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  Heaton Main Colliery  Index  Heaton Main Colliery  

Heaton Main Colliery


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Location: Heaton, Newcastle-on-Tyne
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Opened: bef. 1828
Closed:


  Summary Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Description


  Summary Description Names Local Collieries Credits  

Disasters (5 or more killed)

  3rd May 1815  Inrush of water from old workings, 75 lives lost (Show Names)

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Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

      

Bainbridge, John, 03 May 1815, aged 42, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Brayson, Andrew, 03 May 1815, aged 40, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Campbell, Robert, 03 May 1815, aged 31, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Curtis, Jacob, 03 May 1815, aged 15, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Dawson, George, 03 May 1815, aged 36, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Dixon, Arthur (jnr), 03 May 1815, aged 26, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Dixon, Arthur (snr), 03 May 1815, aged 64, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Dixon, Henry, 03 May 1815, aged 40, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Dixon, William, 03 May 1815, aged 21, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Dodd, James (jnr), 03 May 1815, aged 16, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Dodd, James (snr), 03 May 1815, aged 40, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Dodd, Simon, 03 May 1815, aged 36, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Dodd, Thomas, 03 May 1815, aged 7, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Elliott, William, 03 May 1815, aged 7, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

English, Robert, 03 May 1815, aged 36, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Frome, John, 03 May 1815, aged 21, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Gardner, Charles, 03 May 1815, aged 20, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Gardner, Jas., 03 May 1815, aged 24, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Gardner, Thomas, 03 May 1815, aged 17, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Gardner, William, 03 May 1815, aged 15, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Gibson, Edward, 03 May 1815, aged 82, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Gibson, John, 03 May 1815, aged 31, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

     

Gibson, Matthew, 03 May 1815, aged 22, killed in the 1815 disaster [More information ...]

     

Gibson, Nicholas, 03 May 1815, aged 18, killed in the 1815 disaster [More information ...]

      

Gibson, Richard, 03 May 1815, aged 45, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Gordon, John, 03 May 1815, aged 19, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Gordon, Thomas, 03 May 1815, aged 15, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Graham, William (jnr), 03 May 1815, aged 7, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Gray, Christopher, 03 May 1815, aged 14, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Gray, Thomas, 03 May 1815, aged 12, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Green, William, 03 May 1815, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Hall, Ralph, 03 May 1815, aged 15, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Hall, William, 03 May 1815, aged 21, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Johnson, Matthew, 03 May 1815, aged 28, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

King, William, 03 May 1815, aged 16, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Laws, George, 03 May 1815, aged 50, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Lumsdon, Thomas, 03 May 1815, aged 18, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Miller, Thomas, 03 May 1815, aged 16, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

     

Mitchinson, Shipley, 03 May 1815, aged 42, killed in the 1815 disaster [More information ...]

      

Muller, Nicholas, 03 May 1815, aged 15, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Newhill, John, 03 May 1815, aged 37, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Nicholson, Lancelot, 03 May 1815, aged 29, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Pratt, John, 03 May 1815, aged 10, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Reay, John, 03 May 1815, aged 26, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Redhead, John, 03 May 1815, aged 22, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Renwick, John, 03 May 1815, aged 25, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Renwick, William, 03 May 1815, aged 23, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Richardson, Robert, 03 May 1815, aged 64, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Robinson, John, 03 May 1815, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Robson, Edward, 03 May 1815, aged 34, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Scott, William, 03 May 1815, aged 21, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Southern, Anthony, 03 May 1815, aged 18, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Southern, Robert, 03 May 1815, aged 14, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Southern, William, 03 May 1815, aged 25, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Steel, George, 03 May 1815, aged 25, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Steel, Robert, 03 May 1815, aged 25, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Stokoe, Walter (jnr), 03 May 1815, aged 17, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Stokoe, Walter (snr), 03 May 1815, aged 42, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Thaw, George, 03 May 1815, aged 19, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Thaw, John, 03 May 1815, aged 50, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Thaw, William, 03 May 1815, aged 19, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Thompson, Thomas, 03 May 1815, aged 16, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Thompson, William, 03 May 1815, aged 21, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Unwin, David, 03 May 1815, aged 48, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Watson, John, 03 May 1815, aged 12, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Watson, John, 03 May 1815, aged 20, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

      

Watson, Thomas, 03 May 1815, aged 10, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

     

Widdrington, Henry, 03 May 1815, aged 20, killed in the 1815 disaster [More information ...]

     

Widdrington, Ralph (jnr), 03 May 1815, aged 28, killed in the 1815 disaster [More information ...]

     

Widdrington, Ralph (snr), 03 May 1815, aged 56, killed in the 1815 disaster [More information ...]

      

Wilson, Michael, 03 May 1815, aged 15, killed in the 1815 disaster, Buried: Wallsend [More information ...]

 
  71 names found

If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.

Some of the names of mining fatalities on this page have been kindly provided by Ian Winstanley of the Coal Mining History Resource Centre and are marked with , further details may be obtained by contacting Ian by email at ian.winstanley@blueyonder.co.uk

  more information on some of the fatalities shown above


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