1888 Ashfield Cemetery

New Hucknall Colliery Coal Mine
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Huthwaite is a small village in Nottinghamshire, England, located to the west of Mansfield, close to the Derbyshire border. Before 1907 the village was known as Hucknall-under-Huthwaite.

The population in 1800 was about 500 but soon started to grow with the opening of Hucknall Colliery, a drift mine at the bottom of Blackwell Road. The "Miners Arms" public house is believed to have been the manager's cottage. This mine was worked for around 50 years. It closed due to flooding. In 1877 a new mine called New Hucknall Colliery was opened which employed 500 people. By 1881 the population of the village had grown to over 2000. By 1912 the workforce had increased to over 1,300 but the main industry in the village had become the manufacture of hosiery products.

The closure of the majority of mines in the area, which included New Hucknall Colliery in the early 1980s, and the off shoring of hosiery jobs led to large amounts of unemployment. However today this has been largely rectified.

The Following Detail Is Transcribed From Ashfield Cemetery Records Online

This covers 1,000 internments including cause of death I have replaced each person’s name with their gender that detail is on the original documents. The period covered spans the end of the Ninetieth and the beginning of the Twentieth Century’s. The area was still called Hucknall under Huthwaite, its population doubling to over 4,000 people, from the sinking of New Hucknall pit in 1877. Agriculture and Hosiery were the other main occupations of the townspeople. The mortality rate for infants and children is alarming by our standards today, almost a 3-1 ratio between adults and children. I have counted any one above 12 as an adult as that was the school leaving age for that period.

The childhood diseases mentioned below are no longer the killers they once were with modern medical treatments making them a rarity when a death occurs.

Explanation of some medical terms in the following tables

Tabes Mesenterica Caused by drinking infected T B cow’s milk pre Pasteurisation
Marasmus Severe malnutrition wasting away
Erythema Nodosum An inflamed skin condition
Phithisis Tuberculosis of the Lungs T B
Pertussis Whooping Cough

Other Abbreviations

FWk - Frame Work Knitter

Date	Sex	Age	Status	Cause of death
1888
24 May	Female	36	Married	Childbirth
27 May	Female Child	3 days		Premature birth Natural causes
15 July	Female Child	8 mths		Bronchitis
21 July	Male Child	1 mth		Convulsions
28 July	Male	29	FWK	Consumption
29 July	Female Child	3 mths		Convulsions
28 September	Female	30	Married	Consumption
22 October	Male Child	3m		Bronchitis
28 October	Female	71	Married	Natural causes
02 November	Males	68	Miner	Pleurisy
08 November	Female	68		Chronis Diarrhea
09 November	Male	73	FWK	Chronic Bronchitis
12 November	Male Child	4m		Convulsions
13 November	Male	71	Labourer	Natural causes
25 November	Male Child	3		Bronchitis
25 December	Female	68		Bronchitis
27 December	Male	82	FWK	Natural causes
31 December	Male Child	13		Drowned

Date	Sex	Age	Status	Cause of death
1889
13 January	Female Child	16 mths		Consumption
13 January	Male Child	9 mths		Bronchitis
19 January	Female Child	3 mths		Bronchitis
20 January	Female Child	21 days		Convulsions
26 January	Male	65	FWK	Dropsy
05 February	Male	48	Miner	Run over
20 March	Male Child			Fits
09 April	Male Child	1		Bronchitis
09 April	Male Child	1.4 mths		Bronchitis
18 April	Male	73	FWK	Old age
00 April	Female	72		Not given
08 May	Female	57		Consumption
09 May	Male Child	10		Dysentery
24 May	Female Child	4mths		Diarrhea
27 May	Male	35	Miner	Consumption
03 June	Male Child	9 mths		Convulsions
18 June	Male	46	Miner	Consumption
19 June	Female	65		Diarrhea
30 June	Female Child	2 mths		Hip Disease
12 July	Male Child	11 mths		Bronchitis
25 August	Female Child	6 mths		Diarrhea
1 September	Male Child	8 mths		Bronchitis
15 September	Male	20	Miner	Consumption
17 September	Female	36		Consumption
00 October	Male Child	4 mths		Bronchitis
04 November	Male	25	Miner	Consumption
08 November	Male Child	6 wks		Convulsions
09 November	Female Child	2 mths		Convulsions
26 November	Female	30	Married	Child Birth
27 November	Male	58	Grocer	Dropsy
29 November	Male	65	FWK	Dropsy
01 December	Male	75	FWK	Hempiplegia Cerebral softening
06 December	Female	53	FWK	Consumption
07 December	Male Child	3.11		Eclamsia
08 December	Male Child	10 days		Bronchitis
10 December	Female Child	8 wks		Bronchitis
14 December	Female Child	8		Inflammation of the brain
18 December	Male Child	3 mths		Bronchitis
23 December	Female	49		Stomach cancer
26 December	Female Child	4 days		Convulsions