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  Hall Pit, Fatfield  Index  Hall Pit, Fatfield  

Hall Pit, Fatfield


  Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Fatfield, Washington
6 miles [10 km] SSE of Newcastle
Map Ref: (Sheet 88) NZ289545, 54° 53' 6" N, 1° 32' 56" W
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  Summary Description Names Local Collieries Credits  

Disasters (5 or more killed)

  28th Sep 1813  Explosion, 32 lives lost (Show Names)

  Summary Description Disasters Local Collieries Credits  

Names of those killed at this colliery

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

      

Aisbett, George, 30 Nov 1808, aged 33, Pitman, explosion [More information ...]

      

Barrow, Anthony, 30 Nov 1808, aged 32, Pitman, explosion [More information ...]

      

Carr, James, 31 Aug 1808, aged 46, Deputy, explosion, Buried: 3rd Nov at Chester-Le-Street [More information ...]

      

Curry, George, 28 Sep 1813, aged 16, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Curry, John, 28 Sep 1813, aged 13, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Dixon, Charles, 28 Sep 1813, aged 24, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Dixon, John, 28 Sep 1813, aged 20, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Dixon, Robert Turnbull, 28 Sep 1813, aged 13, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Lishman, George, 28 Sep 1813, aged 20, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Lishman, John, 28 Sep 1813, aged 18, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Noble, William, 28 Sep 1813, aged 7, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Oliver, George, 28 Sep 1813, aged 51, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Oliver, Johnson, 28 Sep 1813, aged 13, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Pattison, George, 28 Sep 1813, aged 16, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Pearson, Matthew, 28 Sep 1813, aged 13, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Proud, Robert, 28 Sep 1813, aged 15, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Proud, Thomas, 28 Sep 1813, aged 11, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Proud, William, 28 Sep 1813, aged 13, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Robson, Benjamin, 31 Aug 1808, aged 17, explosion, son of Matthew Robson, Buried: 3rd Nov at Chester-Le-Street [More information ...]

      

Robson, Matthew, 31 Aug 1808, aged 62, Overman, explosion, father of Benjamin Robson, Buried: 2nd Nov at Chester-Le-Street [More information ...]

      

Siddle, George, 28 Sep 1813, aged 12, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Siddle, John, 28 Sep 1813, aged 22, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Soulsby, Edward, 28 Sep 1813, aged 7, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Soulsby, Edward, 28 Sep 1813, aged 14, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Soulsby, Matthew, 28 Sep 1813, aged 9, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Southern, Joseph, 28 Sep 1813, aged 15, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Swinhoe, Robert, 28 Sep 1813, aged 40, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Swinhoe, Thomas, 28 Sep 1813, aged 9, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Swinhoe, Wilkinson George, 28 Sep 1813, aged 15, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Swinhoe, William, 28 Sep 1813, aged 36, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Thornton, George, 28 Sep 1813, aged 15, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Usher, Michael, 28 Sep 1813, aged 23, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

      

Wardle, John, 30 Nov 1808, aged 29, Overman, explosion [More information ...]

      

Watson, Nicholas, 28 Sep 1813, aged 13, killed in the 1813 explosion [More information ...]

 
  34 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.

  more information on some of the fatalities shown above


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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

  a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Hall Pit, Fatfield

  list of collieries/pits etc. near to Hall Pit, Fatfield


  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries  

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