James Boshell

First name:

James

Second name:

Boshell

Date of birth:

05/07/1884

Place(s) of work:

Duddingston Mines (Unspecified)

Carledubs mine
Dunnet or Sandholes mine
Hopetoun No.6 (Glendevon) mines
Hopetoun No.35 pit
Philpstoun No. 6 (Whitequarries) mine

Home address(es):

23 Easter Road, Broxburn

Occupation type(s):

Shot Firer

See full record, LVSAV2010.139.028

Newspaper References

FATAL ACCIDENT

While James Boshell, aged 21, was cycling home from his work in Edinburgh, where he is employed as a joiner, he met with a fatal accident. It appears Boshell was involved in a collision with a furniture van on the Edinburgh-Broxburn Road, near Ratho Station Road. He was rushed to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, suffering from severe head injuries, to which he succumbed about an hour after admission. Boshell was the son of Mr and Mrs James Boshell, 23 Easter Road, Broxburn, and nephew of Mr John McCann, J.P. The tragic death of the lad has cast gloom over the village, where he was so well known and highly esteemed.

Linlithgowshire Gazette, 4 August 1939

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Mr and Mrs JAMES BOSHELL and Family desire to thank the Rev. Fathers Connelly, McCardle, Kenny, and O'Hanlon, for kind attention, also Mr Hugh Peden, C.Y.M.S., relatives, friends, and neighbours, employer and fellow workers, and members of the Broxburn Tennis Clubs for their kind expressions of sympathy and floral tributes received in their recent sad bereavement. - 23 Easter Road, Broxburn.

West Lothian Courier, 11 August 1939