Ethel HARROLD (1886-1961)

Ethel HARROLD was born in 1886 the second daughter of Edgar and Jane HARROLD.    Edgar registered the birth and gave his address as Post Office Row.    In 1910 Ethel married Albert Wheatcroft.   She was a 23 year old spinster living at Mansfield Road, Hasland. Albert Wheatcroft was a 24 year old miner, a bachelor, who lived at 44 Kent Street and his father was Walter Wheatcroft, a Colliery Deputy.   The marriage took place in the presence of Herbert Holmes and Dorothy HARROLD at the Primitive Methodist Church, Holywell Cross, Chesterfield.

On the night of 19 November 1933 Albert (together with most of his fellow miners on the night shift) was killed in an explosion at Grassmoor Colliery near Chesterfield. Albert was the Deputy that night and a full enquiry into the causes and circumstances of the explosion was carried out by Sir Henry Walker, who at the time was Chief Inspector of Mines.

Ethel and Albert had two daughters - Marjorie (who married Leonard Carr and lived with Ethel in Storforth Lane in Hasland) and Dora whose husband was tragically killed in an accident at the Hasland Locomotive Sheds.   They also had a son who at the time of Ethel's death in 1961 lived in Wareham, Dorset.

Ethel WHEATCROFT died in 1961 aged 75.   She was living at 47 Storforth Lane at the time of her death.

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