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Hartley Colliery
(See also New Hartley Colliery)
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| Location: | New Hartley 9 miles [14 km] NNE of Newcastle |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 88) NZ301771, 55° 5' 15" N, 1° 31' 42" W |
| Maps: |  1807 map from "The Picture of Newcastle Upon Tyne…", published in 1807 by D. Akenhead |
| Opened: | |
| Closed: | Feb 1959 |
| Pits: | Delaval Pit, locn: (Sheet 88) NZ325751 |
| Shaft details for Delaval Pit |
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| Hester Pit, locn: (Sheet 88) NZ311767, sinking: 01 Jan 1845 | |
| Shaft details for Hester Pit |
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| Mill Pit, locn: (Sheet 88) NZ335763, sinking: 16 Oct 1830 | |
| Shaft details for Mill Pit |
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| Nightingale Pit, locn: (Sheet 88) NZ324753 | |
| Shaft details for Nightingale Pit |
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| Whin Pit, locn: (Sheet 88) NZ337762, opened: 1754, sinking: Aug 1754 | |
| Shaft details for Whin Pit |
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| Owners: | 1850's - Carr & Co. |
| Employment: | 1854 - 0 [Working] |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Hartley Colliery |
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Description
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Disasters (5 or more killed)
| 1st | Dec | 1761 | Explosion, 5 lives lost (Show Names) | ||
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16th | Jan | 1862 | Miners entombed when engine beam broke and blocked only working shaft, 204 lives lost (Show Names) |
Those entries marked with ,
signify a disaster for which a memorial has been erected or for which we have
images concerning the disaster, alternately their name may be mentioned on a memorial plaque.
Click on the symbol
next to the name to see the appropriate web page for the memorial.
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Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
|  | Ainsley, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 19, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Alderton, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 31, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Allan, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 36, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Amour, James, 16 Jan 1862, aged 48, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Amour, R., 16 Jan 1862, aged 14, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Anderson, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 17, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Armstrong, Edward, 16 Jan 1862, aged 12, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Armstrong, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 10, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Armstrong, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 36, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Atkinson, Abraham, 16 Jan 1862, aged 20, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Bannan, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 24, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Bell, Mark, 16 Jan 1862, aged 23, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Bell, Thomas, 16 Jan 1862, aged 23, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Bell, Thomas, 16 Jan 1862, aged 13, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Bennet, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 25, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
Berrick, John, 24 Nov 1834, rope broke whilst descending shaft [More information ...] | ||||||
| | Bewick, James, 16 Jan 1862, aged 34, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Bewick, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 32, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Bewick, Robert, 16 Jan 1862, aged 30, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Birtley, Samuel, 16 Jan 1862, aged 24, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Blackburn, Samuel, 16 Jan 1862, aged 26, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Broadfoot, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 19, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Brown, George, 16 Jan 1862, aged 31, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Brown, Ralph, 16 Jan 1862, aged 15, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
Brown, Robert, 14 Aug 1872, aged 25, Hewer, fell down the shaft | ||||||
| | Brown, Thomas, 16 Jan 1862, aged 25, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Brown, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 25, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Burn, J., 16 Jan 1862, aged 52, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Burn, T., 16 Jan 1862, aged 18, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Campbell, James, 16 Jan 1862, aged 28, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Carling, George, 16 Jan 1862, aged 27, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Chambers, Clark, 16 Jan 1862, aged 19, killed in the 1862 disaster, son of Thomas B., Buried: St. Albans Churchyard, Earsdon [More information ...] | ||||
| | Chambers, Thomas B., 16 Jan 1862, aged 55, killed in the 1862 disaster, father of Clark, Buried: St. Albans Churchyard, Earsdon [More information ...] | ||||
| | Cheetham, Alfred, 16 Jan 1862, aged 33, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Clough, Henry, 16 Jan 1862, aged 47, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Coal, T., 16 Jan 1862, aged 37, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Coulson, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 33, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Coulson, Robert, 16 Jan 1862, aged 26, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Cousins, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 18, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Cousins, P., 16 Jan 1862, aged 12, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Coyle, J., 16 Jan 1862, aged 28, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Cross, Philip, 16 Jan 1862, aged 59, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Cross, Philip, 16 Jan 1862, aged 20, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
Curry, -, 01 Dec 1761, Viewer, killed in the 1761 explosion [More information ...] | ||||||
| | Davidson, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 38, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Davidson, William George, 16 Jan 1862, aged 11, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Dawson, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 12, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Dawson, Thomas, 16 Jan 1862, aged 49, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Dixon, Robert, 16 Jan 1862, aged 12, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Dixon, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 27, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Dixon, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 34, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Douglas, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 25, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Duffy, James, 16 Jan 1862, aged 10, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Duffy, Patrick, 16 Jan 1862, aged 34, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Elliot, Alison (male), 16 Jan 1862, aged 29, killed in the 1862 disaster, Buried: St. Albans Churchyard, Earsdon [More information ...] | ||||
| | Elliott, Edward, 16 Jan 1862, aged 19, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Fairbairn, George, 16 Jan 1862, aged 33, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Fairbairn, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 70, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Ford, Henry, 16 Jan 1862, aged 32, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Ford, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 27, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Ford, Peter, 16 Jan 1862, aged 12, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Foster, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 15, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Foster, Joseph, 16 Jan 1862, aged 18, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Fulton, George, 16 Jan 1862, aged 25, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Gallagher, Duncan, 16 Jan 1862, aged 28, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Gallagher, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 32, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Gibson, Henry, 16 Jan 1862, aged 18, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Gledson, George, 16 Jan 1862, aged 41, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Gledson, Thomas, 16 Jan 1862, aged 36, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Gledson, Thomas, 16 Jan 1862, aged 16, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Gledson, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 43, killed in the 1862 disaster, Buried: St. Albans Churchyard, Earsdon [More information ...] | ||||
| | Gledson, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 71, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Gleghorn, Oswald, 16 Jan 1862, aged 24, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Glen, George, 16 Jan 1862, aged 12, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Glen, James, 16 Jan 1862, aged 18, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Glen, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 14, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Gormerly, Patrick, 16 Jan 1862, aged 25, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Graham, Christopher, 16 Jan 1862, aged 27, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Hall, George, 16 Jan 1862, aged 28, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Hamelton, James, 16 Jan 1862, aged 12, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Hamelton, James, 16 Jan 1862, aged 56, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Hammel, P., 16 Jan 1862, aged 33, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Harding, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 15, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Harrison, Thomas, 16 Jan 1862, aged 16, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Hauxwell, Frank, 16 Jan 1862, aged 25, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Hays, George, 16 Jan 1862, aged 41, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Hepple, Thomas, 16 Jan 1862, aged 27, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
Herron, Timothy, 19 Jun 1860, aged 52, fell down shaft [More information ...] | ||||||
| | Hill, George, 16 Jan 1862, aged 31, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Hill, Robert, 16 Jan 1862, aged 21, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Hindmarch, George, 16 Jan 1862, aged 30, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Hodge, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 33, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Houston, Andrew, 16 Jan 1862, aged 34, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Howard, G., 16 Jan 1862, aged 20, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
Howe, John, 24 Nov 1834, rope broke whilst descending shaft [More information ...] | ||||||
| | Humble, Joseph, 16 Jan 1862, aged 27, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Hunter, Henry, 16 Jan 1862, aged 13, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Jack, Winship, 16 Jan 1862, aged 24, killed in the 1862 disaster, brother in law of Christopher, Jack and Thomas Wanless, Buried: St. Albans Churchyard, Earsdon [More information ...] | ||||
| | Johnson, Joseph, 16 Jan 1862, aged 41, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Johnson, R., 16 Jan 1862, aged 42, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Kennedy, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 30, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Laws, George, 16 Jan 1862, aged 23, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Laws, Thomas, 16 Jan 1862, aged 33, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Liddle, George, 16 Jan 1862, aged 16, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Liddle, J., 16 Jan 1862, aged 16, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Liddle, J., 16 Jan 1862, aged 15, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Liddle, J., 16 Jan 1862, aged 11, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Liddle, T., 16 Jan 1862, aged 18, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Liddle, T., 16 Jan 1862, aged 41, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Liddle, T., 16 Jan 1862, aged 18, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Liddle, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 40, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Liddle, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 17, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Long, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 15, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Long, Robert, 16 Jan 1862, aged 17, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Louce, W., 16 Jan 1862, aged 30, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | MacAuley, Thomas, 16 Jan 1862, aged 38, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | MacFarlane, W., 16 Jan 1862, aged 15, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Manderson, Peter, 16 Jan 1862, aged 52, killed in the 1862 disaster, Buried: St. Nicholas, Cramlington [More information ...] | ||||
| Martin, Thomas, 24 Nov 1834, aged 46, rope broke whilst descending shaft, Buried: Earsdon Cemetery [More information ...] | |||||
| | Mason, Hugh, 16 Jan 1862, aged 24, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | McClutchey, Richard, 16 Jan 1862, aged 24, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | McCrachen, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 24, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | McKee, Adam, 16 Jan 1862, aged 24, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | McKee, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 55, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | McMullon, Robert, 16 Jan 1862, aged 27, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Miller, Walter, 16 Jan 1862, aged 43, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Miller, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 34, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
Moorhead, Thomas, 23 Feb 1880, aged 70, Labourer, head crushed by engine | ||||||
| | Morgan, Andrew, 16 Jan 1862, aged 44, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Mullon, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 36, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Murley, R., 16 Jan 1862, aged 23, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Murray, Michael, 16 Jan 1862, aged 26, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Nesbit, Peter, 16 Jan 1862, aged 20, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Nicholson, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 14, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Nicholson, Joseph, 16 Jan 1862, aged 21, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Nicholson, Joshua, 16 Jan 1862, aged 52, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | North, Alexander, 16 Jan 1862, aged 12, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | North, George, 16 Jan 1862, aged 10, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | North, J., 16 Jan 1862, aged 14, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | North, Robert, 16 Jan 1862, aged 26, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Oliver, James, 16 Jan 1862, aged 21, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Oliver, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 27, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Oliver, Peter, 16 Jan 1862, aged 15, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Oliver, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 17, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Oliver, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 56, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Ormston, J., 16 Jan 1862, aged 32, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Palmer, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 35, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Pape, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 14, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Pearson, Thomas, 16 Jan 1862, aged 28, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Randall, R., 16 Jan 1862, aged 33, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Redpath, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 24, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Richardson, Alexander, 16 Jan 1862, aged 22, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Riley, Hugh, 16 Jan 1862, aged 30, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Robinson, Mathew, 16 Jan 1862, aged 30, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Robinson, Thomas, 16 Jan 1862, aged 42, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Robson, J., 16 Jan 1862, aged 12, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Robson, R., 16 Jan 1862, aged 36, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Ross, Thomas, 16 Jan 1862, aged 46, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Rowley, Edward, 16 Jan 1862, aged 33, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Rutherford, John, 16 Jan 1862, aged 25, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Rutherford, Thomas, 16 Jan 1862, aged 32, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Rutherford, William, 16 Jan 1862, aged 23, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Scurfield, George, 16 Jan 1862, aged 52, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Sebastian, Thomas, 16 Jan 1862, aged 19, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Sharp, George, 16 Jan 1862, aged 15, killed in the 1862 disaster, son of George and brother of Johnson, Buried: St. Albans Churchyard, Earsdon [More information ...] | ||||
| | Sharp, George, 16 Jan 1862, aged 49, killed in the 1862 disaster, father of Johnson and George, Buried: St. Albans Churchyard, Earsdon [More information ...] | ||||
| | Sharp, Henry, 16 Jan 1862, aged 44, killed in the 1862 disaster, brother of Thomas C. [More information ...] | ||||
| | Sharp, Johnson, 16 Jan 1862, aged 13, killed in the 1862 disaster, son of George and brother of George, Buried: St. Albans Churchyard, Earsdon [More information ...] | ||||
| | Sharp, Thomas C., 16 Jan 1862, aged 48, killed in the 1862 disaster, brother of Henry [More information ...] | ||||
| | Sherlock, Patrick, 16 Jan 1862, aged 28, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Skinner, C., 16 Jan 1862, aged 14, killed in the 1862 disaster [More information ...] | ||||
| | Small, P., 16 Jan 1862, aged 19, killed in the 1862 disaster |