil Shepherdson","avatar_url":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ABH-Researchers-256px-150x150.png","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""},{"term_id":108,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mick","display_name":"Mick","avatar_url":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/admin_avatar-128x128-1.png","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3503,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions\/3503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}