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Surname
DEVINE
Forename
Patrick
Day
03
Month
05
Year
1915
Age
40
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Blantyreferme
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
A.G. Moore & Co. Ltd
Location
Uddingston
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
3 May 1915: Mysterious Death - On Monday night while a miner named Patrick Devine, residing at 3 Laighmuir Street, Uddingston, was the act of leaving his work in Messrs A.G. Moore Coy.’s Blantyre Ferme Colliery Uddingston and assisting to right an overturned hutch, he suddenly dropped to the ground and immediately expired. He was about forty years age and leaves a widow and several of a family. A postmortem examination of the body took place on Thursday afternoon, and the result is stated to have been that death had occurred through rupture of an artery the heart caused by overstrain. The funeral took place yesterday to Rochsoles, near Airdrie. [Hamilton Advertiser 8 May 1915]