William
John
Osborne
Born in Gwinear
Ancestors 
Son of Samuel Osborne
and [mother unknown]
Brother of
Elizabeth Ann Osborne and Samuel Henry Osborne
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 37
in Camborne
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Biography
William John 1856 Gwinear, in 1871 and 1881 he was a tin miner living with or next door to his mother and his brother Samuel. In 1891 he was a boarder tin miner 36 from Gwinear living in Trewithhern, Camborne. He died 1893 in Redruth aged 37, and was a victim in the Dolcoath disaster. A portrait of him appears in The Cornish Methodist Church Record of November 1893, but not seen by me yet, William Osborne of Treswithian a prominent member of the Wesleyan body, and a Sunday School teacher, was living in lodgings in Dalcoath road, Camborne and his only surviving relatives are a widowed sister with family at Hayle and a brother in Bodmin lunatic asylum.
Sources
- 1871 to 1891 census. Newspaper reports of the Dalcoath Mine Disaster and its consequences.
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