Whinnyhill Colliery

Location:	Cleator Moor 3 miles [5 km] SE of Whitehaven
Map Ref:	(Sheet 89) NY008154, 54° 31' 27" N, 3° 31' 58" W
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Owners:	1840's - Hermatite Mining Company
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Whinnyhill Colliery

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

28th Oct 1848 Explosion of gas by naked light, 31 lives lost (Show Names)

Names of those killed at this colliery

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

						Aiken, John, 28 Oct 1848, aged 17, explosion of gas, son of Thomas [More information ...]
						Aiken, Thomas, 28 Oct 1848, aged 39, explosion of gas, father of John, left a wife and five children [More information ...]
						Atkinson, John, 28 Oct 1848, aged 32, explosion of gas, left a wife and two children [More information ...]
						Barwise, John, 28 Oct 1848, aged 28, explosion of gas, left a wife and two children [More information ...]
						Clark, Robert, 28 Oct 1848, aged 13, explosion of gas [More information ...]
						Cummins, John, 28 Oct 1848, aged 24, explosion of gas, left and wife and two children [More information ...]
						Davidson, Alexander, 28 Oct 1848, aged 23, explosion of gas, left a wife and child [More information ...]
						Disley, John, 28 Oct 1848, aged 22, explosion of gas, suffocated, unmarried [More information ...]
						Dowie, Jame, 28 Oct 1848, aged 18, explosion of gas, unmarried [More information ...]
						Dryden, William, 28 Oct 1848, aged 23, explosion of gas, unmarried [More information ...]
						Fitzsimmons, Thomas, 28 Oct 1848, aged 25, explosion of gas, burned, left a wife [More information ...]
						Hall, John, 28 Oct 1848, aged 30, explosion of gas, left a wife and three children [More information ...]
						Harrison, James, 28 Oct 1848, aged 29, explosion of gas, unmarried [More information ...]
						Kelley, Patrick, 28 Oct 1848, aged 31, explosion of gas, married [More information ...]
						Lawson, John, 28 Oct 1848, aged 16, explosion of gas, son of Richard, brother of Richard [More information ...]
						Lawson, Richard, 28 Oct 1848, aged 46, explosion of gas, father of Richard and John, left a wife and seven children [More information ...]
						Lawson, Richard, 28 Oct 1848, aged 12, explosion of gas, son of Richard, brother of John [More information ...]
						Lish, W., 28 Oct 1848, aged 23, explosion of gas, left and wife and two children [More information ...]
						Lochery, Charles, 28 Oct 1848, aged 21, explosion of gas, unmarried [More information ...]
						Lochery, Daniel, 28 Oct 1848, aged 32, explosion of gas, left a wife and child [More information ...]
						MacDouall, John, 28 Oct 1848, aged 46, explosion of gas, suffocated, left a wife and 1 child [More information ...]
						Mash, Henry, 28 Oct 1848, aged 12, explosion of gas, left a wife and child [More information ...]
						McLoughlan, John, 28 Oct 1848, aged 18, explosion of gas, unmarried [More information ...]
						Milby, James, 28 Oct 1848, aged 26, explosion of gas, brother of John, left a wife and two children [More information ...]
						Milby, John, 28 Oct 1848, aged 18, explosion of gas, brother of James, unmarried [More information ...]
						Monaghan, Patrick, 28 Oct 1848, aged 41, explosion of gas, burned, left a wife and 7 children [More information ...]
						Savage, Dennis, 28 Oct 1848, aged 26, explosion of gas, burned, left a wife and 19 child [More information ...]
						Thompson, James, 28 Oct 1848, aged 26, explosion of gas, left a wife and four children [More information ...]
						Veitch, George, 28 Oct 1848, aged 47, explosion of gas, suffocated, left a wife and 9 children [More information ...]
						Ward, -, 28 Oct 1848, aged 13, explosion of gas, brought out of the pit alive but died after a few hours from the severe burns about the face and mouth [More information ...]
						Watson, George, 28 Oct 1848, aged 19, explosion of gas [More information ...]

						31 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 web page have been kindly provided by The West Cumbria Mines Research Group and are marked with .

more information on some of the fatalities shown above

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Whinnyhill Colliery

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Whinnyhill Colliery

Credits

Sources:

Information supplied by The West Cumbria Mines Research Group
The Times Newspaper



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