South Yorkshire Times May 21, 1955
Adjournment of Inquest
One Denaby Stone Contractor
Retired stone contractor John Thomas Cunniffe (63), Balby Street, Denaby Main, went to the Sheffield Pneumoconiosis Medical Panel three times, it was stated at a Conisbrough inquest on Friday. Each time he was told he had not the miners’ lung disease.
However, the Doncaster District Coroner (Mr W. H. Carlile) said there was a suggestion of the disease and he adjourned the inquest from the Sheffield Pneumoconiosis Medical Panel.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cunniffe, widow said she had married in 1919. Her husband worked for a few weeks at the coal face at Cadeby Colliery, but latterly he had been employed as a stone contractor. His health had been ‘on and off.’
He retired in 1951. Since November of last year, he had been bedfast. Mrs. Cunniffe said her husband had been before the Sheffield Pneumoconiosis Medical Panel three times, and each time he had been told had not the disease.
Cunniffe died on Sunday, May 1st.