Nicholas Vingoe
about 1845 to 1897aged 52
Tin miner, Wheal Owles; after 1893, surface man at Botallack
- Born
- about 1845, Pendeen
- Died
- 22 March 1897, St Just in Penwith
He was at the 65-fathom level of Wheal Owles on the morning of 10 January 1893 and came up the ladders ahead of the water. Twenty men did. Nineteen men and a boy did not, and their bodies were never brought up. He never went underground again and took surface work at Botallack for less than half the money. He died four years later of what the certificate called a heart complaint and what his wife called the water. His baptism year is smudged in the register and two transcriptions disagree, which is why his birth is recorded here as about 1845 rather than as a date nobody has.
Accomplishments
- Came up the ladders out of Wheal Owles1893
He came out alive on 10 January 1893 and brought two younger men up the ladder ahead of him. Twenty of about forty men below ground that morning came out. Nineteen men and a boy did not, and their bodies were never recovered.
- Fourteen years a local preacher on the St Just Wesleyan circuit1879
On the circuit plan from 1879 to 1893. He stopped preaching after the flood and never said why.
