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Weddings – July 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – July 1893
Marriages
Groom Name
Bride Name
Date
Place
Details
John William Price
Ada White
July 5
Register Office, Rotherham
Groom of Manchester; bride of Wath
Arthur Henry Burrows
Frances Annie Lister
July...
Deaths – July 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times, July 1893
Deaths – July 1893
Name
Date
Place
Details
William Chambers
Jul-01
Crossland Street, Swinton
Son of John William Chambers, aged 4 years
Henry Froggatt
Jul-02
Roman Terrace, Swinton
Son of Albert...
Albert Smith’s Benefit Match
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 28 July 1893
Albert Smith’s Benefit Match
The Bury Times of last week contained the following:—Albert Smith, one of the...
Mexborough & District Collieries & Hull Coal Trade
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 14 July 1893
Mexborough and District Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade
Yesterday the official return showing the quantity of...
Hull and the Yorkshire Coal Trade
Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 18 December 1883
Hull and the Yorkshire Coal Trade
During the month of November the tonnage of coal sent to Hull...
Drunkenness
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 21 December 1883
Drunkenness
Albert Hartley, collier, Denaby, was summoned for being drunk and disorderly in the Market Place, Mexboro’,...
A Mexboro’ Furniture Broker Heavily Fined
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 21 December 1883
A Mexboro’ Furniture Broker Heavily Fined
John Millwood, furniture broker, Mexboro’, was fined 30s., including costs, for...
Elopement at Mexboro’
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 23 November 1883
Elopement at Mexboro’
On Saturday last a young man named Albert Beckett, living at Kirby’s Yard, Mexboro’,...
Deaths & Marriages
Mexborough & Swinton Times, November 1883
Marriages
LOWCOCK—CHIPP.—Nov. 11, at the Parish Church, Mexboro’, by the Rev. Thomas Horsfall, Oscar Lowcock, to Mary Jane Chipp, both...
Alarming Accident at Denaby Main
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 02 November 1883
Alarming Accident at Denaby Main
Late on Monday night an alarming accident occurred at Denaby Main Colliery.
The...
Drunk and Refusing to Quit Licensed Premises at Mexboro’
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 13 January 1882
Drunk and Refusing to Quit Licensed Premises at Mexboro’
Samuel Bland, collier, of Mexboro’, was charged with...
Mexboro’ Signalman Refusing to Have his Child Vaccinated
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 27 January 1882
A Mexboro’ Signalman Refusing to Have his Child Vaccinated
John Turner, signalman, of Mexbro’, was summoned for...
Savage Assault on the Highway near Bolton
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 27 January 1882
Savage Assault on the Highway near Bolton
John Henry Agas, coal dealer, of Mexboro’, was summoned for...
Brutal Assault at Mexborough on Christmas Day
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 07 January 1881
A Brutal Assault at Mexborough on Christmas Day
At the Doncaster West Riding Police Court on Saturday,...
Alleged Highway Obstruction by a Mexborough Tradesman
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 07 January 1881
Alleged Highway Obstruction by a Mexborough Tradesman
Thomas Chambers, greengrocer, of Mexboro’, was charged with committing an...
Cruelty to a Mare at Mexborough
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 07 January 1881
Cruelty to a Mare at Mexborough
Louisa Roper, carter, of Mexboro’, was charged with cruelly ill-treating a...
Using Obscene Language in a Public Thoroughfare at Mexborough
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 07 January 1881
Using Obscene Language in a Public Thoroughfare at Mexborough
Edward Plant, labourer, of Mexboro’, was charged with...
The South Yorkshire Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade in 1881
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 20 January 1882
The South Yorkshire Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade in 1881
The annual return relating to the...
Hull and the Yorkshire Coal Trade
Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Thursday 11 October 1883
Hull and the Yorkshire Coal Trade
Hitherto the quantity of coal sent into Hull compares favourably with last...
Public Executioner Applications
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 14 September 1883
Public Executioner Applications
Applications for the post of public executioner are coming in thick and fast. Mexboro’...
Marconigrams – August 11th, 1933
South Yorkshire Times, August 11th, 1933
Marconigrams
How we envy and admire those that go down to the sea in slips!
Weary Willie (sighing): Don't I feel...
Marconigrams – October 6th, 1933
South Yorkshire Times, October 6th, 1933
Marconigrams
West Yorkshire coal mines were operated at a loss of £210,611 during August.
Plans have been prepared for a new...
Marconigrams – October 13th, 1933
South Yorkshire Times, October 13th, 1933
Marconigrams
Lady Albreda Bourke of Kildare, an aunt of Earl Fitzwilliam, died on Monday.
The river Don rose three and...
Marconigrams – November 10th, 1933
South Yorkshire Times, November 10th, 1933
Marconigrams
The next Wath Rural Deanery Choirs Festival will be held in 1935.
Get ready to join our great knitting contest....
Mexborough’s Feast Of Music – Promising Boy
South Yorkshire Times, October 13th, 1933
Mexborough’s Feast Of Music
Promising Mexboro' Boy
The violin section produced the first Mexboro' medal-winner in the history of the festival....