{"id":3810,"date":"2025-01-01T22:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T22:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:50:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:50:37","slug":"1929-george-ely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3810","title":{"rendered":"1929 &#8211; George Ely"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">George Ely was born in 1889 in Castleford and was baptised on the 26th March 1889.<br>On the 1891 census he was 2 years old. His parents, Joseph &amp; Ethel lived at Bridge Street Castleford and Joseph was a miner.<br>On the 1901 census he was 12 years old and lived at 51 Ambler street Castleford<br>On the 1911 census he was 22 years old and lived with his parents at 51 Ambler street Castleford. George worked as a miner\/hewer.<br>On the 1921 census George lived at 81 Ambler street with his wife, Elizabeth and two children. He worked at Allerton Bywater Colliery.<br>George was a deputy at the Allerton Bywater colliery when he was overcome by methane and died.<br>The coroner put the blame sqarely at George&#8217;s door. <em>(Inquest report below)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"988\" src=\"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-Ely-baptism-1024x988.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-Ely-baptism-1024x988.png 1024w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-Ely-baptism-300x290.png 300w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-Ely-baptism-768x741.png 768w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-Ely-baptism.png 1374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" 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His parents, Joseph &amp; Ethel lived at Bridge Street Castleford and Joseph was a miner.On the 1901 census he was 12 years old and lived at 51 Ambler street CastlefordOn the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[133,121,132],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[108,117],"class_list":["post-3810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allerton-bywater-colliery-new-silkstone-haigh-moor-coal-co-ltd","category-colliery-deaths","category-new-silkstone-haigh-moor-coal-co-ltd","author-mick","author-shep76"],"authors":[{"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":""},{"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":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3820,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions\/3820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}