Andrew Frew
Role: Rock picker
Date of birth: 10 Jun 1897
Date of death: 17 Jan 1942
Cause of death: Fall
Age at death: 45
Born in Scotland in 1897 on June 10th, Andrew Frew immigrated to Canada in 1906. He worked as a rock picker in the No. 5 mine in Cumberland, where, on January 16th, 1942, he fell through the floor of an unfenced tipple, and died of his injuries the next day. Andrew was married to Rosina Frew (nee Beddington) and together they had 9 children. Andrew was buried in the Cumberland cemetery in block 6-140.