{"id":4729,"date":"2025-01-01T23:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T23:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4729"},"modified":"2026-07-16T10:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:10:29","slug":"1938-alfred-hopwood-ely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4729","title":{"rendered":"1938 – Alfred Hopwood Ely"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alfred Ely Hopwood was born in the 3rd<\/sup> Quarter of 1910, his birth was registered at Pontefract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1911 Census \u2013 Alfred age 9 months \u2013 born in Mickletown, Methley, is at home with his father John age 38 \u2013 occupation Coal Miner, his mother Lucy age 38 born in Methley \u2013 no occupation, brother Henry age 16 born in Methley \u2013 occupation Colliery Labourer, sister Lily age 12 born in Methley \u2013 scholar, sister Florence Mary age 5. They are living at Cutler Lane, Methley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1921 Census:- Alfred age 11 years 4 months \u2013 scholar is at home with his father John age 49 \u2013 occupation Coal Miner  (Out of Works) for Briggs & Son, his mother Lucy age 48 years 11 months \u2013 occupation Home duties, brother Allan age 19 years 4 months \u2013 occupation Labourer at Coal Pit for Briggs & Son (Out of Work), sister Florrie age 15 years 6 months \u2013 no occupation, brother Ernest age 7 years 2 months \u2013 scholar. Also living there are Lucy Ingham (nee Hopwood Ely) age 22 years 6 months and her husband John Harold Ingham age 23 years 4 months \u2013 occupation Coal Cutter (Below Ground) for Briggs & Son, and their son Kenneth age 3 months. They are living at 17 South View, Methley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the 6th<\/sup> February 1938 Alfred Hopwood Ely was moving two tubs from the top deck of the cage when one of them fouled the Tub Catch on the cage, he was releasing the catch to allow the tubs to be taken of the cage when the Head Banksman at the Lower Deck signalled \u201cCage Aye\u201d and he was injured by the descending cage and he died 6 hours later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alfred Hopwwod Ely age 27 was buried at St.Oswald\u2019s Church, Methley on the 19th<\/sup> February 1938.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1921 census<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alfred Ely Hopwood was born in the 3rd Quarter of 1910, his birth was registered at Pontefract. 1911 Census \u2013 Alfred age 9 months \u2013 born in Mickletown, Methley, is at home with his father John age 38 \u2013 occupation Coal Miner, his mother Lucy age 38 born in Methley \u2013 no occupation, brother Henry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[128,122,121],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[117,108],"class_list":["post-4729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allerton-main-colliery","category-bower-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","author_category":"","first_name":"Neil","last_name":"Shepherdson","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""},{"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","author_category":"","first_name":"Mick","last_name":"Taylor","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729","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=4729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4730,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729\/revisions\/4730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4729"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=4729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}