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    Checkweighman (redirect from Check-weighman)
    A checkweighman (occasionally checkmeasurer or checkweigher) is a person who is responsible for weighing coal or another mined substance, and thereby determining...
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  • Barrett (Ernie Perkins), Elaine Donnelly (Wendy Bendiger), Jack Le White (Weighman), Daphne Oxenford (Secretary), Clifford Rose (Mr. Dockerty), David Swift...
    43 KB (1,800 words) - 05:09, 26 March 2024
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    start as a seller of saltpetre, he is said to have been a trader or a weighman in the market. After Sher Shah Suri's death in 1545, his son Islam Shah...
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    His father, Adolf Bonifatsievich Burba, a native of Lithuania, was a weighman at the Yenakievo Railway Station. His father was awarded a silver pocket...
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    spring knife cutler 1881 an artist (as are three of his children) 1891 a weighman 1901 a spring knife cutler He also worked as an organist, orator and singer...
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    of Ohio. In 1879, McBride stopped working in mines and became a check weighman at the Groves Coal Company. In April 1882, he was elected president of...
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    a check-weighman. In the same year he became Treasurer of the Yorkshire Miners' Association. In 1898 he stopped working as a check-weighman. In 1904...
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    Southgate Pit from 1880 as check-weighman, a representative elected by coal miners to check the findings of the mine owner's weighman where miners were paid by...
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    took up employment at Bradford Colliery, Manchester. He became a check-weighman and secretary of the Bradford branch of the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners'...
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  • W 'Jimmy' Lane JP (1877–1969), alderman of the West Riding and a check weighman at Brodsworth Colliery. It was named after alderman Sir Percy Jackson,...
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    MP, William Mansfield, started work at the mine. He rose to be a check-weighman at the site in 1908. Grinkle Mine was linked to Port Mulgrave, some 2.5...
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  • the town of Amble, where his father had secured a position as a check weighman. After he left school at age 14, King began a five-year painter and decorator...
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  • in the constituency for the first time in Thomas Gibb, a Miner's check-weighman from Cleland, North Lanarkshire. Back in August 1913, the Lanarkshire Miners’...
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  • Supervisor (F), London Telecommunications Region. George Beaumont, Pitbank Weighman, Grange Ash Colliery, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board. Frederick...
    174 KB (21,813 words) - 09:01, 26 May 2024
  • Higman, Station Officer, Cornwall Fire Brigade (St Columb.) Frank Higson, Weighman, Deane Colliery, North Western Division, National Coal Board (Bolton.)...
    183 KB (22,630 words) - 04:45, 26 April 2024
  • Christ's Hospital Combined Cadet Forces (Horsham). William John Carter, Check Weighman, South Western Division, National Coal Board (Glutton). Elsie Cassie, Fishworker...
    172 KB (21,524 words) - 13:08, 26 May 2024
  • Bookbinder (Industrial Grade), Board of Inland Revenue. James Harper, Wharfman Weighman/Clerk, Welland Fuels Ltd., Leicester. Walter James Harris, Professional...
    151 KB (18,047 words) - 09:03, 26 May 2024
  • William Lunn. He was educated at Rothwell Board School. He was a check-weighman who had started work in the pit at 12 years of age. Polling Day was set...
    8 KB (505 words) - 09:05, 12 May 2024
  • Yorkshire Copper Works Ltd., Leeds. Isaac William Ernest Hill, Truck Weighman, North Eastern Gas Board. (Leeds.) Harold Hindle, Depot Manager, Accrington...
    171 KB (19,431 words) - 13:08, 26 May 2024
  • Harrison, Ambulance Attendant, Sleaford, Lincolnshire. Levi Heath, Check Weighman, Ramcroft Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board (Chesterfield)...
    192 KB (22,634 words) - 09:02, 26 May 2024