Trying to help my mum out with some family research and wondering if anyone has any suggestions for places to dig when looking for information on very old accidents?
My 2nd great grandfather James George Fisher was a platelayer, and sometime before WW2 he lost both his legs in an accident and was hospitalised for the rest of his life (my grandfather only ever remembered seeing him in Edgware hospital until he died, and indeed, he's listed in the 1939 register as being there). In the 1911 census he is listed as residing in the GNR station house at Mill Hill (so presumably, before the accident as my great grandmother wasn't born until 1915), but that's all we have to go on. Mill Hill GNR is now of course Mill Hill East tube station, but that doesn't help me too much in narrowing down what happened. I do know the family lived in that area throughout though.
I've had a brief dig through the railways archive: https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventlisting.php, but nothing obvious stands out. I've had a look through Ancestry's railway employment records, and again, a few James Fishers, but all seem to be working for the LNWR, or in a couple of cases, the Midland up north, so not sure.
My 2nd great grandfather James George Fisher was a platelayer, and sometime before WW2 he lost both his legs in an accident and was hospitalised for the rest of his life (my grandfather only ever remembered seeing him in Edgware hospital until he died, and indeed, he's listed in the 1939 register as being there). In the 1911 census he is listed as residing in the GNR station house at Mill Hill (so presumably, before the accident as my great grandmother wasn't born until 1915), but that's all we have to go on. Mill Hill GNR is now of course Mill Hill East tube station, but that doesn't help me too much in narrowing down what happened. I do know the family lived in that area throughout though.
I've had a brief dig through the railways archive: https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventlisting.php, but nothing obvious stands out. I've had a look through Ancestry's railway employment records, and again, a few James Fishers, but all seem to be working for the LNWR, or in a couple of cases, the Midland up north, so not sure.