Samuel Glanville

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     Samuel Glanville was born before 5 March 1815 at Altarnun, CON, ENG.
     He was baptized on 5 March 1815 at Altarnun, CON, ENG, parents John and Susanna Glanvill.
     He died in February 1843 at Delapole Slate Quarry, Pengelly, Delabole, CON, ENG; Registered Camelford, recorded age 30 reported in Hull Advertiser and Exchange Gazette 17 Feb 1843:
Another Fatal Accident at Delapole Slate Quarry: On Monday last, about noon, a large piece of rock, on which six men were working, being in a sloping position, slipped off from the main rock, carrying the men on it over a precipice of above 100 feet high, into an old quarry, dashing the poor fellows to pieces, so that they neither moved nor spoke. Two of them were thrown a greater distance than the others, into a deep pool of water, one of whom was soon taken out; but the other still remains, and it is supposed he must be under a large stone, as in attempting to get the body out, one leg was brought up by the hook, and there will be no possibility of recovering the other part until the water is pumped out, which will take some days. The mutilated remains of five of them, viz. : William Kellow, aged forty, Thomas Hill thirty-three, Peter Budge, thirty, Samule Glanville, twenty eight, and Robert Trick, eighteen, were carried by their fellow workmen to their respective homes in the neighbouring villages; and on Tuesday, Joseph Hamley, Esquire, coroner, held an inquest on them, when a verdict was returned of accidental death. The names of the man remaining in the pit is George Harris; and three of them have left families. Eleven deaths have now taken place from accident at Delapole quarries, in about a year. Truro Paper.