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  Disasters - Names Disasters - Names  
Date:  11th June 1794
Colliery:  Harraton
Cause:  Explosion
Lives Lost:  28

Description

An explosion took place in Harraton colliery, by which twenty-eight human beings lost their lives.

Source: Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by John Sykes, Published in 1833 in two volumes

Fatalities

  

Allan, Matthew, of Harraton New Row

  

Allan, Robert, son of Matthew Allan, of Harraton New Row

  

Bainbridge, Joseph, of Harraton New Row

  

Charlton, Edward, of Harraton New Row

  

Cowel, George, son of John Cowel, of Rickleton

  

Cowel, John, of Rickleton

  

Cowel, William, son of John Cowel, of Rickleton

  

Elliott, Robert, son of Thompson Elliott, of Harraton

  

Hall, Joseph, son of George Hall, of Harraton New Row

  

Harding, John, of Harraton New Row

  

Hepple, William, of Lambton

  

Humble, Thomas, of Birtley Lane

  

Kellett, George, of Harraton

  

Lee, John, of Harraton New Row

  

Lee, Thomas, of Harraton New Row

  

Mowbray, George, son of George Mowbray, of Harraton

  

Nevil, George, of Harraton

  

Robinson, Joseph, son of Joseph Robinson, of Birtley Lane

  

Rogerson, John, of Birtley Lane

  

Rogerson, Robert, son of George Rogerson, of Picktree

  

Rogerson, Roger, son of George Rogerson, of Picktree

  

Roxby, Matthew, of Harraton

  

Stoddart, Robert, of Harraton New Row

  

Summerson, George, of Harraton New Row

  

Tate, Andrew, of Harraton New Row

  

Tate, John, of Harraton New Row

  

Thompson, John, son of Edward Thompson, of Lambton

 
27 of 28 names found

 

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