Carbis - Benjamin and Thomas
This broken stone was found in the hedge covered in moss. Once cleaned, at first sight, it looked like the name was Benjamin Thomas but reading again it is Benjamin & Thomas Carbis. Aged 21 & 20 years. Both died on 22 January 1786.
It goes on to say that they were unfortunately drowned which seems like an understatement. No reference to the circumstances of the death has been found so far. Their parents also have a stone in the graveyard so Benjamin and Thomas have been placed next to them.
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Barbara and Arthur Carkeek
Both killed on 20th March 1941 by a bomb which made a direct hit on their house at Trewirgie.
Newspaper reports at the time merely said they had died suddenly and reports of the bombing did not name Redruth itself but articles named people who were killed and injured.
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Thanks to DJ Wilson
Edward Thomas James
This newspaper article describes the circumstances of his death.
His memorial (buried with parents)
"Also Edward Thomas, son of the above, who paid the great sacrifice Oct 28th 1917 aged 29. R I P"
​1846 The East Wheal Rose Mine was struck by a disaster in which 39 men died.. On 9th July 1846 a thunderstorm caused a flash flood. The mine was in a natural bowl, and the flood waters had nowhere to go, except into the mine. Captain Middleton organised 300 men to pile up earth around the collars of the shafts but the volume of water pouring down was so great that soon torrents of water poured down the shafts. This caused a wind to blow that extinguished the candles that the miners used underground. So when the water hit them, they were in utter darkness. Captain Champion somehow managed to climb the slippery ladders against the tremendous weight of down-rushing water. A timber-man, Samuel Bastion, went down into the mine to lie across a manhole, diverting the flow of water and saving eighteen lives. The beam engines were put to work in raising men to the surface, clinging to the kibbles and chains 'like strings of onions'. Forty-three men and boys were missing but four of them were brought up alive next morning. The lower levels of the mine were completely flooded. But, by November 1846 all the debris and water had been cleared and the mine was in full production again.
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Captain John Middleton
