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Patrick Ducrow – Father and Husband

07/08/2016 By 1 Comment

Patrick Ducrow b 1928 in Kalgoorlie and died on the 10 Jun 1952. He was thrown out of the skip on the Regent shaft at the Central Norseman Gm, Norseman He Left a pregnant wife and three children under 3. This photograph and information was supplied by his daughter Pat Saltmarsh. He is buried in the Norseman Cemetery Western Australia.

Patrick Ducrow

Patrick Ducrow

From the Department of Mines Annual Report for 1952:-   Ducrow, Patrick (Skipman) 10-6-52 Central Norseman G.M. Regent Shaft . The winder driver, under the impression that the north side skip was at the surface, made a mistake and pulled the south side skip almost to the sheave wheel. Ducrow was thrown out of the skip when it was in the tipping position and received fatal injuries. Johnson came by his death from multiple injuries received

The West Australian 17 Jun 1952

West Australian Wednesday 11 June 1952, page 5

West Australian 11th Jun 1952

Miner Thrown From Skip NORSEMAN, Mon.-Patrick Ducrow (23), a skipman, of Fuller-street, Norseman, died on June 10 from head in juries received when he was thrown from a skip which had been raised instead of lowered at the Regent shaft of the Central Norseman mine, the acting-Coroner (Mr. P. A.
Pinel, J.P.) and a jury of three found at an inquest. The Coroner added that Ducrow had rung to go down to the No. 24 level but, instead, was inadvertently and accidentally raised. No criminal blame was attachable to anyone. The winder driver, Alfred Edward Hancock (61), who was the only witness of the
accident, said that he could not explain his action in raising Ducrow instead of lowering except that it was the usual practice for

Patrick Ducrow Norseman Cemetery

Patrick Ducrow Norseman Cemetery

Ducrow to come up in the north skip. On this occasion he had come up in the south side skip and when he rang to be lowered witness started the winder to lower the north side skip.

Hancock, who has been in the Norseman District Hospital since the morning of the accident under treatment for shock, was taken back to hospital after he had completed his evidence.
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Moya Sharp

Owner at Outback Family History
My name is Moya Sharp, I live in Kalgoorlie Western Australia and have worked most of my adult life in the history/museum industry. I have been passionate about history for as long as I can remember and in particular the history of my adopted home the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia. Through my website I am committed to providing as many records and photographs free to any one who is interested in the family and local history of the region.
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  1. JEFFREY COTTRELL says
    10/12/2017 at 9:32 pm

    My dad would have known Mr Ducrow and the winder driver as he worked at Central Norseman in 1952. He was about the same age as Mr Ducrow.

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